Zheng Qing first met Nikita aboard the special plane to the university.
At the time, the banshee had been ordered to infiltrate the school, but she was drawn by the inexplicably alluring aura surging from Zheng Qing and exposed her identity. Nikita remembered it vividly.
"Just like in storybooks, children's flesh and blood are sweet, while adults' are fishy and foul... No, no, it hasn't been that long since we last met."
"Could it be that First University's atmosphere is too polluted now, so it wore away the scent on you?"
"Or did you eat something strange at school?"
Nikita folded her arms, tapping her curled fingers as she speculated. "...This isn't boasting, but as a top Registered Wizard, scents capable of making me lose control are exceedingly rare. And something that can make such a scent appear or vanish is even rarer."
Zheng Qing kept a straight face and stared fearlessly into the banshee's scarlet eyes without retreating in the slightest.
After the last explosion, Mister had already explained to him in the Blank Land where the aura that attracted demons and Dark Wizards came from.
It was a byproduct of the Forbidden Spell Seed.
Before he enrolled, Mister had sealed the Forbidden Spell Seed deep within Zheng Qing's soul. But after his chance encounter with Su Shijun one night, the seed sprouted, pierced the seal, and leaked a trace of its aura—his recurring head illness and the occasional attacks of "Red Eye Disease" were all caused by that aura stirring trouble.
Mister had not been at the bookstore then, so he had not noticed the leak.
Zheng Qing had then set out for First University. It was on that special plane that Nikita detected that enticing aura containing something "beyond the rules" and lost control, killing a flight