After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 57

Chapter 57

Jin Chaoyan slipped her arms into the sleeves of the old black uniform. Once she had the jacket on, she felt much less cold. Just then, she caught the fragrant scent of breakfast.

Noticing her gaze, Tetsuya Kusakabe directly handed over the breakfast he had brought into the school but hadn’t had time to eat. “This is Chinese food from a stall on the commercial street. If you like it, Jin-san, I can have others buy it for you from now on.”

“Thank you!”

After taking the breakfast, Jin Chaoyan tried to pay him, but Kusakabe waved his hand in refusal, steadfastly declining the money. She stopped being polite and stood nearby, finishing the warm, authentic salted egg yolk shumai and a cup of soy milk, feeling herself come back to life from the chilly October air.

Glancing at the students scurrying away at the school gate—who were too busy running to gossip about the earlier “school boss” scene—she quietly asked Kusakabe, “Does he come to catch latecomers every day?”

Kusakabe replied in a very low voice, “It depends on the Chairman’s mood.”

Understood.

Jin Chaoyan nodded and casually tied her hair back. After watching Hibari Kyoya finish his “tardiness game” with the students, she walked over and glanced at the boys lying temporarily unconscious on the ground. She noted their injuries weren’t severe; they would likely be able to crawl back to class in a bit.

She turned and handed Hibari a wet wipe. “Did you have fun?”

The youth, who was flicking blood off his tonfas, paused. His grey-blue eyes looked at her with a half-smile. After a moment, he took the wipe and replied nonchalantly:

“It was boring.”

“Not a single herbivore can provide me with unexpected amusement.”

Well, sorry that Sawada Tsuna wasn’t late today.

Jin Chaoyan, fearing he might suddenly turn his attention to her, checked the time immediately after handing over the wipe. Using the excuse of needing to turn in homework, she hurried toward the teaching building.

Hibari watched her somewhat flustered figure, raised an eyebrow, and let out a light huff, though it carried an inscrutable hint of a smile.

Middle School, 2nd Year, Class A.

When Jin Chaoyan entered the classroom through the back door, she felt like she had “special effects” following her. From the moment she appeared, the entire class looked like a bunch of screaming chickens being strangled by the neck—everyone stared at her blankly, but not a single person made a sound.

It wasn’t until she passed Takeshi Yamamoto’s seat that he waved a sunny greeting. “Yo! I heard Hibari gave you a ride to school today?”

Sawada Tsuna, who was secretly eavesdropping: “!” He asked so directly!

“Not really,” Jin Chaoyan said, nodding good morning to the Vongola Rain Guardian before answering. “He was coming to school anyway; he just gave me a lift on the way.”

Sawada Tsuna: “…” If he hadn’t seen for himself that the person driving the motorcycle was Hibari, he would have thought he was overreacting based on her casual tone!

Thinking of this, he suddenly noticed a detail. “Eh? Is your house very close to Hibari-san’s?”

Jin Chaoyan looked at him with a “What are you talking about?” expression. After a moment, she replied belatedly, “I don’t actually know where my house is. I’ve been staying at his place lately.”

The Class A students, who had been listening to this series of gossip in silence: “!”

What kind of outrageous story is this?

Realizing this transfer student didn’t carry the same chilling killing intent as Hibari, they recovered from their initial shock. They took out their phones and began posting on the Namimori campus forums, social apps, and student groups.

“News flash! The new beauty in 2-A is confirmed to be the Disciplinary Chairman’s girlfriend! And they’re living together!”

“…Thanks, I witnessed their love with my own eyes this morning. I was less than a meter from that motorcycle. Know why I was so close? Because I was the first person late to be thrashed by him!”

“So scary. How can a guy like that have a girlfriend?”

“I suspect she’s being coerced. I just heard her say she doesn’t know where her home is. Could she be a poor girl who lost her memory in an accident and is being tricked out of her heart and body by him?”

Countless rumors took flight across the Namimori campus.

Jin Chaoyan, however, was oblivious. When she sat down at her desk, she accidentally bumped into the chair of the boy in front of her. He immediately jumped up in fright, turned around, and bowed in apology:

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! It was I who disturbed you!”

“It’s fine.” The woman smiled at him. Remembering what he had said about bullying the original host, she nodded slightly. “Just remember to be polite and friendly to whoever sits in this seat from now on.”

The boy didn’t dare meet her eyes, having long forgotten how he had tried to flatter her on the first day. His gaze drifted, caught sight of the Disciplinary armband on her sleeve, and he looked away as if burned, even using a respectful title out of fear: “Yes, Jin-sama!”

