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"That was a girl, an exchange student recommended by the human cultivators. At the time, Lord Su Jiu refused the request to send exchange students over, but accepted this girl to enroll here."

Back then, there weren't as many teachers at the school as there are now. I also taught her academic subjects while working part-time in the middle school district. She was a very polite child, although she didn't get along as well with her classmates as you do now, but she still managed to get along well with the monsters.

"She was a cultivator, she knew a certain way of using Qi, and she wasn't exactly weak, but she just suddenly passed away one day. Humans are really fragile." Teacher Yang sighed.

"Dead? Is it possible that she became a ghost-like being?" Qin Jing asked.

“As I said, ghosts don’t exist. I was there at the time and confirmed that her body was dead. Her remains were buried in the school’s cemetery.”

If we're talking about cases of humans becoming spirits, there are indeed records. There are many instances where humans and spirits, in times of crisis, are able to unleash their potential and awaken new powers to turn danger into safety.

However, the chances of awakening elven bloodlines outside the body without any warning are extremely slim; I have never seen it happen in my hundreds of years of life.” The sheep-man teacher shook his head.

"My little sister, Xiao Kui, was seriously ill, but she was cured by awakening as a vampire," Qin Jing said.

"Oh, is that so? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing. In that case, Qin Jing, you might also have a powerful bloodline hidden within you that can be awakened. Having someone around you who has awakened a bloodline would increase the chances of awakening one as well," the sheep-faced teacher said, stroking his beard.

"Moreover, teacher, does that mean that girl might have awakened into a dark elf?" Qin Jing asked.

“We can’t rule out that possibility, but if it has awakened, why hasn’t the child appeared all these years? Why hasn’t it come out to see us?” The sheep man shook his head again.

"Thank you, teacher. I'll investigate further later; perhaps I'll find something." Qin Jing said goodbye to her teacher and left.

In the afternoon, as Qin Jing was preparing to go home, a childish and adorable voice called out to him.

"Xiao Jing! Xiao Jing!" A girl with long, snow-white hair rushed towards her.

It turned out to be Youyou. The child looked just like she did a few years ago. Apart from her snow-white hair growing longer, her body shape hadn't changed much; she was still about six or seven years old.

Qin Jing skillfully opened her arms and caught the girl in her embrace.

"Hi, Youyou, are you here to play?" Qin Jing asked.

"I'm here to play with Xiaojing. I want to go to Xiaojing's house! I want to eat pudding and ice cream!" Youyou said, raising her hands.

"Sure, I'll give you a pudding and buy you your favorite ice cream," Qin Jing said with a smile. His meeting with this girl could be considered the beginning of his entanglement with monsters. Even now, he still clearly remembers the beautiful scene of the icy crystal land that the girl transformed into that night.

Just as Su Jiu said, Youyou was like a younger sister to him.

"That's great! I love Xiaojing the most! Yuyuyu..." Youyou flew up and affectionately nuzzled Qin Jing's face.

Qin Jing felt a cool, smooth, and soft touch.

Then she floated up, hugged Qin Jing's neck, landed on her back, and let Qin Jing carry her back to the dormitory.

"Alright then, let's go back to the dorm." Qin Jing carried Youyou on her back and walked forward.

Section 105, Chapter 39: The Truth About the Full Moon Ghost

A human lived in Wenjing Building twelve years ago, and she passed away. There must be some connection between the deceased human girl and the sailor-uniformed ghost from last night.

Back in the dormitory with Youyou, Qin Jing picked up the scroll again. Since it had been proven that what she saw last night was not an illusion, there must be some secret hidden in this scroll.

After dinner, Qin Jing called Youyou, Jing, and Seba to the living room.

“I’ve decided to open this scroll and take a look,” Qin Jing said.

"Eh? Xiaojing, do you want to open this?" Whale seemed to really dislike this.

"Don't worry, I'll protect you!" Little Seba said, taking out a curry stick.

"Xiao Jing! What you're holding looks strange," Youyou said, staring at the scroll.

"Even Youyou said it's strange? Anyway, let's open it and take a look." Qin Jing unrolled the scroll and saw a diagram that looked like a magic array. After the scroll was fully unrolled, the array lit up, emitting a pale yellow light. Sure enough, something was hidden in the center, emitting a cloud of black gas.

Youyou looked at the array diagram and walked over.

“There are elves inside, trapped inside…” Youyou’s icy blue pupils shone brightly, as if she wanted to destroy the scroll.

At this moment, a protective light barrier resembling a magic circle appeared on the scroll, but it was easily pierced by the constantly penetrating ice blades. The destroyed magic circle light barrier opened a hole, and then a transparent ghost with a faint glow flew out from the hole.

The black-haired ghost was emitting a flash of light, its eyes showing a look of confusion. After a while, the flashing light dimmed. The ghost looked around, observing its surroundings. This time, unlike when it encountered Qin Jing, it seemed to have some consciousness.

"Who... are you?" the ghost girl in a sailor uniform asked.

