Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 438 Jake's inferiority complex

Su Lun and Sabina were led by Jike to wander around the academy.

Originally, they thought that having a guide would save them the effort of asking directions and looking at signs.

Unexpectedly, while walking, Jike actually said that they were going the wrong way.

After walking through another intersection, Su Lun and the others saw a gorgeous small auditorium with a steeple. Through the glass window of the auditorium, I happened to be looking at a group of beautiful female students in ballet costumes who were rehearsing.

But this is not the expected library.

Jike looked at the surrounding environment, finally showed embarrassment, and said, "Ah, teacher, we seem to have come to the small auditorium, which is opposite to the direction of the library."

Su Lun and Sabina showed dumbfounded expressions when they heard this.

This kind of outrageous mistake can only be done by students who only stay at home and never participate in group activities.

Jike also felt quite embarrassed, and explained again, "I haven't visited the campus much. The archives and laboratories of the School of Pharmacy are the ones I visit the most on weekdays. I don't know why I turned to the side."

Su Lun also smiled and comforted: "It's okay, the scenery of the college is very good, and it's good to go shopping more."

The three of them went the wrong way and went back in another direction.

Su Lun asked about some topics related to Jike's life in the Royal Academy.

But there are very few interesting things that Jake can say.

His life seems to be only the laboratory and the library, in addition to learning and looking up information is doing experiments, boring and boring.

After all, this is the Royal Academy, Su Lun can also see that this disciple of himself will only be high-spirited when talking about explosives, and has a kind of withdrawn and inferiority complex from the bottom of his heart in life.

The three of them didn't take a few steps, and Su Lun also noticed a gaze searching from the direction of the small auditorium behind him.

Then there was a sound of light footsteps.

Looking back, it was a girl chasing her out. She seemed to recognize Jike, who had lowered the brim of his hat, and asked in a tentative tone, "Jike?"

Su Lun stopped when he heard someone calling Jake's name.

Jike glanced back, his expression became a little evasive.

It seemed that he knew the girl, but he didn't want to meet her.

The little girl ran over excitedly, she was still wearing a rehearsal tutu, "Jike, is it really you?"

She looked really Jike, and she couldn't hide her joy on her pretty face: "Did you come to see our rehearsal? Just now Xibel said that he saw you, I thought she was wrong."

Jike was a little at a loss, deliberately turned his face to hide his burned left cheek, "I, I don't"

Seeing his evasive expression, Su Lun didn't understand that this was meeting a girl he liked. He chuckled and asked, "Jike, is this your classmate?"

Ji Ke was slightly embarrassed, nodded, but wanted to escape from here.

The girl didn't care, she cheerfully curtseyed like a noble lady, and introduced herself to Su Lun, "Hello, sir. My name is Phoebe Shelley, and I'm Jike's classmate."

Ji Ke was afraid that his teacher would offend a nobleman without knowing it, so he quickly introduced: "Phoebe's father is a noble hereditary baron of the empire."

Su Lun listened silently, but immediately understood where his disciple's inferiority complex was.

In Luying, nobles and commoners are originally two classes of people.

For nobles, marriage is the most stable and lasting way to exchange interests. So usually their offspring will never marry civilians. This kind of secret love is usually doomed to be fruitless.

Su Lun thought of the love story between Hayato Fujiwara, a great writer, and Grandma Katyusha. The mountains and rivers are brilliant, but they can't overcome the difference in status after all.

"Oh? Aristocrats"

Sabina on the side heard this, with a smile in her eyes: "No wonder Phoebe is so good-looking and well-mannered."

"Thank you for your compliment."

The girl was praised, her cheeks flushed slightly. She also showed her good family upbringing, and responded politely: "You are also the most attractive lady I have ever seen."

Sabina looked at the little girl, smiling with her brows crooked, as if very satisfied.

Su Lun also felt very good.

At least she didn't mind Jike's civilian status, and she clearly saw the scars on Jike's face but didn't mention it.

This is a kind-hearted girl.

After Phoebe greeted him politely, she looked at Jake again, and said with a sly smile, "Jike, did you secretly watch my rehearsal just now?"

Her naughty grin directly resolved the embarrassment of "being caught" and said generously: "Actually, you don't have to come here secretly. Tell me in advance, and I will be very happy for you to come to see me." rehearsal."

