I Am A Killer

by A Sick Frog

  There were only a few people sitting very spaced out in the classroom. Qin Ke Xuan walked towards the teacher in front, and said: “I’m here to report.”

  Before the teacher of the class could ask for her name, she said again: “I want to withdraw from dorming.” First of all, she was not used to such dormitory lifestyle, and secondly, this would largely obstruct her undercover activities she had to carry out for the organisation.

  The teacher frowned, and pushed her spectacles, and said sternly: “This student, perhaps you don’t understand how the rules work here, it’s a rule that all year one student must dorm, so there’s no such thing as withdrawing.”

  Qin Ke Xuan raised her eyebrows, and pointed at the Yin Xu Dong outside the door, “He didn’t dorm when he was in year one.” What she was very unambiguously hinting at was that why she could not withdraw from dorming.

  The form teacher’s frown deepened, a student should always obey the rules, how could she rebel so arrogantly! She blacklisted this student whose name she still did not know in her head. “This policy is implemented starting from this batch. He’s from the previous batch, hence is not related to this policy, but you, must obey school rules! Do you hear me? You, what’s your name?”

  Qin Ke Xuan pointed out her name on the teacher’s name list in front and left with a fling of her hair.

  Yin Xu Dong followed Qin Ke Xuan, and turned back to glance at the teacher boiling in anger, and said worriedly: “Xuan Xuan, it’s better not to clash head-on with the teachers, careful she’ll make things difficult for you.”

  “So.” She was only here to study, that teacher could not possibly be so irked with her she would stop the lesson right? “Where’s my dorm? Lead the way.” She raised her admission slip in front of Yin Xu Dong, chopping off his non-stop blabbering.

  “Hah? Oh, let me see. It’s at building B, 403. Come this way.” Did she not just render her student-teacher relationship rigid a moment ago? Why did she suddenly want to go to the dormitory? Was his line of thought too slow and could not catch up?

  Yin Xu Dong brought Qin Ke Xuan to her dormitory. There were already five girls inside unpacking their things. They stopped to greet Qin Ke Xuan when they saw her.

  The tallest girl said smilingly: “Hi, you’re Qin Ke Xuan right? I’m Song Ping, please treat me kindly.” The rest of the girls also introduced themselves one by one.

  Qin Ke Xuan swept a vague gaze at them, “Enh”ed and walked to the only empty bed and sat down.

  Yin Xu Dong smiled awkwardly as the ignored girls: “Sorry, our Xuan Xuan don’t like to talk much, please pardon her.” That damned girl, with that kind of crappy temperament, she would definitely be ostracised by her dorm-mates in the future! Gosh, and she provoked her form teacher before school even started, and the proceeded to air her stinky expression to her dorm-mates, did she still want to survive high school?

  Song Ping waved her hand, well-tempered, showing that she did not mind, “It’s okay, it might be because she just started dorming, still not used to the setting, she’ll get used to this slowly in the future.”

  Yin Xu Dong commented in his head, that would be even more impossible, it was very likely that they would slowly gain awareness of how strange and how unpardonable her temperament was.

  “Come here, lay the bed sheet.” Qin Ke Xuan commanded from where she was.

  The shocked 403 girls hence saw Yin Xu Dong carrying the luggage in happily, opening the luggage, finding the cloth to wipe the bed, and started laying the bed sheet and other bed accessories conscientiously, while Qin Ke Xuan sat on the opposite bed, her eyes closed.

  Someone asked curiously: “You guys are siblings?” Why did it feel like it was a slave-and-master relationship instead? It was still a socialistic society now right?

  Yin Xu Dong said cheerfully as he busied himself around: “Yeah, yeah, we don’t look alike right?” He had already automatically titled himself as Qin Ke Xuan’s biological brother.

  “Uh, there is that little bit of similarity.” Actually, they looked nothing alike because they were from different parents, to begin with.

  “Right, a lot of people say we look super alike.”

  “……”

  “I’m also from First High. If there’s any problem or situation regarding Xuan Xuan, you guys can go to year two class 14 and yell for ‘Yin Xu Dong’ to find me.”

