"Ha! Got you!"
Su Ya cried out, scrambled up from the floor, and, without bothering to tuck her large tail back beneath her skirt, hurriedly scooped up Poseidon, who had rolled some distance away. She pinched the little fox's mouth shut while angrily berating her other three teammates. "I told you, don't run around, don't run around, don't run around! Qingqiu Mansion isn't some little garden. You can't just run into every room... Well? Now you've gotten yourselves into trouble, haven't you?"
After rambling on for a while.
She finally looked up at Su Shijun behind the desk, her tone lacking conviction and her face full of ingratiating smiles. "...Miss, I was playing a hunting game with Dongdong. She runs really fast!"
If she had not still been secretly covering Poseidon's mouth while rolling her eyes around to furtively glance at the three people in the room, the black cat might actually have believed that nonsense.
After climbing up from the floor, the three Great Sprites stood in a neat row, timidly biting their fingers as they looked first at the black cat, then at Jiang Yu.
Only Poseidon remained carefree, hugging her tail and giggling nonstop. However, because Su Ya had covered her mouth, her laughter came out muffled.
The black cat and the two witches stared at Su Ya as if she were an idiot. They stared until the furry pointed ears atop her head stood on end before the black cat finally let out a cold chuckle, jumped down from the desk, and landed in front of the Fox Maidservant.
"Let me teach you something!"
He raised a paw, patted Su Ya's head, then pointed at the tall desk behind him. "Do you know why schools have podiums? Because of the difference in height. A teacher standing