The two simple sentences boldly expressed the feelings of a young girl, but Jike probably didn't understand.

But he really didn't come to see the rehearsal, he hesitated and said: "No. I am accompanying the teacher"

Phoebe looked at Su Lun and Sabina again, blinked: "Teacher?"

Children in the upper class have all kinds of tutors, and it is not surprising to have teachers.

Sabina smiled and corrected: "We are Jike's family."

Hearing this, Phoebe was slightly surprised.

Although Su Lun and Sabina didn't have any coat of arms to show their noble status, their clothes and demeanor were unusual at first glance.

It seems that Jike has never heard of such a family.

But she didn't care, and found the topic again, and said: "Jike, I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you always staying in the laboratory? I said it, you have to come out and look around."

Jack's expression was very unnatural, especially in front of his teacher, he was almost stuttering in embarrassment, "Well, I. I."

Although Su Lun didn't know what the two had experienced before, he could tell that they looked at each other with light in their eyes.

This disciple of mine obviously did not dare to respond to the girl's enthusiasm because of low self-esteem.

Su Lun felt that he should help Jake build up some confidence, and wanted to ask the little girl to have lunch or something. But at this moment, a group of young students saw a few people who were communicating and hurried over.

There are men and women, and it can be seen from the coat of arms on the buttons of their clothes that they are some minor nobles.

These few people walked over arrogantly.

Someone greeted Phoebe, "Phoebe, the next rehearsal is about to start, why are you here?"

As he approached, the brown-haired boy in the lead pretended to recognize Jike, and said in a strange way: "Who is this? Isn't this the 'ammunition wizard' Jike of our class? Tsk tsk. I'm not staying in your handyman's room , why did you come here? Oh, what happened to your face, and your fingers were blown off?"

Originally, I came to see the rehearsal of Miss Phoebe's festival celebration, which is very likely to become my "fiancée", but I didn't expect to meet a toad. Naturally, the mood will not be good.

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Jike was silent when he heard the obvious sarcasm, his low self-esteem made him unable to hold his head up.

Seeing this, the brown-haired boy sneered again, his eyes full of disdain. He turned to Phoebe again and said, "Phoebe, why are you with this kind of person? If uncle knows, he will definitely say that I didn't take good care of you in the academy."

Phoebe obviously knew the group was there to taunt Jake, as it had done so many times in the past.

She said with a bad face: "Student Tim, I don't know you that well!"

Saying that, she took Jake's hand directly, "Let's go, Jike, let's go somewhere else."

"you!"

This protective action made the brown-haired boy named Tim even more gloomy.

At this moment, the skinny yellow-haired little follower beside him suddenly caught a glimpse of the gold pocket watch hanging on Jike's chest, and quickly tore it off.

After waiting to see the trademark on the pocket watch clearly, the little follower immediately seemed to have discovered some new flaws, and suddenly said eccentrically: "Hey, look, our classmate Jike is actually wearing the 'Heart of the Feili Warrior'! Wow, a limited edition pocket watch worth more than a million lisos."

With that said, those students immediately started to mock.

"Tsk tsk, classmate Ji Ke is really rich. I didn't buy this limited-edition mechanical pocket watch after procrastinating. You actually have one?"

"Hehe, maybe someone picked it up. After all, I heard that he often goes to the college's waste disposal room to pick up materials."

"Hahaha, the Jike family is a big fur merchant, how can you say that they picked it up?"

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Sarcasm is like a sharp sword, piercing human dignity with blood.

Jike mustered up his courage, grabbed the pocket watch, and shouted angrily, "Give it back to me! It's mine!"

It's okay for him to be humiliated, but this is a meeting gift from his elders, and he must not be defiled by others.

The little follower understood Master Tim's hint, so he was not willing to let it go easily. He grabbed Jike by the collar and said aggressively: "Hey, I just lost a precious pocket watch, and now I suspect it was stolen. Come with me to the school office!"

Although he knew that the other party was looking for trouble on purpose, Jike still argued rationally: "This is the pocket watch my elders gave me! It's not the one you lost!"

Those little nobles naturally noticed Su Lun and the others early in the morning.

But seeing that neither of them had any signs of aristocratic status, they didn't take it seriously.

What's more, this Jike is a well-known poor man, that is, the son of a fur dealer. If he really has a big background, he won't have lived in the handyman's house for so long.

