Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

"Huh? Why?" Yuantai asked in confusion.

"Because if you turn on the light, the patrolling security guards in the school will know someone is here." Huiyuan said lightly, "So, it's better to use your watch lights."

"As expected of Huiyuan." Mitsuhiko immediately flattered her: "Otherwise we would have been discovered."

226. Late-night Campus Horror

"There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious."

After looking around the art classroom and not finding anything unusual, Yuantai said somewhat disappointedly.

"In that case, let's go to the health room again," said Mitsuhiko.

After arriving at the health room...

"Strange, why can't we find that scary dummy anywhere?" Mitsuhiko shone the light of his watch around and said with a puzzled look on his face.

A thin layer of cold sweat broke out on Yuantai's forehead: "It won't be like the rumors say, running in the corridor."

"But then we should be able to hear footsteps..."

Ayumi walked towards a piece of cloth, and after she opened it with her hands, her face suddenly changed, and she screamed and ran away from the health room.

"Ayumi——"

Several people quickly chased after him.

After finally catching up with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko quickly asked, "Ayumi, what did you see?"

Ayumi's face turned pale, her eyes filled with fear: "I'm 17... I saw that dummy."

Hearing this, several people breathed a sigh of relief.

Mitsuhiko comforted him: "That dummy is indeed scary, especially at night."

"Everyone, look over there..."

Huibara suddenly pointed behind everyone.

Everyone turned around and found a cardboard box not far away.

"Strange, why is there a cardboard box here?"

Everyone walked over together, and Yuan Tai took out a doll from the box and said, "There are dolls in here."

"I think this must be a doll used by a class in a puppet show in the past," Mitsuhiko guessed.

"Look, my last name is written on this doll." Ayumi said with some surprise, holding the doll in her hand.

"I also found a doll with my last name on it."

"I found it too."

Mitsuhiko and Genta also found their own exclusive dolls, but before Genta could be happy, the head of the doll in his hand broke and rolled to the ground, scaring him so much that he shivered.

"Genta's doll's head fell off." Ayumi picked up the head.

Mitsuhiko said solemnly, "Not only the head, but also the doll itself is torn to pieces..."

Yuan Tai's face turned even worse after being frightened by Guangyan's words. He started to think: "Could it be... could it be that someone wants to kill me?"

"No." Ayumi comforted: "It's just that your gender happens to be the same as the one above."

"That's right." Mitsuhiko followed.

"No, maybe that's not the case." Huibara rummaged through the cardboard box and pulled out the dolls labeled "Watanabe Toru" and "Huibara." "If only the last name was the same, it could be considered a coincidence, but it's obvious that the last names of the dolls are from my class."

Haibara's words made the smiles on Ayumi and Mitsuhiko's faces, which were used to comfort Genta, suddenly freeze.

Mitsuhiko swallowed and said, "Could it be that the sudden decrease in the number of students in the school recently has something to do with these dolls?"

Yuan Tai's body was shaking uncontrollably: "Are we the next ones to be killed?"

Mitsuhiko forced himself to remain calm. "I don't think that's the case. We only came here out of curiosity because of the rumors. Besides, the plaster statues are well kept in the art room, and the mannequin is also in the health room."

As he spoke, he pointed to the health room opposite the window and looked there subconsciously.

But then, his expression suddenly changed, he let out a scream, fell to the ground, and a look of deep fear appeared on his face, as if he had seen something terrible.

"That mannequin, it...appeared outside the health room." Mitsuhiko said in horror.

"what?"

Everyone looked outside quickly, and wherever they looked, there was only darkness and nothing else.

Yuan Tai said, "There's nothing outside."

"But I clearly saw it." Mitsuhiko's eyes were filled with tears. It was obvious that he was very scared.

Watanabe Toru pondered and said, "Let's go to the health room again."

The group came to the health room again and saw the human body model placed there intact. Everyone finally felt relieved.

