Chapter 68

The other students and their contract beasts all slipped away at lightning speed. It was not that they did not understand the rules. Rather, they understood Song Yi.

Most of the students in the Elementary Beast Studies course were second- and third-graders. At that grade level, they could only count as newbies in club activities, and Song Yi basically did not know them. Aside from first-grade children, her social circle consisted of the presidents of other clubs in the higher grades.

But just because she did not know these students did not mean the students did not know her.

Putting aside the fact that an iron-eating beast was already a demon beast at the upper level of the food chain, so it was only normal for everyone to be afraid of Tie Yuan, Song Yi alone had plenty of deterrent power. She was the head of the Discipline Department, the person who had popularized the Barber Hero inside the school.

When other people said they would eat you, they might just be talking. But if it was her, putting it into practice also seemed very reasonable. Otherwise, how could the higher grades have been bullied to tears under her lead?

They were only second- and third-grade students. Their little bodies were not enough for her to mess with, so they did not dare test her bottom line.

Song Yi wore an innocent bun face. But I really am a good person. Why don’t they believe me?

When the teacher arrived for class and saw the empty classroom, she could not help feeling puzzled. Had I gone to the wrong classroom, or remembered the wrong time?

Song Yi volunteered by raising her hand. “Teacher, I’m Song Yi from the Discipline Department. They actually dared to skip class. I’ll go catch them and bring them back.”

Yes. These children, who had never suffered society’s beatings, had forgotten one thing: the more they ran, the more reason they gave Song Yi to deal with them. They had fallen straight into Song Yi’s trap.

Teacher Wang, who taught the Elementary Beast Studies course, had naturally heard of Song Yi’s great name as well. In fact, she had even gone to complain to First Grade Class One’s homeroom teacher. According to Tie Yuan, all of his unreliable ideas had come from Song Yi.

But now, seeing such an obedient little child, the teacher’s heart wavered. This child doesn’t look like a troublemaker at all!

Especially compared to an act like the whole class skipping school, the child obediently sitting in the classroom and waiting for her to come teach was simply too well-behaved, all right?

Speaking of which, she was also the founder of the school’s Discipline Department. If her conduct was improper, would the principal have given her such authority?

Teacher Wang felt the tiniest trace of regret over her previous prejudice, and her attitude toward Song Yi became much gentler. “Then I’ll have to trouble you.”

Song Yi launched a “wanted notice” in the Discipline Department’s dedicated communication group. “Who doesn’t have class next period? Help keep an eye out for students skipping class. A lot of people skipped Elementary Beast Studies.”

Shi Qing and the others, who knew her well, replied very quickly: What did you do?

The formation was extremely neat.

Song Yi: ?

Do you all have some kind of misunderstanding about me?

Can there not be even a little trust between people?

“I’ll give you all a chance to reorganize your words.”

The replies that followed became a uniform row of “received,” appearing extremely cooperative.

Song Yi also had work to do. She rubbed Tie Yuan’s head. “Do you still remember the classmates’ scents?”

“Of course! Charge, Little Yi!”

Tie Yuan had already climbed onto Song Yi’s back. With a wave of his furry paw, he pointed in a direction.

The black-and-white dumpling was swelling up very quickly. Even though he was trying to curl his body up on Song Yi’s back, he could still cover her small frame.

Teacher Wang: ???

“Wait a second. Haven’t you two got it backwards?”

Shouldn’t Tie Yuan be carrying Song Yi?

Song Yi said steadily, “No problem, Teacher. Yuan cub is still small, and I’m very fast too.”

She charged out in a cloud of dust.

Teacher Wang watched this completely unprincipled little child and felt even more distressed. This child has been fooled crooked by Tie Yuan!

However, Song Yi really had not been bluffing when she said she was fast. Other people rode beasts, but even they were not as fast as this beast-riding-human pair. “Classmates, it’s class time!”

What confused Teacher Wang was that students these days were truly too arrogant. When they heard Song Yi’s shout, not only did they fail to slow down, they actually sped up. Wouldn’t it be better to come back honestly for class?

