The dragons' gathering had ended. It had begun with great fanfare, carried on in boisterous chaos, and finally concluded with a bunch of full, drunken dragons staggering off home without the slightest sense of order or discipline. That was their celebration. Lilina, who had been looking forward to a religious ceremony and planned to use the opportunity to recruit two guardian dragons for her Life God Cult, was deeply disappointed. But she soon had no time to feel disappointed—after Lin Xue and I returned to the plaza, the first thing we did was go looking for trouble with her. More precisely, Miss Lin went storming off to find the girl. Miss, who had always prided herself on her refined upbringing and proper manners, took great issue with the fact that someone had taught her daughter to casually blurt out the words "illicit affair." I figured Lilina was in for it. Honestly, the girl was pretty wronged. No matter how many anti-traditional-morality terms she would someday instill in Xiao Xue, that was all in the future. She had not done anything yet, and probably had not even developed the motive. Yet she was about to get a beating from Miss. How stifling was that?
Of course, for various reasons, I had no intention of stopping Lin Xue. Lilina was the ultimate kind of brat king who would tear the roof off if left unpunished for three days—though she often considered herself an adult, the facts proved that bullying her every now and then could effectively lower the crime rate within at least a hundred kilometers. As for the reason... well, with the things Lilina usually did, did anyone really need a reason to beat her up?
While Lin Xue hunted Lilina all over the place, I wandered around the plaza gathering