I'm in school, and feeling great

In an alley in Academy Garden, a man in a black baseball cap furtively looked around for something.

"What exactly are you doing... Wouldn't it be better to walk down the main street? Why insist on taking the alleyways?" Seeing her contractor acting like such a cowardly idiot, Paqi wanted to leap straight out of the book and beat him senseless—though she probably could not win.

"This is Academy Garden, a gathering place for girls' schools. If a guy like me walked down the street, wouldn't people stare at me like I was some rare animal?" After all, Luo Yifang was not Accelerator. If that lolicon came, he definitely would not be this submissive—after all, he only liked little girls. "Besides, do you think a necromancer would head somewhere crowded? I'm afraid he won't be able to resist unleashing some plague infection, zombie revival, or whatever."

"Heh heh." Those two brief words perfectly expressed just how complicated Paqi's feelings were at that moment.

"And... don't you think that café is suspicious?" Luo Yifang pressed down the brim of his cap, leaned against a wall, and pointed toward a café deep inside the alley. "There isn't a single shop at the entrance to this alley, but there's a café at the very end? Either the owner has a problem or he's an idiot."

Paqi looked in the direction Luo Yifang indicated and found that there really was a café there... one decorated in an incredibly bizarre fashion. What kind of idiot hung a skull from a café sign?! This was not the set of Pirates of the Caribbean! And what was with that utterly undisguisable aura of Necromantic Magic?! Paqi felt that she had to be living in an abnormal world. Even the villains had this level of intelligence?! Was this some kind of joke? This was not a children's theater!

"You noticed it too, right?" Luo Yifang continued. "This guy... uh, really does seem to have something wrong with his brain?"

You were fooled for several days by someone with something wrong with his brain. You probably were not much better yourself! Paqi covered her face. She really did not want to keep doing this. If it were not for that monthly salary of five dollars, she would have slipped away long ago. But regardless of what Paqi thought, Luo Yifang still found it strange. The moment he neared the café, he suddenly sensed that something was off.

No matter what, just standing here and watching would accomplish nothing. Why not go in and meet the guy face-to-face?

When he pushed open the café door, a chilly wind rushed at him. Of course, it had no effect on Luo Yifang. At that moment, Paqi said, "Oh ho ho, so it's the real deal after all? Such bone-chillingly sinister style?"

"No." Luo Yifang looked up at something and answered slowly, "I think the air conditioner is simply set too low."

"Uh..." Paqi paused and immediately fell silent. This necromancer had to be a lunatic, right?!

"Um, sir, would you like something to drink?" At that moment, a soft, sweet voice came from behind the counter. Luo Yifang looked over and saw a silver-haired girl standing there, staring at him with a blank and adorable expression. Yet the necromantic energy constantly radiating from her revealed her identity.

What? This was that evil necromancer? Luo Yifang's jaw nearly dropped. This was completely different from what he had imagined! Shouldn't that person have been a burly man with a full beard, huge eyes, a broad back and muscular waist, dressed in a tattered black cloak, nine skulls hanging around his neck, and a staff made from human bones?

"Is that really what you imagined a necromancer to be... and not a berserker? Sha Wujing?" Paqi interjected at just the right moment.

"Fine, no matter what, I still need to investigate this properly." Luo Yifang spread his hands. Although she was a beautiful young girl, he was not the sort of person who could not move after seeing a pretty woman and would go easy on her. Besides, what if this was merely the necromancer's outer shell, while her true form was an eighty- or ninety-year-old crone? The thought sent a shiver down Luo Yifang's spine. His gaze toward the girl turned icy. So she had ruined such a beautiful girl just to use her as cover? Today, I'll uphold justice...

"Sir, are you all right? Did I set the air conditioner too low and make you uncomfortable? I'll turn it down a little right away." Seeing Luo Yifang remain silent for so long, the girl assumed that her air conditioner had made him uncomfortable. She hurriedly dug out the remote control, intending to lower the temperature.

To her surprise, Luo Yifang's voice sank as he swept out a hand. "No need. I came here for you today!"

"For me?" The silver-haired girl's pretty face flushed. "But sir, this should be our first time meeting."

"Hmph, it is indeed our first time meeting, but I have already fought your evil creation." Luo Yifang secretly sealed off all possible routes of escape while remaining outwardly calm. "Quickly tell me why you came to Academy City, and perhaps I can consider..."

"Um, sir... have you misunderstood something?" The silver-haired girl looked bewildered. "What evil creation? I am indeed a necromancer, but I haven't summoned any undead yet! And since you know I'm a necromancer, can you tell me how to return to Rogue Camp?"

"Stop pretending... Wait, what did you say? Rogue Camp?" Luo Yifang's tone abruptly changed, and his eyes filled with disbelief. Even Diablo had shown up? Was I going to have to fight Diablo one-on-one later, too?

"Yes, I've been in this unknown world for over a month now." The girl's face was filled with dejection. "But my sister and teammates are still waiting for me to go back so we can adventure together. It was all my fault. I bought that unscrupulous merchant's Town Portal Scroll at a low price, and it sent me to this unknown place."

Wait. Luo Yifang felt a little scrambled. She said she came from Rogue Camp, meaning the world of Diablo? She also said she had a sister and teammates, so she was an adventurer? Looking at how inexperienced she was, she had even been tricked into buying an inferior Town Portal Scroll... Still, that scroll had directly broken through the World Barrier and brought her into another world. Had buying it cheaply been a gain or a loss?

"No matter how I look at her, she doesn't seem like an evil necromancer." Paqi snickered. "I just checked her. Her heart is even purer than a priest's. I really don't know how someone like that became a necromancer. Looks like you found the wrong person."

Then what was going on with that magic circle?

"Oh, you mean that magic circle?" The girl lightly touched her lips with a finger. "Last time, I encountered a group of wraiths there. It took quite a bit of effort to deal with them."

So you had been fighting evil and defending justice there all along. Luo Yifang did not know whether to laugh or cry. But if that were really the case, how could he explain that moving corpse? It could not have cultivated itself into existence, transcended the Three Realms and Five Elements, and become a zombie, could it?

"Sir, you encountered that corpse too?" The girl looked at Luo Yifang in surprise. "That corpse was quite powerful. I couldn't defeat it alone. If my magic hadn't happened to counter it, I might have died at its hands last time..."