Jin Chaoyan took out her English textbook for the first class. She had intended to listen seriously, but the fatigue of her period surged back. She was no longer in pain, but her body seemed to need sleep to recover its strength. Before the teacher even walked in, she leaned over her desk and fell asleep.

Class A had a new English teacher today.

He was a large, fierce-looking man. He first expressed dissatisfaction with Hayato Gokudera, who arrived five minutes late, but Gokudera glared back at him without hesitation.

Feeling an inexplicably terrifying aura, the English teacher took a step back, swallowed his scolding, and said with forced bravado, “In any case, my classroom will not allow tardiness, early departures, whispering, or sleeping—any bad academic attitudes.”

He turned around and picked up the English textbook, about to start today’s lesson, when he spotted a figure sound asleep in the last row by the window. A vein popped on his forehead. He snapped a piece of chalk and threw it—

Click.

The chalk hit the face of the boy sitting in front of Jin Chaoyan.

He stared tremblingly as the projectile fell. In that first moment of being hit, besides the pain, his first reaction was actually relief.

At the same time, the students who were flipping through their books all froze. The classroom had been quiet before, but now it felt like something out of Silent Hill.

The teacher on the podium looked at the intimidating effect he had created with satisfaction. He spoke out: “That girl in the last row by the window, get up and stand for the lecture. Wake yourself up.”

The whole class: “…”

They began to look at this new teacher with a strange sympathy, as if they could already envision his funeral.

Unfortunately, Jin Chaoyan was sleeping very soundly and didn’t react to the surrounding noise at all.

Yamamoto Takeshi suddenly spoke up, “Teacher, she’s not feeling well, that’s why she’s lying down.”

Reminded by Yamamoto, Tsuna remembered yesterday’s events and added hesitantly, “Yes, teacher, she… her period is these two days, so she’s not feeling well.” His face turned red as he said the words.

In the front row, Kyoko Sasagawa turned back in surprise, but she was quickly distracted by Hana Kurokawa’s commentary: “I didn’t expect these guys, who usually look so rough, to notice things like that.”

The teacher on the podium felt his anger at the girl’s blatant disregard soften slightly at their explanation. Taking the opportunity to back down but still wanting to make an example of her, he said:

“Regardless of the reason, it’s no excuse to sleep in class!”

“After class, tell her to call her parents here!”

Jin Chaoyan was woken up by the sunlight streaming through the window. The black uniform was particularly good at absorbing heat; she hadn’t noticed at first, but after a while, even just being in the winter sun made it uncomfortably hot.

Her cheeks were slightly flushed as she blinked hazily, feeling her arm had gone numb from the pressure. As she forced herself to sit up, she heard a light laugh from behind:

“Slept enough?”

The woman froze and turned her head. Her somewhat empty gaze finally noticed that Hibari Kyoya had entered the classroom at some point. He had found a new red armband to pin to his sleeve and was currently leaning against the window with his arms crossed, looking down at her.

Jin Chaoyan was stunned for a few seconds, wondering if sleeping in class had also offended his sense of discipline.

As if seeing through her thoughts, Hibari tilted his chin toward three adults lying sprawled on the floor by her desk. He asked, “What is your relationship with these outsiders?”

Looking back, Jin Chaoyan first noticed the classroom was empty. She initially thought he had cleared the room when he entered, but then she looked at the blackboard and realized this was the period for Physical Education.

Then, she lowered her gaze and saw several men in fine suits, with the leader holding a briefcase. She examined them carefully for a moment. “I don’t know them?”

Judging by their aura, they looked like someone’s assistants or bodyguards.

After she spoke, Hibari nodded and raised his hand to grab one of the “herbivores” by the collar, intending to toss them out the window. The woman suddenly remembered something. “Wait, did they say they came for me?”

“No idea.”

When Hibari arrived, these guys were aggressively heading toward the girl at the back desk. Seeing her sleeping so soundly that she was hard to wake even by killing intent, he didn’t feel like waiting for her to be seriously offended before acting. He simply bit them to death first.

Jin Chaoyan thought about the original host’s family environment and had a rough guess. She crouched down, wanting to wake the man who looked like an assistant, until the youth gave a cool reminder:

“They won’t wake up like that—”

“The force I used was not small.”

The person crouching on the floor looked up, somewhat at a loss. Seeing her expression, Hibari curled his lips slightly. He then raised his foot and kicked one of the unconscious guys against the back wall of the classroom with a heavy thud. When the man hit the floor again, he let out a painful groan of aggravated injury.

Jin Chaoyan: “…” Useless awakening knowledge increased!

She leaned over the man who was struggling to open his eyes, his pupils still trembling. “Excuse me, were you sent by the Jin family?”

