Volume 1 Chapter 6 (1/2)

Sorry for being late… You knohen you start translating and end up reading the rest of the chapter instead… And the rest of the volume… And the rest of the series…

Note: I’ve changed ‘homeroom teacher’ to ‘class advisor’ It sounds more natural that way

Originally posted on RBKTR Translations

Author: Lan Qi Zuo Ren (藍旗左衽)

Translated by: Yujuan

He had already left the classroo Lan quickened his footsteps to go back As he went past the border of the school colanced at the small pathway of thinly spread trees that provided shade He started going down that shortcut route on a reflex

He had seen Morris the last time he went down this pathway He wondered, if they would ain—

As he thought of that, a tall and suntanned figure entered his vision, facing the sa up at the wall

What was he looking at?

Feng Ping Lan crept forward, halting a little distance away from where Morris was

Morris stared at the wall, holding his breath with rapt attention He was serious and concentrated as if he was keeping watch of so

Was it a de his head to look at the sa at

He could see a ball of white and black nestled at the nook of the wall, languidly enjoying the sprinkle of sunlight co from the sparsely dispersed leaves

A cat Looking from its build, it was a kitten

Morris stared at the kitten, then, he slowly reached out a hand, and before he could touch it, the sleeping kitten rolled its body to reveal its sto into a much more comfortable position

Morris hesitated and withdrew his hand, deciding not to disturb its peaceful sleep The face that was constantly serious and angry instantly becaht smile

”You like kittens?”

Morris didn't think there would be anyone here and got a shock, turning his head to realize that it was Feng Ping Lan, and couldn't help but be startled and furious at the same time

”When did you get here!”

”Just now” Feng Ping Lan laughed foolishly, ”I didn't think that you would like s to catch it for breakfast Luckily it wasn't like that Hahaha!”

”None of your business! Who wants to eat it!” Morris roared agitatedly, rousing the kitten fro over to jump down the wall and ran away

Morris gazed at the kitten's distant figure, then glared at Feng Ping Lan with a look that said 'this is your fault'

”I just passed it by coincidence,” Morris explained impatiently, ”The underworld doesn't have this kind of species, so I was just curious”

”But you were looking at it the last tih his excuse insensitively, shtly, ”If you like it then just say it, it doesn't matter”

”I don't!”

”I also like kittens I kept three cats at ho, ”When there was no one at home, the cats would keep me company and sleep with me They're so warm and fluffy it's really co winter”

”So what!” It didn't have anything to do with him! ”I have no interest in this puny species!” So he wasn't envious at all!

”But they were especially frail, so they passed away before long” Feng Ping Lan revealed an aard smile, ”So I didn't adopt any more Maybe it's because I didn't take care of them well, haha…”

Morris stared at Feng Ping Lan, not saying anything except a lowto do with me…”

”You're always at the school co Ping Lan asked expectantly

”I'ate” Morris replied snappily, ”The atmosphere at this school is a bit weird”

”Is it thelower-level demons?”

”That's one of the reasons” Morris glanced around the school area School hadn't really opened yet, so it was tranquil, ”But there was already a peculiar feeling before that…”

That was a feeling that he couldn't describe, that had been covered up by so they couldn't touch or feel as if it didn't exist at all

But he had anis that existed yet did not exist Although his strength eaker than he usually was, his innate abilities warned hi unknown

There was an inhar behind the scenes Were people sent fro here? Or was it—

Suddenly Morris' eyes beca Lan to hide behind the trees

Just as Feng Ping Lan was about to ask rong, he saisted figure near the entrance of the pathway

It was a tall and thin body that looked like soreen appearance wason its body, an entire head bald of hair, and its face sht and shriveled up body e posture, and the countless eyes on its face were rolling in all directions, probing around

”That's Ci Mu's clone…” Morris lowered his voice to say quietly to Feng Ping Lan, ”It has no interest towards humans, so don't make eye contact towards it and act like you didn't see it Walk past it and leave this place”

”What about you?”

”I don't need your concern!” He wasn't so miserable as to need a human's pity!

”Are you going to attack it?”

”No Fighting inconsumed even faster Besides, if I alert et ritted his teeth, cursing in huer, ”It's just th wasn't restricted…” He could only hide away and hope, powerlessly, that it would leave Although the worst-case scenario would be to be discovered, and flee whilethe enemy head-on

”I see…” Feng Ping Lan nodded his head, ”Doesn't it have any weakness?”

