Chapter 21
Chapter 21: It really wasn’t me
“I, I didn’t! It was Bryan!” Fitch was aghast and loudly protested his innocence.
Pa pa!
Another two slaps, Fitch’s cheeks were now puffed up. Fanny stared at Fitch in a towering rage as she bit off her words, “How dare you make excuses. Bryan is such an honest person, how could he have committed such a foul act? It must’ve been you.”
Bryan was at a loss for words as he gloated inwardly. He hastily painted a picture of honest, dumb innocence on his face as he looked at Fitch and Fanny. He smiled dully, “What’s wrong?”
“Master Fanny, it really wasn’t me!” Fitch was suddenly the most wronged man in the world as he clutched his cheeks and protested loudly.
“Stop lying. Get out. Now!” Fanny wore an expression of exasperation that iron wouldn’t improve and become steel (Chinese expression of wishing someone would improve) and replied heatedly.
Fitch’s face was sore and saw that Fanny was ready to erupt with rage at any moment. He knew that any explanation would be of no use, and was deathly afraid that Fanny would strike out again if he sent her up a wall. He smiled bitterly and nodded, heading outside the training fields with a face full of dejection.
When he passed by Bryan, Fitch paused and glared at Han Shuo viciously for a few moments, gritting his teeth and saying softly, “Bastard.”
Han Shuo pretended complete innocence of Fitch’s hate and even smiled honestly at him in a friendly, kind gesture. “Eh? How come you suddenly got fat?”
“Carey and Borg are cleaning the training field for you. …how is that possible? Eh, is it because they’re scared of you after the beating in the training field yesterday?” Little fatty Jack had an expression of astonishment, but then remembered Han Shuo’s performance yesterday and looked at him with a bit of fear. “Oh right Bryan, what happened to you yesterday? You seemed like a different person. Even though we’re really close, even I was really afraid of you yesterday!”
Han Shuo laughed lightly as he put one hand on Jack’s shoulder. “That depends on who. If someone is making life difficult for me, I won’t let him have an easy one either. Heh heh, with our relationship, there’s no way that I would beat you up. Oh right Jack, where are the books regarding magical items in the dark major library?”
“Mm, second bookcase in the back. Why do you ask?” Jack pointed behind Han Shuo and asked in confusion.
“Nothing much, helping you clean?” Han Shuo smiled and walked towards the bookcase of magical item references.
“But Bryan, I’ve already dusted off that bookcase!” “Then I’ll dust it off again for you!”
When he reached the appropriate bookcase, Han Shuo started from the last row and started flipping through a book, carelessly throwing his brush to the side.
When he had been observing the jade box last night, Han Shuo’s mental strength flowed curiously to the ball inside. This allowed him to vaguely sense the magical currents within the ball. The Han Shuo of now wasn’t a complete rookie when it came to magical knowledge, and naturally understood that magical currents indicated that the ball was some kind of magical object. This was why he came searching for the ball’s origins within the library.
Unfortunately, Han Shuo realized after perusing most of the books on magical items that these contained only simple descriptions of ordinary magical staffs, robes and jewelry. It wasn’t what he wanted.
He cleaned up the bookcase with some dejection and resignation, no longer holding out hope for answers here. He then moved to the bookcases holding books on necromancy.
Since he had made his way to the library, he couldn’t very well leave empty handed. He should bring at least one book back for further study, Han Shuo mused as he started browsing through the books. The books at the top of the bookcases dealt with higher level magic, he wouldn’t understand them even he took them home. Therefore, he turned his attention to the lower level.
A book of “The Description of Dark Creatures” caught his eye. He flipped through a few pages and discovered that it recorded some of the particulars of summoning dark creatures.
Happy at heart, Han Shuo immediately went to find Jack and waved “The Description of Dark Creatures” at Jack. He chuckled, “Jack, I’m taking this book back for further study. Cover for me, don’t let other people find out.”
He didn’t wait for Jack to respond and happily stuffed the book into his clothes, grabbed the brush he’d discarded earlier, and left the library.