With a bang, at this critical moment, Theresa leaped straight out of the second-floor window, clutching Judah, and landed on the playground.
Theresa struggled to get back up, but her body felt heavier and heavier until she finally collapsed.
"What happened?" Sheng Jiu and Kiana, who had been waiting at the school gate, heard the sound of breaking glass. They hurried into the academy's playground and quickly spotted Theresa lying nearby.
"Wake up, Auntie! Auntie, what's wrong?!" Kiana picked up the unconscious Theresa, her face full of panic.
"We can't stay here. We—" Before Sheng Jiu could finish, another figure jumped down beside the shattered window.
Yuno, wrapped in a mass of vines, appeared in their sight. "Oh? Two more people here to die?~ No matter—you're all going to die!"
Sheng Jiu drew Zeying and yanked Kiana along. "Run! What are you standing there for?"
"Huh? Oh!" Kiana came to her senses, picked up Theresa, and began sprinting alongside Sheng Jiu.
"Stop! You're all going to die!" Yuno chased after them in a frenzy, using the vines beneath her feet to propel herself forward. A flood of vines surged after her.
"What do we do now, you lazy bum?" Kiana asked Sheng Jiu between gasps, carrying Theresa.
"Don't talk! Save your strength!" Sheng Jiu, drenched in sweat, spotted a room marked "Storage Room."
"Got it! I'll draw that thing away. Take the headmistress as far away as you can. I'll catch up with you later!"
"Hey! Don't—" Kiana watched helplessly as Sheng Jiu kicked open a door and rushed inside, with Yuno and a mass of vines right behind him. She glanced at Theresa in her arms, pressed her lips together, and kept running.
As soon as Sheng Jiu rushed into the room, he spun around and slashed at Yuno. Zeying swiftly cut across her left chest, leaving a deep wound from which green fluid seeped.
"Ahhhhh! You piece of trash! How dare you hurt me! I'm going to cut your head off and use it as a pillow!" Yuno staggered back in pain, then sent a huge mass of thorny vines stabbing toward Sheng Jiu.
Sheng Jiu ducked out of the way, then gripped Zeying with one hand to fend off the vines while searching through the dusty shelves with the other.
At last, amid a jumble of bottles and jars, Sheng Jiu found what he was looking for.
Sheng Jiu raised a spray can and aimed it at Yuno's face. "Psssh—"
The moment the liquid in the spray touched Yuno, she felt a searing pain. "Ahhhhh! My hand! It hurts so much! You bastard, what did you do?!"
"Hahahaha! Die, you witch! I knew that after turning into a plant-type Honkai Beast, you'd be afraid of weed killer! Now experience the might of the God of Weed Killer in Ancient Greece!" Sheng Jiu held a spray can in each hand and doused Yuno with the lethal weed killer.
"Die!" Yuno endured the agonizing pain in her skin and thrust a clump of vines viciously at Sheng Jiu. Overcome with triumph, Sheng Jiu let his guard down and was nicked by several thorns. He winced in pain, then angrily slapped Yuno.
With a sharp smack, Yuno stared in shock and clutched her face. "You—you actually hit me!"
"I'm not just going to slap you, I'm going to kick your ass too!" Sheng Jiu kicked Yuno in the stomach, sending the Pseudo-Herrscher flying five meters.
"Drink up, you witch!" Quick as a flash, Sheng Jiu grabbed an entire bottle of highly concentrated weed killer and hurled it at Yuno, then ran off without looking back.
Several bloodcurdling screams and curses rang out behind him, making Sheng Jiu pick up his pace in fright.
Sheng Jiu ran to a secluded little room in the gymnasium and quickly opened the door. Unexpectedly, someone else was inside.
The pink-haired girl with a pair of animal ears looked at the unexpected visitor and frowned slightly. "Who are you?"
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