High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 403: Chapter 72: The Witches Tonight are a Bit Strange_1

Zheng Qing stood at the entrance of the classroom and scanned the room at once.

No sign of Elena.

Stubbornly, he slowed down his pace significantly and checked again.

The Gypsy witch was indeed not in the classroom.

”Strange.” The young scholarship student frowned, muttering with puzzlement, ”She clearly went upstairs.”

”What?” Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses.

”Nothing...” Zheng Qing waved his hand, giving an evasive reply, suppressing the doubt in his heart.

They clearly entered the teaching building together, but all he did was linger a few minutes at the entrance. How could she have disappeared? Was she planning to skip tonight’s class meeting? She didn’t mention taking leave this afternoon. Should he answer if Old Yao asked about her again?

With a bellyful of conflict and doubt, the young scholarship student walked with his head down, not even noticing Li Meng’s call.

”Thud!” A paper ball hit him on the head.

”You idiots!” The little witch looked at the three boys with indignation, ”You all look lost... Did fairies take away your souls?”

Zheng Qing blinked, taking a while to comprehend what Li Meng was saying.

”Why has she been so cranky lately?” The young scholarship student complained quietly. He recalled his perilous experience when he was transformed into a cat and couldn’t help but shake his head.

”Maybe her relatives are visiting.” Xiao Xiao tossed in a meaningful comment, catching Zheng Qing’s attention.

”You even understand this?!”

The doctor glanced at him disdainfully.

This made Zheng Qing wonder if he had said something wrong again.

...

Li Meng styled her hair in a bun today, coupled with her slightly chubby face and Jiuyou Academy’s bright red robe, she looked quite festive.

Jiang Yu had her black hair pulled up, casually draped over her shoulder. She was reading a thick reference book on her desk seriously. The outline of that book looked familiar to Zheng Qing.

Unsurprisingly, Li Meng’s shouting disturbed the Monitor’s reading.

She looked up unhappily.

Before she could speak, the stick figure behind the door cried out in a full voice, ”Swearing in the classroom, minus ten points!”

”Thud!” Li Meng grabbed a paper ball and hurled it.

The soft paper ball did not hit the stick figure as she wished, but rebounded off the door frame and fell to the ground--- in fact, Zheng Qing highly doubted that even if the little figure had been hit, it wouldn’t have been harmed---- this act only provoked louder laughter from the stick figure:

”Littering in the classroom, minus ten points!” It combed through its few sparse hairs, trying to straighten its eyes and mouth, and reprimanded seriously, ”Students who litter are trash!”

”Li Meng!” Jiang Yu finally sat up slightly and glared at her cousin.

The little witch pouted and returned to her seat resentfully.

”It can deduct points?” Zheng Qing turned around and glanced at the stick figure rolling about on the paper, puzzled.

”You believe it?!” Xiao Xiao’s tone was incredulous.

”Cough, cough, just a guess...” Zheng Qing coughed, changing the topic, ”Wasn’t it said it would hibernate in winter? Why does it seem full of energy now!”

”It’s not winter yet, and the classroom is so warm, it can’t possibly be frozen.” Xin Fat Man snorted, sounding somewhat discontented, ”In my opinion, even a stick figure lives more comfortably than those tricksters!”

Zheng Qing immediately shut up, not saying a word.

Since Xin Fat Man returned from Beta Town, he’d bring up his thematic report in every conversation. It seemed to him that everywhere he looked, there were cases of wizards oppressing tricksters.

In just the few minutes it took to walk up from downstairs, every time Zheng Qing or Xiao Xiao started a conversation, the fat man could always redirect to the tragic life of tricksters within three seconds.

It was quite helpless.

During their conversation, the three boys had already reached the first row of desks.

”What did Meng sister call us for!” Xin Fat Man rushed forward excitedly.

”Don’t call me Meng sister! Call me Sister Li!” Li Meng was a bit exasperated with the fat man’s nickname for her.

”Okay, Meng sister!” Xin Fat Man chuckled innocently.

Jiang Yu timely stopped the little witch from climbing onto the desk and pulled her back to her seat.

”Sorry.” She apologized with a smile.

”No, no problem.” Zheng Qing looked at Jiang Yu, involuntarily recalling his experience after becoming a cat.

He remembered the warm bench in the cold wind, and the soft embrace on the bench.

His face turned quickly red, and he avoided the witch’s eyes involuntarily, stammering a greeting, ”Goo...good evening.”

Xiao Xiao looked at his notebook, his scrutinizing gaze wandering between the two.

”Good evening.” Jiang Yu seemed not to notice Zheng Qing’s embarrassment, she responded cheerfully and lowered her head to continue flipping through the thick reference book.

This allowed the young scholarship student to heave a sigh of relief.

Then he noticed the title on the header of the reference book.

”Analyzing Transfiguration: Four Discussions on the Taboos of Transfiguration Magic,” Zheng Qing quietly read the familiar name, looked up at the female monitor warily, ”So, are you studying Transfiguration?”

As the title suggests, this reference book discusses the taboos and adverse reactions of using transfiguration magic. It’s one of the must-read works for wizards who use transfiguration magic.

Zheng Qing had borrowed it from the library before.

But for freshmen, the content of this work is too esoteric and completely beyond the scope of extracurricular hobbies or expanding horizons.

This made him somewhat skeptical. Had he let any cat out the of the bag? Hence the witch was checking the data.

”Transfiguration?” Upon hearing this sensitive word, Xiao Xiao immediately looked up and glanced at the witch behind the desk.

He was one of the few people who knew about Zheng Qing’s transformation. Naturally, he also knew that this spell was strictly controlled by the Wizarding Alliance, and any unauthorized transformation was illegal.

The witch studying Transfiguration in public undoubtedly raised questions about her motives.

Jiang Yu seemed not to have anticipated that Zheng Qing would notice the small title on the book’s header so keenly. She paused, seemingly taken aback.

”I just felt it is necessary to get a head start on the curriculum for the upper grades...” The witch flicked away the stray hair on her forehead, shrugged, and spoke in a breezy tone, ”You know, the magic of higher grades is getting more and more complex, we must keep up.”

As she spoke, she quickly grabbed the notebook next to her, pretending to organize her books, and shoved the hefty reference book and adjacent notebook into the drawer.

This act gave away her intention.

And her explanation was somewhat strained.

Her behaviour was suggestive of something strange, making Zheng Qing increasingly suspicious.