After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 69

Chapter 69

“You’re right—”

Jin Chaoyan nodded without hesitation. Taking advantage of his movement to retract the chains, she used the same trick again—another shot, attempting to break the long pole of Group B as well.

Almost at the exact moment the gunshot rang out, a cluster of purple Cloud-attribute flames ignited from his fingertips, extending along the tonfas to the retracted chains. With a slight exert of force, the youth swung and rotated them, creating an airtight defense that deflected every scattered bullet.

And he did so without endangering any of the students fighting below.

The swinging chains came to a sudden halt. Kyoya Hibari stood atop Group B’s pole and smiled at her. “I’ve seen this move already. Is this the only trick you have?”

You little brat!

The girl in the pink tracksuit wrinkled her nose and swiftly swapped magazines, firing at the position where he stood. She intended to force him back with rapid-fire shots, but he simply leaned forward slightly and casually deflected all her attacks with his tonfas.

“Such soft bullets. If you have no other tricks, then it’s my turn…” Just as the boy finished speaking, he attempted to take a step forward, only to see a bullet hole appear on the tip of the pole right in front of his leather shoes.

Knowing his close-quarters combat was invincible, Jin Chaoyan stuck out her tongue. She had no intention of explaining how she had hidden that Mist-attribute bullet to land the hit. She raised her pistol again, hoping to use this move to force him off the pole. However, the youth looked down for a moment, suddenly curled his lips, and proactively jumped off the pole.

“?!”

Jin Chaoyan watched in a daze, but as he fell, she realized she was the foolish one. Kyoya Hibari was stepping on the heads of the students, rushing toward Group A’s area. In such a high-speed movement, it was nearly impossible to hit him without harming the other students!

How is this guy’s combat instinct for utilizing the environment so terrifying?!

In this situation, Jin Chaoyan’s weapon was effectively neutralized. She could only watch as he easily reached Group A’s territory. With a swing of his tonfa, he knocked down a swath of surrounding students. Standing atop these unconscious bodies to maintain the “feet not touching the ground” rule, he swung a heavy blow toward the central pole without hesitation—

Thud!

A strange striking sound echoed. Jin Chaoyan, struggling to find her balance on the tilting pole, looked down to see that Hibari’s strike had hit a transparent barrier surrounded by strange black bones.

Hayato Gokudera, having just finished a brawl, let out a “tch” and spoke to Hibari from outside the crowd. “Don’t think you’re getting near Group A’s pole.”

At the same time, after the C.A.I. system blocked Hibari’s attack, Yamamoto drew his long blade from a less crowded area. Using the rain curtain stirred up by the Shigure Soen Ryu as cover, he launched an attack. But when the strike landed, the back of the blade clashed directly against the tonfa.

The youth stood atop the fallen crowd, immovable. His gray-blue eyes lifted, looking at him with a half-smile. “Still so naive, Takeshi Yamamoto. If you had used the edge of the blade just now, I might have taken a step back.”

“Hahaha, this is just a school sports meet. We can’t hurt people.” Takeshi Yamamoto wasn’t discouraged by the blocked attack and even explained with a laugh.

Kyoya Hibari was about to strike back when a shadow suddenly loomed overhead. The strange sound of propellers drew the attention of everyone on the field.

“Cough, cough. Mic test, mic test…”

The students holding up Group A’s pole and those currently fighting were all bewildered. They looked up into the sky and saw a massive, sun-blocking airship that had somehow drifted over Namimori Middle School. A giant octopus logo was printed on the side of the airship, its shadow covering the entire field.

“What is that?”

“An advertising blimp?”

As the students whispered among themselves, Skull’s voice came from the airship. “Hibari, there are only ten minutes left until school is out. I order you now: immediately give up on the sports meet and participate in the First Generation family’s trial instead. Do you hear me?”

Kyoya Hibari: “…”

He expressionlessly looked away, turning his gaze toward Jin Chaoyan standing on the tilted pole.

“Don’t you dare ignore me, Hibari—”

Skull shouted loudly, then paused for a long time. Even Tsunayoshi Sawada, who was pinned under many fallen people, scrambled out of the crowd to look up in confusion. Then Skull changed his tone and wailed, “If… if you don’t accept the trial, I won’t be able to hold my head up in front of Reborn and the others anymore! QAQ I’ll be stuck as an errand boy for life, and I’ll lose so much face!”

