She’s Just a Little Weak

After finishing off a horde of zombies, Tan Shuang takes a sip of the liquor her subordinate has just brewed. When she wakes again, she has become a seven-year-old child on Planet 7989.

The child has been beaten until she's on the verge of death, hiding alone behind a dumpster.

Perhaps because she was beaten so much as a child, Tan Shuang has never been very healthy.

She's so weak that a gust of wind could blow her away.

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Tan Shuang does her best to survive on this godforsaken planet. At sixteen, she even applies to three military academies, only to be rejected outright.

Then, at eighteen, an accident leads her to take a test for psychic manifestations.

Everyone knows the odds of a genius with an awakened psychic manifestation emerging from an obscure planet are lower than those of the Zerg invading the Federation right now.

But Planet 7989 doesn't just produce one. It produces four.

Not four people: one person awakens four different manifestations.

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Tan Shuang studies the school buildings while bracing against the gale blowing straight at her.

The teacher's brochure didn't say anything about this!

This wind is crazy!

Another gust blows, and Tan Shuang finally can't stop coughing.

The military academy students nearby naturally turn their conversation to her.

“Is she studying materials science? She's so frail.”

“Don't insult us materials science students...”

“I reckon I could punch a hundred people like that into next week.”

“We may be in decline now, but our ancestors used to be rich...”

Tan Shuang, the transfer student dropped straight into the third year, finally catches her breath. “...”

That's a bit much.

She's just a little weak, that's all…

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Then the inter-academy tournament reaches its halfway point.

[Heh, without Tan Shuang, there's no way Federation First could win. Dream on!]

[You shameless cowards! What kind of teacher goes all the way to an obscure planet to recruit someone? If you hadn't snatched her away, Tan Shuang would definitely be at our school!]

[I bet her being dropped into the third year was all a cover. Federation First has been secretly training Tan Shuang on that obscure planet all along, just for this year's tournament... Even a perennial last-place school can only take so much.]

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All kinds of accusations are aimed at the Federation's First Military Academy.

Tan Shuang: “???”

Tan Shuang: [Thanks to Federation First for taking me in. I love Federation First. [Image.jpg][Image.jpg][Image.jpg]]

The images are her applications, rejected one after another by three military academies.

The teachers from the other three schools, who had already investigated Tan Shuang's background: “...” There's no stopping it, absolutely no stopping it.

The teachers at Federation First: “...” Why can't we bring ourselves to be happy?

Especially when they see the Tan Shuang version of the “recruitment video.”

In the video, a pale-faced girl stands in the center, giving a thumbs-up. Blood runs from the corner of her mouth, and her dark circles are terrifying.

“Welcome to the Federation's First Military Academy. The wind here is crazy...”

As she speaks, the wind blows her backward. She looks so frail, it's as if she'll die any second.

That is, if you ignore the four faint phantoms in the sky behind her.

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Federation First grudgingly replaces “the wind here is crazy” with a more elegant phrase and adds it to the “recruitment brochure.” At the bottom, they write: Tan Shuang, outstanding graduate and wielder of the Four Great Calamities' manifestations.

Theme: Work hard to become stronger