Book 1: Chapter 8: Ijima Meiko, Takahashi’s Hostility, and the Earth Dog

Book 1: Chapter 8: Ijima Meiko, Takahashi’s Hostility, and the Earth Dog

Volume 1 Chapter 8 Ijima Meiko, Takahashis Hostility, and the Earth Dog

After class had ended, Meiko-sensei smiled at me, picked up her books and left the classroom.

I have to say, ice queen beauty Meiko-sensei, its fine if you dont smile, but once you smile, thats going to cause a lot of trouble.

The looks the guys shot at me made me uncomfortable; and Im also not sure why Satsuki was upset as well, so Ive decided buy some snacks to coax her.

After buying a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of Satsukis favourite yogurt, I returned back to the classroom.

Where did you go? Went to look for Meiko-sensei? Satsuki unhappily asked.

Whats this?

I placed the bottle of yogurt in front of her and she immediately smiled: Ah~~~ my favorite. Lin Xiang, how did you know that this is my favorite drink?

I know everything about what Risa-chan likes.

Idiot. Satsuki face reddened as she raised her voice and snatched the yogurt and orange juice from my hand.

Hey hey, that orange juice is mine.

Idiots dont get to drink. As she said this, she opened the bottle of orange juice. Her mouth latched onto the bottle, gulped it down in a few seconds and then followed up with a *hmph~*.

You. Im thirsty.

Ive already drank from it before, you still dare to drink it? Satsuki placed the bottle in front of me.

Come on, why wouldnt I dare? You might not know but in the previous world, you often drink drinks that Ive drank before, and I often drink yours as well okay?

I picked up the bottle and drank a mouthful. Afterwards, I held the bottle in my hand: Ku~~~ even though I havent drink it for some time now, it still tastes so good.

It's been about a month since I drank this sort of orange juice. Now that Ive drank it, it still tastes as good.

Stupid. Satsuki face became very red, and came rushing over, wanting to snatch the bottle from my hand: Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid Lin Xiang. You.

Hey hey hey, what is it? I was baffled.

Satsuki snatched the orange juice from my hand: I told you to drink it, and you actually drank it.

Whats wrong with that?

But. but. isnt that an indirect kiss? Thiss common sense. Satsuki, with her reddish face, said in a low voice.

Indirect kiss ! ? I never thought of that before. In the previous world, you didnt care about it at all. Could it be that the you from the previous world lacked common sense?

S. sorry.

Humph~~~ Satsuki snorted; looked at the bottle in my hand, and then back at me: Forget it, since were kind of like sisters. Afterwards, her small mouth once again latched onto the bottle opening, and drank a few sips.

After she finish drinking, her face became even redder, but she seemed happy.

She secretly peeked at me, and said: Idiot, next time. dont do this again.

I definitely wont. How will there be a next time? Satsuki-san. What happened just now was seen by Takahashi. Even though the teacher isnt here yet, the classroom is slightly noisy, slightly chaotic, and we are sitting quite far back, but did you know that you're one of the most popular and prettiest girls in our year? How many lessons are there when guys wouldnt look at you? Dont you realize that what you did just now was seen by some of the guys? Did you now know that there's a high chance that those guys will come and kill me?

Why are you so serious.. actually you can..

Whatd you just said? I couldnt hear what Satsuki was saying earlier.

Nothing. While speaking, Satsuki gave me her favourite yogurt and continued to drink that orange juice.

Lunch Break

Class 1-Cs Lin Xiang-san, please come to the staff room. The announcement rang throughout the school.

Just as I took out my lunchbox, the announcement came. I helplessly stood up: Hey, the croquettes are inside, help yourself. Remember to leave some side dishes for me.

After informing her, I left the classroom.

What did they call for me for?

Two months since the start of school, not once have I been called to the staff room before.

Staff Room

Pillar Nofu Academys staff room was pretty impressive. The teachers staff room was pretty much like a big companies, where the employees have their own office.

Who was it that called for me?

Little Xiang~~~ At this moment, Meiko-senseis very attractive voice rang.

