521 Chapter 521: Betrayal

At lunch break, I left my classroom for the cafeteria. It was unfortunate, but I didn't bring a bento that day, so I had to buy food from the cafeteria. That was all right, I was in the mood for some tofu and rice. But before I could reach the cafeteria, I caught sight of Zhao Yan striding briskly down a corridor. Wanting to thank her properly for helping me earlier in the morning, I decided to follow her.

Just when I was about to call out to her, she disappeared into a room right at the end of the corridor. Not willing to miss this opportunity, I hurried toward the room.

Before I could knock on the door, I heard Zhao Yan speaking to Yi Shen and Kai Lin.

"Something strange happened this morning," Zhao Yan was saying. "There was a person begging for money in front of the school, and he had a weird tattoo on his hand."

It appeared that Zhao Yan had also grown suspicious about the beggar. Seemed like my intuition wasn't that far off the mark, after all. Well, the guy was basically ogling her, so of course Zhao Yan would feel uncomfortable.

However, Yi Shen and Kai Lin responded in an overly exaggerated manner.

"What?!"

Yi Shen yelled so loudly that I was almost knocked over just from the sheer volume of his bishounen voice. And that was even after taking into account that I was right outside the room with the walls and door to shield me. I couldn't imagine how it must be like for Zhao Yan and Kai Lin. Cursing under my breath, I wondered why he was making such a big fuss.

His next words explained why.

"It's a bad sign. Before Meng Ting and Ti Wen Academies went down, everyone said they met a strange person who begged for money at their school gates."

And you're only informing everyone of this critical fact…now? Dude, shouldn't you have told everyone in your faction, like, two nights ago when you first mentioned the two doomed academies? What the hell was wrong with these people? They dared to call themselves hunters?

More like hunted, what with their silly and absurd mistakes and lapses in security.

Shaking my head in disgust, I left. While I strode down the corridor, I passed by Ji Yan, who promptly opened the door.

"Who is it?!" Yi Shen roared, almost scaring the living daylights out of poor Ji Yan. Dude, there was no need to act so exaggeratedly? What the hell, man, Ji Yan was only opening the door and you were all in school. Why were you so jumpy and agitated?

Ji Yan looked stunned for a moment, and then she forced a smile.

"I was looking for you. I want to have lunch with my fellow sect members. I don't know what you're discussing about, but you all look agitated, so I was a bit hesitant to interrupt…"

Yi Shen, for some reason, was glaring at her in suspicion. I raised an eyebrow at that. I had reason to be suspicious of Ji Yan because I was aware of what was going on, and I even told him and the Guang Zhi Yi Sect that she was planning to betray him. However, none of them believed me. Hmm, seemed like Yi Shen had finally wisened up and decided to listen to me, after all.

I didn't know whether to feel relieved or annoyed that he didn't apologize to me for all that condemnation after finaly deciding to believe me.

Whatever, I would just head to the canteen and have tofu rice or something. Funnily enough, the four members of Guang Zhi Yi Sect followed me, albeit inadvertently. They took their seats at a table not too far away from mine.

"There are four glasses of orange juice left," Ji Yan said cheerfully as she brought her tray of orange juice to the table where her sect was seated. I had just settled down on a table not far away, as I said earlier, having managed to procure my supply of tofu and rice. I had soup, and I didn't like orange juice. I was more of a mango juice person, so I couldn't care less that I was left out. Ji Yan then placed the cups methodically in front of everybody. "Luckily, there's just enough for four of us. One glass is for each person."

…girl, you're making yourself look suspicious by stating the obvious. What, did you think someone will demand to have two glasses or something?

Yi Shen picked up the glass of orange juice and studied it skeptically. Then he stood up.

"Sorry for troubling you, but I don't like orange juice. I'll drink water instead."

Kai Lin also stood up and joined him as he made his way toward the huge water cooler, smiling apologetically. "Sorry, but I'll do the same."

As the two seniors returned, Kai Lin cheerfully brought two cups. "Zhao Yan, I also have one for you."

Could you be any more obvious? I wanted to roll my eyes and bury my head in my plate of sweet tofu. Ji Yan had just brought all of you orange juice, and not only did you reject her, you even tried to get her sister to drink water instead? Not only that, while you brought Zhao Yan a cup of water, you didn't bring Ji Yan anything! Even a mentally challenged person could clearly see what you were trying to imply! What the fuck was wrong with these people?!

To continue the process of making my head hurt, Kai Lin attempted to justify her subtly malicious actions.

"I heard that drinking water in the afternoon is good for health. Do you want to change your drink?"

Thankfully, Zhao Yan was not oblivious to Ji Yan's feelings at all. She shook her head and rejected her senior's offer.

"No need. I like orange juice." Turning to her sister, she smiled. "Ji Yan and I will drink orange juice then."

Ji Yan was pondering to herself. It seems that Yi Shen and Kai Lin are starting to be suspicious of me.

She stared at the glasses of iced water in their hands before smiling to herself.