The man’s lips moved, and he gave a slight nod. She smiled. “Wonderful. Please go back and tell Jin Hirowemon that if he’s dissatisfied with me, he should come in person. He can bring as many people as he wants; I’ll be happy to discuss ‘family education’ with him.”

“I’ll wait only one day. After that, I won’t entertain him. If he doesn’t come within a day, please be polite to Jin Chaoyan from now on. Is that clear?”

Confirming the assistant understood, she stood back up and looked around. Seeing the Disciplinary members who had gathered outside the hallway at some point, she asked them to carry these people off campus.

Thinking about the tasks she had to complete—helping the host study and improving her environment—she still had “curing her heart disease” and “finding a way to improve her quality of life” left. As she listed these items in her head, she turned to the youth who had already walked out of the classroom:

“I’m a bit hungry. What are we having for lunch?”

“Hamburgers.” Hibari gave the simplest answer without thinking.

Thinking of the exquisite traditional Japanese meals he ate ten years in the future, Jin Chaoyan tilted her head in confusion. “Why not Japanese food?”

“Too much trouble.”

Having said that, the youth seemed to think of something. His grey-blue eyes looked at her with interest. “Can you cook?”

“No,” Jin Chaoyan replied without hesitation. Just as his expression began to look disinterested, she added, “But the Take-Sushi at Yamamoto’s place is really delicious. Shall we go there for lunch?”

Hibari nodded. “Fine.”

When the lunch bell rang, Jin Chaoyan and Hibari walked toward the school exit, only to be suddenly stopped by a male teacher clutching a briefcase:

“That female student, stop right there!”

“Hmm?” She looked around. She noticed that the students who were supposed to be having free time during PE were all scurrying away because they didn’t dare get close to the Chairman. Since she was the closest one, she looked over curiously. “This… teacher? Is there something you need from me?”

the English teacher of Class 2-A glanced at the youth standing beside her. Seeing the boy looked refined and was currently standing there quietly, he guessed their relationship and let out a cold snort:

“Students like you, who openly sleep in class and show contempt for the classroom—who have no thoughts for learning at such a young age and only focus on romance—are usually beyond saving.”

“Where are the parents I told you to call?”

Jin Chaoyan: “?”

She was caught in a sudden barrage of scolding and was still wondering Who are you, mister? but the youth beside her, whose lunch schedule had been delayed, expressionlessly pulled out his tonfas. The cold light in his grey-blue eyes was identical to the gleam of his weapons.

“I am her guardian—”

“Do you have an opinion?”

Jin Chaoyan: “???” What are you saying, you fifteen-year-old brat?

The English teacher was also stunned. He tried to muster a response, but under the youth’s terrifying, icy stare, his legs went weak. He slumped onto the ground, his lips trembling for a long time without a word.

Nearby, a girl from the school hid under a tree, took out her phone, and shared excitedly: “Guess what I just heard? Waaaah! Even if I get bitten to death, I’m going to scream with my hoarse vocal cords: I ship it!”

“Um…”

As they walked out of the school, Jin Chaoyan looked hesitantly at the youth beside her. Calling him “Hibari” felt too common, “Kyoya” felt overly intimate, and as for “husband,” that was even less appropriate.

After a moment of contemplation, she said carefully, “Chairman, you do know that ‘Guardian’ (Jiazhang) and ‘Family Member’ (Jiashu) are two different terms, right?”

The youth, who was level in height with her, looked over nonchalantly. “What’s the difference?”

…Actually, there didn’t seem to be one. Even if he was only fifteen, his strength crushed her by ten thousand miles. Being her “guardian”… there was nothing wrong with that. Besides, she had been using his influence to back her up quite a bit these past few days.

Jin Chaoyan accepted this bizarre setting with ease. Walking under the bright sun, she felt even hotter, so she reached up and unbuttoned the old uniform. “Never mind. By the way, I’m not cold anymore. Should I give the jacket back to you?”

“No.”

As soon as Hibari spoke, he let out a sneeze. His cold-white skin under the sunlight made his features look even more delicate. Seeing him get cold enough to sneeze after only one morning, Jin Chaoyan couldn’t help but think of his twenty-five-year-old self who liked flower cakes and had the “runaway princess” constitution of being surrounded by small animals.

Since he was a “princess,” was it only natural to catch a cold during the changing seasons?

Thinking this, she took off the jacket anyway. When she draped it over the youth’s shoulders, Hibari knit his brows and looked over, only to see her smiling as she said:

“You wear it.”

“I think you look the best in this uniform.”

Hibari Kyoya: “…”

He gave a huff, didn’t refuse again, and continued walking toward the sushi shop.