Chapter 5: The Dean? And the Reason for Being Caught (First Update)

The people surrounding Baili Yuan gradually closed in.

“W-what are you doing? I’ll scream, I swear!” Baili Yuan hugged his body and scooted backward.

My chrysanthemum, it absolutely cannot fall here! Absolutely not!

“Go ahead and scream. Everyone here is one of our own; even if you scream until your throat tears, no one will come to save you!” An old man grinned and said triumphantly.

Baili Yuan’s expression turned pale in an instant.

The expressions of the others stiffened. They looked at the old man in shock, then distanced themselves from him.

“What do you mean by that?”

“We don’t want to be associated with a pervert!”

“……”

“Alright, Elders, stop scaring him. Let me explain,” the woman stood up and walked over.

“Very well, we shall leave it to you, Headmistress,” the old men nodded and said.

Headmistress?

Baili Yuan looked at the woman with a surprised expression. This woman was actually the headmistress of the Emblem Academy?!

No wonder a diamond egg could refresh on her chest!

The woman smiled, walked up to Baili Yuan, squatted down, and looked him straight in the eyes.

“Little brother, what a coincidence. We meet again,” the woman said with a smile.

“Eh? Headmistress, do you know him?” an old woman asked curiously.

“We had a brief encounter earlier today at the academy gate. At that time, he was trying to sneak into the academy,” the woman said.

“Then at that time…”

“At that time, there was no emblem on his hand, otherwise I would have brought him back long ago,” the woman shrugged, the two mounds on her chest jiggling with her movement.

“However, he showed decent skills back then. I didn’t expect that the emblem he eventually awakened would be a Summoner emblem,” the woman continued. She looked at Baili Yuan with curiosity, thinking back to the time Baili Yuan had groped her chest, and looked at him with a playful, ambiguous smile.

Baili Yuan glared back at her without showing any weakness.

The woman wore an expression of keen interest.

“An interesting child. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Andy, and I am the nineteenth headmistress of the Emblem Academy. I apologize for what happened earlier; I didn’t mean to frighten you,” the woman said.

“If you know you were wrong, then why don’t you let me go?” Baili Yuan said toughly.

“That won’t do,” Andy said with a smile.

“Why?” Baili Yuan had an expression like he was about to cry. Every extra second he stayed here, he felt his chrysanthemum was one step closer to danger. He was panicking.

“Won’t you introduce yourself?” Andy said.

“Uh, my name is Baili Yuan, and I am… I am unemployed!” In the end, Baili Yuan did not reveal his true identity. Some things were not meant to be spoken of casually.

“Unemployed? That’s truly hilarious.” A child seriously claiming to be unemployed—the contrast made everyone around them unable to hold back their laughter.

“Where are your parents?” an old woman asked.

“In a very far place,” Baili Yuan said.

“Where?” Andy asked.

“It’s just… a very, very far place. Uh… another world.” Under the pressure of Andy’s gaze, Baili Yuan finally told the truth.

Another world, M78 Nebula, Land of Light—nothing wrong with that.

Thinking of this, Baili Yuan felt that after he cultivated for another few tens of thousands of years and worked hard to find a way back, his parents should still be in their prime. Maybe he could even marry a girl working at the Silver Cross and pass down his ancestral light.

The people on the other side fell silent, looking at Baili Yuan with complex expressions. Even Andy temporarily put away her smile.

“An orphan?” an old man muttered, sighing.

“How truly pitiful,” several old women wiped away their tears.

Baili Yuan: “???”

He had a feeling they had misunderstood something.

“No, I’m not, I don’t have… mmph, mmph, mmph~”

Baili Yuan was pulled into the arms of an old woman, receiving a round of affection as she pinched and rubbed various parts of his body.

“Poor child, from now on I’ll be your big sister. Treat this place as your own home… *sob sob sob*~”

Andy opened her mouth, but didn’t know what to say.

However, since the other party was an Elder, she couldn’t say anything either.

“Alright, put Xiao Yuan down first. It’s better to explain things clearly, otherwise, Xiao Yuan won’t let his guard down,” Andy said. Perhaps because of Baili Yuan’s “tragic” background, she had started using a nickname for him.

What the hell is “Xiao Yuan”?

Baili Yuan’s mouth twitched.

“System, tell me the truth, is your name Kyubey?”

“I’ve been wronged~”

The old woman reluctantly let go of Baili Yuan, and he finally felt relieved.

“Alright, let me explain why we were looking for you,” Andy said.

Baili Yuan nodded; he wanted to know too.

He hadn’t stolen or robbed anything, he was just a child, and he only wanted to sneakily touch an egg—how did he end up getting captured?

“Because you awakened an emblem!” Andy put away her smile and said seriously, as if Baili Yuan awakening an emblem was a matter of great importance.

“Just because of that?” Baili Yuan was stunned.

“Do you know what the minimum age for awakening an emblem is?” Andy continued to ask.

“Seven years old,” Baili Yuan said; he knew that much.

“Then how old are you this year?”

“Two thousand three hundred and thirty-three years old…” Feeling Andy’s gaze, Baili Yuan shrank his neck and weakly added, “minus two thousand three hundred and twenty-eight years…”

“Do you see the problem? The age at which you awakened your emblem is five!” Andy said, and the others nodded solemnly.

“But, my real age…” Baili Yuan retorted. If he counted by Ultraman years, he was already over two thousand years old! And he was a pure-blooded Ultraman!

“No need to cover it up. I already checked your bone age just now; it is indeed five years old,” said the old woman who had hugged Baili Yuan earlier.

Baili Yuan opened his mouth. Why did he feel like he had been defiled?

“It’s not that cases like yours, where an emblem is awakened before the age of seven, haven’t happened before. Through extensive observation, we have gradually discovered the special characteristics of children like you who awaken an emblem before the age of five,” Andy said.

“What are the special characteristics?”

“You will awaken a second emblem after the age of seven!”