Ch 232: One point five

Exams arrived, ended, and results were released. Director Pa awkwardly received numerous expressions of gratitude.

He repeatedly emphasized that he truly had no divine power to help people pass exams; the high pass rate was because the teachers felt everyone had worked hard.

But no amount of emphasis had any effect. Classmates continued to thank him as if making a vow, only after thanking him, they went to the Teacher’s Office to thank their teachers.

Fortunately, the exams finally ended, and he no longer had to face this awkward situation that was embarrassing enough to dig out a Meng Academy.

—At this time, Director Pa had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter.

Of all the people, Jian Ni was the most grateful to Director Pa—even though he often shouted that he didn’t believe in mysticism, he had actually properly prayed to every statue on campus, whether he knew it or not, and devoutly placed an apple—apples are cheap.

How long! How long has it been?

From the very first exam when he first came to Meng Academy until now, he! Lie Yan Jian Ni! Finally stood up!

His Magic Writing score was 1.5 points higher than Rui Bu Si’s!

According to Meng Academy’s custom, after the exam, the report card only shows the student’s ranking. Jian Ni pestered Director Pa Hua Luo Di in the Teacher’s Office for a long time before the latter finally agreed to let him see his specific score.

During this time, he inevitably was lectured by Director Pa, mostly praise and relief, and even a bit of sentimental reminiscence.

Jian Ni was very happy to be praised by Director Pa with so many words, and he simply ignored the slight warning at the end.

Of course, he was most happy about the 1.5 points.

The moment he left the Teacher’s Office, he shared the good news with all their mutual friends.

And generously declared to Director Pa: He would treat them to meals for the next week.

He looked smugly at Rui Bu Si, who didn’t want to stay here at all: “If you want, you can reluctantly join us~~~”

Rui Bu Si: “……No, I don’t want to.”

Director Pa spent two days talking about the 1.5 points. During this time, following the custom, Director Pa talked to each student individually.

Mi Ya Xing had just listened to some encouragement that was no different from before the day before, and the next day he went back to the office in another identity.

To be frank, he had never felt as nervous as he did this time when he saw Director Pa.

“Rui Bu Si.”

“Ah, um.” Still a little uncomfortable with this sudden identity change.

He knew that Director Pa would definitely not notice.

He was only worried that the magic he had just learned would reveal some flaws.

There shouldn’t be any, right?

He felt extremely anxious about his appearance and wanted to look in the mirror. He rarely acted without being fully prepared.

Usually, even with the most confident deductions, he would wait until he was absolutely sure before speaking out.

Fortunately, Director Pa didn’t suspect anything at all, only commenting on how well-behaved this student was today and told “her” to continue.

“Okay, Director Pa.” Mi Ya Xing finally understood why Rui Bu Si didn’t want to listen to Director Pa’s talk.

Director Pa had never talked to him so much.

The words of praise were all similar, and when it came to criticism, Mi Ya Xing felt he could fall asleep standing up.

The long conversation finally ended with Director Pa’s “have a good rest” after his third unavoidable yawn.

Stretching, Mi Ya Xing only realized as he turned to leave that Teacher He Yan had been standing behind him, not too close, not too far. The lighting was limited, and Mi Ya Xing couldn’t quite see what expression was on Teacher He Yan’s face.

“Hello, Teacher He Yan.”

“Hello~”

Feeling guilty, he felt that the “hello” was meaningful and intriguing.

Rui Bu Si didn’t have his concerns; she confidently and trustingly said that there would be no problem.

“Teacher He Yan is upright, and Director Pa can’t keep a secret, so there won’t be any problems.”

She spun Mi Ya Xing, who hadn’t changed back yet, around in a circle, sighing, “Oh, I’m so pretty~”

Then, because she didn’t want to listen to Jian Ni talk about the 1.5 points anymore and was tired of staying in the attic, she went to the infirmary to visit Xu Xingchun as planned.

—According to her observation, Jian Ni’s search route always skipped the infirmary, so he shouldn’t think of looking for people in the infirmary for the time being.

She had no objections to being in the infirmary, and Xu Xingchun was also happy to see her, but Mi Ya Xing quickly realized that this was not a very friendly place for him.

When the two of them were talking, there was no room for a third person to participate.

Under Xu Xingchun’s intentional or unintentional guidance, the conversation sometimes involved a past that he completely didn’t know about, and sometimes it was a funny story that made the two of them smile knowingly.

They would even talk about who had liked Rui Bu Si before and what they were like.

But he wasn’t in those pasts; he didn’t know what was funny about the funny stories; and he had never even met the people who had liked her.

“Classmate Mi Ya Xing, why don’t you talk? Do you think our girls’ topics are too boring?”

At the end of a happy topic, he received a pointed question from Xu Xingchun.

The word “we” was emphasized and drawn out.

It was less a question than an order to leave, the meaning being “if you can’t participate, leave”.

“Huh? Really?” Rui Bu Si fiddled with the small pendant Xu Xingchun gave her to play with, “I said I wanted to know about the past…”

It happened that she didn’t know what to say about the past, but Xu Xingchun could find something interesting in those boring things, making the story neither like an account of events nor revealing anything that shouldn’t be said.

“But you don’t seem very interested.” Or maybe she just thought it was interesting.

Mi Ya Xing thought he was hiding it fairly well: “It’s… quite interesting…”

If one of the people chatting didn’t have an obvious bias against him.

“If you’re bored, why don’t you go back? Oh, speaking of which, you being here seems to increase the risk of Jian Ni finding me.” That indescribable feeling or tacit understanding between Meng Knights.

“No,” he deliberately held Rui Bu Si’s hand, giving a “gentle” smile under her questioning gaze, “You continue.”

Rui Bu Si was stunned. Finally, from the flow of casual conversation, she sensed that the atmosphere was a bit off.

Turning her head again, Xu Xingchun’s smile also began to look unnatural.

“Let’s stop chatting here today.” Her intuition told her that it was not advisable to continue.

Xu Xingchun was quite disappointed: “I wanted to talk more about witchcraft.”

“You can talk to Teacher Kiki or Teacher Victoria about witchcraft.”

Mi Ya Xing took Rui Bu Si’s hand and stood up, looking like he was about to say goodbye.

“Those are different, the witchcraft memories with Si Si are unique, because they’re unique, so I can only talk to Si Si about them.”

Rui Bu Si was startled by this sudden address.

Of course, it wasn’t that no one had called her that before; in fact, there were many, but Xu Xingchun never had, so for a moment, she felt that she was being called by someone else.