Human joys and sorrows were not shared. The teacher felt this batch of students was too hard to manage, while the students felt this class was practically life-threatening.

“Wuwuwu, I don’t want to take Beast Studies anymore…”

Song Yi originally had not had any thoughts about it, but when she heard that wail, she could not help stroking her chin. Did this count as the correct way to dissuade someone from the Dao of Beast Control?

For elementary-level children, how easy would it be to switch directions?

As one side waned, the other waxed. The advantage was with my sword Dao!

She became even less prepared to act human. With an awoo, she chased even harder. Yet she deliberately did not catch up right away, just making people feel like they were struggling on the edge between life and death, playing with their mental state.

This chase was so interesting that even students who were originally in class could not help poking their heads out to look. Some even cried out in alarm because the race below was too exciting.

Well, that was it. The teachers who were about to start class saw it too.

The teachers: …

Was this a new school activity?

“Everyone focus! You’re still in class!”

Someone worked up the courage to retort, “Teacher, they’re also in class. Elementary Beast Studies. Teacher, why don’t we switch to a different teaching model too? I want to learn that.”

It looked very interesting.

Of course, this suggestion was mercilessly suppressed.

Before the chase could cause an even bigger commotion, Teacher Wang, who knew the truth, calmed things down. Aside from the unlucky one targeted by Song Yi, the other students, when they ran into other members of the Discipline Department, still obediently returned to the classroom. The teacher’s arrival still made everyone feel safer.

Teacher Wang naturally had to ask everyone why they had collectively skipped class, and with that, Song Yi was exposed.

Listening to the students’ tearful complaints, Teacher Wang’s mental state nearly collapsed. No wonder such an outrageous thing as a collective absence had happened on Song Yi’s first day of class!

No wonder the person being chased by Song Yi did not dare stop at all, and instead ran even faster!

How was this any kind of little cutie?!

Teacher Wang’s filter for Song Yi shattered all over the floor.

Both Song Yi and the classmate she had been chasing were caught and brought back.

Teacher Wang was a strict teacher. She stared at the two cubs in front of her and said bluntly, “Song Yi, Tie Yuan, I can give you one class period to unite with your classmates. If you can’t do it, that means you aren’t suited for my classroom, and you don’t need to come to my class in the future.”

She had to get the classroom atmosphere back on track.

Song Yi had never planned to develop in the direction of beast-taming in the first place, so naturally she did not care whether she attended this class. But she could not let Tie Yuan have no books to study, right?

She asked the teacher, “Is it really one class period? Teacher, you won’t interfere?”

Teacher Wang nodded. “No coercion, and no bribery. They are all your classmates. If you do anything too excessive, I will stop you.”

Considering everyone’s fear of Song Yi and Tie Yuan, repairing their relationship in one class period was rather difficult. But she could not possibly let the two of them delay things for too long again.

Her expectations were not high either. As long as Song Yi and Tie Yuan could break the ice with everyone and allow the teaching atmosphere to return to normal, she would not really drive them away.

Song Yi said, “I understand.”

At this moment, the classroom was full of discussion. The students looked expectantly out the window, hoping the scene of “Teacher Wang beating Song Yi and Tie Yuan to a pulp” would play out and uphold justice on behalf of heaven.

“Teacher Wang is very strict. She definitely won’t let Song Yi mess around!” someone declared with absolute certainty.

However, disappointingly, Teacher Wang did not enter the classroom. Instead, Song Yi calmly walked in.

For a moment, the classroom went silent as cicadas in winter. Those voices calling for “a savage beating of the evildoer” disappeared all at once.

Song Yi’s expression did not change as she walked to the very front of the classroom and said, “Do you know how long it has been since class was supposed to start?”

“Ten minutes?” someone answered hesitantly.

“That’s right. Then do you know who the greatest contributor to delaying class by ten minutes is?”

Without a doubt, it was Song Yi.

But everyone could not agree with the words “greatest contributor.”

She was clearly ruining the class.

Song Yi said with righteous solemnity, “It seems you cannot understand my painstaking intentions. I had originally wanted to win everyone a whole class period of free activity time. Since you don’t need it, then forget it.”

A whole class period of free activity time?

