High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 429: Chapter 98 Everyone is Heartbroken_1

A palace lantern bobbed up and down, drifting in the air.

A few wild fireflies looking for food thought they had encountered a delicious meal. They foolishly clung to the silk cover of the lantern. Their sharp mouthparts pierced through the thin silk, and they pumped their bodies in vain, trying to suck on the dry air inside the lantern, or maybe a bit of evaporating wax.

A small teddy bear was hopping around on the smooth stone pavement, trying to climb up to the palace lantern not far overhead. Just a few minutes ago, its owner was so shocked that she inadvertently let go of it, allowing its furry paws to come into close contact with the ground.

Now, it wanted to reclaim its peak status as a bear by its own efforts.

But it was really too short.

Even if it tried its best to curl its body into a ball, it still couldn’t bounce high enough.

Eventually, the teddy bear stopped hopping.

It raised its head, its ears drooping, and stared with its clear glass eyes, pitifully looking at its owner, hoping to get a little extra help.

However, unfortunately.

Both of its owners - the short little witch and the tall witch with long black hair - ignored the toy’s plea. Their attention was now no longer on it.

The witches had more important matters to deal with.

”So, you’re saying, you were just looking after this bouquet for my cousin...and just happened to be seen by me when you were returning the flowers?” Li Meng squinted her eyes, her gaze very guarded as if she were guarding against a pervert. She summarized Zheng Qing’s explanation in a dubious tone.

The young scholarships student nodded his head so vigorously that he almost broke his neck.

”I reserve my opinion on this.” The little witch pinched her chin, pretending to mull it over. She said in a serious manner, ”After all, you were once a deceiver...”

Zheng Qing was instantly at a loss for words.

Hence it is said that it is difficult to tolerate women and villains, especially little girls. She could remember a minor misunderstanding from a long time ago for her whole life!

Jiang Yu’s lip corners lifted slightly.

However, following Li Meng’s next sentence, her expression also stiffened.

”...I’m going to write a letter home, to my great-grandmother.” Li Meng pounded her small fist into her hand, her eyes wide open and round, she stated in a definitive tone, ”I’m going to tell her about this... She’s been through it, she’ll definitely know if you’re lying!”

”Meng Meng!” Jiang Da Headmaster narrowed her eyes, laid her hands on the shoulder of the little witch, and threateningly rubbed her earlobe.

Li Meng shrunk her neck, and finally pouted her mouth, picked up the teddy bear that was twirling around her leg, and began to torment its fluffy ears.

”Do all you boys like participating in the hunt so much?” Jiang Yu turned her head to look at Zheng Qing, bit her lip and suddenly asked, ”Why didn’t you ask Elena to be your hunting team manager?”

”Elena? She said she had already agreed to join another hunting team.” Zheng Qing honestly recounted his earlier attempt to seek the Gypsy witch and being rejected.

He still felt very dejected, his tone was always very disappointed.

Only if one does not act, one will not die.

In the end, a mysterious sixth sense saved the young scholarship student who was running further and further down the path of death.

Zheng Qing seemed to feel that the air was suddenly filled with a touch of chill. He could not help but wrap his robe tightly around him, took out a ”wind-proof charm” from the grey cloth bag, inserted it into the bouquet held by the witch, and laughed, ”We’ve just left summer, and it’s so cold... I’m afraid we’ll freeze our noses off in winter.”

The wind-proof charm sizzled, sending a wisp of blue smoke. An invisible barrier gently expanded out, enclosing the witch holding the bouquet.

”I want one too! I want one too!” Li Meng clamored, stomping her red little leather shoes on the side.

”Stop messing around... just hold your teddy bear.” Zheng Qing, a bit stingy about his talisman papers, brushed off the paw that the teddy bear had stretched out, comforting, ”This bear looks very warm.”

”You’re the bear! All your family are bears!!” The teddy bear glared with those glass beads, angered.

This small interlude regained Zheng Qing a bit of points.

