Raised by Monster Royalty - Chapter 16.2

Communication Guru (2)

Mu Le obediently took her seat, trying to be an invisible presence in the class.

Unfortunately, someone didn’t let her have her way.

Just before class was about to start, a group of students entered the classroom, breaking the tranquility with their noisy laughter.

The boy at the front laughed the loudest, and he continued laughing until he reached the classroom door, where he finally quieted down upon seeing Teacher Bai, the brown bear.

Still smiling, he greeted, “Good morning, Teacher!”

Teacher Bai nodded in response, “Good morning. Take any seat for now. We’ll change seats later.”

The boy happily nodded and then exclaimed with surprise, “Lele!!!”

Mu Le: “…”

Apart from Erte, who else could be such an outgoing boy?

Erte quietly waved to his new friends behind him whom he met on the way to school, then happily ran over to Mu Le’s side and took a seat at her desk.

“I didn’t expect to see you here,” he murmured quietly, “I thought I would lose all my friends. I was sad for a while.”

Mu Le guessed that his “for a while” was probably just a minute… or maybe thirty seconds.

She chuckled a bit but didn’t say anything.

Some familiar classmates sat together in groups, but they would surely be separated once the seating arrangement was changed later. She glanced around and realized that only nineteen students had arrived so far.

Just as the bell for class was about to ring.

Sounds of sobbing could be heard from the classroom entrance.

The sounds were not loud, but they were continuous.

Mu Le: “…” Could it really be what she thought it was?

It turned out, it was exactly as she had imagined.

A small elephant cautiously stuck its head inside the classroom, tears welling up in its eyes. It hesitantly entered and sobbed, “T-Teacher, hello.”

Bai Yan quickly walked over to him and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Sob… I-I’m fine,” the little elephant said.

Bai Yan had read his file and knew that this was an incredibly timid baby elephant. He patted the elephant’s head and pointed to an empty spot under the podium, saying, “You can sit there for now.”

The little elephant rubbed his eyes and went to his seat.

Social expert Erte approached and said, “Feifei! I didn’t expect you to be here too. It’s Erte, we were in the same class two days ago. Do you remember me?”

Feifei stopped crying for a moment and choked out, “I-I remember…”

The school bell seemed to ring for an unusually long time. It took two sentences for Erte and Feifei to finish their conversation before the bell finally stopped.

Bai Yan stood up and said, “Everyone is here. Let’s go outside and line up by height to arrange the seating.”

Although it was a class of oddballs, the first day’s routine was almost exactly what Mu Le expected.

Class teacher Bai Yan was in charge of arranging the seats and checked everyone’s textbooks. The textbooks of the students who had skipped grades were collected and the content for the first year of middle school was provided instead. Then the class schedule was entered. Finally, the customary train-style self-introduction took place.

There were four lessons in the morning. One lesson was dedicated to seating arrangement and textbook distribution, while the remaining three lessons were Interstellar Language, Mathematics, and Physics.

In this world without an English class, the three core subjects had changed from language, mathematics, and English to language, mathematics, and physics.

Mu Le did reasonably well in the sciences. However, she believed that for many students, physics class was much more challenging than English class.

The self-introduction time for this class wasn’t very long. Each person only had one sentence, and in the second half of the lesson, the teacher began teaching directly.

The physics teacher was a handsome male bird, but Mu Le couldn’t quite determine his specific species. However, he gave an energetic lecture.

During the physics class, most of the students who were attentively listening were left in a daze. Even Erte was perplexed. His seat was just behind Mu Le’s, and after class, he patted her shoulder and whispered, “Did you understand Mr. Qu’s lecture?”

It was just high school physics, with knowledge that was covered in the ninth grade at most. Of course, she understood.

Mu Le shook her head blankly, “No, I didn’t.”

Erte was pleased, “Truly my friend!”

Their class was dismissed earlier than others, so they finished class earlier than everyone else.

When Mu Le and Erte exited the classroom together, there weren’t many people in the school yet. Feifei followed them from a short distance behind, still crying softly.

Both kids were a little worried about him and unconsciously slowed down their pace.

…Not because their legs were the shortest and they walked the slowest.

Given the frequency and duration of Feifei’s crying, the fact that he hadn’t cried himself blind by now was quite a medical miracle.

After all, they were classmates, and Mu Le wanted to try and comfort him. However, Feifei was particularly afraid of her, and she was worried that he would cry even harder if she approached.

Mu Le was still pondering when Erte beside her said, “Wait for me!”

He quickly ran back to Feifei, patting him on the back with force.

Feifei stumbled forward from his pat.

Erte was even shorter than Feifei, but he appeared formidable, “Stop crying! Come and play with us!”

Feifei: “?”

The students from the special class had already left, while the other classes were still in session, occasionally producing the sound of reading. Mu Le and the two kids stood on the empty staircase, looking at each other.

Erte waved for Mu Le to come over.

After a moment of consideration, Mu Le walked over and whispered to Feifei, “Hello. I… am not scary, right?”

The little girl blinked her eyes, not a hint of scariness in her appearance.

Erte nodded vigorously while patting Mu Le’s dragon horn, “Exactly! The three of us have such a strong connection, why can’t we be friends? She’s just a dragon, no need to be too…”

Erte: “…”

He trailed off mid-sentence. Everyone present fell silent.

The air grew still, with only distant murmurs of reading confirming that time was indeed passing.

Mu Le: “…”

She touched her own head.

…Her dragon horn was crooked.

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