No one noticed that a woman in a black wool coat and sunglasses, her face obscured, was sitting at a table in the corner of the restaurant.
At a table diagonally across from her sat a middle-aged man with a gloomy air about him.
As if they had sensed something, the two glanced at each other and both froze.
Then, in tacit understanding, they lowered their heads and pretended not to know each other.
Minister Yang from the Zhidiya Region is here too? Could he be here for the same reason as me...? As Minister Lan pondered this, she noticed the girl in the distance stand up from the corner of her eye. Her heart stirred, and before she could think of anything else, she tapped the table twice with her right index finger.
The white flower-shaped earring on her right ear immediately turned into a drop of water, falling to the floor and flowing after the girl.
The restaurant restroom, women's room.
The assessment standards for special admissions at Top Academies varied every year, but her specialty was Pet Beast battles. The tests would probably be battles and the like, so it shouldn't be much of a problem...
What she needed to do now was go back and pass the D-rank Pet Tamer assessment first. That shouldn't be much of a problem either...
The biggest problem was her Academic Scores. She wondered whether winning this championship could make the Top Academies ranked in the top ten lower their Academic Scores requirements a little more...
As her thoughts turned, Qiao Sang arrived at the sink and placed her hand beneath the faucet.
"Whoosh—"
The water did not scatter over her hand. Instead, it clumped together like jelly.
What the hell is this...? Qiao Sang instinctively flicked her hand.
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