Millennium Witch.

Chapter 76 - The teacher is still very gentle.
Summer downpours come and go quickly. After a torrential downpour that resembled an inverted sea, the rain became much lighter in less than an hour. Although still cold and rapid, it had shrunk to a light drizzle, rippling across the deep lake surface.

Faced with the little black dragon's sincere request, Yvette said nothing, but simply nodded slightly in agreement. Then, she used the "regeneration pump," which she hadn't used in a long time, to begin healing Dugrabi.

With the upgraded regeneration pump, Dugrabi's flesh wounds inflicted by the mountain whale's strange magic healed quickly, and his energy and spirit also improved significantly.

It hesitated for a moment, then asked in a respectful but tentative tone, "So... should I call you Master from now on?"

"Call the teacher."

“Okay.” Dugrabi nodded, somewhat pleased, but immediately became dejected and asked, “Can I still go back?”

"Ok?"

"I failed to protect Jasmine. Can I really go back? Will the villagers be angry?"

"Let's start by digging a hole; maybe we'll find something else?"

“What could possibly be found here…” Dugrabi was somewhat resistant. Although it hadn’t witnessed the entire process of Jasmine’s death, when it flew out from underground to search, it inadvertently spotted a shattered alchemical artifact with a distinctive wreath in a corner.

To the black dragon, who suffers from face blindness when it comes to alchemical creations, this wreath says it all.

Going it back now would only allow it to see the "corpse" more clearly.

But Dugrabi dared not disobey the teacher's order. With heavy, ashamed, and unbearable feelings, he hung his head and let the teacher jump onto his back. Then, with a flap of his wings, he carried the teacher into the rainy night and arrived at the ruins of a military base where flashlights were shining.

"Hey! Kind lady, you found it!" Seeing Yvette casting a light spell on the black dragon's back, Ice Rain stood on the ground and waved happily.

After landing, Dugrabi saw Ice Rain, Roller, Soap, and others approaching from the darkness. He turned his head away in embarrassment, bracing himself for the insults.

But unexpectedly, a sound that caught it off guard also came from not far away.

"Mr. Long? You're alright? That's wonderful!"

Dugra was struck by lightning, and his body froze instantly. He turned his head in astonishment and saw another small puppet emerge from the flashlight beam, wearing a dirty but familiar wreath on its head.

"You... are you a human or a ghost?! How come you're alright?!" Dugrabi let out a terrified dragon roar.

"Holy crap! It spoke!" Ice Rain, Roller, and Soap were equally astonished. They had always been breathed on when they got close, and had never heard the Black Dragon speak human language before—although the accent was a bit strange, it was definitely Black Tide Language.

This dragon can actually speak human language?!

Jasmine seemed a little confused. She said, "I'm fine... I just fell and passed out... What's wrong, Mr. Long?"

“No…this is not right…” Dugrabi was stunned. Suddenly, it thought of something and rushed to a certain place in the ruins. After digging it open, it found a broken and fragmented puppet.

However, unlike Little Jasmine, this wreckage, although also rusty, has a slightly different style and many differences in details upon closer inspection.

"You...you..." Dugrabi felt like he was about to faint. What on earth was going on?

“We found Little Jasmine right here,” Bingyu said, walking over and pointing to a small pit in the ground. “For some reason, there just happened to be a pit here, and she fell in and fainted. She was covered by a stone slab. We found her flower wreath lying nearby, so we looked around here and found her quickly.”

"...?"

Dugrabi was petrified; the happiness had come too suddenly for it to accept.

So Jasmine didn't die; she just had face blindness when it saw the combination of the wreath and the remains, which caused a misunderstanding.
This misunderstanding unleashed its inner power, driving away four mountain whales. Then, heartbroken, it ran to a nearby lake and secluded itself from day to night.

“By the way, it was the kind lady who discovered it first. She found Jasmine first, and then she found you,” Bingyu added. Dugrabi’s expression became even more interesting. It looked at Jasmine, then at the other puppets, then at Yvette, swallowed hard, and asked in a slightly embarrassed and ashamed tone, “Teacher…you…knew all along?”

No wonder the teacher's reaction was so calm, showing no sadness at all over Jasmine's death.

