Is the Great Summoning Technique!

The water’s surface bobbed. In the dim depths, it was impossible to see the person’s expression clearly.

Long strands of hair drifted in the water, but that face, identical to her own, was exceptionally clear.

She covered the white-haired girl’s eyes from behind, wanting to carry her upwards, but her accomplice blocked her.

Then, she gave her a malicious smile and leaned her head towards the white-haired girl—

An icy storm instantly brewed in her eyes. But Wang Ning, in her arms, was on the verge of drowning, and both of her hands were supporting her. She abandoned the thought of fighting and, without hesitation, swam upwards with the person in tow.

“Cough, Bwah!”

The moment she broke the surface and breathed in oxygen, Wang Ning felt like her lungs were about to explode. She greedily gulped down the life-sustaining air.

The person supporting her quietly moved away, surfacing a short distance from her. Long, inky-blue hair was plastered to her body, her exquisite and beautiful face expressionlessly looking at her—

‘Is this Rin Dong, or Rin Yue?’

The question flashed through her mind, but in any case, the moment she saw the twins’ faces, it was as if she had PTSD. She immediately swam backwards.

‘My life is forfeit! I almost died at the hands of these twins again! My sense of security is in the negative now. Can’t these two just stay away from me?!’

But she didn’t get far before she bumped into another person. Wang Ning looked up, and the moment she saw the face, the hair on her body stood on end, her scalp tingling.

Violet eyes stared at her. Their bodies were pressed together. Wang Ning could even clearly feel the curves and firm softness of the other’s body. The cool water and warm skin rubbed together, creating a strange temperature. The other’s long hair clung to her skin like water snakes.

“…Where are you going?” Wang Ning heard her whisper in her ear, the ambiguous and icy words slithering past her ear like a venomous snake.

Wang Ning’s mouth fell open, and she reacted quickly, struggling. But the other’s strength was immense, leaving her with only the futile despair of being pinned down by a predator. Resentment and fear rose in her heart.

“Rin Yue! Let go of me!” Wang Ning had scanned her surroundings just now. It was still the swimming complex, but she couldn’t see any other students—they had brought her to another, deserted pool area.

The person opposite her seemed surprised, then raised an eyebrow. “You called me Rin Yue?”

Wang Ning: “…Aren’t you?”

‘Compared to the composed older sister, the younger sister was clearly more likely to do something like this.’

“How mean, Ningning~ To mistake your own mommy~” a voice came from behind her.

Wang Ning watched as the other twin swam over from behind her. Looking at their identical faces, her brain stalled.

For some reason, the people who were usually so easy to tell apart now looked like exact replicas, with no discernible differences.

She looked hesitantly between the two, even forgetting to run, and said to the twin who had just swum over, “Are you Rin Yue?”

Her tone just now was indeed very similar to Rin Yue’s.

“Rin Yue” looked at her, and Wang Ning watched as the teasing smile on that face slowly disappeared. The corners of her mouth drooped, and her eyes became calm and restrained.

Then, the “Rin Dong” beside Wang Ning burst out laughing. “Hahahahahaha! You’re way too easy to fool!”

‘Okay, confirmed. This punchable tone is definitely Rin Yue!’

‘Wait, are they insane? Playing “guess who I am” at a time like this?!’

‘No, given their track record, they actually would.’

Wang Ning felt helpless and indignant. Seizing the opportunity, she quickly pushed her away and used her terrible swimming skills to try and flee the scene.

Fortunately, this time they didn’t stop her.

When Wang Ning reached the edge of the pool, they hadn’t followed her. She let out a long sigh of relief. She only felt a bit more grounded after getting out of the water.

‘No, I have to stay away from these psycho sisters. If an accident like this happens again, I can’t be sure I’ll get away so luckily.’

Wang Ning ran without looking back. Her wet feet slapped against the smooth floor. The lights of the swimming complex seemed to become glaring, like the final scene in an escape game.

—And the escapee naturally did not see the twins, still floating in the water, watching her retreating back. The next moment, their expressions morphed into a chillingly synchronized smile.

“Sister, this is my prey,” Rin Yue said suddenly. The usual exaggerated smile was gone from her face, replaced by a calm, simple one.

Rin Dong just looked at the disappearing figure and grunted in acknowledgement.

Then, she raised her hand, her sharp fingertips easily pressing against her sister’s neck.

She said, “But there is only one target.”

“Do you still remember what the instructor taught us?”

Rin Yue wasn’t panicked. She just habitually curved her eyes into black crescents and said, “But didn’t you say it before? We are the closest people to each other. We should share everything.”

In the screening at the experimental facility, only one person was supposed to have walked out.

But, that one time, two had appeared.

[“They have a startlingly high rate of synchronization and similarity. Compared to the other test subjects, this special trait allows them to do things most people can’t…” the person holding the data log reported to their superior.]

[“Perhaps, we can cultivate them… No, I mean, as another kind of useful tool.”]

