Chapter 628: NO.209: You

NO．209：You'll always be tricked by him.

It was afternoon, the blazing sun hung overhead.

Amidst many good-doers heading in groups of three or five toward the training field, someone instead went against the crowd, walking on the shady forest path, hurrying toward the infirmary.

His slightly hunched posture, hand on his stomach, was especially noticeable; even kind-hearted girls asked with concern, and even acquaintances did.

For example, one person, though honest in wearing the uniform, still had several colored star stickers on their face, and their brown hair was streaked with various deep-blue highlights, a horse girl saying: "Eh? Isn't that Teacher Aomo? Why do you look like you've got a bad stomach? That's so lame!"

Teleisen indeed couldn't help but highlight their hair, after all, many horse girls' hair colors are the result of the soul influencing the body.

But dressing this flamboyantly will to some extent attract the attention of the discipline committee.

Despite such a cost, the one pursuing the flashy-girl lifestyle, Da Tuo Taiyang Shen, is not lacking as a strong person in life, causing Aomo to see him fall silent, then give up:

"…That really should serve as a warning."

"Real or fake? Did you really get a bad stomach?" The greatly surprised Da Tuo Lao Shi hurriedly expressed concern for Aomo's condition, saying, "Why don't I help you to the infirmary?"

To be honest, just hearing the other's weak, listless response is quite surprising.

After all, she had once gossiped with others about Teacher Aomo's background, knowing that as a demon–human hybrid, the person's physique might not match a horse girl's, but at least their constitution is stronger than most horse girls.

Being able to get a bad stomach is still quite odd.

But thinking it's Teacher Aomo, it doesn't seem so strange.

After all, he has that Suzi classmate under him.

As she was sizing up Aomo, trying to find his glowing traces, she hadn't found them yet when she heard: "Then it'll be trouble for you."

They actually didn't refuse?

That must really be awful, then?

Da Tuo Taiyang Shen rushed forward to lend a hand, but didn't notice Aomo's gaze glancing at a few girls pulling each other in the distance:

"Hurry up and follow! Li Qi, Lord Bai Xing's divine revelation tells me the sooner we arrive, the more likely we are to find the target!"

"But the voice of the earth tells me the misfortune that should be eliminated is nearby…"

"Are we supposed to go past or stop? Isn't there a consensus?"

"Why not take a vote? Which way does Xiao Bei lean?"

"Uh…"

"It's definitely nearby! The trigrams Dui, Zhen, Gen… Gen, the mountains and forests, it's definitely nearby!"

Several noisy girls walked directly in the woods beside the road, their conversation making Aomo lower his eyes to the somewhat strained sun god: "Are you also here to look for those monster warriors everyone's talking about?"

Yes, it's strained.

Although horse girls can easily exert astonishing force with the weight of an under‑grown male, and Aomo's weight isn't excessive, that slender build that even cafeteria staff might question, even with low body fat, is still not enough to make horse girls feel burdened.

But the difference in physique remains an insurmountable disadvantage.

When a petite horse girl decides to support a tall man, that posture is already destined to be strained.

Even so, Da Tuo Lao Shi still didn't complain, and without Aomo's urging had already stepped forward, seeming even more eager than the 'patient' himself to take him to the infirmary.

"Right! Seeing so many people come, I'm just joining in too~!" she said with a laugh.

Limited by the awkward posture, she couldn't easily lift her head, but her lively voice always made listeners feel she was smiling.

She is indeed an especially optimistic horse girl, always in a good mood.

"But speaking of this, Teacher Aomo, have you seen it?"

"…Me, I've been heading toward the infirmary," he said, raising his hand to point in that direction—the opposite of the training field—while continuing to hold his stomach, forcing out with difficulty, "Are those people looking for that thing? I heard they've been discussing it."

"Pretty much, actually not many have seen it; it's just that someone suddenly shouted about something over there, and it seems a few classmates were genuinely frightened."

