"Your courage is quite something," Mu Anxiao said, stepping forward and squatting beside the child's soul. "I didn't expect soul spirits to look so different."
"That's for sure," the fat, big-headed demon said.
Mu Anxiao glared at the fat, big-headed demon who interrupted and was about to cast a spell to awaken the child's soul when the demon hastily said, "Can't you wake him after we leave?"
"Are you going to leave him lying here?" Mu Anxiao pointed at the child's soul.
The fat, big-headed demon gave an awkward smile. "Then can you erase his memories?"
Mu Anxiao let out a soft hum. "You really only come to me with purposes."
"I'll give you money."
"Do you have money?" Mu Anxiao asked, showing disbelief.
The fat, big-headed demon hesitated and then said, "I have silver from your place, a thousand taels."
"A thousand taels?" Mu Anxiao's eyes lit up.
"Yes, as long as you help me, I'll give it to you," the fat, big-headed demon said earnestly.
"That's not right," Mu Anxiao stood up and narrowed her eyes. "How do you know I'm not an immortal from here?"
"We've been following you recently, and we just heard your conversation with that Feng Qishi, so we know," the small demon said meekly.
"Then what about your thousand taels of silver?" Mu Anxiao asked, keeping a reserve.
"Is a bank note okay?" the fat, big-headed demon said, taking out a bank note from his pocket and handing it to Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao took the bank note, looked at it, and was surprised. "How did you preserve it so that it's not damaged at all?"
"Our master had a habit of collecting past treasures. She gave them to us before she left, and of course, we wouldn't dare damage them," the fat, big-headed demon said in a low voice. "But in order to find her, we had to bear this loss."
"I'll help you," Mu Anxiao said, folding the bank note and putting it in her pocket.
"You just took it?" the fat, big-headed demon exclaimed in surprise.
Mu Anxiao patted her pocket and said, "What else? What if you go back on your word if I don't take it?"
"You are certainly careful," the fat, big-headed demon said helplessly.
"Alright, you two wait for my news this afternoon. Also," Mu Anxiao surveyed the playground, "tell me the characteristics of your master in her next life."
"We don't know," the small demon said.
Mu Anxiao turned to the small demon and nodded. "Alright," she turned back to face forward. "From your brief descriptions, I can tell that your master in her next life must be a sickly person, male, and not very old, so it can be said that he is a student."
"We know that," the small demon muttered softly.
The fat, big-headed demon pulled the small demon's arm and said, "Don't disturb the great immortal's thinking."
"Oh," the small demon nodded with a wronged look.
Mu Anxiao ignored the two demons behind her, muttering "sickly person" three times under her breath. Then, her eyes widened, and she quickly turned around, saying, "I think I know who it is."
"Who?" the fat, big-headed demon asked excitedly.
"This..." Mu Anxiao hesitated, rubbing the tip of her nose. "I can't be sure yet. I'll tell you when I confirm it."
"How long will it take to confirm?"
"Two and a half days," Mu Anxiao said, turning and walking towards the teaching building.
The fat, big-headed demon breathed a sigh of relief.
The small demon asked, "Brother, shall we go in with her?"
"No, we'll wait outside," the fat, big-headed demon said, having complete faith in Mu Anxiao.
The small demon nodded without making any comment.
The fat, big-headed demon looked down at the child's soul and said, "It seems our matter is more important." With that, he put the soul spirit back into the cloth bag.
Back at the classroom door, just as Mu Anxiao was about to step into the classroom, the second and third girls blocked her path.
"The teacher said you're not allowed in," the second girl said arrogantly.
The third girl crossed her arms and scanned Mu Anxiao. "You're not allowed in."
"Why can't I enter?" Mu Anxiao asked coldly.
"The teacher said you are a liar and will affect our studies. There are some things we're not comfortable saying to you directly, so we're conveying them to you: you are not allowed in class," the second girl said.
Mu Anxiao looked at the second girl's determined expression of bullying her, and then thought of their female homeroom teacher's hypocritical face. She took a step back. "Alright, I won't go in, but may I ask how I became a liar?"
"You are a liar. If you weren't a liar, how could you have gotten into our school, how could you have fooled Teacher Chen."
"Teacher Chen is my relative, that's what he said, you..."
"Teacher Chen just left on a business trip. There's no one here now to prove that you're Teacher Chen's relative," the second girl interrupted.
Mu Anxiao never expected that Uncle Chen, with whom she had lunch, would suddenly leave. To confirm, she turned around without a word and walked towards the stairs.
The second girl peered at Mu Anxiao's retreating back and sneered, "Let's see what she can do."
"Yes, our homeroom teacher is quite formidable. With just a word, she assigned Teacher Chen a business trip," the third girl said.
"Our teacher has her own ways of being formidable, but," the second girl smiled, "it's also thanks to your mouth. If it wasn't about studies, the teacher probably wouldn't have cared."
"Thank you for the compliment," the third girl smiled, patted the second girl on the shoulder, and walked inside.
The second girl smirked, having succeeded.
The wolf demon sat at the desk and let out a soft hum, thinking, "Just as you said, your homeroom teacher is an old hag who deals with anyone who affects her students' studies."
"She just dislikes me for not attending class, which affects her class's grades, so she doesn't say anything when I'm bullied," Hu Yuan said in a low voice.
"She just wants to get rid of you this way, but speaking of which," the wolf demon placed a hand on his chest, "she's not afraid you'll tell your parents. My mother is so gentle. Ever since I started school, she's always been respectful when talking to teachers. Even when I could hear the teacher's sarcastic remarks, she couldn't detect them," Hu Yuan said, letting out a cold laugh. "Heh, why am I telling you this."
"I asked you. Now I know," the wolf demon thought, looking up at the second girl who walked up to his desk and asking, "What are you doing?"
"The one who shielded you is gone, now it's your turn," the second girl said arrogantly.
The wolf demon glared at the second girl and said, "A true man doesn't fight with a woman. Hurry and leave." As he spoke, he opened his textbook.
The second girl's eyes widened, and she reached out and slammed the textbook forcefully. "I just won't let you read. What are you going to do about it."
"That's enough," the wolf demon growled.