Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

If he gets that 200,000 yen back, he will never be able to hold his head up in front of Nishimiya Shoko for the rest of his life!

Nishimiya's mother looked at Yato Takeshi, who nodded slightly: "Accept it, it's his sincerity."

Upon hearing this, Mother Xigong remained silent for a moment before finally taking the money back.

Seeing this, Ishida Shoya finally felt truly relieved.

This means that past grievances have been resolved.

It feels so good to no longer be a bad guy, no longer be a villain, and...

Ishida Shoya glanced cautiously at Yagi Takeshi and sniffed.

Now, I guess I won't be disliked by this stupid and childish teacher anymore, right?

"Let me make this clear beforehand, I never intended to get along with you. I don't like a stupid, childish teacher like you at all!"

Oh no, some words just popped out of my head.

"Huh?!" Nishimiya Yuzuru jumped over in an instant. "What outrageous nonsense are you spouting? How dare you talk to Yashiro Takeshi-sensei like that? It's disgusting and excessive! I want to vomit!"

scratch!

Yuzuru Nishimiya scratched Shoya Ishida's face repeatedly, since she hadn't trimmed her nails recently.

"Ouch, ouch! I know, I know, I take back what I said! Ouch, I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean! I don't dislike that guy at all!"

"You're still there, buddy! I'm going to teach you a lesson in place of your sister and the teacher! Go to hell!"

"Aaaaaah—Takeshi Yato, help me, waaaaah!"

Ishida Shoya's atonement, the final blow, the pained cat face.

then.

That night, an earthquake struck.

Volume 1: 486. Octopus Pierce's Original Sin

486. Octopus Pierce's Original Sin

That evening, Ishida also stayed at the Nishimiya house for dinner, after calling his mother to let her know.

Ishida's mother was overjoyed and wept on the phone, because she knew that this meant the ice between her family and the Nishimiya family had finally melted away.

Later, she could also start to get to know Nishimiya's mother and become friends.

Although Nishimiya's mother was very proud and refused to accept money from others, there was no problem with it if it was just between friends. Moreover, she genuinely thought Nishimiya's mother was remarkable and admired her for being so persistent. She truly wanted to get to know her better and didn't have any ulterior motives.

So she said directly on the phone that she would bring gifts to apologize again tomorrow, but the gifts were nothing precious, just some food for the children.

Although Nishimiya's mother's tone was still quite cold, she agreed.

So when it was time to eat, Ishida Shoya was no longer reserved, and the six of them sat around the table and had a happy dinner.

After the meal, taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Ishida carefully requested to stay and see how Nishimiya Shoko corrected her tone of voice.

Then he saw it: first one word at a time, then sentence by sentence, Nishimiya Shoko pronounced it, Ya no Takeru corrected him, and repeated the correct pronunciation, one word at a time, the pronunciation was clear and slow, so that Nishimiya Shoko could hear it clearly.

Even so, when Nishimiya Shoko pronounces her words, it still sounds completely strange.

At times like these, Yato Takeshi's face would not show the slightest impatience. His patience and temperament were simply absurd. Whenever this happened, he would simply continue to read it clearly and slowly, repeating it many times, until the pronunciation of the word "Nishimiya Shoko" or the sentence was corrected.

To be honest, Ishida Shouya was already suffocating just watching from the sidelines, because this was just too, too, too troublesome!

Even a single word requires repeated reading and correction at least a dozen times, and the results are only so-so.

If he were to teach, he would be filled with resentment and become so agitated that he would clutch his head and howl when the first word was repeated four or five times.

This is so agonizing, really.

And is it really useful?

"Uh, will this really work?" Ishida Shoya bluntly asked, "Even if you correct one word, after learning a dozen or so words, you'll have almost forgotten the first one, and your tone of voice will start to sound weird again, right?"

"In the short term, that is indeed the case."

Ya nods, but clarifies, "However, as long as you persist for a long time, and if you practice repeatedly over several years, you will form muscle memory, so don't worry about the effect, it will definitely be there."

"I see..." Ishida Shouya muttered, somewhat bewildered. "Even though he's a silly, childish teacher who still watches Ultraman even though he's all grown up, he's really amazing in every other way, except for his love of Ultraman..."

"What did Ultraman do to you!" Yuzuru Nishimiya grinned. "Whatever Takeshi-sensei likes is good. He's the best! If you dare to criticize his preferences, then don't come any closer!"

Ishida Shoya immediately surrendered unconditionally: "I was just kidding—wait, an earthquake?"

Then, something unexpected happened.

It started as a faint tremor, which gradually grew stronger, but there wasn't a sudden, violent tremor.

Yagami Takeshi stopped teaching almost immediately, shouting "Get out of here and take refuge!" He then picked up his grandmother, Nishimiya, who was hooking clothes nearby, and carried all three children out of the house.

Nishimiya's mother reacted quickly, rushing out after them.

Fortunately, the tremor did not last long or escalate further, and it soon stopped, leaving all the houses unharmed.

Ishida Shoya blinked: "Huh? Isn't this making a big fuss over nothing?"

"This is an earthquake, we can't be careless!" Ya De Meng lectured. "Even a small earthquake requires caution. We must always pay attention to safety. If we make a mistake in judgment, there could be casualties."

“Old-fashioned…” Ishida Shoya muttered to himself, “Anyway, Japan has always had a lot of earthquakes, we’re used to it, and since the meteorite fell, as everyone knows, earthquakes have become more frequent.”

