Ch 87: There will be money.

Rui Bu Si clung to her un-broken lie.

“Why are we talking about such boring things as soon as I get back?” she looked away and changed the subject, “Let me tell you, so much has happened at Meng Academy recently!”

Her tone was exaggerated, her voice drawn out, attempting to draw Mi Ya Xing’s attention away from the Magic Cube.

“Oh, such as?”

“Such as…” What had happened recently? Nothing much, really. The biggest thing was that she’d skipped morning class and Director Pa hadn’t even noticed.

“Such as classmate Ba Bi…”

“Classmate Ba Bi was bitten and became anemic. Count Gulak was identified by Head Nurse Da Tiantian as the vampire who bit Ba Bi, but the wound tests showed spider venom, and Dark Poison as well.”

Picking up on her hesitant words, he said with a smirk, “Anything else?”

Rui Bu Si：……

What’s going on?

Didn’t Lan Bao say that Count Gulak was a vampire when he returned that day, and that he made Ba Bi anemic?

Oh, the test results weren’t out when he came back.

She hadn’t paid attention to the follow-up.

“And… um, the school had a ghost incident for a few days…”

“It turned out to be a Lei Gu Chun, a person transformed from a doll, crying downstairs in the girls’ dormitory because they couldn’t get their things.”

Rui Bu Si：……

“And isn’t it also true that classmate Rui Rui’s magic disappeared after she wished on the Infinite Egg, the price being that she would turn into a mermaid after sunset? At the same time, it was discovered that classmate Miao Miao Katie also made a wish, the price being her ‘happiness,’ that is, her laughter disappeared.”

He looked at the Magic Cube in his hand, speaking casually and lightly. Rui Bu Si listened with a bewildered expression.

What Infinite Egg?

Director Pa’s version was that Rui Rui had a problem with the Shi Juan Shi and needed treatment in the infirmary.

As for Miao Miao Katie, didn’t she laugh quite nicely?

Mi Ya Xing could see that she knew nothing.

“You don’t know anything and you dare use this as an excuse?” He poked her forehead impatiently. She nervously brushed his finger away.

“Oh, you can’t say that.” She hadn’t been paying attention to other things because she’d been having fun swinging her stick every day, you see?

“Now that you admit you can’t restore the Magic Cube, are you just going to take it apart and put it back together?”

She had principles in this area: “I didn’t. It was like that when you gave it to me.”

“I gave it to you?”

“Yes.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yep.”

“Swear on your next Potionology exam score.”

“I’ll… get a four…”

“Speak properly.”

“Isn’t this oath a bit vicious?”

She had always passed Potionology by the skin of her teeth—even with near-perfect participation marks.

If she failed, she would have to be like Jian Ni, unable to sleep in the dormitory during holidays and have to attend group tutoring sessions in the classroom.

“Then admit it.”

“Okay.”

“Okay what?”

“I did take the Magic Cube apart.”

“How many times?”

“Five or six times…?”

She just couldn’t put it back together… she had other things to do, and she didn’t have the patience.

“Five or six times?”

It seemed like more than that: “Seven or eight times?”

Mi Ya Xing didn’t want to ask any further.

“Don’t worry,” she pressed down on his hand as he prepared to turn the Magic Cube again, “When I have money…”

“You’ll get me a new one, right?” He knew what useless words would follow without her having to finish.

Rui Bu Si nodded repeatedly, and promised again: “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely have money.”

She’d said this countless times; its credibility was about the same as Jian Ni saying he could eat by his looks alone.

“By the way, let me tell you, I feel an ominous presence in the school.”

“Because Head Nurse Da Tiantian is going to take an exam and is preparing to leave Meng Academy?”

“Huh?” Wouldn’t that mean no more money to buy snacks, and no more free meals from Head Nurse Da Tiantian’s care packages for Director Pa?

It was indeed ominous news.

But the ominousness wasn’t quite what she felt.

“Don’t worry, after Head Nurse Da Tiantian leaves, the school will send someone new to temporarily fill in.” He habitually went to turn the Magic Cube, then stopped because of the unfamiliar feel.

The person watching his series of actions felt guilty but tried to look innocent: “I will have money, really.”

That evening, back in the dormitory, the entire room was filled with the smell of insecticide. Ya Ya pounced on her as soon as she saw her, and they both fell to the ground.

“Spider! There’s a spider in the dorm! A huge spider! It just ran across our dorm from the shadows!”

Rui Bu Si was dizzy from her shaking; she hadn’t understood a single word except the repeated mention of the spider.

“Can’t Ya Ya catch it?”

“It’s hiding in the blankets now.”

“……”

That night, Wu Ke Na Na was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep when there was a knock on the dormitory door.

The two girls upstairs, clutching their blankets, stood at her dormitory door and said in unison: “Senior, can we borrow a place to stay for the night?”

Ya Ya pulled out a few bags of duck snacks: “For Xiong Xiong.”

？

“I can, but the dorm doesn’t have…”

The moment she said “I can,” the two girls rushed past her and into her dorm.

Wu La La welcomed their arrival.

Even though Ya Ya was carrying herself, Ya Ya and fufu, forcing her to clear a large space next to her bed that was usually filled with miscellaneous items.

Wu Ke Na Na stated beforehand: “Due to the influence of my magical ability, I’ll be a bit cold.”

“It’s okay, I’m very healthy.”

Their dorm was full of lingering insecticide smell. Whether the insects were killed or not was unclear; Rui Bu Si felt like she couldn’t breathe.

Even if it was cold, it was better than sleeping in a dorm filled with insecticide.

In the middle of the night, Wu Ke Na Na woke up from her sleep.

She opened her eyes and found herself being hugged like an octopus. Both blankets were scattered on the floor. She tried to reach for them, but she was held too tightly to move.

The next morning, someone successfully caught a cold and went to see Lan Bao.

“Strange?” Rui Bu Si was very puzzled, “I felt like I slept well last night. Why did I catch a cold?”

Wu Ke Na Na：……