After spending an extra day guiding He Caitou in making soul tools, Jiang Hai only finished packing and prepared to leave on the morning of the third day.
Shrek Academy had done him a great kindness. Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Mu Jin, Zhu Tianming, Chen Yong, and so many other people he knew were all there, and He Caitou could just about count as an acquaintance too. Under those circumstances, Jiang Hai was even less inclined to give He Caitou halfhearted instruction.
What Jiang Hai had not expected, however, was that trouble would still come knocking on the morning of the third day.
"Teacher Jiang!" Xuan Ziwen called out to him.
Three burdens trailed beside Xuan Ziwen, two girls and a boy. The boy was Huo Yuhao. One of the girls was Ju Zi, the adorably ditzy beauty Jiang Hai had met before. The other girl was about Ju Zi's age and petite, though the places that ought to be big were anything but small.
Why had they come today?
Jiang Hai knew the original story and recognized this scene, but unless he remembered incorrectly, wasn't it supposed to happen a few days later?
"Teacher Xuan!" Jiang Hai nodded in greeting.
"Teacher Jiang, I've come to ask a favor of you." Xuan Ziwen got straight to the point and recounted what had happened early that morning.
As it turned out, Huo Yuhao had carelessly disturbed Ju Zi while she was making a soul tool. Ju Zi had gathered Keke and the others, who had returned ahead of schedule, to discuss teaching Huo Yuhao a lesson. Instead, Huo Yuhao had turned the tables on them, leaving one of Xuan Ziwen's students seriously injured and unconscious. That student had ties to the imperial family, so Xuan Ziwen had immediately decided to send