After walking for a while, I finally calmed down.

I couldn’t confirm yet if those nickname-and-title-like words were real. So far, I’d only seen them above Xinran and Keling’s heads.

I needed more proof! Yes, no jumping to conclusions!

Walking through the school grounds, I began observing people carefully.

Sure enough, everyone had words floating above their heads.

And those words always faced me—whether the person was turned away or sideways. They were perfectly positioned for me to read.

This wasn’t a hallucination. Either my brain was broken, or I’d awakened some ability. Without exception, every human had text above them.

But only humans.

The cat brushing past me? The sparrow perched on a tree branch? No words above them.

Of the two lines of text, one was likely a name. The other seemed like a title…

Take that guy ahead in another school’s uniform:

【Mental Patient】

【Liu Yibing】

…Wait, what?! He looked totally normal! A mental patient?!

Hey! Doctor! What are you doing?! There’s a mental patient loose on the streets!

Ahem. Stay calm. If I could see weird text like this, I was probably messed up too. Who was I to judge?

What mattered wasn’t others—it was what I saw… Liu Yibing was his name. But "Mental Patient"? Did that represent his… identity?

That sparked a new doubt.

People have many identities. One title couldn’t possibly cover everything. So what determined it?

That student didn’t know me; I didn’t know him. If judged from my perspective, his title should’ve been 【Stranger】 or 【High School Boy】. But it was 【Mental Patient】…

That was way off base.

I checked more people. Titles like 【Wrestling Enthusiast】 and 【Loli-Otaku】 revealed hobbies. 【Climbing Expert】 and 【Fishing Master】 showed skills. Some were normal identities like 【Male High Schooler】 or 【High School Math Teacher】.

So titles reflected what someone cherished most—their core essence.

But… remembering Xinran and Keling’s titles made me uneasy again.

Xinran was 【Cold-Type Brother Complex Sister (Fake)】. Keling was 【Scheming-Type Brother Complex Sister (Real)】…

Ignoring what "fake" or "real" meant—since when did sisters come in *types*? Were their character attributes just… exposed like that? Huh?!

I didn’t want to believe it. But after last night… those titles were probably true. Meaning Xinran really had feelings for me, and Keling… pfft…

Imagining sweet, shy Keling sneering at me:

"Hmph. I only call you ‘brother’ for Mom and Dad’s sake. Who’d want a blockhead like you as a brother? Don’t flatter yourself. Disgusting!"

…Huh? Why did that weirdly excite me? No no no! Don’t unlock weird fetishes out of nowhere!

Anyway, the titles’ accuracy was proven.

One last thing nagged at me.

Everyone else’s names and titles were plain white.

But Xinran and Keling’s? Pink.

Why were theirs different…? What did the color mean…?

Come to think of it, I couldn’t see my own title.

No text appeared above my head in the mirror this morning. So these words only showed when seen directly—not through reflections.

Though invisible, I guessed mine would be boring: 【Male High Schooler】 or 【Ordinary Person】.

Ah, no. I was being too optimistic.

More likely: 【Invisible Man (lol)】, 【Doomed-to-Be-Single Loser】, or even 【Masochist Pervert】…

Enough. I’d stick to believing I was normal. Seeing weird titles didn’t change anything—as long as I pretended not to notice.

Lost in observation, I arrived later than usual.

I probably wouldn’t be late, but cutting it this close was rare.

Still… what titles did my classmates have?

They say knowledge broadens curiosity. I forgot the old warning—"curiosity killed the cat"—and followed my urge to know. Heart pounding, I reached Class 2-2’s doorway… and scanned my utterly unfamiliar classmates.

Then I went blind.

Truly blind.

If Keling’s "scheming sister" title shattered my worldview earlier, this demolished my entire moral compass. Had I known too little before? Or too much now?

My ordinary classroom and strangers had flipped 180 degrees—like jumping from Silent Hill’s Outer World to its Inner World. The contrast was that extreme!

Seriously?! What novel plot is this?! Way too over-the-top!

Compared to this, the street titles meant nothing. Zero comparison!

…Turns out my classmates were all freaks. No—some weren’t even human! Bizarre titles everywhere. Normal vs. abnormal? I couldn’t find a single normal person!

Was I the only sane one?!

No, that couldn’t be right.

I couldn’t be the only ordinary person…

"An? What are you doing here? Get to your seat. The bell already rang."

Teacher Xiaozhen’s voice snapped me back. The bell had ended while I stood frozen at the door… but entering this den of beasts?

I turned. Teacher Xiaozhen—barely reaching my waist—held her textbook, head tilted in confusion. Above her:

【Clone-223】

【Ke Xiaozhen】

"An! An Juncheng! Juncheng! Xiaozhen-sensei will get mad!"

Only after three name changes did I snap out of it. That sci-fi title sparked wild theories.

"Huh?! Ah—right! Coming in!"

Our homeroom teacher looked like an elementary kid. Famous as the "loli teacher" around school, she’d claimed dwarfism caused her height on her first day. But "Clone-223"…?

I swallowed hard, eyes darting over the insane titles. My feet itched to run…

Was there *anyone* normal?!

What in the world!