After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 56

Chapter 56

When Jin Chaoyan handed him the protection money for the third time, Kyoya Hibari rejected it. “Didn’t you lose money?”

She froze for two seconds, staring at the tin box filled with banknotes, before finally realizing. “Y-you’re giving this money to me?”

The Disciplinary Chairman looked at her calmly, as if he didn’t see any problem with this arrangement. It took a moment for the woman to recover from the shock. She shook her head. “…I don’t need this much money. Besides, that six million was deducted from my account ten years in the future; I’m not lacking funds.”

She thought for a moment and added, “But can I buy two sets of pajamas?”

Only when she followed him back to the Hibari residence of ten years ago and found the room she had originally lived in did she realize there were no personal items of hers in the house. Last night, she had to sleep in her school uniform, and this morning she had set a special alarm to wake up early and iron her shirt before going to school.

The youth lowered his eyes and replied casually, “Do as you wish with the money.”

Jin Chaoyan immediately gathered the textbooks and homework on the table. Taking advantage of the fact that the street shops hadn’t closed yet, she slung her bag over one shoulder and headed toward the nearest women’s clothing store, the wind chimes jingling as she entered.

Five minutes later—

Seeing her come out with a shopping bag, the youth, who was leaning against a black lamppost bathed in warm light, raised his eyes along with the pet on his shoulder. He looked somewhat surprised. “Finished buying?”

He hadn’t expected her to buy clothes so quickly.

“Mhm,” Jin Chaoyan knew her size, and since it was just pajamas to make do for a week in this world, she bought them as soon as the fabric felt comfortable. she added naturally, “Don’t you dislike waiting for people?”

“…”

Kyoya Hibari, caught off guard by her understanding of his nature, nodded calmly. “Let’s go back.”

“Okay.”

The woman followed behind him with a smile. Looking at his straight back, she secretly raised her hand to compare their heights—which were currently level. This small movement caught the attention of the person walking in front.

“Hmm?” Kyoya Hibari turned around. His soft black bangs brushed across the bridge of his nose; the shadows on his profile contrasted with the side bathed in warm light, making his expression seem deceptively soft.

The woman, who had just retracted her hand, curled her fingertips. She met his gaze innocently, blinking without saying a word, only to suddenly hear him say, “Walk faster.”

“?”

Receiving a strange command, Jin Chaoyan took two steps forward, only to find him staying in place. It wasn’t until she reached his side that he began walking again.

Walking side-by-side without reason, she felt a bit at a loss. Her gaze drifted left and right, noticing their shadows being stretched long to the side, projected against the windows of the shops that had already closed for the night.

Wait, windows?

Jin Chaoyan glanced out of the corner of her eye. The glass reflection could show half the street… wait, then her movement just now—

“Jin Chaoyan.”

Suddenly called by name, she snapped her head around to look at the youth beside her. She saw him curl his lips into a smile that reached his grey-blue eyes. “I saw your little movement.”

“…!”

Caught red-handed, she didn’t even have time to explain before Hibari asked with a light laugh, “Do you have an issue with my height?”

“No, no, no,” she waved her hands frantically. “It’s just that ten years from now you’re very tall. Every time I talk to you, I have to look up. It’s rare to be at the same height as you, so it just feels… fresh.”

Please don’t bite me to death!

The Disciplinary Chairman seemed satisfied enough with her answer and reluctantly accepted the explanation. As he resumed walking, he thought to himself with amusement:

A very stupid small animal. Very cowardly, too. But… reasonably pleasing to the eye.

Jin Chaoyan spent all of Saturday at the Hibari estate, organizing summaries of common mistakes in several subjects for the original host. Remembering she still had notes from a few old books to transcribe, she asked the Chairman for permission to return to Namimori Middle School on Sunday.

Hibari Kyoya agreed.

The two went to the school together. Jin Chaoyan followed him on a patrol of the campus. Remembering something, she looked around the stairwell at the entrance of the teaching building, specifically trying to recall if there were any special slogans in the hallways or classrooms. Finally, she couldn’t help but ask the person beside her:

“By the way.” “Where exactly are the Namimori Middle School discipline and rules written?”

She hadn’t seen them posted on bulletin boards, building entrances, or classroom walls like in the schools she attended. Although she was only staying in this world for a week, she wanted to help the original host with her studies and home situation—meaning she’d be spending most of her time in class. It was better to follow the rules if possible.

As soon as she asked, she saw Hibari looking at her with a “What are you talking about?” expression. Then, he tilted his chin naturally:

“I decide the discipline and rules of Namimori.”

“…”

The woman’s expression went blank for three seconds. She realized she wasn’t even surprised.

Noticing her strange expression, the youth narrowed his grey-blue eyes. Just as he was about to ask if she had an opinion, he suddenly saw Jin Chaoyan raise her hands and start clapping like a little seal:

“That’s amazing.”

It felt like something was wrong, yet also like nothing was wrong.

Hibari was about to examine her expression more closely when he noticed a commotion at the school gate. Turning to look, he saw Sawada Tsuna carrying his cow-suit child, accompanied by a girl, entering the campus. On the wire fence of the rooftop stood three infants.

