Chapter 1

"Neko Saburou, Hayabusa Tarou, please take the seats over there." After the system voice ended, Teacher Panda spoke to Jue-ge and Xiao Tan.

Feng Bujue looked in the direction the teacher pointed. The "seats over there" were the two seats in front of Kumakichi and Usami...

"Okay, Teacher," Jue-ge replied in a calm tone.

"Uh... Yes! Teacher," Xiao Tan imitated him and added.

Then, they walked to the second-to-last row of the classroom, one in front of the other, with their schoolbags on their backs, and sat in front of Kumakichi and Usami respectively.

"Well... class, next we'll officially begin the lesson." After the two transfer students were seated, Teacher Panda said, "Turn to page one of your textbooks." As she spoke, she turned and picked up a piece of chalk, starting to write mathematical formulas on the blackboard.

"Hey... Jue-ge, what's up with this script?" As soon as the teacher turned around, Xiao Tan leaned slightly and whispered to Jue-ge next to him, "The Nichijou world view is one thing... what's with this inexplicable main quest?"

"I'm wondering too..." Feng Bujue whispered back, "If 'the end of an incident' means the end of the story, then this script is almost impossible to clear..." He glanced at Kumakichi sitting behind him and lowered his voice even more, "You know... the cases that Kumakichi commits, from the moment Usami intervenes in the investigation, are usually solved within thirty seconds..."

[Main Quest Triggered] As if responding to Jue-ge, the system immediately refreshed with a new main quest.

Hearing this, Jue-ge and Xiao Tan exchanged glances and simultaneously opened the game menu, looking at the task bar: [Limit the number of times Kumakichi is arrested to ten or fewer (including the tenth time).]

The meaning of this second main quest was relatively clear, and next to the quest was marked the text: [Current number of arrests: 0].

"There's even a counter..." Xiao Tan couldn't help but complain after seeing the content of the task, "Since there are a full ten chances, it shouldn't be that difficult... how many times can he commit a crime in thirty-three chapters?"

"This is supposed to be a normal difficulty script, how hard do you want it to be?" Jue-ge replied, "Also... aren't you underestimating Kumakichi-kun's ability to commit crimes?"

"Well..." Xiao Tan glanced at Kumakichi and then responded softly, "Right... Jue-ge, I was thinking... could we possibly..."

"Kill Kumakichi?" Feng Bujue interrupted, "That way he won't be arrested even once, right?"

"Uh..." Xiao Tan was obviously stunned for a moment, "Actually, I wanted to say... could we possibly injure him or imprison him, but your plan... seems to work too, it's just a bit cruel..."

"It's all the same," Feng Bujue replied. "Anyway, it's all unfeasible..." He shook his head, "If we don't let Kumakichi roam free, there won't be any 'incidents', so how can we stretch it out to thirty-three chapters?"

"Well... that makes sense," Xiao Tan scratched the feathers at his temples. "This is such a pain..."

Before he finished speaking, he realized something, and his expression immediately changed: "Eh? My hand..."

"That's right, it's turned into something like a wing, but it's still divided into five branches, and it has a certain hardness and can be bent," Feng Bujue took over Xiao Tan's words, "By the way... your head has also turned into the shape of a falcon. If you don't believe me, you can touch your nose and mouth, it's already turned into a beak."

"Uh... no wonder I felt like something was weird..." While speaking, Xiao Tan really touched his face with his anthropomorphic "wing-hand", "Speaking of which... my eyesight seems to have gotten better."

"That's normal, the falcon is one of the animals with the best eyesight," Feng Bujue replied, "Theoretically speaking, at this distance, you can see the fleas in my fur."

"I don't want to look at that kind of stuff..." Xiao Tan replied.

"Neko Saburou, Hayabusa Tarou." Just as the two were chatting happily, Teacher Panda had finished writing on the blackboard and turned around, "Pay attention in class, don't talk."

"Yes——" In the next second, Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzi lengthened their tones and replied in unison.

Their reactions were very neat and tacit, as if they had practiced countless times.

A few seconds later, the two simultaneously showed an interesting smile. Because they both realized... this scene was a reproduction of their elementary school days...

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As the bell rang, the first class ended.

At this moment, Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzi's spirits suddenly tensed up.

For them, relaxing during class was possible. Even if the teacher suddenly called on them to answer questions... fourth grade elementary school math was no challenge for them.

However, after class was different, because... after class, Kumakichi was very likely to act...