The white blouse that she was wearing completely revealed her seductive figure. Together with that short black skirt and black stockings, it was practically an undisguised temptation.

This way, Little Xiang. Meiko stood in front of her office door, signalling me to go in.

Excuse me, is there something wrong?

You still have the nerve to ask, didnt I ask you to come and find me after class? Meiko poured two cups of tea, and gestured for me to sit.

After I sat down on the sofa, she came and sat beside me and stuck her body close to me: Hey, Little Xiang.

Sensei, youre too close. I immediately stood up.

Todays Meiko-sensei is so strange, did something happened?

She stood up, and charmingly said: The day before yesterday, after school, I happened to go to that Mountain Spring Bookstore.

Mountain Spring Bookstore? Wasnt that where Satsuki and I went to buy our books? We were attacked by Yamada on the way there. Dont tell me.

So? Why are you looking so surprised? Did you feel like something was exposed? Meikos expression became serious.

I dont understand what youre talking about.

The Lin Xiang I know, is someone whos very timid, and has no fighting skills. The corner of Meiko-senseis mouth slightly moved, into a strange smile.

Tell me, who are you? Where did the real Lin Xiang go?

Meikos cold words were like needles as they pricked my heart with every word. Did she discover something?

Freed, Freed I tried to call for Freed, however, there wasnt any reply.

Yalide? Yalide also didnt answer.

Dammit, did we talk too much during the spirit explanation class and exceeded the time limit?

Sensei? What are you talking about? Im really Lin Xiang. I tried to play the fool.

Perhaps youre able to deceive others, but you wont be able to deceive me. I can clearly detect the small change in the spiritual power in your body

I really dont understand what youre. Before I can finish, Meikos hand conjured up spiritual power. I knew this was called spiritual knife its melee attack power was not small.

Whats going on?

Why didnt you eat? I didnt bother with Takahashi anymore but rather, asked Satsuki why didnt she eat the bento.

Waiting for you. Just as Satsuki finished her sentence, in the next moment, her face became red and said: No, no, what I meant was, I was waiting for you to come back before eating. If not, you will complain that I ate finish your side dishes.

Oh~~ this girl. While speaking, I patted Satsukis head which she took the initiative to stretch out. Afterwards, I said: Ive eaten, you should quickly eat.

At this moment, Satsukis initial happy face, quickly became gloomy: Is that so? So thats what happened, eating lunch with that beautiful sensei. So thats what happened.

Satsuki? Satsukis expression was very scary, Ive never seen Satsuki this angry before.

Im really an idiot. While speaking, Satsuki opened the lunchbox, and started eating as if her life depended on it.

Hey, eat slower.

Satsuki ignored me, and only focused on eating her bento. Furthermore, she didnt take her favorite croquettes from my bento.

After school

Satsuki was very strange; she didnt talk to me for the whole day. Whenever I try to talk to her, she just ignores me. After school had ended, she quickly left by herself.

Did I do something wrong?

On my way back home, I kept thinking about what exactly did I do wrong.

Suddenly at this moment, I saw a few kids throwing stones at a gray dog.

That dog was cornered by them and it looked very frightened. However, it didnt dodge the stone that was thrown at it.

After being hit by the stones, it cried *Uu~~~~* a few times.

I ran over, raised my voice and said: Hey, you guys, what are you doing?

Maybe they thought that I was the owner of this dog, so they quickly ran away, and left this grey dog behind as it licked its own wounds.

I went over and that dog looked at me with its moist eyes. It looked extremely pitiful.

From my bag, I took out the bento that I didnt eat today, opened it, and placed it in front of the dog.

He looked at me a few times, sniffed it, and then started to nibble.

At this moment, I slightly sensed its magic power. This dog was a spirit, an earth attribute spirit.

I carefully inspected it. Its breed was closer to a wolf, had gray fur, and was of medium size. Its body was basically covered with wounds. I couldnt help but curse those bastards. Was it because it was just a common earth spirit? Did they have to treat it like that? Arent earth spirits, spirits as well?

