"It never ends! It never ends!"
"Yesterday they were after me, today they're after the Great Sprites, and tomorrow? Are those people planning to capture Dongdong too, to see what's special about a child born of the fox clan and humans?"
"What the hell is the school doing?"
"Is everyone in the Alliance dead?"
"Do you know what this reminds me of? A text I studied in high school—'Today they cede five cities, tomorrow ten, and only then gain a night of peaceful sleep. But when they rise and look around, Qin's soldiers have arrived again! Yet the feudal lords' lands are limited, while violent Qin's desires are insatiable. The more they offer, the more urgently it invades...'"
The Black Gemstone Cat had just climbed through the window when it heard Zheng Qing swearing up a storm, practically radiating resentment. He had even, for the first time in ages, revisited a passage from "On the Six States."
It instinctively stopped, craning its neck to peek inside.
After all, it was not supposed to be here at this hour.
Inside Dormitory 403.
Zheng Qing was like an irritable wildcat, pacing around the cramped room, waving his arms with a rune gun in hand as though he might charge at someone and shoot them in the head the next second.
Xiao Xiao and Fatty Xin sat by the desk, their brows tightly furrowed, silent.
Even Tuantuan, unusually, voiced no displeasure at the young wizard's racket. It merely raised its paws over its ears and curled itself into even more of a ball.
"Get in here!"
In the midst of his agitation, Zheng Qing spotted the furtive Black Gemstone Cat at once. As if recalling something, he grew even more irritated. **"What are you doing here? At this hour, shouldn't you be at