《My Classmate is QiLin》Life Without a Still Water
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With a massive explosion, the shock waves of the battle flattened a hundred meters of land, leaving the surface as cratered as sliced bread, and the resulting waste was appalling.
The battle between Anubis werewolf and QiLin increasingly fierce, the struggle of two mythical creatures will be the whole hilltop ground, from a distance, the poor hill is like a middle-aged man's head, the open top of the mountain left only a few hairs, struggling in the storm...
Compared to the quiet life of American high school students in the past, what I am experiencing now is a doomsday!!!
If so, why are you asking me now that this is happening around me? Was I an average high school student before the accident?
And yes, as you might expect, because of an accident, I did have a healthy life like everyone else, a normal life before me with no superpowers, no superheroes, no evil scientists.
You may not believe it, but it's all because of the "foreign exchange student" not long ago. As things are very complicated, I can't explain it clearly in a short time, so please listen to me slowly.
Although I know, it might be a little long...
My name is Christopher Burba, and I live in Painesville, Ohio. I've never done anything significant. The biggest thing I've ever done, I'm afraid, is plotting to break out of kindergarten as a child.
Even if I wanted to do something earth-shattering before, but it also happened in my junior high school, just some fantasy personal fairy tales.
I spent seventeen years of my life, gradually went to high school, and began to work hard for my dream college three years later.
Just the first week of high school, all life is very reasonable, normal class and class, normal school and school, normal eating and sleeping......
But this Monday, a different thing happened, let my knowledge is continuously refreshed, the whole world is like Ubisoft's server, a severe bug......
This is the day. Mrs. Tucker, the school principal, came into my class with an expression of excitement and seriousness. Although she seemed to be trying to keep her composure, there was an unspeakable tension in her eyes, even excitement about something new.
"Hello, class three, today I want to tell you an important thing! Our school has a Chinese exchange student!"
Mrs. Tucker's words, like a deep-water charge into a fish tank, aroused our enthusiasm and curiosity. We listened carefully to Mrs. Tucker's words with pricked ears, and all kinds of ideas came to our minds.
What? Chinese exchange students, when does the school have exchange students?
I don't know if it's a woman! I want to be pretty. I'm single...
Exchange student from China? So, who went to China in our school?
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We're flooded with ideas, and so is Mrs. Tucker
"Dianthe! Don't be shy, come, and introduce yourself!"
With a hoarse throat, the principal beckoned to the door, where a 15-year-old Asian girl bent over the door frame and peered over at us.
Dianthe has apparent characteristics of East Asians. She looks ordinary, with shiny eyes and black hair; delicate wheat color skin, but compared to the height of people from other countries, she's not tall. The shape of her eyes look slender, but she has a very well-balanced figure. Not fat nor thin, but more of a typical form in China senior high school students.
She wears our school uniform. Her hairstyle is the long ponytail that Chinese girls usually wear. However, her hair is wavy and curly.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Dianthe. Please take good care of me in the future."
She leaned forward slightly to show her hat, and Mrs. Tucker looked at her tenderly, smiling and touching her head.
Dianthe, however, took a step back in disgust, apparently not enjoying being touched and wondering if she didn't want Mrs. Tucker to mess up the shape of her head.
"You all know the mythical creatures who saved lives on TV ten years ago! I have to tell you that mythical creatures are real, they live in a different world in the upper latitudes of the human world! Dianthe is the mythical creature of the east, the earth unicorn."
Mrs. Tucker's smiling face makes us think she's joking but also wonders why the headmaster is so perverse and deliberately emphasizing the connection between the new exchange students and mythical creatures.
This got us talking and reminded us of Mrs. Tucker's mythological life-saving story, but there wasn't much resistance, more confusion, and novelty.
It's just that we don't know why mythical creatures that have been hidden for a decade suddenly come to us.
"Believe me! Dianthe is really a mythical creature from the east. She came to the United States to study and learn about American culture, to prove that mythical creatures can live in peace with people from different countries."
Mrs. Tucker said again, but we didn't show much shock. In fact, we all thought Mrs. Tucker was joking. We suspected it was a prank by the TV station, the school, or a social test.
"Mrs. Tucker is really not lying," Dianthe said grimly. "I came to this class as an exchange student from the world of Oriental mythological creatures, and now I am not really what I look like, but what I look like as a human being."
