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"Chong-"

"You mean, there's a mermaid in the lake?" Lucas asked in surprise as two figures were fighting on the training ground. He held his sword in front of him and blocked Lilith's attack. It was their turn to partner up in sword fighting training this time.

"Can you please be more respectful? He's our principal." Lilith failed to hit Lucas with her first strike, so she quickly changed her tactics and stabbed Lucas' ribs with the sword at a tricky angle.

"I told you, I must have heard it right that day, there really was someone singing! It must have been that...that principal who was singing." Lucas was not in a hurry. He dodged to the side and raised the sword in his hand to remove Lilith's force.

"But I didn't hear anything. Could it be that you were sleepwalking and hallucinating?" Lilith was chatting, but her men were completely merciless. She suddenly increased the tempo of her attacks and kept putting pressure forward. Lucas had a hard time defending and his steps started to become messy.

"But I never sleepwalk, I..." Lucas seemed to have thought of something and was distracted for a moment. Lilith saw the right moment and tricked Lucas with a feint, then turned her sword and stabbed him in the shoulder. Lucas had lost the opportunity to adjust his balance and it was too late to dodge.

"Haha! I win!" The moment the sword touched Lucas' shoulder, Lilith raised her hands happily and arrogantly circled around Lucas.

"...Okay, I have to admit that you have made rapid progress." Lucas reluctantly put away his sword and admitted defeat. Over the past few months, he saw the gap between Lilith and himself getting smaller and smaller. Teacher Wolf went from being careless with her at the beginning to being more and more strict with her and demanding more and more from her.

As expected, just after Lilith was carried away by her pride for a few seconds, Wolfe's roar was heard immediately, "What are you doing, Lilith! Are you here to practice swordplay or dancing?! Keep going!"

Lilith stuck out her tongue, quickly picked up the sword again, and started to fight with Lucas.

"But, Lucas, do you sea people have merman blood?" Lilith asked the question that she had always wondered.

"It is said that this is the case." Lucas nodded casually. "My mom told me that thousands of years ago, some mermaids fell in love with humans, so they gave up the ocean and eternal life, and chose to go to the shore to mate with humans. Then we were born... stupid, isn't it?" Lucas said to himself and couldn't help but sneer.

Lilith blocked a straight spike and was a little surprised, "Isn't this quite romantic?" The love between mermaids and humans is a classic story in fairy tales.

"...Yes, my ancestors were really romantic. They didn't consider the life and death of their descendants at all." Lucas seemed to be in a bad mood when talking about this. He increased the strength in his hands, and Lilith had a hard time defending herself.

"As their descendants, we sea dwellers are neither embraced by the sea nor accepted by humans. We can only live in those small and humid fishing villages for generations, forever accompanied by the fishy smell and tattered fishing nets. The best way out is to become a sailor... This is the story behind their love fairy tale, Lilith."

"So... I hate mermaids." Lucas stopped attacking, his eyes bleak. "They are such irresponsible people for love. Why would they want to have offspring with humans?"

"Uh--maybe, maybe their relationship with humans wasn't that bad back then, so they didn't expect so much." Lilith stammered. According to Phoebe's description, humans and various alien races had a "honeymoon period" during the holy war. Maybe the mermaids with long lives didn't expect this honeymoon to be so short.

In fairy tales, the story only ends with the hero and the heroine living happily together. It seems that no one would think about whether the situation of children born across species would be difficult.

"Maybe, then they are really lucky." Lucas smiled indifferently.

Fortunately, Lucas' emotions came and went quickly. After saying this, he quickly adjusted his mood. "Focus, Lilith. Teacher Wolf is looking at you again."

Lilith secretly glanced at Wolfe's position and saw that the teacher was staring at her. She shuddered and dared not chat with Lucas anymore. She concentrated on honing her offensive and defensive skills with him.

When the training was over and Mr. Wolfe was giving a speech to the team and announcing the dismissal of class, Lilith was called again.

"Lilith." Wolfe had a serious face. Looking at the little girl in front of him who was now trembling in fear in front of him, he wanted to laugh in his heart, but he still forced himself to be cold.

"Teacher Wolfe?" Seeing that Wolfe didn't speak, Lilith looked at him with a questioning look.

"Because you gave up the Divination class, the teaching team decided that I will be the one to grade your final grade for this course. Based on your daily performance, I will give you a score of 65 as your final grade..."

"Huh?" Lilith opened her mouth in disbelief and interrupted Mr. Wolfe. "Only 65?!"

"Why, you think it's too high?" Wolfe raised his eyebrows.

"No, no, it's just... isn't it a little low?" Lilith was a little dissatisfied. She felt that she had caught up during this period of time. In the confrontation training, except for Ian, Daniel and Lucas, she always had the advantage. Moreover, she never slacked off in training, but she only got 65 points...

"Daily attendance also needs to be taken into account. Don't you know how many classes you miss every week?" However, Teacher Wolf was merciless.

"But, but I was going to the magic class, you know that, teacher!" Lilith didn't expect the reason to be this, and she hurriedly defended herself.

"That's your problem, not something I, as a Guardian instructor, should consider. I think it's very lenient to deduct only a few points from your attendance." Teacher Wolfe said firmly. "Please keep working hard, Lilith. You still have room for improvement."

"...Okay." Lilith had nothing to refute on this issue. She did miss more classes than others. She nodded resignedly, no longer as lively as she had just been in class, and left with her head down, looking dejected.

Rebecca, who was waiting to have dinner together, came over, only to see Wolfe holding his chest with a look of pain on his face.

"…What's with that expression on your face?" Rebecca asked with disgust.

"It hurts, my conscience, it hurts so much..." Teacher Wolfe covered his heart with his hands. He looked at the little girl's lonely back and felt deeply condemned in his heart.

"...Didn't you say that we shouldn't let her get too proud?" Rebecca sneered.

"Ah, she's improving too fast. I feel that in one year at most, Daniel won't be her opponent. After all, in your Defense Against Magic class, Lilith has relied on magic to compete with Daniel without losing." Wolfe was melancholy, "I'm afraid that she will achieve her goal too quickly and won't have the energy to keep working hard."

Rebecca nodded in approval. "That's right. No matter how talented you are, if you don't hone your talents, it's easy to lose yourself in complacency."

"…Then why do you let me deduct her points? Why don't you do it yourself?" Wolfe complained even more. This was clearly the result of their discussion, but he was the bad guy.

"She performed very well in my class, what can I deduct from her?" Rebecca smiled brightly and with satisfaction.