The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 689 The Fox's School Life

"That concludes today's lesson. Remember, the next lab session will be held in Lab Building No. 2. get out of class dismissed."

The pleasant music that signaled the end of get out of class echoed between the teaching buildings of Rongcheng Medical College.

Su Tianqing lay on the table with her arms outstretched, her fox tail taut behind her, and her ears standing up high as she stretched her stiff body after sitting for two classes.

After finishing a simple stretch, the fox girl lay on the table, turned her head, looked at Nan Jiayu who was diligently taking notes beside her, squinted her eyes, and wagged her tail happily.

"Little fish."

"uh-huh?"

"It's rare to see Xiaoyu so focused."

"Because this class felt a bit difficult, there were some parts I didn't quite understand..." Nan Jiayu said with a slightly distressed expression, her cat tail swaying slowly.

The textbook is clearly written in Chinese. I recognize each character individually, but when they are put together, it just makes my head spin.

It's no wonder that Nan Jiayu struggled with the course; Su Tianqing herself felt that this was a common failing subject in any medical university—the infamous Biochemistry.

Even I was completely overwhelmed when I took this course to earn credits back then, let alone Nan Jiayu, a student with clear eyes.

Seeing this, Su Tianqing propped herself up and moved closer to Nan Jiayu, looking at the line of notes that Nan Jiayu was copying.

"Little Fish, is there something you don't quite understand?"

"That's it, the process of protein biosynthesis."

"Oh, so that's it... This is indeed quite difficult. Little Fish, you can remember it like this..."

The fox girl pulled out a stack of draft paper from her bag and started writing and drawing on it while muttering lessons. She would stop from time to time to ask Nan Jiayu if she understood, and also offer some divergent thinking ideas.

After a while, Nan Jiayu felt that the fox girl beside her had suddenly made clear the problem that had been troubling her, and she showed an expression of sudden realization. The swaying of her cat tail also became much larger.

This after-school tutoring session lasted for more than twenty minutes.

There were only three classes this morning, and they ended around 10 o'clock. The two of them, Cat and Fox, stayed in the classroom until 10:30 before finishing their tutoring session.

"Phew... I see, that makes it much easier to understand." Nan Jiayu nodded repeatedly.

"Hehe, I told you so~" Su Tianqing laughed and clung to the cat girl.

Before the two could even get close for a moment, a sound that made their hair stand on end and their tails bristle came from behind them:

"Could you repeat that a little slower? I didn't quite understand..."

"Huh?!" "Meow!?"

Su Tianqing and Nan Jiayu exclaimed in surprise at the same time, almost jumping up from their seats. Only then did they realize that a pink-furred bunny girl had appeared behind them at some point—her bunny ears were standing up high, as if she had been listening to the tutoring session just now.

"Tao Tao? When did you get here?" Su Tianqing finally recovered from her shock and asked helplessly.

Nan Jiayu, who subconsciously hunched over and exhaled, also gave a helpless, bitter smile.

Xia Taotao shrank her neck, a notebook in front of her, a pen clutched tightly in her hand, her eyes darting around nervously.

"Sorry... I arrived twenty minutes ago. I was going to ask if you two wanted to go to the cafeteria for lunch later, but I saw you were giving a lecture, so I felt bad about disturbing you..."

"The cafeteria? I want to eat the teppanyaki rice from the cafeteria!" Su Tianqing immediately raised her hand and suggested.

Of course, since Xia Taotao had asked to hear this fox's tutoring, Su Tianqing naturally had no reason to refuse.

As more and more students came to study in the classroom, it seemed a bit unreasonable to continue talking and lecturing there. In addition, there was still some time before the cafeteria opened, so the three of them carried their bags and books to the second floor of the library and sat down in a soundproof study room.

Fox's tutoring session time.

After explaining the part that Xia Taotao hadn't heard clearly, the cat and rabbit in front of her stared at the textbook and notebook and found a few more pages that were hard to understand. Su Tianqing picked them up easily and explained them in a very logical way.

The mini tutoring session in the study room finally came to an end when the library rang its noon reminder bell.

Xia Taotao's gaze towards Su Tianqing became even more resolute. She decided that she would not only follow this villainous BOSS in the magical girl activities, but also follow her unwaveringly in her studies.

……

The cafeteria at lunchtime is definitely the liveliest and noisiest place on the entire school.

"Haha, the teppanyaki rice is here!"

Nan Jiayu returned to the table with a full bowl of barbecue rice, and Cat Tail also brought two bottles of drinks.

Xia Taotao looked curiously at the bowl of mixed rice in front of her, which looked very generous with its ingredients. Without being polite to the two people in front of her, she picked up a rice spoon and scooped a portion into her lunchbox, then began to eat heartily.

"I absolutely love the grilled pork tenderloin in the cafeteria's barbecue rice." Su Tianqing took a bite of the savory grilled pork tenderloin, her fox tail wagging vigorously.

"This is really delicious, I ordered four skewers." Nan Jiayu nodded in agreement, and the three beastman girls ate heartily, filling their stomachs that had been empty all morning.

Xia Taotao opened her thermos and took a sip. Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the large screen TV in the cafeteria, which was showing a midday news program. She watched it a couple more times as if to pass the time.

"A third missing person case has occurred near the IKEA store in Xincheng?..." Xia Taotao couldn't help but read out the news report.

Hearing this, Su Tianqing and Nan Jiayu also turned to look at the TV screen. The three of them stared at the news for a few seconds, and when their eyes met again at the dining table, their faces were full of confusion.

"Three missing persons cases?" Nan Jiayu muttered. "That's strange. Doesn't Meteor reside in Rongcheng? She's an S-rank spatial ability user. What missing persons case could possibly stump her?"

Su Tianqing nodded in agreement.

Let alone disappearing, even if this person were abducted to some secret base by a super criminal with spatial abilities to conduct evil experiments, it would be no different from running naked with a loudspeaker in front of Meteor's psychic ability [Spatial Movement].

She's a superhuman who can traverse an entire planet in the blink of an eye. Unless this secret base is located in the astral plane, there's nowhere in the world that can stop a shooting star.

But Xia Taotao was showing off her food while lost in thought. Her social anxiety and silence, which she had automatically entered due to the large number of people in the cafeteria, suddenly switched to "information rabbit mode." Her rabbit ears twitched from time to time, as if to say, "I am thinking."

Something's not right.

After a moment of reflection, Xia Taotao said softly.

"If the Hero Association could find the reason, there wouldn't be a third disappearance. This just shows that the Hero Association doesn't know the real reason for these disappearances."

"What could possibly make a living person vanish from sight in an instant?"

Upon hearing Xia Taotao's question, Su Tianqing and Nan Jiayu exchanged a glance and, in perfect unison, began to conceal their true feelings at the dinner table, each saying:

"Instant teleportation by a spatial ability user?" "That's unlikely. Any instant teleportation would leave traces of psychic abilities, and those traces couldn't possibly be hidden from Meteor, the world's strongest spatial ability user."

"Then... some kind of hidden magic? But what kind of magic can make a person disappear instantly... teleportation magic? Invisibility magic? A mental world?" Su Tianqing asked tentatively.

Then Xia Taotao and Nan Jiayu gave him a second look.

"Of the three magic spells you mentioned, two are ones you're good at." "I don't think you, Tianqing, would play such a prank."

The three girls looked at each other, then turned back to look at the news on TV, just as the program switched to the next news item, and they didn't get any more clues.

"...We need to investigate this; I think something's fishy about it."

After thinking it over, Su Tianqing said this.