On the third day after signing the IOU, Yu Xunge cheered herself up.
Ripper was right: after she graduated, she would take on a few more apprentices and pay it off.
Most importantly, she was only going to live to be a little over a hundred, and for all she knew, Ripper might still be around to bury her!
Thinking about it this way, Yu Xunge even started secretly grinning!
And ever since she was certain she could go to school, Ripper would occasionally bring her some must-have school supplies when she came home.
Ignoring the elf's bookkeeping habits, Yu Xunge carefully organized each of those clothes and weapons.
Ripper watched her bustling about like that and suddenly asked, "Still hate me?"
As if pricked by a needle, Yu Xunge loudly emphasized, "Super much!"
Ripper glanced at the area of the red starfield inside that star; it hadn't shrunk, but the color was no longer pure. Lazily, she said, "Good. Then I can rest easy scheduling this year's Winter Solstice Festival lessons."
Yu Xunge was still being stubborn, muttering something about how Ripper could arrange whatever she wanted because she wasn't afraid at all, and how recent days had been so comfortable that she was finding it hard to get used to.
Rubbing her ears because she couldn't bear to listen anymore and planning to leave, Ripper spotted the open notebook on the desk.
At a glance, her eyes caught some rather bad text.
It recorded everything the cub had learned on Garbage Street.
The Art of Lying, How to Build a Memory Palace, Counter-Inspection and Divination, How to Manufacture Alibis, Those Easily Overlooked Fatal Vulnerabilities, How to Detect Potential Crises, How to Eliminate Potential Threats in Advance, Friend or Enemy?, What True Caution Is, *What We Think About When