Interrupted Antics

Honestly, absent for only a moment, and you’re already stirring up new mischief.

Hey, hey, hey…

A helpless yet utterly familiar voice resonated, and in the next instant, Liu Yu found herself suddenly floating, her feet dangling above the ground. She twisted her head to glance backward, her eyes meeting those of the black-haired girl she knew intimately, a girl with whom she could be completely candid.

“You idiot, Villy, hand over my key right this instant!”

Having caught the petty thief who had purloined her key, Liu Yu’s anger instantly evaporated, replaced by a surge of playful indignation. With considerable effort, she managed to twist her body 180 degrees in mid-air, locking gazes with the black-haired girl and punctuating the silence with ferocious, feigned growls of intimidation.

From a distance, she resembled nothing so much as a kitten held aloft by the scruff of its neck, suspended mid-air, flailing its paws and baring its tiny fangs in a truly comical display.

“Alright, alright, here you go.” ‘I’ve already made a copy anyway.’

Villy retrieved a key from her pocket, her gaze sweeping over the girl’s entire form. Then, with a mischievous spark, she reached out and tucked the key directly into Liu Yu’s cleavage, nestling it snugly between her two prominent ‘steamed buns.’

“Make sure to hold onto it tightly.” ‘And I even got a little squeeze in; the texture really is quite nice.’

‘Somehow, Liu Yu couldn’t shake the feeling that she had gotten the short end of the stick…’

Villy’s antics left Liu Yu utterly displeased. She narrowed her eyes, retrieved the key from her chest, tucked it into her pocket, and then launched a swift headbutt at the black-haired girl.

With lightning-fast reflexes, Villy caught the charging grey head with a single hand, then offered a deadpan assessment:

“Miss Liu Yu… that was rather ineffective.”

“Damn you!”

Liu Yu thrashed her head back and forth, yet remained firmly trapped. Catching a glimpse of Villy’s teasing smirk, her already narrow temper flared into a full-blown rage. She resolved to teach Villy a proper lesson, to unequivocally establish who truly held dominance between them.

Summoning the power of the [Shadow], Liu Yu’s lips curved into a sinister smile. Then, seizing an opportune moment, she unexpectedly lunged forward. The surge of strength, far surpassing her usual capabilities, left Villy no time to react, and she was instantly pinned to the dirt.

“Wait, you cheated!”

Villy cried out in a mix of panic and exhilaration, the shame of being pinned beneath Liu Yu fueling a strange thrill within her.

Effortlessly pinning the black-haired girl’s hands, Liu Yu settled onto Villy’s lower abdomen. “Hmph hmph hmph,” she scoffed. “The Shadow is my power; how can using it be considered cheating?”

Liu Yu remembered it with perfect clarity: just last night, Villy had used this exact position to tease her. Now, it was simply a matter of tit for tat.

“Accept your fate, you foolish flat-chested classmate. This is precisely where you belong.”

“…What bizarre nonsense are you spouting, you brat! Let go of me this instant, or else… or else I’ll spank you!”

Given yet another inexplicable nickname, Villy’s expression darkened considerably.

However, a fleeting, unsettling thought had just crossed her mind, a subtle agreement with Liu Yu’s words: ‘Perhaps being pinned down like this wouldn’t be so bad after all… Hiss… Am I being enchanted again?’

‘No, absolutely not! Being held beneath *this* brat was utterly unacceptable.’

Far from being deterred by Villy’s threats, the mischievous grey-haired girl only laughed harder, her body shaking uncontrollably. The constant jiggling of her ample bosom left Villy, pinned beneath her, utterly mesmerized and swallowing hard.

“Heh heh…”

Once her fit of laughter subsided, Liu Yu extended her index finger to lightly tap her right cheek, then leaned down to taunt:

“Go on, hit me! You can’t even reach me from down there, you idiot, Villy! Hahahaha, you’re even blushing with anger!”

‘Is this really anger making me blush?’

Villy rolled her eyes inwardly. She could hardly admit aloud that Liu Yu’s shameless teasing had stirred a faint flicker of desire within her.

