But shortly after Yusaha and her group drove away the guards from the police station, Lu Ming and Karsas encountered those guards again.
"What's wrong? Didn't you run into them?" Lu Ming asked, frowning, seeing the soldiers' dejected looks.
"No. We almost caught the thief!"
"Then why...?"
"It was Mrs. Satchi and some teachers who saved the thief!"
Upon hearing that it was Yusaha who had saved the thief who had caused him to deal with dozens of disputes involving fruit and bedding stores over the past month, Lu Ming was completely dumbfounded.
He couldn't understand why Yusahar did what he did, nor did he understand why those teachers who taught etiquette and mathematics would join Yusahar in saving the thief.
Could it be that the thief is the child of some nobleman?
Unable to figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. Holding his magic wand, he asked the soldiers, "That thief went that way?"
When their superior asked them a question, the soldiers immediately pointed to the street the thief had fled down: "He went that way."
"Chase!" Lu Ming glanced at the street, which was mostly lined with shops selling school supplies and teacher's supplies. His face darkened, and with a wave of his hand, he led Karsas and a few soldiers who had come out with him in pursuit of the thief.
"Work is turning into a family feud, huh?" Karsas, who was running listlessly behind Lu Ming, suddenly laughed, a cigarette dangling from his lips.
"Shut up!" Lu Ming, who had already developed some suspicions about Yusaha because he had seen her for a long time, snapped angrily.
"Oh~ Oh~" Karthus's reply was still that indifferent and bland.
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After hearing the meaning of some of the coded messages from his colleague, Yusaha suddenly realized that Lu Ming might have actually spoken some of those coded messages to Sham. Furthermore, Sham was indeed nowhere to be found when Lu Ming was taking a shower. It was quite possible that Sham had really replaced him in Lu Ming's heart.
"Are you trying to use him, or do you really like him?" Seeing Yusaha's bewildered expression, the colleague, who, like Yusaha, was a nobleman's lover, asked helplessly.
Why ask that?
“If you like him, then go home on time every day and take the initiative to let him know that you still care about him. If you’re just using him, then take a few days off and spend all your time with him, making him mistakenly believe that you can’t live without him,” the man said to Yusaha with a strange smile.
"Go home on time...take leave..." To be honest, Yusaha herself was a little unsure of how much she felt for Lu Ming, but at least for now, she didn't want to break up with Lu Ming for an ideal that was still just a dream.
“That’s right! If you want him to remember you, you should try this dress!” As she spoke, one of the colleagues suddenly pulled a nearly completely transparent dress from her bag. Yusaha and the others were startled!
"What the hell are you doing?! This...this...this is in the street!!" Yusaha and several startled colleagues forcibly stuffed the skirt the man had taken out into his bag, then angrily scolded him. But...
"Sisters...how disgusting!" Clearly, someone had witnessed what happened. And the person who saw it was the little girl with the strange dog that they had just rescued!
The most humiliating moment for them had been witnessed by others. As a teacher, Yusaha felt utterly hopeless and collapsed to the ground with a thud, his entire body turning gray.
Upon seeing this, the little girl and Yusaha's colleagues were startled and immediately helped her up, then hurriedly ran to a small park where there were few people.
"Are you serious? This dress isn't even yours! Do you have to act like this? Look at me, I'm not acting like this, like I'm going to die!" Yusaha, looking at my gloomy life, asked angrily.
Sitting on the bench, the grey-haired Yusaha could almost see Lu Ming kick her out of the house, and her future—a future where she'd never have enough money to open a magic academy. So, she angrily retorted, "That's because you're shameless!"
"Wow! How could you be like this? I was just trying to be helpful! You ruined your relationship with your boyfriend, and now you're blaming me, the one who was worried about you!?"
"Wait! Only a few of you know about this, right?" the unreliable colleague complained, but Yusaha didn't listen. However, she suddenly seemed to remember something, her face instantly darkening, causing her colleague and the little girl with the dog to instinctively take a step back.
"What do you want to do?"
"Hehehe~" Yusahar chuckled sinisterly, picking up his magic wand and approaching his colleagues, the little girl, and the strange dog step by step. He said in a chilling tone, "If I silence you all, no one will know. Hehehehehe..."
