Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?-Chapter 454 -

Chapter 454: Tan Han is Being Coveted by Thieves

“Relax. Think clearly about what you want to do, and then do it. Just like I said earlier, I’m trying not to be a student. I am not joking.”

“…Teaching Assistant. You are going to become a Teaching Assistant, aren’t you?”

Tan Han was shocked, looking at me as she cleaned up the mess on the table.

Combining my previous statement with the academy system announcement she had previously ignored, Little Han wouldn't just drop out, would she?

Thus, Tan Han reached this bold conclusion.

“So you are quite smart, aren’t you? You guessed it. Although I haven’t been a student for a full year, becoming a Teaching Assistant might seem absurd in others’ eyes, but at least I dare to do it and possess that confidence.”

Perhaps because of the Soundproof Spell, what I was previously hesitant to say could now be spoken.

Perhaps, as Big Sis Bai said, my desire to confide in others is too high… However, Tan Han is not a complete stranger to me; she is also a pitiful person.

“Of course, I am not encouraging you to become a Teaching Assistant as well. That is not suitable for you now. I am doing this for my own reasons.”

“I know. I certainly won’t blindly follow your footsteps anymore, because every time I fell behind you and tried to catch up, it was the beginning of my failure.”

Many things flashed through Tan Han's mind.

The moment she truly realized this was back at the Fool's Village Secret Realm, where she understood what it meant to overestimate one's own abilities and what blind conformity was.

“Thank you for understanding. Hmm… I feel our topic has become heavy again. Let’s change the subject. You initiate it? I am not a person who is very good at chatting, even though I am trying to change, this is not something that happens overnight.”

“Alright then… I can see that. To be honest, I feel immense pressure every time I talk to you too.”

At this moment, Tan Han gathered her emotions.

It was as if the incident of crushing the cup had never happened.

The debris was already cleaned up, as it was only a matter of one spell.

“If you are giving me the initiative for the topic, then I want to ask if you know how the Script will unfold next? After all, during that bet, you said you would tell me if I won.”

“But you didn't win, did you? So I can’t tell you,” I said with a smile, facing Tan Han's slightly helpless expression.

“As for the Script’s progression, I truly don’t know what will happen next. I was also a puppet at the mercy of others in the past.”

Although it seems I still am now, I internally joked.

“Then… what about now?”

“I have a little bit of freedom, I guess. If you insist on asking, I can only say that the Main World might experience an event with a very wide range of impact in the near future. As for whether it is one of the nodes in the Script, I don't know.”

“You do know something, don't you?”

“Mhm, but I don't know much either. Things are vague, and I’m too lazy to care about them, because I know that many things will cause less trouble and self-internal consumption if I let them take their natural course. What do you think?”

“Mhm, I just think it’s best to be prepared for some things before they happen…”

“So you are still being affected by the Script, aren’t you? Before you knew the concept of the Script, you wouldn’t have worried about this issue.”

“That seems to be the case… Sigh, then I have one last question. I'll leave after I ask it.”

“Is that so? It is getting late. What else do you want to ask?”

I glanced at the sky outside the window and asked curiously.

“I want to know how you view me.”

“How I view you?”

“Yes, how do you view me? From when we first met until now…”

“Ah, so that’s how you mean it… Alright then. Since this is your last question, I'll tell you.”

I said with a smile.

“Actually, regarding how I view you, I’ll start from the very beginning, even before I met you. At that time, you were shining brightly, with a full score on the college entrance exam, and I was just an ordinary person, an inferiority-ridden, introverted, and sensitive one. So, I thought we were destined never to cross paths.”

“Later, I accidentally entered the Witch Academy, and you were brought into the Witch Academy by Store Manager Xia Li. At that time, I was still worrying about money, working part-time at the Store Manager’s place. It was precisely because of this that we had our first meeting and interaction.”

“To ask how I view you is basically divided into three phases. The first phase was seeing you as a favored child of heaven, a protagonist-like figure from a novel. At that time, you invited me to help you with Meditation and gave me tens of thousands right off the bat. That was the wealthiest I had ever been in my life up to that point. You were very generous. You were a member of the Bakery Club, and so was I, but our treatment was different. That was the huge gap between us.”

“The second phase was when I began to examine and recognize myself, slowly accumulating my own power using my advantages. By that time, you were already a sensational figure in the academy.”

