My Family May Not Dare Offend Shrek Academy, but You Think We Can't Kill Some Errand Runner from the Academy?

As he spoke, he pulled a chair from his storage Soul Tool.

The chair was not particularly large. Its back was decorated with a ring of pale gold curved carvings, and its seat was covered with a thin beast-hide cushion. It looked sturdy and comfortable—not especially valuable, but clean and neat.

He placed the chair on the open patch beside the stone platform, where the locust tree cast half a patch of shade. Then he patted the seat and gestured to Gu Yuena. "Sit here. The breeze can reach you, and the sun won't. Big brother will be right beside you. Call me anytime if you need anything."

Gu Yuena answered with smiling eyes, gathered her skirt, and sat down on the chair. Her hands rested on the edge of the seat, while her long silver-white hair fell over her shoulders and swayed gently in the morning breeze.

She did not speak again to disturb him. She simply sat quietly nearby, her gaze occasionally falling on Tang Wulin's signing hand and occasionally on the crowd lined up in the distance, her eyes filled with curiosity about this world.

Tang Wulin sat back down behind the stone platform, switched to a pen with more ink, and continued receiving the people farther back in line.

Over the rest of the morning, more than a dozen children arrived one after another to register, each carrying an expulsion notice Zhou Yi had issued years ago.

He was already much more efficient than at the beginning. He would glance at the handwriting, confirm the signature and date, sign his own name along the edge of the page, hand it back, and point toward the administrative building. The entire process flowed smoothly, with barely a pause.

Most of the children who came to register were genuine.