High School of Demon Hunting

The black gemstone cat strolled leisurely down the street.

Dodging the feet of pedestrians.

It wasn’t until noon that it reached No. 54 West District of Beta Town, its destination, the Qingqiu mansion.

Earlier this morning, Zheng Qing had arranged for it to apologize to the big blue fox, and to inquire if there were areas where the security of the three great elves needed assistance. However, Zheng Qing overlooked that the black gemstone cat was not a puppet without its own mind; it was a qualified avatar, naturally possessing the emotions and little thoughts of the original body—such as the apprehension toward Su Daxi, the cunning derived from being a scoundrel, and the ’flexibility’ in executing certain tasks.

The original body only required an apology.

It didn’t specify whether it should be a face-to-face verbal apology or a written one.

After a brief weighing of options, the black gemstone cat chose the latter—though it was Saturday, it was seventy to eighty percent sure Su Shijun would still go to the laboratory, so it ventured directly to the Qingqiu mansion, planning to drop off an apology letter and leave.

The wooden fence was neat and clean, gleaming with a brass-like gloss in the sunlight, with climbing vines and morning glories intertwined and clinging to it, finally gathered around the plaque under the doorway, lush and green.

From across the gate, it easily saw the troublesome little fox maid, lying on a skewed bamboo chair, a sprite holding a glass of juice on her left, another fanning on her right, with a fluffy big tail dangling leisurely, swaying with the chair’s motion.

The black gemstone cat let out a heavy sigh of relief, knowing that its adventure was already half successful. Judging by the little fox maid’s appearance, the owner of the Qingqiu mansion and the stern head maid were definitely not home today.

"Open the door!"

It crossed the creek and shouted.

The little fox maid behind the door lifted a slit of her eyelid, glanced at the small black cat the size of a fist outside the fence gap, and snorted subtly through her nose, making no other movement.

However, the sprites serving her seemed to recognize the familiar scent from the black gemstone cat, calling ’Hehe’ as they fluttered over, hovering in front of it, blinking their large curious eyes incessantly.

The black gemstone cat raised a paw, nudging aside the sprite hindering its view.

"Hurry and open the door!"

It intensified its tone, but the morning glory flowers on the fence seemed alive, aiming one by one at it, and its rather sharp voice didn’t spread far before being completely swallowed by the flowers.

Su Ya finally sat up.

"Who’s calling at the door?" she asked, knowingly.

The black gemstone cat flicked its ears.

"It’s me!" After a moment of silence, it added, "...Didn’t your young lady let me in last time? I have serious business!"

"Everyone who comes to my house says they have serious business—" Su Ya grumbled and hedged, then suddenly remembered something, nimbly jumped off the bamboo chair, and darted quickly into the mansion with her short little legs.

The fluffy big tail floated behind her, like a blue swimming fish chasing prey.

"What are you doing? Open the door first! Hey!"

The black gemstone cat was hopping mad, wanting to leave yet hesitating—compared to facing Su Daxi directly, it felt that deceiving Su Ya was less risky.

Fortunately, the little fox maid came back quickly, clattering.

She held a blueflower letter paper in her hand.

Across the fence.

She waved the written letter in front of the black gemstone cat, smiling somewhat wickedly: "—See? I wrote a letter to the young lady! If you want to come in, wait for her to return to let you in!"

The black gemstone cat squinted.

The letter on the blueflower paper was very short, with only one line—’Miss! Zheng Zha’s cat avatar (suspected) came to the mansion again, I didn’t let him in! ^・ェ・^!’

She traced the word ’suspected’ particularly thick and dark.

From a security perspective, the little fox maid’s choice was very prudent. But the problem was, the black gemstone cat just didn’t want to face Councillor Su directly, hence the plan to leave an apology letter when no one was home and run off.

Unexpectedly, the house-guarding little maid was utterly unyielding!

Directly stuffing the apology letter into the fence, it worried the little fox maid might sabotage—an apology by letter was already lacking sincerity, if Su Ya doused his letter in water or crumpled it, then when Su Shijun received it, he’d likely turn to stone again.

After hesitating for a moment, the black gemstone cat finally turned around in some annoyance and walked straight back the way it came: "...Who has time to wait around here! Don’t be smug, wait till I see your young lady, you’ll get what’s coming to you!"

It decided to opt for the next best course.

Either way, it needed to apologize in person.

Rather than meeting Su Daxi herself, it might as well go to Old Yao’s office and see the big blue fox.

"Leaving already?"

Su Ya looked bewildered, glanced up at the paper crane she had just released, and instinctively leapt up, trying to catch it back: "...Hey! What about my letter if you’re leaving!"

The black gemstone cat didn’t hear the little fox maid’s complaint.

Or rather, even if it heard, it didn’t care.

Meanwhile, the paper crane folded from the blueflower paper, oblivious to the little fox maid jumping around, flapped its wings, circled the doorway a few times, and then leisurely floated toward the direction of Jiuyou Academy.

...

...

Jiang Yu received the little fox maid’s paper crane during the break—during class, the entire classroom was enveloped in an invisible aura, rarely allowing paper cranes to penetrate this barrier.

She opened the letter, seeing the brief message, and pursed her lips.

During lunch, she carried her tray directly opposite Zheng Qing, as the White Jade Cat hung its tail, leisurely strolling down from her shoulder along her arm.

"Where’s the black gemstone cat?"

While unwrapping the bread from the tray, she asked the warlock nonchalantly: "—Yesterday you said you’d have it apologize to the White Jade Cat. I thought about it, and it seems more sincere to let it do it itself."

Zheng Qing’s mouth was stuffed with food.

Upon hearing her, he hurriedly gulped several mouthfuls of egg flower soup, choking until his face turned white, and then pounded his chest simply to explain: "I sent it to Old Yao’s office... Why bother it with apologies? Surely, it’s more sincere if I apologize!"

With that, he placed his hands overlapped on his forehead, solemnly bowed his head toward the White Jade Cat—

"I’m sorry! It was my avatar that was rude yesterday! I truly apologize!"

The White Jade Cat lazily licked its paws, not looking up. Unlike the successfully transformed black gemstone cat, during the daytime, it was merely a simple cat transformed from jade, without autonomous consciousness.

Zheng Qing knew this as well.

Therefore, his apology was essentially directed at the witch across the table.

Jiang Yu tore off a small piece of bread, chewing slowly: "—Are you sure the black gemstone cat went to Old Yao’s office? Is Old Yao in his office today?"

Zheng Qing showed a hint of hesitation.

"Probably...I’m not sure."

He shook his head and answered honestly: "That cat is quite headstrong, if it doesn’t find Old Yao in the office, it’ll look elsewhere... Did you see it?"

He was a bit curious why the witch began discussing the cat as soon as she sat down.