Kyoya Hibari: “Mhm. And how does that concern me?”

Jin Chaoyan and Tsunayoshi Sawada, hearing the sob in Skull’s voice: “…”

“What?!” Skull shouted angrily. “If you don’t start listening, I’m going to fire the cannons at you! I mean it!”

“!”

Jin Chaoyan snapped to her senses. She immediately purchased [Shunpo] and moved from the long pole to the temporary broadcasting station. “Announcement: Today’s sports meet ends here. All students, please leave the campus as quickly as possible. Disciplinary Committee members, please organize the evacuation of students from all exits immediately!”

Not far away, Reborn said to Tsunayoshi Sawada, “This is bad, Tsuna. We need to help evacuate the students. That fellow Skull has completely lost control.”

As three cannonballs were fired toward Hibari, a figure suddenly flew into the air. With feet igniting gold Sun-attribute flames, he punched the three cannonballs. “Even though I lost the pole-toppling match, I haven’t given up on persuading Hibari. You stay out of my way too!”

Skull: “What is wrong with you people? Fine! In that case, you can all go to hell!”

Two rows of launchers on the airship tilted down toward the field.

Jin Chaoyan surveyed the situation, busy helping the Vongola members evacuate students. She saw Tsunayoshi Sawada about to swallow a Dying Will Pill, but he was stopped by Yuni and Reborn. At the same time, Kyoya Hibari opened his Vongola Box, knocking the cannonballs out of the sky and piercing through the airship.

Because the evacuation was too slow, the airship could only be left to Hibari and Sasagawa. She kept her back turned to that side until she heard a massive “BOOM” in the sky!

Jin Chaoyan turned her head to see that the giant airship had been smashed to pieces in mid-air by a single punch from Ryohei Sasagawa!

“…Wow.”

She was awestruck. During that brief pause, she saw a small private jet escape from the thick smoke of the airship. It once again fired missiles at the students around the field, but this time, they were all blocked by the proliferating Cloud-attribute hedgehogs.

Regarding the perpetrator of this farce, Kyoya Hibari had completely lost his patience with the infant. Stepping on the small, proliferating hedgehogs in mid-air, he struck the private jet down!

When he landed again, his feet stood on Group B’s collapsed long pole. Jin Chaoyan raised an eyebrow and approached him from behind. At the moment the boy sensed her and was about to turn, she suddenly called out:

“Kyoya.”

The youth, who was about to swing his tonfa, paused. He was drawn by that exceptionally gentle voice. The next moment, his body tensed as he turned his head to see the woman who had suddenly hugged him from behind.

“…What is it?”

He thought he hadn’t noticed and Jin Chaoyan had been injured again.

Jin Chaoyan hadn’t expected him to be so obedient as to let her hug him. Feeling the youth’s lean, leopard-like smooth waistline hidden under his shirt, she couldn’t help but tighten her embrace, and then—

She pulled him off the long pole.

When Kyoya Hibari’s foot hit the ground, he heard the person behind him whisper triumphantly in his ear: “You lost.”

The woman let go of her hands and walked to his side, letting him see clearly the distance between himself and the ground. As Kyoya Hibari raised an eyebrow, she stood with her hands behind her back, asking him with a smile in her eyes, “Do you accept the bet?”

“A new trick?” The boy glanced at her sideways, retracted his tonfas, and asked with a smile.

“Mhm.” Jin Chaoyan nodded, not forgetting to press further. “Do you admit defeat?”

Kyoya Hibari gave a soft snort, closed his eyes, then opened them again. “Is it the same agreement as before?”

“No…”

Jin Chaoyan sighed. Originally, with her Shunpo, the probability of winning today was very high. After all, the only rule for losing in the pole-toppling game was the captain’s feet touching the ground. As long as she didn’t faint or get knocked down, that one-time Shunpo was enough to handle the match.

Unfortunately, she had the request from Yuni and the others first. “I want to modify the terms of the bet. Change it to you accepting the Cloud Guardian’s trial, is that okay?”

