Perverted Supernatural Academy

Chapter 36

"He is not a demon either."

"...!?" It's not human, not a monster, and not a demon, so what is it!?

"Hehe... Actually, he is..."

Suddenly, a dark object swooped down and slammed into Beren's head with a loud thud. The sound was so loud that Lou Lifan thought his head would be cracked open.

The "thing" seemed to be disoriented by the impact, yet it unexpectedly burst into maniacal laughter: "Hahahaha... Beren, you idiot! Are you dizzy? Hahahaha... My head is so dizzy..."

Was it an illusion? Lou Lifan felt as if he could see the veins bulging on Beren's head. It slowly stood up, its gray-blue wolf eyes gleaming with intense killing intent. The terrifying pressure made Lou Lifan, who was not even in his line of sight, involuntarily start to tremble.

"Damn--the--blood--bat--" Beren's voice was gloomy and terrifying, with demonic energy surrounding his entire body, tinged with a faint black.

Generally, demonic energy and spiritual energy are invisible to the naked eye unless a special method is used to materialize them. However, if the energy can reach a certain limit, there will be no such restriction. As long as the owner of the energy wants, they can make their energy visible or invisible at any time.

"I'm going to...kill you!!!"

Beren charged at the bat that was still flapping its wings and laughing triumphantly, the ground beneath its hind claws being turned upside down by the force of its sudden burst of energy.

He rushed towards the cliff, and Lou Lifan couldn't help but gasp. However, Beren was Beren after all; it wouldn't fall so easily. When it stepped onto the precipice, it was as if it were walking on transparent glass, continuing to chase the frantically fleeing bat as if it were flat ground.

"I'll kill you!"

"Hahaha... I can't catch him, I can't catch him~~~"

"When I catch you, I'll tear your tendons out! I'll skin you alive! I'll rip your wings off and roast them to eat!"

"La la la la～～～～"

"Don't you dare run away!"

Lou Lifan stared dumbfounded in the direction he ran off to, unable to accept that Beren, who usually seemed so self-controlled and calm, would act so childishly.

Once Beren had chased after them and was far enough away, Pei Linhai ran from his hiding place to Lou Lifan's side and hurriedly asked, "How did it go? Did you get any information? Where did he hide the thing?"

Lou Lifan stiffly pointed to his neck, and Pei Linhai touched it, puzzled: "Nothing's wrong?"

"Damn it!" Lou Lifan punched him, bruising one eye socket. "Who told you to touch my neck! I meant he hid something in the pendant he was wearing around his neck!"

Pei Linhai immediately remained kneeling there and turned into a fossil.

"It's over... I'll probably have to live as a demon for the rest of my life..." Lou Lifan clutched his head, tearing at his hair in anguish. "It's on his neck... Even if that pervert came to steal it himself, he probably couldn't have done it! He actually entrusted us with such a troublesome matter! Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

He looked up, and Pei Linhai was still frozen in place. He kicked him and said, "Hey! Come back to life! Don't just die like that!"

"What...what are we going to do?!" Pei Linhai cried out, "I don't want to live as a demon! It's too hard! I don't want to!"

Lou Lifan punched him in the other eye, leaving a bruise: "Don't be so mournful! I haven't completely given up yet!"

Pei Linhai wiped away the few tears that had barely escaped her lips, and looked at him hopefully: "Then... do you have any ideas?"

"No."

Pei Linhai lay on the ground again, wailing, "Then we're doomed! I don't want to!!!"

Lou Lifan grew impatient, picked up a stone from the ground, and slammed it into the back of his head with a thud: "I said stop crying! If you cry, I can't think of any other way to help you!"

"What to do..." Frustrated... frustrated... Why were only the two of them able to learn qualitative transformation back then...? On the other hand, if only they hadn't learned it so quickly...

"...Let's discuss it with the school again."

It's that poor little phone booth again. Although the fault was reported through the fault system, it's too remote here, and the repairman won't be able to come for several days. So now the poor monitor is still sitting there broken and dilapidated—of course, it's unusable.

"On his neck?" After saying this, Hai Shenlan remained silent for a long time before hesitantly continuing, "Then... do you have a way to remove it?"

"If I had one, I wouldn't have asked you for help!"

“…Sigh,” even Hai Shenlan’s sigh sounded unusually weak, “I’m telling you…I can’t help it either…”

"What!!??"

"So... please figure out a way yourselves. As long as you get the items back, your household registration can be restored."

"If even you can't do anything, what can I do!" Lou Lifan roared hoarsely. "I'm not doing this anymore! If you're so capable, send more people yourselves! I quit! I quit! Damn it! I'm a student! I'm your student! You bunch of irresponsible bastards—"

*Smack*

"?" Lou Lifan looked at the silent communicator in his hand, then at the power cord... "Ah, it's broken..."

In his excitement, he ripped the phone line off the connector.

Lou Lifan looked at Pei Linhai, and Pei Linhai looked at Lou Lifan. The two of them showed smiles that were more like crying.

