The two Aslan cadets were completely dumbfounded by what they saw. They had clearly run away, so why were they back?!
The out-of-town trainees, who had been fighting like madmen, stopped and turned around, meeting the gazes of the two Aslans who had circled back behind them.
"No, no, no, no... By the Goddess of the Earth, why is this happening!?!"
As the student wielding a dagger charged back, the two Aslan students let out desperate cries.
"Ah, what a beautiful lament."
Greta had already quietly sat down on a tree branch and was watching the performance of the students below with great interest.
Her adorable face had crescent-shaped eyes and a smile that still held the innocent charm of a little girl. The spells flicked from her slender fingers resembled the manipulation of a puppet on strings.
The student, who was lying on the ground and was about to die, suddenly found a surge of strength in her body and struggled to get up. She grabbed her companion who was trying to run away over her and tackled him to the ground.
Why didn't you save me?! Why did you abandon me?!
She questioned him angrily, then opened her mouth and devoured him like a wild beast.
"sorry Sorry……"
Another student was crying out, she was stabbed multiple times, but she didn't understand why she wasn't dead yet.
A desire to live, a desire to forgive, a desire to inflict pain on the other person, and a desire for one's own release...
The pink-haired girl on the tree smiled radiantly.
The most delicious form of greed is the longing that comes from the depths of one's heart, the realization of the value of what one already has only after it is lost.
The devil's whispers rustled in the forest breeze.
Because of a promise she made to the God of Light, Greta would not intentionally torture or kill innocent people for her own amusement.
But these guys were already planning to kill each other. She only slightly amplified their bloodlust and infused them with magic to keep them alive. She even kept her promise to Ye Xiao and kept the level of several minor spells at the mastery level. Even the Thread of Fate couldn't restrain her.
The title of "Demon God" is not just a simple name. As the embodiment of the law of original sin, Greta only restrains her true nature in front of the one she loves.
But just as Greta was pondering what other fun ways there were to play, her eyebrows suddenly twitched slightly, and then she leaned back and fell from the tree.
Despite being very confident in her magical abilities, Greta did not set up any soundproofing or other easily traceable barriers just in case. However, someone happened to be coming along the main road, and the commotion here was heard by the newcomer.
"Hmm... If I go directly, someone will witness me coming this way, and I might be suspected in the future; even if I pretend to be a frightened passerby, I might still get scolded if Ye Xiao finds out, since Ye Xiao can guess that I must have tampered with things to cause this situation."
Greta pouted and pondered for a moment, then deftly slipped into the forest first.
The out-of-town student, who was already somewhat delirious, sat on the ground, raised his head, and looked at Greta who had suddenly appeared, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.
The blood-soaked Aslan student, lying on the ground, saw someone approaching and, as if grasping at a straw, tremblingly reached out his hand, whimpering, "Help me..."
"Ow!!!"
The out-of-town trainee instinctively stood up, grabbed a dagger, and rushed towards Greta.
But of course she couldn't possibly hurt this great demon god. Greta simply flicked her finger, and the vines on the ground suddenly moved, tripping the crazed student.
The place where he fell was right in front of Greta, as if he had come to kowtow to her.
The experienced demon god had long noticed something amiss with the student's mind. He snapped his fingers lightly near the student's ear, and the murderous intent in his eyes instantly cleared.
"Oh my god... what am I doing?"
Greta ignored the bewildered other party and went over to dispel the spells cast on the three Aslan students.
Without the support of magic, the three, covered in wounds, immediately collapsed like reeds in the wind, unable to move a single finger.
Only his mouth continued to open and close instinctively, his eyes filled with a longing for life.
"Help……"
Their wounds, affected by an unknown divine power, were difficult to heal with ordinary magic, but for Greta, they were something she could easily dispel.
Instead of rushing to help, Greta covered her mouth, squatted down with a mischievous grin.
Moonlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves, casting a long, elongated shadow of the girl, which became an indescribable shape.
"Of course I can save you, heh heh, but... on the condition that you make a deal with me."
Chapter Fifteen: The Voice of Silence
When the professor, who had come upon hearing the commotion, entered the woods, he was shocked to find three Aslan students cornering a pink-haired girl and another disheveled, terrified female student from out of town.
The pink-haired girl shielded the out-of-town student behind her, and just as the Aslan student's fist was about to land on her, the professor immediately shouted angrily.
"Stop! What are you doing?!"
……
Bullying incidents involving outsiders have been a persistent problem at the college.
Unlike the Imperial Military Academy in the north, which is almost entirely composed of Aslans, the Sea Cliff Academy in the south has many foreign students and professors, including Professor Brand, whom Ye Xiao plays in a cameo role.
This is related to the Empire's policy of bringing in foreign talent and immigrants, but it also causes some local Aslans in the south to feel dissatisfied with it.
However, in reality, the appearance, quality, and even magical talent of the immigrant population vary greatly, and it is unlikely that they can compare with the Aslan people, who are of elven blood. Not to mention that there are also many illegal immigrants from small countries who lower the image of the population.
On the other hand, accepting foreign populations is also an important means of promoting the economic development of the empire. Firstly, the local birth rate has been low for many years due to bloodline reasons, and nobles only intermarry with nobles to ensure the purity of bloodlines. Secondly, this is also an important juncture to avoid being closed off and to maintain open exchanges with the world.
Therefore, the Aslans have a rather contradictory attitude towards extroverts.