“I began to realize that we were walking on two different paths, but I no longer felt you were so out of reach. Even after I lost the first match of the Newcomer Competition, I still felt that way. I began to realize that you were nothing more than a student—an outstanding student, nothing more.”

“It was also around that time that we, who should have had no intersection, officially collided. Later, I learned that this was highly likely due to the Script. Even now, our conversations still don't flow well; there is a strong sense of dissonance in our interactions.”

“It was probably around that time that I learned the concept of the Script. My reason for keeping my distance from you was largely because of that.”

“At that time, I didn't want to become cannon fodder, dying meaninglessly in the vortex of the Script. You know, right? The people affected by the Script felt it was just small trouble in the Witch Academy, but the real terror was in Ninglan New City. The ordinary people in the Underground City didn't even know why they were dying. So at that time, I kept my distance from you.”

“But the Script didn't seem to think so. Instead, the Script suffered setback after setback because of me. Since I defeated you at the end of the Dream State Exchange Competition, I understood you were not invincible. From then on, the so-called Script was no longer a threat to me. It was from that moment that I stepped out of the shadow of your Child of Destiny status and found the path I wanted for myself. Our subsequent interactions, you might interpret as the struggle of the Script. When viewing the problem from a macro perspective, many illogical minor issues seem to have an answer.”

“The situation developed complicatedly, and now, we are chatting face-to-face. You ask for my opinion of you. My current answer is: I am trying to view this relationship with a broad, accepting attitude. I still feel we should have had no intersection, but once I no longer viewed the so-called Script with hostility, the Script is nothing more than a tool that facilitates my interaction with others. For a person like me who has no friends, I should feel happy about this.”

“Then you mean I am now considered your friend?”

Tan Han asked.

“Mhm… barely a friend I can talk to, but the topics we discuss are far from the casual ease of friends. Perhaps that is the sense of dissonance in our interactions.”

“Perhaps because of this, every time I look for you, I ask questions unrelated to friendship, so you are resistant to defining me as your friend?”

Tan Han asked with a wry smile.

“Mhm, part of the problem is mine. I don’t have many friends, but I subconsciously feel that a friendship shouldn't be like this.”

“Thank you, I think I understand.”

“It’s good that you understand, even though I'm not entirely sure what you understood.”

“Do you want to know?”

“Mhm… no. Anyway, safe travels.”

“Alright.”

Tan Han said no more, stood up, and prepared to leave.

As she stepped out of the area enveloped by my Soundproof Spell, the external noise immediately flooded her ears, causing her a moment of lost focus.

She said no more and walked directly to the young woman who hadn't listened to her and led her away.

I watched Tan Han lead the young woman away and sighed.

The spectacle was gone.

I thought that after Tan Han left, that young woman would come over and challenge me or something.

I picked up my cup, tilted my head back, and finished the last drops of the Fool's Dream Drink.

The unique fruit fragrance and the subtle, wonderful feeling it brought captivated me, as if I were in an orchard, able to reach out and pick a fruit.

“Mhm Hmm?”

Putting down the cup, I looked at the person who was now sitting across from me, in the spot where Tan Han had just left.

I looked at the empty bottom of the cup and wondered if the Fool's Dream Drink was strong enough to make me drunk.

But then I remembered this was the Witch Cat Cafe, where being approached was a common occurrence, so I wasn't surprised.

“Sorry, I am not a Hostess Cat Girl, and I don't accept unsolicited advances,” I said, waving my hand politely.

After all, to become a Hostess Cat Girl, one needed to get a stamp from that Alchemical Item, and have certain Cat Girl characteristics on their body.

“Yang Yuehan, that is your name, isn’t it? I am not here to play some Cat Girl role-playing game with you.”

“Hmm?”

I stared at her, then quickly realized who she was.

A smile appeared on my lips.

Tan Han left and took one spectacle away, but another one came.

If I had thought it was an isolated case before, now it seemed that Tan Han's supporters each had a lot of their own ideas, didn't they?

“Is that so? Then I apologize. May I ask what you are looking for me about?”

My smile did not change, as if I hadn't realized this person had come to cause trouble.

“I want to ask you, do you feel so at ease taking all of Big Sis Tan Han's Spellbooks? Do you know that Big Sis Tan Han fought to gain those Spellbooks one by one!”

“And then?”

“A-and then?”

Seeing my calm demeanor, she became even more furious internally.

