Chapter 12 (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Reassured, Ling Xueru went to the source of the voice and saw that Shen Zhe was sitting on Lu Zihan’s chest, bashing his face in the arena located at the playground.
They were truly “close”.
Satisfied and comforted?
Ling Xueru almost passed out in fury.
“Shen Zhe, what are you doing? Unreasonable fights are forbidden in the school. Do you want to be punished?” she scolded.
Shouldn’t Lu Zihan be the beater?
Wasn’t Shen Zhe a bad student?
What was going on?
It wasn’t until he heard her shouting that Shen Zhe finally noticed Ling Xueru. His face cramped.
That monitor had always been a snitch. If she reported it to the teacher, it was quite possible that he would be punished.
Thinking about that, Shen Zhe grabbed Lu Zihan who was half dead and declared angrily, “Monitor, Lu Zihan is determined to beat me up. I’m only defending myself…”
“He’s beating you up? And you’re defending yourself?”
Ling Xueru nearly choked.
“Bro, you could’ve told a better lie!”
“Even a blind person could see that you’re beating him up, not the other way around!”
“Wu! Wu! Wu! Wu…”
Lu Zihan, whose head was too swollen for him to see anything, almost vomited blood after hearing that, but he was unable to say anything and could only twist his body to show his discontent.
“Look, he just admitted it…” said Shen Zhe.
“…”
Lu Zihan cramped even harder.
After a long time, Ling Xueru was finally back to herself. Looking at Lu Zihan who had been deformed, she blushed and said, “Shen Zhe, you’ve heavily wounded a fellow student, which shows that you have no respect for the rules. I’ll tell the teacher…”
Whoever the victim was, she couldn’t condone such a violation!
If everybody fought each other every day, how could they illuminate their stars and become Mages or Martial Artists?
“You can do whatever you want, but don’t say that I didn’t follow the rules. Ask him if I obeyed the rules!”
Shen Zhe picked up Lu Zihan again.
He hated those who told everything to the teacher in his previous life.
It was as if keeping a secret would kill them…
“What could the teacher give you in return?”
“I…”
Struggling for a while, Lu Zihan came up with nothing.
He was the cause of everything.
He asked for more trouble after the failure, only to be crushed again.
He was depressed when he thought about it.
Ling Xueru frowned at Lu Zihan’s silence. She was about to ask further, when Zhao Chen and the rest of them approached.
“This is what happened…”
They soon explained everything.
After figuring things out, the girl’s eyes popped out.
So, that was a normal duel which was allowed in the school.
However…
The loser was Lu Zihan, a top ten student who had illuminated seven stars. Yet, he was smacked on the butt of the tailender.
Why did it feel so not right?
How could a bad student be so strong?
“Have you… polished your body?”
Ling Xueru looked at Shen Zhe after a brief hesitation.
There could be no other reasons.
Shen Zhe nodded.
“Body polishing…” Ling Xueru paused for a moment and continued, “…is only a trivial art. If you can’t illuminate the Seven Stars and pass the test at the end of this semester, it will be impossible for you to become a Mage or a Martial Artist. You can’t achieve much with body polishing. This is a world of Mages and Martial Artists after all…”
Even the Connate Body Practitioners were only on par with level-one Mages and Martial Artists, with a much lower combat ability.
Besides, it was barely possible to become Connate only with the physical body. Nobody had ever succeeded in the history of the Abyssal Ocean Kingdom.
That was the reason why people would rather study than polish their bodies.
The efforts were not worth it.
However, although she despised body polishing, Ling Xueru thought more highly of Shen Zhe at the moment.