Chapter 5: You will regret it, I am the Hokage!
I won't go into details about what happened on the way, but in short, Ye Xuan arrived at the classroom door.
For some reason, the classroom, which usually felt very close to the school gate, now seemed extremely far away. This was a feeling he only used to have when leaving school, but now he had it even when going to school.
The world really has changed a lot, Ye Xuan sighed unconsciously, and then prepared to push the door, but the next second.
“Crack!”
A boy with a bandaged right eye suddenly pulled open the door and rushed out. He looked furious, slammed the door shut, and yelled at the closed classroom door:
“Sarutobi, you will regret this!”
“Bang!”
The door vibrated violently, Ye Xuan could even see chalk dust falling from the door frame. He stood rooted to the spot, still holding his breakfast, unsure whether he should go in.
Just then, another boy's angry roar came from inside the door:
“Danzo, I am the Hokage!”
Ye Xuan: “...”
With so many classics in Naruto, why do you have to imitate this one?
If the door breaks one day, it’ll be all your fault.
The sound of desks and chairs colliding came from the classroom, as if someone was imitating a taijutsu duel. Ye Xuan sighed and raised his hand to knock on the door.
“Wait!”
Hurried footsteps came from inside the door.
“Let me make a hand seal! Snake - Ram - Monkey - Boar - Horse - Tiger...”
Ye Xuan pushed open the door expressionlessly, just in time to see a boy wearing a Hokage hat frozen in place, maintaining a hand seal posture. The classroom was a mess.
The desks were arranged to look like the “Hokage's Office,” the blackboard was covered with Konoha Village symbols, and someone had even pasted a few paper bomb tags on the ceiling.
Of course, they were made of paper.
“Um... actually, I was going to open the door after finishing the hand seal.”
“You know, today is Wednesday, and it's our Hokage faction's turn.”
The boy with the Hokage hat awkwardly lowered his hand.
“Of course I know.”
Ye Xuan's mouth twitched slightly. How could he not know, since he was in this class.
Because there were too many anime shows watched by everyone in the class, and everyone liked different anime, after much discussion, different factions were formed. From Monday to Friday, it was the turn of the faction with the most members, and if there was school on the weekend, it would be a free-for-all.
Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Hitori, Hunter, Fairy Tail, Fox Spirit Matchmaker... It can only be said that with the development of technology today, the emergence of short videos truly allows people to watch all the classic plots of a long anime series in just one hour.
The person who invented short videos and short video explanations is truly a genius.
“If the hand seal isn't completed, your body should suffer a backlash, right?”
“So, do you need me to call the medical team for help?”
Ye Xuan looked at him and said earnestly.
“Pfft.”
The classroom immediately erupted in stifled laughter, the Hokage hat boy's face turned beet red, and he stammered:
“N-no need...”
Ye Xuan carried his breakfast and walked towards his seat. As he passed him, he casually straightened the crooked Hokage hat.
“Watch your hat, Third Hokage.”
The classroom burst into laughter. The Hokage hat boy covered his face and crouched down, then quickly organized the others to put the desks and chairs back in place and wipe the Konoha Village symbols off the blackboard.
They were all experienced. When Ye Xuan arrived, it wouldn't be long until class started.
The “Danzo” outside the door had already slipped away by then.
As expected, he was probably from another class; but to actually like “Danzo” was quite niche. If he really awakened, he would probably be good material for “backstabbing” and “taking the blame.”
“Ye Xuan!”
A boy wearing round-rimmed glasses poked his head out from the back row. He didn't wear conspicuous anime character costumes like the others, but he had a red bow tie hanging around his neck, which he wasn't sure if it was a Conan replica.
His name was Li Wen, and he was considered the class's “Walking Encyclopedia.”
He basically knew everything big and small in the class, including but not limited to which two classmates were dating, the teacher's phone number, exam results, holiday schedules, how many people in the whole school had awakened abilities, what abilities they awakened, who obtained dimensional treasures, and which world the treasures came from. You could basically find out all of this from him.
