I'm Already Enrolled, and Feeling Great

In an alleyway within Academy Garden, a man wearing a black baseball cap was furtively watching something.

"What exactly are you doing... Wouldn't it be fine to walk down the street? Why did you insist on taking the alleyways?" Seeing her contractor acting like such a cowardly idiot, Paqi practically wanted to leap out of the book and beat him up on the spot—though she might not be able to win.

"This is Academy Garden, a gathering place for girls' schools. If a man 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 had come instead, he definitely would not have been this cowardly—after all, he only liked little girls. "Besides, do you think a necromancer would go somewhere crowded? I'm afraid he might lose control and unleash a plague or start a zombie apocalypse or something."

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

"Besides... don't you think that café is weird?" Luo Yifang pressed down the brim of his cap, leaned against a wall, and pointed toward a café at the end of the alley. "There aren't any shops anywhere along this alley, but there's a café all the way at the very end? Either the owner has a problem, or he's an idiot."

Paqi looked in the direction Luo Yifang pointed and discovered that there really was a café there... one decorated in an incredibly bizarre fashion... Seriously, what idiot would hang a skull on a café sign?! This wasn't the set of Pirates of the Caribbean! And what was with that completely undisguised aura of Necromantic Magic?! Paqi felt like she must be living in an abnormal world. Even the villains had this level of intelligence?! Was there some kind of mistake? This wasn't 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 got strung along for days by someone with something wrong with his brain, so you probably weren't much better yourself! Paqi covered her face. She truly did not want to keep hanging around here. If not for that five-dollar monthly salary, she would have slipped away long ago. But no matter what Paqi thought, Luo Yifang still found it strange. Just as he approached the café, he suddenly sensed that something was off.

No matter what, there was no point just standing here and watching. Why not go in and meet the guy face-to-face?

Pushing open the café door, he was met by a gust of chilly air. Naturally, it had no effect on Luo Yifang. At that moment, Paqi said, "Ohoho, so it really is the genuine article? That bone-chillingly sinister style?"

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

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

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

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

"Are you sure you were imagining a necromancer... and not a berserker? Sha Wujing?" Paqi interjected at just the right moment.

"Fine, no matter what, I still need to get to the bottom of this." Luo Yifang spread his hands. Although she was a beautiful young girl, he was not the sort of person who forgot how to walk at the sight of a beauty and went easy on her. Besides, what if this was merely the necromancer's outer shell, while her true form was actually an eighty- or ninety-year-old hag? At that thought, Luo Yifang shuddered. His gaze toward the girl turned icy. So she had ruined such a beautiful girl to use as a cover? Today, I shall uphold justice and—

"Sir, are you all right? Did I set the air conditioner too low and make you uncomfortable? I'll turn it up right away." Seeing that Luo Yifang had not spoken for a long time, the girl assumed the low temperature had made him uncomfortable. She hurriedly rummaged out the remote control, intending to lower the air conditioner.

To his surprise, Luo Yifang's voice deepened as he waved 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've already fought your evil creation." Luo Yifang secretly sealed off all escape routes while keeping an impassive expression on the surface. "Quickly tell me your purpose for coming to Academy City, and perhaps I can consider..."

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

"Stop pretending... Wait, what did you say? Rogue Camp?" Luo Yifang's tone abruptly changed, his eyes revealing utter disbelief. Even Diablo had shown up? Was he going to have to solo Diablo in a little while?

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

Wait, Luo Yifang felt like his thoughts were a mess. She said she had come from Rogue Camp, meaning the world of Diablo? She also said she had a sister and teammates, meaning she was an adventurer. Looking at how inexperienced she seemed, she had even been tricked into buying a shoddy Town Portal Scroll... Though that scroll had directly broken through the World Barrier and brought her to another world. Had buying it cheaply been a profit or a loss?

"No matter how I look at her, she doesn't seem like an evil necromancer." Paqi snickered. "I checked just now. Her heart is even purer than a priest's. I really don't know how someone like her 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 tapped her lips with a finger. "Last time, I ran into a group of wraiths there. It took quite a bit of effort to deal with them."

So you were exorcising evil and upholding justice there all along? Luo Yifang did not know whether to laugh or cry. But if that was truly the case, how could he explain that moving corpse? It could not possibly have cultivated itself into an immortal, 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 pretty powerful. I wasn't its match alone. If my magic hadn't happened to counter it, I might have died at its hands last time..."