They thought to themselves, if these two people really dare to stand out, they must let them know the consequences of offending the nobles!

The yellow-haired little follower was not forgiving: "Hmph, is it up to you? Follow me to the school office, and someone will judge!"

It doesn't matter how the facts are, he just wants to humiliate this ignorant toad face to face for Young Master Tim.

"Don't go too far!"

Phoebe on the side shouted anxiously.

She was also shocked when she heard this. If she really went to the school office, it would be hard to tell.

She knew very well that a commoner student like Jike was justified and couldn't explain it clearly. If there was a big trouble, there was a high probability that he would be expelled from the academy!

However, such an expensive pocket watch.

She suddenly looked at the two elders of Jike.

Su Lun has always been a bystander, listening to the conversation, he knew that this was probably Jike's rival in love.

This little girl, Phoebe, looks pretty good-looking, and she looks like the type that boys will like.

But it's normal to be jealous at this age.

He didn't intend to end at first, so he just watched silently from the side.

But now... it's impossible not to intervene.

Campus bullying is indeed everywhere.

Under normal circumstances, some noble students bully commoner students, this is also one of the daily fun, no one will care.

The civilians were bullied and could only endure it.

Because in Luying, even offending nobles with their eyes is a felony that will be imprisoned.

Even the use of the academy to recruit civilians is here. Raising a few silver carp stimulates these noble little fish, and also gives them a place to show a sense of superiority.

Unfortunately, they messed with the wrong person this time.

Before Su Lun could speak, Sabina said lightly, "I gave this pocket watch to Jake."

She is not interested in embarrassing a group of half-children.

Unexpectedly, this group of little nobles are not fuel-efficient lamps at all.

Although Sabina was wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a black veil covering half of her face, the little yellow-haired boy was also shocked by her beauty, but deliberately mocked: "Auntie, who are you? "

Sabina, who is a professional intelligence officer, has long been able to tell the family background of these people from their noble coats of arms. Hearing this, she choked back coldly: "A quasi-baron bought for meritorious service, a hereditary little viscount. Is this lowly nobleman's status the basis for your arrogance?"

Nobles are superior to commoners.

But in fact, there are ridicule chains among the nobles.

Duke, Marquis, Bo, Zi, Nan, the rank of title is the chain of contempt.

Those above the earl level are called high nobles, and those below are called low nobles.

That Tim is the hereditary viscount.

Huang Mao is a quasi-baron, and can only be regarded as a pseudo-noble.

Sabina's condescending and arrogant tone really stunned those half-sized boys.

Low nobles who offend high nobles are also in big trouble.

Then Tim looked at Su Lun and the two seriously, and then he showed the etiquette that nobles should have, and first introduced himself: "I am Tim Price, may I ask your wife?"

Sabina vividly interprets the arrogance of high nobles. When she heard the question, she didn't look at the boy directly, and asked instead: "Do you really want to know who I am?"

After a moment's pause, she said again in a deep voice: "If I remember correctly, the Price family is the little lord of Breitja, a border city in the east of Luying? Your family seems to be in the business of iron mines? The Forest of Shadows?" The quality of the newly discovered ore seam is a big problem, and your family is devastated, but you are lucky, and you still have the intention to bully your classmates here."

As soon as these words came out, Tim turned pale with fright.

Little lord?

He didn't expect that he just said his name, and the other party would explain his origin clearly.

With this cold and arrogant tone, there is no doubt at all, the person in front of him is definitely a high-ranking nobleman!

Sabina is a professional intelligence officer, and she knows almost everything about Lu Ying's nobles.

What's more, it takes a lot of talking to deal with these half-sized boys?

She sneered and continued: "Student Tim, right? It seems that you have already made up your mind to cause trouble for your family? Hehe, you know that you have offended me. Once I say my last name, you and you His father had to come to his house to apologize."

Before he finished speaking, Tim was sweating like beans on his forehead, and the panic in his eyes was hard to hide.

He hurriedly bowed and saluted, and hurriedly explained: "No, ma'am, I think there may be some misunderstanding here. I have absolutely no intention of offending you."

If his father knew that he had offended a high-ranking nobleman in Ye Academy, his legs would probably be broken.

Sabina was not interested in going any further, and said blankly, "Apologies! Then, where should I go?"

At this moment, Tim was so frightened that he lost his strength. He protected his chest decisively and saluted the nobleman, saying, "Sorry, I offended the noble lady."

