Chapter 7.2

Professor Brown Bear (2)

“Well, you don’t have anything else to do,” the little boy sat cross-legged in the book, “It’s not a bad thing to learn more things.”

Mu Le: “Ugh.”

Fine, fine.

Since there were no exams for this, she could just give up when she didn’t feel like learning, right?

Mu Le thought for a moment and said to the little boy, “But this book isn’t mine. I have to return it later.”

“Then make a contract with me,” the little boy stood up again, “Although spirits serve the beastmen… humans shouldn’t be too different, right?”

Mu Le: “…”

Making a contract.

It felt like a disadvantageous thing to do.

As the two children murmured and negotiated their “contract,” the adults on the other side had finished their discussion.

After signing the contract with the little spirit, Mu Le let the spirit hide in her right “ear”. She saw Gu Mingyuan walking towards her, so she obediently placed the book she was holding on the coffee table and jumped off the sofa. She ran to Gu Mingyuan’s side and reached out her small hand to hold his.

Gu Mingyuan was momentarily stunned when she grabbed his pinky finger. He lowered his head, and his expression softened inconspicuously. He asked gently, “Do you want to go home?”

Mu Le didn’t understand, so she just smiled at him. After all, when humans talk to pets, they don’t expect the pets to respond.

Gu Mingyuan said goodbye to Professor Lu and led the little girl back home.

…

The next morning, Mr. Peacock came to visit them again. However, this time it was Gu Mingyuan who sought Mr. Peacock’s help.

When Kong He’an entered, there was an unusually tall middle-aged man with brown hair following him. He had a gentle appearance and seemed very honest, with a pair of round ears on top of his head. Mu Le guessed that he might be a bear.

Her guess was correct.

Bai Yan was a brown bear. He had a good temper and greeted Gu Mingyuan in a warm and friendly manner.

“This is Teacher Bai. You should know him,” Kong He’an introduced Bai Yan to Gu Mingyuan. “He was your younger brother’s teacher when he was in first grade.”

Bai Yan paused for less than a second before recalling, “Ah… you are Gu Mingyuan’s older brother?”

Gu Mingyuan nodded, “My younger brother really likes you.”

“You flatter me,” Bai Yan chuckled sincerely. “Your brother is very smart, and the teachers all like him.”

After some small talk among the adults, they finally got to the main topic.

Gu Mingyuan pulled Mu Le out from behind him and introduced, “Our child wants to ask Teacher Bai if she can attend the Young Beast Academy.”

Mu Le peeped her half head out from behind him and looked at Bai Yan.

Gu Mingyuan had customized the dragon horns, and a pair of trial versions had been sent. Similar to the cat ears from before, they were worn directly on the head.

Now she looked like a student of the appropriate age for the Young Beast Academy.

Her race belonged to the ancient dragons.

“Mr. Kong has already briefed me on the situation before you came. There’s no problem,” Bai Yan smiled and said, “Is the little one feeling a bit shy?”

Mu Le understood the word “shy” and nodded obediently.

She saw Bai Yan take out a small device from his pocket and, after some operation, the device unfolded into a screen.

…It turned out to be an exam paper.

Mu Le had already learned the numeral writing system of this planet, so it was easy for her to recognize that it was a mathematics exam paper. Moreover, the paper was all about addition and subtraction within ten.

Mu Le: “…”

She felt that her intelligence was being insulted.

She sat at the table and started working on the exam paper, while Bai Yan sat beside her, keeping her company.

Mu Le didn’t notice that Gu Mingyuan and Kong He’an quietly left the room while she was diligently solving the addition and subtraction problems within ten.

As they walked out of the room, Gu Mingyuan’s worries were almost written on his face.

Kong He’an wagged his tail and chuckled, “It’s the first time I’ve heard of someone sending their pet to school. How interesting.”

If it was just a matter of testing her arithmetic abilities, Gu Mingyuan could have randomly given Mu Le some questions to solve.

Solving the questions was secondary.

The main purpose was to bring a teacher back and have them interact with Mu Le.

On the surface, they were inviting the teacher to help assess whether Mu Le was suitable for attending school.

But in reality… it was to see if Mu Le could accept a new teacher.

That’s why he and Kong He’an had stepped out, leaving Bai Yan alone with Mu Le in the room.

If she was scared or unwilling, Gu Mingyuan would immediately abandon the idea of sending her to school.

“Don’t worry, Bai Yan is a great teacher. He will be my cousin’s homeroom teacher next semester,” Kong He’an tried to comfort Gu Mingyuan. “Unfortunately, we don’t know any teachers from the preschool or elementary level… First grade of middle school is already the lowest.”

The two adults were anxious, as if they were waiting outside an operating room for a major surgery.

What they didn’t expect was that the child inside the room was not the least bit afraid.

Not only was she not afraid, but she mumbled and used a few words she had just learned to chat with Teacher Bai Yan.

Author’s Note:

Gu Mingyuan: Not going to school is also fine.

Mu Le (secretly starting to learn): Huh?

The kids mentioned now might become Mu Le’s classmates in the future~