Mindful of the frequent passersby and keen to protect her reputation, Villy’s expression instantly turned stern. She rebuked Liu Yu in a tone of unprecedented severity:

“Stop this at once… Don’t you have any sense of shame, causing such a scene?”

“Huh?”

‘How dare she be so fierce with me!’

Liu Yu froze for a moment, but quickly snapped back to reality.

‘This audacious woman, how dare she speak to me with such ferocity?’

‘This simply won’t do.’

Her eyes darted about, and a brilliant idea for punishment instantly sparked in the girl’s mind.

Acting on the thought, she shifted her body, moving from the black-haired girl’s lower abdomen to a position further up.

“W-what are you trying to do?”

A dreadful premonition coiled in Villy’s heart. While she couldn’t fathom what this brat intended, she knew with certainty it would be some utterly humiliating trick.

“Hmph hmph hmph, prepare yourself!”

“What in the world are you two doing?!”

An unusually stern voice sharply interrupted Liu Yu’s actions. She tilted her head, turning to look in the direction of the sound.

There, a familiar man was striding towards them, radiating an intimidating aura. “You… you… you two!” he bellowed. “What kind of disgraceful behavior is this in broad daylight? Report your student IDs immediately! I’ll contact your parents, depending on the circumstances.”

‘We’re doomed.’

The two girls exchanged a knowing glance, each recognizing the same panicked thought reflected in the other’s eyes.

Liu Yu: ‘Damn it, Old Pan caught us red-handed!’

Villy: ‘It’s over, my good reputation is ruined.’

****

‘…

They’re actually two… girls. Is the outside world truly this open now?’

Pan Jun stared at the scene unfolding before him, his face a mask of utter astonishment, his lips twitching involuntarily.

The student lying on the ground, though her chest was rather… unpronounced, was undeniably a female.

As for the person in the black cloak pinning her down, from a distance, Pan Jun had initially mistaken them for a boy. It was only upon closer inspection that he realized it was a girl with a rather appealing figure.

But!

Regardless of whether it was male and female, male and male, or female and female, engaging in such intimate relations within school grounds was strictly forbidden. At least under his watch, it was unacceptable. Therefore, he absolutely had to give them a proper lecture.

“Liu Yu… and Villy… what are you doing?!”

Wu Liyun, who had been following close behind, cut short the lengthy lecture Pan Jun was clearly preparing. He stepped in front of Pan Jun, gazing at the two girls with a look of astonishment and deep conflict.

‘Damn it, what’s with this party atmosphere that doesn’t include me? Could these two have progressed so rapidly without my knowledge?’

“Teacher Wu, you know them?”

“They’re my students… I just met them today,” Wu Liyun replied, a hint of evasiveness in his voice.

“So, they’re students from the Combat Department.”

Pan Jun maintained a placid exterior, yet within his mind, a tempest of thoughts raged.

If his memory served him correctly, he had once heard the name “Liu Yu” spoken by the student who bore a striking resemblance to Liu Ling.

Yet, both girls before him were unequivocally female, and in no way did they align with the image of Liu Ling.

By this reckoning, the name “Liu Yu” was likely a pseudonym casually concocted by Liu Ling. The pressing question then became: why would she specifically use a false name in his presence?

‘It couldn’t be that the Liu Ling who looked so much like Liu Ling that day was the *real* Liu Ling, and she used a pseudonym because she didn’t want to acknowledge him… could it?’

The more Pan Jun pondered, the more unsettling the situation became. The possibility of his childhood friend’s resurrection made him yearn to immediately return and meticulously review the student archives.

After taking two deep breaths to compose himself, he pulled out his phone, feigning a few taps, and then immediately adopted an anxious expression. Turning to Wu Liyun, he stated:

“Teacher Wu, since these two students are under your tutelage… I’ll leave them in your capable hands. I’ve just had an urgent matter come up that I need to attend to.”

With that, he departed swiftly, not waiting for Wu Liyun’s response, leaving behind the two wide-eyed girls and one giggling idiot.