”Ci Mu doesn't like water His clone can't co areas like rivers and lakes, because the water's reflection will distort its vision” Morris quietly observed itsto move an inch

”Oh If it's like this, I knohat to do!” Feng Ping Lan grabbed Morris' hand, ”Let's escape together! Move here!”

”What?” Before Morris could react, Feng Ping Lan had taken his hand and rushed forwards

Feng Ping Lan lead Morris along to pass through the trees andtowards the other side of the school compound

Morris could feel Ci Mu's clone chasing thes, so it maintained some distance from both of them, but they still couldn't shake it off

”What are you up to! As long as our shadows are locked on, we can't escape its clutches!” Morris roared angrily

Looking at the distance between theet a hold of his appearance, plus with his weakened powers, there was a possibility that it hadn't recognized him

But running away like this wouldn't be any good!

”We're almost there!”

Feng Ping Lan pulled Morris in front of the gy to theventilator on the walls outside the building ”That's it! Juh the !”

Morris hesitated for a moment, but the situation at hand forced him to have no choice

Desperate times called for desperate measures!

He grabbed Feng Ping Lan's collar and threw hih thein an a parabola

Behind the as a spacious area, and at the center was an enorular track—

This was?

Morris froze, and realized before he round beneath his feet was It ater

This was a pool?! damn it, towards water he was—

He wanted to evade it, but the weight had already thrown both of them into the water

Splash!+

A huge volume of water splashed out The tranquil waters stirred up a burst of waves, then slowly calmed down into small ripples of clear and crystalline reflections in the sunlight

Feng Ping Lan shrunk beneath the waters, raising his head to look above A blurred and twisted body above the surface entered his vision

He held his breath, carefully waiting He saw a figure appear at theventilator by the side

Was it really okay? Although he was subed in water, the water was transparent, so would it really evade Ci Mu's trail?

The silhouette by the ly stretched out, staring at the vast swi pool It stopped for a while, then it sloithdrew and vanished behind the

Feng Ping Lan waited for a ed from the waters

”Huah!” He took a deep breath, at the sa at the ith alertness If he sensed anything fishy he would iain

But the twisted figure did not appear again

”It's gone!” Feng Ping Lan laughed in rejoice, ”Luckily there ater in the swioners Hahaha”

But nobody answered hier

”Morris?” Feng Ping Lan turned his head The only one above the surface was him

Where was he?

He lowered his head, only to see a well-built suntanned body face-down underwater, all four limbs spread out

”Morris?!”

Feng Ping Lan hurriedly took a deep breath, plunging into the water to pull Morris as drifting slowly like seaweed out He exerted hugethe robust body onto the banks

Morris had his eyes closed, frowning deeply He was clearly in an unconscious condition, his chestup and doeakly

Oh no oh no, what to do! Feng Ping Lan was in a flurry

CPR? No, that was to be used when there weren't any !

What should he do? He reht him… the CAB mnemonic chant Firstly, call out and verify the person's consciousness…

Feng Ping Lan patted Morris' shoulder, ”Hey, are you okay, how are you feel— Ah that's not right! It's not like that!” Both of his hands grabbed his head, thinking frantically whileup his hair He finally came to a decision

Whatever! Artificial respiration it is!

Feng Ping Lan licked his lips, then glancing at Morris' subtly gaping mouth

He'd sacrifice his first kiss to save so to do!

Thus, he breathed in deeply, closed his eyes and moved his head towards Morris—

”What are you doing!”

A reproving voice sounded before him, and before his head touched down a solid palm had blocked him mid-air

Feng Ping Lan opened his eyes and saeen the gap of Morris' fingers that Morris was glaring at hier

”That's great, you're awake!” Feng Ping Lan released a sigh of relief

Morris coughed twice, spitting the water that he had sed on reflex He then gasping for breath, coughing for quite a while after that

Feng Ping Lan patted Morris' back while saying nostalgically, ”From after the seal was broken, we've ether The first ti the third tiether with our bodies wet,” he couldn't help but let a laugh escape, ”That's so interesting!”

”Interesting like hell!” Morris becaitated, ”Who told you to act on your own accord!”

”Sorry, I didn't know you couldn't swim”

”Shut up!” Morris bellowed violently, and then he started another series of coughs

”You okay? Do you want to drink some water?”

”Shut up!” Morris stood up, ”Get away froain!”

