Xiao Hongchen could swear he had seen some of the people before him.
Especially the tall young woman.
And Nana recognized Xiao Hongchen just as surely.
As the grandson of Virtue Hall's Hall Master, Xiao Hongchen was famous throughout the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, leagues ahead of everyone else. Unfortunately, he usually wore a sour face around campus and carried himself as though he were the greatest under heaven.
As a result, he was always surrounded by flatterers looking to get ahead, but he did not have a single true friend.
Nana was a promising candidate for the next tournament's Main Team Members. If Lu Yi had not wiped out the Holy Spirit Cult branch that controlled her and her parents, she would very likely have represented Sun Moon Academy as a Main Team Member at the next Soul Fighting Tournament, hosted by Sun Moon. Xiao Hongchen would undoubtedly have been her captain.
Yet here they were, meeting in the Ministry of Magic that Lu Yi had founded in Shrek City. Both sides were genuinely surprised.
"Old Xiao, of course they look familiar!"
Lu Yi broke the silence first, making no attempt to hide anything.
"This is Nana. She's a sixth-year student in the Practical Control Soul Tool Department at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. If nothing unexpected happened, she'd become your teammate in two years and compete in the Soul Master Academy Tournament. These others are students from the Soul Tool Department too."
At those words, Nana and the Sun Moon Academy students behind her broke out in a cold sweat.
None of them had expected their boss to reveal their identities just like that. Whatever Xiao Hongchen's relationship with him, it felt as though they had been reported to someone in authority.
After studying