A brave man may not live, but he cannot die

Chapter 294 Testing
I developed nearsightedness, but the following week did not cause too much of a commotion.

The routine continued as usual; the work at the academy was quite easy for Quinn, the Muggle teaching assistant. After assisting Amamiya Nene for several months, he had become quite adept at divination. He no longer needed to ask her; a glance at the schedule was enough to know what to prepare for each class, and he could even obtain teaching materials from the administration office himself. After class, he collected homework, wrote comments for the students based on Amamiya Nene's grades, while the younger students were still learning dazzling divination techniques, and the older students were engaged in practical classes.

Divination, though seemingly profound, can be judged in most cases simply by the accuracy of the results. Common divination methods include weather forecasting, treasure hunting, and even dressing up as a doctor to determine a patient's lifespan in the intensive care unit of Aswell Hospital. If the divination is accurate, the student will be scolded; if it's inaccurate, the student will be scolded even more. Divination related to life, death, fortune, and misfortune is quite difficult and is part of the sixth-grade graduation exam. Fourth and fifth graders find it easier, such as using divination to determine the sex of a pregnant woman's baby. These are all rather unethical practical courses. Quinn's job is to take care of all the trivial records, which are eventually compiled into the simple and clear table on Amamiya Nene's desk.

Since returning from the Abyss, Amamiya Nene's attitude towards Quinn has become somewhat ambiguous.

If her bad temper that night was due to her period, then it was as if a certain barrier had formed between them afterwards. Although she still pretended to treat Quinn the same as before, occasionally grumbling in the office, ordering him around like a lackey, and having afternoon tea together, Quinn could still keenly sense the change in the little witch's attitude.

He felt something was off, but the other person pretended to be nonchalant.

Quinn felt that he had developed a life-or-death bond with the bird when they were alone, which made Quinn think that he might have been presumptuous.

Wangcai fell into a deep sleep that day and never woke up again.

Amamiya Nene insisted that it was a dog, but Quinn had never heard of any dog ​​that could shed its skin, and whose feathers would grow as long as seaweed when it sheds. She would then wrap it up and turn it into a beautiful egg, which would sit in the corner of the office like an art piece.

Because of my nearsightedness, I almost tripped over the little furball Wangcai several times while walking.

Out of curiosity, Quinn activated his Demon King's Eye to take a look at Wangcai in its molting state. His mental energy was almost instantly drained, and his brain throbbed for a while before he recovered. So Quinn asked again whether this was the dragon that you used to scare me.

Amamiya Nene said that men shouldn't hold grudges too much.

Despite her words, the little witch herself held a grudge. The thief who broke into her house the night she returned from the abyss was found. With bloodstains, personal belongings, and fragments of clothing—perfect divination materials—left at the scene, if Amamiya Nene couldn't open his box, the divination department could close down.

Amamiya Nene used divination to locate his hideout in a shady hotel in the Westville slums. Unfortunately, she was too late; by the time the school administration commissioner arrived, he had already fled, leaving behind a large amount of blood-stained gauze, sedatives, and traces of prayer at the scene.

Quinn dealt him a severe blow, and the secret technique he used to escape came at a great cost. Even if he didn't die, he won't recover quickly, and whether he can fully recover is still unknown.

The thief must have known about Amamiya Nene's school background, as he fled in a great hurry, allowing the school administration to find quite a few things. A wanted poster was also left at the scene, confirming that the thief was a member of the infamous and mysterious organization "Old Wolf" in Temurian.

Old Wolf, a strange name, has a history dating back to a hundred years before the Divine Calendar. It was an organization that existed at the same time as the Adventurers' Guild founded by Link. Its business was similar to that of the Adventurers' Guild, contacting illegal superhumans to take on bounty missions that ordinary people could not complete.

Unlike the Adventurers' Guild, Old Wolf's quests are mostly illegal, with no bottom line and no taboos, ranging from theft to hiring hitmen. The "Old Wolf" has a significant presence in numerous historical assassinations of political figures, thefts of artifacts, and even cult-related incidents, making him a kind of mafia in the mysterious world.

Throughout Old Wolf's history, he has been targeted by everyone from the natives of the Western Continent to the nobles of the South, the imperial treasury, and even had a Level 0 containment item stolen from the Holy See's Saint Camelot Island. The arcane community hates him to the core, as everyone knows that arcane mages are rich and ruthless. The fact that he has survived the pursuit of various governments, cults, and the arcane community to this day speaks volumes about Old Wolf's ability to escape and hide.