When he raised his head again to look at Jiang Yu, the witch just pursed her lips and said apologetically, ”I’m sorry, I’ve been quite busy recently... I may not have the time to handle the hunting team’s matters.”

This was a polite rejection.

Zheng Qing could still tell that much.

So, he was once again taken aback — he had initially thought that this was a sure thing, since Jiang Yu had always left him with the impression of being very eager to help others.

”Ahem!” Li Meng stood next to Jiang Yu, clearing her throat, wearing an expression that said ’you need to invite me too’.

Zheng Qing took a moment to assess her doll-like appearance, petite figure, and the teddy bear in her arms, then laughed dryly, pretended he hadn’t seen it, and fled from the scene.

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”He really has no eye for talent!” Li Meng glared at the retreating figure of the young scholarship owner, indignantly.

”Indeed,” Jiang Yu for once agreed with her younger cousin’s point of view.

”Roar!” the teddy bear hung around Li Meng’s neck, gave out a growl, supporting his two masters’ opinion.

”You just now, did you mean to... participate in the school hunting party?” Jiang Yu seemed to finally remember something, bent down to look at Li Meng.

A flash of panic immediately crossed the young witch’s eyes.

”No, no... Haha,” She laughed dryly, patted her teddy bear’s head forcefully and explained quickly: ”I was just blaming him for not noticing how busy you were and for disturbing you...”

The plush bear pitifully raised its claw and held its head, enduring the little witch’s ruthlessness, trying to keep its glass eyes from rolling off its face.

Jiang Yu was not distracted by her antics.

She squatted down and fixed her gaze on the little witch, warning her, ”You’re not allowed to join the school hunting party...in any form. It’s not a child’s game. People can die... if you don’t obey, I’ll have to apply to the school to send you home.”

Li Meng’s mouth was raised high, and she rolled her eyes, agreeing weakly.

Then she remembered something else.

”Shape-shifting is also dangerous magic, why would you want to try it?!” She was somewhat unconvinced, grumbling softly: ”Plus, I saw you two holding hands just now... I’m going to write a letter home!”

”You, said, what? ” Jiang Yu smiled and put her hand on the little witch’s head and started to mess with her hair.

”Oh, don’t mess up my hair!” Li Meng immediately surrendered and begged for mercy.

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After leaving the two witches, Zheng Qing went to the library again.

He went to find Liu Fei Fei.

She was the last candidate for the hunting team manager and the least likely candidate.

As Jiuyou Academy’s top student this year, Liu Fei Fei’s academic performance is unquestionable. But she rarely participates in clubs or general activities, always reading quietly by herself in the library — of course, now she’s joined by Nicholas, who always reads with her.

As expected, Liu Fei Fei kindly refused Zheng Qing’s proposal.

The young scholarship student found that it was a mistake to mention this in front of Nicholas. This former orientation leader didn’t support Zheng Qing’s talk but tried to persuade Liu Fei Fei to stay away from ’barbaric and dangerous’ activities like ’hunting demons’.

When Zheng Qing returned to the dormitory with this disappointing news, Xiao Xiao had another piece of bad news to pass on.

”The Judgement Hunting Team sent you a paper crane, the hunting team training is postponed until the weekend.” The scholar pulled out a paper crane from the drawer and tossed it to the scholarship student who had just entered the room.

”Why?!” Zheng Qing ruffled his hair, feeling tired.

”It’s said that the hunting grounds for the school hunting party have not been fully cleared... the committee has arranged for the top-ranked school hunting teams to ’divide and conquer’, to make sure all hazards in the hunting grounds are cleared by Thursday.”

Zheng Qing sighed, unzipped the crumpled paper crane in his hand and complained, ”There’s not a single piece of good news...Next time, can you not be so rough with these little paper cranes, they’re working hard too.”

”You should talk to that fat cat about this issue.” Dylan’s head suddenly popped out of his large coffin, startling Zheng Qing.

The vampire lord explained leisurely, ”I don’t know when, but that fat cat started to enjoy playing with these little paper cranes... Each one that tries to fly into our dorm gets harassed by it for quite a while.”