It thought that the Silver Witch, as a deity, was inherently ruthless and unlike the dragons who valued loyalty and affection... Well, it turns out that it was the only one who was kept in the dark!
Evie nodded.

"Why didn't you say so sooner!" Dugrabi felt ashamed of his own pathetic behavior just now, having completely disgraced the dragon race.

—What a wicked witch! She must have done it on purpose to make me look foolish!
It hates it so much!
“I hope you remember this more clearly.” Yvette’s beautiful face turned serious. “You were lucky today, but can you be so lucky every time? Do you want to keep making the same mistake later?”

Dugrabi was speechless.

It suddenly realized why the teacher had suddenly started asking questions and guiding it to reflect on itself by the lake... It turned out that the teacher had been teaching it from that moment on.

Although it wasn't the kind of class that would make it invincible as it had imagined, it felt that this kind of class, compared to regular combat classes, made people feel the teachers' dedication more.

Okay, it decided to retract its momentary disrespectful thought.

—The witch teacher is still very gentle, and in terms of professional ethics, she is far superior to her father.

……

When the night rain stops and the dark clouds disperse, the bright moonlight and the stars appear together in the sky, creating a vast and breathtaking scene that stirs the soul.

Standing on the back of the black dragon, with the evening breeze blowing on her face, Yvette quickly reviewed the entire day's events in her mind, checking if any details had been overlooked.

Although it was sudden, she had actually been planning this research trip for a year.

For example, they investigated which locations were near the mountain whale's movement path and which areas were high-probability zones for attacks by the mountain whale. They also deployed some hidden cameras—all parts salvaged from the heads of discarded golems, combined with energy storage panels, elemental chips, and some recycled functional modules—to function as a simple surveillance probe.

When the mountain whale appeared and approached the abandoned military base where Dugrabi and the others were located, she rushed over immediately. However, she deliberately did not show herself and instead hid in the shadows. Using wind magic, earth magic, and lightning magic in combination, she silently completed a series of micro-operations, including "removing Little Jasmine's wreath", "creating a pit to trip her up", "stunning her with a weak electric current", "covering and decorating with cement slabs", and "dropping the remains of the magic puppet".

Finally, they successfully created the misunderstanding that Little Jasmine was dead, which gave Dugrabi a huge psychological shock—anyway, given its puppet face blindness, it shouldn't be able to distinguish the details on the remains without being reminded.

However, in her original plan, she intended to wait a little while before making her hero appearance. After all, the four mountain whales were quite strong, and she needed to take the initiative to step forward, complete the final step of the education, and then reveal the fact that Little Jasmine was not dead.

Unexpectedly, as the Dragon Prince, Dugrabi had considerable potential. In his rage, he single-handedly drove away the four mountain whales. After driving them away, he didn't return, leaving the three unconscious little golems behind. He then ran to a lakeside and went into the night.

Yvette waited for a long time, but seeing that it didn't move, she returned directly to the Puppet Kingdom and then went out with the others to search and rescue, completing the final step of the investigation plan.

All I can say is that she meticulously planned and waited a whole year for this assessment; it would be hard to find another teacher in the world as dedicated as her.

……

Soon, the Black Dragon and the Children's Expedition were brought back safely, and the puppet life of the Cooks family quickly returned to peace.

Because this story contains so many interesting aspects to explore—such as the fact that the seemingly vicious Mr. Dragon is actually kind at heart, that Mr. Dragon can actually speak but always pretends not to understand, and that Mr. Dragon is actually so powerful—in short, for a long time afterward, Dugrabi's various contrasting behaviors became a topic of conversation among the residents of the Puppet Kingdom.

Dugrabi, however, was not so happy. After all, the dragon's image had collapsed, which was no different from social death.
Fortunately, it has become more obedient now, studying those obscure and difficult basic rune knowledge with its teacher every day. This has given it a good excuse to stay in the large warehouse where the RV is parked and not go out.

The progress is still a bit slow. I often feel dizzy from studying, and when I open my eyes again, I can still see those terrifying and complicated runes flying around in front of me. It's almost become a nightmare.

(End of this chapter)