High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 708: Chapter 56 Week 12_1

Time slipped into the twelfth week, and many things became increasingly clear.

The senior professors who used to teach our classes, such as Professor Yi of Divination, Professor Li of Potions, Professor Emma of Astronomy, and others, have all disappeared without a trace, replaced by other regular lecturers.

When students ask about the whereabouts of the professors, all they receive are vague and meaningful answers like ’on leave for personal reasons’, ’busy’, ’don’t know’ and so on.

Considering the rumors spread by a certain ’curly-haired dog’ and the conclusions drawn by Xiao Xiao, Zheng Qing became increasingly certain that something must have happened within the school. Perhaps due to his study of transfiguration, Zheng Qing felt an intense curiosity about the professors’ whereabouts as if he was being scratched by a cat’s paw.

Nevertheless, he still had some sense, and didn’t sneakily follow any professor around or infiltrate the school’s forbidden areas. However, this didn’t mean he was without troubles.

Not to mention Professor Yao, who helped him solve some abnormalities with his transfiguration and disappeared after taking the remaining potions and related materials; not to mention his private tutoring with Professor Yi on Tuesday night was postponed indefinitely. The closed door of Professor Montreya’s office had kept this young public expense student out for many consecutive days.

When the freshman competition ended, considering a black cat had jumped out of Zheng Qing, Professor Yao suggested that Zheng Qing consult Professor Montreya, who specializes in bloodline talent studies. For this purpose, young public expense student even asked Miss Su Shi to write him a recommendation letter. Unfortunately, it seemed that Professor Montreya was also transferred elsewhere by the school at this terrible time.

Zheng Qing had been to the professor’s office in the office building for several days but was unable to find this professor.

This made the young public expense student increasingly depressed.

Compared to him, other people in the class didn’t have so many worries.

The departure of the senior professors brought both clear benefits and drawbacks.

The advantage was that the campus atmosphere seemed to become more lively and free in an unexpected way. Especially in Jiuyou Academy, under the strict discipline and heavy academic burdens imposed by the professors, everyone carried pressures beyond their age, and many often had big bags under their eyes.

But now, without those stringent professors, the students suddenly found themselves with less homework and more relaxed classroom discipline. Although chilly winds had begun to blow outside the window, everyone’s mood improved day by day.

Of course, benefits naturally come with drawbacks.

Without those experienced senior professors to teach, young students who are still in their first year and just taking their baby steps suddenly found their textbooks became more daunting. Of course, for many people, these magic knowledge were already profound. This means that they will face greater pressure when they take the promotion exam in half a year.

But young people always like to spend plenty of time rejoicing, as the saying goes ’tomorrow comes tomorrow, tomorrow is plentiful’. Tomorrow has difficulties, yes, but the day after always comes.

No living person would ever die from holding in their urine, let alone a living wizard.

”You should see things on the bright side... If there really was a problem with that transfiguration, you should be lying in the school hospital as Dylan’s bedmate and not sitting in the classroom for class.” Xin Fat Man idly advised the young public expense student: ”Always think positively. For example, we should be happy that Miss Emma isn’t around to assign us a foot-thick stack of homework.”

Now it’s Tuesday afternoon, and this class used to be Professor Emma’s astronomy class.

However, the professor has gone to who-knows-where now, and the young substitute teacher probably has less than a year of teaching experience. She was beet-red and stuttering when she spoke, and she only stood on the podium reading the teaching materials and textbooks. It made people feel pity for her, and they didn’t have the heart to cause too much trouble in her class.

”Dylan’s still in the hospital?” Upon hearing Xin Fat Man’s words, Zhang Ji Xin also shifted his attention from the podium, and asked in surprise, ”I remember it’s been over a week since the Winter Solstice Festival... The next full moon night is almost here, why hasn’t he been discharged yet!”

