Thanks to the Top Student's auspicious words, the You Zui Hunting Team's hunt went very smoothly that night.
Not only did they encounter no unexpected situations at all, but with Maodou's help, they easily found a nest of Blue-mouthed Turkeys: one male, two females, and five chicks.
No one on the hunting team planned to keep the chicks as pets, and the D&K shop was too small to accommodate five noisy little creatures. So after tying up their parents and delivering them to complete the mission, Zheng Qing gave the chicks to Maodou as snacks.
"What a cold, cruel world."
Before Magical Creatures Studies class the following afternoon, Zheng Qing happened to flip to the order Galliformes, family Phasianidae. Seeing the birds in the illustrations leisurely pecking at bugs among the trees, he could not help shaking his head slightly and letting out that sigh.
Unfortunately, no one echoed him.
The young publicly funded student resisted the urge to look around and tried his best to focus on the textbook before him. Since Magical Creatures Studies was an elective and students from other academies attended it, Zheng Qing had chosen seats far from Jiang Yu for the past several classes in order to avoid rumors and unexpected trouble.
The other students in class had also deliberately or unconsciously left a ring of empty seats around the young wizard. Some did not want to become entangled with the biggest source of trouble in school, but more of them gave Zheng Qing the impression that they kept their distance out of respect. It seemed that some of the aura that had once surrounded Su Shijun was, over time, silently spreading to him as well.
To some extent, that subtle atmosphere eased part of Zheng Qing's pressure. In daily life, fewer people openly