But they don't know that…I predicted earlier that they might not drink orange juice. So the three sachets of powder that Xu Wu Cheng gave me, I put them inside water filters.

Of course, it wasn't as if I could really read minds. However, I knew exactly what she was thinking because I had read all of her inner dialogue in a stupid shoujo manga with vampires forced into it. The whole story was proceeding in an utterly predictable fashion, to the point where I was amazed that Yi Shen and Kai Lin hadn't seen through Ji Yan's schemes.

Oh well…

And then Ji Yan narrowed her eyes as she watched Zhao Yan drink the orange juice.

The only thing I didn't think of was that Zhao Yan still trusts me.

Well, duh. She was your triplet sister, wasn't she? Why wouldn't she trust you? Unless you had made it so blatant that you planned to stab her in the back, she had no reason to suspect you, right? She trusted you so much that she refused to listen to anything I said when I tried to warn her about your betrayal. Were you not aware of that? Why would she not trust you when she already rebuked me for my so-called lies about you?

Sometimes, these borrowed characters from a certain vampire shoujo manhua made my head hurt so much from their stupidity that I wanted to nuke the whole lot of them from orbit. Not to mention, how did Ji Yan know that her seniors would drink iced water instead of other juices after rejecting orange juice? What would she have done if they decided to drink mango juice, or watermelon juice, or even grab some soup like I did? Or if they went for coffee and tea instead? I mean, that was quite the huge gamble she took there.

And to add further to her stupidity, Ji Yan suddenly behaved unnaturally by snatching the cup of orange juice from her sister while Zhao Yan was still drinking it!

"Zhao Yan…" Ji Yan pushed the cup of water toward her sister when she took the orange juice away. "I think Kai Lin is right. You should drink water as well."

COULD YOU NOT ACT ANY MORE SUSPICIOUS AND STUPIDLY?!

Firstly…why wait until AFTER Zhao Yan had already drunk half of the orange juice before snatching it away from her and pushing her to drink water instead? Were you planning to make her feel as bloated as possible?! Secondly, if you weren't going to drink water yourself, why ask your sister to do it? Thirdly, the manner in which she was doing this whole thing was way too unnatural! But obviously Yi Shen and Kai Lin, despite being strangely perceptive of Ji Yan's betrayal earlier, were plot induced to be too dumb and dense that they overlooked this unnatural behavior! Any fool could see that Ji Yan was behaving too suspiciously!

Fortunately, Ji Yan's pushy and unnatural behavior caused her to be too rough, and she let go of the cup before the astonished Zhao Yan could properly accept it. The glass of water fell and shattered on the ground, spilling its contents.

Zhao Yan's eyes widened, and she waved her hands frantically in apology.

"I'm sorry, I didn't hold it properly!"

"Hmph!"

Ji Yan looked irritated. Hey, this was your fault, and you should be the one apologizing, not Zhao Yan. What a stupid and pushy bitch. Fortunately, Zhao Yan's plot armor kicked in and saved her from being forced to drink the spiked water. Seemed like the author wanted to spare her for whatever plot reason.

Kai Lin was on hand to defuse the situation, and she stepped in before Ji Yan could launch into a tirade.

"It's okay, we can pay for it at the counter…"

As Ji Yan sullenly drank the remains of her orange juice, she wondered to herself (again, I was just referencing the inner dialogue from the original manhua). What should I do now? Should I go and ask Xu Wu Cheng for another sachet? Oh, well…I'll let Zhao Yan go this time.

There wouldn't be a next time, bitch.

Even though I knew everything that was happening, I doubted that Yi Shen and Kai Lin would listen to me if I told them that Ji Yan had drugged them. They were pretty hostile to me for some reason, and from previous experience, I knew that they would just scoff at me and refuse to believe a word that I said. They would be like, "Ji Yan isn't that cunning, we didn't drink the orange juice, and we are right while you are wrong, so stop pestering us!"

Well, those attitudes were going to cause their demise. Despite feeling sorry for them, I was aware that there was noting I could do. If they wanted to act smart and look down on others, then they deserved what was coming to them. I already did all I could do and warned them, and they shut me down pretty hard. I had no obligation to be insulted by these idiots.

Sighing, I picked up my tray and returned my now empty plate and bowl to the cleaning station. I gave Zhao Yan one last glance, but I knew that she would never belive me. Even to the very end, she continued to blindly trust her sister, who did everything within her power to betray her. It was only because of her immense plot armor and Mary Sue-ness that she avoided disaster despite her naivety and overly trusting nature. Then again, if she was overly trusting, she would have believed me…well, whatever.

Moving my fingers under my glasses and rubbing the bridge of my nose, I sought to formulate a plan that would save everyone in this academy before the vampires inevitably invaded us.

However, when there was not a single person who believed me, then what could I do?

Wait…maybe there will be people who will believe me…

Blinking, I retrieved my smartphone. I had Kufa's number, as well as Miura's and Rossetti. They were the few friends that I made while I was still here. What if I told them about the whole thing…?

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