Yuanta pointed at the mannequin and said, "Look, the mannequin is placed right here."

Mitsuhiko was stunned and said in disbelief: "But..."

"I think you must be too scared, so you saw it wrongly." Ayumi comforted: "Mitsuhiko, don't be too nervous."

"That's it."

Just when Mitsuhiko thought he was really just being overly nervous and hallucinating, Watanabe Toru pointed to a handkerchief under the mannequin's base and said, "I remember when we first came to the infirmary, there was nothing under the mannequin, but now there's a handkerchief. This shows that the mannequin has indeed moved after we left the infirmary."

Watanabe Toru's words made the people who had just calmed down become nervous and scared again.

Ayumi trembled and said, "Xiaotetsu, are you saying that this model can move by itself?"

"Of course not." Watanabe Toru rolled his eyes: "It must have been moved by someone."

"But why did he do that?" Mitsuhiko asked puzzledly, "Is it to scare us?"

"If he just wanted to scare us, he wouldn't have put the dummy back in its place." Huiyuan said calmly, "This person must have other hidden motives."

With a worried mood, several people left the health room again and walked in the corridor.

"Hey." Huiyuan asked Watanabe Toru quietly, "What do you think about this matter?"

Watanabe Toru glanced at her and said, "It's obvious that someone is causing trouble. Didn't you notice that someone has been following us since we came out?"

Following? Huiyuan was stunned and subconsciously looked back, but there was nothing else to see except the dark corridor.

"Don't look, he's already hiding."

Huiyuan turned around and asked: "What are you going to do?"

Watanabe Toru chuckled and said, "I think I already know who that person is, but..."

Before he could finish his words, Mitsuhiko and the other two who were walking in front suddenly let out a cry of fear.

The two hurried up and saw smoke filling the air at the stairs, with red liquid flowing down the handrail.

"Blood...it's blood..." Yuantai looked horrified.

Watanabe Toru felt for it and said, "It's blood, just red paint. Look, someone let the paint flow down through this gap in the stairs."

"Then what about these cigarettes?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"That's just the result of putting dry ice from a physics and chemistry lab in water. It's not smoke at all."

227. Teacher Xiaolin, be yourself

With Watanabe Toru's explanation, Ayumi and the other two felt much more at ease.

Guangyan pinched his chin and said, "So, the criminal did this to scare us back?"

"That's right."

"Okay, then let's go up there and catch this bad guy." After knowing that it was not a supernatural event, Yuantai became much braver in an instant. He rubbed his fists and looked very aggressive.

Watanabe Toru shook his head and said, "It's useless. He must have escaped long ago. However, I have already figured out how to find him. Come with me."

After more than ten minutes, several people came out of the toilet.

"Xiao Che, can we find the bad guy by hiding in the toilet for a while?" Ayumi asked in a low voice.

Watanabe Toru hummed, "Once that guy realizes we're gone, he'll definitely think we ran away out of fear, and he'll reappear. You see..."

He stopped and pointed in the direction of the classroom opposite.

Ayumi and the others looked at it and instantly fell into a daze.

"We...is there anyone in our classroom?"

“It seems there’s more than one.”

"Oh my god, what are they doing in the classroom?"

Even Huiyuan couldn't help but look at Watanabe Toru and asked, "What on earth is going on?"

Watanabe Toru smiled faintly: "If you want to know the reason, just go to the classroom and you will know."

After saying that, he ran towards the classroom.

"Xiao Che, wait for us."

Ayumi and the others quickly followed.

Class B, first grade.

Toru Watanabe stood at the door of the classroom, coughed lightly, and pushed the door open and walked in.

Then turn on the lights to illuminate the entire classroom.

Ayumi and the others behind him walked into the classroom and were shocked when they saw the layout of the classroom.

"Look, these are the dolls from just now." Ayumi said in surprise, pointing at the dolls on the table.

Mitsuhiko looked at the window and said, "Even the plaster statues and mannequins that were in the art room and the health room are now in the classroom."

