Even if all she needed was a trainer license (not necessarily becoming a full Central trainer), the exam was still brutally difficult—well beyond what an ordinary person could casually handle.
After Eternal Meteor convinced Rudolf again, she stepped out, stroking her chin and wobbling along in thought—only to get slammed into and knocked flat almost immediately.
"Ow… why do I keep getting bodied? Huh? Why did I say keep?"
As Eternal Meteor lay on the floor cycling between confusion and sudden realization, Nishizaki Ryu's heart clenched.
Seeing how much "the Emperor" was looking after this kid… if he caused her even the slightest injury, he'd probably be visiting Tokyo Bay the next morning.
He dropped the documents he was carrying, hurried over, and squatted beside her—his voice visibly warping with panic.
"Are you okay?! Does anything hurt?! I'm calling an ambulance—right now!"
Eternal Meteor quickly stopped him.
She was about to get up and dust herself off, but then a wicked idea popped into her head.
So she shut her eyes again and started groaning dramatically.
"My head hurts so bad… my foot too…"
Nishizaki grabbed his phone again.
She slapped her hand over it at once.
"Don't call. If you do, your trainer career is over."
"This isn't the time to worry about that!"
"Just agree to one thing—cough—just one thing."
"Stop talking!"
His fingers were shaking so badly he kept entering the passcode wrong. He finally unlocked it—
and Eternal Meteor pressed his phone down again before he could even reach the dial screen.
Staring at her expression—I'm not letting go unless you say yes—Nishizaki caved instantly.
"Fine! Say it—whatever it is—I'll do it!"
Eternal Meteor popped up like nothing happened, patted her skirt, and laughed.
"Then help me organize the study materials for the trainer exam. Hahahaha!"
Nishizaki froze.
He watched her stand there perfectly fine, and his brain simply stopped working. His mouth opened and closed, but nothing coherent came out.
"Y-you… I… you…!"
Eternal Meteor walked over, patted his shoulder, hauled him up—then casually tossed the lollipop that had fallen out of his mouth into the hallway trash can.
Because Eternal Meteor is a good kid.
(Lie.)
"I'm going to take the trainer license exam. So… I'm counting on you."
Nishizaki's face twisted with frustration.
"You didn't have to pull that stunt! I would've agreed anyway!"
He really had been terrified.
"Sorry~ Here, lollipop. I'm heading out."
She shoved a fresh lollipop into his mouth with one hand and bolted.
"Don't forget to整理资料～!"
Watching her disappear, Nishizaki picked up the scattered documents, rubbed his head, and sighed as he walked off.
X Calls Her Out
"I swear… sometimes I think your brain is broken."
"Bullshit!"
X had watched the entire farce, and now honestly wondered if Eternal Meteor had real issues.
"Then why didn't you just ask him normally? You know he wouldn't refuse."
"I…"
For once, Eternal Meteor had no answer.
She didn't know why either. She just… did it.
Like she was trying to carve her existence deeper into people's minds—good or bad, as long as it was unforgettable.
X spoke like it could read her thoughts.
"As if you want to prove you're here—to force your presence into people's memory, no matter what it costs."
Eternal Meteor went quiet for a beat.
Then:
"Enough. Train."
For some reason, after that, Eternal Meteor trained with unusually intense effort, all the way until dinner and returning to the dorm.
Back in the dorm, she read while tossing Rudolf random questions about trainers—right up until lights out.
So… that's the end of her day.
…Right?
Midnight: "Open the Books!"
In the darkness, two ruby-red lights flickered.
Eternal Meteor sat up, confirmed Rudolf was asleep in the neighboring bed, then silently grabbed her shoes and slipped out.
"Time to grind."
She dragged a training starting gate out of storage.
X stared.
"You're doing gate training…?"
"sodayo!"
Eternal Meteor stepped inside, set her stance, and pressed the remote.
BANG. BANG.
She launched—
Wait. Two bangs?
Eternal Meteor suddenly stood up clutching her nose, pulled out tissues, and wiped away the blood.
X's voice rose into pure disbelief.
"What the hell are you even doing?!"
"You asked, didn't you? Gate training."
"What kind of gate training involves headbutting the gate?!"
Ignoring X's screaming, Eternal Meteor reset herself inside the gate again, hit the switch—
and collapsed again amid another crash.
Watching her struggle back up, still trying to continue, X genuinely began to worry.
"Stop acting normal—I'm scared. You didn't actually break your brain, did you?!"
"Scram."
Eternal Meteor waved X off and explained while wiping blood from her face:
"I just wanted to test whether I can time a jump start."
"Jump start?"
"Look—everyone else starts after the green light. If I can nail the timing and move at the exact instant the green lights, that's a huge advantage."
And with that, she climbed back in and kept going.
Crash after crash, X became more convinced she'd gone insane.
Eternal Meteor would slam into the gate, hit the floor, and still crawl back up.
Eventually X couldn't take it anymore.
"You've already hit it twice… maybe stop?!"
Eternal Meteor's face was smeared with blood—she looked like something crawling out of a horror film. X felt like either the gate or her skull was going to fail first.
Eternal Meteor finally paused, looked around at the mess, and exhaled.
"Yeah. I have to study trainer knowledge tomorrow too. Time to sleep."
X let out a long, relieved breath—
and then choked when Eternal Meteor added, casually:
"We'll continue tomorrow night."
"What?! You're still doing this?!"
Nishizaki's All-Nighter
On the way back to shower, Eternal Meteor noticed the office building still lit up in the distance.
"Don't tell me that's Nishizaki…"
She walked over, peeked through the door crack—
and sure enough, Nishizaki was inside with full panda eyes, organizing piles of material.
With her current eyesight, she could clearly read: it was all trainer-exam stuff.
She bought two drinks from the vending machine, and was about to enter—
but then remembered her face was basically "female ghost from a cursed tape" right now.
So she shook her head and left.
As she headed out—climbing the wall to go to an off-campus bathhouse—she thought about how to repay him.
Maybe she'd just give him money.
Whatever.
Morning: The Bow
But she didn't expect to run into him during morning running—Nishizaki, holding a thick stack of compiled materials, actively searching for her.
She took the bundle, about to speak—
when Nishizaki suddenly bent over at the waist.
"Please train Tokai Teio!"
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