High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 555: Chapter 224: Xiao Xiao’s Analysis_1

With less than ten minutes before class, Xiao Xiao rushed to the classroom in a hurry.

He held his black notebook in one hand and three or four thick textbooks under his other arm. The heavy books pulled down his robe, almost exposing half his shoulder. His glasses had slipped halfway down his nose, and he didn’t have time to adjust them. He seemed incredibly flustered and was a sight to behold.

The Stick Figure on the door immediately noticed this.

”Disheveled clothes!” It shouted sharply, jumping around on the blank paper, seemingly very excited. ”Deduct points! Deduct ten points! I despise you beings that wear clothes and show no cherishment for your own appearance!”

The students sitting near the door were curious and glanced over. They didn’t show the same disrespect as the Stick Figure.

Xiao Xiao seemed to have completely ignored the Stick Figure’s shriek. Without turning his head, he headed straight towards where the wizards gathered.

”My spot?” He pointed at the empty seat beside Zheng Qing with his chin and asked hurriedly.

Zheng Qing shrugged and moved over, leaving some space for him to squeeze through.

”Bang!”

The hefty textbooks Xiao Xiao carried smashed onto the desk.

”Did you go to deliver breakfast? Was it milk tea or soy milk? Did you add a bouquet of roses? Did Mister Sima shed tears of emotion?”

As soon as Xiao Xiao took his seat, Xin Fat Man immediately turned around and bombarded him with a stream of questions. ”In my opinion, you should have delivered chrysanthemum flowers with a few cloves - oh, that forbidden love, forever regretless. Your strands of longing make me melancholy.”

Xiao Xiao was startled by the poet-like tone of the Fat Man.

He was stunned for a while, then looked at the Fat Man with a kind of sympathetic expression. He slowly replied, ”I just went to the library to look for some information. And even if I were to send flowers, I wouldn’t choose chrysanthemums, they’re too ominous... A seven-colored pansy matched with a kapok is a nice choice. Perhaps a few violets wedged in between would be nice.”

As he was speaking, he seemed to appreciate the Fat Man’s suggestion, and quickly pulled out his notebook to jot it down.

Different from the Fat Man’s focus on gossip, Zheng Qing’s attention was clustered on the Stick Figure’s shriek, ”That drawing on the door just said it was going to deduct your points, was it serious?”

”Are you serious about something that doesn’t even have a brain?” After adjusting his glasses, Xiao Xiao scoffed at Zheng Qing’s question.

The young scholarship student felt slightly embarrassed and couldn’t help but rub his nose.

Hearing the murmurs of the discussions from behind, Zhang Ji Xin finally couldn’t continue to bury his head in his writing.

”Do we really need to submit a reflection? ”He turned his head, looked at Xiao Xiao with a bitter face and said, ”I’d rather get more labor punishment in the Hundred Herb Gardens for an additional semester than drain my brain on issues like these.”

”You can completely add your self-punishment plans at the end of the reflection,” Doctor Xiao suggested lazily, swinging his sore arm. ”The harsher the self-punishment is, the more sincere and repentant you appear... Of course, the reflection still needs to be written, but it can be a bit shorter. For example, 800 words?”

”I’ve already written 500 words!” Upon hearing this, Zhang Ji Xin seemed to see a glimmer of hope. He immediately turned around, full of passion, and started padding out his word count.

”Ah, it seems you’ve already read today’s newspapers.” Xiao Xiao’s eyes landed on the stack of newspapers under Zheng Qing’s arm. He arched an eyebrow.

”Oh, right, I was meaning to ask you earlier.” Zheng Qing finally remembered this and shoved the newspapers into Xiao’s arms. ”Look at these... ’Beta Town Post’, ’Buji Island Times’, ’Gentlemen and Ladies’, and ’Ladies in Flowers’. Every external newspaper we could find is here.”

While speaking, he looked up at Xiao Xiao and emphasized, ”Not a single article, I mean, no article reports what happened yesterday afternoon at Hunting Ground No.1, except for...”

”Except for the campus newspaper?” Xiao Xiao seemed to know what he was going to say and continued for him.

”Yes, except the campus newspaper.” Zheng Qing blinked, a bit surprised by Xiao Xiao’s calm expression, but he continued according to his thinking: ”But even the campus newspaper, the discussion about what happened yesterday is strange... Look, the old campus worker Hugo, who is responsible for managing the hunting ground, commented, ’Young people are full of energy, they like to play, it’s very normal...’”

”And this one, Professor An, the Director of the Administrative Affairs Office at Jiuyou Academy, talked extensively in the newspaper about ’young wizards’ tendency for self-display’ and ’psychological guidance work for young wizards’...”

”Even Professor Montreya, who speaks the harshest, does not mention ’expulsion’ or ’dropout’ in his entire commentary... Do you think we are scaring ourselves?”

Xiao Xiao casually flipped through those newspapers and magazines, scanning the contents quickly, and chuckled lightly.

”Maybe.” He said ambiguously: ”Maybe we are lucky.”

”Does that mean, I don’t need to continue writing my review?” Zhang Ji Xin immediately turned around, his face filled with joy, and asked impatiently.

”That’s up to you.” Xiao Xiao smirked, not directly answering his question, but instead changed the topic: ”What do you guys think is the root cause of what happened yesterday?”

”Those Fence Fairies?” Xin the Fatty immediately responded.

”Idiot,” Zhang Ji Xin immediately retorted when he heard that: ”Even if those Fence Fairies were causing trouble, they just messed around on the grandstands of Jiuyou Academy... I suspect someone is trying to cause chaos.”

Thinking of the inexplicably appearing Fence Fairies and the exploding stink cloud on the Alpha grandstand, Zheng Qing nodded thoughtfully.

Xiao Xiao nodded, and then shook his head.

”Yes and no.” He paused, then analyzed: ”To say yes, the accident on the hunting ground yesterday was indeed strange. Whether it was the fairies that caused the disturbance at Jiuyou, or the stink cloud that exploded on the Alpha grandstand, or perhaps the two voices that started yelling from the grandstand... That’s right, from yesterday until now, the school has been investigating for so long, but they have not found the person who used the ’Wind Spell’ on Alpha.”

”So, we don’t have to take the blame?!” Zheng Qing felt a sense of relief deep down, and couldn’t help but laugh, ”I hope this investigation can continue for four years...”

”This isn’t a good thing.” Xiao Xiao glanced at him and warned: ”If the perpetrator cannot be found, it means everyone will have to take responsibility for the accident at the hunting ground yesterday... That’s even worse.”

”This is not fair.” The scholarship student’s face crumpled in a frown.

”This is the greatest fairness... Here we can adopt one of the explanations for ’accidental injury’ from the ’Wizard’s Code’. If you cannot prove your innocence in the relevant event, then all participants in the event need to bear the corresponding joint responsibility.”

As he was saying this, Xiao Xiao sighed, and calmly explained: ”This comes back to the reason I mentioned before. The mysterious perpetrator you mentioned earlier might be the direct cause of the accident... but not the root cause.”

”The root cause lies in the severe distrust... or perhaps ’hostility’ is a more accurate term... between Alpha Academy and Jiuyou Academy.”

”This can be reflected from the brutal standoff between the Clover Hunting Team and the Queen of Hearts Q Hunting Team.”

”Because of the mutual distrust, all it takes is a slight agitation from others, and a fight could break out between the two academies... Perhaps this time it just involved an explosion on the grandstand and the disruption of a hunt. Thankfully, nobody got hurt, or died.”

”But what about next time? Will we still be so lucky?”