NOVEL WEB Ch. 6
Chapter 6: The Absolute Strong One, Who Teaches You Pure Love Is——
After continuously using the Word-Spirit talent, Jiang He had already fallen into exhaustion.
Wei Sheng told him to rest here, then left the office to help him handle the transfer procedures.
After Wei Sheng left, White Crane phased through the wall and walked back in.
“You were way too embarrassing just now.”
“That was Principal Zhong, a top-tier A-rank Transcendent, the idol of every teacher and student in the entire school!!”
Jiang He felt excited inside. Being able to transfer to 【Sunflame Wielder】 made him happier than becoming an S-rank 【Sacred Speaker】.
“Right, why didn’t you give me any advice just now?”
“Looking at your expression, did you still need me to give advice?”
White Crane found it a bit amusing.
The younger version of himself practically radiated a clear, naive foolishness.
Jiang He felt a little embarrassed and hurriedly shifted the topic.
“Right, I have something I want to ask you.” He paused slightly, somewhat uneasy: “My future wife is…”
Jiang He had actually wanted to ask yesterday, but considering White Crane’s mood, he held back his curiosity.
Today, seeing White Crane in a better mood, with the atmosphere not bad, he took the chance to ask.
At this moment, White Crane lowered his gaze upon hearing the question.
“Don’t know.”
“Don’t know?” Jiang He was stunned.
“What, were you expecting a different kind of answer?”
White Crane sneered: “I tell you who your future wife is, and by the way, tell you her preferences and thoughts, help you meet her, get to know her… and bless you toward a beautiful future?”
Jiang He said awkwardly: “But, didn’t you say you wanted to witness ‘my’ happiness?”
“Happiness is something you strive for, not something I hand to you.” White Crane’s expression was cold: “By using foresight as a form of ‘cheating’ to gain her favor, earn her trust… would only stain her feelings.”
“Do you think that kind of false happiness is what you want?”
Jiang He fell silent for a moment.
He hadn’t expected White Crane to loathe this matter so deeply.
But, what White Crane said didn’t seem wrong either.
If he knew his future wife in advance, understood her personality, and relied on this ‘guide’ to win her heart…
Wasn’t such utilitarian behavior really something called “love”?
Seeing that Jiang He seemed to have realized something, White Crane’s expression softened slightly.
“I will give you my abilities, my knowledge, even everything, but I will not give you my ‘emotions,’ nor will I interfere in your ‘emotions.’”
“You have your own story, your own future.”
These words stirred Jiang He deeply, making him fully understand White Crane’s thinking——
This was the ultimate warrior of pure love, absolutely not allowing his feelings with his wife to be tainted in the slightest.
White Crane continued.
“However, I can give you a little hint.”
“You will soon meet ‘her.’”
White Crane’s words didn’t reveal much information, but instead stirred Jiang He’s anticipation.
He would soon meet his future wife?
How soon was “soon”? A day? A week? A month?
Or perhaps… the very next second?
As Jiang He was thinking, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door. He immediately turned his head, full of expectation.
The next moment, the office door opened, and Wei Sheng walked in with a smile.
“Jiang He, the procedures are done. I’ll take you back to class to get your things… wait, why is your face so pale? Haven’t rested enough?”
Jiang He shook his head repeatedly.
No, no, no, absolutely impossible!
He wasn’t even from Jincheng, his future wife had to at least be a woman!
……
Wei Sheng brought Jiang He back to the classroom to collect the personal belongings he had left at his seat.
The coursework at the Transcendent High School was heavy, especially in the third year. Even on Saturdays, classes were still packed, with all students studying at school.
At this moment, it was break time, and the teaching building was extremely noisy.
As the two approached the classroom, they heard lively chatter from inside.
“Why didn’t Jiang He come to school today?”
“Didn’t he awaken his talent yesterday? I was curious what talent he awakened.”
“That trash, even if he did awaken, it must be some useless junk talent like a pencil eraser!”
“Don’t even mention it, he didn’t even dare come to school. Maybe he didn’t awaken a talent at all.”
“Then he’d be amazing, recorded in history! Hahahaha!”
The classroom burst into laughter, full of joy.
Hearing the familiar laughter, Jiang He’s steps halted, and he instinctively lowered his head.
This was a self-protection mechanism formed over a long time.
However, this time, he failed——
A voice sounded in his mind.
「Raise your head」
This wasn’t the power of Word-Spirit, yet it drew his attention.
He raised his head and saw White Crane before him, smiling.
“You are now an S-rank talent holder, destined to become a super S-rank powerhouse…”
“You will stand atop the heavens in the future.”