"It's broken..."

"yes……"

"The other phone booth seems to be over a hundred kilometers away..."

"Hahaha...hahahaha..."

The two of them squatted there, not wanting to move an inch.

"Maybe we should just be monsters for the rest of our lives," that's what they're thinking now. Why was this impossible task assigned to them? Why are they being forced to do this? Why aren't they even allowed to refuse...?

I feel like crying...

"I still want to cry..."

Crying won't help. Although they have extreme ideas, they don't want to turn into demons so inexplicably, so they have to keep thinking of ways to solve the problem.

There's a saying, "A desperate man has a bright future," and another, "A cornered dog will jump over the wall." Whether it's wisdom or jumping over the wall, when the two were driven to the brink, the goddess of wisdom finally lifted a corner of her skirt for them...

In the dimly lit room, the oppressive atmosphere between the two was darker than the darkness itself.

The pen tip slowly withdrew from the scribbled paper, and the voices of the two pitiful figures were muffled: "...In short, these are the only methods of combat...If they don't work...then..." Then they'd just have to accept their fate...

Strategy 1: Beren needs to take a bath eventually, but he can't take that thing with him while he's bathing, right? As long as he takes it off, we can release Pei Linhai's cats to bring it back—Pei Linhai's cats? That's right, those five seemingly useless shikigami cats.

Result: Beren bathes in a lake near the school, but unfortunately, he never takes off his clothes while bathing... because he always reverts to his original form and jumps in to splash around...

Strategy Two: Pour dirt on his ornament. He'll definitely take it down to wash it. Then, they can grab it to wash, and you can take the opportunity to escape.

Result: Pei Linhai spilled a whole basin of soup onto his chest, leaving everyone in the canteen—including Lou Lifan, Pei Linhai, and Beren—stunned. Beren was stunned because Pei Linhai had actually tripped on such a flat surface, and in such a clumsy way. Lou Lifan and Pei Linhai were stunned because the soup had spilled all over him uncontrollably…and it was so hot… Although Beren allowed them to volunteer to wash his clothes and clean his ornaments, he kept talking about how agile he was in his youth, how he could catch a rabbit in a minute, and so on, while they were doing so, giving them no chance to escape.

Strategy Three: Lou Lifan pretends to be very scared and jumps into his arms, then, as quickly as possible, uses Pei Linhai's "copying" ability to create a fake pendant to exchange for the real one.

Result: First, Pei Linhai, who suggested the method, got a severe beating. Although Lou Lifan eventually adopted the suggestion, he only discovered after throwing himself into Beren's arms that the pendant was strangely bound by a silver chain, a type of curse. He simply didn't have the ability to untangle it instantly and swap the pendant. So, upon returning, a blushing Lou Lifan pinned Pei Linhai to the ground and gave him another severe beating.

Combat Method Four: ...

Combat Method Five: ...

Combat Method Six: ...

"I can't take it anymore! You can die with me! I quit!" Lou Lifan grabbed the pitiful Pei Linhai by the neck and shook him violently, not caring whether he was really going to die. "This kind of thing can never succeed! Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely! It can't succeed! Am I wrong, Pei Linhai!"

Pei Linhai rolled his eyes, making intermittent clicking sounds in his throat. It wasn't that he was agreeing with him, but rather that he was pleading for help.

All combat methods have failed, so there is only one last method left – burning the boats!

That was truly a do-or-die situation. Once they got their hands on the item, they had to escape immediately; even a delay of 0.1 seconds could mean certain death. So they used the only surviving old fax machine in that pitiful little phone booth to contact the school. Soon, the school sent a sub-light-speed aircraft capable of hovering and flying in the air to their designated location.

The auction was the next day, and that night would be the last chance. Throughout the day, Pei Linhai was so nervous that he would even answer incorrectly when asked his name, while Lou Lifan was so nervous that he could barely walk, spending 80% of the day walking with his hands and feet in unison.

It wasn't dark yet; the sun was still casting an orange glow on the distant horizon. Pei Linhai had already hidden in the bushes beside the cliff as planned, while Lou Lifan hid in the bushes on the other side, keeping a close eye on the place where Beren appeared every night.

The waiting time always felt incredibly long; the sun seemed to be perpetually stuck on the horizon, refusing to set. When the moon finally rose, the hands on my watch moved agonizingly slowly, making me wish I could just set it to midnight.

The two men stared intently at that spot, which seemed to practically blaze with heat from their gaze. Their eyes were aching, but they dared not relax. Although they knew there was still a long time ahead, the crucial opportunity only came once, so they had to cherish it and strike with deadly precision!

The time felt like years, and the clock finally struck 11:58. After they confirmed that their aura had completely calmed down and merged with the plants around them, Beren, dressed in a long robe, appeared gracefully in their sight.

"They're here!" they both thought to themselves at the same time.