The simple children asked, “Really?”

Song Yi put on an act and walked outside the classroom, as if negotiating with Teacher Wang. After going through the motions, she returned to the classroom and gave everyone a victory sign.

“Wah!”

The children jumped up excitedly. Their contract beasts were infected by their masters’ mood and were just as excited.

In three sentences, they had already treated Song Yi as one of their own. “Little Yi, you’re amazing!”

“Little Yi, we almost misunderstood you. Sorry.”

They crowded around Song Yi and Tie Yuan, like they were welcoming the return of their boss.

Children did not have that many thoughts. Although Song Yi had seemed a little scary before, anyone who could let them avoid class was definitely one of their own.

As for why she had acted so scary before? She must have been thinking of a way to fight for everyone’s rights!

She really was too amazing. No wonder she could become the head of the Discipline Department.

The way the students looked at Song Yi had already changed from fear to worship.

Someone who only dared bully classmates would naturally inspire fear. But someone who could lead classmates in a battle of wits and courage against the teacher was the one who inspired worship.

Teacher Wang, who was standing in the corridor and watching the situation develop: ?

She really was baffled by this direction.

The time she had given them to break the ice had been completely used as a favor!

Originally, this had been Song Yi and Tie Yuan’s final-warning period. Now, wonderful. Instead, it had become free activity time that Song Yi had “worked hard to win.” And children happened to fall for this kind of thing the most.

This little cub really was too crafty!

Teacher Wang looked at the children getting along in a lively huddle and thought with a little wicked amusement: if she went straight in now and started class, would the children, after realizing they had been deceived, want to rise up and hammer Song Yi?

But she was a teacher who kept her promises, so after thinking about it, she let it go.

Besides, if she really did that, Song Yi would probably be able to find a reason to exonerate herself: she was not the one who had deceived everyone’s feelings. The teacher was.

That would be good for the unity of the whole class, but not good for unity between the teacher and the students.

Song Yi spread out both hands and pressed them downward. “But we can only have activities inside the classroom. Please understand.”

“Understood, understood.”

Song Yi also explained the previous misunderstanding to everyone: she had not known the homework requirements, so she had written it according to her own understanding. She had not meant to scare everyone.

The students’ eyes filled with tears. “Little Yi, it’s all our fault for misunderstanding you, and you still treated us so well. In the future, if anyone dares say even one bad thing about you, they’ll have us to answer to!”

Had she even treated them that well?

Song Yi reflected on herself for three seconds, then cast off the burden. If they said she had, then she had.

To repay Song Yi’s kindness and express a little apology, this class period truly became a food-tasting and snack-sharing meeting.

Song Yi did not know whether it was her imagination, but she discovered that more people in the school were discussing beast-taming.

“Little Yi, you don’t know? Thanks to your promotion, lots of people think beast-taming is pretty interesting.”

Song Yi: …

No, that was definitely not my goal.

Li Wenwen clenched her fist. “Who wouldn’t want to take a food-tasting class? I also applied for the course. Even just letting me audit would’ve been fine, but the teacher rejected me.”

Song Yi asked strangely, “What did you do to get rejected?”

Most teachers would not reject auditing. It did not involve grades or credits. If a student was willing to learn and was interested in a certain major, the teacher should feel happy.

“The teacher said I still wasn’t prepared.” Li Wenwen puffed out her cheeks. “But I’m already prepared. I planned it all out. If I raise one badly, I’ll switch to another. I even wrote out the order list.”

Song Yi glanced at the demon beasts Li Wenwen was preparing to raise. Good grief. They were neither the better-looking ones nor the stronger ones. They were all the ones that tasted better.

This was truly treating the demon beasts she was preparing to raise as pure consumables.

Song Yi: …

“I think Teacher Wang’s temper seems pretty good.”

Even after that, she had not beaten Li Wenwen up. She had just invited her out of the office in one piece.

Li Wenwen said decisively, “Then she’s definitely good. She didn’t lose her temper at you. I think I’m still a little worse than you.”

Lin Ze could not listen anymore and said a fair word. “You two really shouldn’t have the pot calling the kettle black…”

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