Kapitel 136: Chapter One Hundred And Thirty Six - I happen to be targeted
The following two days, nothing untoward happened; Leon spent the mornings taking care of his Teacher's precious garden of herbs and the afternoon making pills in his own hut. In those mornings, his Teacher continued to guide him, there were no other students about as the stone he now wore upon his belt allowed only him access into his Teacher's garden. Just like the talismans for the martial arts school that Jin Li and Sun wore, his allowed him access through the portal arches that lead into the fields of herbs and Teacher Sagi's garden. Teacher Sagi's older two disciples wore similar talismans, while students selected to help in the fields wore lower grade ones.
In the afternoons, he chose to return to his hut as there were enough herbs there to cultivate into pills. There were no specific requirements for those afternoons, so after working on a few normal pills, he'd begin building up a selection of improved blood pills which in turn had been improved again due to the low impurities purple spirit grass growing in his garden.
On the fourth day, he accepted Maimai's invitation to eat with him in the Food Hall and while she was fussing over what to eat, he took his own easily chosen meal and found two seats for them. As she came over, he filled two cups with water from the jug on the table and Maimai took her seat opposite him.
"Well," she smiled, a glint of misdemeanour in her pretty eyes. "How are things with you and Jin Li?"
Leon nervously laughed before attempting to deter her; "I d-d-don't know w-what you m-m-mean. I h-haven't seen J-Jin Li since the other m-m-morning."
"Morning huh," she carelessly nodded as Leon picked up his cup and brought it to his lips. "So that means he stayed over night with you?" The contents from Leon's mouth sprayed in her directions, coating the front of her dress in liquid. "Ah...?" Maimai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she hadn't expected that reaction to her probing.
"N-n-not your f-f-f-fault!" Leon stuttered, struggling with his words as he placed down his cup and pushed it away, his face in a grimace.
Maimai sniffed as an unpleasant smell assaulted her nose. "What is this?"
Leon shook his head and tried to speak, but was interrupted by another. "How disgusting! You dare treat Miss Maimai so badly when she is so kind to you!" The person who spoke was a girl, Leon thought she was vaguely familiar but could not place her. In fact, she was one of the girls that used to hang around with Merylin before the girl was transferred to the inner school. She had attempted to become close to Maimai instead, but who knew that the other girl preferred the company of this low born senior!
"S-s-Sorry," Leon could only hang his head in shame. Maimai, however, did not blame him, taking his cup and smelling its contents. It seemed someone had swapped his drink for a cup of fish oil! No wonder he had spat it out quickly!
"I don't blame you," she sighed, glancing around, but many heads turned away. Standing up she grasped his hand and pulled him out of the Food Hall. "I've lost my appetite thanks to the surroundings. Let me go and change and then we shall eat the last of the pastries my mother sent me."
On the fifth day, Leon was tripped, jostled and almost lost his glasses twice, but did lose the herbs he was carrying once as they were trampled under other's feet. Clearly by now, he was well aware he was being targeted, though he did not know why. He thought it maybe Caprian's old friends getting some revenge, but then realised that apart from Tor, who had transferred to the Beast Taming Sect, he had seen hide nor hair of them. He knew Caprian had been kicked out, perhaps the same had occurred to them?
But even it were not them, he thought to himself, for what reason did a bully need to bully? There was no excuse, once they had locked onto a potential victim, it did not matter anymore, the victim could only suffer until the bullies got bored or were punished enough to see reason. As he came to that conclusion, on the sixth day, he was in the Lecture Hall listening to Teacher Pitre's lecture on newly discovered herbs. Teacher Pitre was a man who was widely travelled and it was his Mesmyr that had taken a shine to Leon that day. The Teacher also wished to share with them an easy recipe that incorporated one of these herbs; it was called the Vision at Midnight pill and was an enhancement pill meant to provide night vision.
He had the students set up their cauldrons upon the firepits in the stone desks wanting them to practice this pill. However, once Leon's firepit was lit, it began to produce a thick smoke that made the students cough and gag. They quickly evacuated the room as it was dealt with. "Which fool placed indigo hearth shade into the firepit?" roared the Teacher a few minutes later. All eyes turned to Leon, who could only stutter in panic, he had only started the fire using the wood that was already in there!
Seeing as it was Leon, Teacher Pitre could only chose to hand this matter to the boy's direct Teacher, but he did not believe this quiet, amicable student had any hand in this idiocy. Of course, he knew he could be wrong and if that was the case, he would be very disappointed in the chosen disciple. For now he dismissed the class and had Leon clean out the fire pit.
And so Leon returned home dirty and stinking of smoke, desperate for a bath.
Jin Li happened to frown as he saw Leon coming up the garden path, not that he had been waiting for him or anything. "What happened to you?"
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