In Tokyo, building the Holy Light Girls team

The Mai he mentioned was a female teacher wearing black-rimmed glasses, about the same age as Xia Mu. Upon hearing this, she chuckled.

"Ms. Natsuki is right. Although I understand Mr. Peter's thoughts, we still need to control ourselves."

"But--"

Peter sprang to his feet, pointing at the pile of love letters on Xia Mu's desk as he burst into tears.

"Ms. Mai, I'm so envious! This guy is so popular! If all the students liked me this much, I would swear to be a good person... no, I mean, to become the best PE teacher in the world!"

"That's a statement that could be misunderstood!"

Xia Mu smiled, then pulled out a large bag from somewhere and swept all the love letters into it like he was sweeping up trash. He then handed it to Peter, saying under Peter's questioning gaze:

"Teacher Peter, could you do me a favor and throw all these things away? If I'm in a better mood later, I might tell you how to be popular!"

"I'm going right now!!!"

Peter took the bag with one hand and ran out of the office with lightning speed, causing an uproar among the teachers.

Xia Mu clapped his hands and smiled, saying, "Truly worthy of being the best PE teacher, hahaha..."

The teachers were embarrassed: "Teacher Peter, he's completely outmaneuvered by that Xia Mu guy..."

……

Chapter 4 Toilet Horror

"Ms. Xia Mu, have you heard about that incident?"

As Peter was leaving, Mai suddenly came over and quietly asked Natsuki a question.

When Natsuki looked up, Mai continued, "It's about the rumors related to the disappearance of a female student from Fujii High School..."

"Fujii High School?"

Xia Mu remembered that a similar message had appeared on someone's phone in his pocket, so he asked Maiko about it.

Several days ago, female students from Fujii High School began to disappear one after another, and as of today, four female students have gone missing.

Furthermore, because their final appearances were always in the toilet, they gradually became a rumor similar to "Hanako-san of the Toilet" without anyone noticing.

"...I heard that the reason for this is because of a set of photos that suddenly appeared online. Don't you think it's very strange, Teacher Xia Mu?"

As she spoke, Mai crossed her arms in a gesture of fear, and even her impeccably tailored business attire could not conceal her astonishing size at that moment.

"These past few days, I've been too afraid to go to the school toilet alone; I only go when I get home..."

Realizing that her topic seemed somewhat private, Mai's face flushed unconsciously. Fortunately, Natsuki wasn't looking at her, which reassured her slightly.

"【Hanako-san of the Toilet】, huh..."

Xia Mu murmured, a thoughtful expression on his face.

If it were the old him, he might have scoffed at such things, but after what happened last night, he suddenly realized that the world might not be as simple as he had imagined.

Now that Mikiko's deceased husband has reappeared, perhaps the so-called "Hanako in the Toilet" is also...

A scene from a photograph flashed through his mind, his expression froze, and he suddenly looked at Mai and said:

"Ms. Mai, do you believe in ghosts?"

"ghost?"

Mai's throat tightened, and as she looked back at the other person's earnest face, her voice trembled without her realizing it.

"That kind of thing shouldn't exist, right? Could it be that Teacher Xia Mu has seen it..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Xia Mu's sudden burst of laughter startled Mai.

"Ms. Mai, what are you thinking? This is the modern world!"

"If such a thing really existed, wouldn't it have been captured and studied by mad scientists? How could it possibly have the chance to harm people? The way you look so scared is just too cute, hahaha..."

"Teacher Natsuki!!!"

Mai clenched her fists, her chest heaving with her emotions, as if it might burst out of her business attire at any moment.

But looking at Xia Mu's face, he never actually punched him. He could only snort angrily and return to his workstation.

Seeing this, Xia Mu shrugged helplessly; he simply didn't want to spread that strange atmosphere.

After all, similar rumors have already drawn the attention of students and even teachers. If someone were to recount their experience from last night, it would be tantamount to throwing a "Little Boy" directly at them!

"But then again, this matter is indeed a bit of a concern..."

While muttering to himself, Xia Mu simply took out his phone and started looking up similar news, while he casually placed the students' phones on the table.