"Then, those people on the street saw it too, are you going to silence them as well?"
But a single remark from one of his colleagues caused Yusaha to suddenly sit on the ground and burst into tears.
This attracted the attention of everyone around, who wanted to know what terrible thing had happened.
Sensing the gazes of the people around them, the little girl and Yusaha's colleagues once again forcibly pulled Yusaha up, preparing to run.
"They're the ones who stole things! Catch them!" But just then, several soldiers from the police station suddenly ran out and shouted at Yusaha and the others.
"Eh~!!" Suddenly and inexplicably accused of being a thief, Yusaha and his colleague immediately cried out in surprise. They quickly grabbed the little girl and the strange dog and began a frantic escape.
If what happened earlier was a minor matter, then being accused of theft would truly put an end to their teaching careers! So even if they died, they couldn't let the soldiers at the police station catch them.
"..." Watching Yusaha and his group disappear into the distance, with no chance of catching up, the soldier sighed in silence and gave up the chase.
Yusaha and the others ran for about ten minutes before stopping in the noble district, where the soldiers dared not act recklessly, panting heavily.
However, they were not safe yet, as two more people were chasing after them.
Upon seeing the two people, the little girl who had been pulled over by Yusaha and the others immediately pointed at them and commanded the dog, "Luca! Bone Strike!"
Upon hearing the command, the dog conjured a blue energy bone stick out of thin air and charged towards the two people who were chasing after it.
"Franzan's Swift Sword!"
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Two updates today.
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Kanina's Hope
Seeing Lucario charging towards him, Lu Ming didn't hesitate and used his Farron Quicksword to sever the Bone Blast's energy bone club.
"Aura Sphere!" Before Lu Ming could press his advantage, the little girl shouted. This caused Lucario to leap into the air, gather a large amount of magical energy in his hands, condense it into an energy ball, and launch it at Lu Ming!
"Raster Cannon!" In response, Lu Ming naturally used the raster cannon to retaliate.
As a result, the two different energy balls collided in mid-air, causing a violent explosion that blew Lu Ming and Lucario away.
However, Lu Ming wasn't going to be foolish enough to let Lucario land smoothly and then continue attacking him when he was almost out of mana.
The instant he was blown away by the shockwave, Lu Ming threw out Oddish's Poké Ball and shouted, "Oddish, use Stun Powder!"
Suddenly, the Poké Ball that Lu Ming threw opened, and a beam of white light shot out from it. Before Lucario and the little girl could react, an Oddish emerged from the white light and landed on Lucario.
"Oh no! Lucario, throw it away!" The little girl ordered Lucario as soon as she saw the golden powder slowly appearing on the Oddish leaves.
But by this time, it was already too late.
Golden paralysis powder had already fallen from the leaves of the Oddish. Furthermore, Lu Ming's adjutant, Karthus, rushed to the little girl and instantly chained her up!
Lucario, paralyzed after being hit by Oddish's Stun Powder, struggled to his feet, threw Oddish away, and prepared to attack Lu Ming, who had also stood up, when he heard the Neanderthal tree Karthus laugh: "Hey hey hey~! Little puppy, don't you want your owner anymore?"
Lucario hurriedly turned around and saw that his trainer had been tied up like a dumpling!
"I advise you to give up the idea of saving her. Right now, you've only stolen some things that aren't very valuable. If you get used to stealing, you'll really become thieves!" After catching the Oddish, Lu Ming walked to Lucario's side, patted its head, and advised.
Heeding Lu Ming's advice, Lucario abandoned the idea of resolving the matter by force and chose to be captured obediently.
Meanwhile, Yusaha and the others standing nearby were dumbfounded.
They couldn't believe that the little girl they had rescued from the soldiers was a thief, nor could they believe that they had inexplicably become accomplices! The most dangerous of them all was Yusahar!
She was Lu Ming's lover, but she ended up causing him trouble! Moreover, this incident could very well be the biggest stain on her life, enough to prevent him from ever teaching magic again.
Shame and fear made her cover her face with her bag, trying to deceive herself into thinking that Lu Ming wouldn't notice her.
