Ch 132: The Romance of Fire

“Why are we watching by the pond?” Mi Ya Xing, called over by Rui Bu Si, looked at the nearby tree.

Setting off fireworks isn’t appropriate, is it?

“I don’t know.” Ji Mi shook his head, sharing his extra popcorn with Rui Bu Si and Mi Ya Xing. “I heard Xiao Feng Feng say someone’s preparing to set off fireworks here late at night.”

He had never seen fireworks in the human world, so he came to take a look with Yu Feng.

He asked Yan Wang, who said he wasn’t interested in such things.

It was a little cold by the pond at night, so Jian Ni handed his pre-prepared coat and gloves to Wu La La.

“The beautiful fireworks you talked about, are they here?” Actually, after practicing combination magic with her sister for a while, Wu La La wasn’t very afraid of the cold anymore.

But she still accepted the things Jian Ni gave her.

“Mm.”

Jian Ni was a little nervous.

Although he said he was born to rely on his looks to make a living, as Mi Ya Xing’s mind reading revealed, he had never been in a relationship.

Let alone having been in one, he hadn’t had much contact with girls.

—Rui Bu Si and Ya Ya don’t count.

He wasn’t sure if Wu La La would like it.

She probably… would, right?

He should have asked Rui Bu Si first; after all, she’s a… wait.

Jian Ni remembered why he hadn’t asked a couple of questions beforehand.

The culprits who had knocked him unconscious in the classroom were Rui Bu Si and Mi Ya Xing!

“Jian Ni, what’s wrong? Are we going to wait here for a long time?” Wu La La summoned a Xiong Xiong.

She originally wanted to call her sister and other good friends to watch, but Jian Ni said no.

“No, um… we can start now.” Putting irrelevant people aside, he looked towards the pond, his palms sweating nervously.

Raising his right hand, the Shi Juan Shi gathered in his hand; his expression was more serious than any other time he had used magic.

“Rain of World Burning—”

As his hand swung downwards, star-like sparks the size of raindrops erupted from the sky and fell towards the pond below.

Countless lights flashed before his eyes, falling into the pond, creating a series of splashes and rising mist.

So fireworks are like a fairyland.

“You said you were very interested in fireworks in the human world; I couldn’t take you to see real fireworks, so I thought of this method.” Jian Ni hesitated; he didn’t know if his performance was good enough.

He really should have discussed it with Rui Bu Si.

“These are the most beautiful fireworks I’ve ever seen, and the most beautiful magic I’ve ever seen. Jian Ni, I like it very much.”

Her eyes were still sparkling in the night. Jian Ni scratched his head awkwardly: “Y-you like it, that’s good.”

It’s a good thing he didn’t show this beautiful thing to Rui Bu Si first.

Actually, this magic isn’t called Rain of World Burning at all.

It was a practice method Teacher He Yan came up with when he saw Jian Ni practicing fire control by endlessly lighting candles, finding it boring.

It’s just a way to practice magic, without its own incantation. Jian Ni looked through the book for a long time and immediately chose this cool name.

Half of the popcorn hadn’t been eaten by the four spectators on the other side of the pond.

“Is that it? No more?” Ji Mi felt regretful.

Seeing Yan Wang practice every day, he could still tell that this thing tested one’s control over magic.

How strange, why does Yan Wang light candles all day, but when it’s someone else, it’s so romantic?

“Whether it’s over or not, we should go, Ji Mi,” Mi Ya Xing pointed to the pond. “The fire just now illuminated the whole small woods; if we don’t leave, Director Pa will come.”

Ji Mi wasn’t afraid of Director Pa.

But Headmaster Ous could still scare him.

After turning around and taking only a couple of steps, he saw someone who was supposed to not be there.

“How come the busy man has time to come over?”

Yan Wang ignored Ji Mi.

“You two, hanging out with the Meng Knights all day, do you understand who you’re representing?”

“Hey,” Ji Mi wasn’t happy to hear this. “We weren’t hanging out with the Meng Knights; they were the ones who came over.”

“Then you should distance yourselves from them!” It’s just a small magic trick, without any power, and it’s useless for combat. What’s the point of learning it?

Yu Feng spoke his first words of the evening: “Beautiful.”

Yan Wang didn’t understand: “What’s there to see in a little trick?”

Even if he wanted to watch, why watch someone else’s? He can do it too!

Rui Bu Si and Mi Ya Xing quietly left while Yan Wang was lecturing.

They didn’t want to deal with this short-tempered Meng Warrior Captain who didn’t listen to people and liked to yell.

Perhaps the illness had given Mi Ya Xing the illusion that she was cold, but wrapped in Mi Ya Xing’s coat, Rui Bu Si sincerely asked: “Are you cold?”

“Not cold.”

But still a little cold.

“If you’re cold, um… you can open the Good Friends Festival gift I gave you.”

“Now?” He was going to open it back in the dormitory.

He untied the ribbon bow, opened the gift box, and inside was a school uniform.

A very familiar-looking school uniform.

Oh, near the end of that patrol, he thought there were members of the Dark Clan in Meng Academy, but when he went to the attic, he met her.

After lending out his coat, he forgot about it.

“This is the Good Friends Festival gift?” Giving him his own coat?

“You said I could give you anything.” Rui Bu Si felt a little guilty.

On the night of the Hun Zou Te Ma Tou Energy incident, she forgot to return Mi Ya Xing’s school uniform.

Later… after washing it, she was going to return it, but she put it in the closet and completely forgot about it.

She just found it and even used an iron to press it.

“It’s not just this.”

“There’s something else in the box?”

“The gift box isn’t cheap either.”

“…”

“And I made incense for you,” she rummaged through the clothes and pulled out a piece of paper with a flower drawn on it. “Here, hand-drawn, I even colored it; each petal is a different color, full of love.”

“You’re the first person I’ve given a drawing to, Mi Ya Xing. You should feel honored.”

Mi Ya Xing then looked at the flower twice: “Okay, I feel very honored.”

On his way back, Eric looked at him twice and couldn’t help asking: “Mi Ya Xing, did you bring an extra school uniform when you went out today?”

Um…

In the girls’ dormitory, Wu Ke Na Na opened the door to see Wu La La returning late.

That gaze made Wu La La feel a little guilty: “Sister, why are you looking at me like that?”

“Wu La La, where did you get this boy’s school uniform, and these gloves? You haven’t bought gloves like these before.”

Um…

Pa Hua Luo Di woke up to find many fish floating belly up in the pond in the small woods.