Chapter 11: Hello, Teacher Zero!

“Eh, eh, eh, this guy actually came from another world!?”

Kunta only told this news to Mianbao and Zero.
The fewer people who knew that Hu Qingyu didn’t belong to this world, the better.

“Could he be a hero who has come in accordance with the choice of destiny!” A fervent light radiated from Mianbao’s eyes.
In that moment, the chuunibyou spirit within her male soul began to burn uncontrollably.
“The world is about to undergo a revolution!
The terrifying Demon King is about to be revived!
Alright! I’ve decided, I’m going to be the hero’s companion!”

Mianbao had just taken a step when Zero’s fist struck her hard in the stomach.
“Pain, pain, pain!” Mianbao clutched her stomach and knelt down.

“Have you read too many of those ‘Hero vs. Demon King’ novels by Maratangshan (a famous chuunibyou novel writer on the West Continent) and gone stupid?” Zero raised her fist and chided her coldly.

“Sigh…” In all her long life, this was the first time Kunta had seen such a foolish girl like Mianbao.
“Therefore, I’m giving the two of you a task.
After all, you’re the ones who picked up this mess, so you’ll be the ones to clean it up.
The task is to teach Hu Qingyu the common knowledge about this world that even a three-year-old knows.”

Mianbao weakly climbed up from the ground.
“Then, does that mean I don’t have to do that ‘limb-stretching training’?”

“Of course.” At that moment, in Mianbao’s eyes, Kunta was like a holy angel descending from heaven.

“Not a chance.”

With a “boom,” Mianbao fell from heaven to the eighteenth layer of hell, and the fall was a miserable one.

“While teaching Hu Qingyu, your training cannot stop either.” As Kunta said these words, Mianbao felt that demonic, pitch-black horns had sprouted from her head.

‘I can’t be the demon, right!?
The real demon has to be this old hag, right?’

Mianbao’s eyes were covered by her bangs, her lips pouted into a perfect triangle of displeasure, and her entire body once again began to emit a tangible black aura of despair.

Zero stared at Mianbao the entire time, watching her look of defeat.
Then she watched as Mianbao scampered to the riverbank, picked up a rock, laid her own leg flat, and then raised the rock, aiming it at her leg.

“I say, are you planning to self-harm to escape training?” A crack appeared on Zero’s eternally unchanging face.
The corners of her mouth twitched fiercely at Mianbao’s idiotic behavior.

“Let me tell you.”

“When you bring that rock down, you will first hear a dull thud.
Then your leg will hurt a lot, but not enough to break it.
Of course, you yourself will also scream.”

“You’d also need to smash it several times within a few seconds to have a chance of breaking your leg then you’d be trading unbearable pain for no training and if you don’t control the force properly not only will you hear the sound of bone shattering you’ll also see your leg become a bloody mess of flesh and gore and on the ground there will be a pile of fragmented bone mixed with blood.”

“Don’t say any more!” Mianbao threw the rock in her hand into the water, admitting defeat.

“Then.” Zero folded her hands neatly on her lap.
“Go and train with Old Lady Ana.”

Old Lady Ana, who was in charge of Mianbao, now stood beside Zero with her hands on her hips.
“Firia, get over here.” Her words were like a death summons, making Mianbao’s body tremble reflexively.

“Hello, my name is Zero. Grandma Kunta asked me to come and teach you.” Zero entered Hu Qingyu’s room.
To help Hu Qingyu better understand her words, Zero had specially asked someone to bring in a blackboard.

“Hello, then I shall trouble Miss Zero.” Hu Qingyu casually cupped his fist.

“Miss… is that an honorific for girls where you’re from?” Zero asked.

“Indeed.”

“Here, it is not ‘girl’, but ‘Miss’. In the future, if you are addressing other girls, you should say ‘this Miss’. Understood?”

Hu Qingyu nodded obediently.
“This junior understands. Miss Zero, please continue.”

Zero picked up a pen and drew an outline of the world map on the blackboard.
Then she pointed with the pen and said, “The Lazel Continent is divided into two parts, the West Continent and the East Continent.
The countries on the West Continent are the Meiluos Empire, the Star-Moon Empire, the Kashaluoye Empire, and the Papal State.”

“There are only two countries on the East Continent: the Divine Bell Empire and the Shadow Poem Empire.”

“The East and West Continents are separated by the Sea of Silence.
Travel between them requires ships or space-teleportation arrays…”

“Aaaaaah, it hurts so much!!! Please be gentle, aaaaaah!” Mianbao’s screams, like a pig being slaughtered, once again began to drift through every corner of the Kunta Song and Dance Troupe at a fixed time.

Hu Qingyu couldn’t help but ask, “This is…”

“It’s nothing,” Zero said calmly.
“It’s just the daily pig slaughtering.
You’ll get used to it.
Let’s continue.”

At lunchtime, Hu Qingyu was truly the center of attention.
All the girls surrounded him the moment he stepped out.

“Wow, he’s super handsome!”

“His hair is so long!”

“His eyes are so beautiful. I used to think Firia’s eyes were already very pretty, but I didn’t expect this gentleman’s to be even more beautiful.”

Hu Qingyu had encountered situations like being surrounded by various girls in his previous world, but to be surrounded by so many girls who, to him, were dressed so… stimulatingly… that was truly too stimulating.

“Ugh!” Hu Qingyu hurriedly covered his nose, afraid he would get another nosebleed.
That would be a huge loss of face.

“Tch, so he’s a little handsome, is it necessary to be like this? I was also very handsome, why didn’t you all surround me back then?” Mianbao sat on the grass, her whole body aching, her eyelids drooping as she grumbled.

Xixi squeezed out from among the girls and came running over, hopping and skipping.
“Big Sister Mianbao, what are you muttering about? Your mouth is all crooked.”

“No way!” Mianbao nervously touched her lips.
They weren’t crooked.

“Ehehe, Big Sister Mianbao! Hu Qingyu isn’t just handsome, he’s devastatingly handsome! He’s the most handsome boy I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Faced with Xixi’s excitement, Mianbao replied with a cold expression, “Oh, go ahead and swoon.”

“Does Big Sister Mianbao not like handsome boys?” Xixi widened her big, sparkling eyes.

‘I don’t!’ Mianbao closed her eyes and said nonchalantly, “I only like cute girls like you!”

As she said this, she was about to jump up and tease Xixi.

“Firia, stop!” Zero’s fist once again stopped Mianbao’s action.

“Ugh!” Mianbao’s eyes were instantly turned into large X’s by Zero’s punch.

Zero sat in her wheelchair, side-by-side with Mianbao and Xixi.
“Firia, this afternoon, you’ll be the one to teach him about magicians and such.”

“I… I understand…” Mianbao lowered her head and raised her hand in a jerky, stuttering motion.