Your essay gets a zero!

The next day, in the afternoon class.

The girl listened listlessly to her Chinese teacher's lecture on the podium.

Unlike subjects like math, which require extensive calculations, getting a high score in Chinese only requires applying formulas.

Therefore, Li Jiangqun's Chinese language score was excellent.

Even after cultivating all night, she was still thinking about what happened last night.

When she arrived at school in the morning, she found that the other students around her were in complete chaos.

Upon closer listening, it turned out that almost all the discussions were about "Magical Girl", "Hyakuba Park", and "Irregular Beast".

The girl was not surprised at all.

After all, the commotion last night was quite significant; almost all the residents in the vicinity saw a magical girl fighting an unknown enemy.

The countermeasures section and the countermeasures mobile unit arrived shortly after the battle ended.

Just as Li Jiangqun had finally managed to brush off the magical girl Inagi who was pestering her to become her apprentice, she was about to go check on Wang Fanfan when she spotted the headlights of the Countermeasures Division's vehicle in the distance.

While she was still hesitating about whether to stay, Daoya confidently assured her that she would be there and told the girl to go back first.

Trusting the magical girl, Li Jiangqun left after adding Ina's contact information.

After all, she was not yet mentally prepared to come into contact with the countermeasures department.

"But Fanfan doesn't seem to be at school today..."

Li Jiangqun couldn't help but feel a little worried because she hadn't seen the familiar short-haired girl from morning until afternoon.

"Clatter".

A crisp sound came from the classroom, as if something had fallen, as if pressing the pause button on the entire classroom, and the class fell silent in an instant.

Li Jiangqun: "......"

Under the watchful eyes of all the students and teachers in the classroom, the girl awkwardly picked up a long black umbrella from the ground.

The teacher on the podium was taken aback, then turned to look out the window.

The sky outside the window was a clear, deep blue, with no clouds.

—This doesn't look like it's going to rain.

Li Jiangqun leaned the somewhat heavy long umbrella under the table, forcing herself to remain calm and pretending nothing had happened.

As for the umbrella... she must have checked the weather forecast before going to school today.

Why would she carry such a long and inconvenient umbrella?

The answer is that this umbrella only looks like an umbrella.

It is actually an umbrella... or at least an umbrella.

She simply removed the umbrella handle and replaced it with a sword.

Yes, she brought the witch's sword to school too.

In order to avoid being caught by the school security guards and the ever-present dean of students, she had no choice but to cleverly hide the sword inside the umbrella tube.

That way, at least she'll look like a girl who doesn't check the weather forecast, rather than a terrorist carrying a sharp weapon into the school.

She also named the sword "Xili".

The phrase is taken from the line "Wearing a robe of ivy, climbing the mossy steps of the mountain" in Meng Jiao's poem "Sending Doulu Ce Back to His Villa," which the teacher went off-topic in class today.

Just then, the voice of the Chinese teacher came from the stage.

"In short, I'm not very satisfied with the essays your class wrote this time." The Chinese teacher picked up her thermos, took a sip of water to moisten her throat, and continued.

"However, there are some students' essays that I need to talk about separately."

He took a test paper from the podium, turned it to the essay section, and the bright red number sixty made the whole class gasp.

"I showed this student's essay to Ms. Wu and Ms. Su from the next class. It's very well written, really very good."

"What's so good about it? It's good because this essay doesn't sound like something a student would write themselves!"

The Chinese teacher's calm voice drowned out the noise in the classroom. He leaned on the podium with one hand and picked up the test paper, scanning it over.

"Class, why did I ask you to look at the collection of college entrance exam essays?"

"It's about learning essay format, the logical flow of writing, and some good sentences to enhance your essays!"

"To put it bluntly, after so many years of college entrance exams, the good sentences in the essays are all pretty much the same. It's no big deal if you copy some sentences, after all, that's what college entrance exam essays are all about."

"But some students copied the entire opening of previous years' college entrance exam essays word for word! Even though they changed the names, what's the difference between this and the original?"

As she spoke, the Chinese teacher crossed out a big six on the composition score of the test paper in front of the whole class.

"This student's essay receives a zero."

"Alright, class representative, hand out the papers. Since there's still some time before school ends, everyone should think about them carefully."

The teacher in class still gave that student face and didn't call him out on it. I wonder what that student who copied the essay is thinking now.

Li Jiangqun thought about it and realized that if it were her, she would probably be ashamed to death.

"Ring ring ring—"

The school bell rang, and the Chinese teacher packed up her lesson plan and left the classroom, causing another uproar in the class.

The girl didn't try to join their conversation; instead, she packed her bag and left the classroom on her own.

That's how I've always been, since I was a child.

She can live well even without friends.

Due to the incident at a nearby park last night, school let out early today, before 3 p.m.

While tomorrow being a rest day also plays a part, it reflects the school's care for its students.

—That's what the principal said anyway, whether the Education Bureau had any influence or not is none of your business.

But when Li Jiangqun reached the school gate, her pace unconsciously slowed down.

She blinked, feeling as if she had seen this scene somewhere before.

A black military jeep was parked at the school gate, with a red five-pointed star containing a circular map of China on its body.

Two men in black uniforms stood in front of the car. One had a broad, thick face, and the other had thick eyebrows and a square face. One of them was wearing an earpiece and seemed to be saying something.

Li Jiangqun recognized the organization represented by the icon at a glance.

— Tactical Countermeasures for Magical Disasters.

"Are you looking for me?"

Seeing the familiar scene before her, the girl instinctively wanted to back away.

But at that moment, one of the broad-faced men standing in front of the car suddenly looked in her direction as if he had sensed something.

"..."

There's nothing we can do; what's meant to happen will happen.

Li Jiangqun had no choice but to harden her heart and walk up to meet the gazes of the two men.

Sure enough, as she walked forward, one of them cut off the earpiece, and then the two of them walked up together.

"Hello, are you Li Jiangqun?" the broad-faced man asked.

"...It's me," the girl replied, forcing herself to speak.

The man with the national face nodded, then picked up the badge on his chest and the miniature recorder and spoke.

"Okay, we are staff from the Magic Disaster Tactics Countermeasures Section. This is my section badge, and this is my colleague."

"To protect your legal rights and to allow you to monitor our law enforcement actions, this entire enforcement process will be recorded. Li Jiangqun, please cooperate with our work."