Chapter 84 - Four - What their eyes seek (2/2)

Her fan fluttered as she sighed, dreamily.

Jin Li shivered as if someone had dropped ice into his inner robes.

”Are y-you alright?” Leon asked him.

”Yes,” Jin Li replied, dismissively, causing Leon to simply shrug.

”The guest rooms are likely all full,” Pike was saying. ”I don't think we'll have a spare bed for Leo, but it's troublesome for you to keep travelling back and forth to your school.”

”How did you get here this morning?” Sun asked curiously, as he was aware that they had both been at the alchemist school over night.

”Griffin,” Jin Li replied.

”We m-m-met with T-Teacher Sagi, who h-happened t-t-to b-be travelling over w-with others,” Leon confirmed. ”Th-they m-m-might still b-be g-going b-back.”

”Maybe,” Pike replied, but wasn't sure. There were spare accommodations for teachers after all as lectures could be performed by teachers from any of the other schools as well as their own.

”It does not matter,” Jin Li said, suddenly. ”Leon can simply stay with us.” Sun did not bother to protest, he knew once Jin Li had spoken, he would not change his mind.

Bowyer frowned. ”Why do you call him Leon not Leo?”

”It's his name.”

”It is?”