Chapter 617: Chapter 636: What They Realized Wasn’t Their Mistake, but Their ’Carelessness
Jiang Qiuqiu directly forwarded the entire post thread to Teacher Mao.
She also took screenshots of some of the most insulting comments and sent them over specifically.
At that moment, Teacher Mao was still chatting with a friend, lamenting the loss of a promising student.
As he was speaking, his terminal chimed. He raised his hand to look at it, and his expression instantly turned cold.
"What’s wrong, Old Mao?"
"...What is all this nonsense?" Teacher Mao said. "Are these really students from our school?"
He quickly logged into his account with teacher privileges and accessed the thread Jiang Qiuqiu had sent him.
「On the other side.」
A few of the students with the lowest ranks were chatting in the hallway.
"This thread is getting more and more popular, but how did the topic get so twisted..." one of them said, feeling agitated and a little scared. "Even though the credit competition was a bit of a sham, we never said the military training was. Do you think we should delete the post?"
"Delete it? Why? We’re not deleting it. All we did was complain about what we wanted to complain about. We didn’t say all that other stuff." The student ranked dead last chuckled dismissively. "I just can’t stand it. On what grounds does she get to pilot an A3? If I were piloting an A3, I’d definitely be number one!"
"..."
The student ranked third-to-last moved his lips. ’That... that probably wouldn’t happen, either.’
"But, but—"
"No ’buts’! Piloting an A3 against an R3 just isn’t fair!"
"But she’s a natural person..."
Just as they were talking, the second-to-last ranked student, who had been keeping an eye on the thread, spoke up. "The thread just got locked."
"No one can comment anymore!"
Not only that, but they also discovered that the anonymous posters in the thread had suddenly been revealed with red usernames, and the top-rated reply was now a comment from Teacher Mao.
"Shouldn’t you be asleep instead of daydreaming in this thread at this hour? You think her admission was shady? Anyone stronger than you got in through shady means? Anyone who works harder and is more successful than you is an opportunist? Before you run your mouth, why don’t you take a look at her actual record?" Teacher Mao had posted, and he also attached Jiang Qiuqiu’s training metrics from the military training.
"Do any of you have metrics like these? You’re a disgrace to the Mecha Single Soldier System. Why was she admitted to Class A? Look at the chart. If she doesn’t belong in Class A, do you? A world of difference between an R3 and an A3? Do you think I’m blind? You want to know how big the difference is? Why don’t you all come pilot an A3 tomorrow and see for yourselves?"
"You’ve all really lost your minds. And the few of you hiding behind anonymity... Tomorrow, xxx, xxx, xxx, and the rest of you—all of you, get to my office!"
The thread that had filled Liu Tingting with righteous indignation was shut down with thunderous authority by Teacher Mao.
Jiang Qiuqiu told her to put away her terminal. "It’s 11 o’clock. You should go to sleep."
"A Mecha Soldier needs to get enough sleep, or you’ll be exhausted again tomorrow."
"!"
"Qiuqiu, how can you sleep when you’re all fired up like this!"
"Why would I be all fired up?"
"Because we beat those gossips! We shut them up!"
Jiang Qiuqiu smiled and shook her head. "Tingting, you’re mistaken. I wasn’t the one who beat them, Teacher Mao was. He was the one who shut them up."
"Even if they’re scared right now and think what they said and did was wrong, it’s definitely not because they realized they *shouldn’t* say those things. It’s because they realized they *shouldn’t have said them in this circle*."
"In their minds, they’ll definitely still be thinking that piloting an A3 Mecha makes you inferior, that it’s unfair because they can’t handle the g-forces of an R3 to begin with."
"...Don’t they have any sense of judgment?"
