After thoroughly kneading Mejiro McQueen and Tokai Teio's fluffy ears—and finishing lunch in the cafeteria—Eternal Meteor carried her exam paper straight to the Student Council office.
She felt no nervousness at all…
…Okay, fine. Maybe a little.
After all, she had "adapted" (read: improvised) the stories of Rudolf and Maruzensky's races. But come on—those "Domain" animations in the game really did look like that. Her version wasn't random nonsense; it was research-based, thank you very much.
At the Student Council room door, she knocked and stepped inside.
The moment she entered, she saw Symboli Rudolf working at her desk, and Air Groove standing nearby, organizing documents.
Neither of them seemed to notice her.
Then Rudolf suddenly spoke—still writing, without looking up:
"Air Groove, did you know the cafeteria originally planned to make ginger stir-fried pork yesterday?"
Air Groove blinked.
Wasn't yesterday's dinner onion stir-fried pork?
She'd worked late and only managed to eat the cold packed meal—oil congealed, texture awful. That dinner had left a deep impression.
A bad premonition flickered somewhere in the back of her mind… but she couldn't see what was wrong with the question, so she answered cautiously:
"I didn't. Why, President?"
Rudolf gave a soft, satisfied little chuckle.
Air Groove's internal alarm sirens instantly started screaming.
She had stepped on a trap. Rudolf had been waiting for that answer.
"Well," Rudolf continued smoothly, "we didn't have enough ginger, so we could only make onion stir-fried pork. When there's no ginger left… there's nothing we can do. Heh heh heh."
…It was a cold pun.
Air Groove felt like she'd swallowed an entire scoop of ice cream in one gulp—first a splitting headache, then a bone-deep chill spreading from the inside out. She actually shivered.
She stiffly pretended she needed something else, walked to the cabinet, braced herself against it, and started taking deep breaths like her soul had temporarily left her body.
Eternal Meteor saw this and immediately got inspired.
While Rudolf still hadn't looked up, Meteor quietly slipped behind Air Groove and—using a voice only Air Groove could hear—whispered comfortingly:
"President's jokes are absolutely not funny, right? And they're so cold."
Air Groove nodded rapidly on reflex.
Then she turned and saw Eternal Meteor smiling at her—warm, understanding, almost angelic.
Air Groove's heart felt strangely soothed.
At last… someone who understood.
Eternal Meteor's smile practically glowed in her eyes, like an angel descending from heaven—
And then the angel's disguise peeled off.
That gentle smile twisted into the grin of a conspirator whose scheme had succeeded.
"Then go stand in the corner."
"…?"
"Because the corner is ninety degrees."
Gotcha. The "angel" was a fallen angel in disguise.
Air Groove's vision went dark. Her hand nearly slipped from the cabinet as if she were about to collapse on the spot.
No. Absolutely not. This room was no longer safe.
If she didn't leave now, she was genuinely going to end up in the hospital.
Staring at those two demonic figures, Air Groove's tail drooped straight down as she fled the Student Council office at top speed—documents, work, responsibilities, all forgotten. She only wanted distance.
Eternal Meteor laughed in her head, delighted:
"Hahahaha… satisfied, satisfied! I've always wanted to see Air Groove make that face!"
"You absolute pleasure gremlin," someone commented (in her mind).
Meteor rubbed her face with both hands to calm herself down, then finally walked toward Rudolf.
Rudolf had just noticed Air Groove was gone and looked up with confusion—only to see Meteor approaching from the side.
"Hm? Meteor, why are you here?"
"Uh… well… I need to trouble you to sign something."
Meteor pulled out her test paper and placed it on Rudolf's desk.
"This is…?"
"My history exam. The teacher said I need a parent/guardian's signature. She checked my file and your name was listed. Next time could you tell me first~? It kind of feels like you're taking advantage of me."
Rudolf's hand paused mid-motion while unfolding the paper.
She had forgotten to inform the teacher about that detail. And even if Meteor wasn't visibly upset, Rudolf knew full well that being dragged into that topic couldn't have felt good.
"At the time, it was a required field for enrollment," Rudolf explained.
At the same time, she began thinking about scheduling a talk with Meteor's homeroom teacher. Her hands didn't stop moving.
When the paper was fully opened—
Rudolf stared at the wall of checkmarks and felt her brain briefly stop.
Not a single multiple-choice question correct?
…Seriously?
Even picking one option for everything would've scored higher than this.
But even while her brain screamed internally, Rudolf didn't get angry.
Thinking of Meteor's past, she couldn't. It only made her heart heavier.
Then she flipped the page.
And saw the one question Meteor had gotten right.
Rudolf's previously calm inner waters rippled—as if a stone had been tossed in.
She lifted her gaze from the paper and looked at Meteor, who was scratching her head and smiling awkwardly.
Rudolf's eyes held emotions that were hard to name—too many to untangle.
Then she lowered her eyes again and kept reading.
And when she reached Meteor's answers for the essay section—
It was like the same stone had been thrown again.
Except this time, it wasn't a stone.
It was a block of C4, neatly wired, sinking quietly to the bottom—
And then detonating into a towering, violent wave.
If this were any other horse girl, Rudolf might've simply laughed and moved on.
But these answers had come from Eternal Meteor—a girl who had already displayed unmistakable Domain talent.
That meant one thing:
Rudolf had to verify this properly.
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