  Yin Xu Dong? So they were not from the same pair of parents unless it was the same father but different mother or same mother but different father?

  After Yin Xu Dong had more or less finished tidying the bed, he gently pushed Qin Ke Xuan, “Xuan Xuan, you guys gotta go gather at the military school in the afternoon, so hurry tidy some clothes to bring along. Oh, and, the food there isn’t very good, so I’ve bought you some food for you to bring. Also, this is the sunscreen Auntie Jiang bought for you, remember to apply them properly, careful not get any sunburns.”

  Qin Ke Xuan grabbed her backpack and stuffed two shirts, along with the snacks and the so-called sunscreen in, altogether not taking up more than half a minute. “You’re done here, go back.” After finishing packing, Qin Ke Xuan sent the fully taken-advantaged-of Dong Zi student away.

  The Yin Xu Dong who had been enslaved for a large half of the day left in grievance to look for his gang of unhealthy friends.

  Just as Yin Xu Dong left, the girls in the dorm started discussing reservedly, “Qin Ke Xuan, your brother’s so handsome!”

  “I swear he’s definitely the most handsome boy in this school!”

  “Woah~ if only I had such a handsome brother! I’m so jealous of you, Qin Ke Xuan!”

  “Nonsense! What the heck’s the use of a handsome brother, if it’s me, if I had such a handsome boyfriend, I think I’ll melt in happiness?!”

  “……”

  Qin Ke Xuan was annoyed. Why was this world filled with noisy people? Why was it that everywhere she went, she would meet this kind of people? What was worse that, now, not one, but five popped up at one go, and she had to live with that for a year.

  In the afternoon when it was time to gather, her dorm-mates all from class 2 went together to their class. Qin Ke Xuan grabbed her bag and arrived at the packed field, and saw the “Year One Class 15” flag with at a glance. She squeezed through the crowd and saw the bunch of people under the flag. She could only use the word peculiar to describe them.

  Compared to the other fourteen classes, their hair was an assortment of rainbow colours, their attire in a complete mess, and stood or squatted down around messily. In the entire field, her class seemed to protrude sharply. On top of that, the gazes of others towards them were all of disdain.

  As to entering such a strange class, Qin Ke Xuan was very… satisfied. This way, her actions would not appear overly abrupt or odd enough to attract attention.

  A guy upon seeing Qin Ke Xuan walking over to join the troop of them whistled exaggeratedly, “Woah! A beauty!” The guys squatting together chatting away senselessly also raised their heads, and immediately started buzzing away noisily, “So Ah Hui that’s your cup of tea huh!”

  The guy called Ah Hui was unhappy, and shouted loudly: “What wrong with this cup of tea? Delicately petite and exquisite’s adorable!”

  Qin Ke Xuan’s height did increase a little, but she still had not hit 160, hence was still stuck in this Lolita physique, no matter how mature she was inside……

  The several girls at the side upon hearing the guys observed Qin Ke Xuan for a while, and turned, saying to Ah Hui in disdain: “Don’t you think your perception of beautiful is a little too twisted? The girls in our class are a lot prettier than her!”

  Ah Hui, having been suspected of his beauty perception, got angry, and asked the girl in a strange voice: “The other girls you mean are referring to? Unless you’re talking about yourself? Geh, you sure know how to stick gold* on your own face! You think sticking gold can fill your bumpy skin for you?”

  (T/N: “给自己脸上贴金” = “stick gold on
your own face”; to exaggerate/blow up your own value/worth)

  That girl’s face flushed red, from embarrassment and from anger, and pointed at Ah Hui scolding him sharply: “Who the hell do you think you are?! You dare insult me?!”

  Several guys around them stood up, and one of them standing by Ah Hui’s side stretched his hand to push hers, “This classmate, we’re not sure who Hui Shao is either, so if you want to survive this class, shut up and stay on the side yeah? Your voice sure is piercing, it’s making me annoyed, and when I’m annoyed, I’ll feel like beating up people, you hear?”

  The girl was angry, but she also knew the majority of the people in this class had some pretty influential backgrounds that were not to be easily trifled with, hence harrumphed and dragged the person beside her to stand on the other side.

