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[Residence of Monsters V2] Epilogue – Please Adopt Instead Of Purchasing, Castrate Instead Of Directly Killing. That Includes Roommates
The next day, Feng Ping Lan and the others were brought to the staff room where they were ruthlessly chewed out for quite some time.
“Your mess has been reported to the Director – a decision will be made in a week’s time. You’ll return to wait until we notify you.” Yin Su Shuang announced chillingly, then swept a gaze towards Kaido, “You, stay behind.”
The others left the staff room to continue the dull morning lessons in their classroom.
Just like that, the curtains closed on the incident of the brawl and Jiu Shao. The endless twists and turns that had occurred during this week, ended.
*
Monday.
The instant Feng Ping Lan arrived at the school, he realized that Bai Li Rui was humming a little song, looking incredibly pleased.
“Did something good happen to you, Li Rui?”
“I’m celebrating on behalf of my wonderful, wonderful dormitory life.” Bai Li Rui happily said, “That annoying bastard Kaido got kicked out!”
“What?” Feng Ping Lan froze, “When did this happen?”
“The notice was sent on Friday, and he collected his things and left on that very day.”
“Where is he staying right now, then?”
“Who knows.” He certainly did not care.
Moreover, it was just as well that he was gone. This way, he could secretly look after that little beauty he had picked up with no worries…
“Is that so…” Feng Ping Lan said quietly, entering a deep silence.
*
At nightfall.
On the bench of the public park sat a figure covered head to toe with gauze. Bags of luggage and junk were placed on the bench, where a beautiful woman silently stood watch over them.
Kaido ate his bread, gazing coldly at the people passing through the park.
“Why did you come here?” A familiar voice rang out, “There are a lot of mosquitoes at night, you know. And many couples who don’t hold back from the PDA.”
Kaido turned his head. Feng Ping Lan’s stupid smiling face entered his vision.
“Are you here to laugh at me?” Kaido humphed coldly.
“Yup. Just thinking of you sleeping under that elephant slide really makes me want to laugh.” Feng Ping Lan chuckled, “Don’t you have anywhere to go?”
He had asked for Kaido’s location from Dongya, and the sight of Kaido’s sorry figure was the first thing that had greeted him once he arrived.
“The recent events have made Master cut off his economic support. Basic food allowance is only given every month, so he does not have a temporary residence at the moment.” Tan Hua explained.
“Don’t shoot your mouth off!”
“I see…” Feng Ping Lan nodded, then smiled to suggest, “Then, why don’t you come and live with us? There’re still a lot of rooms left at our place.”
Kaidoo knitted his eyebrows, “Are you an idiot?” He pointed at the sandbox in the distance, “That day at that sandbox, I was really intending to kill you. Or did you forget?”
“Oh, but that didn’t happen…”
Kaido glared at Feng Ping Lan, “…Your naivety will really kill you one day.”
“We’ll see when that happens.” Feng Ping Lan smiled, “Besides, you won’t stay there for free, you know. You’ll have to help take out the trash too. Morris burned all the trash before this, but the residents below the mountain reported us, so we got issued an infringement notice in the end, hahahahaha.”
“Shut up! Don’t laugh anymore!” Feng Ping Lan’s laughter was grating his ears.
“So, what do you think? Are you really planning on sleeping under the elephant slide for three whole years?”
“Young Master…” Tan Hua looked at Kaido expectantly.
Kaido looked at Tan Hua, then looked at the stupidly smiling Feng Ping Lan.
After thinking about it for a while, he sighed heavily.
“Kaido?”
Kaido grabbed his luggage, looking unyieldingly at Feng Ping Lan. He stated coldly, “If you have the guts to lure the wolf in, you better not regret it.”
*
Zephaniah Academy, male dormitories.
Bai Li Rui rushed back to the dorm the moment classes ended, impatient to tend to the one he had picked up previously. He had discovered the little beauty by the swimming pool the day before at dusk.
On that day, he had departed for the swimming pool, as usual, to attempt striking up a conversation with the members of the swimming club, as well as appreciate the beautiful swimming wear-clad girls to conserve his eyes and spirit, and then hurriedly leave as usual.
Just as he was about to take the shortcut back to the dorms, he overheard a voice that was muttering to itself.
“Troublesome…”
“I sacrificed eight clones and kept the ninth as a safe fail, but it was still useless in the end…”
Bai Li Rui looked everywhere, but couldn’t see anyone.
A ghost?
He was about to turn and run, but then he realized that the muttering had turned into sobs.
“Sob sob sob…”
“The Third Prince removed the contract, he doesn’t want me anymore…”
“I’m going to die…”
Bai Li Rui’s footsteps halted.
