AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016-Chapter 1525 - 727: Second-Generation Principal
"Looking for trouble?" The Boss glanced at him.
Everyone laughed again.
"Hahaha, let’s eat!" Wei Shan laughed, tearing open some food packages and distributing the rare delicacies to everyone.
The small hidden room was filled with the fragrance of various foods.
Kuai Hongji hummed a tune with exotic flair, gently tapping his fingers on the table.
Mao Feiyang took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, pouring out a collection of student souvenir coins with a clinking sound. After that night, he somehow acquired lots of student souvenir coins, but they all had no names. He carefully counted them, candlelight flickering on his lowered eyelashes.
Wei Shan was indulging in the food as if nothing was more important than eating.
Li Huiyuan rested her slightly flushed face on her hand, her gaze passing over everyone present, finally landing on Lin Yi and the Boss.
He looked at Lin Yi and the Boss, then ate the food before him, soon showing a smile.
Everyone ate and laughed, laughter rising higher wave after wave.
Mao Feiyang suddenly mentioned one of Lin Yi’s embarrassing stories, laughing so hard he couldn’t continue, prompting everyone else to laugh uproariously, shaking the hidden room with their laughter.
As one laughed, so did another, and everyone joined in the revelry. Though there was no alcohol, it seemed as if they were drunk, carried away by the atmosphere to talk on, joking and chatting endlessly.
Compared to a grand banquet, this meal felt more like an informal tea party. But in such an environment, it was all the more precious, for everyone knew that after this meal, they would face the most severe crisis in the world’s history—the Black Fog Crisis.
This was the longest meal Lin Yi had had since entering the school. After finishing and leaving, the hidden room vanished quietly, as if it had never appeared, as if everything that happened was just an unreal dream.
Lin Yi glanced down at his watch.
"19:20."
Indeed, the meal lasted quite a while.
After leaving the hidden room, each of them seemed cloaked in a mysterious aura.
This aura felt like the candlelight from the hidden room, or perhaps like some kind of dreamlike light, gently protecting them like a divine veil.
...
May 12, X023, 07:53, "Principal’s Office."
"Creak..."
The door to the "Principal’s Office" was slowly pushed open, and a slender figure in a black suit quietly stepped inside.
"Bang!"
The door closed, and that figure stepped from the shadow of the porch into the light of the room.
"Convenience Store Owner -003."
"So this is the ’Principal’s Office’?" the Convenience Store Owner muttered to himself.
Finally stepping into the place he’d dreamed of for years, yet as he looked around, the excitement he imagined didn’t surge up. Instead, an indescribable calmness spread through his heart.
His gaze swept over the room lined with bookshelves, landing on the desk coiled by gnarled roots and sturdy branches. In a trance, he seemed to see the "Principal" residing here, tirelessly working for the future of the school.
A soft sigh unconsciously escaped his lips.
He walked to the desk and immediately saw the "Principal’s Code."
He picked up the "Principal’s Code," his fingertips brushing over its laminated surface, and then a faint, helpless smile spread at the corner of his mouth, turning into a silent bitter smile.
"So this is... the ’Principal’s Office’?"
He whispered again, as if asking himself, or perhaps asking the "Principal" who had long left this place.
After a moment of silence, he gently turned the thin page of the code.
On the back of the code, embedded was an acrylic identity credential—a blank identity card, yet it carried the legendary symbol of the "Principal."
When his eyes touched the card, the hazy images of the former principal in his mind dissipated like smoke, replaced by the weighty authority and power contained within the "Principal" identity.
He took a deep breath, with a barely controllable tremor, pressing his fingertips onto the blank credential—
At the moment of contact!
"Buzz..."
The entire "Principal’s Office" air suddenly stilled, an invisible, overwhelming aura silently spread from him as the center.
The blank card, seemingly heavy as a thousand weights, made the whole space tremble with it.
The Convenience Store Owner’s pupils dilated, his eyes reflecting the rushing trajectory of galaxies. He opened his mouth slightly, exhaling a wisp of white breath: "This, this is... the eternal scenery in the ’Principal’s’ eyes?!"
His voice carried an indescribable trembling: "It’s marvelous... truly... too marvelous..."
Forcing his fingers to stop trembling, he solemnly, slowly placed the blank identity credential on his chest.
"Buzz——!"
"Buzz buzz buzz buzz..."
"Buzz buzz buzz..."
The space’s tremors grew more intense, as if the whole world resisted his coronation.
However, how could countless years of waiting be hindered by external forces?!
Finally, the card fit securely against his chest.
At that moment—
All the tremors, and the immense resistance from the void, dissipated into nothing.
"Clang," a light sound rang.
