"Mei! Mei!" The next day, Raiden Mei still arrived at Senba Academy alone. However, unlike yesterday, this time she was blocked by Kiana right at the school gate.
Last night Kiana had complained to Shun that she hadn't seen Mei all day, so Shun reminded her to arrive half an hour early and wait at the gate to catch Mei.
Sure enough, arriving early allowed her to block Mei. Kiana rushed toward Raiden Mei like an unleashed Siberian Husky and quickly crashed into her with a full hug.
As expected, Kiana had not given up on her… Raiden Mei thought with emotion in her heart. Although she had guessed it yesterday, seeing her best friend still the same today made her breathe a sigh of relief.
However, considering Kiana's usual silly appearance, Raiden Mei still asked uneasily, "Kiana doesn't mind?"
"Huh? Mind what?" Hearing Kiana's bewildered reply, Raiden Mei thought: Sure enough, Kiana probably doesn't know…
"It's about the ME Corp case." Raiden Mei felt she could not hide it from her friend. It was fine if Kiana knew, but if Kiana didn't know and she kept hiding it, wouldn't that mean she was binding her friend with lies?
The proud Mei could not tolerate such false feelings, so she had to tell Kiana the truth.
Anyway, for her current self, it was nothing more than a bit of wind and frost. It was just that the glimpse of young Kiana she had seen yesterday still lingered in her mind.
"What are you talking about? Mei is Mei. What does that have to do with any case?"
So Kiana already knew? Although Raiden Mei had already killed off her weak past self yesterday, hearing Kiana say this still moved her.
"Kiana…"
"Alright, alright, let's not talk about that. Let's go quickly!" Although they were not in the same grade, Kiana still pulled Raiden Mei back toward the school building.
"The shoes in the shoe locker… are back?" When Raiden Mei opened the shoe locker that had been filled with malice yesterday, she found it extremely neat and clean, as if the dead rat and missing indoor shoes from yesterday had been an illusion.
No, that's not right… Raiden Mei took out the indoor shoes and examined them. She found that this pair was clearly brand new.
Thinking of this, Raiden Mei couldn't help but glance at Kiana. "Did Kiana do this?"
After changing into the indoor shoes, Raiden Mei was pulled by Kiana back to her classroom and seat. The people who had been gossiping near Raiden Mei's seat scattered in all directions the moment they saw Kiana, as if they had seen a plague god.
What happened? Raiden Mei keenly noticed that her classmates were not leaving because of her, but because they were avoiding Kiana.
Under Kiana's pushing and shoving, Raiden Mei returned to her seat. She saw traces on her desk where oily marker had been written and then erased.
Raiden Mei was not stupid. She roughly guessed what had happened yesterday. Thinking of Kiana's abnormal physical strength, Raiden Mei realized something.
She casually stopped a passing classmate nearby and once again became the former "Raiden Queen," coldly questioning the other person.
"Tell me what happened yesterday." Raiden Mei spoke in an unquestionable tone. The students in the classroom shrank their necks, once again remembering the days when they were ruled by the Raiden Queen.
Some fence-sitters who had been observing Raiden Mei's attitude instantly knelt. No matter what had happened to Raiden Ryoma, Raiden Mei was still the Raiden Queen who had dominated Senba Academy for so long.
In fact, after killing off her weak past self, she was even more terrifying than the version of herself who used to joke around with friends.
As for what had happened yesterday? One could only say that behind Kiana there must have been Shun's guidance.
If Shun were a transmigrator at the start of Senba Academy, he would probably be standing up for Raiden Mei right now and frantically raising favorability. After all, Mei at this period was the easiest to capture.
He could become the ray of light in the gloomy-hearted Raiden Mei's heart, date her, make her blush shyly, and harvest a Herrscher-level wife. But since he was not, he had to leave it to Kiana to do.
Shun had first told Kiana about what happened to Raiden Mei before she went to school yesterday, then explained the possible encounters he guessed Mei might face.
Kiana nodded and charged straight ahead. After all, she had come all the way from Siberia to Japan. How could the experiences of those noble young ladies at Senba Academy compare to hers?
She had long seen the darkness of human hearts. Therefore, she had already guessed the impact Raiden Ryoma's imprisonment would have on Raiden Mei.
So Shun only needed to give Kiana a little hint, and she immediately knew what to do…
First she went to the classroom to look for Raiden Mei and found that the other party had not attended class today. Then she saw the filthy words written on her desk.
After kicking the teacher's lectern in the front of the classroom in half to intimidate all the students in Raiden Mei's class, Kiana made them find the person who had written the filthy words on Raiden Mei's desk themselves and ordered them to clean it up.
After doing all that, Kiana still felt it wasn't enough, so during a long break she broke into the broadcast room, used the speakers to call all the students to the sports field, dragged the principal's brand-new car (which had just been mentioned yesterday) onto the field, kicked it in half with one foot, and then left.
From then on, no one at Senba Academy dared to gossip about Raiden Mei behind her back. Kiana had become an untouchable slide that no one dared to touch.
As for why Kiana was so bold? Naturally, it came from the sentence Shun had instructed her with before she left the house.
"Feel free to go all out. I've got your back anyway. Even if you assassinate Japan Prime Minister, I can suppress it for you."
Shun said with full confidence. Leaving aside Anti-Entropy, which wasn't even qualified to sit at the table, Schicksal would definitely protect Kiana to the death.
In this world, the status of Japan branch was no different from the U.S. military stationed in Japan in the real world perhaps even higher.
With Theresa around, protecting Kiana was just a matter of one sentence. Even if Kiana wanted to become Empress, she could arrange it.
It was precisely Kiana's unconditional trust in Shun that created the grand spectacle of one girl declaring war on the entire Senba Academy.
She was clearly telling everyone: "Raiden Mei is under my protection. Got it?"
Therefore, the Raiden Mei of this world would basically no longer feel any pressure from Senba Academy, because Kiana had already settled everything for her.
So that was how it was… After learning the full story from her former friends, Raiden Mei couldn't help but feel a warmth in her heart.
"This Kiana of yours… really delights me…"