The Villain Is Too Popular

At 1:30 PM, a special, dolphin-shaped 'fish car' smoothly traversed the elevated road leading to Triland Middle School in the Nearshore District.

To conceal their identities, Tendo and the others were divided into two groups, reporting to Triland Middle School in batches as exchange students.

Undoubtedly, Tendo and Caroline were grouped together, and Chenkong and Chenxing were grouped together. Chenkong and Chenxing, the siblings, had already reported to Triland Middle School earlier in the morning.

"Tendo, remember to rein in your temper once we get to school, okay?"

Inside the dolphin fish car, Caroline looked at Tendo, who was sitting next to her, and reiterated her instructions tirelessly. Tendo, half-reclining in his seat, replied lazily, "Got it, Caroline. You've told me this at least ten times since yesterday. Stop repeating yourself."

"Just rest assured, I absolutely won't mess things up."

Though Tendo said so, Caroline knew that he was probably just letting it go in one ear and out the other, not taking it to heart at all.

After all, from her understanding of Tendo, he was good at everything except his somewhat unreliable personality. Making him behave was harder than making him abstain from desserts.

If they were still at the Ember Base, it would be fine. After all, that was their territory, and it wouldn't matter much if Tendo was arrogant.

But now, they were not only completing a protection mission assigned by the organization, but they were also in a brand new, completely unfamiliar metropolis in the New Federation.

If Tendo's behavior remained as high-profile as it was within the organization, he might attract the attention of the Star Emissary Association's Deep Blue Metropolis branch, leading to an unexpected intervention by their Star Emissaries.

At that time, the originally ordinary protection mission would not only increase variables but also bring huge trouble to them, the Children of the Stars.

After all, Ember was officially recognized by the Star Emissary Association in the New Federation as an 'evil organization,' to be eliminated on sight.

However, Tendo, who was familiar with the original plot, knew that no matter whether he was high-profile or low-key, those troublesome individuals in Deep Blue Metropolis would eventually come knocking.

After all, Dorian, as the richest man in Deep Blue Metropolis, was willing to privately cooperate with Ember, an 'evil organization' reviled by everyone in the New Federation.

This could only mean that the troubles he faced and the pressure he endured far exceeded what ordinary people could imagine.

And the people or forces capable of bringing him such trouble in the entire Deep Blue Metropolis were only two: one was the official force represented by the New Federation, the Deep Blue Guard, and the other was the Star Emissary Association's Deep Blue Metropolis branch.

Tendo, having read the original work, knew that the fundamental reason why Dorian was currently facing such great trouble was his desire to meddle with the mining rights of the 'Tears of Deep Blue,' which were highly valued by the Star Emissary Association and monopolized by the Frostwind Family, one of the four great families.

 To make Dorian abandon this presumptuous idea, the Frostwind Family secretly incited a group of major shareholders in the Skysea Group and promised them some very tempting conditions in exchange for their pressure on Dorian.

Fortunately, Dorian himself wasn't without backing; he also had support from within the 'Frostwind Family.' Yes, Dorian wasn't an idiot, and naturally understood what he could and couldn't touch.

His public declaration of wanting to contend for part of the 'Tears of Deep Sea' mining rights in the 'Deep Sea Zone' naturally implied he had sufficient confidence to obtain these rights.

And this confidence came from some high-ranking members of the Frostwind Family behind him. Therefore, the fuse of the Deep Blue Metropolis plot seemed to be a dispute between Dorian, the richest man, and major shareholders within his group. 

Rather, it was an internal struggle within the Frostwind Family as two factions vied for greater benefits...

"Miss Caroline, Young Master Tendo, we've arrived."

As the dolphin fish car pulled up to the school gate, Tendo and Caroline successively stepped out of the vehicle.

Looking at the special building that resembled a giant undersea shell, Tendo exaggeratedly said, "Caroline, do you think there's a chance we can find valuable large pearls inside such a big shell?"

Caroline rolled her eyes at Tendo. "What big shell? That's Triland Middle School's academic building; it just looks like a shell from the outside."

"Really?"

"Why would I lie to you? Didn't you read the Deep Blue Metropolis city handbook? It has an introduction to Triland Middle School."

"Oh? You mean that boring handbook? I threw it away long ago, nothing worth seeing."

"Besides, compared to some handbook... I'd rather trust my own eyes."

Hearing Tendo's words, Caroline couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, then walked directly towards the campus gate without looking back, clearly too lazy to say more. Arguing with Tendo? She had proven time and again through harsh lessons that Tendo... was inherently unreasonable.

Looking at Caroline's retreating back, a strange arc of light flickered in Tendo's azure eyes beneath his sunglasses.

'Just an academic building resembling a shell? I doubt it...'

As Tendo briefly took off his sunglasses, the originally magnificent academic building instantly transformed in his eyes.

In his vision, this giant shell-shaped building suddenly 'came alive.' Countless light blue, blood-like star energy flowed evenly to every part of the entire academic building along numerous star energy veins resembling blood vessels.

Although Tendo really wanted to see where the source of this star energy was, due to some special star energy techniques protecting it, and other reasons, Tendo couldn't actually find the huge star energy source hidden within the academic building.

Not to mention, his main purpose for being here wasn't to find something like that.

Looking at the clearly extraordinary shell building before him, Tendo put his sunglasses back on. "This place is unfamiliar. Instead of blindly running around by myself, I might as well let Kong, who arrived earlier, show me around and get familiar with the environment."

"But before that, I should find the cafeteria here first. After all, I'm genuinely a bit hungry."

With that, after entering the campus, Tendo walked directly towards a direction away from the academic building.

As for why he didn't go to the faculty office to report to the teachers first? Are you kidding? Reporting somewhere is not as important as adding drama!

Tendo remembered very clearly that Chenkong, the protagonist of the Stars series, was currently having a rather rough time in his campus life.

As an outsider, he had neither shown extraordinary merits nor revealed a profound background.

This led the bad guys of Triland Middle School, who prided themselves as 'noble nearshore residents,' to immediately treat Chenkong as an 'outsider begging for scraps' in the Nearshore District.

Though somewhat amusing, Chenkong had indeed, in less than half a day, successfully been 'regionally discriminated against' by his classmates.

To be honest, even if Tendo had known this result beforehand, he still found it incredibly bizarre. You're the protagonist of an entire series. It's one thing to be discriminated against and bullied in a place full of monsters like Ember.

But how can you still be discriminated against and bullied when you're out here, facing a bunch of ordinary brats who don't even have Star Sources? Where's your Star Core? Where's your Star Source? Where are the combat techniques you learned from the organization? Just because Sister Yun said everyone should try to keep a low profile for the next few days, you actually kept such a low profile that you didn't even dare to fight back when bullied by ordinary people, right?

So rigid!

Under the afternoon sun, Tendo, dressed in a blue and white Triland school uniform and wearing high-profile black sunglasses, walked directly towards Triland Middle School's cafeteria.

Low-key? Sorry, I, Tendo Simei, can do everything, except be low-key! This drama... I'm adding it for sure!