I'll Form the Team

(The third update will probably be around 2 a.m.)

It was not just White Hair who was startled. Even Young Master Zhang Tang had not noticed where this bowed figure had appeared from.

But when White Hair turned to look, he saw the figure raise his head and smile at him.

A handsome, composed face came into view.

"Mu... Mu Fan!" White Hair's eyes widened, so excited that he could barely speak clearly.

"Boss!" The fat man's eyes brimmed with tears. He had finally found someone to rely on again.

"When did you get back?" the two asked in unison.

"Just now."

Mu Fan was genuinely happy to see his two companions.

When that name was called out, the nearby onlookers froze, as though it had stirred up a memory from a month ago.

Images flashed through their minds, and they remembered the news story that had once flooded the forums.

The person who had torn apart a mutant wanted criminal with his bare hands seemed to have been called "Mu Fan."

Then there was the only Core Student of this year's intake.

The freshmen's eyes abruptly widened.

At last, they connected all of that with the calm young man before them.

"He's... the Tyrant."

"The Tyrant, Mu Fan."

Amid a wave of low murmurs, they spoke Mu Fan's name with a mixture of complicated feelings and fear.

An unusual silence fell over the scene. A chill rose up the backs of everyone there, including those companions beside Young Master Zhang Tang who had just been mocking them.

When there had only been White Hair and the fat man, they could join in when their boss made jokes.

But now that the murderous demon king known as the Tyrant had appeared, they would not dare echo a single word even