Seeing Zai Jiu Xunge actually sit down, hug her desk, and announce that she was skipping Joint Training today, Dawn Cicada demanded, "What did you leave behind?! Did you provoke Qihua?"
Tulan, who was eating breakfast by the door, asked, "Want to see?"
Dawn Cicada said, "Yes!"
Tulan reached down and rummaged around her belly, pulling a cushion embroidered with a half-length portrait of Qihua out of her storage space. She held it high. "Ta-da~"
She displayed it for only an instant before putting it back into her space.
Two hands grabbed empty air where the cushion had just been, one belonging to Yudun and the other to Dawn Cicada.
Tulan grinned, baring her teeth. "I knew it. Good thing I was quick."
Yu Xunge hesitated to speak. Sure enough, Yudun raised her hand, and the cushion Tulan had just put away popped back out as though being played in reverse, following its original path to leap straight into Yudun's hand.
Yudun turned the cushion over in her hands, examining it, then put it away in satisfaction. "Items unrelated to class will be confiscated."
Before Tulan could make a fuss, she casually stuffed a little toy into her dragon claw. "Go play with this."
Tulan was instantly appeased. She could always have Snowdrift help make a few more cushions like that once they got back anyway.
Hugging her desk, Yu Xunge told Yudun, "I'm not feeling well today, so I'll skip Joint Training..."
She could find either Mistblade or Huang Jin whenever she wanted anyway. Once the game ended, she could drag them into training every day. She might as well stay behind to reinforce what she had learned and improve her proficiency at combining magic runes.
Yudun neither persuaded nor urged her. She turned and walked out, leaving only