Chapter 104: How Many Times Have I Been Cheated?

“Whew, you’re finally awake.”

Feeling the movement, Su Ling and Su Yao also woke up.

It was Sunday today.

Cheng Cheng had given them the day off.

While taking care of Suzuki, they had gotten sleepy, so they closed the curtains and took a nap.

Now it was past five in the evening, and the light was dimming.

When she pulled open the curtains, on the balcony, Hajimi was lying on the floor, its round belly facing the sky, a thoroughly satisfied expression on its cat face.

Strange… why did it feel like something was missing?

Su Ling scratched her head but didn’t pay it much mind.

She looked at the bed.

Suzuki was staring at her, her eyes dazed, clearly still processing what had happened.

“Who… are you?”

“I should be asking you that. You suddenly fell from the sky. If you hadn’t woken up, I would have had to take you to the Student Council.”

Of course, she was just scaring her.

She already had psychological trauma from the Student Council.

At most, she’d have the Witch’s Hut people take her away.

“Whew, sorry. That’s my fault.”

Suzuki pinched the bridge of her nose.

She knew that the two in front of her were probably strangers whose coordinates she had left behind.

She tried to get out of bed, but her legs gave out and she collapsed to the floor.

Her whole body had no strength, and her magic power was severely blocked.

It seemed the poison hadn’t been completely neutralized.

At that moment, Suzuki noticed that her clothes were ragged.

She looked at Su Ling in a panic.

Su Ling rolled her eyes.

“You tore them yourself. Don’t look at me.”

And she had taken advantage of her for so long.

Su Ling hadn’t even said anything yet.

Suzuki also knew that the poison had an aphrodisiac effect.

Her small face flushed bright red.

Who knew what she had done while she was unconscious?

“S-Sorry…”

“It’s fine. By the way, you still haven’t told me who you are or why you suddenly appeared.”

“My name is Suzuki…”

“Suzuki… that name sounds familiar.”

Su Ling and Su Yao exchanged glances, and then it hit them.

“You’re the one from the station?”

Suzuki remembered as well, feeling a bit emotional.

She never imagined that habitually marking coordinates back then would actually save her life.

Fate.

“Yeah. I just encountered the Zerg. In a panic, I used some means to teleport to you.”

She kept it as concise as possible.

The Zerg!

Hearing the word Zerg, Su Ling’s breath caught.

But she quickly returned to normal.

In truth, her attitude toward the Zerg was complicated.

All the Zerg she had encountered so far seemed pretty decent.

К424, K423, 3к3…

And there was a high chance she herself was…

But the Witch had run many genetic tests on her and Su Yao, and the results always showed they were Witches.

That confused her as well.

Still, because of that, she didn’t hate the Zerg as much as other Witches did.

“Is it that one that’s been all over the news lately? The one pretending to be a member of the Witch’s Hut, fishing for targets?”

“I’m not sure, but ninety percent likely, yes.”

Suzuki recalled the performance of Glasses.

Clearly, that guy had been the fish that bit.

Upon hearing this, Su Ling took a deep breath.

“Where is she now? Is she right here in our area?”

Su Ling was a bit anxious.

Don’t forget, earlier she had been blinded by money and agreed to be the bait for the Witch’s Hut on Tian Tian’s request.

She had been a little hopeful, thinking the Zerg probably wouldn’t appear in her area, right?

“Where is this?”

Su Ling quickly showed her the location on the map.

Suzuki calculated for a moment.

“Very close. Only about ten kilometers away.”

“No!”

Su Ling wailed.

Seeing Suzuki’s puzzled look, Su Ling, with a crestfallen face, told her about how she had been blinded by money and agreed to be bait.

“But it was two hundred and fifty thousand!”

She had been too poor for too long.

Suzuki fell into thought.

“Two hundred and fifty thousand… Junior, you got cheated.”

Su Ling’s body trembled.

Huh?

“Junior, don’t apply outside prices to the Witch Academy. Two hundred and fifty thousand at the Academy isn’t even enough to buy materials for one alchemy class.”

Of course, making money was also easy.

During class, just casually enter some Small World and hunt a Magic Beast, and you could easily earn over five hundred thousand Moni.

As for being bait for the Witch’s Hut—if it were a collective action of the entire Hut with headquarters funding, the compensation wouldn’t be less than one million.

“How much?!”

Su Ling grabbed Suzuki’s shoulders, her beautiful cherry-colored eyes about to spit fire.

She suddenly remembered the corner of Tian Tian’s mouth that could barely hold back a smile when she finally signed the contract.

It hit her like a thunderbolt.

Damn it! She had been the clown all along!

“Junior, if you don’t mind, you can come to me. I’ll help you get the pay you deserve.”

Consider it repaying a favor.

“R-Really?”

Su Ling’s eyes immediately lit up.

But soon she felt something was off.

She wasn’t going to get cheated again, was she?

“I’m from Justice Academy, majoring in law. I run a private law firm. You can look it up if you don’t believe me.”

“Suzuki Law Firm.”

Su Ling searched with a grain of salt, and sure enough, it was real.

And the consultation fees weren’t low—at least a million to start.

“Lawyers make that much money?”

Su Ling’s eyes went wide.

“The Student Council doesn’t handle disputes, so we come in handy, right? Mine is just a small firm, earning some spare change to get by.”

Suzuki supported herself by the bed and stood up.

Damn, what kind of poison was that?

Her legs were still weak.

And she didn’t dare look at Su Ling when she spoke, because she found that every time she saw Su Ling’s unreasonably beautiful face, her legs went even weaker, and her body involuntarily reacted.

Unbearably uncomfortable.

“You took care of me. I owe you one. I’ll help you recover what you’re owed for free.”

“Yay!”

Su Ling excitedly hugged Suzuki.

Suzuki staggered, almost collapsing.

Damn poison! Making me so pathetic!

“Knock, knock!”

Fortunately, the sudden knock on the door saved her.

The person who came was actually Luo Qianxue.

Su Ling quickly closed the door.

What was she doing here!

Yesterday, Luo Qianxue had messaged saying she wanted to talk, but Su Ling didn’t want to deal with her at all.

The matter of her imprisoning Su Ling hadn’t been settled yet.

“…”

A hallucination, right?

It had to be a hallucination, right?

Suzuki doubted her eyes.

Was that… Luo Qianxue?

No way, how could it be her?

“I want to talk to you… I know I did a lot of wrong things before, but now I have many questions and want to discuss them face to face.”

No need to guess—it was about the erasure of Yunhai Peak.

Even though the higher-ups had weirdly decided not to investigate that matter anymore, Luo Qianxue still felt that it had a lot to do with Su Ling.

And of course, there was also her own little selfishness.

“Luo Qianxue, we have nothing to talk about. You gave me money, uh… anyway, we’re even.”

It really was Luo Qianxue!

Suzuki’s big, watery eyes opened wide.

She didn’t go online much, so she really wasn’t clear about current hot topics.

At the door, Luo Qianxue didn’t say anything more.

Just as Su Ling thought Luo Qianxue had left, the door knocked again.

“Is there no end to this? I said we’re even…”

Su Ling opened the door impatiently. It was Tian Tian.

Behind her, as expected, followed Lilith and Qing Luan.

The two looked at Luo Qianxue beside them and clicked their tongues in amazement.

For a moment, everyone stared at each other, the atmosphere awkward.