It was the Arcobaleno Trial.

Jin Chaoyan followed his gaze and realized what was happening just as the Hibari beside her drew his tonfas. He spoke in a dangerous tone:

“Sawada Tsuna. Entering the campus during non-teaching hours is a violation of discipline. Do you want to be bitten to death?”

Sawada Tsuna, who had received notice and was preparing for the Trial of Wind, immediately sensed the killing intent. He waved his hands and backed up two steps in terror. “No, no, no! Hibari-san, listen to me—”

Even more surprised was Haru, who was standing nearby. “Eh? Chaoyan from ten years in the future, why are you here too?”

This is bad.

If Hibari beat Sawada Tsuna up and caused him to fail the requirements of the trial, things would get messy.

However, Jin Chaoyan couldn’t think of a way to help for a moment. Suddenly, she felt a sharp drop in her abdomen. As the boy stepped forward, she couldn’t help but let out a gasp, reflexively clutching her lower stomach.

Hibari was about to find trouble with the herbivore, but hearing the noise, he instinctively turned his head. Seeing the woman frowning as if enduring some pain, he couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong?”

“Suddenly my stomach hurts so much…”

But just as the pain appeared, it was treated by the Yin Seal and vanished. Jin Chaoyan was confused for a second, but in the next, the pain returned. She couldn’t help but reach out to lean against a nearby tree.

Then she finally remembered what kind of pain this was. Her expression remained blank for a long time as she thought about the amount of iced drinks she had consumed yesterday. Her face paled repeatedly as she hurried toward the teaching building.

Kyoya Hibari watched her leave without a word, a deep frown appearing between his brows.

“Chaoyan-san… what happened? Is she injured?” Tsuna asked instinctively.

Haru, however, thought for a moment and then hit her palm with her fist in realization. “The place she was holding… oh no! Is it her period?”

She glanced toward the teaching building and murmured, “Chaoyan looked really pale. Is she the type who gets such bad cramps she can’t even stand up? What should we do, Tsuna? Haru really wants to help you finish this mission, but Chaoyan’s condition is very worrying…”

Tsuna, suddenly educated on biological facts, also looked worried. He waved his hands instinctively. “I-it’s okay, Haru, you don’t have to come—”

He was cut off by a kick from Reborn, who had come down from the rooftop at some point. “Don’t make such a pathetic face.”

Saying this, Reborn stepped on Tsuna’s back and looked at Hibari amidst the boy’s complaints. “Your future wife seems to be in poor condition. What girls need most at a time like this is care, hot water, and painkillers. Aren’t you going to check on her, Hibari?”

Hibari watched Miura Haru as she rushed into the building. After a moment, he warned Tsuna not to make noise in the building, put away his tonfas, and asked Reborn—who looked like the most experienced person present—with a calm face:

“Painkillers. What kind?”

Jin Chaoyan was leaning against the wall in the restroom in despair.

The Yin Seal was interfering with her body’s normal physiological process. She could feel her biological cycle turning into: bleeding, pain, healing, bleeding again, pain again, healing again…

She even began to ask 001 in terror if this extended process would turn her usual one-week period into half a month. Only when 001 replied “no” did she manage to calm down.

Although the original pain came in waves, it was nothing like this. After the cold drinks stimulated her body, the oscillation between instantaneous pain and instantaneous relief—the switching between heaven and hell—was completely different. For a moment, she didn’t even know which kind of pain was better.

“Chaoyan, are you okay?”

At that moment, Haru called out to her from the restroom door. Only after hearing a strained “Mhm” did she enter with relief. She asked worriedly from outside the stall, “Do you need a pad? Are your clothes stained?”

“Haru…” Chaoyan sighed in relief, her voice filled with the luck of being saved.

Half an hour later—

Jin Chaoyan, who had changed her clothes, was helped out of the restroom by Haru. Before they had gone far, her attention was drawn to a boy leaning against the hallway wall. He looked up at her, his gaze sweeping over her pale face, and handed over a bag.

“Painkillers,” he said.

Jin Chaoyan and Haru stared at him in shock. Neither expected him to think of this. Hibari narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, “Is it not this?”

The baby had clearly said this ingredient would work.

“…It is.” After a moment of daze, Jin Chaoyan took the painkillers from him. He then stood up and walked ahead, dropping a sentence: “There is hot water in the reception room.”

Only after his figure disappeared around the corner did Haru lean in to whisper in Chaoyan’s ear. “I feel like your school’s Disciplinary Chairman isn’t as scary as he looks even ten years ago, Chaoyan.”

“He doesn’t look scary—” Jin Chaoyan whispered back. “He’s only scary when he’s beating people up.”

Miura Haru: “…”

Seeing her friend’s eyes turn fearful and her walk become trembling, Jin Chaoyan didn’t have the heart to bring her into the “crowded” reception room. She patted Haru’s shoulder. “Alright, I’m just teasing. But you’ve been looking outside since just now; are you worried about Sawada-kun’s test?”

“If you want to help, go check on them now. I’m fine. It just hurt a lot earlier, but I’m much better now.”

