"Professor Monteria? The professor who advocated developing Demon Flesh transplantation experiments?"
"You know of him too?"
"Of course."
The Puppet raised an arm and gave the brim of its top hat a small turn, answering pleasantly yet reservedly, "After all, I used to deal with the Alliance quite often on your behalf... They paid close attention to dangerous wizards at the school and even compiled a list of names. Professor Monteria was on it... But wasn't his laboratory already shut down by the school?"
"Shutting down a laboratory is easy. Sealing off a wizard's deep-seated desire to explore is much harder."
Old Man Ruo Yu sighed faintly. "If you stand high enough and see enough, you can easily understand some of their choices."
The Puppet's round eyes spun.
"I heard that the Teaching Assistant Group took down an Illegal Laboratory in the Silent Forest a few days ago?" it asked tentatively. "Apparently, it was conducting Demon Flesh transplantation experiments."
A withered hand emerged from beneath his robes. The old wizard behind the desk raised it and rested it on the silver wolf-head cane leaning against his chair. The Puppet instinctively shrank its neck back. Fortunately, the old man did not strike it with the cane, merely stroked the silvery-white wolf's head.
"Heard. Apparently." Ruo Yu tugged at the corner of his mouth, revealing a hint of self-mockery. "Only by adding such words can one make it seem as though information still travels fairly well within the school..."
Knock, knock!
Two neither light nor heavy knocks suddenly sounded at the door.
The office's owner looked calmly toward the entrance, while the Puppet on the desk obediently crouched behind the pen holder, hiding itself completely. To keep its top hat from being spotted, it even removed its own head and held it