Among them were those who were refined and cultured, like Serendra or Professor Rhodes, and others like these three noble students from Aslan who, through exposure to certain environments, harbored deep contempt for outsiders.
However, bullying is absolutely forbidden by the academy in public, otherwise they wouldn't have gone out of their way to find a secluded grove to do it.
This behavior is completely inconsistent with the glorious spirit that the Aslan nobility prides themselves on.
Therefore, after catching the three Aslan students, the professor began to consider how to hand them over to the administration office for punishment.
Somewhat unexpectedly, these three students did not make the same excuses or perfunctory responses that the professor had encountered before—such as "We were just having an academic exchange, you can ask her if you don't believe me," or "We were just passing by, she fell on her own," and other such tired of the usual rhetoric.
The three of them admitted it with unusually quick acceptance.
"We hit her!"
"I'm going to kick her ass hard with my boots!"
I've seen arrogant people before, but I've never seen anyone this arrogant. Even royalty knows to avoid suspicion, but these three dared to openly provoke me. The professor never expected that.
He immediately took out his wand and used a vine binding spell to tie the three of them up.
"Could you two please come with me to the Academic Affairs Office to serve as witnesses?"
After doing all that, the professor looked at Greta and another female student from out of town whose face was covered in mud.
"no problem."
Greta smiled and nodded gently. "But could this student go get bandaged up and change his clothes first?"
"Ah, my mistake, I'm so sorry."
The professor slapped his forehead. How could he let the bullied person go to a public place looking like that? Wouldn't that just make the other person suffer even more?
"Excuse me, could you please take her to the infirmary for treatment? It's in the direction of..."
With the professor's permission, Greta led the poor girl to the other end of the path.
"Thank you very much..."
The female student, supported by Greta, lowered her head, feeling a little dizzy.
It should have just happened, but she couldn't remember it clearly, just like those dreams that quickly fade from memory after waking up.
She only vaguely remembered that Greta seemed to have helped her, otherwise it seemed that some unpredictable consequences would have occurred.
"You're welcome, it was nothing."
Greta's face, hidden in the shadows, wore a smiling expression. One hand was on the girl's shoulder, while the other hand was outstretched in front of the girl, revealing a curved dagger in her open palm.
"Just tell me where this came from."
The pink-haired girl's thin lips brushed against the ear of the unsteady female student, her soft, childlike whisper seemingly reaching the depths of her soul.
The girl nodded unconsciously, and then spoke softly.
……
A meeting of silence?
At night, I returned to the mansion.
After listening to Greta's description of what had happened, Ye Xiao frowned in surprise.
Now the little guy is dressed in a fluffy dark blue bathrobe, and like a big pufferfish, he is lying on the sofa with one hand supporting his cheek, only his two short legs wrapped in soft white silk are showing, and he is alternately tracing arcs as he hooks and releases them.
"Yes, she said that some students from other places who were often bullied formed this group in private, with the intention of confiding in each other and offering comfort and support."
"It sounds a bit like a victim support group."
Ye Xiao nodded.
It's understandable that students from out of town, finding no one to rely on and suffering oppression, would gather together in this way.
As he pondered, he fiddled with the oddly shaped dagger in his hand. "Where did this thing come from?"
The dagger clearly retained some very faint traces of a special power of unknown origin, somewhat similar to the strange power manipulated by the Dark Shepherd that Ye Xiao had encountered in the Seven Seas City.
She said it was given to her by a senior student.
Greta lightly touched her lips with her index finger, her eyes gleaming mischievously. "I'll talk to her more and ask her to take me in to see what's going on."
"Sure, but you have to be careful."
As a teacher, Ye Xiao certainly couldn't pry into these student cliques, so naturally he had no objection.
"Hmph, although I don't need to worry, I appreciate your concern."
Greta's little nose is very upturned.
"So, which class were you assigned to?"
Ye Xiao asked again.
"Class assignment?"
Greta paused, "What class?... Oh no!"
The girl quickly covered her mouth, but it was too late.
"..."
Ye Xiao's lips twitched. "...You didn't complete the enrollment procedures?"
"Eh...hehe...something came up...I forgot..."
Greta's large, golden eyes darted around as she stammered.
"Bullshit! You must have done something bad that made you forget!"
Having known her for so long, how could Ye Xiao not know what kind of person Greta was? He immediately grabbed the girl around the waist as she tried to run off the sofa and slapped her on the buttocks.
"Eee ...
Greta blushed and screamed.
Just then, Susie Yun, wearing an apron and carrying a tray, came out of the kitchen. "The fruit is cut up."
"Help me! Sister Su, help me!!!"
When Greta saw Susie Yun, she was overjoyed, as if she had seen a savior.
How could you have the nerve to say something like that?
Ye Xiao was amused by the little guy's annoyance, "If you forget your business again next time, you'll have to sleep alone tonight."
"I was wrong! I was wrong!!"
The girl wrapped her arms around Ye Xiao's shoulders and twisted into a ball on the sofa.
"Relax, relax, have some fruit."
Miss Su chuckled as she placed the plate on the table, picked up a slice of cantaloupe, and offered it to Ye Xiao's lips.
Seeing this, Ye Xiao couldn't continue to punish Greta, the idiot. He could only sit on the sofa and let the little guy snuggle into his arms, opening his mouth to take the fruit offered by another girl.
"Hmph, my sister-in-law still loves me the most."
Seeing that the situation had eased, Greta nestled in Ye Xiao's arms, her fluffy little head starting to rub restlessly around again, "Of course, of course, big brother is the best too!"
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