"Ahem, first, I don't stink."
"Second, plenty of wizards are still interested in me."
Zheng Qing raised two fingers and corrected Doctor's assessment. Out of a simple sense of self-preservation, he had mentally flagged every group of wizards that might pose a physical threat to him. The crows naturally ranked at the top, but they were not the only ones. Equally dangerous were the Dark Council, the Fallen Wizards of the Withered Land, and Su Shijun's rabid fans.
There was no need to elaborate on the monsters represented by the Fallen Wizards.
The Dark Council had also attacked him more than once. During the winter hunt season of his freshman year, for instance, they had set a trap in a Sandbox Small World. If not for Mister's intervention, Beauty Su might have lost several of her beautiful big tails.
Besides them, the Under the Moon Council had once belonged on that list as well. But as Su Shijun had practically made their relationship official, at least the overt threat had temporarily disappeared.
When Xiao Xiao mentioned the phrase "interested in," Zheng Qing's first thought had actually been Su Shijun's rabid fans. After all, whether Fallen Wizards or the Dark Council's rats, quietly infiltrating a First University student dormitory would be far too difficult for them. Su Shijun's fans, on the other hand, had already demonstrated their immense influence at the school with last Halloween's "Burn Someone Alive" march.
With that in mind, and recalling the terrifying gifts he had received before, Zheng Qing instinctively moved several steps away from his bed, afraid that getting too close would trigger a whole chain of Explosion Talismans.
"Finally,"
He raised a third finger and looked curiously at Xiao Xiao. "I don't believe you failed to realize that those rabid fans were more suspicious...