"Why has this woman started acting strangely?" Jiang Shu thought, puzzled, but he didn’t dwell on it for too long. He just wanted to stick the chewing gum onto Kirie’s face and then settle this grudge once and for all.
Wait a minute!
Kirie suddenly realized that Jiang Shu had made a huge mistake—he had only prepared one piece of chewing gum!
So...
If she disposed of this piece of chewing gum, could she avoid punishnt?
With that thought, she suddenly opened her eyes, and before it was too late, she plunged forward—biting down on Jiang Shu’s left hand and seizing the nearly dried-out piece of gum, swallowing it straight away.
The feat was done in one breath, leaving Jiang Shu watching agape.
How could this girl be so disgusting!?
Yi: When a turtle pokes its head out, there must be a reason.
Ding: It’s either to repay kindness or to seek revenge.
"You..." Jiang Shu hesitated for a mont, as the girl now seed far from normal. Not wanting to delve deeper, his tone still carried a hint of reproach, "There won’t be a next ti for sothing like this."
If she dared to spit chewing gum on his face again, he would throw her into the Gu River!
"The magic show is on Wednesday night at seven-thirty. I will have Wolf give you the ticket. It’s just one, so don’t lose it." With these words, he turned and left.
After walking a few steps, Jiang Shu cautiously added another condition, "Don’t play any tricks."
Kirie watched his retreating figure, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
"There won’t be a next ti for sothing like this."
That ant she wouldn’t be able to dodge the suffocation punishnt next ti using such lowly tactics.
"The magic show..."
That sentence ant, "You, Kirie, have already entered into a contract with . You can’t escape your fate."
"Just one ticket"
"You can only co by yourself, don’t ask anyone else for help, or else, hmph—"
"Don’t play any tricks"
Accept your fate, Kirie, no one can escape once they’ve caught the eye of —the Evil Wizard.
Tsukimiya Kirie crouched down, burying her head in her arms, shedding tears of regret.
Why, why did she have to go back and remind him about the scythe...
Indeed, kindness is often taken advantage of...
—
Upon leaving the police station and feeling the sunlight on his skin, Jiang Shu’s mood improved slightly.
No matter what, searching for Sister Su couldn’t be rushed; she was certainly safe in the short term.
Sister Su was surely the most critical elent in his main task. Next was to figure out what exactly the ga ntioned by the fox was, and lastly, to find that prison, that "Ya."
First, he had to move his luggage to Black Currant. He would be living in the Magic House from now on.
Let think, how to trick Kirie in the magic show the day after tomorrow? After being duped once in the procedure, she might pay even closer attention to the magicians’ sequences...
Emmm, after all, I’m a technician; it would be quite embarrassing if it really gets figured out.
How about this, forget the procedure.
Jiang Shu made up his mind, hailed a car, and headed towards the theater.
Half an hour later, he moved his things into his office, then rushed to find Su Xiaoou who was staying in the apprentice dormitory behind the theater.
After his magic debut last week, Jiang Shu hadn’t seen his apprentice since, which was also his fault for not at least leaving so techniques for her to practice.
Following the address that Su Xiaoou had previously given him, Jiang Shu found the tube-shaped building.
Had it not been with his own eyes, he would have found it hard to imagine that there was such a building behind the postmodern-designed Black Currant Theater—a structure that seed to hail from the ’50s or ’60s of the last century.
Certainly, that’s a discrepancy of about a hundred years?
He internally complained.
As he approached the large iron gate in front of the tube building, an old man sitting at the gate pushed up his glasses and stopped him.
"Hey, who are you? A new face, eh? What are you going in for?" The old man’s voice was quite assertive.
"Is this the apprentice dormitory for Black Currant?" Jiang Shu politely asked, then explained his purpose, "I’m here to find my apprentice."
"Oh, this place isn’t just for Black Currant apprentices," the old man replied, then refused him, "n... n can’t enter the dormitory. Contact your apprentice and ask her to co out."
Jiang Shu was stunned, "Eh? Why can’t n enter?"
"The place is full of girls," the old man glanced at him and said leisurely, "We used to allow it, but so troubleso incidents occurred. After that, we disallowed it, installed surveillance, and now I’m here to keep watch."
"Oh," Jiang Shu nodded. This place was on the border of the CDE zone, and the security wasn’t as good as in the AB zone. As for the nature of the incidents, involving genders, he could sowhat guess.
These apprentices were either orphans or from families who couldn’t afford the basic education fee and had to be sent to various industries as apprentices. They learned their professions in a way that was almost like a master-apprentice relationship and could only get a job after reaching adulthood.
Previously, from Su Xiaoou’s few words, it wasn’t hard to guess that apprentices had a low social status and lacked proper guardianship.
"Then, sir, do you know a little girl nad Su Xiaoou?" Jiang Shu had tried to contact Su Xiaoou through his wristwatch before but received no response, so he looked up and asked the gatekeeper.
"Su Xiaoou? Su Xiaoou..." the old man repeated the na several tis, then seed to rember sothing, "Right, I would have almost forgotten, she seems to have not co back for several days."
"What?" Jiang Shu frowned, "Has she ever done that before?"
"No, that’s not usual," the old man said, shaking his head. "She usually just cos back to sleep. There’s not much for her to do at the theater. I really don’t know what she’s busy with."
Jiang Shu got a bad feeling, "Do you know where she might go?"
"No clue."
"Can you let go in to check? I’m worried she’s in danger," Jiang Shu requested.
"This..." the old man hesitated and then asked, "Then who would man the gate?"
Jiang Shu, without hesitation, pointed to the Tablet Spirit, "This one! Don’t worry, it’s also called an electronic dog."
Tablet Spirit: ???
Tablet Spirit: Are you there? Can you speak human?
"Let see your Character Card, I need to make a record," the old man no longer refused; after all, he was the type that was easy to speak with.
Jiang Shu showed his Character Card. In situations like this, the entries and private parts on the Character Card were hidden.
"Alright, I’ll accompany you," the old man shut down the Simulated Light Screen after registering and led Jiang Shu into the courtyard, leaving only the little Tablet Spirit to stand guard in the scorching sun.
The tube building only had stairs, no elevator, so climbing to the fifth floor took quite so effort. Following the address, Jiang Shu stood in front of Su Xiaoou’s room door.
On the doorplate, two nas were hanging, one was Su Xiaoou, and the other was Casey.
"Knock, knock, knock—" the old man knocked on the door and called out, "Anyone ho? Su Xiaoou? Casey?"
"Coming..." A strange girl’s voice ca from inside; after a mont, a white girl with freckles on her face opened the door.
Casey didn’t understand the situation, "Mr. Wang, what is this...?"
"Where’s Su Xiaoou?" Mr. Wang asked.
"She hasn’t co back; I haven’t seen her for two or three days," Casey yawned, having just woken up, and she didn’t seem to care much about Su Xiaoou’s whereabouts.
Jiang Shu continued to ask, "Then do you know where she went?"
"Where? I don’t know. Maybe she went to a bar," Casey said offhand.
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