"Is it no good?"
Looking up at the silent Mitsuba, Shinobu pouted, her eyes reddening with what seemed to be tears glistening in her eye sockets.
Seeing this, Mitsuba finally shook her head helplessly and sighed.
"Fine, fine, fine. I'll go out and play with you. Put that expression away quickly…"
"Hooray! I knew it! Soft words definitely work on Mitsuba!"
Having finally received the answer she wanted, Shinobu instantly switched back to an expression of wild joy and immediately spread her arms toward Mitsuba—her meaning very clear.
"Hey, you can think that kind of thing in your heart. How can you say it right to my face?"
Turning around to carry Shinobu on her back and handing her the black umbrella from the side, Mitsuba was quite helpless.
She had actually been manipulated by an eighteen-year-old girl…
"But Mitsuba, is it really okay for you not to go to the newspaper office today?"
Skillfully settling onto Mitsuba's back with her arms wrapped around her neck, Shinobu asked curiously.
To this, Mitsuba replied calmly:
"Oh, it's fine. Because my brother is a congressman, that fat deadbeat at our newspaper office doesn't dare fire me."
"Damn it, why don't I have a congressman for a brother…"
"…"
"Speaking of which, Shinobu, there's a question I've wanted to ask you for a long time."
The daytime streets were bustling with traffic. Carrying Shinobu on her back as she slowly walked through the streets, watching the crowds passing by, Mitsuba suddenly spoke.
"Hm? What question?"
On her back, Shinobu—who was diligently holding the umbrella for Mitsuba—asked curiously upon hearing her.
"I'm quite curious. Why does it seem like no matter when, you're always wearing a white lab coat?"
Mitsuba had actually wanted to ask this question for a long time.
From the first time she saw Shinobu, this girl had always been draped in a white lab coat. Apart from when she went home to sleep at night, Mitsuba had never seen her take it off.
Although, as a doctor, it was perfectly normal for Shinobu to wear a white lab coat.
But Mitsuba had also never seen any doctor who wore a white lab coat all day long outside of the hospital.
Moreover, ever since she started teaching at Tokyo University, Shinobu had basically bid farewell to the frontline operating table and gradually began transitioning toward the direction of teaching and educating.
Under such circumstances, was it really necessary for this child to wander around all day wearing such an eye-catching white lab coat?
"Oh, this? Of course it's for… aura!"
"Aura?"
"That's right! Aura!"
Shinobu nodded very seriously.
As a genius who had obtained dual doctorates at eighteen and was teaching at the university at such a young age, Shinobu actually had her own little secret worry—she was too young and too short.
Her height was the astonishing 151 centimeters!
And! This was data calculated with shoe inserts included!
With such stature and such youth, it went without saying that every time Shinobu went to the classroom to teach those older brothers and sisters who were at least a year her senior, she would inevitably be teased, leaving her completely without dignity as a teacher.
Regarding this, Shinobu—who was powerless to change her height—decided to salvage her image from other aspects.
For example… aura!
If height wasn't enough, aura would make up for it!
And good aura naturally required a suitable set of clothes!
So, what kind of clothes could create a suitable aura for her?
First, school uniforms were impossible. Besides, they had no aura.
Shinobu had never seen any teacher standing at the lectern wearing a standard sailor uniform.
Even if there were, they definitely wouldn't be proper teachers!
Second, suits were also out of the question.
Although suits looked very proper, the suits of this era were exclusively designed for men. Shinobu had once run through every clothing store in Tokyo and couldn't find any suits designed for women.
Afterward, Shinobu had also tried matching a set of mature clothing styles herself.
Then she tragically discovered that her height didn't seem sufficient to support those overly mature clothes.
A tiny frame, a youthful face, topped with those mature adult-style clothes—how to put it…
It was like a child wearing adult clothes. Standing before the mirror, even Shinobu herself couldn't keep a straight face.
Just when all seemed lost, Shinobu finally turned her gaze toward that unremarkable white lab coat.
It had no brilliant colors, no fancy designs. It was ordinary, plain, unexceptional.
But for some reason, as long as you put it on, maintained a stern expression, and struck a pose with both hands in your pockets, people would inexplicably feel you had an aura, and even speak to you with great caution…
Thus, from that day onward, the white lab coat became Shinobu's standard attire.
When she went to teach, no matter where she walked, she would keep both hands in her pockets, deliberately maintaining a cold face, as if looking at everyone like they were mere prey awaiting execution.
She forcibly turned 150 centimeters of height into 250 centimeters of aura.
"But if it's just an ordinary day, there shouldn't be any need to dress like that anymore, right?"
After hearing Shinobu's explanation, Mitsuba's footsteps happened to stop in front of a clothing store on the street.
She turned to look at a British-style school uniform hanging in the shop and said with a smile:
"Shinobu, I think you'd look quite nice in that set."
A dark blue blazer, a gray knitted vest, a white shirt, a knee-length pleated skirt, plus a pair of black knee-high socks and small leather shoes.
No matter how Mitsuba looked at it, she felt Shinobu would look good wearing it.
"Absolutely not!"
But Shinobu disagreed.
She only glanced at it before sternly refusing:
"I'm a doctor! The youngest dual-doctorate holder at Tokyo University! How could I possibly wear this kind of school uniform that only female students wear!"
[Hoh, this little girl cares quite a bit about face.]
But as everyone knew, Mitsuba was someone with an extremely strong desire for control.
The more the little butterfly on her back resisted, the more she wanted to see her wearing that school uniform.
She was going to make her move.
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