High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 502: Chapter 171: Extra Edition of the Campus Newspaper_1

This newspaper brings an urgent update from Buji Island on Monday afternoon, September 23, of Wuyuan (October 21, according to the White Ding Calendar):

The renowned witch of the wizarding world, the current upper senator of the Under the Moon Council, the outstanding graduate of The Alpha College of the First University, and the exemplary representative of the contemporary Qingqiu Su family, Lady Sushi, has formally confirmed at the university today: the child’s pet name is Neptune, currently living with his father in the First University.

Lady Sushi was recently invited by our academy as a distinguished guest of the Under the Moon Congress to participate in the annual ”Academy Cup” opening ceremony. Upon further invitation by Jiuyou Academy, Dean Yao XiaoMi, she held a brief meeting this morning in classroom 601 East of the Academic Building, to elaborate on a series of questions that everyone has been concerned about recently.

The freshers of the Ninth-Grade Astronomy Class 08-1 were fortunate to attend this meeting.

Lady Sushi wore a red robe today, traveled lightly with only one maid following her, demonstrating her usual approachable style.

This meeting was chaired by Sushi’s personal maid, Su Ya.

Su Ya is a typical maid of a reputable clan. She is prudent in her work style and serious in her speech. Despite her petite stature, she has a strong aura. Throughout the meeting, she was able to keep vigilant and prevented Lady Sushi from any unnecessary disturbances.

——The existence of the ”mystery man” is finally confirmed.

In response to Duke Milton on the first of August, Lady Sushi first revealed that she was married and had a child. However, further verification by many journalists found no additional evidence to prove the aforementioned statement. As a result, rumors circulated that Lady Sushi might have fabricated this story to control the spread of gossip due to the trouble of suitors.

During today’s meeting, Lady Sushi confirmed the truthfulness of this news again:

”I will not disclose the name of the child’s father...but I can tell you, he is at the First University.”

This answer happened during the second half of the meeting when the fifth question was asked.

Her expression was very serious, and her tone was very affirmative. There wasn’t any pretense, regardless of the age and status of the wizards present.

”I believe that the Goddess’s answer has fully explained everything!”; one male wizard surnamed Duan of Ninth-Grade Astronomy class 08-1 excitedly told reporters of this newspaper after the meeting: ”Those so-called ’sources’ who doubted the Goddess Sushi’s authenticity should shut up now!”

Of course, Lady Sushi did not give further explanation about the identity of the man during this meeting.

The guest commentator of this newspaper, Xiao Xiao, a specially recruited student from Astronomy class 08-1, State in the following analysis that, according to Lady Sushi’s standards, there are approximately twenty-seven young male wizards in the First University who might possibly be the ’mystery man’. (A list of the related personnel follows the article).

”If we consider the attribute ’having a child’, there might be even fewer male wizards who meet the criteria.”, Xiao Xiao further stated: ”The First University is neither big nor small. Many young wizards who are devoted to magic research rarely appear in public. I believe they have higher chances of being the ’mystery man’.”

”Of course, according to the standards of most wizards in the wizarding world, not a single individual in the First University, let alone the whole of Buji Island or even the entire wizarding world, can meet the standards.” At the end of the interview, Xiao Xiao chuckled and drew this conclusion.

——The child’s pet name is ’Neptune’.

In this ’childbirth incident’, another point of public focus is Lady Su Shijun’s newborn child. That was also one of the keynote topics of today’s meeting.

”The child has a pet name, Neptune...He has been with his father all this while.”, Lady Su ShiJun revealed the above information while answering the students’ questions. (Due to linguistic reasons, this reporter couldn’t infer the child’s sex from Lady Sushi’s answer, but based on the pet name, we have used ’he’ temporarily in this report. We provide this note to clarify).

Neptune (Neptūnus) is a Latin noun, one of the twelve primary deities of Rome, whose temple was founded near the racecourse in 25 BC. He ruled over the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses, and is the etymology of Neptune.

In divination, this word has strong perception, representing vague and blurry fantasies. It signifies sacrifice and redemption, symbolizing those elf-like mystics, and is the guardian star of Pisces.

In astrology, Neptune takes approximately 164 years to travel around the zodiac and stays in each constellation for fourteen years. Wizards often use a fork with three arrows to represent this mysterious existence.

In Potionology, Neptune refers to some challenging diagnostic symptoms. Such as abnormal allergic symptoms, psychosomatic disorders originating from mental issues, sleep disorders, seasonal hallucinations, psychic phenomena, etc. Simultaneously, in some Witch Doctor’s research, it refers to the ’foot’ and ’thalamus,’ the two human body organs.

In summary, this is a word with rich meanings and unclear pointers.

