Chapter 2674: Chapter 895: The Protagonist of This World
"So, you mean last Christmas was the first time you and he met the gentlemen together?"
Jiang Yu suddenly looked at Su Shijun and asked this question, slightly abruptly—she emphasized the words ’together with him,’ meaning previous encounters didn’t count.
The owner of Greenhill Mansion blinked, hesitated a bit, seemingly pondering how to respond.
The black cat crouched at the corner of the table, suddenly spoke ’foolishly.’
"Yeah, that’s right."
The black cat flicked its tail tip quickly, anxiously answering: "You usually can’t even see a shadow of the old man, but since he already said he would bless Poseidon, so on Christmas Eve—more accurately, that evening—we managed to trap him in the bookstore. Wasn’t Sister Korma also there that day?"
Su Shijun glanced at him, with a half-smile.
"Well, if it’s your gentleman, I saw him in my freshman year." The witch at the desk nodded slightly, coolly adding: "...Turns out he’s the principal."
This little advantage finally evened the advantage created by the mansion owner earlier.
The black cat secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just like how he occasionally felt simultaneously like a person and a cat, tonight he felt constantly in a state of being either beaten up or okay—if he didn’t want the bad possibility to collapse into reality, he had to maintain some delicate balance.
To prevent Su Shijun from bringing up the gentleman giving her Christmas gifts again.
Zheng Qing had to rack his brains, and before the two witches came to their senses, he spoke first, changing the topic: "Yesterday, during dinner with the doctor, I mean Xiao Xiao, I heard a very interesting perspective...what do you think, have the three Great Elves reached the enrollment age for First University?"
This returning theme indeed diverted the witches’ attention away from the principal.
"How is their age calculated?"
Jiang Yu immediately noticed a very controversial detail: "Is it calculated from when their seeds sprouted or from when they transformed into true Great Elves? Additionally, they followed you, which is equivalent to changing owners midway, akin to a rebirth for them."
The Green Sprites obtained by Zheng Qing belong to the green seed type, growing from the soil. In his freshman year during admission, Li Meng had given Zheng Qing a few Green Sprite seeds, but he never found the right opportunity to plant them.
Unlike Jiang Yu.
Su Shijun evidently viewed this matter from a more open perspective.
"Is age really important?"
She threw back this rhetorical question, then criticized First University’s exceptions: "Li Meng and Lin Guo, those Genius Boys, can enroll; the brown Hui Zong tribe member can enroll; Dingdang Ears and Ding Dong Ears from D&K can enroll...why do we care about the ages of a few Great Elves? Different magic lives have inherently different methods of age calculation. The school won’t miss out on these gifted students because of that."
The black cat thoughtfully nodded.
But he was also curious about how mice and Hui Zong calculated age; he was about to speak when he suddenly realized that asking ’how old is Hui Zong when they mature’ in front of two witches might lead them to overthink.
Truly unwise.
Thus he licked his tongue and closed his already slightly open mouth again.
"What do you want to say?" As the Big Wizard, Su Shijun was very precise in her control of the forces, and she keenly sensed the moment of hesitation from the black cat.
The black cat shook its head like a rattle.
The owner of Greenhill Mansion raised an eyebrow: "Since you have no questions, then I’ll say something... earlier the North District Grand-Wizard you mentioned, I suggest you reduce contact with her for the time being."
The black cat subconsciously glanced at Jiang Yu.
Similar words, she had also said this to him before.
"Is it because of the Dean of Edge Academy?" he instinctively lowered his voice.
Su Shijun looked at the black cat in surprise, then glanced at the other witch at the desk, smiling slightly: "Correct. Every world has marginal people, every group has marginal people. The establishment of Edge Academy gives these marginal people a true chance to change their destiny. It sounds like a very ordinary yet almost impossible task — just like it’s easy for a person to count the grains of rice in a handful, but hard to count those in a mountain of rice — for high-level wizards, this scarce concept is about forging a Legendary Seed. Now, this seed is already planted, sprouted, and when watered by enough marginal people’s blood, viewed as salvation by enough marginal people, once its name spreads across countless worlds and the entire universe, the Legendary Seed will eventually become a true legend."
"Therefore, many people want this seed." The black cat twitched its whiskers, gently smoothing its ears.
"Chief Justice Sam Marshall of Danhag, Trident Bureau Chief Robert Nud, Gene Black O’Brien of the O’Brien family, the Great Alchemist Jiang Qianli from the Zhongshan Jiang Family, Moon Council Upper House Member Gongsun Bing, and myself, are all currently, either actively or passively, engaged in this game."
At this point, Su Shijun pointed at herself, then at the black cat: "And you, due to your special relationship with me, will inevitably draw attention from multiple parties...at this juncture, if you go meet the North District Grand-Wizard, it will unsettle everyone."
The black cat heard many familiar names in this series of names.
He couldn’t help but look at Jiang Yu, then at Su Shijun, and a peculiar thought flashed through his mind: didn’t expect they had conflicts elsewhere too, what kind of ill-fate is this.
"Poor Sister."
The black cat sighed — her carefully planted seed had sprouted but attracted a bunch of coveters, all stronger than her.
"Poor?"
The Moon Council Upper House Member sneered, "At her age, reaching such heights and wrestling single-handedly with a group of old wizarding clans as well as powerful institutions within the Alliance, without getting crushed, why do you consider her poor? Sometimes, I really think she fits more as the main character of this world than you — the ordinary background, unparalleled fortune, one seemingly tiny but undeniably real opportunity after another."
The black cat suddenly felt a bit flattered.
"I don’t feel like I’m..." he very quietly argued.
The witch behind the desk glanced at him, proudly retorting: "To become the husband of the most beautiful woman in the wizard world, isn’t that the main character of this world?"
Hearing such an explicit declaration, the black cat couldn’t help but look fearfully at the other witch at the desk.
Yet saw Jiang Yu with an expressionless face, suddenly turn around, walk to the door, grabbing the handle and pulling it open forcefully.
Bang!
Five small and large figures, unprepared, tumbled in all at once.
