Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 33 32. Benchmarking MacArthur
Sakura Junior High School, teacher's office.

Physical education teacher [Kyoko Aihara] was about to take a nap during lunch break. Just when she was half conscious, there was suddenly a burst of noise and screams outside.

It’s so noisy…what happened?

Kyoko Aihara was very annoyed that her sleep was interrupted.

After a while, a large group of female teachers returned to the office and began to gossip excitedly.

"Is that the new teacher? He's so young and handsome!"

"I always thought Europeans and Americans were the most handsome, but I never thought Asians could be this handsome!"

"So handsome! More handsome than any celebrity I've ever seen!"

Kyoko Aihara buried her head in her arms and closed her eyes, trying to grasp the last bit of sleepiness that had not yet dissipated and force herself to fall asleep, but the gossip of the female teachers around her continued.

In their description, this new male teacher "should only exist in heaven". Their country's Takuya Kimura is three points less handsome than him, and foreign Leonardo DiCaprio lacks three points of his charm.

"Here he comes, he's coming over!" The chattering voices became more and more excited.

Unable to bear it any longer, Kyoko Aihara opened her eyes and stood up. She wanted to see who had disturbed her sweet dream!
Through the glass window of the office, I saw a man and a woman walking side by side in the corridor. The woman was plain-looking and had an indifferent expression, while the man's smooth, fair face was pierced by a sharp, cold expression...

The moment she saw him, Kyoko Aihara's anger instantly extinguished and her eyes became dull.

The woman is Saeki Rika, and the man is, of course, Qi Ming.

He was taken by Saeki Rika to visit the school and show his photos by the way.

"Sakura Junior High School from Ultraman Eddie? Not only is the name the same, but the principal and dean I just met are also the 'original team'."

"The teacher in front seems to be Kyoko, the physical education teacher. In the original drama, Ya's Takeshi seemed to be very fond of her, and those students also thought they should be a couple."

Thinking of this, Qi Ming smiled at her and nodded in greeting. This moment of "ice and snow melting" made all the female teachers scream like crazy.

Seeing this, Saeki Rika sighed slightly, but she could understand the teachers' reactions.

"Come to a class tomorrow and we'll take a photo as proof." She handed Qi Ming a stack of certificates.

Qi Ming flipped through it briefly and found a teacher's qualification certificate, an employment certificate... and at the bottom was a Japanese nationality.

Seeing this, he picked up the nationality and threw it away lightly.

The nationality drew a parabola and landed steadily in a trash can twenty meters away.

Saeki Rika: "You..."

Qi Ming: "My hometown doesn't recognize dual citizenship."

Saeki Rika: "But your identity..."

Qi Ming's tone was tinged with sarcasm: "You can grant green cards and permanent residency, but nationality... Did you also bestow this 'honor' on MacArthur back then?"

Qi Mingke never thought that he was here to serve as a member of the Imperial Army.

He simply accepted Zhu Xingtuan's request to stay in this disaster-stricken country and to curb the major disasters at the source to the best of his ability and protect the human beings in this world.

If you really look into it, his ecological niche should be compared to the five-star emperor MacArthur of that time.

As soon as Saeki Rika heard this, she knew that Qi Ming was knowledgeable and that this little trick was useless, so she didn't insist.

After Qi Ming returned to the command room, everyone was surprised to learn the whole story.

Moroboshi Tuan, who was leaning on a cane, said: "Whatever you do, you must be serious about it. Even if it's just a lesson, you should take it seriously."

Qi Ming, who was preparing for class, said casually, "I was a middle school student six years ago, so I have experience."

Huimei: "But listening to a class is different from teaching it. There are many children that even experienced teachers can't handle." Qi Ming shared his understanding:

"Adult language is extremely imprecise and filled with a lot of already constructed 'basic common sense'."

"Most adults communicate casually based on common sense. I've met many researchers who do the same thing, even coining new words without defining them."

"Children know almost nothing about the world, and may be hearing so-called common sense for the first time. They need you to help them define and describe the world."

"It's certainly difficult for people to understand things they don't understand, and it's even harder to explain things they're used to. This is the gap between teachers and students."

Nishijo Nagi spoke up, which was very rare: "So you will be careful with your words and use words that the child can understand, right?"

It can be seen that she is not indifferent to everything and still cares about the next generation of children.

Qi Ming: "That's right."

But Zhu Xingtuan was still worried, so he followed him the next day even with a crutch.

Huimei also wanted to go and see, but unfortunately she was not Qi Ming who "only abided by acceptable rules", so she had to write a mission report.

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The children in the class showed great enthusiasm for Qi Ming, the "substitute teacher".

Qi Ming saw many familiar faces from "Ultraman Eddie" in this class.

For example, the small, bespectacled [Doctor].

There is also the child who summoned the monster [Huo] after a breakup.

After Qi Ming stepped onto the podium, he began to lecture on algebra. Zhu Xingtuan listened for a while and thought that the lecture should be quite good.

Because no student was absent, all eyes were focused on Qi Ming.

But after looking for a while, Zhu Xingtuan found that there was an empty seat, so he quietly asked the principal who was in charge of recording the video what was going on.

The Dean of Studies said, "That kid, he must have gone looking for a flying saucer."

Zhu Xingtuan immediately sat up straight: "Flying saucer?"

The dean said that the empty seat originally belonged to a student named Mingnan.

But he recently started saying that he was actually an Earthling born on an alien planet, and he stopped coming to class, with his mind solely focused on taking a spaceship "back home."

Morohoshi: "Is this true?"

The Dean of Studies, who has rich teaching experience, laughed:
"Of course not. You've probably heard of students lying about having a stomachache and not coming to school during exams, or saying they wrote their homework but forgot it at home. Those are all excuses."

"That kid named Mingnan has lower grades than other students, isn't good at sports, and can't compare to his two older brothers and sisters. He doesn't have many good friends at school."

"So he started to escape from himself and made up a story that he was from another planet, thinking that as long as he wasn't human, he didn't have to work hard anymore."

Zhu Xingtuan seemed to be thinking about something. He pulled Qi Ming out during the break and told him about this.

In his opinion, the profession of teacher is sacred. Although Qi Ming is only a substitute teacher, he should also take responsibility and persuade the child to come back to school.

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Next, there will be an unprecedented "quintuple attack" and the revelation of the reasons why this world was formed.

The story is exciting and there are new things to watch every day. I think everyone will be willing to give monthly tickets, hehe.

(End of this chapter)