1234 Teacher Mo Fan, Part Two (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
In the corridor of a building by the lake at the Pearl Institute…
The sunlight was passing through the French windows of the classroom, shining upon the desks and chairs, the electrical equipment, and the ceiling lights. The only thing it failed to light up was the grim look on Mo Fan's face as he sat behind the desk beside the speaker's stand.
Mo Fan and Mu Nujiao were the only people in the classroom. The graduates would show up in another half an hour. Mu Nujiao was trying to comfort Mo Fan, although she could not help but laugh hysterically inside.
”There's no way I would accept this if it wasn't for the handsome rewards!” Mo Fan swore.
”I bet Dean Xiao is giving you a chance to experience how it feels to be a mentor. Perhaps he's going to make you an honorable mentor of the Pearl Institute. It's good for you,” Mu Nujiao encouraged him.
Mo Fan initially thought Dean Xiao was just joking. After all, he was still a student of the school, while a mentor would have to be qualified before they were allowed to guide a bunch of graduates.
Unfortunately, Mo Fan had underestimated how cunning Dean Xiao was!
Since Dean Xiao was the dean of the institution, it meant his clearance was higher than a mentor, and if the job was only available to the dean of an institution, the dean could then assign anyone to be his assistant mentor as he wished.
Normally, a job at this level would require two to five mentors, each with three to seven graduates under them, to be completed.
Dean Xiao currently had a job in progress, but the mentors under him had yet to make any progress. He had no choice but to put it aside. To his surprise, Mo Fan had suddenly shown up and said that he wanted to graduate. Dean Xiao believed it would be a waste of his talents to assign a job to him like any other graduate. He decided to make Mo Fan a mentor instead and ask him to lead a few students in taking care of the part of the job that had been troublesome so far!
It was impossible for Dean Xiao to handle everything on his own. If Mo Fan managed to get the job done for him, he was more than willing to let Mo Fan graduate With Excellence as he wished. It was killing two birds with one stone!
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”We never thought we would actually be selected. It's a job that Dean Xiao is in charge of. We didn't make it when the four mentors were recruiting graduates for it since the guys that were ranked higher than us claimed all the spots. To our surprise, Dean Xiao ended up appointing another mentor to do the job. Thank God!” a dignified and old-fashioned young man exclaimed.
A few other young and good-looking students showed up. They exchanged glances with one another. A young man with spiky hair said, ”Are you all here for the graduation mission too?”
”Yeah, I think the mentor is waiting for us upstairs. I hope it's not a strict old woman. Otherwise, we are going to suffer. I've already signed a contract with the Shoreline Alliance. I'm just waiting to get my Pearl Badge,” the young man who seemed like he had walked out of a museum answered.
”Humph, does it matter who the mentor is if we're good enough?” the young man with spiky hair said arrogantly.
”Hehe, that might be true, but each mentor is responsible for a part of the job. If the part assigned to us is so difficult that we just can't finish it, we still won't get our Pearl Badge no matter how good our performance is, right?” the old-fashioned fellow said.
”Let's go, the mentor should be waiting for us,” a cute-looking girl hurried them along.
There were six of them. The six graduates met up at the ground floor. They gathered their courage and headed for the classroom.
After entering the classroom, the old-fashioned young man saw Mo Fan sitting at the speaker's stand. He immediately frowned, ”Hey, what you are doing? You shouldn't be sitting on the mentor's seat, even if he or she isn't here yet. If the mentor has a bad first impression of us, we aren't going to get our badges!”
Mo Fan was stunned. He could not react in time.
The handsome man with spiky hair went forward and dragged Mo Fan off the seat. He said, ”I'm different from them. I'm aiming to graduate With Excellence, so you better not do anything that would make the mentor mad, or I'm going to make you pay for it!”
The cute-looking girl quickly came up to settle the dispute. ”Hey, calm down, we're a team. Let's not ruin the mood now!”
Mo Fan glared at the student and snapped, ”If you don't let go soon, I'm afraid you will never graduate With Excellence!”
”What do you mean by that? Are you threatening me? I've seen the likes of you quite often, trying to be a freeloader on the team in order to graduate! I won't be teaming up with you bunch of trash if some idiot hadn't made a mistake that ruined the whole operation last time. I'm warning you, you don't want to mess with me!” the man snapped angrily.
It was Mo Fan's first time seeing such a bad-tempered and proud student.
The energy of the Space Element burst out of his body with a thought and struck the handsome student. The man was knocked all the way to the end of the classroom. His back slammed heavily into the wall.