Ye Xuan felt good about him. Although he didn't like his attention-seeking behavior after knowing everyone's grades, he did like him when he announced non-holiday breaks and was confirmed to be correct before the teacher.
Well, that was before his system awakened.
Now, with his system awakened, going to school has become an interesting thing instead.
At this moment, he looked at Ye Xuan with some confusion.
“Why are you wearing ancient clothes today? Didn't you always wear your school uniform before?”
“Are you playing a character?”
“Sort of.”
Ye Xuan placed his breakfast on the table and said casually.
Li Wen's eyes lit up.
“Who are you playing?”
“Don't tell me, it's quite handsome, this fabric texture, this scabbard craftsmanship...”
He pulled out a notebook from somewhere, and while looking at Ye Xuan's attire, he sketched in the notebook.
“Wang Quan Ba Ye.”
“Wangquan...”
Li Wen froze for a moment, then suddenly realized.
“Oh, the one from Fox Spirit Matchmaker, no wonder he looks familiar!”
The attention of the other people in the classroom was also drawn over.
“Ye Xuan is playing the one from the Bamboo Leaf Chapter? Wangquan Fugui's father?”
“Yes, yes, yes, the one with Oriental Huai Zhu...”
Ye Xuan ignored the surrounding chatter and opened his breakfast bag. Li Wen, however, wouldn't let him go, leaning in and asking in a low voice:
“Hey, where did you buy these clothes? They look like good quality, probably not cheap, right?”
“Custom-made.”
Ye Xuan said, taking a bite of his bun.
Li Wen wanted to ask something else, but the class bell suddenly rang. He had no choice but to return to his seat resentfully, but his gaze still occasionally darted towards Ye Xuan, clearly planning to get more information after class.
Ye Xuan looked out the window. The sunlight was just right. This kind of school life was quite good.
“Damn it, almost late!”
As Ye Xuan was sighing, the classroom door was kicked open, and a boy in a purple T-shirt rushed in furiously.
He was carrying two school bags, one of which traced a parabola in the air and landed precisely on a back-row seat. The boy slid into the seat next to Ye Xuan and immediately called out:
“Ye Xuan, give me a bun!”
“Here you go.”
Ye Xuan pushed the plastic bag containing the buns over.
Chen Hao, nicknamed “Hawkeye,” for no other reason than being one of only three people in the class to awaken an ability. His ability allowed him to have vision comparable to an eagle's, clearly seeing scenes hundreds or even thousands of meters away, hence the nickname Hawkeye.
However, this ability was useless in school because his grades did not improve due to the awakening of his ability; it's not that they didn't, but the correct answers had nothing to do with him.
If no temporary ability-sealing device was developed by the time of the college entrance examination, then this ability would be quite useful.
“Damn Hawkeye, why are you running so fast, do you want to die?!”
A boy in a school uniform followed him in, panting, and immediately started scolding Chen Hao. After scolding Chen Hao, Zhang Yu's gaze immediately locked onto the bun in Ye Xuan's hand, and he quickly reached out:
“Where's mine?”
Ye Xuan handed over the other bag:
“The soy milk is at the bottom, don't spill it.”
Zhang Yu took the breakfast and only then noticed Ye Xuan's attire today. He was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up:
“Nice, you look really handsome today!”
Chen Hao, stuffing a bun into his mouth, mumbled indistinctly:
“I just wanted to ask, Ye Xuan, who are you cosplaying today? That sword looks pretty cool...”
“Wang Quan Ba Ye.”
Ye Xuan didn't even know how many times he had said it.
“Who?”
Confusion appeared in Chen Hao's clear eyes.
“He's the noob who went out to level up with his teammates but only two survived because their levels weren't high enough.”
Zhang Yu explained to Chen Hao while eating his bun.
“Oh, oh.”
Chen Hao nodded, then looked at Ye Xuan's expression with some confusion, seemingly wondering why Ye Xuan would cosplay a noob.
“...”
He couldn't even refute that.