A young man from another world returned to his hometown.

?

She blinked, and then saw a cloud of mist explode.

What is that? Why does white mist appear when serving?

Mach rings!

Mu Jiuzhang's brain was on high alert.

"Are you kidding me! That's only produced when a flying object breaks the sound barrier! How could this possibly reach the speed of sound? That's not scientific!!!"

Mu Jiuzhang's confidence and meticulous calculations from a moment ago were completely crushed in an instant.

There was no sound, only the gradually enlarging flying object, seemingly obscured by the light.

Wait a minute, something's not right, is it?

All her scientific knowledge crumbled at that moment, leaving only a primal instinct.

"You'll die!"

It was no longer a volleyball, but a cannonball trailing a sonic boom cloud.

The reflection of the shell in Mu Jiuzhang's glasses caused her to only manage to utter one last sentence.

"This! Is absolutely! Absolutely! Not normal!"

Her instincts preceded her reason; her muscles reacted on their own, and her entire body instinctively lay down.

"hiss."

The compressed shell flew over the beach and headed towards the sea.

"boom!"

The sea was cleaved in two! The instant the ball struck the sea, a straight, bottomless trench was torn open, and the seawater was thrown into the sky, as if cleaved in two by an invisible giant blade.

……

Mu Jiuzhang's face was covered in sand, and he remained motionless.

"What the hell? What the hell? What the hell?"

Her glasses were to one side, and her brain was still trying to reconnect everything that had just happened with her logic, but... how could this be explained?

Why? Why? Why?

If she were an ordinary person, she would behave quite normally; if he were a spy, his body language would reveal trained skills. But to be this strong makes me wonder what he really is.

She propped herself up, her face full of exasperation, and mechanically walked down the mountain like a penguin, the same sentence repeating in her mind.

"Hehe...hehe...hehe..."

Lin Yan shouted from behind.

"Oh dear, teacher, wait a minute, wait a minute."

Watching her figure recede into the distance, he sighed. This academic genius was probably going to experience the most serious worldview reconstruction of her life today. Lin Yan turned around, clenched his fists angrily, found the two little ones who were jumping and celebrating with their hands raised, and punched Nia hard on the head.

"You think I can't tell it's the two of you causing trouble?"

Nia's eyes instantly filled with tears.

"Waaaaah~ I just want Mommy to win the competition, I'm just afraid Daddy will be seduced by a succubus!"

Lin Yan angrily grabbed Nia's two dragon horns and shook them repeatedly.

"What are you thinking? She's just my university professor!"

"Really? Daddy won't be captured by the Demon King's succubi like in the travelogue?"

"Ugh! What have you been learning at the academy? I really need to drag you back to school!"

Lin Yan screamed, clutching her head, her mind filled with regret.

"You're not allowed to use magic anymore! Teacher Mu isn't a bad person, I can't possibly use magic to erase her memory, can I?"

Although Lin Yan had considered what would happen if his magic was exposed, he never imagined that he would be discovered by others under these circumstances. It seems that he needs to think carefully about how to explain this to his teacher.

As if things weren't going to go wrong, before she could even figure out how to explain things to her teacher, on the other side, Xier started covering her eyes and crying.

"Waaah... Darling... Did I do a terrible job?! Um... childhood friend..."

"...??"

Lin Yan looked completely bewildered.

"What childhood sweetheart?"

"Teacher Mu."

Syl's eyes were still red.

"She likes you, doesn't she? She knows you so well."

Lin Yan: "..."

He sighed and rubbed his forehead. His wife was good in every way, except that she had been corrupted by Lan Xing's novels.

"Wife, she is my professor's teacher, not my childhood sweetheart. She knew everyone in our lab well during the university. We were all scolded by her back then."

"……real?"

"real!"

"Then why did she chase after me all the way to the countryside?"

"She was invited by her cousin to help with the planning for building a school in the village."

"..."

Syl bit her lower lip.

"Then why...why did she follow us here?"

"Hmm, I'd like to know that too. Honey, let's ask her about it later."

"……Um."

Syl nodded.

She leaned quietly on Lin Yan's shoulder.

After a while, she said softly.

"Honey."

"Um?"

"I'm sorry I couldn't play volleyball well for you today."

He gently patted her head.

"It's okay, there's nothing to apologize for. It was my fault for making you misunderstand... Let's not read so many novels anymore, okay?"

"...Huh?? A novel?"

Syl tilted his head in confusion.

"Mom!!"

A small pink figure rushed out from behind.

"Wow! Is Mom alright?!"

Nia plunged headlong into the space between Lin Yan and Xier.

"That wicked woman didn't bully you, did she?"

"..."

Lin Yan held her forehead.

"Nia, she really is just my teacher..."

Lin Yan resigned herself to her fate.

……

In the evening, Mu Jiuzhang returned to his residence, his mind still reeling. This was illogical!

A message from Wei Changfeng popped up on my phone.

"Jiuzhang, how did the inspection go today?"

Mu Jiuzhang typed.

"Teacher, today I saw a very beautiful girl split the ocean in two with a volleyball."

Wei Changfeng replied instantly.

"...Haha, Jiuzhang, you're joking now. If you're tired, get some rest. We can work again tomorrow."

……

At night, on the balcony of the old house, Xier's mind was filled with images from the daytime.

"Lord Syl?"

A timid voice came from behind. Miki stood barefoot on the threshold, holding a pillow in her hands.

"Micky? Why aren't you asleep yet?"

Miki rubbed her eyes.

"Lord Syl, are you sad? Is it because of that bespectacled lady from earlier today?"

"...She's very beautiful, and she's known you for a long time."

Miki blinked.

"Is Lord Syl worried that she likes the Hero...? Pfft!"

Miki quickly covered her mouth, but laughter had already escaped.

"What...what are you laughing at?"

Syl looked up, her eyes still a little red, but mostly confused.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!"

Miki waved her little hands erratically, then spoke in a tone far beyond what one would expect for someone her age.

"Lord Sir, there's something I feel I should tell you."

"Um?"

"Today on the beach, Lady Nia asked me to use detection magic to test that older sister, and what I saw... was completely different from what Lady Syl thought."

Syl's ears twitched slightly.

"What's different?"

Miki lowered her voice and leaned forward.

"That older sister likes girls!"

Miki shrugged, giving him a "you get it" look, and then watched as Syl's expression kept changing.

"Huh?"

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