Chapter 401 - A Brief Date
Chapter 401 of "High School of Demon Hunting" starts revealing surprises: Chapter 401: Chapter 70 A Brief DateSharp whistles came from the resting hunting team not... Read on!
Chapter 401: Chapter 70 A Brief DateSharp whistles came from the resting hunting team not far away.
Deng Xiaojian turned his head and waved his hand in response.
"Since weâve all met, feel free to contact us if you need anything in the future." The tall and skinny wizard patted Zheng Qingâs shoulder. "We have a training mission tonight, so we wonât bother you with your patrol."
The two freshmen nodded over and over again.
Having just walked a short distance away, Deng Xiaojian ran back.
Zheng Qing looked at him with curiosity.
"This terrible memory... Almost forgot something." The tall, skinny wizard tapped his forehead, complained about his memory, and then looked at the young scholarship student cheerfully, "I heard youâve got some issues with Friedman of Alpha Academy, and those guys from Sepulano? Anything serious? If youâre in trouble, feel free to tell me... You can also come to Starry Sky Academy and ask for me. Just say youâre looking for âDeng Ziâ, everyone knows."
A subtle expression appeared on Zheng Qingâs face.
Did someone just have his back?
He had only heard about such scenarios in bragging tales from his classmates.
"... Although we canât just go around killing those charlatans at school, itâs no problem to find an excuse to give them a hard time and fix some minor troubles."
Deng Xiaojianâs final remark froze the laugh that had started forming on Zheng Qingâs face.
The way this tall second-year student talked, it didnât seem like he was joking.
Was it really appropriate to casually mention âkilling peopleâ? Or is the atmosphere at the Starry Sky Academy always this wild and reckless?
"Itâs okay, itâs okay." The young scholarship student waved his hands anxiously. "Iâve talked with Mr. Augustus... There should be no problem."
"Oh!" Deng Xiaojian looked at him in surprise. "Augustus is quite reliable... See you then!"
With that, he waved his hand, turned around, and left straight away.
This time, he didnât look back.
Not until the hunting team totally disappeared into the black night did the two freshman patrol students leisurely begin their patrol tasks again.
Naturally, their conversation returned to the topic of the hunting team.
"... Maybe those hunting teams really are amazing, but you canât deny that training in the dead of night is really dangerous." Zheng Qing remembered Deng Xiaojianâs careless demeanor and couldnât help but shake his head.
"This is a part of the normal training for a hunting team." Lin Guo, who grew up in Beta Town, had a lot of insight into these things: "A real hunting team must be able to adapt to all sorts of harsh environments, including high temperatures, low pressure, extreme cold, dryness, rainforests, and so on. Some advanced hunting teams even train underwater or in deep space."
"What if someone gets injured?"
"Isnât getting injured a natural part of things?" Lin Guo found it a bit absurd: "If you get injured, go see a therapist."
The young scholarship student opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to argue something.
But upon thinking that this wasnât the same familiar ordinary world he knew, he eventually closed his mouth reluctantly.
"Anyway, it feels a bit barbaric." He complained as if lamenting.
"Perfectly normal." Lin Guo placed the little fox in his arms back on the head of his own Black Mountain Goat, shook his sore arm, and explained: "Demon hunting is an ancient sport. It dates back to the obscure ancient times. Of course, over time, this sport has become an important part for wizards to train the new generation and maintain internal vitality."
Zheng Qing looked at Lin Guo with squinted eyes.
There was a moment where he felt like it wasnât Lin Guo standing beside him, but Xiao Xiao.
"... As the owner of the milk tea shop once told me, the world is not peaceful, itâs just in a state of dynamic balance. We canât expect to spend our entire lives in the peaceful little world of school, without strife."
"Strife naturally leads to injury." The young wizard waved his wand enthusiastically, as if he was battling all the gods and Buddhas in the sky: "If the school canât even handle this, then whatâs the point of our education..."
"Of course, the college hunting party in the first university is relatively safe compared to those real hunting games outside. Schools wouldnât randomly sacrifice their students to become claws sharpening stones for real demons... As far as I know, the wild demons in the school hunting grounds are all âfamiliar demonsâ that have been conditioned by the big shots in the research institute. Although they are still ferocious, the chance of getting infected by them is really, really, low."
"In other words, students participating in the hunting game still have a certain chance of being infected by wild demons." Zheng Qing summed up.
Lin Guo pretended not to hear this sentence.
"Speaking of which, should our Knights Group form our own hunting team?" The little wizard abruptly changed the topic: "If we only do odd jobs at the campus hunting party, we canât earn many credits..."
"What do you want credits for?" Zheng Qing looked puzzledly at Lin Guo: "As far as I remember, your daily performance grades shouldnât be low."
"Alchemy requires materials, and while the materials in the school are cheap, they still require credits for exchange... I always find that there arenât enough credits." Lin Guo looked a bit worried.
"I see." Zheng Qing nodded: "Then work harder in class and answer more questions... In my Knight Group, you wonât have the opportunity to join the hunting team."
The little wizard looked at him disbelievingly.
"Why?!" He questioned loudly. S~eaĘá´h the NovelĆire(.)ne*t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
"Because youâre still young... not an adult yet." Zheng Qing gave an absolutely correct answer.
It was an answer that no one could refute.
Lin Guo dragged his magic staff and expressed his dissatisfaction with silence.
The staffâs tip scraped against the stone slab, making âclang clangâ sounds and disturbing the vicinity.
The Black Mountain Goat snorted, abruptly sped up to walk behind the little wizard, bent down its head, opened its mouth, and bit the tip of his staff, lifting it off the ground.
The Little Fox settled between its horns, wagged its tail satisfyingly, then changed its posture and resumed a coil.
Moonlight was like water, and time quietly slipped away in silence.
The date with Elena on Sunday afternoon went very smoothly.
You could even say it went a little too smoothly.
After meeting at the Book Mountain Library in the afternoon and then spending the entire time studying the unfamiliar talisman with rapt attention; to having dinner in âYotaâ on the Pedestrian Street at night, and then attending a class meeting at the teaching building together.
The whole process went without a ripple, and naturally there were no surprises.
The obscure talisman finally revealed some meaning under the cooperative research of the two people. Zheng Qing believed that this talisman should belong to some advanced form of the Suppression Symbol â this was probably the only exciting progress made on Sunday afternoon.
Thatâs it.
The holding hands, hugs, and even kisses that the young cost student had fantasized about did not happen.
It seemed that all of Elenaâs energy was focused on that worn-out notebook and those abstruse talismans.
Even the gift that Zheng Qing had finally managed to hand out â that Bohemian long dress â did not evoke any more joy from the Gypsy witch.
Her look of surprise when receiving the gift seemed to be more about maintaining the young wizardâs last shred of dignity.
"I thought you would give me this gift at the Hunting Dance," Elena made a joke when she received the dress.
This made Zheng Qing a bit embarrassed.
But this little awkwardness didnât start to subside until the class meeting on Sunday night.
Because at the meeting, Zheng Qing had to face another important issue â of course, it has nothing do with Jiang Yu â the Chief Captain of the Absolution Knights discovered that he had to start considering whether the club should form a hunting team and how to form it.