Really? I'm fighting the Dark Emperor.

Chapter 209 The New All-Around Head Nurse

"what--"

Falling to the ground, Barris screamed and instinctively put her hands in front of her head. Before she could beg for mercy or anything else, a warm yet comfortable force came from her wrists.

warmth?

Not a ghost?

She opened her eyes a crack and peeked out tentatively. Before closing them again in fear, she saw a shadow on the ground.

It is indeed a living person.

"Who are you? Running around the school at night without your school uniform is scary, you know?" She stood up and took two steps back, her words stammering.

The person squatting on the ground slowly stood up, smiling gently, without a trace of dissatisfaction with Barris's terrible attitude:

"I'm the new head nurse in the infirmary, my name is Xu Xingchun. Um... I graduated from Meng Academy less than half a year ago. You can call me 'senior' or just call me by my name."

"Who...who wants to be your junior? I'm the Queen of Moe! There are so many people in Moe Academy, and I don't know everyone."

Just graduated from Moe Academy? Barris had no recollection of the person in front of her... No, that's not quite right, she seemed vaguely familiar.

But she had only graduated less than half a year ago and was a newly arrived head nurse. How could she not have heard of such an outstanding and elegant person?

But... Xu Xingchun was indeed wearing work clothes.

But the work clothes could also have been stolen from someone else!

Her thoughts, after intense turmoil and clashes, became tangled up, trapping her within. Contradictory ideas intertwined in her mind, and in her overwhelming distress, she heard the voice of reality:

"Little Queen, your clothes..."

Following the direction Xu Xingchun pointed, Barris then noticed that something had torn open the back of her school uniform at some point.

The moment she saw it, she belatedly felt the pain.

"Let me take you to the infirmary."

Thinking about the unexpected incident that "I see right through you" had just caused, Barris was hesitant to believe her.

What if they know they've discovered your secret and want to harm you?

"I just heard screams from students around here, what happened here..." Just as she arrived and was about to find out what was going on, Ukunana was startled by Baris, who suddenly appeared behind her and grabbed her clothes.

After regaining his balance, he finished speaking: "What happened?"

His gaze fell on Xu Xingchun with some wariness.

"Hello, I'm Xu Xingchun, the new head nurse in the infirmary. I accidentally startled the little queen behind you just now, I'm sorry." She smiled apologetically and extended her hand in greeting.

Ukunana shook her hand with some hesitation.

Queen... little one... Barris?!

"Who wants to be called a kid by you?"

A loud rebuttal came from behind, sounding quite energetic; he was indeed just startled and nothing else had happened.

“Alright, Your Majesty.” Adapting to the situation, she changed her form of address and then asked Ukunana with a troubled expression, “Your friend is slightly injured, and she seems a little afraid of me. Could you accompany her to the infirmary if it’s convenient?”

"I was just startled, not scared, you know?"

That's what she said, but she was still clutching Ukunana's school uniform tightly with both hands.

She didn't suspect that the friendly head nurse in front of her had any bad intentions. Besides, she had indeed heard that a very gentle head nurse who had just graduated from the Moe Academy and liked to call others "little kids" had come to the infirmary.

She glanced at Barris's condition and nodded: "Okay."

The infirmary didn't change much after the departure of Head Nurse Da Tiantian and the arrival of the new head nurse.

Looking around, I noticed that only the table had been replaced with a larger one, and it was covered with bottles and jars.

Barris jumped onto Ukunana in a flash: "What are those strangely colored potions on the table? You really are no good person!"

"Because there are very few empty seats in the practical training classrooms lately, and I prefer quiet when practicing potions," Xu Xingchun tidied the table a bit. "As for the strange color..."

A blush crept across her face: "I'm sorry, the creation of the new potion failed."

Barris silently got off Ukunana again: "I...of course I can tell, you know?"

The wound on her lower back wasn't deep, but it was in a sensitive location. Baris herself was afraid of pain, and before the medicine even touched her, Ukunana's screams filled the entire infirmary.

Silently turning her head, she carefully observed the texture of the wall, pretending she hadn't heard anything.

