A Brief Cafeteria Disturbance, Chance Encounter with Tang San?

The classroom fell silent. Wang Sheng and the others looked at Tang San with helplessness in their eyes, but they knew what kind of temper he had and did not try to persuade him.

After all the work-study students had left, Tang San's face was still alternating between green and red. Unable to stand it any longer, the teacher stepped forward to console him.

"Things that don't belong to you can't be forced. You—"

Before the teacher could finish, Tang San angrily slapped the male teacher's hand aside.

"Get lost! My business is none of yours!"

Tang San strode out in a single step, leaving only the teacher standing alone in the classroom, a complete mess in the wind.

Teacher: (⊙﹏⊙)

"Fuck, if Yu Xiaogang hadn't told me to look after you, do you think I'd bother comforting you?!"

"Damn it!"

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Meanwhile, Xiao Wu dragged Luo Zixi into the dormitory.

"Hey, rabbit! What the hell are you doing?"

Having been dragged all the way back to the dormitory by this damn rabbit, Luo Zixi was in a terrible mood.

"Hmph, I haven't even settled the score with you for spanking this young lady's butt, and you're questioning me?!"

A faint flush appeared on Xiao Wu's face. It was impossible to tell whether it was from running or something else.

"I told you at the time—if I didn't touch the injured area, I couldn't help you recover!"

Luo Zixi was completely justified in the face of Xiao Wu's accusation.

"B-but you were the one who hurt my butt in the first place!"

Xiao Wu refused to back down. However, Luo Zixi's next words left her unable to offer any explanation.

"Then why were you sleeping in my bed this morning? And why did you act like the victim and kick me out of it?"

(Complete silence for two and a half minutes)

"So, do you admit you were wrong?"

"What did you say?"

"I asked if you admit you were wrong!"

"I don't!"

"Looks like your butt wants to bloom again."

"N-no, you can't!"

"Then were you wrong or not?!"

"No!"

Slap! Slap! Slap!

At the same time, Wang Sheng and the others had just returned to the dormitory.

(⊙﹏⊙)

That evening, Xiao Wu arrived at the academy cafeteria step by step, her rabbit butt beaten bright red.

Because Luo Zixi had promised Xiao Wu yesterday that they would have dinner at the food street outside, this was their first time coming here.

"Treat me."

"Do you admit you were wrong?"

"I wasn't wrong!"

"Then forget it."

"You!"

Although Xiao Wu was angry, she still followed behind Luo Zixi. Her "salary" was currently all in his hands; if she did not follow him, she could not even afford to eat.

"Admit your mistake and I'll treat you. If you won't, then endure it. It's not like I'm the one in pain."

Luo Zixi spoke indifferently. Xiao Wu was furious inside, but she had no grounds to argue in this matter.

As he entered the cafeteria, Luo Zixi found Wang Sheng and the others eating dinner on the first floor. The sight was simply too heartbreaking for him, so he could only let them watch as he took Xiao Wu upstairs to eat.

The first floor of the cafeteria was fairly well furnished: wooden benches and wooden tables. Though made from the most ordinary wood, they were quite smooth. The lighting was somewhat dim, but for families that could not even afford to replace a lightbulb, the overall setup was already quite good.

"Tap, tap, tap."

The footsteps up the stairs were neither heavy nor light. Wang Sheng and the others did not make any snide remarks when they saw them. After all, they could now eat and drink their fill thanks to Luo Zixi. They could not be ungrateful.

"Stop right there. The second floor of the cafeteria isn't somewhere lowly commoners like you can go."

Just as Luo Zixi stepped onto the final stair, a somewhat cold voice reached his ears.

Immediately afterward, a young man dressed in luxurious blue noble attire blocked the path of Luo Zixi and Xiao Wu.

"You're courting death!"

Xiao Wu had quite the temper and had no intention of indulging him. She was just about to throw a punch.

"Alright, Xiao Wu. Leave dealing with people whose cerebrums are underdeveloped and whose cerebellums never developed at all to me."

Luo Zixi casually reached out and stopped Xiao Wu's punch.

Then, under Xiao Wu's incredulous gaze, he looked at the child standing before them, who resembled a wolf cub.

Right after that, more than a dozen tall youths suddenly emerged behind the richly dressed boy, directly blocking Luo Zixi and Xiao Wu in the stairwell.

Wang Sheng, who was eating on the first floor, immediately noticed that something was wrong and called for the work-study students to go back up Xiao Wu and Luo Zixi.

But just as they reached the second-floor stairwell, they heard a burst of screams.

"Ah!!!"

"What is this?!"

"My foot!"

When they arrived at the second-floor stairwell, they found that the group of ordinary students were rolling around all over the floor, their feet covered in blood.

"Are you moving aside or not? If not, next time it won't be your feet getting stabbed."

A wicked grin appeared at the corner of Luo Zixi's lips. Trying to gang up on him? With his Wood Spirit Body, a room full of wooden structures was the last place where he feared a group fight!

"Y-You cheated! Tell me! What despicable trick did you use?!"

The leading youth had already undergone Martial Soul Possession, yet blood still streamed from his foot as he clutched it and wailed.

"Any method that defeats an enemy is a good method. Just tell me whether you're moving aside. If you don't, the next thing getting stabbed will be your asses."

Luo Zixi's sinister smile and malicious voice spread through the ordinary students like a plague.

"I yield! I surrender!"

"Move, move, move! I'm leaving right now!"

"Have mercy! I was wrong!"

The students behind that wolf cub abandoned their boss one after another and fled, leaving only him standing face-to-face with Luo Zixi.

"Do you submit? If not, your ass is about to get a few more holes."

Upon hearing Luo Zixi's words, not only did the "wolf cub" before him flinch, but Xiao Wu behind him also instinctively covered her own little butt.

But when she did, she touched the spot that had been swollen from the beating.

Xiao Wu sucked in a breath. It really hurt!

"Y-You just wait. My name is Xiao Chenyu, the real boss of Notting Academy! Once I recover from my injuries, I'll pick a place and we'll have another fair fight!"

Xiao Chenyu? Only after hearing him announce his name did Luo Zixi remember that there was such a person in the academy.

His Martial Soul was a wolf, and he was an eleventh-rank Soul Master. Still, he was about the same age as Wang Sheng—around ten years old this year.

After he left, circular bloodstains appeared one after another on the wooden floorboards of the second floor. Upon closer inspection, one would find that new shoots had already sprouted from the gaps between the boards.

That was right. Luo Zixi had used his Wood Spirit power to "revive" the floorboards, then used his ability to control plants to make the boards beneath Xiao Chenyu and the others instantly grow spikes. Infused with his Soul Power, they pierced straight through the soles of their feet.

That was how the scene of Xiao Chenyu and his group curled up on the floor, clutching their feet and howling in agony, had come about.

Upon stepping onto the second floor of the cafeteria, Luo Zixi discovered that its furnishings were far beyond anything on the first floor—mahogany tables, soft chairs, bright lighting, and even four luxurious private rooms.

Just as Xiao Chenyu had said at the beginning, the spending level here was definitely far higher than on the first floor.

But he saw some familiar faces here.

Tang San, the pure and spotless young master, and Yu Xiaogang.