As he was making his inquiry, the cross necklace on his chest was shimmering faintly, but because it was daytime, no one paid any attention to it.

……

Time flew by, and when Xia Mu belatedly put down his phone, he found that the surroundings had become quiet and he was all alone in the office.

"Why haven't they arrived yet?"

He checked the time; it showed 5 p.m., and Sayuri should have already handed in her homework.

But two whole hours have passed since get out of class ended. Even excluding club activities, it shouldn't be this late...

"Didn't Sayuri listen to me? She may not be a good student, but she rarely acts like this..."

As they spoke, Xia Mu noticed that the sky outside the window had unknowingly turned a dim yellow, which was quite strange in the middle of summer.

"Is it just my imagination?"

Xia Mu shook his head, stood up and prepared to leave, but as soon as he stepped out of the office, he suddenly felt something, looked down and saw that the cross necklace on his chest suddenly emitted a dazzling light!

"Hmm? This feeling is..."

Let's go back in time.

"...Sayuri isn't going to do her homework obediently!"

In one of the stalls in the women's restroom, a girl with pigtails, who had just finished her club activities, was complaining indignantly.

As the president of the surreal club, Sayuri stated that she would never waste her time on such things for the sake of the hope and future of all mankind!

hum-

Sayuri's phone vibrated, and she immediately turned on the screen. When she saw the new message in the group chat, her eyes lit up!

"It's a new picture!"

Sayuri's group is the same one that Natsuki confiscated the students' phones from before.

The group name is just an ordinary number, but the members often share their strange and unusual stories. Currently, her biggest concern is the disappearance of the Fujii High School girl.

The image loaded quickly, and as the image of a woman in red appeared in Sayuri's eyes, a soft knock sounded on the cubicle door!

"Who is it!"

Sayuri trembled violently, and the gentle flow of water was forced to stop.

As she hurriedly put on her skirt, the knocking paused for a moment, then suddenly became more frequent, eventually turning into violent hammering!

boom!boom!boom……

The continuous banging on the door caused the makeshift toilet to shake violently. Despite her fear, Sayuri desperately held the door shut to prevent the other person from rushing in.

"Who is it... Waaah... Teacher... Mom... Is anyone outside...?"

Overwhelmed with fear, Sayuri couldn't stop the tears from streaming down her face. Her mind went blank, and all she wanted was to escape from there as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, the knocking stopped. Sayuri blinked her watery eyes and was about to open the door to check the situation when she suddenly noticed black hair hanging down in front of her.

She looked up abruptly, and a figure dressed in red, with white eyes and cold, bluish-black skin, exactly like the one in the group photo, was imprinted in her eyes!

"I...found...you..."

The space fell silent, and the next second, Sayuri's terrified scream suddenly erupted from the toilet stall.

"what!!!!!!"

……

Chapter 5 drops rare items.

"what--"

Haw!

The screams suddenly stopped.

Sayuri blinked, watching as the red-clad female ghost peeked out and then quickly withdrew, leaving her momentarily at a loss for how to react.

"Wh...what happened..."

With tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes, Sayuri timidly placed her hand on the doorknob, gave herself a pep talk, and then forcefully opened the door!

"Hey, are you alright?"

"Teacher Natsuki!!!"

Sayuri's expression instantly turned to surprise, but when her gaze fell on the opposite wall, on a red-clad female ghost slowly rising, fear resurfaced in her heart.

"There is a ghost..."

"Calm down, it's just a ghost, nothing to be afraid of."

"?"

A big question mark appeared above Sayuri's head. She couldn't understand why Natsuki-sensei was so calm in such a dangerous situation.

That's a menacing ghost!

Too terrified to notice, Sayuri failed to notice the faint glow emanating from the cross necklace on the man's chest.

It was its existence that wiped away most of the panic in Xia Mu's heart!

Even the thought that if he hadn't arrived in time, Sayuri might have ended up like the other missing girls, a surge of anger rose in Natsuki's heart.

“I can’t control students from other schools, but you dare to lay your dog claws on my students, I can’t stand by and watch…”