Nicholas became more and more silent.

This point, except for Liu Feifei, who studied with him every day, only Zheng Qing and a few people could see it. Most of the class didn't sneer at Nicholas like the out-of-class students or Alpha students, but they didn't stand behind him and cheer him on.

Because since Nicholas threw his 'self-justification' in the newspapers, the center of gravity of public opinion has escalated from 'an ordinary student's opinion on the fish-man riots' to the college contradiction of 'freedom and equality'.

Alpha's public opinion believes that Nicholas is under pressure from within the Nine Haves Academy, so his newspaper arguments lack credibility. And after the Beta Town Post threw out the full record of the interview, saying that it was not taken out of context, public opinion was in an uproar. There is no shortage of voices in Fort Alpha that regard Nicholas as a 'liar', 'coward', and 'untrustworthy'.

Similarly, there are few supporters of Nicholas in the Nine Schools. On the one hand, before Nicholas entered the Nine Beings Academy, the first academy he entered was the Alpha Academy, which made him seem to be born with some kind of 'sin', and his speech at the 'Fish-Man Incident' confirmed this;

It sounds paradoxical, but it is.

Thursday in pharmacy class.

In the corner of the classroom in the Potions class, Liu Feifei twisted a herb with wooden scissors and handed it to Nicholas. In order to prevent the rest of the class from speaking ill of him, the witch specially applied to be in the same potion group as him.

"Tianxing grass, spicy and warm fragrance, inside the heart and spleen, outside to the limbs. It can detoxify and relieve pain. The witch whispered, handing the herb to Nicholas: "Chop it up and scald it with boiling water." ”

With a stiff smile on his face, Nicholas took the herb and worked silently. This made the witch's face even more worried. She looked up uneasily and looked around.

Everyone in the classroom was paying attention to the crucible and medicine jar in front of them, and no one was looking at the two of them.

Turning a blind eye or turning a blind eye to scum, Liu Feifei didn't know which situation was worse, but she knew that she didn't like either situation. She hopes that everyone will be like her, and face Nicholas with a normal attitude.

On the podium, Professor Li Qihuang's faint voice came, as if coming from a distant sky: "...... After the Tianxing grass is crushed, simmer in boiling water, mix it with green onion juice, stir nine and a half times clockwise with a jade spoon, and add three coins of warm wine. Here we often use Shaoxing rice wine as an accompaniment, which is mild and can make the medicinal effect slowly volatilize......"

Nicholas followed the professor's instructions and meticulously blended the potion. Liu Feifei was a little in a hurry, either measuring the weight of the rice wine wrongly, or the direction of stirring was reversed.

After a few times, she became more and more depressed.

"I'm useless. The witch pursed her lips, her eyes reddening. She was not only annoyed by this small pot of potion in front of her, but also annoyed that she was powerless in the matter of Nicholas.

The stiff expression on the wizard's face finally eased a lot.

"No, absolutely not. His tone was firm: "If you feel useless as the chief student, then I should throw myself into the Mariana Trench and give the Kraken a snack." ”

"You haven't been admitted to the Registered Wizard Exam yet, and the Siren King won't eat a snack like you, it's too embarrassing. The witch couldn't help but smile, and her mood finally improved a little. Anyway, Nicholas will still joke, which is a good sign.

The wizard pulled the corners of his mouth in cooperation and turned his head to look out the window.

"Don't worry, I'm strong. ”

He muttered, looking at the blurred face reflected from the glass window, and silently said to himself, "If there are two things in this world that I am good at, then one is to protect my sister, and the other is to learn to be strong." ”

"Well, there's one more thing to add now...... Protect your peace of mind. ”

Thinking of this, the wizard grinned and pulled out a happy smile.

In the hallway near the window, a figure in a white robe walked by. As if sensing the sight behind the window, the white-robed wizard glanced at him nonchalantly.

Nicholas's eyes seemed to be stabbed, and he shrank back.

......

......

Sir Friedman withdrew his gaze, and the face behind the window was familiar.

But looking at the appearance of this classroom, it seems that a group of first-year students are taking Potions class. Friedman didn't think he would know any of the first-graders—except Zheng Qing and Matthew. The former has embarrassed his subordinates twice and three times, and the latter is his cousin, so he is naturally no stranger to the two.

The steaming mist in the Potions classroom blurred the face a little.

He thought about it for a long time, until he reached the end of the hallway, and was about to turn the corner, when Jazz finally remembered who the familiar face belonged to.

Nicholas Greene Oswall.

The half-werewolf who had been in school with him, a mongrel with half Oswall blood. At one point, he thought that the half-werewolf possessed certain qualities that other mongrels did not have, and considered letting him participate in the activities of his common room. But as it turned out, there are qualities that can never be compensated.

Bastards are just hybrids after all, and no matter how noble the adulterated bloodline is, it can't hide the despicable aura of their other half.

It's like the one that has been making a fuss lately.

A wizard with a sense of honor would never change his position under inexplicable pressure, let alone make up nonsense in the newspaper. Every time he thought about it, Sir Friedman had an urge to drain Nicholas from the blood of the Oswall family, so as not to tarnish the glory under the moon.

But this is the First University, not the Karen family's castle, nor the lawless hunting grounds outside the school. Except for practical classes and hunting competitions, Daiichi University does not allow students to draw out law books from each other.

"It's such a terrible world. ”

Sir Friedman's gloomy gaze swept across the corridor and the gray world outside the window, and for a moment the mood became particularly bad.

Because Nicholas reminded him of the harassment of the Fish-Man Tribe, and then of the riot of the Centaurs outside Fort Alpha that he had dealt with. The same means, different results, made him see the disappointment in Augustus' eyes.

The same disappointment, he had never seen in Augustus' eyes as he looked at the dead fat man of Seprano.

This gave Jazz an inexplicable sense of urgency.

And that's why he appeared in this stairwell at the moment.