Monster Hunting High School
Chapter 2012

Scapegoat

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Hearing this, Zheng Qing finally understood why he had been drugged.

After last night's training session, the mistress of Qingqiu Mansion had cited "late at night," "being alone," and "the long way home" as reasons to ask the Youzui Hunting Team Captain to escort her back, discussing the hunting team's development plans along the way—heavens have mercy, though it had been midnight, Zheng Qing simply could not imagine what danger an archwizard might encounter on Puji Island.

And was the distance from the hunting grounds to Beta Town really that far?

Cross half the school grounds and you were there!

But clearly, when these young wizards with surging hormones considered the matter, the grooves of their brains had already smoothed into mirror-like surfaces, reflecting nothing but restless impulses, with scarcely a trace of reason to speak of.

As long as they could stroll the streets with Su Shijun, did the truth really matter that much?

"Councilwoman Su doesn't need us to escort her home."

The current captain of the Youzui Hunting Team interrupted the argument in Dormitory 403 and weakly reminded them, "...Besides, I didn't escort her last night either."

"That was because you had to go to the hospital," Xiao Xiao reminded him.

Zheng Qing fell silent.

In fact, when Su Shijun had made that request last night, Jiang Yu had happened to twist her ankle and needed someone to escort her home as well. Just as Zheng Qing was caught in a dilemma, Little Green Snake in his earhole sneered, flicked its tail, and disrupted the circulation of magic within his body. The wizard had therefore happily chosen to go to the School Hospital.

It had not been all that happy.

After all, magical disruption was still very painful—think of the abdominal cramps from diarrhea, then spread that

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