Chapter 178 - Hundred And Seventy Eight - Jin Li clarifies rumours (1/2)

When Sun entered his dorm room later that day, having been assisted by a Senior when Teacher Corvus was called away, he was quick to notice that his room-mate's frozen face had melted slightly into a furrowed frown. He was sitting upon his bed, legs stretched along its length and leaning against the wall whilst staring somewhat strangely at a small book in his hands. His eyes flickered once to see Sun entering, but quickly fell once more upon the book.

”You are back,” he did acknowledge, politely.

”En,” Sun replied in breezy agreement. ”Technique or skill?” He was referring to the book. From his knowledge of Jin Li's obsessive personality, there was no way that bamboo book was anything else! Imagining Jin Li flicking through a girly romance novel could have been amusing, if it weren't impossible!

”Technique,” Jin Li replied. ”But it seems to this Lord that this book might contain fake content.” It suggested that it would be possible to create a connection between two men in order to dual cultivate using an opening meant for an entirely different purpose. But... Jin Li did not elaborate, so Sun did not query. It was not unusual for Cultivators to keep techniques and skills to themselves and not share with others. As the scholars would say; knowledge is power.

So Sun hobbled over to his own bed and lay down upon it; not that his wounds hurt much anymore. Well his face felt a bit sore and the skin on his leg felt taut and a bit itchy, but Corvus had reminded him over and over to keep his weight off of his leg and not aggravated the wounds. Sun rolled his eyes, thinking Corvus sounded more like his weepy mother than his Teacher. He curled his legs into a comfortable position, thinking of cultivating seeing as there wasn't anything better to do, when a thought occurred to him.

It was the sort of thought that spun around one's head once it was implanted and refused to be removed and no matter how one tried to distract oneself from thinking about it, the mind would surely circle back to it, no matter the leaps and bounds it took to get there. Like an excitable puppy whose just scented its owner from afar, despite the owner trying to abandon it, cruelly. It was definitely not the sort of thought that would sit quietly while one cultivated, needing to be acknowledged and dealt with. He opened his eyes when realising this fact and turned his face slightly to glance at Jin Li, who was still attempting to decipher whatever he read within that book.

”Jin Li...?” Sun's tone was a long, slightly ingratiating one, inferring the fact he was about to ask something and the person subject to the query might not like what he hears. ”Jin Li, there's these rumours going around recently... rumours about you.”

Jin Li made no attempt to respond nor did his facial expression change in anyway, not even a flicker, basically indicating his stance on the matter aka he didn't give a flying...

”Of course, I didn't believe them,” Sun said, righteously, ”but I thought I should maybe warn you.”

Again, that half of the room remained silent and unmoved.

”I'd even forgotten about them,” Sun continued. ”But you know, yesterday Miss Vela called me out of class... to ask me to clarify them with you.” This last part was said upon a sigh of melancholy.

”...Who?”

Sun almost slapped his own forehead. As usual, Jin Li never recalled the names of those he did not wish to, be it that he had no interest on knowing the person or that they simply hadn't imprinted their being on his memory, despite appearing before him. Sun would have thought he would have recalled Miss Vela though; ”Miss Vela, long indigo hair, legs that seem impossibly long?” Sun began to speak of what he considered as her good points and there were many of them. ”Favours high kick techniques and roundhouse kicks the most?”

”Oh that one,” Jin Li said with obvious disdain.

Sun frowned over his tone. ”What do you mean? Miss Vela is probably the best female Martial Artist of the First Years!”

”Places appearance over viability,” Jin Li began his criticism, no bars held back. ”And should her aim be true, slouches her shoulders in the follow up. Such an opening is ridiculous, will only lead to defeat.”