Qin Jing stepped forward and said, "I'm Qin Jing, a student who enrolled in the elementary school this year. Hello, senior."

"Is that so... Right, this is Hourai Academy in another world... You're human! Does that mean those people are here too! I won't let them succeed!! Arashi!"

The ghost girl suddenly became very excited and flew outside. She squeezed through the dormitory wall and was about to fly away, but the array patterns on the scroll glowed again, pulling her back.

The ghost girl screamed in pain, as if she had been electrocuted, and collapsed to the ground unconscious.

"Senior, are you alright?" Qin Jing tried to help her up, but her hand passed right through her body.

"It went through! It's a real ghost!" the whale exclaimed in surprise.

"Hand...hand went through!" Seba cried out in alarm, hiding behind the whale in fear, her ahoge (cowlick) standing straight up in her arms.

"Seba, you're exaggerating. Didn't you promise to protect us?" the whale said.

“But I got through it! If I can’t reach it, then even if I have curry sticks, I’m no match for it.” Seba trembled.

“Yuyuyu…Youyou should be able to reach her.” Youyou walked up and poked the ghost girl’s face with her finger.

Sure enough, she touched it. The ghost girl's face seemed very elastic. When Youyou poked it with her finger, it bounced like pudding with tiny ripples.

“Xiao Jing, this child isn’t a ghost, he’s an elf,” Youyou said, poking her cheek.

"Ah, so it really is an elf, a dark elf?" Qin Jing reached out and pressed her hand on the ghost girl, and sure enough, she passed through it again.

Seba poked the ghost girl carefully with his curry stick, his ahoge standing on end.

"We really did get through!" Seba exclaimed, hiding behind the whale.

"Ugh... What are you doing?" The ghost girl opened her eyes and looked around warily, only to find that her situation was very delicate. A white-haired girl was poking her face back and forth, a cute black-haired boy's hand was through her body, a blue-haired girl was taking pictures of her with her phone, and behind her was a trembling blonde girl.

"Don't poke me! What's going on?" the ghost girl cried out as she flew up.

“We’re completely baffled here too, senior. You were human before, right? Can we sit down and have a proper talk this time?” Qin Jing said.

"You... you have no power. Are you not a cultivator from over there?"

"Cultivator? What's that?" Qin Jing asked, puzzled.

“There are humans who know how to use qi and have special abilities, Xiaojing, haven’t you seen them?” the whale explained.

"Humans with special abilities, huh? Come to think of it... I've actually seen quite a few." Several familiar faces flashed through Qin Jing's mind.

"They really aren't from the cultivators' side. That's right, the demons wouldn't easily let them extend their reach here." Thinking this, the ghost girl relaxed a little.

"At least we won't be sad for you, senior. Calm down, let's have a good talk," Qin Jing said.

"Are you students of the academy? You're all new faces I've never seen before. How many years have you been here?" the ghost girl asked.

"Please sit down and let's talk slowly. I'll go make some tea. Senior, would you like any food or drinks? If there's anything you can eat here..." Qin Jing added, "Like burning paper money for the deceased?"

"No, I don't know how to eat right now, but I don't feel hungry either," the ghost girl said.

After that, Qin Jing and the others provided answers to the confusing ghost girl.

Knowing about the changes in the outside world over the years, the ghost girl said sadly, "Is that so... Twelve years have passed already? Then I have nothing to hide now."

After that, the ghost girl told Qin Jing and the others about her story.

Her name is Sachiko. She is an orphan who was adopted and raised by a sect in the Human Cultivator Alliance. Later, in order to establish a friendly relationship between humans and yokai, she was sent to this middle school district to experience school enrollment.

But that wasn't the real purpose; those in power gave her a scroll.

The scroll was found in the tomb of an ancient, powerful cultivator. It contained an array that could enslave elves. If an elf came into contact with the scroll, it could be sealed inside and tamed. Once tamed, the elf's power could be used through the scroll.

The monk forced her to drink poison; if the mission failed, she would die in maddening agony after the poison took effect.

“Listen carefully, Sachiko. As long as you bring the spirit back, you can be freed from your slave status, and I will reward you with inexhaustible wealth and status for the rest of your life.”

"You're quite pretty, you're a natural beauty..."

"Oh, right! If you complete the task, as a special favor, I will bestow my surname upon you. In that case, as long as you serve me well as my adopted daughter, you can live a life of comfort and ease as a noble Chinese person." That's what the old man said at the time.

Although she vaguely remembered that her parents were originally from China, she was given the foreign surname Shinozaki when they were brought here.

But since that's what they said, she'll accept it. After all, she initially planned to do as those people said, since she was adopted to help these important figures complete various tasks.

Before she even turned ten, she had already done a lot for the organization, including killing monsters and humans. She didn't think there was anything wrong with it, because that was the only way she could survive. Killing for survival, nothing more.

Sachiko felt at the time that she would probably live her whole life as a puppet.

Until she met that girl, Xiao Lan, a wind sprite with light blue hair and the aura of nature.

