A Guide to Adopting a Bottom-Of-the-Class Student

Coming soon: Starbound Slacker Ji Maili, the school bully at Donglin No. 1 High, has a terrible temper and can't fight to save his life. If someone crosses him, he throws a punch, and then loses. Throughout the first semester of his freshman year, Ji Maili kept picking fights with student council member Shen Lu. The two had been secretly competing for a year, but strangely, hot-tempered Ji Maili never once laid a hand on Shen Lu. The bookish prodigy always managed to walk away unscathed after provoking the school bully. During the summer break after freshman year, Ji Maili's father was arrested. Ji Maili gave up on himself, skipping class and getting into fights more brazenly than ever. Looking at Ji Maili's face, bruised like a landscape painting, Shen Lu finally couldn't hold back and called out, "Maili." Ji Maili's eyes reddened. "...Go to hell with that, Maili. Are we even close?" Close? How could they not be? They'd been peeing on each other's shoes since kindergarten. Who would dare say they weren't close? - Ji Maili and Shen Lu had been each other's only and closest friend since kindergarten. Nearly every fight Ji Maili had ever gotten into was for Shen Lu. In their second year of junior high, they had a fight, and Shen Lu left without a word. When they met again, Shen Lu was Donglin No. 1 High's outstanding new-student representative, while Ji Maili had barely scraped in with bottom-of-the-class grades. Ji Maili went to find Shen Lu, full of excitement, intending to ask where he'd been for the past two years. But the jerk's first words were, "What class are you in? You're wandering around during class time. I'll deduct points from your class." Ji Maili exploded. "..." Deduct your own damn points! Coming soon: Starbound Slacker Shen Tu was the strongest Guide in the entire galaxy, undefeated for ten years. But during a migration, disaster struck, and he starved to death in a black hole. When he woke again, he had become Shen Man, a blind man with no mental powers living on a junk planet. He survived by scavenging space junk with his disabled grandfather. After ten years of hard work, Shen Tu didn't want to fight anymore. Picking through trash on this junk planet seemed pretty good to him. But nobody had told him that you could find living people in a space junkyard! Feeling the star insignia on the other man's cuff, Shen Man demanded an outrageous price. "Your mental power is severely damaged. Five thousand star coins, and I'll help stabilize your spirit form." Gu Fengyou, nearly suffocated by the stench of garbage, said, "Are you robbing me?" Shen Man: "Yep. Don't want to? Fine." Gu Fengyou, who had never been spoken to in that tone before, said, "Do you know who I am?" Shen Man: "Could you be the legendary... Garbage Prince?" Gu Fengyou: "..." Gu Fengyou gave Shen Man ten thousand star coins when he left. Shen Man had planned to use the money to eat and drink to his heart's content, but before it had even warmed in his hands, the old man at home used it to buy a ticket to the capital planet and sent him off to a space academy. Going to school was fine, he supposed... But the annoying thing was that the place was full of familiar faces. The stern, dark-faced drill instructor was a soldier from his old unit whom he'd once scolded until he cried. The ruthless female commander was a comrade who'd faced life and death alongside him. The counselor sent by headquarters was a longtime rival who'd crossed swords with him for years. Even the principal had once addressed him respectfully as "Colonel Shen" in a conference room on a space station. The wheel of fortune turns. Now he had fallen into their hands. - When people from headquarters came to test the students' secondary traits, everyone gathered below. Only one person sat on the observation platform, watching the excitement. Realizing that he was actually "watching" it, Gu Fengyou's eyes narrowed... Wasn't he blind? Gu Fengyou raised a hand and pointed at the observation platform. "Why isn't he coming down?" Principal: "You mean Shen Man? He doesn't need to be tested. He has no mental powers." Gu Fengyou: "?" No mental powers? If he had no mental powers, then who had helped his silver wolf become so irritable and crazed? Wait... Where was his dead wolf?! On the observation platform, the mighty silver wolf spirit form, usually imposing wherever it went, was now lying on its back at Shen Man's feet, begging to be petted. Shen Man: ...Oh no, another familiar face! Theme: Study hard and strive to improve every day