Their similarity was so high that they could know what the other was thinking without any need for communication. Their high degree of synergy allowed them to easily act as, no, to replicate the other.

If they had been isolated from society and raised purely as tools, they might not have developed superfluous thoughts and would have only been the Life Sequence’s most perfect “knives.”

—But the laughable thing was, in order to make them more like normal people, they were sent to a school when they were ten years old. An ordinary school.

And there, for the first time, the two knives turned on each other.

“My dear sister, Rin Dong, are you going to kill me again?” Her words were incredibly light. Rin Dong’s gaze grew colder and colder.

The natural-born twins knew too well what the other would say and think, so they had a default “sharing” mode—no matter what, they had to have it together.

But, upon discovering that the other had developed selfish desires and possessiveness, they didn’t think of sharing—they thought of unhesitatingly eliminating and replacing the other, just like when they were ten.

The atmosphere between the two grew even more rigid.

Wang Ning walked out quickly. She felt a burning sensation in her lungs. After thinking for a moment, she decided to go to the infirmary that Xiali had mentioned first.

She followed the signs down a corridor and suddenly heard a loud thud and a few low curses.

Wang Ning turned her head and saw that the restroom was right next to her. Her steps forward slowed.

The sound of cursing grew louder. Unbearable words like “b*tch” and “slut” stung her ears.

—Having just escaped from those two, Wang Ning’s understanding of the strength of humans with beast transformation bloodlines had been raised to a new level. She was also thankful that despite her ordinary background, she hadn’t been bullied so far.

So, should she interfere in this kind of thing?

Thump!

Chloe slammed into the wall behind her and slumped to the cold floor. Her cheeks, arms, thighs, waist… all throbbed with a sharp, stabbing pain. The corner of her lip was split, and she swallowed the blood mixed with saliva. Her glasses had been knocked off, and the deep black eyes that were revealed stared at the person looking down on her, still like a pool of stagnant water.

This undoubtedly enraged the other person even more. She raised her hand high again. Brightly colored nails, a stark white ceiling, the smell of blood and disinfectant mixing into a nauseating stench. Her breathing was rapid. She tilted her head slightly, her heart slowly beating, tugging at her blood vessels.

Thump, thump, thump.

The lackey standing next to Felice clenched her blood-stained fist. She felt that this girl’s gaze was unsettlingly depressing and felt a trace of pity. But she didn’t dare to try and persuade Felice, because she knew that if she said something to spoil the mood now, Felice’s anger would just turn on her.

The girl on the left said, “Lady Felice, I checked. The security camera seems to be broken.”

Felice flicked her hand and crossed her arms with a huff. “That’s convenient. We don’t have to delete the recording then.”

“What are you looking at? Those eyes of yours should really be gouged out,” she said, the arrogant smile on her face widening. She condescended to bend down and said in Chloe’s ear, “Do you want to know how your parents died in the end?”

“Hmm… They were so scared that their daughter was a murderer. But they were also incredibly foolish—”

Her words were filled with mockery. “—always wanting to appeal, to clear the name of their murderer daughter.”

Chloe’s eyes still didn’t blink, staring intently at her, her pupils reflecting the blurry figures of the three. Time seemed to stretch in that moment.

“No…”

She spoke, her voice extremely hoarse.

“I didn’t harm them…”

But no one would hear her. Her voice was almost strange by the end.

Felice kicked her leg and looked down at her. “Keep hitting her.”

BANG!!

But this time, it wasn’t the sound of fists and feet. They looked at the door in astonishment. The sound of forceful banging and slapping on the door echoed loudly.

“Listen up in there, open the door right now! I’ve already called for people! Teachers, students, the pipe repairman, they’ll all be here soon!”

Wang Ning lied without batting an eye, shouting at the top of her lungs.

“Also, I’ve recorded everything you said! Whatever you’re doing, open the door now!” ‘Just kidding. The soundproofing on this door is ridiculously good. Besides a few sharp curses, I can only record a blurry sound.’

Then, Wang Ning saw the door open. She blinked, seeing the other person’s ugly expression as she faced her, her anger having burned away her reason. After recognizing who it was, she still cursed, “b*tch!”

Her two lackeys also quickly came out, wanting to restrain Wang Ning.

But Wang Ning quickly took a step back, warily watching their movements while blindly tapping her screen. She randomly made a call and, without waiting for the other person to speak, said, “Hello? You there? Yes, I’m at the entrance of the swimming complex’s restroom. Uh-huh, uh-huh, hurry over.”

After a moment of silence from the other end of the line, that unhurried, pleasant voice said, “Has my little cutie run into some trouble?”

She had accidentally hit the speaker button. And so, everyone present clearly heard that voice, a voice that every student at Alice Girls’ Academy was familiar with to the point of it being unforgettable—Her Highness, the President, the Golden Ruler, Karin.

The two who were about to grab her phone also froze.

“…Wait for me. I’ll be right there!” the voice said immediately after.

Felice: “…”

The lackeys: “…”

Wang Ning: “…Oh, whoops.”