Elves are all innocent and naive children, and this wind elf is particularly innocent among them. She quickly becomes friends with Sachiko, who is deliberately trying to please her.

I unconditionally believed every word she said and trusted her unconditionally.

From the moment Sachiko came into this world, she never had a true friend.

She was a hypocritical puppet, only approaching the wind spirit for the sake of the mission, in order to gain its trust.

She understood that she, filled with sin, did not deserve to have close friends.

But Xiao Lan always unconditionally believed her, despite her constant lies.

Chapter 106, Section 40: The Ghost Girl's Past

Time flies like an arrow; the growth and changes of all things in nature testify to the passage of time.

The grass on the ground grew under the nourishment of spring rain and the earth, and the fruits on the trees ripened under the sun and the autumn wind. The bond between humans and elves also deepened through long-term interaction.

Sachiko, who was with the wind sprite Xiaolan, found herself smiling more and more often without even realizing it.

During this time, she discovered that the ways of talking with friends and partners and expressing joy in the training courses in the human world were somewhat different.

When Sachiko throws herself at someone and makes physical contact, it's either during a fight or as a way to lower the other person's guard before preparing for an assassination.

But when Xiao Lan rushed towards her and took her hand, her heart felt warm.

When you're with friends, even in places you don't feel comfortable or like, you can sit quietly and experience new things that you would never do alone, and feel happy.

It probably wasn't the place or the new thing that made her happy; the reason she was happy was because she had Xiao Lan as a friend.

In order to make the wind spirit interested in the outside world, Sachiko often told the wind spirit about the local customs and interesting things.

And so, just as she had imagined, the wind sprite began to take a keen interest in the outside world.

"Sachiko, can I go live with you in the human world in the future? Because Sachiko has to go back to the human world after graduating from middle school, right? I also want to see the outside world and see all the beautiful scenery you've talked about." The innocent Xiaolan asked with anticipation in her eyes.

“Yes, I’m very happy,” Sachiko said, but in her heart she was thinking, ‘Don’t follow me. A child like you shouldn’t exist in this world of livers.’

"Sachiko, actually... all I need is to be with you. No matter where we are, we'll always be together," Xiaolan said with a smile, hugging the girl tightly.

"Yes, it's arranged," Sachiko said, but her heart felt as if it had been stabbed with a knife.

"That's impossible. If you come with me, you'll be captured by those cultivators as soon as you reach the mortal realm. I... I can't protect you at all."

'No, no, we absolutely cannot let this child be captured by the cultivators.' Looking into Xiaolan's trusting eyes, Xingzi made up her mind.

In a dark alleyway at the corner of a street outside the academy, surrounded by the stench of rotting garbage, no monsters would come here.

Sachiko would secretly come here every month to meet with the liaison of the Monks' Alliance and report on her recent experiences and the progress of her plans.

A man cloaked over a wall, his face obscured, appeared. He possessed a certain degree of concealment, allowing him to hide as a cultivator sent to the city to maintain contact with the outside world.

"The deadline is approaching, Shinozaki, what are you doing? There are only two months left. If you don't bring the spirit out soon, it will be too late even if you get the antidote. You should be able to feel it now, the pain of the poison corroding your body."

"That feeling of your skin being suddenly pricked by needles, then burning hot like it's on fire, and then freezing like it's been thrown into an icebox in winter must be unbearable. It's a deadly poison that can drive even the most heartless person mad," the man in the cloak said in a hoarse voice.

"Don't be foolish, don't hesitate, bring that wind spirit that follows you around all day! Otherwise, you'll die a horrible death. Don't let strange feelings control you anymore; that's not something we can have." After saying this, the contact left.

Sachiko understood that she was a villain who had done many bad things, so it was not surprising that she would suffer retribution.

She was raised this way from a young age, specifically to do troublesome things for important figures. Hunting lone monsters in the human world, assassinating others—of course, she didn't want to do it, but nothing in her life was something she truly desired.

But that's survival, like wolves eating sheep and sheep eating grass. If you don't obey the adults' orders, you won't eat; if you can't complete the task, you'll die. So Sachiko never considered whether she should do it or not; she just obeyed orders and lived like that.

But Xiaolan was different; that child was Xingzi's only friend in her life.

This is a dear friend more precious than my own life; I'd rather die than hurt her.

She had considered targeting other spirits, but wouldn't doing that be a betrayal of her friend? The thought of Xiaolan losing her bright smile made Sachiko unable to bring herself to harm the other spirits.

As the deadline drew closer, the onset of the toxins throughout her body became longer and longer. At these times, Sachiko would send Arashi away and hide in her room, enduring the pain of her illness.

The only thing that made Sachiko happy was that the more intense the physical pain became, the more determined she became.

This continent is unknown to humans. Sachiko has lived here for several years and knows the terrifying hidden strength of the monsters here. She also understands how ridiculous the idea of ​​the cultivator alliance, which only saw the tip of the iceberg, was. She is also certain that as long as Xiaolan stays on the continent, she will not be in any danger.