Should she wake that guy up?
If she did, she might find her annoying.
If she didn’t… what if she forgot to get up for registration?
There was nothing to think about.
Registration was a big deal and couldn’t be late.
She stepped forward, poked Zhu Qiu’s cheek, and said very quietly,
“Time to get up.”
No response.
Yiluo Enya poked again, her voice slightly louder than before.
“Time to get up.”
This time, there was a reaction.
Zhu Qiu scratched the spot that had been poked, as if she felt a bit ticklish.
Then she turned over and continued sleeping.
Uh…
Yiluo Enya was stunned.
This wasn’t right.
Forget it, she didn’t care anymore.
Being scolded was being scolded.
After mentally preparing herself—repeating the scene of being scolded several times in her mind—she raised her hand and let her palm make intimate contact with Zhu Qiu’s face.
“Ouch!” Zhu Qiu cried out in pain.
The first thing she saw when she woke up was Yiluo Enya standing by the bed.
She roared angrily, “What are you doing? Why are you disturbing my sleep!”
Seeing Zhu Qiu awake, a weight lifted from Yiluo Enya’s heart.
She had expected to be scolded.
Luckily, she had rehearsed it in her mind several times, so it didn’t faze her now.
At least she had woken Zhu Qiu up, right?
The outcome was still good.
“I’m sorry, I… I just wanted to remind you that we need to go to school for registration soon. I tried to wake you up for a long time, but you didn’t stir, so… I got a little careless…”
Yiluo Enya lowered her head guiltily.
“I’m sorry.”
“Registration?”
Zhu Qiu looked out the window.
Judging by the sun, it still seemed early.
“What time is registration? It’s still morning. Shouldn’t it be in the afternoon?” she asked.
Following the habit of afternoon registration at ordinary Human Race schools, Zhu Qiu assumed the Dragon Race school was the same.
Besides, Zhu Xiaxia hadn’t told her that registration was at 9 AM, so Zhu Qiu was even more convinced.
“It’s not in the afternoon. Registration is at 8 AM. It’s already 7:30. We have half an hour.”
“Huh?!”
Zhu Qiu’s eyes went wide.
She quickly climbed out of bed, said nothing more, and turned into the bathroom to freshen up.
Yiluo Enya watched her hurried figure and wondered if she should wait for her to go together.
It should be fine in time.
After all, she had allowed her to stay the night.
She couldn’t be an ungrateful elf.
With Zhu Qiu’s quick washing, she finished her preparations in just ten minutes.
She flicked off the remaining water on her hands and said to Yiluo Enya, “Let’s go. To registration.”
“Okay.”
The two stood side by side.
Since it was just past seven in the morning, most of the Dragon Race were still asleep, so aside from other students coming for registration, there was almost no one else on the street.
Zhu Qiu didn’t know if the people here recognized her.
To avoid being recognized, she specially picked a hat from the clothes Zhu Xiaxia had prepared and put it on.
‘That way I won’t stand out so much. Smart me.’
The two walked to the main gate.
Two Dragon Race guards stood on duty—one tall and thin, the other short and fat.
They glanced at Zhu Qiu and let her in.
Zhu Qiu waved to Yiluo Enya outside the gate.
“Come in, come in quickly.”
“Coming, coming!”
Yiluo Enya hurried forward but was stopped by the Dragon Race guards.
“Elf Race? What business does an Elf Race have at our Dragon Race school?” the tall, thin guard asked first.
“You misunderstand. I’m a visiting student from the Elven Kingdom, Yiluo Enya.”
“Visiting student? How come I don’t know that the First Academy of the Dragon Clan has a visiting student? There’s never been one before,” the short, fat Dragon Race guard interjected.
They walked up to Yiluo Enya and pointed their weapons at her, seemingly intent on not letting her enter the academy.
Some passing Dragon Race, seeing an Elf Race in Dragon Territory, didn’t forget to mock her.
“This is the noble Dragon Race. You weak elves shouldn’t join in.”
“What visiting student? I think she’s just trying to cheat her way into enrollment, right?”
“I… I…”
Several dragons were slandering Yiluo Enya.
She was so frightened that she couldn’t speak clearly.
She crouched down, at a loss.
Faced with the crowd’s gossip, Zhu Qiu couldn’t stand it anymore.
‘How can these people be so morally depraved? Making random assumptions about others and putting on airs. Is this how a student should behave?’
She walked out of the academy, grabbed Yiluo Enya’s hand, helped her stand up, and looked at her with firm eyes.
“Yiluo Enya, I believe you’re innocent. There must be something you can use to prove it, right?”
With Zhu Qiu’s help, Yiluo Enya quickly composed herself.
She took a token out of her pocket and handed it over.
“This is a token proving my transfer student status. Please take a look.”
The tall, thin Dragon Race took it and examined it closely.
The token bore the principal’s personal signature.
From that alone, everything was proven.
The elf’s identity was legitimate.
She was indeed a student of this school.
The short, fat Dragon Race also came over for a look.
Realizing they had wronged her, he quickly cleared the way.
However, they did not apologize.
They just impatiently let Yiluo Enya in.
“Hurry up and get in. Don’t block the students behind you.”
Yiluo Enya couldn’t be bothered to argue with them and walked into the academy with Zhu Qiu.
From the main gate, what greeted the eye was a fountain.
In front of the fountain stood a large bulletin board with a map of the entire academy.
The two walked up to look.
Going straight ahead was the teaching area, to the left were the dormitories, and to the right was an open space.
As for other things, they weren’t that important.
“New students register at the teaching office entrance.”
A line of conspicuously large red characters was attached to the right side of the map.
Zhu Qiu tugged at Yiluo Enya’s hand.
“Let’s go register according to what it says.”
“Okay.”
The two hurried to the registration area.
By then, a long line had already formed.
Since they had arrived late, they stood at the end of the line.
Neither of them knew what to do next, so they just waited and waited until exactly 8 o’clock.
At that moment, a Dragon Race—about 6 feet tall, with red hair and red horns, dressed simply and casually, and looking a bit older—walked from the front of the line to the back.
Every few steps, he would carefully examine the nearby students, until he reached Zhu Qiu and Yiluo Enya.
“This must be the teacher, right?”
Zhu Qiu guessed.
“I think so too. His aura is different,” Yiluo Enya replied.
At this moment, a late student came running frantically from the gate toward this area, standing behind Zhu Qiu in a gamble.
However, when that Dragon Race came over, he unceremoniously made the late student leave.
“I’m sorry. You’ve missed the registration time. Come again next year.”
Before the student could plead, he was dragged away by the guards.