Upon entering the academy, Chen Cheng followed the classroom listed on his admission notice, only to discover that Wisdom Shield had assigned him to the first grade of elementary school.
Looking at the little brats before him, each one like a tiny radish, Chen Cheng wondered whether he had come to the wrong place. After confirming it again and again, he had no choice but to accept that he really had been assigned to study alongside these little radishes.
Coles and the others, who had come to register in the classroom, saw Chen Cheng and assumed he was a newly arrived teacher.
It was not until Little Fatty Akasto recognized Chen Cheng as the wandering bard and cried out that everyone realized the man before them was the wandering bard who had recently become so popular throughout the city.
Once they learned he was a wandering bard, some little brats eager to hear stories all crowded around him. Others, the particularly smug ones, merely clicked their tongues and turned their attention elsewhere.
Honestly, at that moment, Chen Cheng felt as though he had returned to the kindergarten of his previous life. These little bean sprouts had every strange question imaginable.
Meanwhile, Coles spotted Fini, who was alone organizing her desk.
That fellow was as detestable as ever. He first flaunted the servants at his side, then mocked Fini and even insulted her as nothing more than a lowly merchant's whore.
Fini did not indulge him. The instant she heard his insults, she slapped him across the face, making Coles let out loud squawks in his drake-like voice.
"Simpleton, get him! Today, this young master will make that bitch pay."
The hulking brute behind him immediately swung a fist larger than Fini's head at her.
At that moment, a shriek rang