Teacher Zhou, Your Fly Is Open

Objectively speaking, Xiao Xiao was the one making sense.

Some people were not necessarily trying to stir things up; they might simply be genuinely stupid.

But Huo Yuhao could hear the sounds of those emotions.

However, Huo Yuhao did not continue explaining himself to Xiao Xiao, because Zhou Yi had already made her move.

"Quiet!" Zhou Yi released her imposing aura only to withdraw it at once. After suppressing the noise of the entire class, she narrowed her eyes, looking utterly terrifying.

"Whether you are trash or idiots is not for you to decide with your mouths. I decide that! Now, everyone who has gotten into a fight since registration began, stand up!"

Zhou Yi's words undoubtedly shocked the students once again.

They had only just been admitted. Who would get into a fight at the academy for no reason?

And even if they had fought, who would willingly admit it?

Wang Dong glanced at Huo Yuhao in the back row and sprang to her feet.

Huo Yuhao wore an utterly unconcerned expression, sitting calmly in his chair and gazing out the window.

Standing out from the crowd like a crane among chickens, Wang Dong immediately became the most conspicuous person in Class One.

"Just him?" Zhou Yi raised a brow and swept her gaze across the room.

Wang Dong kept looking back, practically wishing she could run over to Huo Yuhao, grab his hand, and pull him to his feet.

Zhou Yi's fearsome reputation was truly terrifying. She had clearly told him about it before, so why was Huo Yuhao unwilling to stand up and admit it?

Naturally, Zhou Yi did not fail to notice Wang Dong's gaze, but she merely sneered. "What a bunch of trash."

"Do you not know the saying, 'Those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre fools'? Everyone except him, get out and run one hundred laps around Shrek Plaza!"

"Anyone who fails to finish will be expelled immediately!"

The entire classroom erupted in an uproar, even more intensely than after Zhou Yi's previous two speeches.

It was the first day of school. Classes had not even begun, yet they were to be punished for "not having fought," perhaps even expelled. Who could possibly accept that?

A student immediately stood up and said furiously, "Teacher, I refuse to accept this! Why should we be punished for not fighting?"

Zhou Yi did not explain at all. She merely said flatly, "Because I said so. If you refuse to accept it, you can get lost."

"I am telling you, as your homeroom teacher, I have the authority to expel any student."

"You have one minute. If I do not see you starting to run around Shrek Plaza within one minute, you will all be expelled!"

As she spoke, a terrifying aura surged from Zhou Yi's body.

The powerful fluctuations of Soul Power pressed down on nearly every student present, making them feel as though they could not breathe.

Soul Rings rose one by one beneath Zhou Yi's feet.

Two yellow, two purple, two black—six Soul Rings. A Soul Emperor!

With Zhou Yi's strength, dealing with the hundred students in the class would be effortless.

"Teacher Zhou!"

Wang Dong could not hold back any longer. "Huo Yuhao fought too."

Zhou Yi sneered. "Since he fought too, why did he not stand up? Why did you have to speak for him?"

"Too late! Who is Huo Yuhao? He will run twenty extra laps!"

As she spoke, Zhou Yi turned her gaze toward Huo Yuhao and stared directly at him.

Yet Huo Yuhao remained seated in his original spot, completely still, as though the world outside the window was the only thing in his eyes.

"You, stand up! Did you hear me?"

"Teacher Zhou, has anyone ever told you that your fly is open?" As though he had finally heard her, Huo Yuhao slowly turned his head.

Yet the first thing he said made everyone lose it.

Even with Zhou Yi's experience, she froze for a moment and hurriedly checked herself below the waist.

That check was enough to reveal that her fly really was slightly open. Still, it was nothing serious—under normal circumstances, no one would have noticed.

For a moment, she did not know whether to feel embarrassed, angry, or something else, and she stood there awkwardly.

But she quickly raised her head and fixed her gaze on Huo Yuhao.

"When I asked who had fought just now, why did you not stand up?"

As though the awkwardness from before had never existed.

"Did you? The buzzing of the flies was too loud. I did not hear you."

Cold sweat nearly broke out on Wang Dong in an instant.

What was Huo Yuhao doing? How did he dare talk back to a teacher from Shrek Academy? Especially someone like Zhou Yi.

Xiao Xiao, who sat beside Huo Yuhao, silently shifted her stool farther away, looking as though she did not want any blood splashing on her.

Just then, before Zhou Yi could fly into a rage, Huo Yuhao spoke again.

"Alright, the minute is up. Expel them all from Shrek Academy."

That instantly drew everyone's attention back to Zhou Yi.

From the moment Wang Dong revealed that Huo Yuhao had fought, until Huo Yuhao pointed out her open fly, the minute Zhou Yi had set had conveniently passed.

In other words, if Zhou Yi truly intended to follow through on her own words, she would have to expel all ninety-nine students other than Wang Dong from Shrek Academy today!

Leaving aside whether Zhou Yi herself had ever expelled that many students in a year, even if the entire first-year faculty were given another week, it was uncertain whether they could expel that many students.

Besides, expelling so many students in a single day would be utterly abnormal for Shrek Academy, even if Zhou Yi had a record of doing such things.

They could tolerate Zhou Yi's peculiar teaching style, but they could not tolerate her going mad without restraint.

At that moment, Zhou Yi found herself in an even more awkward position than when Huo Yuhao had pointed out that her fly was open.

Could she say that her own words were bullshit? No.

But could she really expel all ninety-nine students in the class besides Wang Dong at once? Also no.

The students could only see Zhou Yi's body trembling, while that exceedingly strange old face of hers showed no change whatsoever aside from its expressionlessness.

"You... you... you are simply... simply..."

"Simply what? Teacher Zhou, I am following your standards to a high standard!"

Huo Yuhao smiled faintly.

"You said that those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre fools. Then surely I had to prove to you that I could do it."

"Look, did I not successfully cause trouble? Why do you seem unhappy instead?"

Every one of Huo Yuhao's words struck at her heart. He placed particular emphasis on "your," his tone making it seem as though he had truly admired that saying beyond measure and acted only because of it.

The expressions of all the students immediately became somewhat subtle.

They kept looking back and forth between Huo Yuhao, who spoke with eloquence, and Zhou Yi, whose body trembled atop the podium. Zhou Yi's Soul Emperor-level strength, once so terrifying, now seemed like nothing more than silent resistance against Huo Yuhao.

Those six Soul Rings were the only thing she had left to intimidate people with.