"Honestly—"
The dean of Edge Academy chuckled and shook his head. Instead of returning to the Dean's Office, he casually reached into the void, pulled out a cloak, draped it over himself, and unhurriedly walked out of the Office Building.
Fourth floor, third floor, second floor.
Before he even reached the first floor, the Shadow Cat silently caught up again. Zheng Qing tilted his head and glanced at it. Before it could speak, he flicked his finger lightly, and a faint red light spread from the Taiyi Ring. In an instant, it engulfed both man and cat, and the two figures quietly vanished amid the mottled morning light spilling across the stairwell.
"—Hiss!"
A ponytailed witch who had just entered the Office Building vigorously shook her head.
"What is it?" Her companion turned around in confusion.
"Mm, I think I saw someone leading a big black tiger over there... then they suddenly disappeared." The ponytailed witch pointed toward the distant stairs and gestured, but the staircase was empty at the moment. Apart from the swaying sunlight outside the window, not a single figure could be seen.
"A black tiger? Inside the Office Building?"
Her companion blinked, looked at the empty stairs, then at the ponytailed witch, and finally shook her head slightly. "—Whether there was one or not, what does it have to do with us? This is First University. Even if an Ogre appeared in a classroom, it wouldn't be strange... Speaking of Ogres, have you heard? Edge Academy recruited an Ogre as a teacher!"
"—Whether it's the rumors about the Ogre professor that have gradually begun to ferment, or the jokes spreading all over Puji Island about Xuanhuang Palace having a massive hole blasted into it, they're all a kind of test, a subtle reminder."
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