It was like punching a wad of cotton; the other party was merely watching her spectacle.

“Yang Yuehan! Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're the newcomer top student! The Witch Academy isn't run by your family!”

“And then?”

“You! Are you deliberately trying to annoy me? Do you know what you are doing? By stealing those Spellbooks, you are trying to destroy Big Sis Tan Han!”

“Mhm, if that's all it takes to destroy Tan Han, why are you all still following her? Am I wrong? And then?”

“You!”

She was so blocked by my repeated "and thens" that she could only sputter the word "you."

Her emotions had clearly boiled over.

“State your intentions. You're just venting emotions here, not getting to the point, and your voice is so loud. The Witch Cat Cafe isn't run by your family.”

The young woman, chastised by my words, seemed to finally realize her behavior, subconsciously looking around, as if surprised that no one else had reacted to her loudness.

“Soundproof Spell. A minor trick, that's all. Here, you can freely vent your emotions and opinions to me. Let me see just how poor the quality of Tan Han’s supporters truly is. Why did you stop? And then?”

I smiled at the young woman.

At this moment, she was completely bewildered by her emotional outburst resulting in zero damage, and she was left embarrassed.

At this moment, another person walked over and sat down next to the embarrassed young woman.

The embarrassed young woman seemed to have found an out and immediately turned away from me in anger.

“Oh? A group effort now?”

I smiled at the new young woman and said.

“I apologize, my friend here caused you some unpleasantness. Let me introduce myself first. I am Xia Ji.”

“Hello, my name is Yang Yuehan.”

I introduced myself in turn, although I knew they were already very familiar with me.

“I know you are Yang Yuehan. We are here to negotiate with you.”

“Negotiate? Negotiate what? What are your chips? You didn't just impulsively come over here and say you're here to negotiate, did you? Without chips, you risk being totally wiped out, you know?”

“This is the Witch Academy! What are you trying to do!”

The young woman I had annoyed threatened directly.

“I naturally know this is the Witch Academy, so I am talking to you very politely, aren’t I? I assume your chips are not the Witch Academy, are they? So, what do you want to negotiate?”

“Negotiate what? Of course, the Spellbooks that originally belonged to Big Sis Tan Han!”

“Oh? The Spellbooks that originally belonged to Tan Han?”

I chuckled softly.

“With all due respect, if you bring those Spellbooks back to Tan Han, she won't accept them.”

“Even if Big Sis Tan Han doesn't want them, we can… Muffled sound!”

“Shut up!”

The later arrival immediately covered her partner's mouth, stopping her from saying more.

She then threatened her quietly before letting go. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

“You don't need to concern yourself with this, Classmate Yang Yuehan.”

“Oh… so that's what's going on…”

I looked at the two of them.

The more I looked, the more I felt they were a spectacle perfectly suited to my taste.

They truly had audacity… In that case, I wouldn't mind using Tan Han's own property to teach her a lesson.

How would she react to this?

I took out the Storage Card, placed it flat on the table, and then pushed it to the center of the table, a look of playful mockery on my face.

“I dare to put it here. So… do you dare to take it?”

I deliberately lowered my voice and scrutinized them with my gaze.

“You! Don't go back on your word!”

Their hands moved faster than their words.

Both hands slapped the Storage Card that Tan Han had given me not long ago.

They dragged the card toward themselves, as if surprised that they had acquired the item so quickly.

At this moment, I smiled contentedly.

No… I smiled with a sense of relief!

I leaned back, resting against the soft back of the chair.

The soft back fit the curve of my spine, feeling comfortable and satisfied.

These are thieves… Who was Tan Han nurturing?

These were thieves who would even covet Tan Han's own property!

They were only restrained by Tan Han's strength, but the moment she separated herself from the Spellbooks, they dared to covet them.

Fortunately, I tossed the item away quickly.

Otherwise… if I were coveted by these people, how could I have ever found peace?

But I also found it amusing.

This scene must be recorded with the Tree of Knowledge.

I would find a chance to show it to Tan Han later.

Her expression should be quite interesting, right?

Both Tan Han and I didn't want these Spellbooks, but these people were eager to take them.

At this moment, when they also realized their unbecoming behavior, they immediately tried to compose themselves and explain, only to find that the person they were talking to was gone.

It was as if I had vanished into thin air, leaving them sitting there in a daze.