The voice sounded a little like a female’s. Ignoring a girl’s cries wasn’t something a gentleman should do.
Even if it was a female ghost…
Bai Li Rui traced the voice to a murky corner.
He saw a purple-haired figure squatting in the washing trough. That person was hugging their knees, face filled with tears.
He could not tell their gender between male or female, but, this person was very beautiful.
Jiu Shao lifted his head, looking at Bai Li Rui in astonishment.
“You can see me?” His expression became even more dispirited. “I’m done for… I can’t even do a spell to conceal myself. Looks like it’s hopeless now…”
“Are you hurt?” Bai Li Rui looked at that person’s tattered state, “Do you need me to call an ambulance for you?”
“Do I look like a human to you?” Jiu Shao snapped with a tear-filled voice.
“To tell you the truth, I’m only paying attention to your face and your body.” Bai Li Rui stroked his chin, scrutinizing carefully.
“What a rude person…” Jiu Shao said moodily, “Shoo shoo, don’t linger around here.”
That was when Bai Li Rui realized, that this person’s lower half had become translucent, and was getting lighter as time passed.
“Are you dying?”
“That’s right!”
“Go away, don’t look!”
“Just let me disappear quietly…”
Bai Li Rui looked at Jiu Shao’s remorseful state, “Um, how do I save you?”
Jiu Shao continued to mutter to himself without even lifting his head.
“He’s just a normal human. What does he think he is, to delude himself into saving a demon…”
“But only a human would give goodwill to irrelevant outsiders…”
“The Third Prince removed the contract between us so I can’t go back, so I can only wait for my death in the human world, wait until the atmosphere swallows me up…”
“If only a Summoner was willing to make a contract with me…”
“Just like that kind-hearted boy yesterday night…”
Bai Li Rui grabbed his head, “Um, whatever this contract is, can I do it?”
Jiu Shao froze for a second, turning his head to gaze at Bai Li Rui.
“Well, he can…”
“But, making a contract with an unidentified normal human?”
“Whatever, I have no choice anyway.”
Jiu Shao gave a long sigh, jumping down the washing trough.
“How do I do it?”
“The contract will let both our souls be connected to each other. It’ll let me be spared from getting swallowed up by this world. You are a natural inhabitant of this world, and I’m a guest; so you can give out a condition in the contract, and I will adhere to your wish. I can help you gain wealth and fame, protect you, as well as destroy your enemies.”
Bai Li Rui grabbed his head, “I’m not interested in those things.”
The one he was most interested in at this moment, was this beauty before his eyes, “After making a contract with you, will you leave?”
“If it’s what you wish, I can stay by your side, until the time you don’t need me anymore.”
“No problem!” Bai Li Rui agreed readily. “Let’s start!”
Jiu Shao hesitated for a moment, before starting to recite the incantation for the contract. Bai Li Rui repeated after him.
“What happens after that?”
“Touch me, and the contract will be complete.”
“I can touch anywhere?”
Jiu Shao frowned. “Yes…”
Bai LI Rui extended his hand to raise Jiu Shao’s chin. He came over, then placed a light kiss on him, then raising his lips into what he considered a bewitching smile.
“To be able to make a contract with such a beautiful woman as you, it is my honor.”
Jiu Shao’s face sunk, very disapproving of Bai Li Rui’s actions, “I’m a man…”
Bai Li Rui was shocked, “What?!”
His first kiss had been given to a man?!
This was a serious taint on his saintly way of life!
But…
His gaze swept across Jiu Shao. Those lucid and elegant features really could not be differentiated between male or female.
…Whatever, it didn’t matter if it was a male or female. Since he had already helped him, he would help him till the end.
“Just like that?”
“Yes…”
Jiu Shao released a sigh of relief, sitting beside the washing trough. “I’ve been injured heavily… I can’t keep up with this profile for long…” He panted, and his body shrunk to be about the size of a palm.
“I need to rest…”
“My level of dependence on this world right now is incredibly low… It’s as if I don’t exist at all… Even the lowest levels of demons can defeat me…”
“Although it’s very embarrassing for a human to protect me, please shield me, and also not tell anyone about me…”
“I want to sleep…”
“I want to eat peaches…”
Jiu Shao curled up by the washing trough, muttering while he slept.
Bai Li Rui cupped the little person up, looking over him doubtfully.
How could he fall asleep just like this…
Could this possibly be a toy? A new method of pranking someone? Had it run out of battery?
Bai Li Rui checked the front and back, at last making sure that the one he held in his hands was a live specimen.
He rolled Jiu Shao in his coat, then placed him carefully in his bag.
He seemed to have discovered something extreme. What to do now?
Bai Li Rui considered it for a moment.
…He’d go purchase some peaches first.