It was already late autumn.
Yet the afternoon sun still carried some of summer's fierce heat.
Guan Shanyun sat beneath the display window of Sanyou Bookstore, sitting properly at the table in the bright light streaming in from outside. An unopened exam paper lay on the table, alongside an inkpot, a quill pen, and a stack of scratch paper.
Making a vampire sit in the sunlight was somewhat impolite.
But perhaps that was part of the "second interview" as well?
He had no way of knowing.
Nor did he dare ask.
After silently directing him to sit, the flower cat had vanished soundlessly into the depths of the bookstore, leaving him alone to stare blankly at the unopened exam paper.
Of course, while outsiders might have thought he was daydreaming, Guan Shanyun was rapidly sifting through information about the dean of Edge Academy in his mind. Yet apart from the résumé posted on the Office Building's Notice Board, he knew no more than anyone else.
There were some vague rumors around campus—such as the North District Archwizard being someone's lover, someone having pinched a Tu Shan Family girl's tail, or someone having an old flame in the Illusory Dream Realm, and so on—but since they concerned a Legendary Wizard, no one dared spread such stories openly, leaving them all half-true and half-false.
That said,
Guan Shanyun had distilled a certain common trait from those rumors.
"Alas!"
He let out a deep sigh at the exam paper before him—if only he had a jar of Nionio Spring water at hand. That stuff was merely a C-rank item in the Main God Space, yet it could transform a man completely, inside and out, into a ravishingly beautiful woman.
"—He looks honest enough."
Yellow Flower Cat crouched within the barrier, studying