The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 34 The Fifth Voice

"Why does this voice sound familiar?" Lilith tried hard to recall.

She only knew a handful of people, and after a moment's thought, she recognized him: "It's the dean!"

"That's right! It's me!"

Moran and the other two, who were frightened three times by Ms. Amisa in one day: "..."

Is the elusive dean also omnipresent, even his voice?

They relaxed after learning it was Ms. Amisa.

"Dean, what did you just say is no?" Moran asked.

"You can't just share the recipe for bread and juice with first, second, or third grade witches."

The dean still did not appear; only his voice could be heard.

"Why?" Moran asked, puzzled.

"Witches and top sorceresses have traveled to other worlds for many years and have discovered countless new species."

There are several other fruits that, like breadfruit, can both satisfy hunger and replenish magical power or even magical energy, and some of them are even more effective than breadfruit.

They all require the same special environment and rules to grow, but in the end, breadfruit was chosen to be planted next to the dormitory area. Do you know why?

"why?"

The four little witches looked puzzled.

They used to think that breadfruit was so precious and rare that it was indispensable!
Were there other, better options?
"It's because breadfruit tastes awful!"

"..."

This answer was something Moran and the others never expected.

Is it a good thing that it tastes bad?
They tried everything to make the breadfruit taste better, only to be told that it was deliberately made to taste bad.
"It has to taste bad so you won't become dependent on it!"
Breadfruit is just a short-term transition before you learn cooking magic and potion-restoring techniques.

If breadfruit is both delicious and useful, will you still be able to work as hard as you are now when you encounter difficulties while learning cooking magic and brewing healing potions?
But both of these are essential skills for future survival; you don't need to be an expert, but you absolutely must have them.

Moran and the others couldn't refute this reason at all.

Yes, growing up in adversity is not only a consistent educational philosophy of the Witch Academy, but also the origin of witches.

They stopped providing three meals a day and even chose a type of breadfruit that was considered unpalatable, so it was understandable that the little witches wouldn't starve to death because they couldn't cook.

"Yesterday's bread and fruit cakes are one thing, but they require certain cooking skills to make. It's fine to make them public now that they've been revealed."

However, it's not a good thing to let breadfruit juice replace the healing potion's function prematurely.

After all, once you leave the academy, there won't be any breadfruits you can pick anytime.

You can use them yourselves, but you can't teach them to other little witches, and you can't slack off on learning cooking magic and healing potions just because you have bread and juice!
When you're in fourth grade and start arranging your own learning content, whether or not you make your approach public is up to you.

At that time, you'll have full access to the library. If you're interested, you can read the "Methods of Eating Breadfruit" compiled by the little witches in the past; it includes different flavors of breadfruit juice!

This time, after the dean's voice disappeared, it was never heard again.

Moran now understands why Senior Lilith said that if any young witch encounters mortal danger within the academy, she will be immediately taken back by Ms. Amisa for treatment.

All the little witches in the academy are under the Dean's control!
Moran even suspected that not only were there blue-robed, purple-robed, and black-robed deans teaching them, but also a whole bunch of deans hiding in some corner, secretly observing the little witches.

Each little witch even has a dedicated headmistress to supervise her. Otherwise, how could the headmistress appear so promptly? She even knows about bread and fruit cakes.

"So it turns out it wasn't that no one knew how to cook breadfruit, but rather that the method was kept secret by the headmaster in the lower grades!"

Lilith only found out about this today.

No wonder I often run into fourth-grade girls in the breadfruit grove, but I've never seen them eat breadfruit raw!
Unlike them, who are often so hungry that they don't want to gather food, they just go into the woods, pick a fruit, wipe it off, and start eating it.

The senior students really kept it a secret!
"No wonder! Juicing isn't exactly a brilliant idea, it's no wonder no one has noticed it all this time!"

Moran had felt something was off before.

The strong in Valen are capable of traveling across the world!
The culture and specialties of another world will more or less influence Valen.

How could such a world be a food wasteland?
If soy sauce isn't available, that's fine, but what's so special about a fruit juice?
She originally thought it was because most of the little witches weren't good at cooking when they first enrolled and hadn't studied it much. After learning cooking magic, they had so many delicious things to eat that they became too lazy to study it anymore!
After all that, the older students even came up with a recipe for breadfruit, but it only circulated among fourth and fifth graders; the younger students simply didn't know about it.

She underestimated the witches.
“Looks like we’ll have to drink this juice secretly,” Sylph said.

"Luckily, I didn't make too much. I can drink it slowly in my dorm room." Lilith said, "I'll just make less each time next time."

He made a large pot of Vasita: "I can't finish it, so I'll just pour it into my stomach bag to prevent it from spoiling if left for too long."

"I think I'll drink more tonight!" Moran said helplessly.

She had originally planned to bring a large jug to school tomorrow.

Now I have to keep the recipe for honey bread and juice a secret from everyone. Bringing a big jug would be too conspicuous; at most, I'll bring a water pouch.

Fortunately, the juice wasn't very filling; I just needed to go to the restroom a few more times after drinking it.

After the senior students and Vasita left, Moran started drinking juice in large gulps.

After drinking for a while, I went for a stroll in the yard, pulled some weeds, turned over the soil, and then continued drinking.

Fortunately, there was only one and a half pots left, and we drank most of them in no time. We'll drink some more tomorrow morning and that should be about it.

The next morning, Moran went out with a water bladder full of juice and a bag of bread and fruit cakes.

Vasita, Sylph, and the others had all reached the dormitory entrance, but they still hadn't seen Lilith.

The other second-year female students were nowhere to be seen either.

"Strange, where are the senior students?"

Ais, who was standing nearby, said to them, "You were walking behind yesterday, didn't you hear? The second graders' first class today is in the herb garden. I heard they're going to prepare to make flying brooms!"

"It's closer to the herb garden than the castle; the upperclassmen are probably still asleep!"

"Then the senior students will be able to have their own flying brooms soon, right?" Vasita was extremely envious.

"Soon, only we twenty-seven first-year witches will be climbing up this mountain!" Cheryl sighed deeply.

"I can't wait to be in second grade!"

"And who isn't?"

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(End of this chapter)