"This is completely unacceptable! What an absurdity! Arriving late to school and missing half a period of class! You don't respect the school rules!"

The teacher's stern voice echoed through the empty hallway, and the white paint on the walls seemed ready to crack under the pressure.

They say time is unpredictable, and the path to school is no different.

Since the school isn’t very far from home, Alice usually rides her light pink "floating motorcycle" to school.

This special motorcycle isn’t fast, but it is very stable, its only flaw is that it needs to be charged every month.

Often, Alice thought it should be programmed to charge every two days, as the long interval made her forget when she needed to charge the motorcycle.

Like now, the little girl had to face the consequences of being careless.

After playing late, she had forgotten to charge the motorcycle the night before! That "not-so-advanced device, which didn’t even have an automatic charging function," ran out of battery halfway!

Although the "floating motorcycle" is a smaller version made for kids, it still weighs sixty kilos and doesn’t have wheels like those in the past.

Thus, the little girl didn’t have the strength to carry the motorcycle to school.

She could only lock the motorcycle in the parking area and run to school.

Of course, running wasn’t as fast as the motorcycle, so being late was inevitable.

And by the teacher’s "disappointed" expression... this "half-period" delay would definitely not go unnoticed…

"Nisha, Nisha, now things have gotten complicated. With the motorcycle parked on the street, how am I going to take it to the school parking lot? Now, besides having to run back home, I’ll have to accompany my dad to the road to charge the motorcycle… What a disaster! Now I’m definitely going to hear a lecture from my dad."

Being scolded by the teacher was nothing compared to the thought of going home and facing her dad’s worried look and long speeches…

Alice just wished she hadn’t gotten up, that all of this was just a dream.

But reality is reality, dreams don’t exist.

Even the fact that the girl got distracted while being reprimanded made the teacher even more irritated.

The result of being late is missing class, and missing class can lead to dropping out of school, and dropping out of school…

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In any case, to protect the children, this type of behavior cannot be tolerated!

Disregarding Alice's explanations and "excuses," the stern teacher delivered his "verdict":

"I don’t want to hear excuses! This isn’t just a half-period delay, it’s clearly a class absence! This is a serious violation of school rules, and you will stand in the hallway listening to the class!"

Exactly, stand!

That’s a typical punishment for students, if it were a boy, he would have to run on the field, but for girls… standing for a period is enough.

"With a punishment that serves as an example, we reinforce the 'authority of educators,' and the students learn their lesson. This is the tradition of education."

The teacher turned and left with great authority, likely feeling satisfied for having saved a lost sheep.

However, his air of authority didn’t last long in front of Alice, as before the serious "educator" could take a few steps, he tripped and almost fell.

His shoelace had come undone.

"…………"

"Nisha! You’ve messed up again!"

The teacher, now embarrassed, had just stepped out of the hallway with a sheepish look, while the little girl, who a second earlier had been looking down, quickly raised her gaze to the air before her.

She was, in fact, looking at Nisha with a penetrating gaze, as if to say, "Tell me what you're doing."

Perhaps others couldn’t see it, but Alice, who was "looking down and apologizing," saw it very clearly.

She had just witnessed Nisha, like a little fairy tale slime, create a small tentacle and untie the principal’s shoelaces.

Yes, Nisha loved to perform such tricks.

It was like a child who couldn’t resist the temptation to play pranks, even after several warnings from Alice.

In the end, her intelligence was equivalent to that of a three- or four-year-old, and keeping a small child quiet in public isn’t easy.

A little mischief here and there wasn’t so serious.

Besides, in a small school in a town like Kaminiya, there were no cameras in the hallway, so Nisha’s little antics had always been just harmless "school legends."

However, this kind of behavior shouldn’t be tolerated, after all, this is education!

Thus, in the quiet hallway, the little girl who had just received a "lesson" from the teacher turned to Nisha and mimicked the teacher's serious tone:

"My dad always says you shouldn’t play tricks, if someone finds out, it will be a big problem! And Mr. Anton is a very responsible teacher. If you keep this up, I won’t talk to you anymore!"

That was the final blow from the girl.

The threat of "not talking to you anymore" was just talk under normal circumstances, but if not handled well, it could lead to disastrous consequences.

In many cases, this is a significant blow that announces a bloody storm!

However, for Nisha, the response was a bit different.

Hearing Alice's soft yet firm voice, Nisha didn’t show much reaction.

After all, with her intelligence, she didn’t quite understand what a problem was.

She simply felt that the girl was upset after being reprimanded and wanted to punish the guilty party.

Now that Alice didn’t like pranks… she decided to let it go.

There would be other opportunities.

Nisha didn’t like to think or judge things.

Most of the time, she preferred to listen to Alice’s wishes and follow her instructions.

They were, in fact, one and the same, Alice’s happiness was Nisha’s happiness, and Alice’s sadness was Nisha’s sadness.

Their souls were, in fact, a "single" entity.

Of course, this intellectual limitation had its disadvantages.

While Alice, standing in the hallway, could attentively listen to the teacher’s lesson through the classroom door, Nisha couldn’t understand so many "technical terms" and just floated around the girl, lost in thought.

As a special "ghost," she couldn’t stray too far from Alice.

Her range of activity was limited to a diameter of ten meters around her.