"..."
The black cat swished its tail, somewhat impressed by his receptiveness.
Suddenly, like magic, three ethereal golden orbs popped up in front of Yan Huan's eyes, and from them, text started to flow.
[Ability: Perfect Expression Management — Expressions should be the windows to emotions, but now they are your ever-changing masks.]
[Skill: empty-handed blade catching — You can't catch more than one knife, unless you have four hands!]
[Skills: 100% Successful Backflip — Hey, wanna come to my place and watch me do a backflip?]
Yan Huan, face lined with consternation, grabbed the fat cheeks of the black cat before him and demanded,
"What kind of stuff are you giving me? How are these things relevant to solving the issue with the modifier?!"
The cat meowed innocently, causing a buzzing in Yan Huan's mind,
"It's not up to me! I told you it's random, random!"
"You wait, if someday they finish me off, I'll finish you off too!"
Just as Yan Huan was venting his frustrations by pinching the black cat's cheeks, the door of the empty classroom suddenly rang with knocks,
"Knock, knock, knock."
Yan Huan stiffened, turning along with the black cat to look towards the classroom door.
The door knob turned, and the door was slowly pushed open, revealing a male student outside wearing a Gray Far Moon Uniform, adorned with Black-rimmed Glasses.
Seeing that it was a male, both Yan Huan and the black cat breathed a sigh of relief, and coincidentally, Yan Huan recognized the student outside.
It was their student council's treasurer and tech support, Yahashiki.
He had thick hair, slightly longer bangs, his face a tad pale, and beneath his slightly reflective glasses, his eyes carried a hint of anxiety,
"President, why aren't you responding to messages? You've been tagged multiple times in the group chat, and you're not answering your phone, what are you doing here all by yourself? If it weren't for your classmate telling me you went upstairs... hey, a cat? Where did it come from?"
As Yahashiki spoke, he got distracted by the chubby black cat in front of Yan Huan, who gave it a glare before selecting a seemingly useful option from the three ethereal orbs,
[Ability: Perfect Expression Management]
Instantly, his facial muscles seemed to have connected his energy channels, becoming incredibly flexible.
It felt as though the button to control expressions suddenly jumped from 61 keys to 107, not only that, the perfect control over every corner of his face felt extremely novel to Yan Huan.
Yan Huan's facial muscles shuddered from top to bottom, ultimately settling into an apologetic smile, he casually lifted the black cat, asking,
"A stray cat, just picked it up, cute, isn't it?"
"Meow~"
"It's really cute, did you name it? Though, is it really a stray, being so chubby?"
"Meow!"
"I'm thinking of naming him Miao."
"Meow?"
"Miao it is, great name... wait, no! President, now's not the time for this! Quickly check your phone! Yuanlina is about to freak out!"
Hearing this, Yan Huan held the black cat close and pulled out the smartphone from his bag that was set to airplane mode due to an exam.
The moment he connected to the school's network, a series of notification dings exploded one after another.
Here, a social media app called "plane" is commonly used, featuring online payments, a timeline similar to Moments, and even browsing cheesy short videos, so Yan Huan always treated it like a Different World version of WeChat.
"Ding ding ding~"
"Yuanyue Student Council Total Management Group (5)"
Secretary Yuanlina: "Have you guys seen the President? It's urgent!"
Treasurer Yahashiki: "Nah, none of us were in the same exam center with the President, right? But he just finished his exams, should still be around school..."
Secretary Yuanlina: "That's exactly why I'm so anxious to find him! Quick, help me contact the President, the principal is looking for him!"
Vice President Sakuragi Hitomi: "President is not in the student council office."
Treasurer Yahashiki: "Ah, can't get through his phone... he might be busy having a rendezvous with some girl, totally no time to check his phone."
Vice President Sakuragi Hitomi: "Yahashiki, please refrain from making casual jokes about someone's private life."
Treasurer Yahashiki: "Sorry, I was wrong, Vice President."
Vice President Sakuragi is still so serious and uptight…
The chat was too long and had several mentions from other major student council groups by Yuanlina, Yan Huan simply put down the phone, addressing Yahashiki directly,
"It's too much to read... the principal s looking for me, what's the matter?"
Yahashiki took a deep breath and said to Yan Huan,
"Well, the principal said it's your mom who came to the school looking for you, she asked you to hurry over!"
Mom?
Yan Huan's action of holding the cat paused slightly, turning completely still like a statue.
It was somewhat understandable for a parent to come to school looking for a child, but the problem is...
In this life, his parents died in a plane crash not long after he transmigrated here, growing up in an orphanage!
Out of nowhere, where did this 'mom' come from?!