The yellow-haired follower on the side also apologized in panic.

Sabina shook her head. "It's not my apology. It's Jake."

Hearing this, Tim's faces became very ugly, but they could only do so, and lowered their noble heads towards them, a commoner who looked down on them: "I'm sorry, Jake. We blamed you."

Tim and the others came arrogantly, but now they leave in despair.

The remaining Jike stood there dumbfounded.

He never expected that the noble classmate, who was overwhelmed in his eyes, would be forced to apologize by this lady in a few words and run away?

But at the same time, Ji Ke also realized that his teacher, this friend, is actually a distinguished high-ranking nobleman!

As soon as Sabina opened her mouth to express her opinion, she suddenly spoke like an elder, and her aura was overwhelmed, so there was no room for Jike to speak.

Phoebe on the side suddenly became cautious.

Facing a high-ranking nobleman, the young master of the Viscount's family apologized and ran away. How could she, a young lady of the Baron's family, dare to be too presumptuous.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little strange, and Phoebe also knew that she should go, and said with honorifics: "That...sorry, honorable madam and sir, although I am very rude, but... I should go to rehearsal."

If you stay any longer, it will appear to be brazen and condescending.

"Um."

Sabina smiled, and asked again: "Student Phoebe, if you are free, Jike would like to invite you to dinner some other day?"

Phoebe glanced at Jake from the corner of her eye, and nodded with a restrained expression, "Yeah."

As she spoke, she hurriedly bowed slightly to salute, Xiao Lu turned her head and said, "Then I'll go first."

Su Lun and the two nodded.

Sabina looked at the girl's back and said with emotion: "A very kind girl."

Su Lun agreed with a smile: "Yes."

Naturally, Sabina understood Su Lun's attitude, revealing a little identity gave Jike some confidence.

What's more, Su Lun's current status and strength are not comparable to any nobleman.

What happened just now can only be regarded as a small episode, and the three continued to walk in the academy.

Probably because facing a high-ranking nobleman, Jike seemed more restrained than before.

At this moment, Sabina asked curiously, "Jike, you seem to be familiar with Phoebe?"

Jike responded: "When I first entered school, the college organized a 'Warcraft Hunting Practical Class', but there was a little accident. The monster went berserk and hurt people. The other students were scared, so I helped her. Later, I will study again. I met a few times in the library, chatted for a few days, and became friends. Phoebe is also my only friend in the college. Later, when I encountered difficulties, she always helped me."

The process of getting acquainted is vivid, and Jike's tone was a little emotional, but his eyes dimmed when he said it at the end, and he said: "But you can't keep causing trouble to others."

"Oh, so you saved her?"

Where did Sabina fail to understand the deep inferiority complex in these words.

At this time, she said something meaningful, "Jike, you are a disciple of Mr. Su Lun, but you are no worse than any nobleman."

Jike also mustered up some courage, and nodded seriously, "Yeah!"

After talking here, Su Lun felt a little strange.

It stands to reason that as a teacher, even if he is not an aristocrat, he should not give his disciples a little bit of confidence with the nickname of "Reaper"?

When my old friends saw him, they all laughed at his prestige in the battle in the city-state of Moros.

The [Eight-Armed Spider Lance] colonization outfit was once displayed in Blizzard City Suren. It stands to reason that Jike should not be able to guess such a highly recognizable colonization outfit.

But my own disciple didn't respond at all?

Could it be that he thought I was the Tier 2 professional in Blizzard City back then?

Su Lun thought it might be.

He thought of something and asked, "Jike, haven't you read the newspaper recently?"

Jike didn't know why his teacher asked such a strange question, but he admitted, "Ah yes."

"I have been in the laboratory for more than half a year recently, and I seldom pay attention to practical facts, and I have little time to read newspapers."

He thought he missed some important event worthy of attention, and asked again: "Teacher, did the newspaper say that something important happened?"

Hearing this, Su Lun smiled lightly and shook his head, "Oh. That's all right."

Jike doesn't communicate with people, and doesn't read newspapers, so it's no wonder he has to know.

Seeing Jike's blank expression, Sabina on the side covered her mouth with a smile and said, "If you read the newspaper, you know what a great teacher you have."

Jike was a little confused, "Huh?"

After thinking about it for a moment, he finally realized that he seemed to have heard some incredible information.