"No problem, go ahead."
After sending off the bustling Aunt Sarah, Alice stood alone in the noisy hallway.
She didn't rush to the registrar's office. Instead, with the cheap black backpack she bought at the discount store yesterday on her back, she wandered aimlessly through the hallway, her eyes scanning the crowd quickly, seemingly casually.
"Hey, look at the new girl."
"Who is that? She looks pretty hot."
"Shh, keep it down, I heard in the office just now, she's that little daughter of the Mason family."
"What, the Mason Group that scammed our pensions?"
"Oh my god, the scammer's daughter actually came to our school."
Just as Principal Morita had expected, even here, gossip spread faster than the speed of light.
As Alice walked by, the noisy crowd would fall into a brief silence, followed by hushed pointing and malicious whispers.
Alice did not activate the [Kato Megumi] character card, because as a newcomer, she needed to let this school get used to her presence, not become a complete invisible person.
For these malicious gazes, Alice turned a blind eye.
As long as no one came up to make a move, these verbal attacks didn't even count as scratching an itch to her.
She walked to a row of blue lockers, preparing to study the campus map posted on the wall.
"Bang!"
A loud noise came from the corner of the hallway; it was the sound of books scattering all over the floor, followed by a burst of harsh laughter.
"Oops, sorry, Parker, your backpack is too big, it's blocking my way."
A provocative male voice rang out.
Alice's footsteps paused.
Parker?
She turned around and looked through the gaps in the crowd.
She saw a pile of textbooks, notes, and a camera that looked very old scattered on the ground a few meters away.
A thin boy with brown curly hair was squatting on the ground, silently picking up the books.
He was wearing a plaid shirt and ordinary jeans, looking completely unremarkable, even a bit timid.
And in front of him stood a tall boy wearing a yellow and blue varsity jacket, looking down at him with a mischievous, successful smile on his face.
Eugene Flash Thompson.
The famous bully of the Marvel Universe, and also Spider-Man's number one hater.
"Don't do this, Eugene."
The boy squatting on the ground said in a low voice, his voice not loud, seemingly not wanting to cause trouble.
"Call me Flash!"
Thompson kicked a physics textbook on the ground, which slid to Alice's feet.
Alice looked down at the physics book by her feet and bent down to pick it up.
At this moment, Peter had just finished picking up the other books and ran over in a panic, wanting to pick up this one.
Their gazes collided in the air.
"Alice Mason?" Peter was stunned, completely not expecting to meet the new neighbor girl here at this time.
"Peter, your book." Alice handed the book over with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.
"Uh, thanks."
Peter took the book in a flustered manner, his cheeks slightly flushed.
"Hey, who's that?"
Flash Thompson over there noticed the movement here, whistled, and strode over.
"New face, beautiful, don't mind this nerd, be careful not to catch his stupidity. I'm Flash, from the school football team."
Thompson reached out, wanting to put his arm on Alice's shoulder to show off his self-righteous charm.
Alice turned slightly, with a minimal movement, but extremely accurately avoided that hand.
Thompson grabbed empty air and froze in place, a bit embarrassed.
Alice didn't even look at him, just nodded at Peter Parker, then turned around and walked straight through the crowd towards the registrar's office.
"Cool."
Peter, clutching his books, watched the back of the person walking away gracefully, and couldn't help but mutter.
And behind him, his best friend Ned appeared from who knows where, holding half a sandwich, and said with his jaw dropped: "Dude, do you know who she is? I heard people say just now that she's the daughter of that protagonist of the ten-billion-dollar fraud case, that fallen socialite. Oh my god, our school is going to become as exciting as an American TV show."
Peter frowned, looked at the direction Alice disappeared, and then at the book she had picked up in his hand.
"What fallen socialite, she's not a bad person."
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