Ten minutes earlier, Urara had been happily humming to herself as she walked along the road through the teaching-building district, getting ready to head back to the dorms.
Then, all of a sudden, an androgynous voice rang out nearby.
"Urara? Wow! A golden legend!"
Startled by the strange voice, Urara looked left and right, but could not see anyone at all.
"Huh?"
Had someone just called her name?
Just as Urara was wondering whether she had imagined it, the same voice sounded again.
"Urara... Urara..."
The voice drifted around her like a ghost, brushing past her ears. At first it made her a little nervous, but then she quickly grew excited instead.
In little angel Urara's eyes, everything in the world was beautiful—even invisible ghosts. To her, they were just shy friends who liked playing hide-and-seek with her.
Urara liked friends.
So she was not afraid of ghosts at all.
Maybe this ghost was calling her because it wanted to play hide-and-seek with her!
"Ghost friend, I'm coming to find you~"
But no matter how she looked around, she still could not find where the ghost friend was.
Until a hand rose into the air.
"I'm over here."
Lying on the ground, Tang Han waved at Urara to show her where he was.
Only then did Urara realize that there was actually a person sprawled on the ground.
Tang Han's clothes were pitch black and covered every bit of skin, blending completely into the dark ground under the night sky.
And there was almost no smell coming off him either, just the faintest trace of honey—so faint that unless you paid close attention, you would never notice it.
"Ghost friend, are you a ghost?"
Urara curiously poked him and discovered that she could touch him.
"I'm obviously not a ghost," Tang Han said helplessly.
The Doctor's Outfit really was useful and troublesome at the same time.
Useful because it lowered his presence and kept dangerous horse girls from noticing him and coming after him.
Troublesome because that same lowered presence made it very easy for people to mistake him for a ghost when he tried to approach them himself.
"Huh?"
Urara still did not understand. If Tang Han was not a ghost, then why had she not been able to see him just now?
Seeing the confusion written all over her face, Tang Han sighed. Left with no choice, he resorted once again to his favorite strategy of bluffing and nonsense.
"Let me tell you a secret," Tang Han said mysteriously.
"I'm actually a ninja. Just now I used Ninja Art: Invisibility Technique. That's why you couldn't see me."
"Ninja!"
The instant Urara heard that word, the way she looked at Tang Han changed completely.
"So cool!"
Stars practically shone in her eyes. All her earlier confusion transformed into admiration.
Whenever Urara watched ninja cartoons, she always imagined someday meeting a cool ninja, becoming their disciple, learning ninjutsu, and then going out to defeat bad guys and save the world.
She had once even tried apprenticing under Seiun Sky to learn Ninja Art: Transparency Technique, but apparently that technique only made her invisible to friends. To strangers, all it did was make them smile awkwardly at her.
But Tang Han was different. Just now, he really had been invisible. If he had not spoken up on his own, Urara would never have found him.
Granted, Tang Han did not really look like the ninjas she saw on television, but simple-hearted Urara believed him immediately anyway.
After all, if he could use invisibility, then he had to be a ninja.
"Mr. Ninja, are you lying here because you're on some important mission? Are you hiding yourself while waiting for a big bad guy to appear, so you can strike them down with justice?!"
"Uh..."
Tang Han broke out in cold sweat.
He obviously could not tell her that he had been numbed by getting rammed by some unknown horse girl. With Urara's little-angel personality, the moment she found out he was hurt, she would definitely carry him straight to the infirmary. And if a doctor took off his Doctor's Outfit...
"No important mission," Tang Han said. "I'm lying here because... actually... I'm moonbathing."
"Moonbathing?"
"That's right. It's part of my ninja training. I call it Moon Breathing."
"Moon Breathing? That sounds amazing!"
Urara did not understand a word of it, but that did not stop her from thinking it sounded incredibly cool.
"Mr. Ninja, can you teach me ninjutsu too? I want to learn!"
"Of course," Tang Han agreed at once.
"Yay!"
Urara bounced up excitedly.
"But there's something I want to ask a favor with first," Tang Han said, shifting the subject.
"What is it? Urara will definitely do it!"
The moment she heard someone needed her help, Urara confidently patted her chest.
"Do you know Rice Shower?"
Naturally, Tang Han knew perfectly well that Urara and Rice Shower were friends, but in order to hide his identity as much as possible, he pretended not to know.
"Ah, you mean Mi-mi? Of course! We're good friends."
Urara sounded proud.
"Then can you help me give this to Rice Shower? She just went toward the cafeteria."
Tang Han took the Lucky Sachet out of his pocket.
"This is...?"
"A gift I want to give Rice Shower," Tang Han answered.
"A smoke bomb?!"
"No... it's just a sachet."
"Huh?"
Urara looked puzzled. Shouldn't a ninja's gift be some kind of ninja tool?
But in the next moment, all that remained in her heart was happiness.
Because someone was giving Mi-mi a gift.
Rice Shower was a very strong horse girl, but she was always so lacking in confidence. She believed her very existence brought misfortune to others, and because of that, she was deeply self-conscious.
On top of that, Rice Shower had not debuted yet, and she did not have a trainer. Aside from her friends, there was naturally no one paying special attention to her, encouraging her, or giving her confidence. Even though little angel Urara played with Rice Shower every day, it still was not enough to change Rice Shower's deeply ingrained insecurity, and that always troubled Urara.
But now, this super amazing Mr. Ninja was asking her to bring Mi-mi a gift.
That meant someone else in the world was paying attention to Rice Shower too.
If Mi-mi learned that there were other people out there who noticed her, then maybe the frozen part of her heart would melt just a little.
"Thank you, Mr. Ninja."
Urara was genuinely happy for Rice Shower, as though she herself had received the gift.
But then, amid all that happiness, she suddenly realized one thing.
"Why don't you give it to Mi-mi yourself, Mr. Ninja? She'd be even happier that way."
"Because... because... right now... I have to moonbathe, so it's not very convenient. That's why I'm asking you to deliver the gift for me."
Tang Han made up another excuse on the spot.
"Oh! I get it now!"
Urara immediately understood.
She had been so happy that she had forgotten Mr. Ninja was in the middle of his training.
"Then leave it to me! Mission accepted!"
Urara gave him an adorably serious salute.
"Oh, right! I still don't know your name, Mr. Ninja."
She looked at Tang Han expectantly.
"Me?"
Tang Han pointed at himself.
He had already used the fake names Hokuto Seiji and Minami Yuko, so originally he had been planning to fob Urara off with "Ace."
But then he thought about it again. He intended to recruit Urara as his assigned horse girl later. If he lied about his name now, how was he supposed to explain that later when he came to poach her?
So for once, Tang Han did something unprecedented:
He told someone his real name.
"My name is Tang Han. I'm a new trainee trainer."
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