  Chapter 21 - The Start of Military Training

  Ah Hui and the bunch of them went to stand by Qin Ke Xuan’s side. The guys jostled around, and Ah Hui walked to towards Qin Ke Xuan confidently, stopping in front of her, “Classmate, I’m Luo Sheng Hui, what’s your name?”

  Qin Ke Xuan sent a sideway glance at the guys laughing even more loudly on the side, and stared at Luo Sheng Hui, saying: “If I tell you, you guys need to stay further away from me.” They were seriously too noisy.

  The guys, upon hearing that, burst into laughter. Luo Sheng Hui glared at them fiercely, and nodded, “Okay!”

  “Qin Ke Xuan.”

  Luo Sheng Hui did as he had said, and immediately brought his gang of people to the back of the line.

  “Aiyaya, there’s actually a girl that would ignore Hui Shao hmm!”

  “Shut your trap!”

  “But, don’t you think that girl’s too arrogant, Ah Hui you’re still going to chase her?”

  “What are you talking about, when did I say I’m going to chase her?”

  “……”

  The form teacher marked the attendance several times before everyone had arrived, and everyone boarded the big bus. Qin Ke Xuan, because of her smaller height, were the first few who boarded the bus, so the minute she got on, she chose the last seat to close her eyes and rest. She did not open her eyes to look at the noisy bunch of students ever since she boarded the bus till she alighted the bus, and that included the few boys who sat in the last row laughing away.

  When they had reached the military school, they gathered at the field. The principal and the person in charge from the military school spoke about some pointers to take note before the form teacher from each class settled the dormitory arrangement, and followed the instructors in bringing the students back to their dorms.

  There were 12 people in a dorm. Everyone was classmates, and military training had not started on top of that, so the spirit was still pretty high, and they placed their luggage down, greeting each other and chatting.

  Qin Ke Xue looked at them briefly and quietly memorised their appearances and names when they introduced themselves, and then unpacked her luggage without a sound.

  “Oi! What’s your name?!” A girl walked to Qin Ke Xuan, her tone one of arrogance.

  At that moment, Qin Ke Xuan’s phone in her pocket rang, so she looked at the girl who had argued with Luo Sheng Hui at the school gathering point coldly, “You better shut your mouth, careful your tongue will disappear.” And proceeded to ignore the girl’s fierce glaring and angry trembling, walking to the hallways bringing the phone to her ears, “I remember saying I’m not free these few days.”

  “Hehe, An Ye Mei Mei, how can you be so heartless towards the phone call we made especially for you in concern?”

  “Xiao An Ye, when are you coming back?”

  “Oi oi, can the two of you let me talk?”

  Qin Ke Xuan hung up the phone decisively, but the phone rang again, and she picked it up once again, “If you’re gonna sprout more nonsense, I’ll quit the organisation immediately.”

  “……” The other side stayed quiet for a while before asking carefully: “What organisation?”

  Qin Ke Xuan checked the screen, before placing it back to her ear, “What is it?”

  “Xuan Xuan! What organisation are you talking about? Did you join some bad organisation, that’s why your injuries were that bad the other day! Oh god! Xuan Xuan you better hurry quit that organisation thingy, what kind of crap organisation is that! To actually abduct under-aged little girls to do unlawful things, and almost die! Xuan Xuan, listen to me……”

  Qin Ke Xuan once again ended the call and took out the battery as well so these people would not be able to come look for her to nonsense.

  The announcement to gather sounded, and the Qin Ke Xuan who had changed into the military attire long ago leisurely walked towards the gathering point the instructors had announced. She had not appeared unusual when she went to school. She wore a mid-sleeve shirt, anher arm was still exposed, so when she saw the thick and long-sleeved military attire, she immediately wore it before having a peace of mind.

  The announcement sounded for a while before stopping. The other classes had pretty much arranged themselves, but there were only a few people gathered at the spot of year one class 15. Their instructor immediately got mad, and his expression was very……actually, she could not tell because he was too tanned.

