Volume 2 Chapter 8 (2/2)
”Put that down, Kaido” Su Li Wan urged, ”We already know the results You have nothing to lose either, so please just settle with this”
”You're unsightly!” Ivan shook his head
”Your actions have already gone against the rules” Liu Yi Chen warned coldly ”If you don't want o!”
Kaido's e at Liu Yi Chen and the others
Liu Yi Chen and the others hurriedly backed away, a blaze exploding out of the ground that they used to stand on
”Shut up, I don't care about that!” Kaido glared at Feng Ping Lan, the bladewith your arm!”
”I don't want to!” Feng Ping Lan yelled back, ”You lost!”
Kaido's eyes flashed with burning fury, ”You asked for it!”
He gripped his blade tight, the tip of his sword about to slice down froht his attention from the corner of his eye
He turned, only to see a young boy with purple hair that had appeared fro Lan and Kaido
Liu Yi Chen and the others stared at the boy that had abruptly appeared with astonishment
nobody knehen he had started crouching there
”Xiao Didi2, you should leave quickly, this place is dangerous” Feng Ping Lan also looked at the little boy, but did not sense any abnore is really vicious, he'll hit people!”
The little boy turned his head to look at Kaido, then looked at the net covered with spells, then at the reround
Igor tried to go up to pull the boy away, but Igor blocked him
”Wait…” Ivan warned quietly, ”Soht”
Not only with the boy's strange s, as well as the area in the vicinity It was cole person nearby
Where had all the other tourists gone?
The little boy raised his head to look at Kaido, spewing a whole chain of s to himself
”Are you a Summoner?”
”Yes, you cast a spell earlier I saw it all”
”Where is your Contract then? Is it here?”
His gaze traveled across the other four people, ”Is it one of you?”
”M on your side”
As the little boy muure stretching upwards, turning into an androgynous purple-haired demon
All present in the scene widened their eyes, not foreseeing this sort of development
”Who are you?” Kaido looked at the de any sort of panic or nervousness on his face
”I am Jiu Shao, have you heard of me?” The purple-haired demon asked expectantly
Kaido shook his head in disdain
Jiu Shao pursed his lips, ”Oh, alright then, since I'm a nobody that hides in the dark to survive, I won't ever be able to get famous”
He stared at Kaido, his purple hair rising upwards, squir like tentacles in the air
Then, Jiu Shao revealed a disgusted face
”…You have a fa on you”
It was faint, a presence that was barely able to be discerned, a frightful aura
Su Li Wan and Liu Yi Chen exchange a look, not sure of what to do No one dared to speak out, all of the at each and every uest
Their Contracts were not with them, and this wasn't the time to draw their weapons The only demon present was Ivan, but because of the limitations of the school, he couldn't command even a third of his power Before they could determine his motives, they couldn't expose their own identities
Jiu Shao swept a gaze through every one of them present on the scene, ”Are you his friends?”
”No!” Kaido denied
”I think so too” Jiu Shao nodded, ”No one treats their friends like that”
He turned to the others, ”Are you all Summoners?”
nobody replied
Jiu Shao answered for himself, ”Mm, all of them didn't use any spells from start to finish They only used nor too, must be normal people”
”But, they athered here”
”But,Nao and the others…”
Jiu Shao glanced at Liu Yi Chen and the others out of the corner of his eye
”Whatever, I better not find more issues for myself, I'll just capture the most important one then”
HeNao?”
Feng Ping Lan, as still lying on the floor, heard this and gulped
This guy was one of the Third Prince's subordinates, one of Quetzal and the others' enemies…
”I don't knohat you're talking about, and I don't s I destroy” Kaido retaliated, stabbing his sword at Jiu Shao ”And you, will be one of them”
Deter that this was an enemy, Kaido rudely attacked Jiu Shao consecutively, and as the blade sliced through, he tossed out more than ten attack-type seals from his sleeve
Jiu Shao re into two tentacles, one beating the seals away, another curling forward to easily wrap around Kaido's sword
Kaido tried his best to pull the sword away, but the tentacle gripping it was immovable, that it had been completely clamped shut
”If you forgot, I'll just bring you to the old location We'll get you to recollect your memories”
Kaido sensed sorip to escape, but he was too late
Jiu Shao waved his hand lightly, a round to encircle Kaido, instantaneously sing him in
”Bye-bye” With that, Jiu Shao gracefully stepped into the ic circle
”What was that all about?”
”That demon was at least a C-class or above, and it doesn't seem to have a contractor”
”Did you su Lan
”No” Feng Ping Lan muttered worriedly, ”That was a demon from the Royal Clan's subordinate, Quetzal's enemy…”
”The Royal Clan in the huood…”
Not arded deht The moment they were discovered, Summoners and demons both would be annihilated
”We should inform the teachers, with this scale of an incident” Liu Yi Chen said heavily, preparing her phone to report
”No, we can't!” Feng Ping Lan called out to stop her, ”That deues, but his colleagues were killed by Quetzal and the others Two deet the teachers to suppress him, it'll let a third demon vanish too, and then the Royal Clan will become suspicious of this place…”
They couldn't inform the teachers They couldn't let the Royal Clan's people know that they were here They even more so could not let Quetzal and the others appear
Feng Ping Lan bit down his lip in distress
He shouldn't have agreed to the fight with Kaido…
He shouldn't have been so pleased with himself that he lost his sense ofhorrible really had happened
”Rules are rules, your personal grudges is not enough reason to cover up so!” Liu Yi Chen refuted
”This isn't a personal grudge” Ivan spoke up, ”A de their subordinates to the human world, so they are the association's prey At the same time, the association's Summoners are also their prey If they discover the existence of the Shadow Acadeood for us”
”So are you guys planning on sacrificing Kaido?” Su Li Wan spoke softly, uneasy
”Of course not! We're going to save hioing to do is going to break a whole ton of school rules…”
”What do you propose?” Liu Yi Chen asked impatiently
”We can't let the Royal Clan become suspicious of this city, so we'll have to think of so to lure Jiu Shao away from here We'll need to leave this area before we think about fighting or even reporting to the school” Feng Ping Lan said as he pondered, ”No ht, Class Rep?”
