"—Fatty, what happened? Why are they making everyone gather at the First Grand Hall in the middle of the night? Did some great demon sneak into First University?"
At the gathering point for Astronomy Class 08-1, Duan Xiaojian wiped away the tears squeezed from the corners of his eyes and let out a huge yawn. Complaining about the school's abrupt notice, he edged closer to Fatty Xin.
As a senior editor of the school paper, Xin's well-informed reputation was known throughout the class.
But tonight, he was destined to be disappointed.
Fatty Xin did not seem to know any more than the others. He looked around with the same baffled expression.
"A great demon? What great demon would sneak into the school right before final exams?" he muttered. Efficiently releasing several paper cranes and catching several more, he added, "—Didn't you ask Matthew? He has plenty of connections over in Alpha. Maybe he knows something."
The skinny wizard nodded repeatedly at that and began looking around for Matthew.
Zhang Jixin, standing nearby, snorted disdainfully. "As if Matthew could find anything out! Even my brother doesn't know why they called this emergency assembly tonight... though he guessed something very serious must have happened."
That was an exceedingly correct piece of nonsense.
The Fat Wizard worked very hard to suppress the urge to make a sarcastic remark.
He did not make one.
The Red-faced Male Wizard did instead. Changing the subject, he commented on the Fat Wizard's earlier guess. "—Come to think of it, if some great demon really messed up the school's final exams, I'd make it a longevity tablet and burn incense for it every month!"
The first final exam would begin this weekend, and Jiuyou Academy's students were all extremely anxious.
"Worship demons? You really came up with that?"