Chapter 111 – Protect the Emperor! Protect the Emperor!

After a thorough discussion between Zhao Xinning, president of the Lin Xi Fan Club, and Su Xiangxue, the fan club’s operations officer, they unanimously decided not to expel the Loyal Orange

fan who had submitted those lyrics.

“Why?” Lin Xi protested under her real name.

She didn’t even have the right to decide?

It felt like her power had been completely hollowed out.

Wasn’t she supposed to be following a script where she was crowned against your will? Why had it turned into a puppet emperor script instead???

Zhao Xinning, one of the two “powerful minister” figures, spoke first.

“The lyrics this student submitted are great. I really like them.”

“They praise Xi as being like the sun. Xi, you really are a warm and healing Sun Goddess.”

The second “powerful minister,” Su Xiangxue, chimed in.

“Seconded!”

“If we expel this student from the fan club, wouldn’t that chill the hearts of all your fans?”

“What if everyone gets angry, raises the banner of rebellion, turns their coats, and goes from fans to little haters? Then the heavens and earth would change color, and your empire might truly be lost.”

Lin Xi: “…”

“There’s even a risk of backlash?!”

“Then how about we just disband the fan club?”

To this suggestion from Lin Xi, Zhao Xinning gave a simple two-word reply:

“No way.”

Su Xiangxue, on the other hand, was furious. “Our great undertaking isn’t even half complete, and you’re choosing to perish halfway through, huh?”

Lin Xi was completely unable to withstand the verbal onslaught of the two “powerful minister” figures, so she could only raise the white flag and surrender.

“Fine, fine, fine. We’ll do it your way.”

“We won’t kick this student out of the fan club.”

“But let’s still use another song as our band’s debut song.”

Su Xiangxue and Zhao Xinning both felt the song was pretty good, but since Lin Xi really didn’t want to use it, they would look at something else.

“There’s still some time before the school anniversary anyway. Besides, everyone’s creative passion is running high. We’ll have new songs soon enough.”

Lin Xi had to admit that she had underestimated just how good her absurd classmates were at cooking up antics.

“Sigh-“

“You people have really brought suffering upon me-“

“If my image ever comes crashing down one day, I’m afraid there won’t be anywhere left for me in Z City.”

“Xi, don’t worry about things that won’t happen,” Zhao Xinning comforted her. “There’s nothing about you anyone can use against you.”

“Seconded,” Su Xiangxue said. “Among ordinary students like us, Miss Lin Xi is absolutely a kirakiradokidoki existence. She has no dark history at all.”

Listening to the two of them praise her nonstop, Lin Xi had the distinct feeling she was being fed treacherous flattery by corrupt officials.

“Why don’t you tell me my flaws instead? I’d like to hear some honest criticism too.”

Zhao Xinning: “…”

Su Xiangxue: “…”

As for Lin Xi’s flaws, the two of them said they would need to think carefully.

Lin Xi couldn’t help falling into a daze. Had she really become a saint???

Haki Xi’s ultimate evolution-Saint Love Xi had been born???

After thinking it over and over, Zhao Xinning could only come up with one flaw Lin Xi had.

“Xi, your only flaw is that you’re too low-key.”

Lin Xi: “???”

“I’m low-key???”

“I’m definitely going to be on this year’s campus celebrity list, and you still call that low-key???”

Su Xiangxue strongly agreed with Zhao Xinning. “You’re still too low-key. That’s why, for the school anniversary this time, our Sun Goddess band absolutely has to do something huge-no, I mean, we absolutely have to put on a performance that stuns the entire audience.”

“We need to make Miss Lin Xi’s fan count surge again. You have to catch up to Miss Xia Xun as soon as possible.”

“Don’t forget, the goal of our fan club is to help you seize the title of this year’s Moe Queen!”

Lin Xi: “…”

She gave up struggling. In the end, she would be drowned by the tide of their antics.

Yeah. Better to just lie flat and let everything rot.

It wasn’t like she had to personally “attend court and hear petitions.” She could just let them go off and “expand the territory” however they liked.

And if they messed it all up? She’d run. Leave Z City and go scrape by in some other city.

The three of them chatted happily, bouncing from one topic to another, and before they knew it, the train had arrived.

This was Lin Xi’s first time in District 1 of Z City.

Maybe the Cuddle Witch had been here before, but Lin Xi didn’t have her memories.

So she’d just count it as her first visit.

Z City’s three districts were roughly the same in terms of development and economic level, but each had its own novelties.

The three of them got off the train together, and Su Xiangxue asked, “Is this your first time in District 1?”

Lin Xi and Zhao Xinning both nodded.

“Then I’ll be your guide,” Su Xiangxue, the local, declared enthusiastically. “My sister and I have visited every fun place in District 1.”

“Aren’t you in a hurry to go home?” Lin Xi asked.

Su Xiangxue said, “If I go back at this hour, I probably won’t see my sister anyway. She usually stays busy until really late.”

Lin Xi understood. Magical Girls were all busy.

And so, Su Xiangxue became their tour guide.

For their first stop, Su Xiangxue suggested they try the haunted house not far from the station.

“Actually, even if I hadn’t run into you two, I’d already decided to go to the haunted house first after getting off the train.”

Lin Xi asked, “Are you a horror movie fan?”

“I am,” Su Xiangxue said. “There hasn’t been a haunted house yet that could scare me. I looked this one up online. It’s newly opened, and according to the reviews, it’s genuinely terrifying.”

Su Xiangxue was full of anticipation. Lin Xi, on the other hand, was not anticipating it at all. She didn’t really watch horror movies, and she had never been to a haunted house.

Zhao Xinning raised both hands in favor of going.

When the time came, she could say she was scared and keep throwing herself into Lin Xi’s arms.

Since Su Xiangxue and Zhao Xinning both agreed to go to the haunted house, Lin Xi had no reason to refuse.

“Well, everything inside a haunted house is fake anyway. Nothing to be scared of.”

Lin Xi wasn’t being stubborn. She was saying it to give herself courage.

“As expected of Miss Lin Xi,” Su Xiangxue praised her the moment she found an opening. “The hymn of humanity is the hymn of courage. Miss Lin Xi has clearly long since grasped this truth.”

Not to be outdone, Zhao Xinning also praised her. “As expected of Xi. Once we go inside the haunted house, make sure you protect me, okay?”

Lin Xi: “…”

…

After their tickets were checked, Lin Xi stood before the gloomy, terrifying entrance of the haunted house, her knees knocking so hard she almost turned and left on the spot.

This haunted house even had an intimidating name: Corpse Mountain and Blood Sea.

At the entrance, Lin Xi could already smell a thick stench of blood.

Of course, it wasn’t really a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. The bloody smell came from a harmless synthetic agent.

Gusts of chilly wind slipped out through the cracks around the haunted house’s doors.

Lin Xi chickened out.

“Um, how about-“

Su Xiangxue immediately understood. “Miss Lin Xi, you want to lead the way, right?” She gestured with her hand. “Please.”

Lin Xi: “…”

Under Zhao Xinning’s admiring gaze, Lin Xi decided that if she had to lead the way, then so be it. She couldn’t embarrass herself in front of Angel-sama!

Lin Xi pushed open the haunted house doors and took her first step.

“That’s one small step for me, but one giant leap for mankind!”

She worked herself up at random, using this method to dispel the fear in her heart.

Until a ghostly face dropped straight down from the ceiling, hanging upside down directly in front of Lin Xi.

“Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!-“

“Xinning!”

“Miss Su Xiangxue!”

“Protect your sovereign! Protect your sovereign!-“

Lin Xi’s scream echoed through the entire haunted house.