"…That really is awful, but a noise that big sounds like some kind of monster—shouldn't it have triggered an alarm?"

"If it really is a monster, you wouldn't be interested?"

"Is that really how you judge?"

"Hehe, I heard from Suzi-chan and the others that Teacher Aomo can act as a monster radar!"

"Although it's not wrong, I still can't feel happy about it."

"Eh? Cheer up! I'm clearly praising you! Come, let's get happy together with my sun god, let's Wei……~"

"…Excuse me, have you heard anything nearby?"

Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted; turning her head, she saw a horse girl with an elaborate hairstyle, two tassels of brown hair hanging down, standing before her.

Likewise wearing the uniform, but Teleisen's uniform has no obvious division by department.

Da Tuo Taiyang Shen looked at this girl, who was even slightly taller than himself, and focused on her hairstyle—hair tied into balls on both sides—and the ear covers, then realized:

"Hmm? I recall you being… that person from the junior high division…"

"Xiao Lin Li Qi," Aomo said softly; he, already slightly lowered his head, could just meet her scarlet eyes.

I don't even know how many times I've seen her; for such a conspicuous presence, I'd usually notice her around campus, but face‑to‑face encounters have only happened twice before, the previous time being in the junior high school teaching building.

That night's corridor was both a fruitless misunderstanding and the beginning of the children's nightmares.

It's also been almost three months.

"Oh right, that's the guy who goes around promoting feng shui! And you, Teacher Aomo, know it too! You can shout out anyone's name—it's practically like the Director of Education!"

"…I'll just take it as you praising me."

"That's definitely praise!"

"That…"

"Classmate Xiao Lin, is there anything we can talk about later? Right now we need to hurry and send this trainee to the infirmary!"

Da Tuo Taiyang Shen, whose smile never faded, looked at this junior high division junior, inwardly complaining about how well the recent juniors have developed, while also trying to project the aura of a senior.

"Xiao Lin Li Qi… seems like a troublesome junior high division junior, huh?"

The one who knows a bit of feng shui, going around promoting and popularizing it?

Gossip and such, even Da Tuo Taiyang Shen also knows!

Although what they know is gossip between people, but the information given is often much more intuitive than a combination of eight symbols.

"Ah… sorry!"

A single sentence made that middle‑school horse girl realize the seriousness of the problem; the other party could only apologize, and from this reaction one could tell the other party was a good child—the Great Expansion Sun God—and thus he slightly altered his original subtle impression.

"It's fine, I and Teacher Aomo have good tempers, so we're leaving!"

Just as Aomo expected, relying solely on Da Tuo Taiyang Shen can dispel such trouble.

And he only needed to similarly force a strained smile at that child, then, supported, walk forward, stepping out of the boundary of those busybodies.

Leaving the child standing there, gazing at the two's backs, he turned his head in a blink of confusion.

"The voice cut off again… did you also get the wrong feeling?"

She still harbored some doubt, her gaze closely following the two as they departed, and her ears could even hear their words:

"To be honest, that kid is pretty straightforward! I thought I had to show seniority's authority!"

"... Do you have that kind of thing?"

"Definitely there will be! By the way, speaking of this, I have a friend who, in order to project seniority in front of juniors, even planned to glue on a friend's eyelash glue after the heel fell off~! I was dying laughing back then!"

"... Really tough, huh? Do you think that mascara is like yours?"

"That gives it a bit of a remake vibe, alright!"

"... Oh, that's really impressive."

"Hmph~! By the way, does your stomach still hurt? What on earth did you eat at noon?"

"Something hard to digest, right? You should take it as a warning and watch your diet."

"Hahaha~ I'm definitely not as stupid as you!"

Indeed, he must have mistaken it… Since childhood he has studied feng shui, and consequently also learned dao arts, especially focusing on observing qi, Xiao Lin Li Qi thought.

He actually felt that an ominous aura lingered on that person……

Those earlier faint signs now look like hallucinations no matter how you look at them.

He himself really is still unskilled in his craft.