"You haven't been home for half a month, and this is the surprise you give me?" Lu Ming asked, somewhat speechless, as he walked up to Yusaha and looked at Yusaha who was covering his face with his bag.
"Waaah~!" Seeing that Lu Ming had already discovered her, Yusaha had no choice but to take the bag away, look at him with a wronged expression, and pretend to be about to cry.
"Sigh~" Looking at Yusaha's appearance and seeing that Yusaha's colleagues were also on the verge of tears, Lu Ming sighed helplessly and finally had to compromise, saying, "I will keep quiet about what happened between you. Don't worry."
Upon hearing this, Yusaha stared at Lu Ming's face in disbelief, as if this person wasn't her boyfriend who had abandoned her for half a month.
"Karsas, let's take this girl back to the police station first. She's so young and already stealing things. What will she be like when she grows up?" But Lu Ming didn't pay much attention to Yusaha's affairs. What he wanted to know most right now was who this little girl with Lucario was.
His Oddish belonged to a dead time traveler, so where did this little girl get her Lucario?
The little girl's clothes were somewhat tattered, but it was difficult to discern that they were native Miracaesar attire. Furthermore, although she skillfully controlled Lucario, she spoke Miracaesar with a slight accent. Unlike the translated language the transmigrated individuals received, which was entirely official, her Miracaesar language sounded more like a dialect from a small village, much like the children of the Dex family.
All signs indicate that she is not a time traveler, but she is also closely related to time travelers.
Watching Lu Ming recall his Oddish into his Poké Ball and walk towards the police station with Karthus, the little girl, and Lucario, Yuzahar made up his mind to stop this work schedule of not going home for half a month at a time. Could he really end up killing Lu Ming himself?
"What's wrong?" Karthus, who was walking along the road carrying a little girl who looked like a rice dumpling, saw Lu Ming walking ahead and seemed to be thinking about something, so he frowned and asked.
"It's nothing." Lu Ming shook his head, then glanced at the little girl being carried by Karthus, feeling slightly annoyed.
Is that so?
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Back at the police station, at Lu Ming's instruction, Karsas unlocked the girl's chains and threw her onto a chair.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch..." The little girl, who had been thrown onto the chair, rubbed her bottom, then pointed at the cat-like uncle who seemed completely indifferent and cursed, "Can't you be a little gentler?! You pervert!! You lecher!!"
Karsas didn't speak, silently took a drag of his cigarette, and then glanced at the washboard on the little girl's chest with utter contempt.
"Damn it!!!" The little girl screamed as she felt Karthus's contempt.
"Alright, alright! Stop arguing." Seeing that the little girl was about to bite off Karthus's tail, Lu Ming immediately stopped her from doing something that would likely result in her losing a mouthful of teeth.
After tossing a large bag of sandwich cookies to Lucario, Lu Ming had Karthus take his statement.
"Where are you from, little girl?"
"Think for yourself!"
Why did you steal?
"It's simple! You don't have money!"
Do you know what the consequences of this will be?
"What will the consequences be? Will you have your salary deducted?"
I don't know what this little girl is made of, she's like she's eaten gunpowder, making Lu Ming's forehead veins bulge with anger!
"You brat! I'm in a bad mood these days, so don't mess with me!" Lu Ming, who had been dealing with the little girl's fruit and pillow-throwing incident for over a month, slammed his hand on the table and yelled at her.
But he regretted it as soon as he yelled. The little girl suddenly burst into tears, which further damaged his and Karsas's reputation in the institute.
"What's your name?" Suppressing his anger, Lu Ming tried his best to remain calm and asked in a gentle tone.
"Kanina Lu." Perhaps intimidated by Lu Ming's imposing presence, the little girl answered with tears in her eyes.
"..." Lu Ming never expected that his small question would lead to such a big problem. For a moment, he couldn't say a word.
"Your daughter?" At that moment, Karthus, as if to add insult to injury, delivered another blow!
"I'm not even married yet! Where did this grown-up girl come from?!"
Karsas turned his head and laughed, "I don't care, anyway, she has the surname Lu."
Lu Ming gritted his teeth and glared at the unreliable cat-like uncle, then, with a gloomy face, continued to ask Kanina, "How old are you this year?"
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