High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 675: Chapter 23: Gambling, Money, and Law Enforcement_1

”What else can we do? We all get fifty big slaps!”

”How so?” Zheng Qing pursued.

”Just a gentle slap... can’t you see the principle of ’the law does not blame the public’?” Xin Fat Man quirked his mouth, a hint of mockery in his tone: ”The school has to maintain its reputation, and Old Yao has to secure his position... Minimizing a big issue is the best scenario.”

”What about the specifics of this treatment?” Zheng Qing asked patiently.

”Things like writing self-reflections, warnings, recording major demerits, school probation... nothing more than these measures... oh, and fines.” Xin Fat Man began to calculate: ”People from the two academies were throwing curses around, and ended up wrecking the stands, fences, chairs, speaker flowers, and other public property. On average, each one of us will have to fork out about seven or eight bronze coins!”

”That’s enough to buy me a hearty breakfast.” Doctor Xiao grumbled: ”The canteen only charges two bronze coins for donuts and three bronze coins for tofu pudding. Fried liver costs four bronze coins...”

”You’ll have some money soon.” Zhang Ji Xin suddenly remembered something, interrupting Xiao Xiao’s ramblings. He jumped in, looking envious: ”Do you remember those ’tickets’ we bought before the hunting competition? That half-faced guy with blue-green eyes asked my brother to inform our classma this morning. We need to go to him to exchange our winnings.”

”That’s right!” Zheng Qing exclaimed suddenly. ”I placed three school credits, five silver horns, and eighteen bronze coins! I bet on the Freshman Champion, Best Hunting Team, and the Best Hunter - all of which were our hunting team and me! I definitely won all of them, didn’t I?”

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but feel excited, almost leaving the closing ceremony of the hunting competition behind to rush off and exchange his winnings with the blue-green-eyed guy.

”Tsk, the bookmaker’s going to lose a lot of money.” Xin Fat Man huffed jealously.

”The odds for the Freshman Race weren’t high to begin with. I estimate it would be capped at three to five times the original amount... As a matter of fact, the one amongst us who earned the most should be the Doctor.” Zhang Ji Xin shook his head, patting Xiao Xiao’s shoulder: ”Remember what you bet on?”

”Fourth place in the qualifying race, adjudication; first place in the finals, adjudication; Best Hunter, Erwin Hoffman of the adjudication; Best hunting team, the adjudication hunting team; Jiuyou Academy... I remember I bet on second place.” Xiao Xiao flipped through his notebook., speaking rapidly: ”I’ve invested a gold bean for each category, which sums up to five gold beans.”

All of them were stunned by his words, as if they had lost their ability to speak.

After a while, Zhang Ji Xin eventually let out a dry laugh, turning to the others: ”Now you see what I mean, don’t you! The odds for the Judgment Hunting Team winning the ’Campus Cup’ is nearly a hundred-to-one. The odds for the rest of the categories are also above fifty-to-one. This means, the Doctor used five gold beans and gained more than four hundred beans... almost more than forty jade coins!”

Zheng Qing was patting desparately his head, looking with admiration at Doctor Xiao. It was as if he wanted to crack open Doctor Xiao’s head with a hammer and drain his brain - because the hunting team Xiao Xiao had chosen was exactly the same as the final match result of the ’School Cup’.

This was also the biggest surprise within the hunting competition. The ’School Cup’ had been circulated amongst the five teams, including the first university team and the four other academy teams; it had never fall into the hands of any other hunting team. However, in this year’s final, Jiuyou hunting team, which was leading, combined with other three academy’s hunting teams to launch a powerful attack against the school hunting team. While the two sides were deadlocked, the adjudication hunting team struck first with Erwin Hoffman leading the attack, finding the location of the strongest demon group and thereby securing the title of Best Hunter. Then the adjudication hunting team continued their fierce attack and were the first to kill the Wild Demon King, thus ending the competition.

”More than forty jade coins!” Xin Fat Man took a deep breath. ”That’s enough for me to buy more than two thousand roasted chickens worth twenty-four bronze coins each! That’s four thousand drumsticks!”

According to the currency conversion ratio of the wizard world, a jade coin can be exchanged for ten gold beans, a gold bean can be exchanged for six silver corners; a silver corner can be exchanged for twenty bronze coins. That is to say, forty jade coins can be exchanged for forty-eight thousand bronze coins!

”Do you know anything besides eating?” Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but retort.

”As if you don’t like the braised chicken legs I buy!” Xin Fat Man immediately retorted: ”I remember the first day I met you, you ate faster than me! Even Dylan, that half cold-blooded guy, also likes it!”

This was indeed true, Xiao Xiao was immediately silenced by Xin’s rebuke.

”Doctor, you didn’t use divination while filling in the ticket, right?” Zhang Ji Xin looked at Xiao Xiao expectantly.

”The broker with blue-green eyes also said that the wandering wizard cast magic on each ticket. All kinds of magic including luck potions and divination were all restricted by him... Besides, I didn’t have the time or sufficient resources to divine,” Xiao Xiao patiently explained.

”That’s true.” The red-faced male wizard nodded, still looking skeptical.

”More than forty jade coins!” Zheng Qing sighed: ”I remember that I only exchanged over a hundred jade coins after killing so many demons... The annual scholarship for a scholarship student is only ten jade coins! Do you remember the Peridot Cross I gave you? It was only five jade coins after the discount! Don’t you think...”

”You said it yourself, it was given.” Xiao Xiao turned his head away and pretended not to understand Zheng Qing’s stopping before finishing his sentence. He simultaneously warned, ”Old Yao is out! I think everyone should shut their mouths now... or else the patrol team might deduct points.”

”I’m not one to deduct your points.” Zheng Qing grumbled, but turned to look at the stage and closed his mouth.

During the school hunting conference, the student council’s Supervisory Department and the school’s patrol department jointly organized a patrol team to patrol around the campus to prevent some unpleasant incidents due to the heated atmosphere in the school - including Zheng Qing, the patrol members were temporarily appointed to the disciplinary task and were responsible for maintaining order on ordinary school days.

However, other than those who wore gray robes and student council badges, most of the students who were ’punished’ and appointed as patrol members looked down on this job. No one wanted to offend their friends just to earn that insignificant reward given by the school work committee.

Of course, if this privilege was used to make things difficult for ’rival schools’, it would be a good choice. However, since the large-scale fight between Jiuyou Academy and Alpha Academy, this ’provoking’ form of patrol has rarely appeared.

The students from both academies are now behaving like good little boys, afraid of making further trouble and being singled out by the school as a negative example.

Just like Zheng Qing, if Xiao Xiao hadn’t reminded him just now, he would have almost forgotten that he had such a privilege.