"Is it better now?" After applying the medicine, she blew on the wound. "This will help it heal faster!"

Barris tugged at her clothes, turned her head, and gave a dry "Oh."

She's not a child...

"Let me mend your clothes. I happen to have some spare needles and thread here."

"So... we just fix it like this?"

Looking at the slender needle, Barris always felt that she might prick herself if she wasn't careful.

"Of course, I'm very skilled. Do you need any embroidery?"

"No, no need."

Xu Xingchun carefully mended her clothes, while she held Wukenana's hand tightly, the latter intently looking at the patterns on the wall.

The infirmary was quiet for a while.

"It's fixed now."

Upon hearing this, Barris glanced down and couldn't see any trace of mending.

However, there's really no need for such a primitive method. If you take it to the Magic Commercial Street, the shopkeeper can restore it to its original state with a single spell.

Magical Commercial Street...

Barris suddenly remembered something: "I remember seeing you somewhere before! You're the employee at that... what was that restaurant called again...?"

Ukunana forgot that she should continue looking at the wall and turned her gaze to Xu Xingchun.

"Oh right~, I work at 'Yuan Lai Ru Shi Chi De' (meaning 'Destined to Be Delicious'), but I'm not a staff member, I'm the manager."

"Store manager?!"

"That was true before. I really didn't want to leave that job, but I didn't want to give up the opportunity to go back to Moe Academy and continue spending time with my classmates, so I bought that shop in the last two days."

Her tone was light and casual, as if she were saying the weather was nice. Barris pinched the thing she was holding, and a hissing sound came from Ukunana, making both of them realize they hadn't misheard.

"By the way, Your Majesty."

It took Barris a while to realize that Her Majesty the Queen was addressing her.

"There seems to be something wrong with the magical artifact you're holding. May I take a look?"

Three gazes were focused on "seeing you through to the core".

Ukunana asked curiously, "Nurse Xu Xingchun can repair magical artifacts?"

"No need to be so formal," she said a little embarrassed. "Just call me by my name or 'senior sister'."

"I studied on my own and took the certification exam while I was still in school. Later, I worked in the Magic Commercial Street and learned a little from the boss there. Well... but with my current abilities, I can only fix some small things without any problem."

No, being able to fix small things is already quite impressive.

Not long after, nothing changed... at least neither Barris nor Ukunana could see any change. "See Through You" returned to Barris's hands.

"Let's see if it's fixed."

He picked it up and looked at it at Xu Xingchun—the numbers were normal, with no strange question marks or unusual fluctuations.

I looked at Ukunana again, and she seemed normal too.

Barris was completely relieved.

“Speaking of the Magic Commercial Street, I have to thank my junior schoolmate Ruibusi,” she said, putting away her tools for repairing magical artifacts. “If it weren’t for her, I probably wouldn’t have been able to find such a good job.”

The other two people in the infirmary exclaimed in surprise at the same time: "Rui Bu Si?"

“Yes, that’s why we decided to buy the shop,” she said, looking a little troubled. “I promised to treat my junior to dinner on Valentine’s Day, and right after I agreed, I received an invitation from the Nursing Home. I was worried that the new manager would change the menu… Oh, do you know my junior too?”

"are friends."

"We're super close roommates!"

Xu Xingchun smiled as she looked at them.

"I didn't expect that the junior student and classmate Ukunana would get along so well."

"you know me?"

"Of course! How could I not know our top gifted student at Moe Academy? Besides, I haven't graduated for many years."

Her experiences make people forget her age.

"What about me? What about me?!"

Barris's attitude took an unexpected and dramatic turn.

However, Ukunana was quite familiar with her personality, and Xu Xingchun had always been very friendly to everyone here, so no one said anything about it.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. Since transferring to the Moe Academy, I've spent most of my time interning at the Moe Nursing Home. By the time I graduated, I still hadn't gotten to know all my classmates."

Barris was a little disappointed and a little annoyed.

"It's a real pity I didn't get to know Her Majesty sooner."

Her eyes lit up, and she straightened her back: "I am Barris."

Looking away, Ukunana couldn't help but wonder if the head nurse had also obtained a kindergarten teacher qualification certificate.