"I won't stoop to their level."
Nicholas assured Liu Feifei, "I'm not a bull that sees red cloth and immediately loses its head... Before Liz started university, I was born in the Year of the Dog."
Hearing her boyfriend's ridiculous analogy, Liu Feifei could not help laughing as she lightly smacked him.
"What bulls and dogs? Couldn't you use a better example?" At that, the witch remembered the name Nicholas had just mentioned and asked worriedly, "How is Liz? Does she know about you at school...?"
Liz was Nicholas's younger sister, a highly gifted Little Witch and the only family member he had depended on for survival—though perhaps there was one more now. During Nicholas's second year at Starry Sky Academy, the main reason he had always avoided those "unprovoked" fights with Starry Sky Academy students was Liz.
He could not let Liz become an orphan while she was still so young, so he could not take risks.
Hearing Feifei's concern, Nicholas smiled reassuringly. "It's fine. Our family isn't wealthy enough to subscribe to newspapers regularly. Liz has been studying in Professor ※'s laboratory lately, so she has no time to pay attention to that gossip."
He said a name that Liu Feifei did not hear, as though a few seconds of a smooth recording had suddenly been erased, leaving behind a conspicuous blank. The witch did not find it strange, because many reclusive wizards placed all sorts of spells on their own names to ensure they would not be disturbed.
"No news is the best news." She patted the young wizard's arm again, then turned her attention to the books on the table. "You finished all the assignments the professors gave us last week, right? ...Mm, if you have, then let's do another paper tonight. There's only a little