The Mansion [C94]

Thirty minutes later, Shu Himo and Phylia are finally in front of a three-story mansion they like.

Covering the whole area there is a courtyard full of lush grass, surrounded by a three meters high wall made of bricks. The entrance is a metal gate high 3 meters and wide 5 meters, colored black with a floral decoration imprinted on it.

The walls of the mansion are colored in white while the windows are covered by a red curtain, barely letting enter the light from outside, lightly brightening everything inside. The roof was peaked, slightly slanting down toward the sides. The main entrance comprehends a simple black wood door, seated in the middle of the mansion.

Taking out the 'Unoccupied' sign from the ground, Shu Himo and Phylia walked through the main entrance, reaching a spacious hall, with a shiny floor and on the sides two set of stairs leading upward, toward the next floor.

Seeing all of this, Shu Himo was completely unaffected and nonchalantly took out from the storage a table to eat dinner together with Phylia.

Thirty minutes later, being full from the food Shu Himo planned to go immediately to sleep but still felt to be observed, which made him particularly annoyed so he went toward a window and opened it, looking around to see if there is someone looking from outside.

Not managing to find anyone, he frowned in displeasure and slowly took a heavy breath, fulling his lungs of air.

Only a moment later, his scream resounded in the distance, "At the teachers that are spying on me, please stop doing it!"

Hearing the scream, the jaws of the teachers seemed to drop due to the shock, 'He actually noticed that the ones spying on him are teachers? How did he saw us?'

Not only the three are shocked, but even the others, as the scream resounded in the distance many other teachers heard it too, all wondering how is even possible that Shu Himo managed to spot out the three teachers.

In fact, Shu Himo did not spot them, but only guessed: knowing that in this area only S class students, teachers, and headmasters are normally able to come, Shu Himo simply made an elimination-based choice, as he believes that he would be able to spot an S class student but not able to notice the headmaster at all, the only ones that could make him feel observed while not being easy to spot would be the teachers.

Feeling that the annoying sensation of being observed finally lessened, Shu Himo closed once again the window and returned inside, pondering on how to resolve completely this problem.

Meanwhile, the teachers seeing that Shu Himo returned inside sighed in relief, it seems that increasing their focus on hiding would be enough to not cause any suspicion from the other party.

But abruptly, their expectations were betrayed.

They saw Shu Himo calmly walking outside of the mansion, with a small clock on his hand, as if trying to check something.

"What is he trying to do?"

"I don't know!"

Suddenly, they saw Shu Himo taking out a formation rod and impaling it on the ground.

*Ptt*

The realization of what he is doing completely dumbstruck them… it seems that Shu Himo doesn't want anyone to see inside the mansion!

Impaling multiple formation rods around the mansion at specific points based on the flow of Essence Qi, Shu Himo finally clapped his hands, activating the formation.

*Viuun*

With a soft sound that reverberated in the mansion for a moment, from the outside the view toward the inside of the mansion became extremely blurry, preventing anyone from seeing what is happening.

Nodding, feeling happy on his own work Shu Himo chuckled, "Formations are really useful!"

[Wasn't it easier to just close the curtains?]

Hearing the system, Shu Himo stood in shock, why didn't he thought of that? Still, not wanting to allow the system to notice it he immediately answered, 'What are you talking about, it's obviously more stylish like this!'

[The User actually did not think about it...]

Ignoring the system as if he did not hear it, Shu Himo quickly went on the bed, falling asleep immediately. Naturally, Phylia acted like a lap pillow, as always while stroking his head with a smile on her face.

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The next morning.

Waking up, as always the first thing that Shu Himo saw is Phylia's face, which made him break into a smile.

"Good morning."

"Good morning, master."

He then patted her head and stood up, going then to prepare himself. A couple minutes later, he ate breakfast with Phylia and then went outside of the mansion, but what he did not expect would be seeing a known face in front of the entrance.

"Hello?" A rather puzzled greeting came out of Shu Himo's mouth, as he still doesn't know why she is here.

In front of Shu Himo, there is a 10 years old girl with a smile on her face, that hearing Shu Himo's greeting just replied, "Hello!"

"...What are you doing here?" With a puzzled expression, Shu Himo felt the need to ask.

Hearing the question she reverted to her usual challenging smile, and she pointed her finger at Shu Himo, "Shu Himo! I, Aura Azusa, deemed you to be worthy, so I shall propose you to train with me!" With eyes filled with the excitement of wanting a rematch, she stared directly at Shu Himo's eyes.

Initially startled by her behavior, Shu Himo pondered for a moment and then grinned, "Very well, I shall accept your propose!"

[Isn't this way of talking a bit too cringy?]