Chapter 843: From Fake to Real
"Thirty years old… it's actually true!" Terestina exclaimed in surprise, as it was indeed written on the resume. "How can she be so young?"
Then she looked at the woman in front of her: "Why do you dress so old-fashioned?"
Everything is subject to comparison. Academy City does not lack geniuses, especially young geniuses.
Hirata Kotomi achieving these accomplishments at the age of thirty was indeed excellent, but in Academy City, there were quite a few younger genius Researchers.
Terestina's exclamation of "young" was entirely due to the huge discrepancy between Hirata Kotomi's appearance and her true age.
Before this, Terestina had always thought Hirata Kotomi was a senior Researcher in her fifties.
"Huh? Is that so?" Hirata Kotomi, being evaluated by her new boss, felt a bit awkward. "I'm not very good at makeup…"
"This is beyond just not being good at makeup." Terestina shook her head, then asked, "Is your memory continuous? Have you ever spaced out and then found that you skipped a period of time?"
"Yes." Hirata Kotomi nodded quickly. "My teacher said I was under too much pressure, which is why he contacted me about changing jobs."
"Sure enough…" Terestina nodded silently. Being possessed by a personality old enough to be her grandfather would indeed make the entire person feel older.
After dismissing this special applicant, Terestina began to ponder.
"To be safe, I should find an opportunity to have Shokuhou Misaki take a look."
To maintain the cooperative relationship with the Unnamed Faction, timely interaction was indispensable, especially with Shokuhou Misaki, who was the most suspicious among them, so it might as well be put to good use.
Those Great Ability Users who liked to toy with people's hearts were indeed reassuring if they were on Our side.
…
"Although you're not a psychological Great Ability User, you're just as annoying as Shokuhou!" Misaka Worst said impolitely.
Standing in front of her and Kazakiri Hyouka was an older female student wearing the same sailor uniform, with a broad forehead and a surprisingly exaggerated bust upon closer inspection.
"How rude, your evaluation." Yun Chuan said, "Neither I nor Shokuhou would be pleased."
"I wasn't complimenting you two," Misaka Worst said. "It's right to feel displeased!"
This "most vicious Misaka Clones" glared at her with ill intent, and electricity crackled around her, intimidating Yun Chuan.
Yun Chuan raised an eyebrow but remained unfazed.
At this moment, they were at the school gate—before leaving school, the two fake transfer students were stopped by Yun Chuan.
Fortunately, it was already after school hours, and they were the last ones to leave the school, so no commotion was caused.
"Speak quickly," Kazakiri Hyouka urged impatiently. "Someone is waiting for us."
Not far outside the gate, today's real transfer student, Himegami Aisa, was curiously peeking over.
Himegami Aisa and Misaka Worst now both lived in Shokuhou Misaki's "palace," making them neighbors.
The entire mansion only had the two of them as permanent residents, and after some time, their relationship had become quite good.
—The uniform Misaka Worst was wearing today was borrowed from Himegami Aisa.
As for Kazakiri Hyouka… she was essentially an AIM Diffusion Field aggregate, so she could change whatever clothes she wanted with just a "thought," which was very convenient.
"Lin Wuming… has also gone far away," Kazakiri Hyouka looked outside the school gate.
"Give up. I emailed him and told him not to wait for you two and to go back first," Yun Chuan said.
"What?" The two girls looked over with displeased expressions.
Tokiwadai Middle School had classes all day today, and they had finally seized the opportunity to catch Lin Wuming alone, but unexpectedly, this woman interfered…
"You two, you went to all that trouble to sneak into the school, was it just to secretly occupy half of Lin Wuming's day?" Yun Chuan looked over disdainfully.
"You…"
Misaka Worst's gaze became even fiercer, but she was stopped by Kazakiri Hyouka.
"Yun Chuan, what you said in your message just now, is it true?" Kazakiri Hyouka asked calmly.
The reason why the two of them were willing to give up the opportunity to leave school with Lin Wuming and chose to stay here to meet Yun Chuan was because of an email they had just received.
"You said you could help us achieve Our wish…" Kazakiri Hyouka asked, "So what do you plan to do?"
"By the way, do you know what Our wish is?" Misaka Worst also asked.
"There's no need to test each other here about things we both know," Yun Chuan said. "Otherwise, you two wouldn't have stayed obediently, would you—I ask you, do you want to become real transfer students?"
Kazakiri Hyouka and Misaka Worst exchanged glances. Yun Chuan's suggestion did not exceed their expectations.
It's just that…
"Why do you want to help us?" Kazakiri Hyouka asked. "And can you do it?"
Misaka Worst was fine; she was a clone created out of nothing, and her identity information could be casually registered under a random academy. Transferring schools was a matter of a word.
But Kazakiri Hyouka was different. Her student registration was at Kirioka Girls' Academy, one of the five prestigious schools, and she was an excellent student ranked among the top.
Kirioka Girls' Academy would probably not easily let her go.
"You don't have to worry about that; I'll handle everything," Yun Chuan said. "Kirioka Girls' Academy has a special nature; their obsession with excellent students is not too strong. You should know that Himegami Aisa was originally also a student at Kirioka Girls' Academy."
Yun Chuan calculated the resources in her hands, and persuading Kirioka Girls' Academy to give up Kazakiri Hyouka should not be too difficult.
"As for why I want to help you…" Yun Chuan smiled. "For me, this is a win-win situation."
"This school is my refuge," Yun Chuan explained. "Although Lin Wuming and Accelerator's unexpected arrival disrupted my original plan, since that's the case…"
As the saying goes, the best place to hide a book is in a library. As an over-spec high school student, Yun Chuan's chosen place of seclusion was A Certain High School, an ordinary and unremarkable school.
Kamijou Touma's enrollment was still within her plan, but Lin Wuming and Accelerator, two Level 5s, were unexpected "surprises."
Now, it was impossible to remain "low-key," so Yun Chuan changed her approach—she decided to find a way to improve the school's strength, seize the opportunity to turn A Certain High School into a prestigious school, which would also serve to cover herself…
"You two, one is a Level 4 Great Ability User, and the other is a rare Great Ability User ranked among the top in Kirioka Girls' Academy. If you want to transfer, no school would not welcome you, right?" Yun Chuan said. "Don't always stare at Lin Wuming; have some confidence in yourselves too."
