On the emerald pnt leaves, an unusual yer of crimson clung, drops of blood slowly sliding down the petals, breaking the silence with their pungent smell.

  Cultist Lilette desperately held back the joy welling up in her heart, not letting her lips quiver.

  She was certain Huberrian would not dare attack [Immortal Mercury].

  Because once Huberrian got close, she would still need to guard against Lilette and [Immortal Mercury] secretly working together to strike.

  Only Lilette dared to boldly go kill [Immortal Mercury].

  For Huberrian, this was actually an invisible deadlock!

  In the distance.

  Seeming to understand this point, Huberrian colpsed to the ground in complete despair.

  Meanwhile, Lilette had unhesitatingly rushed towards [Immortal Mercury].

  "..."

  Lanqi's gaze slightly moved away from the book pages, glimpsing Lilette who was frantically attacking the summoned beast.

  This wbreaker seemed very enthusiastic about her self-directed performance, occasionally letting the silver shapeshifter counterattack herself, making it look as if she truly was mortal enemies with this summon, desperately trying to frame Huberrian.

  Lanqi turned his head to look at Huberrian on the ground.

  Their gazes met perfectly.

  Lanqi secretly winked.

  Meaning: all according to pn.

  "..."

  Huberrian's eyes were full of speechlessness and helplessness.

  She felt that even if Lanqi had brought two demon teachers to forcefully hold back the cultist, they might not necessarily lose.

  Of course, resolving things without bloodshed would be best.

  However, Huberrian strongly suspected Lanqi just wanted to see the cultist's breakdown when she finally learned the truth and realized her intelligence had been toyed with.

  ...

  A few minutes ter.

  On the messy pnt garden wn, through the joint efforts of the Magic Department Dean and Lilette, they finally succeeded in eliminating the silver shapeshifter summon.

  Lilette breathed a sigh of relief, looking towards the principal's direction.

  She believed she had successfully passed the mechanism.

  Next, the principal would help her deal with that duchess.

  However.

  This sense of security sted less than a second. The moment she rexed, an inhuman magical power of deathly stillness struck from her side, like thunder appearing in the sky, without any warning.

  It was an ambush from the Magic Department Dean.

  Lilette's reaction was exceptionally quick; she sensed the danger almost instantly, her body reflexively bending to avoid this fatal attack.

  Even so.

  Her outer clothing was still cut open by that magical power, blood seeping from the wound, staining her dress red.

  At this moment, Lilette's heart was once again filled with terror.

  In the distance.

  The principal was still reading his book.

  Huberrian was still sitting on the ground.

  This harmonious state was as if the principal had no intention of fulfilling his promise to execute Huberrian.

  "Why?!"

  Lilette quickly defended against the dean's lethal offensive, her eyes full of shock and confusion.

  If her reactions hadn't been fast enough, she might have already lost her life.

  And one of the demon teachers beside the principal had also sprung into action, directly attacking the level-two bck mist warlock, taking his head.

  "Foolish one, did you think you could deceive the principal?"

  The Magic Department Dean sneered mockingly.

  He naturally understood the principal's strategy.

  Now he was even more in awe of the principal's world-shocking wisdom, like that of a demon sage.

  With just simple words, he had maniputed this rule-breaking student to kill the troublesome silver summon with her own hands!

  "Isn't the principal supposed to be neutral?!"

  Lilette's heartbeat was like an out-of-control drum, rapid, chaotic, and frantic. The heavy sense of despair brought by reality made her brain tremble.

  She didn't understand why this Shadow World could be so unfair.

  It seemed that no matter how she followed the mechanism earlier, she would be the one executed!

  "Of course I'm neutral, but you're the one who vioted school rules, and you tried to frame a good student. If I don't execute you, who should I execute?"

  Lanqi said calmly, as if standing in his own backyard reading a book, not wanting to spare a gnce at the buzzing pest.

  And Huberrian, sitting on the ground, finally didn't want to act anymore, letting out a vengeful smile, as if mocking Lilette.

  This scene glimpsed gave Lilette a momentary illusion—

  Making her suspect this principal was actually extremely unfairly favoring Huberrian!

  "Lanqi, can I tell her the truth now?"

  Huberrian turned back, looking at Lanqi and asking.

  "Haven't you already revealed the truth?"

  Lanqi's fingertips brushed over the book pages, saying without raising his head.

  "Lanqi...?"

  At the moment when Lilette's doubt and resentment reached their peak in the distance.