”To be precise, Dylan went in again.” The fat man shrugged, looking helpless: ”You should remember which college he belongs to, right... He only just got discharged and ended up in a limitless fighting competition within the Starry Sky College, and half of his body was torn off. If it weren’t for his vampire bloodline, his family would probably be collecting his body by now.”

”Wow.” Zhang Ji Xin smacked his lips, finally shaking his head, sighing, ”I originally planned to practice a few new formations in this week’s hunting team training... Looks like it’s a no-go.”

”Can we let Blue Bird take over at first? I remember that he is also a hunter.” suggested Fat Man.

”Blue Bird doesn’t have time.” Zhang Jixin shook his head and explained, ”I’ve already asked him, but he said he’s been busy chasing mice lately...”

”Oh, I know about that, the campus newspaper has reported on it before.” Fat Man immediately added, ”Apparently, a lot of small mice have migrated into the school from the Silent Forest recently, so the school has called upon students whose pets are good at catching mice to participate in the hunt. There’s a reward with credits.”

”Ah, I remember Blue Bird has a purple mink, right.” Zhang Ji Xin became enlightened but then looked at Zheng Qing in surprise, ”Brother Qing, why don’t you go? Poseidon should be good at catching mice too...”

”Someone as rich in credits as him wouldn’t even glance at the small reward from catching mice.” Fat Man snorted disdainfully, ”And, the little fox is a sluggish being too. The weather is too cold, it would rather curl up in its den than go outside.”

”That’s really unfortunate.” Zhang Ji Xin rubbed his nose, his nose becoming even redder, ”Who would believe that the hunting team that ranked first in the freshman competition doesn’t have a scout!”

”Who would have thought that our scouts would all be from Starry Sky Academy.” Fat Man sniffed and glanced sideways at the young scholarship student.

Zheng Qing was lying on the table, staring unfocused at the podium, with no intention of participating in the conversation of the other two, even when Zhang Jixin mentioned the big mice scampering around campus, his ears just flicked slightly, still having no desire to discuss it.

It’s not that he had forgotten about the dressed up mouse that night, or that he wanted to make a good impression in front of the substitute teacher, but his mind was a mess at the moment.

A scene before class kept playing over and over again in his mind, bothering him quite a bit.

Before the astronomy class, Matthew Karen, the little vampire brat, had gravitated towards Elena’s desk to chat - the frequent appearances of the Gypsy witch in class lately was heartening. But the young scholarship student would be even more delighted if there was no certain vampire brat at her desk.

When Zheng Qing arrived at the Gypsy witch’s side, Matthew was holding a heavy reference book, animatedly talking about something.

”... My cousin gave me the key to his rest room before, but I lost it somewhere a few days ago, leaving me in a panic. Remember that ’Full Explanation of Rune Text’ you gave me at the meeting the other night? Turns out the key was in that book the whole time!”

Matthew’s cousin was Sir Friedman, from Alpha Academy.

He was very familiar with his rest room - on the day of the Lower Yuan Festival, he had followed Elena around in it. At the thought of that day’s experience, Zheng Qing suddenly realized something and couldn’t help but turn his head to look at the key in Matthew’s hand.

At this moment, the young vampire was happily holding up a thin metallic symbol in his hand, showing it to Elena, ”It’s this one!”

”Is this a key?” The witch seemed surprised to learn the function of this metal piece for the first time, saying in astonishment, ”I’ve always thought this was a kind of special bookmark...”

Zheng Qing twitched at the corner of his mouth.

If there were Oscars in the wizarding world, Elena would be eligible to hold one.

If he wasn’t wrong, the Rune key in Matthew’s hand was the key Elena used to open Sir Friedman’s rest room - of course, he wouldn’t risk mentioning this in front of Matthew.

This relates to Elena’s reputation, as well as her efforts to break the centuries-old shackles of the Gypsy Witch Coven. Even if it involves using a bit of trickery, it seems justifiable - but even so, it wasn’t as glorious as one would hope.

Thinking of this, Zheng Qing couldn’t help but turn his head to look at the other side of the classroom, giving Elena a worried glance.