"Uh..."
Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao exchanged a glance. Both sensed that something was off.
Did you sneak a peek at some rabbit spirit sucking away people's yang energy back in the Divine Realm? How did those words roll off your tongue so easily?
After eight months of interacting and spending time together the previous year, the hostility that had once existed between Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao had faded.
After witnessing Huo Yuhao's strength and methods, Wang Dong's opinion of him had changed dramatically. As Class One's Power Attack System class monitor, she had even developed a measure of admiration for its Control System class monitor.
That was perfectly normal, really. Over those eight months, Huo Yuhao had stood among Shrek Academy's students like a crane among chickens-no, like Godzilla among chickens.
Collecting protection money from senior students, turning into a flying master thief in the middle of the night to sneak into the library, defeating Soul Elder Dai Huabin with only a Soul Master's strength-all these feats that others could never accomplish had earned him the admiration and respect of his peers.
Under Zhou Yi's oppressive rule, the once-proud little princess Wang Dong had already matured into the dependable person she would later become. She had even come close to developing depression.
There was no helping it. With a teacher as mentally manic as Zhou Yi and a whole group of classmates already suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, Freshman Class One would probably have fallen apart long ago if Wang Dong had not shouldered the burden.
Put that way, Zhou Yi seemed to have accelerated Wang Dong's emotional growth. That was probably her sole teaching achievement.
Arigatou, Zhou Yi-san!
As for Huo Yuhao, he had never disliked Wang Dong-or rather, her character in the original story. On