Would the scrupulous, rule-follower Liu Yi Chen agree to his way of handling this? Or would she stick to the original plan of reporting this? Her decision became the crucial point to the next step
The group eyed Liu Yi Chen, anxiously waiting to hear her answer
Liu Yi Chen was frowning, expression incredibly cole, hesitation and jitteriness in her heart
In the next moment, she closed her eyes, breathed in deeply, then opened her eyes
Forget about it, she'd press her luck for this!
”What else can I say? I don't want to get a reputation for threatening the school's safety Nor do I want to be accused of throwing someone to the wolves”
She knew that this decision was absolutely impulsive, absolutely stupid But she knew that if she didn't do this, she'd regret this bout of 'cleverness' in the future
Besides, she was already fed up, fed up to the lientleness that she was being made into a fool by
The words Feng Ping Lan had told her the night before reappeared in her head
”If he won't be satisfied hatever you do, you ht as well do what you want”
Her life, her choices!
Feng Ping Lan smiled thankfully, ”Class Rep, thank you…”
”Xiao Liu…”
”No need for your disgusting e Lan, ”I'll slowly take out the debt you owe me with this favor! Don't think I'll let you off, you bastard!”
”Class Rep?” The group was flabbergasted with Liu Yi Chen's complete 180 on her personality
The stickler-for-rules Class Rep, was somehow a little different from before…
Bolder?
”Since we're going to save sonored the reactions of the others, asking, ”He got taken away too abruptly, so we didn't have ti spell If we can't find any clues to Kaido's whereabouts, we'll have to get back to school to trace his”
”That'll waste too et to him” Ivan vetoed
”So what now? Get your own ideas to replace it before rejecting soestions, or else shut your damn mouth!”
”Wuwu! When did Class Rep become so vicious…”
Just when the crowd ca out from the shadows
”I could be of some help, xixixi…”
The crowd turned, only to see an oversized body e from behind the trees
”Zong Yu?!”
”When did you arrive?”
”How did you know about this? Who told you?” Feng Ping Lan was astonished, turning his head to gaze into the shadowy depths, ”Uh, if there are any other students hiding behind the trees, can you please co out of time, please don't startle me anymore, thanks”
”nobody toldYu smiled darkly, ”There are too many turns of events that happen around you, so I have always observed you… I get very excited about any blood-spilling encounters, you see… Xixixi…”
That laugh caused the others to become very uncomfortable
”Do you have any way of tracking hi Lan asked
”You, take out your pencil case…”
”For what?”
”Your pencil case has Kaido's blood on it, I can use that to track down Kaido's location”
”Why is there Kaido's blood on my pencil case?”
”On the first day you arrived at Shadow Academy, your contract har Yu s that involves blood…”
”That's aoes on their period, aht?”
Liu Yi Chen slapped Feng Ping Lan up the head, ”Stop your nonsense! Hurry up!”
Feng Ping Lan hurriedly pulled out his pencil case, handing it to Zong Yu
Zong Yu sized up the pencil case, finding a s a corner He took out a s an unknown substance on the stain, then extended his finger to suspend over it
The chubby finger wavered slightly twice, then the gaps of the fingernail split apart to for into the stain The little insect was like a sponge, absorbing the dried blood and rapidly growing into a dragonfly-like insect, fluttering its wings before flying
”Follow it…”
”We'll be too slow!” Liu Yi Chen took out a rounded tarot card, rando an incantation A fla by itself into ashes
She blew the ashes towards the others
Feng Ping Lan could feel his body becoht
”We'll fly” Liu Yi Chen leaped off fro out like an arrow from a bow to the sky
The others followed suit Feng Ping Lan didn't have much control, and could only rely on Su Li Wan to pull hi
”Class Rep seems a little different, like she turned into another person entirely” Feng Ping Lan smiled as he moved forth
”I like the previous Yi Chen more, the Yi Chen now is so vicious…” Ivan mumbled
”Pay attention to your words, I can always take off the spell, see how you fall into a rubbish truck” Liu Yi Chen warned
”I think I like how Class Rep is right now” Feng Ping Lan continued, ”Byriel said that you were repressing yourself You look more natural now”
”That hooligan…” Liu Yi Chen humphed coldly
”Don't you care about your iinal Yi Chen later on, I won't ever be able to erase this from my mind…”
”You think there will be a 'later on'?” Liu Yi Chen scoffed, ”We're already taking these ht as well let loose with it”
If Yerde saw her like this, that handsoreen
Although she was going face a deadly situation, she was ineffably relaxed and cheerful…
She kne, that when humans faced the instance before they died, they would have the courage to throw off everything, revealing their true selves to the world
She had never been so relaxed, and this feeling of indulgence and letting everything go—
It onderful
TL Notes
1 Feng Ping Lan makes a joke with Kaido's na (海棠) in Chinese Sea urchin are called Hai Dan (海胆) What he originally says: ”Hai Tang's gonna turn into Hai Dan!”
2 Didi (弟弟) – younger brother