“Do not lower your head.”
“……”
To be honest, Jiang He didn’t feel much from White Crane’s words.
He had never experienced true strength.
The life he had lived was only dim and oppressive.
Even though he longed desperately for a bright future, it was nothing more than a frog at the bottom of a well imagining the sky.
What did it matter if he didn’t lower his head? What difference would it make if he raised it?
These classmates only jeered and mocked. Under the teachers’ and school’s rules, they had never physically hurt Jiang He.
Even if Jiang He rushed in, vented at them, or even struck them in anger, it would only look like a petty man throwing a tantrum after gaining favor.
Just like even if they knew Jiang He had awakened an S-rank talent and changed their attitude to flatter and grovel, it would not heal the scars in his heart.
Thinking of all this, he even found it hard to move his feet.
White Crane looked at the bewildered boy before him.
Just like… no, this was exactly the same clumsy, cowardly self of the past.
He sighed lightly and stepped forward.
As a Heroic Spirit summoned by the 【Ferryman of Time】 talent, he truly came from the future timeline, possessing real power.
Not only could he help Jiang He fight, but also, under permitted circumstances, borrow Jiang He’s body.
This was 【Heroic Spirit Possession】.
At this moment, Jiang He lent out control of his body.
The speed of consciousness exchange was extremely fast, so hardly any time had passed.
Beside him, Wei Sheng was just starting to frown: “These guys…”
As a teacher, he roughly knew what happened in the class. He also knew about Jiang He being excluded, isolated, and ridiculed, but he couldn’t intervene too much.
This was conflict among children. Even if he could deter the class, forbidding any violence, he couldn’t control their mouths every moment, right?
But normally was one thing…
Now Jiang He had awakened an S-rank talent, and right before his eyes, he was hearing such ridicule.
Wei Sheng naturally couldn’t just turn a blind eye anymore.
He frowned, preparing to enter the classroom and sternly scold them.
At that moment, a hand pressed onto his shoulder, stopping him.
He turned his head and saw the black-haired boy walking past him with a calm face.
Wei Sheng froze for a moment.
This was… Jiang He?
His features hadn’t changed, nor did he show much expression.
But it was as if he saw another person… as if he saw a temperament similar to the Principal’s.
That unique composure and natural ease.
While Wei Sheng was dazed, Jiang He had already pushed open the door and entered.
The students—especially a few boys—turned their heads and brightened when they saw Jiang He.
“Eh, look who’s here?”
“Wow, Jiang He!”
“Jiang He, Jiang He, what talent did you awaken?”
“Don’t tell me it’s like they said, that you didn’t awaken a talent at all?”
Amid the laughter of the students, Jiang He walked onto the podium, two emotions rising within him.
One was embarrassment, wishing he could leave immediately.
The other was indifference.
After sixty years, these blurred faces could no longer stir even a ripple in his heart.
He only felt——
「Noisy」
The calm voice of transcendence sounded, not loud, yet it spread through the classroom, even throughout the entire teaching building.
Everyone who heard this word, whether student or teacher, felt a heavy guilt in their hearts, as if they had disturbed the slumber of a king.
They instinctively closed their mouths and stopped whatever they were doing.
The noisy teaching building instantly fell silent, with everyone frozen in place.
Jiang He’s gaze swept over the classmates below, seeing their shocked, shaken, fearful, and disbelieving expressions, and he frowned slightly.
He spoke.
「Ugly」
Hearing his noble words, the classmates couldn’t suppress the shame that rose in their hearts.
Yes.
They resented those with extraordinary talents, envied the gifted for their strength, believing geniuses were just lucky.
At the same time, they ridiculed those with worse talents than themselves, pouring all their malice onto others as if it would elevate them.
To flatter above and bully below—how ugly it was.
They realized, they suffered, they wept.
Yet they could not obtain the king’s forgiveness.
Because the king had not imposed punishment, but merely stated his evaluation of them.
They despaired, they suffered, they punished themselves.
All at once, crackling sounds rang through the classroom, as the students swung their palms against their own faces, slapping themselves hard, hoping to lessen their guilt this way.
The worse they usually behaved, the heavier their guilt now, and the harder they hit.
The king, however, paid no attention to their actions, walking straight down from the podium to his seat.
He lightly tapped the desk, and the books and items automatically leapt out, landing into the open backpack, their weight lessened to ease their master’s burden.
At last, Jiang He slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked out of the classroom.
“Let’s go, Teacher Wei.”
Wei Sheng looked at the unfamiliar boy before him, a chill running through his heart.
Was this the power belonging to an S-rank talent holder?