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Join the Server“……This is what they call one of the inevitable hardships and trials in life. I truly understand it now.”
Liya stood at what should have been the entrance to her own dormitory, muttering with mixed feelings.
Since Christine was a teacher, after dinner she had to return to prepare tomorrow’s lessons after seeing Liya back to the dorm. As for Liya, she would be picked up by Christine tomorrow for class as a transfer student officially enrolled. So for now, Liya was alone.
Yes, standing alone at the entrance of the girls’ dorm, she could walk in openly without any excuse.
This feeling couldn’t help but remind Liya of the hardships of his previous life in college. Back then, the girls’ dormitory was heavily guarded. Every time he tried to enter, the dorm matron would intercept him, and that opponent was formidable. Those times had truly given Liya a thrill.
Of course, don’t misunderstand—Liya didn’t have a habit of peeping into the girls’ dorm. Although his roommates at the time had that habit, Liya had focused on martial arts during his college years. The reason he deliberately went to storm the girls’ dorm was purely because the dorm matron was a very skilled martial artist, and he went to spar with her.
Though for some reason, even after explaining the situation, that dorm matron still went hard on him. But that was fine; thanks to her, Liya had made rapid progress during college. Thinking back, the girls’ dorm wasn’t so scary after all.
“……No, no, no. But men and women should maintain distance. How could I do such a thing…”
But if he thought about it seriously—leaving the soul aside, his body was at least female now, and there was no way to change back to male. Moreover, if he didn’t enter the dorm, he would have to sleep on the streets. Though Liya wasn’t afraid of sleeping outside, if Christine came looking for him tomorrow morning and saw that, it would leave a bad impression…
“What a dilemma. What should I do, oh…”
“Eh? Isn’t this Liya? What are you doing here?”
Turning around, Liya wasn’t surprised at all. In fact, he had noticed someone approaching from behind early on, but thought it was just a passerby. Unexpectedly, it was someone looking for him. Interesting—could it be those students from the arena coming to get revenge?
Thinking this, Liya couldn’t help but reveal a ferocious smile.
“Eek?! Liya?!”
“What, not those pigs… Ah, may I ask who you are?”
Realizing it wasn’t as expected, Liya first let out an almost imperceptible sigh, then immediately looked up with a brilliant smile. Having lived for ten years in this new life, he knew exactly how to smile to quickly win someone’s favor. Though knowing this annoyed him, it was undeniably effective.
“I, I’m one of Christine’s students! I saw you today, and Christine asked me to look after you in the dorm… By the way, why are you standing at the dorm entrance without going in?”
The speaker was a girl with blonde hair like Liya’s, but unlike Liya’s wavy hair, hers fell to her waist. Both had emerald-green eyes. Naturally, due to the age difference, the girl was taller and more slender.
“I’m Alice!”
The girl—Alice—nervously extended her small hand, cautiously watching Liya as if she might withdraw it at any moment. Based on Liya’s experience, this was a gesture of friendliness.
‘Just what I wanted. Now is the perfect chance to make a friend!’
“Liya.”
He reached out and decisively grasped Alice’s hand. The moment their hands met, Alice let out a relieved smile, and Liya smiled too.
How should he put it? This was probably his first friend on this new path of life, right? Yes, definitely!
The joy resembled when, in his previous life, he first created a practical martial arts technique. Liya deeply remembered this feeling… Hmm, not bad.
“By the way, Liya, why don’t you go in? Are you shy?”
“No, I just don’t want to go in.”
If he went in and saw girls in revealing clothes visiting each other, that would be terrible. Avoid impropriety! He was a healthy man, after all.
“I see… It’s okay. Everyone is a nice older sister; they won’t do anything to you, Liya.”
Alice patted his head… How strange. Liya felt that this new friend’s eyes had almost the same look as the young nuns at the church. What word should he use to describe it? Affection? Damn it! Were they treating him like a child again?! Even if he had cultivated his mind, this would still make him angry!
“No, I think I need to prepare myself.”
Taking a few deep breaths, Liya suppressed his irritation. As the saying goes, “Be good to others and help them achieve good things.” He was still too impatient—no wonder he couldn’t attain the state of a calm mind… Well, since entering the girls’ dorm was inevitable, he had to accept it.
****
Walking down the dormitory corridor, Liya felt an unprecedented refreshment and began humming a tune from his previous life.
“Um, Liya…”
“Hmm, hmm hmm hmm~, hmm hmm~”
“Liya? Liya!”
“Huh? What is it, Senior Alice?” Liya said casually, his tone lacking sincerity when calling her “senior.” It couldn’t be helped—if it were someone like Christine who was hundreds of years old, that would be one thing, but a mere student of this academy was far from being a senior to someone who had lived over a hundred years in his previous life. He only called her “senior” out of politeness and rules.
“Um… well, why are you wearing an eyepatch? Can you see?”
“Huh? Of course!”
Liya walked easily down the corridor. Though his eyes were covered by a pitch-black eyepatch, it didn’t hinder his movement at all. That was only natural—as a martial artist, if he couldn’t learn to perceive his surroundings with his mind’s eye, what difference would there be between him and those pigs he had beaten today?
“As a martial artist, such a trivial thing can’t stop me. Oh, right, Alice, do you know where my room is?”
Although Liya could walk down the corridor easily with the eyepatch on, eyes still had their advantages—like reading room numbers.
“Huh? Oh! I know. Teacher Christine mentioned it to me. I remember it’s… Room 1250! Yes, that should be it.”
“The word ‘should’ is a bit vague… Whatever. Lead the way. Don’t worry, I can see—with my mind’s eye!”
“Oh… oh! I get it! This is a martial arts training exercise, right! Okay, I’ll take you there, Liya~”
“I’m counting on you, my friend!”
As it turned out, despite the danger of the girls’ dormitory due to his masculine pride, he had a very reliable comrade—the first friend he made in this new life! With her help, he could surely survive easily in the girls’ dorm!
The imagined death from blood loss… probably wouldn’t happen.
****
“Ah, wrong way. This is Room 1380.”
“……”
Maybe he was wrong. Liya imagined Alice panicking, flailing her arms, and looking around frantically, and suddenly realized something.
No mistake about it—this new friend’s personality was extremely similar to his best friend from his previous life… Hmm, he had even found a word to describe that personality back then. That’s right, he remembered it was…
“Airhead?”
“Huh?!”
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