The silver-haired, violet-eyed girl strolled casually around the playground with her hands in her school uniform pockets.
She didn’t notice anything unusual, so she turned and headed to the innermost dormitory building of the school.
“Auntie, our homeroom teacher sent me back to get something.”
She greeted the Dorm Supervisor Auntie, who was dozing in a small room, with a smile.
Standing openly, Jiang Yin was scrutinized from head to toe by the auntie’s watchful gaze before being allowed in.
Mainly, the Dorm Supervisor Auntie couldn’t remember ever seeing such a pretty little girl before, but seeing Jiang Yin’s uniform marked as a first-year, she thought maybe she was a day student.
Thinking so, she still let the girl through.
This was thanks to Jiang Yin’s transformed, maximized charisma and her carefully arranged appearance.
—Her uniform was immaculate, the school badge centered on her chest, and even her long hair, instead of being let down like fashionable high school girls, was neatly tied in a clean high ponytail.
A child like this clearly wasn’t a bad student.
Of course, even if she had been stopped, it wouldn’t have mattered.
Jiang Yin could’ve just had the Dorm Supervisor Auntie call her ‘homeroom teacher’, and a Bureau member would cover for her identity.
In fact, her student registration was real too, just listed as a ‘ghost student’ in the records, marked as someone studying at home due to chronic illness.
Still, if possible, it was better not to trouble others and solve things herself.
It wasn’t a big deal anyway.
“So this is the girls’ dormitory. It’s not much different from the boys’ dormitory, huh.”
Jiang Yin actually had experience in the girls’ dormitory—she once helped her desk mate move her luggage.
But that was at the start of the term, when the dorm had no traces of girls living there yet.
The room layout was identical to the boys’ dormitory, so nothing stirred youthful excitement.
It left her with a bit of space for imagination.
Now that she looked again, she realized she’d been overthinking.
It was just a dormitory.
They all had daily morning hygiene checks; how different could the girls’ dorm be from the boys’ dorm—besides, she couldn’t go rummaging through someone’s closet.
Wandering from the sixth floor to the first, the girl smiled and bid farewell to the Dorm Supervisor Auntie, then turned and headed next door to the boys’ dormitory.
She couldn’t just walk in there openly.
But, relying on her petite frame, Jiang Yin found a blind spot in the Dorm Supervisor Uncle’s line of sight as he turned to look for his lighter and slipped in, not finding anything unusual there either.
Next was the teaching building.
This was the hardest place of all.
To avoid suspicion, she had to inspect it during class time, but if a Patrolling Teacher found a student loitering in the corridor instead of in class, she’d definitely be questioned.
So…
[She just went straight in? Isn’t she afraid of being discovered?]
A Magical Girl with pink twin tails stood on a high building, her magical attire shimmering as she concealed herself and observed Jiang Yin’s every move within the school.
[Sister Ning Rong, didn’t you say she was smart? Why does she seem a little dumb to me?]
[She’s about to run into someone—if she goes upstairs, she’ll definitely bump into them.]
In reality, there was no need for Magical Girl school patrols to be as high-difficulty as Jiang Yin made them seem, like a secret agent in hiding.
Normally, a Magical Girl could just use magic to become invisible after transforming, or rely on superhuman senses to avoid Patrolling Teachers, or even connect to the school’s surveillance system and plan a route—there were always ways to circle the teaching building without being discovered.
But this was a test.
What mattered was observing Jiang Yin’s ability to adapt on the spot, so there was no off-site support from logistics personnel.
Jiang Yin didn’t know this.
She simply had the habit of trying to solve assignments herself, as handed down by superiors, without considering whether the task was reasonable—people like her didn’t have the energy to overthink.
Was she short on encounters with dumb bosses at work?
[Let’s watch for now. If necessary, contact someone to pull her out.]
Ning Rong watched the surveillance, unable to figure out Jiang Yin’s reasoning, but after three days together, she doubted Jiang Yin was so foolish as to lack even basic adaptability.
Then Taotao and Ning Rong watched as the girl, upon glimpsing the Patrolling Teacher out of the corner of her eye, pulled a pack of tissues from her pocket and clutched it to her stomach—not running, but moving quickly with a strange, yet familiar, awkward gait.
When passing the Patrolling Teacher, her eyes even welled up with tears.
She silently pointed at her stomach, then at the restroom at the end of the corridor.
“Go on, take care of yourself.”
The Patrolling Teacher nodded kindly, not asking any questions, and even offered a word of concern.
Ning Rong: “….”
Taotao: “….”
[Was this person really a man before? How does she pull it off so well!?]
Taotao’s telepathic voice was full of disbelief.
To be honest, Jiang Yin’s trick wasn’t new—it was the classic move of girls faking ‘magic periods’ to dodge running laps in PE.
But to react so fast, use it so smoothly, and act so convincingly—few could pull it off this well.
Mainly, she used to be a man.
Why was she so familiar with these girly tricks!?
[I don’t know…]
Ning Rong couldn’t understand either—even Taotao could immediately tell what move Jiang Yin used, but Ning Rong had been a Magical Girl for too long and away from high school life for too many years.
She’d long forgotten how magic periods could make girls suffer.
It wasn’t that Magical Girls couldn’t bleed, but their physical resilience was so high they could fight through debuffs without any effect.
Ning Rong became a Magical Girl at fourteen and barely experienced magic period suffering, never pretended to be sick, so she naturally wasn’t familiar with these kinds of underhanded tricks.
Passing by the Patrolling Teacher, Jiang Yin kept up the act all the way to the end of the corridor before dropping the performance and climbing the stairs with a blank face.
She encountered no trouble, and quickly finished checking the entire teaching building.
Then…
She stood in front of the first-floor restroom, deep in thought.
Because she felt that ‘cold chill’ Ning Rong had mentioned.
According to patrol rules, she should go inside to check if there was really a suspicious person lurking.
But…
She looked at the big ‘female’ sign, then covered her face with a smack.
She really couldn’t go in there, right?
Even if her current body was female, barging into the girls’ restroom in a high school less than five days after transforming—
No matter how she thought about it, it would be social suicide!
[Hahahaha, I want to see what she does now!]
Taotao clutched her stomach, laughing wildly.
[You’re so mean. Normally, in this situation, she could report to me, and I’d go in to check.]
[But she doesn’t seem to be calling for help? By the rules, if she leaves a suspicious spot unchecked and doesn’t report it, she’ll have to undergo extra training, right?]
[Yes.]
It was true.
Ning Rong couldn’t argue, only feeling that she’d been too anxious, focusing on Jiang Yin’s adaptability and forgetting that he wasn’t originally from the Bureau and hadn’t developed a habit of reporting.
Then the two watched as the white-haired girl leapt from the men’s restroom window, picked up a suitably-sized stone, and tossed it through the open window of the girls’ restroom.
No sound came from inside—there was definitely no one there.
The girl visibly relaxed, peered through the window to confirm there were no suspicious people inside, then marked a suspicious spot in the Bureau’s internal software on her phone.
Hmm.
Although she didn’t have the habit of reporting everything, marking test bugs was an old habit from her days as a programmer—she was highly skilled at using all kinds of unusual methods…
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