Dekan’s Afternoon Chat – Chapter 213
The seemingly long journey away from school came to an end in the blink of an eye.
Dekan and his friends once again returned to their usual school life.
As for what changed about school life:
The biggest change was that now there were four chairs at their little round table in the library.
Most of the time, there was still only Dekan and Cornelia.
Chloix occasionally dropped by.
He was not taking any classes this semester but needed to manage the company.
Of course, Chloix now enjoyed being the temporary shopkeeper.
He seemed to have developed a liking for it, to the point that he forgot about school.
Also, since their trip to the Randir Kingdom, Mia sometimes came by to join them in reading.
Mia always enjoyed her reading with a cup of afternoon tea, showing no signs of academic diligence.
Considering that her grades have always been among the top at the Alchemy Academy, Dekan had nothing to say about it.
Today was rare.
Everyone happened to be gathered.
“Ah, it’s already early June, and we haven’t fought in a single Shadow World.”
Dekan lay on the table, frustration written all over his face.
It had been half a month since they returned from the Randir Kingdom to the capital city of the Norton Kingdom.
When they had first returned to school, it was already mid-May.
Now, the semester was clearly nearing its end.
Their evaluations, of course, were smoothly passed.
Dekan’s team achieved an almost impossible feat during the evaluation — killing one bishop and repelling another.
This directly translated to an astronomical score.
If not for the cap on the initial evaluation points, they might have soared straight to the top of the seventh-tier squad rankings.
As a form of compensation for their excessive points, the Kingdom Union also specially approved that the Beautiful Soul Squad would be exempt from the level-eight squad evaluation in the future.
Defeating a bishop-level task has a difficulty that even surpasses the evaluation for level-eight squads.
However, their previous attempt to enter a tier-seven Shadow World ended in failure.
The Shadow World selected other challengers instead, leaving them waiting outside.
It was as though the Shadow World was rejecting them.
Or perhaps, the Shadow World appropriate for them had not yet arrived.
So they were still waiting.
“It doesn’t matter. The school no longer troubles me about whether I can pass the Shadow World challenges. The principal has already decided to graduate me as an outstanding student and hire me as a top teacher.”
Chloix smiled amiably.
Although Chloix has never recorded a successful passage through the Shadow World,
At the age of 20, because of his dual efforts assisting Dekan in defeating a bishop, he has now become one of the famous heroes of the world.
“Dekan still doesn’t want you to leave with any regrets.”
Cornelia bent down, turned her head, looked into Dekan’s eyes, and then looked at Chloix said.
Now Cornelia can occasionally finish a short sentence very smoothly.
This was not only thanks to Chloix’s guidance, but also owed much to Mia’s new mentorship.
“I still hope that before you graduate, we can pass a Shadow World together as planned.”
Dekan seemed somewhat gloomy.
“Cases like yours, where you’re rejected by Shadow Worlds, are usually not just due to bad luck. There were research results before that indicated some people may have unclear ties with certain Shadow World themes.”
“They’re attracted to these Shadow Worlds while simultaneously being rejected by others.
“The more people with this characteristic in the same team, the harder it is to enter suitable Shadow Worlds.”
Mia sipped her tea, put down the book in her hand, and told them.
“…”
Dekan was almost certain that he had a connection with the Holy Country.
Moreover, the story of the Holy Country was also very important to Dekan.
He wanted to sort out those unusual pieces of information.
It was also because of this that over the past two months, he had been in such a rush to participate in the seventh-tier team evaluation; because if he wanted to learn about the subsequent story of the Holy Country, he had to prepare to challenge the seventh-tier Shadow Worlds.
Due to the war in the northern Holy Country, it should at least be a seventh-tier Shadow World or higher.
Not just Dekan, but Chloix also had complexities.
His two divine blessings indicate that his destiny is not simple.
There might be answers to Chloix’s blessings and curses hidden somewhere in a certain Shadow World.
Therefore, after Dekan and Chloix teamed up, there were already few high-level Shadow Worlds, making it even harder to match one that suited both of them.
“Sorry, it can’t be helped, let’s eat first.”
Dekan helplessly patted the table and prepared to disband, ready for a meal.
“Eat! Mew!”
The Cat Teacher suddenly popped out of Dekan’s shadow, circling around him.
Dekan had promised to take care of its meals!
“Hey, when did you hide in my shadow?”
Dekan immediately grabbed the Cat Teacher by the tail and pointed to its nose, asking.
It wasn’t because of anything else.
He felt like the Cat Teacher was constantly recording, even peeking into his life, which made him feel extremely uneasy.
“Meow meow meow.”
The Cat Teacher started playing dumb in a standard way.
Actually, it had been caught by Dekan a few times already.
But this time, Dekan seemed to have the intention to have a serious talk with it.
Seeing the Cat Teacher’s predicament, Mia covered her mouth to prevent herself from laughing and said,
“By the way, have you heard? The King of the Tomafis Kingdom, King Laxus VI, passed away this noon.”
“Huh? Is there really such a thing?”
Dekan turned around, surprised.
Mia: “Of course, you’ll probably see it in tomorrow’s newspaper.”
Dekan: “Tell me more.”
Mia’s intelligence was always surprisingly well-informed.
“I also heard it from Alice. Don’t spread this around. It’s said that King Laxus VI suffered three months of inhumane torture, and his physical and mental state could not withstand it, and he finally passed away from severe illness.”
“That’s… great!”
Dekan almost shouted out “Great!”.
Finally!
King Laxus VI was finally cursed to death by him after three months!
Thanks to his continuous care for three months, King Laxus VI finally went to the blissful paradise!
It was the most exciting news that Dekan had heard in a long time.
“Great. My application for the special card maker evaluation will surely go smoothly from now on!”
Dekan said a sentence suitable for his mood and position at the moment.
“To be honest, if it hadn’t been for following you all this time, I might have suspected you…”
Mia couldn’t help but express her real thoughts.
There was the assassination of King Ashtonton causing internal strife due to a curse, and now the mysterious torment leading to King Laxus VI’s death.
While the real villain roams free, without a shred of evidence,
It can’t help but make one ponder.
There are many forces in the world that have motives to mess with the Northern Kingdoms.
There’s no reason to suspect Dekan.
Unless Mia carefully considered it, Dekan indeed had the motive to screw with the Northern Kingdoms.
And those heinous torture methods were indeed consistent with Dekan’s personality.
“Talking nonsense, my actions for the past three months have been nothing but upright and transparent. You can suspect anyone, but you cannot suspect me, the great hero.”
Dekan placed his hands on his hips, looking extremely righteous.
“It’s true…”
If Dekan had stayed in the Norton Kingdom and done nothing for this past period,
Perhaps someone really might have suspected if Dekan secretly left the Norton Kingdom and snuck into the North.
But just this period of time, Dekan went to the Randir Kingdom and accomplished equally shocking feats.
A perfect, absolute alibi.
Instead, there wasn’t much suspicion now.