Just with this word, we can hardly understand much information; perhaps this is why Lady Sushi Jun chose such a pet name for her child. Of course, it doesn’t affect our judgment on whether this child genuinely exists.

A poignant moment also occurred during this round of Q&A.

The female representative of the Astronomy Class 08-1, student Jiang Yu, on behalf of the witches supporting Lady Su Shijun from the First University, presented a sincere gift to the unknown ’Neptune’ child, a blessing bottle containing hundreds of paper cranes.

”We all hope to give you the best wishes,” student Jiang Yu said when presenting the blessing bottle.

Lady Sushi was deeply moved but declined a request from a witch surnamed Li who took the opportunity to ask her to reveal the name of the man.

— As far as I am concerned, they are all too old.

During the meeting, Lady Su also responded to a series of controversial topics.

”Who do you prefer, Duke Milton or Prince William?” Jiuyou Academy’s full scholarship student and renowned Merlin Medal winner, Zheng Qing, posed this tricky question to Lady Sushi during the special question and answer segment.

As we all know, Duke Milton of the Karen family and Prince William of the Tabbot family have been the strongest competitors in pursuing Lady Sushi for a long time.

Although they have now unfortunately fallen to a mysterious wizard, it must be admitted that these two outstanding young nobles of the Moonlight Council, whether in terms of their identities or abilities, are neck and neck, difficult to separate.

In response to such a dilemma, Lady Sushi replied intelligently and courteously: ”As far as I am concerned, they are all too old. I don’t like either of them...relatively speaking, I prefer a young and talented person like you.”

This answer caught the young Merlin Medal winner off guard and led to him being teased and mocked by many young wizards after the meeting—we find it hard to tell how much of this was out of admiration and how much was due to jealousy.

We must admit that a Merlin Medal winner who is only eighteen has the right to be highly regarded by Councilor Su.

Matthew Karen, who also studies in the Astronomy Class 08-1 at Jiuyou Academy, is the nephew of Duke Milton and acted properly during the meeting. He did not comment on Lady Sushi’s remarks, stating that ’the relevant situation is still under scrutiny’.

There are two young wizards from the Karen family studying at the First University.

The other one is Friedman Black Karen, nicknamed ’The Duke’, a young distinguished wizard who inherits the noble surnames of the Black and Karen families. He currently holds three positions—a vice president of the student council of the Alpha College of the First University, a vice president of the ancient ”Blood Comrades” club of the First University, and the general manager of the radical blood lineage wizard club, ’Triple-A Club’.

Our reporter went to the respective offices and clubs but did not find the Duke. It is said that he is currently training his hunting team for the upcoming ’Academy Cup’ hunting game. As a result, the reporter randomly interviewed some students of Alpha College.

A young male wizard from Alpha College, who wished to remain anonymous, said: ”For the moonlight nobility, the wizards’ age division has no reference value.”

”For example, newborn babies of the zombie clan are often decades or even hundreds of years old according to their physical age, but their mental state is a blank slate, no different from a newly born wizard baby. Similarly, there are also pure-blooded blood races. For instance, their infants have a childhood period of up to a hundred years and cannot possibly enter the First University at the age of eighteen... The same is true for the fox race.”

Although in the personal resume released by the Moonlight Council, Lady Sushi’s age is filled in as ’25 years old,’ many experts have analyzed that this age does not fully fit Lady Sushi’s personal circumstances.

”Ten years ago, when the lass from the Su Family (referring to Lady Su Sushi) came to the First University, she looked exactly like this...If there have to be any changes, that would be her personality. The girl back then was very innocent.”

The aforementioned saying came from a wandering wizard on the pedestrian street of Beta Town. Although his name has always been on the ’suspected black wizard red list’ of the First University’s campus work committee, it cannot be denied that he has been operating his shop outside the First University for a long time. Therefore, many old news about the students of the First University can be found from him, which we cannot find in the archive room.

At the meeting, faced with reporters questioning her age, Lady Sushi, like other witches, responded with a mysterious smile.

As an addendum, Lady Sushi happily shared some secrets of maintenance and beauty with the young witches of the First University in subsequent answers.

(Due to space constraints, the details of these shares will not be presented in this extra edition and will be published in the next issue of the campus newspaper.)

Maybe for many young wizards who were still hopeful before today, tonight will be a sleepless night. But for us at the First University, and even the entire wizarding world, tonight will be a day worth celebrating for Councilor Su’s staunchest supporters.

Let us raise our glasses to Neptune:

”May Merlin bless you!”

(This report is sent by Xin Bana Schmidt-Bayer, a journalist, at one o’clock on the afternoon of the twenty-third day of the ninth month of Wuyuan.)