  She heard Huberrian call the principal's name.

  Lanqi.

  An absurd yet terrifying guess suddenly exploded like muffled thunder in Lilette's heart.

  At the same time, more and more questionable points seemed to gather and connect in her mind.

  Why hadn't Huberrian's teammate appeared for so long?

  Why was this luminous demon's magical power so strong it was almost impossible to sense?

  And why had the principal let the challengers pass the mechanism earlier?

  When all these questions intertwined together, plus the expnation that "Lanqi is the principal," everything seemed to make sense!

  "Could it be that you are Lanqi?"

  This was the only expnation Lilette could find.

  "Indeed I am the principal, that's correct."

  Lanqi elegantly and calmly took out the [Lanqi, Music Teacher] namepte he had obtained in the music cssroom earlier from his pocket and hung it on his chest, seemingly telling Lilette that he wasn't just the principal, but also a formal subject teacher at this school.

  This attitude of never having properly looked at her from beginning to end seemed to demonstrate their vast difference in status within the demon academy.

  "Ah ah!! Lanqi! You bastard!!!"

  Lilette's cry tore through the air, echoing rage and despair among the pnt garden's bushes.

  Her eyes were swollen, the bloodshot beneath her tears seeming ready to overflow that crimson.

  She finally understood she had been fooled like an idiot by this guy.

  Not only had she been deceived earlier in the principal's office by the clear hierarchical retionship between him and the demon professor.

  Now she had even been bewitched by his aura and words to eliminate her greatest reliance for escape with her own hands.

  And now.

  The corridor was already filled with numerous demon teachers, just waiting for Lanqi's command to take action.

  "Teachers, please punish this student who vioted school discipline, harmed cssmates and teachers, and severely damaged school property."

  Lanqi, holding the book in one hand and reading intently, raised his right hand, his index finger slightly moving.

  The next second, the demon teachers in the corridor behind all stepped into the cssroom.

  In Lilette's terrified gaze.

  She saw a thick wall of densely packed demon teachers, as if about to ftten this pnt garden.

  The ground began to rumble.

  At this moment, she finally recalled the nightmare-like fear beyond limits that humans could feel.

  Even as her mental state colpsed, she couldn't understand what kind of madman could rise from student to principal in one night at an academy full of demons.

  ...

  "Huberrian, thank you for pying along with the Great Love Poet."

  Lanqi was still racing against time to read his book as he spoke.

  Less than a minute remained in the Shadow World.

  From the moment the Great Love Poet was defeated, he had sensed the changes in the pnt garden while sitting in the principal's office.

  So he had set out immediately at the first moment.

  It was also while rushing through the corridors that he had lost quite a bit of reading time.

  But it was fine, he was finally almost finished reading.

  "If I keep hanging around with you and the Great Love Poet any longer, I feel like I'm going to officially join the demon race."

  Huberrian stood up wearily.

  She had learned quite a bit from this demon academy trip.

  The good news was, it was all learned from Lanqi.

  The bad news was, she felt her bloodline had awakened now.

  Theoretically, one should learn how to be human from humans, but she hadn't learned any human elements from Lanqi at all.

  Just as they were waiting for this level-four Shadow World to come to an end.

  "Lanqi!!"

  At this moment, from the distance where demon teachers were about to engulf everything, came a sudden voice, like final cursing words before death,

  "You'll regret helping this mixed-blood demon duchess!!"

  As these words abruptly ended.

  Cultist Lilette's voice, accompanied by despairing screams, was drowned in the demon tide amid sounds of flesh being torn apart.

  Lanqi seemed to have no particur thoughts, nor any reaction.

  He just continued reading his book.

  While Huberrian's face suddenly turned somewhat pale.

  The secret she had kept from Lanqi for so long was unexpectedly revealed in this final moment of the Shadow World.

  Although she knew her demon lineage couldn't be hidden for long.

  But she had pnned to wait until returning to the real world, finding a better opportunity to confess to Lanqi voluntarily.

  Not having him hear it from someone else like this, as if she had been deceiving him all along.

  "Lanqi, let me expin, I... was pnning to tell you soon."

  That heavy silence seemed to press on her until she could barely breathe, making each of her sentences end abruptly.

  But Lanqi's gaze was still fixed intently on the book in his hand, as if he didn't want to hear her expnation at all.

  "...I really didn't mean to deceive you."

  Huberrian's voice grew increasingly faint, like winter breath, gently evaporating in the cold air.

  (End of Chapter)

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