  “Freaking hell! Did the bastards eat a bear’s heart and leopard’s gall*?! And still dared to put me in such an awkward spot?! Where did the rest of the guys die off to?!” The instructors first questioned where the guys went. Soldiers did not have too good of a temperament, when they were angry, as long as they did not meet anyone with a higher rank than themselves, they would definitely sprout profanities.

  (T/N: “吃熊心豹胆” = “eat a bear’s heart and leopard’s gall”; gained courage)

  “Report Sergeant, they are still unpacking their luggage.” One of the guys shouted loudly.

  “Why the bloody fuck are they still unpacking their shit! You, call them over to gather!”

  “You! Why’re you the only girl here? Where’s everyone else?!” The instructor asked the only girl at the scene—Qin Ke Xuan.

  “Report Sergeant, they are still doing their make-up.” Qin Ke Xuan replied, copying the format convincingly. When she had walked out of the dorm, the girls inside were indeed putting on the so-called sunscreen, they were probably dressing themselves up.

  “Fucking hell! Are they here for military training or shopping? You, go get them over here to gather.”

  “Report Sergeant, they are here.” Did she look like the type to run errands for people? Those delicate and cute little missuses were not even worth her lifting her shoe for them!

  The sergeant gave her a dubious look and looked at the entrance at the girls’ dormitory. There was no one there. He turned back to said lowly to Qin Ke Xuan: “You go call……”

  At that moment, the flopping sounds of the bunch of the girls running from the dormitory entrance sounded. It turned out their form teacher seeing her own students that still had not appeared when it had been the time to gather had personally gone up angrily to catch these disobedient students, and roared at the girls to hurry go down.

  Very quickly, the guys arrived as well. The tanned-faced sergeant revealed his ghostly white teeth, smiling: “Very good, you guys have got quite some guts, huh, to challenge my authority on the very first day. I’ve got to praise you for that though, so I’ve decided to give you all a large present, are you happy?”

  At such a time, even a fool would know there was nothing good waiting for them, how could they happy themselves up? Everyone stared at the ground quietly, no daring to make any noise.

  “So the silence is your consent? Okay then, I’ll announce your present now! From today onwards, all of you are to run ten rounds around the field after morning gathering!”

  “Hah? No way!” These pampered young masters and mistresses that had lived like a royalty were all not happy. They could not even handle running ten rounds around a basketball court, much less this endlessly large field, and ther
e was military training on top of that, it was going to be dead exhausting!

  The sergeant glared at the bunch of bratty little kids of students, shouting loudly: “If anyone can go and run ten rounds now, you won’t need to run in the future.”

  Just as his words faded, Qin Ke Xuan stepped out of the formation, saying blandly: “I’ll go.”

  Everyone else immediately quietened down. Just looking at her thin and weak little body, it would be a miracle if she could finish one round. As for running ten rounds, that would be impossible.

  The sergeant held the same misgivings, and raised his eyebrow at the only girl who was not late, asking: “Are you sure?”

  “Enh.”

  “Then go.” Soldiers were always very particular about being nimble and straightforward. Upon seeing Qin Ke Xuan’s nod, the sergeant did not say much and agreed. Even if she really was unable to finish the run, he would not say much, after all, she had neither been late nor clashed with him head-on. From a certain point of view, her actions had given him an opportunity to extricate himself. Whichever reason he focused on, he would not make things difficult for him.

  Actually, Qin Ke Xuan had not thought so much about it, she had entirely just wanted to train her body and raise this body’s finesse. Also, even though the field looked large, it was not that big of an area in her eyes.

  And hence, gathered in the field that appeared beyond large, everyone watched the skinny and weak-looking girl run the frighteningly large track round by round. Not only did she not faint, she continued, not even slowing down her speed once, and maintained her medium-speed pace all throughout.

  Qin Ke Xuan did not keep count of how many rounds she ran, until she, once again, ran past where class 15 was situated at did the sergeant stop her. The sergeant stared at the rosy-cheeked Qin Ke Xuan who only had a tinge of sweat on the tip of her nose, and said, at loss: “That’s ten rounds, you can rest. You need not run the ten rounds in the future.” Normally even when they trained, they were all panting and weak after running ten rounds, yet this little girl did not even pant after running?