Monster Hunting High School

An old lightbug crawled forward along a shallow wooden groove on the bar.

It is too old and has long lost the ability to recover from molting. Its whole body is covered with traces of time. One side of its translucent insect wings is curled up, and the other side is filled with holes similar to those caused by wind erosion, making it appear thin. And fragile.

The huge belly was slowly dragged by the only three remaining legs. A large area of ​​white calcified material could be seen in the abdominal cavity, and only a small area could still emit weak fluorescence.

Two slender fingers descended from the sky, gently grasped the light bug, and placed it on a small pool of dizzy wine. The insect couldn't wait to put out its mouthparts and sucked hard.

Then the fluorescence blooming behind it became slightly brighter.

"The store couldn't afford magic candles before, so we had a small group of semi-wild light bugs." Colma looked at the greedy bug with a slightly melancholy look, and casually explained: "But now there are only a few left. … This one is the most courageous and dares to come to the table to ask for food. The others are less timid and will only hide in the corner to eat some dew. "

Outside the bar.

The guests of Sakura Tavern stared at the bug, but their eyes had no focus, and the previous story of the tavern owner kept swirling in their minds.

The lost little girl was exactly like her - except that one was lost in the mirror world, and the other was just lost in the silent forest - then a big mouse who lost his child found emotional solace in the lost little girl, and then the two Lonely souls cling to each other and strive towards their respective ideals...

The guest shook her head vigorously, trying to get rid of the fact in her mind that made her feel complicated.

"so……"

Zhu Si raised the cup, drank the last sip of juice, and shook his head slightly. He always felt that the fruit at the bottom of the cup was a little sour, which ruined the good taste before.

Then, she looked up at Kolma and concluded: "...So, for a period of time, the relationship between you and him was like a father and daughter?"

"This period of time." Kolma corrected Jusi's wording.

‘A period of time’ has a somewhat limited meaning and seems to be the past tense; while ‘this period of time’ can express a broader meaning.

Although Zhu Si is back, it doesn't mean that the big mouse will stay away from her - after all, from the end of last year to now, she has saved several beautiful scarves, but she hasn't given them to him yet.

Zhu Si was speechless for a moment.

She was still very young when she was lost in the mirror, and the dreamland was not a place where people could study seriously. She was always a little naive when it came to dealing with the ways of the world, so when faced with the slightly domineering owner of the tavern, she subconsciously kept silent. as a response plan.

On the contrary, Colma, who once served as the vice president of the First University Student Union, seems to be more comfortable in handling these affairs.

She stared at the bright red spot on Zhu Si's forehead playfully.

After a long while, he asked: "It seems that you don't know the relationship between me and the old man... Then why did you come to the pub tonight? Just for a glass of juice?"

The juice is really delicious.

Zhu Si felt the magic power filling his body, thought silently, and then shook his head: "No... I just went out for a walk... and then I came here... and I heard an interesting story."

"Walking around."

Kolma grabbed a small strand of silver hair hanging on her chest and rolled it around her fingers. With a little more consideration in her eyes, she repeated the adjective Ju Si had just used: "...interesting."

Interesting indeed.

For wizards, the concept of 'accidental' basically does not exist in the world. Any collision between two seemingly unrelated people is inevitable under some kind of fate.

Of course, even if she thought that Zhu Si's arrival tonight was not accidental, Kolma did not take out her tarot cards and try to divine the trajectory of her destiny - although she was now a great wizard, she did not feel that her tarot cards How useful are Luo cards when facing traces involving legends.

"Since you are aimless and have finished drinking the juice, let's go back and rest early." Kolma breathed a sigh of relief, put down the silver hair wrapped around her fingertips, and tried to dismiss the uninvited guest in front of her: "You still have class tomorrow... don't worry, if there is any news about the old man, I will inform you."

Zhu Si did not get up to say goodbye.

She rubbed the empty cup in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "What are you planning to do recently?"

The Great Sage of the North District raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"I mean, do you have any new plans these days?" Zhu Si put down the cup with a more serious expression: "Fate will not lead me here for no reason... If you have any plans, maybe I can help."

"Plan? There are quite a few plans." Kolma chuckled, but her mind quickly turned to the plan she had recently approved. To a certain extent, she also agreed with Zhu Si's opinion.

But as a newly born wizard group, as the soul of this group, Kolma has to make many large and small plans and decisions every day - such as applying to the alliance for a seat at the wizard general meeting; asking Dan Hager to provide specific information. Legal assistance for wizards in the North District; friendly exchanges with such as the Gypsy Witches, Sammler Witches, etc.; maintaining security in the North District; sorting out unknown threats on the edge of the Silent Forest; organizing wizards in the North District to learn magical knowledge; communicating with schools about enrollment quotas ; and setting up a new Philosopher's Stone clone laboratory with Dr. Duzem, etc.

Not to mention the myriad of clues, at least for a while, it was difficult for her to think of anything that was directly related to Zhu Si.

"There's probably only one thing related to school teachers in the past two days."

Kolma thought quickly and immediately caught something in her mind that was neither big nor small and would not bring trouble to Ju Si: "...Isn't the school going to hold a school hunting party next month? Because of the rule changes, any There are opportunities for hunting teams, so I asked Nicholas to find a way to organize a hunting team.”

Maybe he noticed Zhu Si's slightly blank eyes.

The owner of the tavern immediately added an explanation: "...Nicholas also belongs to the North District wizard. He is currently studying at Jiuyou Academy and is already in his second year...Well, that's not the point...The point is that his hunting team was not organized particularly smoothly. , and I’m not very confident about ranking in the school hunting competition... I mean, do you have any channels in the school’s hunting committee to find out what the regulations of this hunting competition are?”

"Characters?"

Zhu Si reacted for a while, then asked cautiously and tentatively with a somewhat uncertain tone: "You mean...cheating?"

"Ah ha ha ha ha," the owner of the tavern let out a burst of hearty laughter and waved his hands slightly embarrassed: "Cheating or something, it's so ugly... I just want those young people to get familiar with the rules first... Get familiar with the rules... This is Within the rules.”