Zheng Qing naturally had no idea that someone was once again secretly targeting his legs.
"Once again" was apt, largely because far too many people had harbored similar malice toward him over the past six months or so. Despite his exceptional gifts, he had become desensitized to many threats that were not quite lethal, and rarely felt those sudden premonitions anymore.
Even so, when Potions Class ended and he spotted the Little Fox Maid skipping along through campus, some of the fine hairs on his arms still stood on end.
"Isn't that Su Ya?"
Following his gaze, Jiang Yu saw the Little Fox Girl in a black-and-white maid's dress passing nearby and looked thoughtful. "What's she doing at school?"
"No idea," Zheng Qing muttered. For some inexplicable reason, he felt as though the Little Fox Girl had sprouted a tail with an inverted triangular tip, and her furry ears had turned into a pair of small goat horns.
He shook his head, unsure where that illusion had come from.
Jiang Yu suddenly stopped walking.
Zheng Qing turned back to look at her in surprise.
"Judging by the direction she came from, I think she was here to see Li Meng," the witch offered her guess bluntly, then pressed her lips together. "You go on to class. I'll ask her what Mengmeng was just up to."
Clearly, she had very little confidence in her younger cousin.
Zheng Qing observed a second of silence for his classmate Li Meng.
"But your time..."
He hesitated, worried that she might miss her window for Time Conversion. According to the Relevant Departments' arrangements, there was a fifteen-minute allowance before and after each class, totaling half an hour. Nearly five minutes had already passed since Potions Class ended, which meant Jiang Yu had less than ten