"Impossible." Dai Mubai immediately denied it.
"If she wanted to go back, she would've gone back long ago. She wouldn't have waited until now."
"Besides, she hates that family more than anything. How could she possibly go back of her own accord?"
"..."
He clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
"Something must have happened."
"Someone must have... done something to her!"
His gaze drifted, almost involuntarily, toward a certain direction in Heaven Dou City.
There stood an academy that had recently become famous throughout the land.
Blue Silver Academy.
Tang San's expression darkened slightly too.
He thought of the barefoot man in white, whose depths were impossible to fathom.
Chen Xuan.
And he thought of the woman who had gravely wounded him with a single palm strike and regarded him as an enemy.
Ah Yin.
If it was them...
Just as anxiety gnawed at everyone's hearts and all sorts of suspicions arose, a voice came from the training ground's entrance.
"May I ask which of you are students of Shrek Academy?"
The voice was clear and polite, yet carried a hint of distance.
All five turned to look.
A young man in a pale green academy uniform stood at the entrance.
They knew that uniform all too well.
An exquisitely embroidered Blue Silver Grass, stitched in silver thread, adorned its chest.
Someone from Blue Silver Academy!
Dai Mubai's pupils suddenly contracted, and a vicious aura erupted from him.
"What are you doing here?!"
He stepped forward, Soul Power surging as if he were a tiger about to pounce on its prey.
The Blue Silver Academy disciple clearly hadn't expected such a fierce reaction. The pressure forced him to step back half a pace, but he showed no fear.
He merely glanced at Dai Mubai calmly, then