The curve of Kyoya Hibari’s lips widened. For some reason, the smile in his gray-blue eyes grew deeper. “Are you sure?”

Jin Chaoyan detected something unusual in that smile.

But over there, Tsunayoshi Sawada and the others were looking here with expectant gazes. She could only cast aside the regret in her heart and nod. “Mhm. I want you to participate in the First Generation Cloud Guardian’s trial.”

Kyoya Hibari understood. He then looked at Ryohei, who was diving toward them from mid-air, wanting to speak incessantly again. “Is your request also for me to take the First Generation’s trial? If so, you don’t need to speak. I agree.”

By this time, all the students on the field had been urgently evacuated; only the members related to the Vongola incidents remained.

Almost at the exact moment the word “agree” left Kyoya Hibari’s lips, a Cloud-attribute flame appeared in a secluded corner, followed by a Sun-attribute flame.

“I supremely acknowledge the succession of the Sun Guardian—”

“I recognize the succession of the Cloud Guardian.”

The two voices rang out together.

The First Generation Sun Guardian, Knuckle, had witnessed Ryohei Sasagawa’s unyielding persistence in persuading the Cloud Guardian to take the trial, as well as his spirit of facing adversity head-on and protecting everyone with his body despite facing defeat.

The First Generation Cloud Guardian, Alaude, recognized Kyoya Hibari’s stance of helping the family from his own independent position, influenced by no one’s will, and protecting everyone in his own way. He likewise approved the succession.

As the two lights flew into the boxes, Jin Chaoyan looked at Fon standing on the ground nearby, then at Kyoya Hibari beside her, then at Alaude not far away. After a moment of thought, she pulled out her phone from ten years in the future and opened the wallpaper to look at her husband from ten years later.

Four times the happiness!

When Kyoya Hibari put away the Vongola Box, she also happily tucked away her phone. Relaxing, she suddenly felt something was off:

“Wait, Kyoya, what did you mean just now by ‘also’?”

Reborn, who had been watching the show nearby, curled his lips and answered, “It means that when Ryohei smashed the airship for him, he had already agreed to the other’s persuasion and decided to take the Cloud Guardian’s trial.”

“—However, you didn’t seem to realize it, so you proposed the same condition as Ryohei.”

Jin Chaoyan: “?”

Jin Chaoyan: “!”

She widened her eyes in disbelief, grabbing the sleeve of the boy beside her. She used so much force that she pulled one side of his jacket off his shoulder. Then, under his questioning “Hm?”, she silently adjusted his jacket and draped it back over him.

“Is what Mr. Reborn said true?” Jin Chaoyan asked with a trembling voice.

“I gave you a chance to back out.”

Kyoya Hibari watched the change in her expression, and his mood improved. The smile on his lips never faded, and his gray-blue phoenix eyes held the same sentiment.

Jin Chaoyan instantly felt her heart bleeding. As he turned to leave the campus, she immediately followed him in a few steps, her voice sounding aggrieved. “No, no way. I want to retract it. Let me back out one more time, okay?”

“Too late.”

Jin Chaoyan: “…”

She turned her head to look at Tsunayoshi Sawada’s group, who were still standing in place with stunned expressions. “Vongola, do you have any idea how much I sacrificed for you?”

Tsunayoshi Sawada: “?”

While he was still dazed, Jin Chaoyan had already turned back with a whimper to chase after the figure walking away:

“Kyoya, I beg you, waaaaah. If I don’t hear you say ‘Sister,’ I won’t be able to rest in peace even in the underworld—”

The boy glanced sideways, asking with a hint of interest, “Are you going to cry?”

Jin Chaoyan, who was faking a cry but couldn’t squeeze out any tears, was stunned by the question. “What?”

“If you cry, I’ll consider it.” The other responded patiently. But no matter how handsome and elegant his appearance, it was all an illusion to bewitch people; only his words exposed his slightly wicked nature.

Jin Chaoyan instantly dropped her act and muttered, “…You brat!”

“Wow. What did you just call me? Do you want to be bitten to death?”

“Chairman qaq, won’t you just call me Sister once?”

“I refuse.”

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