After throwing down those harsh words, he didn't care about his soaked body and juh the same

Feng Ping Lan grabbed his head He looked at his watch and realized that there were still three minutes before class ended

Oh no! He hurriedly stood up and quickened his steps to go back

Feng Ping Lan cliuard at the entrance of the swi pool area He arrived at the classroo

Yin Su Shuang stood before the teacher's desk, coldly gazing at the utterly soaked Feng Ping Lan, ”You were gone for twenty-seven minutes” With that said, he paused and waited for the bell to ring, then opened his mouth, ”You said that you had a stomach ache and had to use the toilet, but in the end, class has finished and you came back entirely wet”

”This isn't toilet water!” Feng Ping Lan clarified seriously

”I know That's why I tolerated your nonsense and didn't treat you like rubbish to dispose of” Yin Su Shuang stared at Feng Ping Lan for aa few curses under his breath

Feng Ping Lan couldn't hear what he was saying, just a few phrases like 'the Director' and 'unruly and rash'

”I'll take note of you” Yin Su Shuang warned, then sweeping a cold gaze around the whole class to deliver a threat before leaving the classroom

Feng Ping Lan returned to his seat under everyone's gaze

”You're crazier than I'd originally thought” Bai Li Rui handed a napkin to Feng Ping Lan, saying, ”Are you trying to create an unrestrained and wild bad boy iirls? Brilliant move, but it's a bit too much”

”I' that far!”

”What were you doing?” Conglong asked, frowning

”Aiya, it's a bit hard to explain, I'll tell you later”

Later, Feng Ping Lan explained to Conglong and Simo that he'd seen Byriel on the rooftops; and then he'dpool

But, he didn't say anything about Morris observing cats He felt that Morris didn't want anybody to find out However sloas, however stupid he was, he knew that everyone had so that they didn't want discovered

Because he had one too

”Ci Mu's clone huh…” Conglong conteinal body, and seldom sends out its own clone Who knohat induced it to act like this”

”Maybe it's because of the change in environment”

”Possibly If its clone appeared here, we need to be et mixed into the crowd”

Simo who had stayed silent all this while and had not uttered a word fro to the end revealed an uneasy expression

The half-day was spent collecting schoolbooks,to the asse school's introductory video In the end, Byriel hadn't cole class

When the school bell rang, Conglong made an incredibly hard-pressed request

”I want to use the public bus to go back”

”You sure?” He did not forget the incident when they rode a bicycle where he had been enlightened with perfect wisdom

”I checked, this kind of transport goes and stops, and its fastest speed is 40smiled with confidence, ”No problem This would make us even more subtle and assimilate us into the student crowds”

”If you say so…” Feng Ping Lan forced a set placed on their blacklist” As they left the classroo, just in case he needed it

When Feng Ping Lan brought Conglong and Simo to the bus stand, there were quite a lot of students waiting there as well, including the girl that kept on co her hair

Yin Su Shuang had not let everyone introduce the at his personality, he didn't seeames to let them bond better

Feng Ping Lan wanted to say hello to that girl, but she kept on looking at herher hair, co around her, so he could only drop it

”Until when are you guys staying at the residence?”

”We'll probably keep on staying there Although there aren't a lot of gooda place to stay in the human world isn't easy”

”I guess so, buying a house nowadays is quite expensive”

”The proble rolled his eyes, ”We're not humans, and we're even more so not this area's residents Because we don't have identities, we'll need to cast a whole lot of spells, including using hypnosis, allusions and willpower to control and obtain the documents and various contracts to live as a norh has to follow the rules, and if anything goes wrong it'll summon some really troublesome problems in the future”

”I guess you could say that” He didn't realize that the de Lan paused for a few moments, then opened his et sealed into that house? Was it done by other demons?”

Conglong beca to think that he didn't want to answer, a downcast voice due to the

”It wasn't a demon It was a Demon Slayer, the hunters that are a part of the Suritted his teeth, as if he didn't want to admit it, ”They're humans”

”De Lan to be baffled

So in the human world, there were other humans who could see the demons' existence?

”De into this world isn't an easy feat to do, but there are some huic circles to summon the demons to the human world They'll create a contract with them and put those demons to work Those are Summoners

”Of course, that doesn't mean every demon is summoned to the human world Summoners can only control deher caliber, they'll be the ones controlled instead and beco helplessly said, ”Aory that's called the De spells In their eyes, demons are intruders that shouldn't exist in this world other than the ones that are contracted to humans Just like us”

”I see…” Feng Ping Lan was really astonished The wars between huh The relationshi+p between humans and demons was even more complicated

No matter the species, they could not peacefully, steadily coexist on this land

”Before we cainally a deot rid of that demon e came to the human world so that we could take the house for ourselves”

”See rid of a disaster, what's wrong with that?”

