Dark-colored Fairy Tale: Seven Magicians - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Chloe gave Mist a quiet look, but Mist didn’t pay any attention, just walked out of the alley, waving her hand casually twice as a goodbye.

After Mist left, a brief smile finally appeared on Chloe’s cold, icy face.

My sister, I’m going to see my sister. What will she be like? I’m so excited.

With that thought, she eagerly scrolled through her phone, impatiently booking the fastest flight to Huaxia. She then left the alley and hailed a taxi for the airport, even though the flight was still ten hours away. She was willing to wait there.

The sky was just beginning to brighten. The rising sun, with its threads of golden light, peeked out from behind the distant buildings. That soft, orange-red color made Chloe’s heart feel instantly warm.

My sister, my sweet sister~

…

At this moment, Liu Menglu sat up straight in her seat, listening to her teacher’s dry and boring explanation of a text.

As a high-IQ beautiful girl, this material was no challenge for her at all. But as the teacher’s “good girl,” even though she desperately wanted to look out the window, she could only diligently stare at the blackboard. That’s what a good student does, after all!

It was the first class of the afternoon. The students were still a bit tired from their naps. The teacher shook her head at the sleepy-eyed students, but when her gaze landed on Liu Menglu, her expression instantly became gentle.

As expected, Liu Menglu is a good child. Look how seriously she’s listening.

“Liu Menglu, do you know how to do this problem?”

Liu Menglu, who had been a little distracted, immediately snapped back to attention when she heard the teacher’s voice. Although she didn’t know what the question was, she saw the teacher’s smiling face and the problem on the blackboard, and she nodded confidently.

She got up from her seat and walked to the blackboard. She casually picked up a piece of white chalk and fluently wrote down the answer. Under the teacher’s praise and her classmates’ adoring gazes, she effortlessly returned to her seat.

The teacher looked at the perfectly correct answer and nodded with certainty. “Liu Menglu’s solution is excellent. Everyone, wake up! Don’t be sleepy just because you had a nap.”

With that, the teacher’s low, almost hypnotic voice echoed in the ears of the whole class again. Students kept falling asleep, and the “lion’s roar” of the teacher’s scolding could be heard in the neighboring class, making them all flinch.

Liu Menglu looked at the classmate who was being scolded with his ear in the teacher’s grip, giving him a helpless look. She then started playing with the magical girl figurine on her pen cap, feeling a little bored.

Liu Menglu loved magical girls. There was no specific reason; she just fell madly in love with the genre the moment she discovered it.

Although her rational mind told her that magical girls couldn’t possibly exist in this world, what girl doesn’t have a youthful… ahem! What girl doesn’t have a bit of a “chuunibyou” phase? Who hasn’t dreamed of becoming a real magical girl?

Thinking back to her childhood, wielding a plastic magic wand and shouting “transform” in a moment of embarrassment, Liu Menglu couldn’t help but chuckle.

Lu Yuting, who was sitting to Liu Menglu’s right, looked at Yang Shishi, who was being scolded and was completely red in the face, and then glanced at Liu Menglu, who was “mocking” her. A hint of disdain flashed in her eyes.

Another sanctimonious fake. My classmates must be blind. They don’t like a great person like me; they always like this arrogant Liu Menglu, who doesn’t treat people with respect.

Hmph!

Hearing the sound in her ear, Liu Menglu tilted her head and saw Lu Yuting looking at her with an even more scornful gaze.

Liu Menglu: ??? Is this classmate of mine an idiot?

“Liu Menglu, who are you calling an idiot!”

Looking at the enraged girl in front of her, Liu Menglu was speechless. Had she accidentally said that out loud?

She stiffly turned her head to the left, looking at her deskmate for help, only to receive a sympathetic nod from Yang Shishi.

Liu Menglu was silent. She used to not understand why this classmate hated her so much. Now that she had accidentally blurted that out, their animosity would definitely be even worse.

And…

“Lu Yuting! We are in class right now! Shouting and disrupting the order, are you trying to start a rebellion?!” The teacher’s “lion’s roar” once again swept through the entire classroom.

Lu Yuting instantly looked like a startled rabbit. Her moist eyes were filled with panic. She looked at the teacher, wanting to defend herself, but the teacher was glaring at her fiercely. For a moment, Lu Yuting didn’t know what expression to make.

Looking at Lu Yuting, who was standing there dazed, Liu Menglu covered her face, filled with regret. Oh no, this is going to make her hate me even more now.

Sure enough, the next moment, Liu Menglu heard the teacher say in a surprisingly gentle tone, “It seems, Lu Yuting, that you don’t realize what you did wrong. How about this: I won’t make you stand outside as punishment. Just hand me a 10,000-word apology letter from the heart tomorrow. Thank you.”

Lu Yuting’s face immediately twisted into a smile that was uglier than a cry. They were second-year high school students, and their daily homework already kept them up until past midnight.

If she had to write a 10,000-word apology letter, she wouldn’t be getting any sleep tonight.

Liu Menglu was naturally aware of this. Although she could finish her homework quickly every day, sometimes the teacher would play favorites, and she wouldn’t have to do homework at all on certain days.

Because of this, Liu Menglu decided to lend a hand. “Teacher, let’s just let it go this time.”

The teacher was willing to give face to her top student. Although she didn’t explicitly agree, her expression had softened a little. She knew the students were stressed, and she had regretted saying that right after she said it. Now that Liu Menglu was pleading for her, she could use it as an easy way out.

Liu Menglu also saw what the teacher was thinking. She smiled and said, “Teacher, today is our classmate’s birthday. You know how busy we are every day. Today is her birthday, so can you let her rest a little? After all, every birthday we celebrate means one less we’ll have in the future.”

The teacher nodded. Using this reason to exempt Lu Yuting from the apology letter wouldn’t make the teacher lose face and would also leave a kind and friendly impression on the students. It was a perfect plan.

Just as the teacher was about to agree, Lu Yuting suddenly roared.

“No! Liu Menglu, I don’t need your phony kindness! If it weren’t for you, how would I have shouted in class!”

At this moment, Lu Yuting was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly fluffing up.

She was baring her teeth and claws, but it just made her look cutely fierce.

Liu Menglu couldn’t help but smile, which instantly set Lu Yuting off. She picked up her pen case and threw it at Liu Menglu’s feet.