"Bleurgh—" Lu Mingfei and Finger gagged at the same time, their faces turning green. Even Mo Wang, who had proposed the hypothesis, felt his stomach churn.
Just then, a flash of eye-catching red entered their field of vision.
Nono walked over in a well-tailored dark red evening gown. The close-fitting fabric perfectly outlined her slender waist and tall, graceful figure. In Mo Wang's opinion, aside from her somewhat modest bust and a rear that was not quite breathtaking enough, she was practically perfect overall—especially that elf-like aura of hers, utterly unique.
However, the moment the beauty saw the three of them, she burst out laughing without the slightest concern for her image. She laughed so hard that her whole body shook, drawing sidelong glances from several nearby guests.
"Oh my God... what are you three wearing?" Nono finally managed to stop laughing and wiped away the tears it had brought out. "Did you dig those performance outfits out of a circus dumpster after it went bankrupt? Or is this... your latest retro trend for the year?"
Faced with Nono's merciless mockery, Lu Mingfei and Finger wanted nothing more than to crawl into a crack in the ground.
Mo Wang, on the other hand, had thick skin. He merely smiled helplessly and spread his hands. "Can't be helped. We're poor kids, after all. We don't have money for fancy custom-made suits, so we had to dig these antiques out from the bottom of our trunks and make do."
He paused, then added pointedly, "Besides, the school doesn't seem to have given us any actual cash reward for successfully slaying a dragon. They won't even reimburse our meal expenses."
At Mo Wang calling himself a "poor kid," Nono spat in disdain and rolled her eyes at him as if to say, *Yeah,