"Meow——"

Sure enough, just one minute after the teacher left the classroom, Nyami's (Kumakichi's crush, the victim in most incidents) scream rang out.

Basically... Nyami's scream meant an incident had occurred. Even other characters in this world knew that this was a fixed pattern.

Hearing the sound, Usami suddenly turned her head: "Muu? Has an incident occurred?"

"Ooh!" Kumakichi immediately popped up, "That way I can witness Usami-chan's long-awaited brilliant reasoning!"

As he spoke, Usami and Kumakichi walked toward Nyami's desk.

"Why the hell are you so excited..." Feng Bujue remained calm on the surface, but he thought to himself, "You're the one who did it! You must be the one who did it!"

"Jue-ge..." At this time, Wang Tanzi softly called out to Feng Bujue, "Let's go over and take a look too..."

"Ah... let's go," Feng Bujue nodded at him.

Soon, seven or eight students in the class had gathered around Nyami's seat.

"What's wrong? Nyami," Usami stepped forward and asked, "Did someone put cat tongues in your desk?"

"Your wild assumptions are terrifying, Usami-chan," Kumakichi interjected.

"The world is going downhill, people's hearts are not what they used to be," Usami replied. "There's nothing strange about it, Kumakichi-kun."

"I think something was stolen... probably..." Kumakichi didn't continue Usami's words, but instead offered a "hypothesis."

"Is that so?" Hearing this, Usami turned to look at Nyami and asked.

"Wuu wuu~" Nyami sobbed and replied, "My school swimsuit was stolen~ wuu wuu~"

"This... this is utter shamelessness! We must not let this criminal get away with it! Usami-chan!" Kumakichi shouted immediately.

At this time, a penguin in the crowd of people (animals) suddenly spoke; "Today is the first day of school, everyone would bring their school swimsuit from home to school. That means... the time of the crime was after Nyami arrived at school, and before the first class started..." This student who started reasoning as soon as he opened his mouth was naturally Detective Penguin Osuke, who had transferred from Antarctica Elementary School.

"That's right, I think so too," Usami continued. "Everyone was chatting in the classroom this morning, most people weren't sitting in their seats, the culprit could easily get away with it as long as no one was paying attention."

"Well... these two guys' reasoning is pretty reliable..." Feng Bujue squinted at the two famous detectives from the Nichijou world, thinking, "But..." His gaze moved to Kumakichi, "Is there really a need to deduce this kind of incident... Kumakichi is currently wearing a girl's school swimsuit, you know!"

Obviously, Jue-ge wasn't the only one who noticed this... About three seconds later, Usami and Penguin Osuke simultaneously turned their faces towards Kumakichi, and their expressions... also changed.

"Oooh! Usami-chan's eyes have become sharp!" Kumakichi looked at Usami's huge, glaring eyes and exclaimed, "This is a sign that Usami-chan's inspiration is bursting forth! Because of this characteristic, Usami has also earned the nickname 'Usami's eyes are so scary'... no criminal has ever been able to escape that sharp gaze."

"Ah~" Then, Kumakichi looked at Penguin Osuke with his mouth wide open and exclaimed, "Penguin Osuke's gums are completely exposed... how disgusting! As expected of the famous detective with the name 'gums are so disgusting', when he shows his gums, that's the moment of inspiration!"

Under the scorching gaze of Usami and Penguin Osuke, Kumakichi earnestly made these meaningless explanations. He seemed to have forgotten that he was the culprit, as if he didn't know that he was wearing the stolen school swimsuit...

"God..." Seeing this scene, Feng Bujue could only support his forehead with his cat paw and sigh with a headache.

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Five minutes later, the police who received the report arrived at the school.

The police in this universe wore blue uniforms, black ties, and the police badge on their caps was a yellow five-pointed star.

The police officer who took Kumakichi away was a white Labrador dog. He didn't handcuff Kumakichi, but tied Kumakichi's hands with a rope and "led" him all the way into the police car.

Accompanied by the "wooo wooo..." of the police siren, Kumakichi silently got into the car. And the students of Class 4-1 all stood at the school gate in an onlookers' attitude, watching the pervert leave...

[Main Quest Progress Changed]

Before the police car had driven out of sight, the system prompt sounded.

Jue-ge and Xiao Tan opened the task bar and saw that Kumakichi's "Current number of arrests" had jumped to "1".

"See, that counts as one..." Feng Bujue muttered.

"Well... it's only the second chapter..." Xiao Tan replied.

"So..." Jue-ge said in a summarizing tone, "…the difficulty of this script is not as simple as you imagined."