The Old Wolf Organization uses spirit world communication for both accepting and issuing missions, making them extremely difficult to track. The perpetrator vanished like a lost internet connection. Fortunately, it seems the guy wasn't after Amamiya Nene; he just wanted to steal something, and since he's part of the Old Wolf Organization, he must have an employer. The school administration, after analyzing the situation, couldn't determine what stealing some student rosters could be used for. Based on Amamiya Nene's divination and Quinn's physical description, they issued a wanted notice, and the matter remained unresolved for the time being.

There was also a little incident. It seems that Amamiya Nene mentioned this incident in a letter home. No one knows what methods the all-powerful Duke used, but the Ron royal family actually sent a squad of knights to be stationed in the King's Palace in Aiswell. The diplomatic excuse was that they were workers repairing the palace, but in reality, they were bodyguards prepared for Amamiya Nene.

Amamiya Nene warned him never to sneak in again, or he would be beaten to a pulp if he got caught.

“It would be best if they never came again,” she added irritably, seemingly still bothered by what happened under the blanket that day.

If we were to attribute Amamiya Nene's changes to the little witch's unpredictable personality...

The change in how Celia and Quinn interacted stemmed entirely from the confession that afternoon after their piano lesson.

The two met in the corridor the next day. Celia wanted to greet her with a cheerful "Good morning" as usual, but due to various factors, she ended up looking like an SS officer saluting the Führer. Her unnatural demeanor drew the attention of several students from the divination class, and she became even more unnatural.

Fortunately, Quinn was a master at playing dumb.

He proactively reprimanded the student for his incorrect piano technique, thus managing to gloss over the matter.

Quinn, as usual, sat behind Celia in the classes he was required to audit, and played Go with Nene Amamiya in her class. The girl was very uncomfortable at first, probably feeling a bit lost after confessing her feelings, as if her ambiguous partner was pretending nothing had happened and continuing to be ambiguous. She didn't know how to face him.

Fortunately, Celia wasn't coy and knew that Quinn was doing this for her own good. When she heard that he had found a way to solve the abyss pollution, she felt a strange yet slightly sweet feeling and returned to their usual way of getting along.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions.

For example, during class, he would suddenly turn around and meet Quinn's gaze, only to look away at the same time a second or two later.

For example, during piano lessons, her attitude towards practicing suddenly became extremely serious, and Quinn also adopted a strict teacher's demeanor, treating Celia as if she were Lang Lang, as if afraid that Amamiya Nene, who was listening in, would notice something.

Such things are nothing more than secret teacher-student relationships.

Quinn would also occasionally make some small moves to observe Celia's reaction—not something perverted, of course, but to see how much she was affected by Mi Yutong's memories.

During his piano lesson, he suddenly played a melody from "If I Could Shine," a piece by April Lie, which usually made Mi Yutong want to cry just hearing it; he brought Celine breakfast in the morning, mixing banana puree into the milk, which was Mi Yutong's least favorite fruit, as she would rather eat a banana; Quinn even wrote numbers mixed into arcane spells on the blackboard during his lecture on demon defense, which was Mi Yutong's birthday.
Even when Quinn activated his Demon King's Eyes and stared at her, he didn't notice any special reaction from Celia to all these probing questions.

When she heard "April Lie," her reaction was that Mr. Quinn was truly musically talented; when she drank milk, her reaction was that Mr. Quinn was truly a culinary genius; and when she saw numbers in class, her reaction was that she truly lacked magical talent.
In her enrollment report, Celia submitted her information as a clergy member of the Eternal Church, Sequence 8 'Newborn' of the [Temperance] destiny. This sequence name made Quinn suspicious, but he also felt it couldn't be such a coincidence. Were all the clergy members of the Eternal Church dead souls from other worlds?
Quinn thought that since the Hero had created the [Hero] sequence potion using Merlin's ashes five years ago, if Celia was truly the Hero, her Heroic destiny at least met the conditions for becoming Sekiro. Quinn vividly remembered Sekiro's ascension ceremony, and this sequence meant that Celia possessed sufficiently strong combat instincts.
Quinn ambushed the seemingly oblivious girl several times from the shadows, but stopped himself at the last second. When she felt a gust of wind behind her and turned around, her innocent expression made Quinn unable to suspect anything.

He even went so far as to take a drastic step, when the two of them were walking together down an upside-down stairwell to the cafeteria, when no one else was around.