None of us knew what to say, and even though we thought what was happening might be a prank, we all agreed to go along.
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"You say you are a mythical creature of the east! And what race are you?"
"I am the unicorn, the earth unicorn."
"What is a unicorn?
"Well, you could think of it as an Asian unicorn, with the characteristics of a dragon."
"Why don't you call yourself by your Chinese name?"
"It must be very inconvenient for you to call me by my Chinese name, so I chose an English name for myself."
"When are you leaving? Are you going to high school with us?"
"No, I'm here for a year, and if I do well, then it's possible to spend high school with everyone."
.....................
For a short time, my classmates had a lot of questions about Dianthe, and Dianthe answered them patiently, but I did not ask. For me, as long as the resurrection of safe and ordinary high school life, Dianthe in my life is of little significance.
Moreover, this time she came to the United States to study abroad, not to save the world, the other side's purpose is to do research and learning, according to her impression to me will not do earth-shattering events, estimated that she is just a ripple in my life just...
"Dianthe, take the open seat in the back. Mrs. Tucker will help you with the enrollment procedures. You don't need to worry. Please enjoy your high school life."
In my dazed time, Mrs. Tucker had left, and the head teacher instructed Dianthe to take a seat and prepare for class.
"Thank you, teacher!
Dianthe politely bowed, picked up his bag, turned to the class seat came over, I just nodded to her to say hello.
But, she actually sat beside me and became my deskmate!
For a moment, I could feel the eyes of everyone in the class turning towards me, and I too felt the illusion of being crowned queen of England.
Why is she sitting next to me?
Just when I was wondering, I suddenly remembered that one of my classmates had changed schools for family reasons not long ago, and he was sitting next to me, so his seat was just available.
"Hello, what's your name?
"Deandre said to me with a smile, holding out a hand and, out of politeness, I shook her hand and answered.
"My name is Christopher Burba."
"Well, nice to meet you, Christ carrier! I am the sacred flower."
Dianthe replied to me with a smile, saying that she speaks fluent English with different accents. Although she speaks English with different accents, her language sense is not awkward and smooth. It seems that she has practiced a lot in advance.
"Christ's vehicle?"
Before I could ask, it occurred to me that my parents had told me that my name, if put in Greek, meant "carrier of Christ." obviously, Dianthe knew the meaning of my name and was making me laugh.
"Yes, nice to meet you, too."
"Haha... "
Dianthe turned around with a smile, opened her bag, and took out her textbook for the class, but the gesture turned her back toward me.
Then I suddenly saw a long dark shape writhing behind her, which frightened me into a cold sweat. I thought it was a snake following her.
I don't know how to describe it, it mixed a lot of animal characteristics, it is 30 cm long, has the shape of a cow tail, arranged with half of the bronze dragon scales, the tail extends from the back to cover a line of blue lion mane, the tail gives a sense of full of fluffy.
"You! Your ass... "
I let out a sound of shock, not knowing what to say. I almost wanted to say that Dianthe was a monster, but reason kept me from saying it.
"So I'm a unicorn."
Dianthe noticed me, put his index finger to his lips, and whispered to me in fluent English, apologetic in his eyes, gesturing to me to stop talking and hiding his tail with one hand.
Miraculously, she took her hand off the top of her tail in a split second, and the bizarre tail disappeared, leaving no holes in her trousers in the back as if nothing had happened.
"Chris! On the first day of school, you stare at your new classmate's ass. Don't you know it's vulgar! Apologize to Dianthe!"
The teacher heard my exclamation, turned around to see me staring at the "butt" of Dianthe, feel very angry, after all, this is the foreign exchange students brought by the principal, not just ordinary people, for me feel ashamed.
So, instead of writing with chalk, he threw the chalk at me, and it made a beautiful track in the air, hit my forehead exactly, hit my forehead very painful.
Although I did stare at Dianthe's buttocks, I still felt very wrong, but also knew that she didn't want to let people find out just now. I only sat back in silence, around the male students who looked at me with disgusted expressions. The female students nearby closed their legs and avoided my eyes, not wanting me to stare at them.
I'm afraid this wrong impression of me will remain in the class for some time.
I looked at Dianthe plaintively. Dianthe also realized that she was the reason why I was treated like this. She also looked guilty and stopped talking.
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