"Whinny?"
"That was a mule's call... Gaiterasi don't sound like that."
"Then what do you say they sound like?"
"I seem to remember... heh-heh?"
"...Why not say hah-hah?"
"There really is a 'heh' sound, but not quite. It seems to be followed by something like coughing... heh-heh-cough-cough, heh-cough, heh-cough, like that... Did they choke on something?"
Zheng Qing listened blankly as Dylan and Fatty Xin enthusiastically discussed the matter, feeling that Xiao Xiao might not have been very wise to bring up this topic.
Unlike him, Xiao Xiao listened to their analysis very seriously.
At last, Youzui's diviner nodded. "More or less. That's what I heard too. At first, I thought I was imagining it, but apparently I wasn't... Still, your 'heh-cough' isn't quite accurate. To be precise, they were shouting 'Hex.'"
"Hex?" Zheng Qing frowned, feeling as though he had heard that word somewhere before.
"Sorcery!"
Jiang Yu immediately displayed the bearing expected of a top student and answered without hesitation, "A very rare Black Magic curse, part of Shaman Magic... Under normal circumstances, though, this curse only turns powerful wizards into weak little lambs or frogs. And I've never heard of Gaiterasi being able to use Shaman Magic!"
At the keywords Shaman Magic and frogs, a bolt of lightning flashed through Zheng Qing's mind. He immediately remembered where that damnably familiar feeling came from.
A few weeks ago, during the second-year opening trial, the You Zui Hunting Team had dealt with a rampaging Two-headed Ogre. It had used a sorcery curse then as well.
"Very correct." Youzui's diviner gave Class Monitor an approving glance before adding, "In theory, Gaiterasi truly shouldn't be able to cast Shaman curses. But likewise, in theory, Gaiterasi shouldn't be this ferocious..."
Zheng Qing tugged at the corner of his mouth.
Indeed, those mutated