517 Chapter 517: Stalker (2/2)
The problem was that he wasn't stupid enough to accept a proper challenge from me. He would scheme something to put himself at an overwhelming advantage. Furthermore, he had Ji Yan on his side. Yi Tai alone would be a handful, but if the two of them joined forces…
Well, I could just nuke the two of them together. To hell with Zhao Yan's feelings. Her sister was trying to kill me and I was merely acting out of self-defense. At least in that scenario, but the issue was whether Yi Tai would even allow such a scenario to come to pass in the first place. I couldn't exactly nuke the school along with him and Ji Yan, after all.
Yi Tai laughed as he left me standing alone there, bristling. While I contemplated my otpions, wondering if I should somehow rope Guang Zhi Yi Sect into helping me (they wouldn't – why the hell would they trust the word of an outsider like me over the word of Ji Yan, who had been a member of their sect for over a year?), Kufa slapped me in the back.
”Hey, Richard, what are you doing?”
”Nothing.”
”Really now?” Kufa raised an eyebrow, the corners of his mouth curling slyly. ”You've been following Nan Gong Ji Yan very closely for the past week or so.”
Was I really that obvious? And here I was thinking I had covered my tracks well enough. Then again, Kufa was among the more skilled students in Saint Teresa Academy, so it wasn't surprising for him to notice that something was up.
”Give up. Not only is Xu Wu Cheng much more handsome, popular and smarter than you, girls tend to prefer the bad boy vibes that he gives off than well-behaved but boring nice guys like you.”
That was quite the outrageous stereotype, but I had to admit that it was true in Ji Yan's case, particularly when I bitterly recalled how she betrayed me in favor of becoming a vampire just to beat her own sister.
What was the expression again? Didn't want to walk the road to heaven and chose to walk the path to hell or something like that? Whatever.
”Don't worry, it's not what you're thinking. I'm not interested in her at all.” Then I suddenly had an epiphany. ”I simply have a suspicion that Nan Gong Ji Yan might be a Chiropteran.”
Kufa stared at me in disbelief, and then burst out laughing.
”Dude, don't even joke like that. If there was a Chiropteran in this school, I would have flushed them out long ago. Don't forget that I have the same abilities as Saya. I can detect them. I can assure you that Nan Gong Ji Yan is not a Chiropteran.”
”Oh.”
Damn, that didn't work. I was such a fool. However, that brought up another question to mind.
”What about vampires? Can you and Saya tell apart vampires from normal humans?”
”Hmm…” Kufa thought for a bit, and then shook his head. ”Not exactly. Vampires are still humans. Chiropterans are clearly not humans – they are monsters. They are biologically different. We can track them through pheromones and mana, but since vampires use the same type of mana as humans, we can't distinguish them from other humans.”
Even among mages, only Saya and Kufa could tell Chiropterans apart from humans, and I couldn't unless I had my glasses. Even my glasses couldn't pick up any biological differences between vampires and humans, unable to distinguish Xu Wu Cheng from the other students. Otherwise I would have used that as evidence long ago.
Damn it…was there really nothing that I could use against that bastard!?
”Anyway, tone down on the stalking,” Kufa warned. ”Miura is getting increasingly annoyed…there she is.”
Miura was stomping over, and she tried to seize me by the collar, but as usual I deftly avoided her.
”What is the meaning of this, Richard?!” she hollered. ”Just when I finally believed that there is nothing between you and Rossetti, now you're chasing after a new girl?”
”I'm not chasing after any girl,” I told her coldly. ”And even if I am, it's none of your business.”
”Of course it is! You already have me!”
”I'm not interested in you. I've already told you that.” What was this girl, a stalker? Wait a second, given my behavior over the last week, I probably was in no position to criticize her for stalking. But I was doing it for a different reason, especially after Ji Yan's murder of Jiang Xue Yang last week. I had a perfectly justifiable reason.
”Just go out with me already! My La Noir family requires a powerful summoner like you to be their son-in-law!”
”Like hell I'll marry into your family over such a superficial reason!”
”If you marry me, you can do whatever you want with me.” Miura winked suggestively at me, but I glared at her in disgust.
”Have more self-respect for yourself, lady. And get it through your head that I am not interested in you.”
”But…!”
Kufa cleared his throat. ”Don't worry, Miura. Richard is only helping me in investigating Nan Gong Ji Yan for involvement in bloodsucking monsters.”
”Oh, right…I heard that you accused her of being the murderer of Jiang Xue Yang last week.” Miura then frowned and placed her hands on her hips. ”Don't tell me…that was an excuse for you to stalk Nan Gong Ji Yan?!”
I really wanted to know what went on in the brain of this deluded young lady. Again, as beautiful as she was, I was turned off by her stalker-ish and possessive behavior. I honestly wished she would stop bothering me. She just wasn't my type – I could tell that she would be worth more trouble than I could handle.
”Look, I don't care if you don't believe me, but stop following me around.” Turning in the direction of Xu Wu Cheng and Ji Yan, who were together again, I sighed. ”And I guess I'll also stop following others around as well.”
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