”Yes, so the Delong's expression becaed soo of us The Demon Slayer did not seal us off forever, and left behind the conditions to break the seal He gave us a chance to escape, and also left us a strand of hope”

At first, they had thought it was an uncertain and indefinite hope, but they didn't think those conditions would be attained twelve years later

But, they had unlocked the seal with great difficulty but the prince was nowhere to be found, so they were once again at a loss

”Then why did you guys come to the human world?”

”To flee To escape frole for the throne between the thirteen princes…” Defeat, resentment, distress, humiliation, it was all written in the boy's eyes

With that expression, this was the first ti looked about the sae as him, he wasn't human and was several tih in his life several times harsher

He hurriedly changed the topic

”Oh that's right, Byriel et away from your current situation, there was anotheryour master What was it?”

Conglong glanced at Feng Ping Lan, ”None of your business”

”Oh, okay” Feng Ping Lan shrugged his shoulders, not asking any more

Before long, the bus had arrived The group of three and that girl boarded the bus Although she kept on looking at the mirror while she walked, she didn't trip nor bu Lan silently admired her from the back

They went to the last rohich was a double seating Si Lan stood on the ay beside them

After all the passengers had boarded, the doors of the bus slowly shut close

Just as the bus doors were about to close, a dark-green hand suddenly shot in, and a long twisted body flashed in through the narrow slit of the doors

Feng Ping Lan sucked in a breath, lowering his head to look at Conglong and Sione ashen after realizing that they had an uninvited guest in their midst

In the next second, the bus started

Feng Ping Lanhis voice to speak to Conglong, ”What do we do? Why is it here?”

”It could be because of you and Morris' encounter earlier that raised its suspicions It saw your shadow, so it could track you”

”Uh! Sorry!”

”This isn't your fault” If Feng Ping Lan hadn't helped Morris escape, that could have resulted in a fight between Morris and Ci Mu It would have attracted ht to becoeous

But they could still run in an open area, and now that they were trapped in a bus, what should they do?

Feng Ping Lan secretly looked to the front Ci Mu's clone was inspecting the students one by one, observing them from head to toe It looked as it came closer to the back

”Getting off the bus halfould raise suspicions, and the next stand is at least eight uys want to cast a spell and escape from the s?”

”We'll be noticed if we cast spells now, and we're not sure whether it has other companions”

”Then what should we do?” Feng Ping Lan anxiously looked over and saw that Ci Mu had stopped beside the girl as currently co her hair For soer than with others ”Can't we do anything?”

”Yes, we can do so We make a contract” Simo who had been silent this entire while opened her mouth

Conglong looked at her with a flabbergasted expression

”We can sign a contract with a huthen our link and rationale with this world After the contract is signed, we can make a mimicry of actual contractors”

”Don't talk nonsense!” Conglong refuted, ”We'd be no different fros of those Summoners then!”

”Feng Ping Lan isn't a Summoner, he's different from a Summoner” Simo said seriously, ”We have no choice I don't want to be defeated by soain…”

Conglong stared at Si in every possible way At last he gritted his teeth and staked it all on one throw

”Idiot, listen well After this whatever I repeat, you repeat” Conglong quietly instructed, ”I, Feng Ping Lan, an a contract; take the chains that transcend this common world and bind it upon our souls, blood, and flesh”

”You’re sure?” Feng Ping Lan had seen Conglong's earlier reaction It had felt extree of soer ”Will we be noticed?”

”No choice The contract is a binding of our souls, and it's not a spell cast outwardly When it starts it won't be prominent to people other than the ones involved, so nobody will realize it We don't have enough time, hurry up!”

Feng Ping Lan repeated those words

”Do you have any de to this world, you're the master and I'm the servant, so you can put forth some conditions”

”I don’t have any”

Conglong widened his eyes, ”You sure?”

”Yeah yeah, we don't have enough time, hurry up”

”I serve use to you, you serve use to me”

”I serve use to you, you serve use to me”

After repeating this, Feng Ping Lan felt so different in his body, as if his pores had been opened up and every one of his cells was cla up, a tereat waves within his body

”And then?”