I sighed, and afterwards, watched it finish eating the bento.

Soon enough, it finished eating. After eating, it kept looking at me as I packed my bento box.

I stretched out my hand and patted its head. It seemed pretty tame since it didnt showed any signs of reluctance.

Are you alone? So I asked.

Woof~~ woof It laid down on the ground, and softly cried out.

What to do? If I just leave like this, even if it doesnt die of hunger, itll still get stoned to death by those mischievous children.

Do you want to come over to my place? Was what Im doing right now, considered to be a kidnapping?

I only saw it wag its tail as it barked: *Woof woof*.

It seems that its leg was injured. No wonder it didnt run away when it was cornered by those kids from before.

After I put the bento in my bag, I lifted the dog into my arms. During the exact moment I lifted it, that similar feeling of the transferring of power appeared again. From the looks of it, I was replenishing its magical power. However, that feeling disappeared almost instantly.

The injury on it leg started to heal and after 5 seconds, all the injuries on its body had disappeared.

Wasnt this too miraculous? The healing ability of spirits was just too alarming.

Now that I think about it, this was quite strange. It was an earth attribute spirit but earth attribute spirits have very strong defenses. How did it get injured just from the few stones thrown by those kids? It turned out that it's because it ran out of magic power. What did it go through? I didnt know, but what I did know was that if its willing to follow me, then Ill take good care of it until it finds a master who would cherish it.

Since its injury was healed, I should put it back down.

It seems to be in joy after seeing its injury healed in seconds, and started to skip in front of me.

Just like that, it followed me home.

On the way back home, nobody noticed this extremely ordinary, lowest ranked spirit of the earth attribute. It walked beside me, but not once had it separated from me for more than half a step.

Soon enough, we reached home.

Upon opening the door, Silent Water came out to welcome me, and sweetly smiled at me: Welcome back.

Ah, Im back. Oh right, let me introduce to you. While speaking, I pointed towards the earth dog as it came in.

Little Water, I met it on the way home. It doesnt have a home, or master so I decided to keep it here instead, until it finds a home. Can I?

The earth dog, walked in, sat beside me, wagged its tail, and looked at Silent Water.

Silent Water gently said: Master, this is your home, is there a need to have my consent? Besides, I can understand the feeling of not having a home and not having a family, so of course Im very willing to have it stay here.

Silent Water really was extremely kind and gentle.

Ah, thats really great Dusty; from now on, this will be your new home. Dusty, that was the name Ive decided to call it.

Dusty was very happy. It wagged its tail, turned in circles, brushed against my leg, and barked *woof woof* a few times towards Silent Water, to thank her.

Bathroom

Come, sit properly, stop moving. I made Dusty sit in the bathtub.

To be honest, Dusty was pretty swollen and in addition, its body was rather smelly. My body also contracted its smell, which was why Im taking a bath together with it.

Dusty looked at me and then obediently sat inside the bathtub.

I picked up the showerhead and faced it towards its body to spray. It appeared to be a bit unadapted and slightly afraid. Yet, it still listened to me very well and actually didnt move an inch. I squeezed shower gel onto its body and cleaned its fur. It seemed to understand the benefits of showering, as it ecstatically licking my face.

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After the shower, I took a towel to wipe its fur and then used a hair dryer to blow dry it.

After being cleaned up, Dusty was no different than a regular house dog. As I sat on the sofa to watch TV, it curled up on my lap, and appeared to have fallen asleep.

At that moment, my cellphone rang. The incoming caller was Takahashi.

I answered the call and from the cellphones speaker came Satsukis urgent shouting: Lin Xiang, no matter what, dont come, dont come no matter what, ah After that, Takahashis ice-cold voice rang out from the cellphones speaker: Lin Xiang, 8 oclock, the big ancient tree at Dark Forest Central.

Hey, Takahashi, what going on? I yelled at the phone.

Dammit, what happened to Satsuki?

Come and youll understand. If you dont, then you can think for yourself about what will happen. After that was said, the call was dropped.

I looked at the time on the clock. It was 7:50