Adventurer of the Elf World

"I want to know something." Xiu said as he threw a few Poké Balls backhanded, released Casey and the others, and then took out rations for them.

Shiori was startled by the appearance of the Pokémon at first, but soon calmed down. She had actually discovered that Xiu had a Poké Ball on him a long time ago.

But this inevitably reminded her of some unfriendly things.

On the contrary, the Pokémons had no reaction to Shiori's appearance.

"What's the situation with Gil?"

Shiori was stunned when she heard this, and turned her head to look at Xiu, but at this time, Xiu was feeding the Pokémon, and his attitude was focused, as if it was not him who had just spoken.

"Why~" Xiu saw that she had not responded for a long time, so he reminded her, "Gil is a waste, why did you help him?"

"Help him?" Shiori woke up, her emotions suddenly surged, and she said with a hint of resentment: "I did that for graduation!"

"Oh~" Xiu raised his eyebrows, and looked at Shiori with a strange look, "Tell me about it."

Xiu fed the Pokémon while listening to Shiori's increasingly irritable words.

The situation was that she was able to participate in some experimental research in her second year, and Keel was the person who managed the laboratory at that time. Because Shiori often needed to apply for the use of the laboratory, the two had an intersection.

Later, after getting to know each other, Keel told Shiori that as long as she chose him as her mentor, he would help her apply for an independent laboratory.

After all, she had been taken care of by Keel before, and with the temptation of an independent laboratory, Shiori agreed without thinking much.

At the beginning, everything was normal. The laboratory was really approved, but you have to know that Keel was just like that and had no ability to guide her at all, so basically she did her own research, but she was also happy to do her own research without being supervised.

Later, she achieved some results and gradually published several papers. Because it was a laboratory under Keel's name, the name of the instructor could only be added with Keel.

Because after the third year, Shiori was qualified and able to contact more cutting-edge technology, so she spent more time immersed in the laboratory. And Keel came out at this time and said that he was responsible for helping her organize and publish papers.

At that time, Shiori was obviously fully committed to research, so she didn't care about this matter and just threw the things to him.

It was not until she finished her first real paper that she found out that Keel had used her paper.

"You are really stupid~" Xiu couldn't help but complain when he heard this. He was careless to let others get the paper materials.

Shiori didn't refute it. Obviously, she now felt that she was stupid at that time.

"Then what? Didn't you go to the school to appeal?" Xiu urged after seeing her stop: "I remember that academic fraud is generally quite serious, right?"

Shiori's face turned ugly, and after taking a deep breath, she said: "I can't go to the school, because Keel told me that the laboratory I used for more than two years was stolen and did not get the approval of the school. If I report it, I will be expelled for this, and I will need to compensate for the expenses incurred, which I can't afford at all."

Xiu was stunned for a while before he reacted when he heard this, and his original casual attitude became serious.

"This Keel is really good~ He actually thought of using his power to manage the laboratory to set a trap, and judging from his rough methods, he is sure that you will not report him. It seems that he has you in his arms."

To put it simply, Keel did not actually apply for a laboratory for Shiori, but used the administrator's authority to open the laboratory for Shiori.

No wonder Shiori said before that he had hardly entered the laboratory, and even the communication was outside the laboratory.

In other words, Shiori has no evidence to prove that it was Keel who applied for or even opened the laboratory for her.

If something goes wrong, Keel will at most be charged with mismanagement, and Shiori will bear most of the responsibility.

Good guy!

What a thorough plan~

Xiu went through the process a little bit, put himself in it, and then found many ways to break the deadlock, and immediately said:

"In fact, this can also be done, but you don't know your importance and the attitude of the school."

Shiori is not really stupid, she just hasn't experienced these things and is not prepared, so when she heard Xiu's hindsight, she added a little more.

"Is it still useful to say this now? You know, the school has a hard rule that if students want to graduate, they must get the approval of their instructors and get their grades from them. Otherwise, they can only delay graduation, and I have already delayed it for more than a year."

"So you should have graduated a long time ago?" Xiu looked at Shizhi with some surprise. It was only then that he knew why she had to walk so far back here at night. It should be that the school dormitory was gone a long time ago.

"Yes, but Keel simply refused to let me graduate." Shizhi seemed a little depressed when she said this, and she said something else intermittently.

The fundamental reason why Keel refused to let her go was that he wanted to continue to exploit her research results.

But Shizhi was not a fool. She knew that if she continued to take it out, it would only make things worse, so she pretended to be in a state of exhaustion and spent her days in the laboratory.

But Keel had no intention of letting her go at all. If she didn't have any grades, he would treat her as a tool and throw all the work to her, even letting her finish his wife's share.

Later, it was even more excessive. After the incident, Keel knew that her family was in a difficult situation and forced her to show new grades, otherwise he would continue to delay graduation.

He also asked her to clean the laboratory and isolated her with the students around her, just to drive her crazy and make her surrender.

But Shiori did not surrender, but survived in the cracks.

Not being able to graduate means not being able to find a job, and no job means no salary, which cannot ease the situation at home.

In order to make up for the family expenses, she can only help those younger students to write papers and homework.

Keel's two jobs, the management of the laboratory and some homework, three jobs directly squeezed most of her energy, which led to the current half-dead situation.

Even the little time she had to walk was used for sleeping.

This incident tortured her for a long time. Every day when she returned home to face her family, she always had to pretend to be working. Even when she went to bed, she was nervous, for fear that she would reveal her true colors.

My parents worked hard to support my studies, but I was not able to get a diploma, nor a salary to improve the family's situation. I have to live in humiliation and deception every day.