"Huh? Why?"
Tang Han was completely baffled by the driver's demand.
All he wanted to do was get on the shuttle bus, so why did he have to take off the hood that concealed his face?
"I need to make sure you really are a trainer. Horse girls are not allowed on this bus," the elderly driver said sternly.
"We've had cases before where a horse girl disguised herself, sneaked onto the bus, and caused total chaos at the secret dormitory. So I have to see your face, and I have to see whether you've got horse ears on your head. Otherwise, there's no way I'm letting you on!"
"Take it off. Now."
Tang Han: "..."
He glanced back at Tazuna, who was still standing by the school gate.
He had just confirmed that she was a horse girl too, which meant he absolutely could not reveal his true appearance here.
"I do have an ID card that proves I'm a trainer," Tang Han said, pulling it out.
But even after the driver examined the ID, he still refused to let Tang Han aboard.
"How do I know this ID wasn't stolen? We've had that happen before too. A horse girl stole a trainer's ID card and used it to sneak onto the bus!"
"Uh..."
No wonder the senior trainers had warned everyone that morning to keep their ID cards safe. If you lost yours, it would not just bring disaster on yourself, but on other trainers too.
Did Tang Han have any other way to prove who he was?
"Miss Tazuna can vouch for me," he said at last.
A soldier raised for a thousand days was used for one moment.
Though Tang Han had known Tazuna for less than a day, they could at least be considered friends now. Asking her to say a few words for him should not be a problem.
Miss Tazuna, I'm counting on you.
"That's right. Trainer Tang Han is indeed a trainer," Tazuna said with a smile.
Thank you, Miss Tazuna.
"Miss Tazuna, huh..." The driver stroked his chin.
Tazuna carried enough authority that, with her guarantee, the driver ought to let Tang Han on now.
"Still no!"
"Eh? Why?"
"Because Miss Tazuna has a record! She once went soft-hearted, agreed to a horse girl's request, and helped one sneak onto the bus!"
"Huh?!"
Tang Han was stunned.
"Miss Tazuna... is that true?"
"Hehe." Tazuna gave him an awkward smile.
Don't "hehe" me!
Tang Han had been thinking that if he ever got surrounded by horse girls in the future, he could rely on Tazuna as a friend to help him. But it turned out she was a double agent who sided with the horse girls!
To hell with this friendship!
"I'm telling you, you must take off that hood today, or I'm not letting you on this bus!" the driver said, making as if to shut the doors.
"Wait!"
Tang Han hurriedly stopped him.
He quickly surveyed the area. The other new trainers had not arrived yet, and there were no other horse girls nearby. Right now, the only people here were Tang Han, the driver, and Tazuna. If he had to reveal his real face, this was the lowest-risk moment possible.
As long as Tazuna did not see it, then the only person who would know what he really looked like was the driver.
If he waited until other people arrived and then had to take it off, his career as a trainer would probably be over on the spot.
"Fine... I'll take it off..."
Tang Han looked at Tazuna, who was still smiling, then thought of his constitution: looks S, scent S, voice S, all of them devastating to horse girls.
"Miss Tazuna, could you close your eyes for a moment?"
"Of course."
"And plug your ears too."
"Certainly."
"And preferably... don't breathe."
"..."
That last request was a little too much, was it not?
"Hey, that's going too far," even the driver said.
Putting on airs and asking someone to close their eyes was one thing, but asking them to cover their ears and stop breathing too?
Did he really think he was that handsome?
Tang Han did not know whether he was handsome or not, but he did know one thing:
He absolutely could not expose himself in front of a horse girl.
"Please, Miss Tazuna." Tang Han bowed slightly.
"Alright."
Obediently, Tazuna closed her eyes, then used both hands to cover the ears hidden beneath her cap.
"I can only hold my breath for thirty seconds, okay~ After that it starts to get uncomfortable."
"Understood."
The moment Tazuna shut her eyes, Tang Han hastily removed his hood and turned to face the driver.
"Mr. Driver, look—I'm human, right?" Tang Han pointed to his own face.
But what he had not expected was that the driver was staring at him in a complete daze.
The man's dead-fish eyes went wide in an instant.
"Holy shit!"
Before Tang Han took off the hood, the driver had already braced himself mentally for one of two possibilities: either Tang Han was going to be absurdly handsome, or absurdly ugly.
But...
The moment he actually saw Tang Han's true face, profanity burst out of him anyway.
Because Tang Han was far too attractive.
It was not even a matter of "handsome" or "not handsome."
The terrifying thing about him was the warmth he radiated.
That was right.
Warmth.
Like the gentle sun in winter, or the kind older boy next door who looked after everyone with boundless care—there was not the slightest trace of coldness or distance in Tang Han. Everything about him invited others closer with a terrifying softness.
Even his voice carried a magnetic pull, so soothing it felt as though your ears might get pregnant just from listening to it.
The driver was an elderly human man, and perfectly normal in his tastes, yet at this moment he actually felt the urge to collapse into Tang Han's warm embrace.
If even a human man reacted like this, then those love-struck little horse girls...
The instant they saw Tang Han, they would probably fling themselves at him and mash him straight into their bodies.
And that scent...
It smelled absurdly like the carrots horse girls loved most.
Was this lunatic trying to get himself killed by coming to work here?!
"Ahem..."
The old driver's face turned red. He coughed awkwardly, then said with unusual shyness, "Sorry, young man. I shouldn't have doubted you."
Tang Han: "?"
Please act normal, old man. You're scaring me.
Tang Han asked internally, "System, I thought my constitution was only S-rank for horse girls. Why is this old driver looking at me like that?"
The system replied, "Your constitution is indeed S-rank for horse girls, but I never said it wasn't A-rank for humans."
"A-rank? That's just one level below horse-mint!"
"Correct."
"Then why didn't you tell me something that important?!"
"This system does not track trash below S-rank."
Tang Han: "..."
Wow.
So anything that was not S-rank counted as trash, did it?
"What do I do, then?"
"For men, as long as you put the hood back on, you will cease attracting them, and no aftereffects will remain."
"And for women?"
"No solution."
Tang Han: "..."
Just as the system said, the moment Tang Han pulled the hood back on, the Doctor's Outfit once again activated its concealment effects, and he returned to being that low-presence chuuni-looking boy.
The flush on the old driver's face gradually faded, and his dead-fish eyes returned.
Holy crap.
That young man is way too dangerously attractive. I almost caught feelings.
The agreed thirty seconds were up, but Tazuna did not open her eyes immediately. First, she lowered her hands from her ears.
"Trainer Tang Han, may I open my eyes now?"
"Yes." Tang Han nodded. "Thank you for being so understanding."
"It's no trouble."
Tazuna opened her eyes and smiled.
"Then I'll be off now."
"See you tomorrow, Trainer Tang Han."
"See you tomorrow."
Tang Han boarded the shuttle bus. After waiting five more minutes and seeing that no one else was coming, the driver started the engine and took Tang Han toward the secret dormitory.
Tazuna watched the bus grow smaller in the distance, a faint blush spreading across her cheeks.
"Trainer Tang Han... the scent on you... smelled far too good..."
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