While Jin Chaoyan was slowly organizing her books and notes in the reception room, she heard a chaotic “ping-pang-long” noise from outside. The youth sitting on the sofa resting with his eyes closed twitched an eyebrow.

Three minutes later.

A clear, somewhat suppressed voice rang out in the room. “Does it still hurt?”

“Eh?” Startled by the sudden question, Jin Chaoyan froze. With the dual effects of the painkillers and the Yin Seal, she instinctively replied, “I-I’m okay?”

Hibari Kyoya immediately stood up from the sofa. His eyes were calm yet flickering with killing intent. He nodded steadily. “Good. Then I’m going to bite to death that group of herbivores who dare to make a racket in the teaching building.”

Jin Chaoyan was stunned. By the time she realized she should stop him, it was too late. However, he left quickly and returned quickly. When he closed the reception room door, the Vongola Cloud Ring on his distinct right middle finger was glowing with the red light of a passed trial.

“!” Sawada Tsuna, impressive. He can pass a trial even while making time to get beaten up?

Carrying her admiration for the Vongola Decimo, Jin Chaoyan lowered her head to transcribe notes in the new textbooks. But perhaps because the body’s stored energy was insufficient and the Yin Seal was in constant use, she felt hungry and sleepy before long. After eating lunch, she fell asleep at the desk.

Even when following him out of the school gates to return to the Hibari residence in the afternoon, she felt weak and lightheaded. Almost as soon as she reached her room, she fell asleep.

Ring-ring-ring-ring—

The noisy sound of an alarm rang in her ear.

Jin Chaoyan raised her hand to turn it off, but her eyelids still wouldn’t open. The alarm called out repeatedly until it was suddenly smashed to pieces with a single strike.

“!”

The woman, sensing a chilling killing intent, finally woke up. She opened her eyes under the covers to see the youth in his shirt and jacket. He looked displeased as he put down his tonfa and walked out of the room, saying coldly, “Too noisy.”

After a pause, Hibari added, “You’re going to be late.”

“?!”

Jin Chaoyan sat up as if jolted back to life. Thinking that the head of discipline was right beside her, if she stepped into the school gate even a second late in front of him…

She was awake. She was truly awake this time.

She rushed to wash up and change into her uniform. As she was about to tie her hair, she checked the clock in the living room. Seeing that she had only eight minutes before she was late, her expression became suffocated. She stiffly turned her head to look at the boy who had just finished his breakfast and put down his chopsticks:

“…If I’m late, will you bite me to death?”

Hearing her words, Hibari Kyoya gave a slight smile. She felt a “raring to go” killing intent from that smile. Thinking of the battle requests she had previously rejected—

The Hibari Kyoya who bought her painkillers yesterday… he wasn’t suddenly possessed by the soul of her husband from ten years later, was he? she thought in despair.

Then, she heard the boy ask unhurriedly, “Finished packing?”

“Mhm.”

“Let’s go.”

The red “Discipline” armband fluttered past her, catching her attention. Jin Chaoyan instinctively followed him through the courtyard and corridor, eventually seeing a cool, black heavy motorcycle parked at the gate of the Hibari estate.

7:58 AM.

The roar of the motorcycle engine surged through the streets of Namimori, blowing the clothes of pedestrians and making them turn their heads reflexively. All they could catch was a flying trail of light blue hair.

The throttle tightened as the speeding bike expertly navigated toward Namimori Middle School, drawing the attention of students walking slowly along the road. After a moment, someone instinctively called out:

“That bike is…?”

“So cool, so stylish.”

The students who didn’t see clearly were full of admiration. Because the school rules forbade parents from dropping off students and there were no motor vehicle lanes nearby—plus the Disciplinary Chairman’s strict enforcement—they had never seen anyone come to school in such a flashy way.

The motorcycle came to a stop at the school gate with a drift and a tail-flick. Under the wide-eyed stares of the Disciplinary Committee members, the driver extended a long leg clad in suit trousers to touch the ground. His soft black hair was slightly messy from the wind, giving his handsome features a sense of wild unruliness.

He glanced at the hanging clock of the teaching building, turned his head, and reminded her with a smile in his voice, “You have half a minute.”

Jin Chaoyan was dazed by the wind. Her hand gripping the back seat went limp; she had barely recovered from the thrilling ride. She was a bit dizzy as she got off and even rubbed her arms. “So cold…” And so dizzy.

Hibari frowned, casually draped his black jacket over her shoulders, and said, “Fifteen seconds.”

Jin Chaoyan snapped back to reality. “!”

Ignoring the gazes of the Disciplinary members and the shocked students, she quickly strode into the campus in a few steps. At the same time, Hibari parked the bike. Wearing only his snow-white shirt, he walked to the school gate and looked calmly at the students who were frozen in place after witnessing a “School Boss Love Story.”

Until— The bell rang exactly on time.

He gave a light laugh, drew his gleaming, cold tonfas, and blocked a student who had only managed to get his left foot inside the campus. In the student’s belatedly terrified gaze, he declared like a reaper:

“You’re late.”

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