After the morning classes ended, Zheng Qing returned to the dormitory for lunch.
That was right. Having just tried eating two public meals in the cafeteria, he had been forced to retreat to the dormitory again because of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Like a snail sticking its head out of its hard shell after the rain, he had immediately shrunk back in at the slightest fright.
"The incident this morning was purely an accident."
Xiao Xiao held a copy of Dr. Spencer Black's Corpse Thief while fiddling with a miniature Sphinx skeleton on the table, completely ignoring the companion eating on the other side. "...That witch was a first-year Alpha freshman, Zhang Yudou. She seemed to have some distant family connection to the Zhang Clan. According to the Truth Stone's assessment, she really was practicing the Swift Wind Spell at the time... Don't worry, I performed toxicology tests on all those dishes. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them!"
Zheng Qing cleared his throat, pretending not to notice Xiao Xiao's eye roll, and stubbornly pricked every lunch box several times with a magical silver needle.
"The Truth Stone might not be reliable, either."
As he put away the silver needle, he lightly continued their earlier topic. "Just like the Silent Contract—I've violated it plenty of times, yet nothing happened... Also, which Zhang Clan is she related to?"
Xiao Xiao lifted his eyelids and glanced over the top of his glasses at someone who had started wolfing down his food, looking thoroughly speechless.
"Don't treat your exceptional case as the norm. How could there be so many beings in this world capable of breaking convention?" As he spoke, he withdrew his gaze and directed the Sphinx skeleton to walk slowly across the table. While sketching the movement of its bones on parchment,