Ya's fierce search keyword: "meteorite?"

“That’s right,” Yuzuru Nishimiya chimed in, “Teacher, didn’t you see the news before? Two meteorites fell at the same time. Although they fell in different places, what’s rare is that no matter which impact point, the authorities didn’t find a single meteorite fragment.”

"Two meteorites?"

Ya's fierce brows furrowed slightly.

He was convinced that he was one of the so-called meteorites, but he could also assure him that his fall would not cause earthquakes to become more frequent in Japan.

Another meteorite... When it fell, it was already doing its best to resist the erosion of the dark sparks and avoid turning itself into a puppet. It really didn't have the time to realize that something else had also fallen with it.

This might not necessarily be a good thing.

Since it can cause earthquakes to become more frequent, it must be something that has gone beyond the category of ordinary meteorites.

The massive explosion in the DC Universe swept across countless worlds, and the Ultra Multiverse was certainly affected as well. It's not entirely impossible that one or two monsters were caught up in the explosion and drifted to other worlds.

Even if it's not a monster, it could be something unknown from another unknown world. Whatever it is, we can't just leave it unattended.

Have the impact locations of both meteorites been announced?

"Yes, there is. And I heard that the Self-Defense Forces and US troops stationed there have withdrawn because they couldn't figure out anything in the past few days. There have been a lot of internet celebrities going there to check in these days. Teacher, are you also interested in meteorite craters?"

"That's right, teacher, I really do want to go and see."

Following Nishimiya Yuzuru's words, Yato Takeshi did not try to hide anything. After all, there was no need to make excuses. Making excuses would only make him seem sneaky and arouse suspicion.

Ishida Shoya's eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his hand: "I want to go too!"

“That won’t do,” but Ya De Meng immediately rejected the idea. “It’s getting late. I’ll take you back first.”

Are you leaving?

Shoko Nishimiya, though somewhat hesitant, cheerfully offered her blessings in a tone a little better than it had been a couple of weeks ago: "Bye-bye, see you tomorrow, teacher. And, Ishida-kun, have a safe trip, bye-bye!"

"Oh, oh... Bye-bye." Ishida Shoya, who was about to complain about the stupid, childish teacher being stingy, immediately replied and raised his hand to wave.

Damn it, I really want to slap myself!

How could I have been so cruel as to bully someone like that for no reason? Nishimiya Shoko clearly had no ill intentions at all.

Thinking about all this, Ishida Shoya obediently took him home and handed him over to his mother.

Later, alone in the dead of night, Yagi arrived at another meteorite crater that was marked on the map but which he did not recognize.

"Judging from its shape, it's not a monster, it doesn't even look like something that fell from the sky..."

Yagami carefully observed the scene. If it were a monster, it would have created a crater at least tens of meters deep. And if no monster could be found, then the scene must have been dug down into a bottomless tunnel, along with some extremely savage symptoms.

But there's none of that here. The crater is small, only about ten meters wide, and there are no tunnels extending into the ground. There's not even any trace of any creatures or UFOs that ever existed here.

All the details seem to suggest that there was only an ordinary meteorite here. Although the meteorite did disappear inexplicably, it had nothing to do with any threat.

But is that really the case?

Based on his thousands of years of experience as a warrior, Yato Takeshi's intuition and instincts warned him that the so-called "meteorite" here was probably not as harmless as it seemed.

However, with his power still sealed by the Dark Spark, he was unable to use it to track anything.

Although he vaguely sensed a familiar aura, it was too faint, and as a pure human, he was completely unable to detect anything further.

Under the moonlight, Ya's transformation device materialized faintly in his hand, but even though he was covered in sweat, he finally let out a muffled groan, staggered in pain, and knelt on one knee, panting heavily, but still failed to succeed.

"Is it still too much of a stretch...?"

Then we can only hope that even if the situation behind the meteorite is not so simple, that threat can reappear later.

That night, the worried Yashiro was unusually sleepless.

However, after realizing he was having trouble sleeping, he got up and continued to work on more lesson plans, brainstorming the next day's lessons and thinking about how to make the learning more engaging and effective for the students.

When he arrived at school the next day, Yato Takeshi didn't show any signs of being tired from staying up all night. In class, he even started calling on Ishida Shoya to answer some questions that Ishida could answer.

This scene shocked almost everyone.

Before this, although Ishida Shoya had already been forced to work, his psychological resistance was still visible to the naked eye. If he were asked to answer questions under those circumstances, he would never cooperate.

Not only would they not cooperate, but they would also definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble and resist, thereby affecting the atmosphere of the whole class that had just begun to improve. Therefore, Ya no Takeshi never did that.

But this time, Yato Takeshi went straight for it. Not only did he go for it, but Ishida Shoya didn't resist at all throughout the whole process, and didn't even try to be passive. He answered honestly!

Not only were the students in the classroom stunned, but even Takeuchi-sensei, who was eavesdropping outside and always ready to seek out dirt on Yagi's teaching failures, was astonished.

No, did I really guide you to do good?

Ishida was willing to cooperate, and the route that had been corrected from that of a naughty child was clearly a success.

"this?!"

Mr. Takeuchi was peering out the window of the classroom, completely speechless.

What else is there to say?

Ya no Takeshi has always kept his word. He did exactly what he said he would do, and he never broke his promise. Even though the trouble of dragging Ishida Shoya to work was indescribable, he didn't miss a single day in the past ten days.