"Moreover, not only are there labels on the dolls, but even these plaster statues have labels with "Parents" written on them. Could it be that..." Huibara seemed to realize something.

Watanabe Toru nodded and said, "That's right, this [bad guy] treats dolls as students, and plaster statues and mannequins as their parents. He practices non-stop in the classroom every night to prepare for the mother-sister class next week, but he wears a mask to prevent others from hearing. Am I right? Mr. Kobayashi is hiding under the desk right now."

"Eh?"

Hearing Watanabe Toru say Kobayashi Sumiko's name, Ayumi and the others were surprised. Ayumi ran to the desk and pulled out Kobayashi Sumiko who was hiding inside, and said in surprise: "It really is Teacher Kobayashi."

Seeing the truth revealed, Kobayashi Sumiko sighed helplessly: "I didn't expect that you would see through it in the end, Watanabe-san. You really deserve to be the best in the class."

Watanabe Toru grinned and said, "This has nothing to do with one person. Look at Huibara-san, you didn't see that."

Huibara glared at him and snorted.

Yuan Tai said in a muffled voice, "But instead of doing this kind of practice, wouldn't it be better to be nicer to us students?"

He is a mischievous troublemaker, but he is particularly afraid of Kobayashi Sumiko.

Mitsuhiko agreed, "That's right, teacher, you should first change your dislike for children."

"That's not true. In fact, the opposite is true." Kobayashi Sumiko pursed her lips, her tone a little bitter: "Actually, Teacher, I love children too much, so I don't know what to do."

"Eh?"

Ayumi and others stared at Kobayashi Sumiko in shock.

Kobayashi Sumiko recalled, "I used to love my students in my own way. At my previous school, I had never even gotten angry. But because of this, I messed up everything at the first Mothers' and Sisters' Reunion. At that time, a male student not only made fun of me as a teacher, but also got into a fight with his neighbor, resulting in both of them being seriously injured. So I swore that I would never let the same thing happen again in this school. I armed myself and was very strict with myself and my students. However, as the Mothers' and Sisters' Reunion approached, memories of the past came back to me. I couldn't sit or stand, and I could only practice secretly in the classroom every night. Especially you, Kojima-san, because you look so much like the boy we fought with, which makes me feel uneasy."

"Yes, that's right." Yuantai scratched his head in embarrassment. He didn't expect that his image would cause trouble to the teacher.

Kobayashi Sumiko's voice dropped again. "But now everyone is very afraid of me. Some even call me a tigress. So I think I'm probably not suitable to be a teacher."

"That's not the case." Ayumi said loudly, "To be honest, I knew from a long time ago that Mr. Kobayashi was a very good teacher. Because I once saw with my own eyes that after everyone went back, Mr. Kobayashi would help water the flowers in the classroom, or change the water in the fish tank, which other teachers would not do."

"Everyone said it was strange that the tigress would water the flowers." As soon as Genta finished saying this, Mitsuhiko hit him in the stomach with his shoulder and elbow without any hesitation.

Watanabe Toru looked at Kobayashi Sumiko and said, "Teacher Kobayashi, you may think you have concealed your wealth well, but none of this can deceive the children. So I think it would be better for you to return to your original appearance. After all, compared to a strict teacher, everyone may prefer a more friendly teacher like Kobayashi."

Kobayashi Sumiko nodded and said, "Thank you. I will adjust as soon as possible. By the way, can you please keep today's events confidential?"

When saying the second half of the sentence, Kobayashi Sumiko clasped her hands together with a pleading tone, which is something you would never see under normal circumstances.

Watanabe Toru and the others looked at each other, then smiled and said in unison, "Don't worry, Teacher Kobayashi."

After this night, Kobayashi Sumiko's mentality must have changed. Although Watanabe Toru had no intention of changing anything, since it pushed the plot forward, as a student, he was also happy that his teacher could take off the mask and be his original self.