Quinn pretended to slip and unexpectedly fell on top of Celia. The result, of course, was that the two of them tumbled down the stairs, their embarrassing fall causing the oil painting hanging nearby to burst into laughter.

Quinn was certain that the frail girl hadn't made any decent response during the process. She was completely bewildered and helpless, and it took her a while to realize what was happening. If all heroes at Sequence 8 were like this, then this world that needed heroes to save it would have been swept away by the Demon King six times over long ago.

Protected by Grindelwald's school uniform, Celia wasn't hurt, but she didn't have time to check on Quinn. Because he was testing the waters, Quinn's feigned slip was so convincing that they ended up rolling on top of each other.

“Mr. Quinn. That hand.”

"Oh! Sorry, cough, sorry."

Of course, nothing happened in the end. The blushing girl and the beastly teacher returned to the cafeteria to eat together, and they ate very slowly.

To be fair, Celia's figure isn't exactly hot. To put it nicely, she's as delicate as a supermodel, but to put it bluntly, she's a bit thin. After all, she's too skinny and doesn't eat much. I really don't know how she grew so tall.

But for some reason, Quinn was unusually unable to calm down.

Am I really a fan of small breasts?

Quinn still couldn't believe that Celia was the hero.

The idea of ​​your ex-girlfriend committing suicide in front of you, then traveling to another world with you and becoming your nemesis, is just too melodramatic.

After being comforted by Lin, Quinn's mood calmed down a lot. As the saying goes, there are three good things about little girls: they have a sweet voice and a weak body, so they can be mothers. Hugging one of them felt like his soul was purified.

Since the system has provided a solution, Quinn decided to trust it this once.

After all, if he has any absolute trump card or any mystery that transcends this world, it is only the system that has helped his fellow villagers defeat the Demon King time and time again.

All Quinn needed to prepare was how to carry out the Demon King's prayer and then escape unscathed.

It is best to complete this without being discovered.

This would be difficult for Eswell, who was under the surveillance of the academy's magic circle, but Ankuya's original plan to assassinate the hero happened to have a matching solution that only needed slight modifications.

Ankuya replied to Quinn three days later, his voice carried on the wind, as cold and arrogant as ever:

"My life almost got back on track while you were gone."

He didn't know what the "Primordial Flame" was either. Given his personality, he must have conducted a thorough investigation after being questioned, but perhaps because he was in the Eastern Kingdom, he couldn't find out. He said he would inform Quinn as soon as he had any news.

Aqua complained that His Majesty the Demon King had brought in a good-for-nothing; no hero in history had ever been troubled by losing control. Then, like a mother hen, he began to instruct Quinn on how to deal with losing control, rambling on and on about various issues for a long time.

Finally, he told Quinn that he had almost finished his business and might come back early, and told him not to die in the meantime.

Especially avoid doing something like publicly praising the Demon King and dying.

Thursday, his usual day off, Quinn went to town after preparing dinner for Lynn, where Chaldale was already waiting for him at the apartment.

In his original plan, he was supposed to take his girlfriend to investigate the Adventurers' Guild's mission and improve his experience in dealing with mysterious events, as suggested by his boss.

However, Quinn simply didn't have the time to do these things at the moment; he felt that his tendency to lose control was becoming serious and needed to be addressed.

It can only be said that people can fall into depravity very quickly. After the initial painful period, Xia Dai'er had already reached the stage of having tasted the sweetness. After hearing Quinn's serious request, she was a little shy, but still reluctantly agreed to a date at the apartment.

Quinn found it hard to say whether this kind of thing helped his mental state.

But it was really fun.

July 27th, Sunday.

Quinn got his glasses.

If measured by uncorrected visual acuity, his current vision is less than 0.1, comparable to nearsightedness of over 800 degrees. Fortunately, the optician recommended by Ankuya was highly skilled. Although the process of getting glasses was extremely grueling—after comparing his vision with the eye chart, the optician dripped different concentrations of eye drops into his eyes until there was no irritation—before determining the appropriate lens thickness and refractive index, Quinn had no idea how it worked. But after paying 30 gold pounds, he received a pair of glasses comparable to those fitted by modern medicine.

Wearing it felt like a completely new experience, like Helen Keller finding her three days of sight, Kobe boarding his beloved plane, or Wang Yuan's "Chinese Lung" concert.

After disguising himself, he changed into Shelby's appearance and met Ike, who was waiting for him, at the Mirror Lake Restaurant.

Elon's hearing is less than a week away.

Today, Ike is bringing his "subordinate" into Branson Manor to study how to play Elon's father.

(End of this chapter)