High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 748: Chapter 96 Digestion_1

”The meat on this skewer is so tender.”

”Mm-hmm, and the idea of pairing it with vegetables is brilliant!”

”Here, try these fried potato strips.”

”Crisp and refreshing, but the taste is a bit intense.”

”How about some Green Bee liquor to moisten the throat?”

”Fight poison with poison? Worth a try!”

”I’ll just take a small bowl of plain noodles to slow things down...”

”It leaves a fragrant taste on the lips and a lingering aftertaste.”

”There are some pastries over there... mustard cake, dare you to try it?”

”It’s touching, so touching!”

”Hahahaha...”

Spiraling smoke, accompanied by the light-hearted chatter of male and female wizards, slowly drifted away. In the not-so-long alley, two people walked for more than an hour, only making a round trip.

When Zheng Qing stepped back over the small archway at the entrance of the alley and entered the icy snowy ground, it was nearly five o’clock in the afternoon. The snow had stopped, the cloud layer had not dispersed, the sun had not shown its face from morning till evening, and it seemed that the sky had darkened much. The neon lights of the shops on the streets lit up, the colorful glow and pleasant music dissipated the cold chill in the air, giving this world a bit more vitality.

Not far from the food street is the ’Yota’ restaurant where Zheng Qing had previously reserved a seat.

Looking at the waitstaff standing at the entrance of the restaurant, the young scholarship student couldn’t help but rub his bulging belly and gave the witch a helpless look.

Elena was tilting her head back, pouring the last bit of Green Bee from the cup into her mouth, and sighed in satisfaction.

”Shall we go in, rest and then eat?” Zheng Qing took the cup from her hand, threw it into the nearby trash can, and asked quietly, ”I heard that the pastries at ’Yota’ are pretty good, we could order some...”

Elena tilted her head, her eyes flickered, and she glanced at the pink sign in the distance.

”I am already full.” The witch frowned and whispered into his ear, the warm and moist breath made the hairs on the wizard’s neck stand on end, and he felt his entire back stiffen.

”We can rest inside and eat later.” He murmured, speaking softly, as if fearing his voice would break something.

”But it’s too stuffy inside!” The witch raised her arm and twirled on the spot, her skirt flaring out, revealing a glimpse of her fair legs to the young wizard.

He quietly swallowed his saliva.

”How about we take a stroll by the lake to digest?” Zheng Qing suggested with a hoarse voice.

”Great idea!” Elena immediately agreed with a beaming smile.

Hearing her lively voice, the young scholarship student finally mustered his courage, looked up, and gazed into her enchanting big eyes. His face was filled with a brilliant smile.

He was really so happy.

After walking only a few steps, the Gypsy witch suddenly stopped in her tracks.

”Did you pay a deposit to reserve a spot at the ’Yota’ restaurant?” She hesitated and looked at the wizard, then turned back and glanced at the pink sign, ”If we don’t show up, will your deposit be taken?”

Known as one of the most famous restaurants on the Pedestrian Street, ’Yota’ due to the wordplay with ’date ta’, is quite popular among young male and female wizards. Every weekend seats are always in short supply.

However, due to being on a scholarship, Zheng Qing did not queue like the average student, instead, he got the ’internal supply’ number for the restaurant—this is an established practice among the many businesses in Beta Town. Because the whole town was built relying on the sub-colleges of the first university, so the ’high-achieving students’ from the school are always subtly privileged.

Even so, he paid a gold bean as a deposit.

Of course, all this was needless to explain to the witch.

”Don’t worry, it’s okay.” The wizard laughed heartily, waving his hand nonchalantly, ”The ’Yota’ reservation is valid for three days. Even if we don’t have time to go, we can transfer the spot... Did you forget that I’m a gold card member of the Wandering Bar? The owner of ’Yota’ has a good relationship with the Wandering Wizard, so I can put the number into the Wandering Bar when I get back, I might even make a small profit from it!”

”That’s good then!” The witch sighed in relief at the news.

...

Compared to the Pedestrian Street, the snow in the campus has not been cleared.

Due to the resurgence of the Silent Forest, the school is currently short-staffed, many workers from the Campus Committee are sent to the depths of Silent Forest for work, the old people left in the school, apart from maintaining the regular operation of the Campus Committee, have no extra energy or interest to clear the snow.

”I thought they would use magic to clear all this snow.” Zheng Qing stepped in the snow up to his ankles, looked around at the vast expanse of white and shook his head, ”The Pedestrian Street is so clean, but the school is even worse than outside.”

”The snowy scenery is also quite good,” the witch hopped around in the snow like a deer, circling around Zheng Qing, treading especially on the untrampled snowy ground, ”In your home, snowfall in winter is a common occurrence, but the school has many students from tropical regions who cherish this kind of weather.”

”Be careful, don’t fall.” Zheng Qing watched the witch concerningly and reminded her.

”I’ve recited the anti-slip spell, I’m not scared.” The Gypsy witch stuck out her tongue at him, looking proud.

Zheng Qing touched his cold nose tip and couldn’t help but laugh.

Only then did he realize that, besides the school being a wizard’s school, he too was a wizard—this must be what they call ’in the dark under the lamp’—with that in mind, several ideas popped into his head, like preparing a few heating talismans, or some warming potions, or finding a few frostbite preventing mini-magic spells from the library, then preparing a small gift to give to Elena during class tomorrow.

Thinking like that, unknowingly, they had arrived at the Lakeside of Bell Lake.

Though it snowed today, the lake had not frozen. In the gradually darkening sky, one could vaguely see wisps of fog rising from the lake’s surface, dreamlike.

Compared to usual days, Bell Lake was a lot quieter today. Neither the water buffaloes in the lake nor the red big birds could be seen, don’t know where they are hiding from the cold. Looking around, whiteness everywhere, even the little island with a small tower in the middle of the lake was all white, only the lake water was dark, standing out in this world of white.

”I wonder if the fishmen in the lake would freeze stiff...hard and crisp, pia on the shore, if they were to come out in this kind of weather,” Zheng Qing thought of the fishman he knew, and this thought popped up in his mind.

”Haha, although fishmen live in the water, they are not afraid of cold.” The witch couldn’t help laughing when she heard this, ”After all, they are magical creatures, their ancestors were a race that could live in the extremely cold deep sea.”

Zheng Qing’s gaze went over the witch’s shoulders and he nodded, ”Right, right, this is the wizard’s world, the Magical World...even snakes can loaf around outside on snowy days, what else can’t happen?”