Pei Linhai placed his hand on the control panel of the aircraft, his fingertips trembling slightly. Lou Lifan gripped the hem of his skirt tightly with one hand, the area where he held it becoming completely damp. Beads of sweat slowly slid down his forehead into his collar, but he felt no itch or other sensations; his eyes were fixed solely on Beren, who was floating towards the cliff with her feet barely touching the ground.

Beren walked to the edge of the cliff, her slender figure standing there gracefully, and then slowly transformed into the shape of a wolf.

"Awooo------------------------"

A long wolf howl. The moment he raised his head and howled loudly was Lou Lifan's chance!

Lou Lifan instantly sprang into action, using Professor Hai Shenlan's demonic power to levitate and charge towards Beren. Beren sensed the sudden presence behind him and abruptly turned around. Pei Linhai, however, was piloting his aircraft, which had just taken off from his hiding place, activating its strongest lights. Beren was instantly blinded by the intense light, but Lou Lifan, who had already protected his eyes with a "protective spell," was completely unaffected. In the instant Beren closed his eyes, he passed by him. In that fleeting moment, he grabbed the pendant with his right hand and slashed the silver chain with his left hand with a dagger, snapping the chain in two.

Propelled by his momentum, Lou Lifan plummeted towards the edge of the cliff. If it had just been a sudden charge, it wouldn't have been a problem; he could easily use his demonic power to levitate and fly away. However, he had also stolen the pendant, and when using the dagger with the "Splitter Curse," he wasn't sure how much power he needed to cut the equally cursed silver chain. Therefore, he allocated most of his demonic power to the cursed symbol, leaving him with insufficient energy to fly. But he didn't need to worry, because someone was waiting there to catch him.

"Li Fan!"

The aircraft skillfully drew a semicircle in mid-air, catching him just a few dozen meters below the cliff. However, less than ideally, he fell headfirst, so he first crashed into the edge of the roofless aircraft, and then plunged headfirst under the seat.

"It hurts..." Lou Lifan struggled desperately to finally adjust his position and get out of the embarrassing upside-down position.

Are you alright?

"It's okay." As long as I'm not caught, nothing will happen.

Behind them came the immense rage of Beren, who was unleashing his full demonic power. The two didn't even dare to turn their heads. Their aircraft sped up and flew towards Byte Academy along the pre-set trajectory.

"So it was you two...!" Beren's furious voice came from afar. "All students of Zero Degree Demon Academy, listen up! Give chase to that flying machine ahead! As long as you can catch it back, you can eat them however you want!"

Ah... Ahhhhh... This time we're really doomed! The two of them cried their eyes out, hating that the spacecraft wasn't traveling at the speed of light, while trying to figure out how to get rid of the horde of monsters chasing after them.

Although he didn't want to look, Pei Linhai still glanced back—and almost fainted. It seemed that Beren had gathered everyone in the school in an instant! Looking at the ant-like swarms of monsters that had revealed their true forms behind him, Pei Linhai was certain this would be the most terrifying nightmare of his life.

"Li Fan...they're about to catch up...what do we do..."

Lou Lifan glanced back, and that one glance made him want to faint immediately. However, Pei Linhai could faint, but if he did, they would really die here tonight.

He tried to calm himself down and carefully analyze the current situation. Leading the pack was Beren, closely followed by Principal Ireland. Few other demons could keep up with their speed; most were teachers. This was something Lou Lifan had anticipated. After all, they were novices in using demonic power. While levitation could be used momentarily, it was absolutely insufficient for escaping the pursuing demons—not to mention Beren and Ireland, they couldn't even outrun the lowest-ranking demons behind them. That's why he had requested this flying vehicle from the school for transportation.

It now seems that although there are quite a few monsters chasing them, most of them do not pose a threat. The main threat should come from Beren, Ireland, and the dozen or so monster teachers following closely behind them. Yes!

Those who can catch up are the most terrifying. Being caught by them is a hundred times more terrifying than being caught by the students who can't catch up!

"Pei Linhai," Lou Lifan tried to make his voice sound calm, "restore your spiritual power and set the aircraft to autopilot. I'm going to use the witch's curse now!"

"Ah!" Pei Linhai screamed in agony.

The witch's curse! After using it on the shikigami demon king once, Pei Linhai suffered from a headache for a whole week, and he didn't sleep well for a whole week. He truly wished he would never see this damned method again, but unexpectedly, this happened...

"Choose between being killed by them or being killed by me. You choose one." Lou Lifan glanced at him sideways, his eyes filled with terrifying killing intent.

Pei Linhai decided not to anger him, and reluctantly set the flight path. Then he pressed a button, and the two chairs automatically rotated backward, so that they were facing the person chasing them from behind... uh, demon.

"Qualitative transformation!" A flash of lightning, and the two's demonic power reverted to spiritual power. Pei Linhai opened his right palm and formed a hand seal with his left, pressing it against Lou Lifan's back. Lou Lifan's thumbs and forefingers formed a ring, facing the person chasing from behind.

"You two!" Whether from extreme anger or not, Beren's voice sounded as cold as absolute zero. "Give me back the ornament right now! Or you'll regret it!"