Chapter 5: No More Ordinary People
After walking for a while, I finally calmed down.
I can’t confirm yet if these things that look like nicknames and titles from a game are real. So far, I’ve only seen these bizarre texts above Xinran and Keling.
More examples are needed to prove their correctness! Yes, don’t jump to conclusions yet!
Walking on the school road, I began to observe the crowd seriously.
As expected, everyone has words above their heads.
Moreover, these words are all facing me. No matter if the person has their back to me or is facing away, the words are definitely facing me, as if to make it easy for me to read.
It doesn’t seem like an illusion or hallucination. It’s possible that something is wrong with my brain, or I might have awakened some ability. In any case, without exception, everyone has text above their heads.
But this is limited to humans.
For example, this cat passing by me, or the sparrow perched on the tree, I don’t see any words above their heads.
Between these two lines of text, one should be a name, and the other, based on initial judgment, should be something like a title…
For example, for this male student in front of me wearing a uniform from another school, the two lines of text above his head are “Mental Patient” and “Liu Yibing”.
…Hey, hey, hey? He looks like a normal person, but I didn’t expect him to be mentally ill?!
Hey, hey, hey, where are the doctors! What are they doing! A mental patient is running around on the street!
Cough, calm down. If I can see these strange texts, I must also have some mental issues, so I have no right to talk about others.
The important thing now is not other people’s problems, but what I am seeing… Liu Yibing should be that person’s name, while “Mental Patient”… represents his ‘identity’?
Thinking of this, I had new doubts.
A person has many identities, and a single title should not be able to express all of a person’s identities. So, what is this title chosen based on?
For example, that male student just now, he doesn’t know me, and I don’t know him. If judged from my perspective, his title should also be “Stranger” or “High School Student”. But his title is “Mental Patient”…
This is too far off, isn’t it?
Next, I observed a few more people. Their titles above their heads include hobbies like “Wrestling Enthusiast” and “Lolicon,” specialties like “Climbing Expert” and “Fishing Master,” and also normal identity titles like “Male High School Student” and “High School Math Teacher” which I was expecting.
In other words, this title should represent the part of that person that they are most passionate about, most essential, and most important.
But… as soon as I recall Xinran and Keling’s titles, I start to get confused again.
Xinran is “Indifferent Brother Complex Sister (Fake),” and Keling is “Black-Bellied Brother Complex Sister (True)”…
Putting aside what “True” and “Fake” refer to, but sisters are also divided into types? Is this exposing their attributes too? Huh?
I really don’t want to believe what I’m seeing, but based on last night’s experience… this title is most likely true. That means Xinran really has feelings for me, and Keling… pfft…
As soon as I thought about how the gentle, cute, kind, and shy Keling was actually black-bellied… I simulated Keling showing disgust and speaking to me in my mind.
“Hmph, I only call you brother because of Mom and Dad. Otherwise, who would recognize a blockhead like you as a brother! Stop being narcissistic! Disgusting!”
…Huh? It strangely makes me a little excited… No, no, no! Don’t suddenly awaken strange attributes, me!
Ha… In short, the authenticity of the title content has been proven.
There is one last thing that bothers me.
That is, the names and titles of these people are all “white”.
Yes, it’s all white, but the names and titles above the two sisters’ heads are “pink”.
What I don’t understand yet is why the color of the words above Xinran and Keling’s heads are different from others…
What does this color mean…
Speaking of which, I can’t see my own title.
When I was washing up this morning, I didn’t see any text above my head in the mirror. This means that those texts are things that can only be seen with the naked eye and not reflected in a mirror.
Although I can’t see it, I estimate that the title above my head should be an inconspicuous one like “Male High School Student” or “Ordinary Person”.
Ah, no, I was being too optimistic.
It’s more likely to be a more sarcastic title like “Invisible Man (LOL)” or “Forever Alone Loser” or “Life Failure”… It might even be “Masochistic Pervert”?
I won’t think about it anymore. For now, I’ll consider myself a normal person. Although I can now see some strange titles, ultimately, it’s just that I can see them. As long as I pretend I don’t know, there won’t be any problems.
Because I spent some time observing others on the way, I arrived at school a little later than usual.
However, it shouldn’t be late, but it’s rare for me to arrive just in time.
Speaking of which, I wonder what kind of titles those people in the classroom have?
As the saying goes, the more you know, the more you see, and the wider your horizons become, the more you can’t help but want to know more… This applies to me as well. At this moment, I had forgotten the simple and clear truth that “curiosity killed the cat,” and only followed my inner curiosity and desire for knowledge, walking eagerly to the door of my class, Class Two, Year Two, and scanning the unfamiliar classmates…
And then I went blind.
I really went blind.
If seeing Keling as a black-bellied sister earlier caused my worldview to collapse, now my entire moral values have collapsed. Should I say I knew too little before? Or that I know too much now?
In short, the classroom and unfamiliar classmates, which were extremely ordinary to me, have undergone a 180-degree reversal. It’s like jumping from the real world to the opposite world when playing Silent Hill, the contrast is that great!
Hey, hey, hey, stop joking, what kind of novel plot is this? It’s too much of an over-development!
Compared to this, the titles I saw on the street earlier are nothing! There’s no comparability at all!
…So my classmates are a bunch of freaks. No, some of them aren’t even human! Everywhere I look are bizarre titles, and the proportion of normal and abnormal is extremely skewed… No, I can’t find any normal people among them!
Could it be that I’m the only normal one?!
No, no, no, that’s too abnormal.
It’s impossible for me to be the only ordinary person.
“Classmate An? What are you standing here for? Hurry back to your seat, the bell has already rung.”
From behind me came the voice of our homeroom teacher, Teacher Xiaozhen, making me realize that the bell had long since finished ringing, and I was still standing foolishly at the door… But to ask me to enter this dangerous area that’s like a bear’s den and a tiger’s lair…
Turning back, Teacher Xiaozhen, who barely reached my waist, held a textbook in her hand, tilting her head to look at me with confusion.
And what I saw was…
“Clone No. 223”
“Ke Xiaozhen”
“Classmate An? Classmate Juncheng An! Juncheng! If you do this, Teacher Xiaozhen will get angry!”
After calling me three times with different titles, it was only then that I snapped back to reality. Teacher Xiaozhen’s title, full of science fiction, made my imagination run wild.
“Huh?! Ah, I’m coming in right away!”
Our homeroom teacher, Teacher Xiaozhen, is a very young-looking little girl. Just by looking at her appearance, she’s no different from an elementary school student. She has a nickname, “Loli Teacher,” and is famous both at school and in the neighborhood. When Teacher Xiaozhen first took on her role as our homeroom teacher, she said she was short because she had dwarfism and was actually 24 years old. But now it seems that might not be the case… “Clone No. 223″…
And then the others… I swallowed, looking at the bizarre titles one after another, my gaze wavering, unable to calm down… I really want to turn around and run away immediately…
Are there no normal people?!
What the hell is this!
