Chapter 32: Yay! Cursed Again!
Chalk dust in the classroom floated in mid-air. Outside the window, the shadow of a bird was nailed to the curtain, and even sunlight had stopped flowing. This was some ability of Grim Reaper Tessa.
But Ian only smelled that pleasant fragrance.
Yet he didn’t see any figure.
“Hide-and-seek? I don’t like playing that.”
Just as Ian was looking around.
“Almost a day has passed, why do I feel like you’re not anxious at all?” Grim Reaper Tessa frowned, passing through the frozen teacher’s body from behind the teacher on the podium and walking over.
She seemed to have changed into a new set of clothes today, still pure black, but now shiny leather jacket and pants. Ian really wanted to know if Grim Reapers, this species, could fart.
“Hm?”
Tessa sensed Ian’s strange gaze.
“Who said I did nothing? I’ve already prepared a brilliant plan. Do you know what it is?” Ian cautiously probed the Female Grim Reaper.
“Hm?”
Female Grim Reaper Tessa furrowed her brows.
“You think I’m watching you every moment? Don’t be so narcissistic, little guy.” Her tone was unkind, but Ian’s smile immediately brightened.
“You’re right, I think so too.” Ian’s smile was very sunny, a real sunny and cheerful boy, but upon seeing this, the Female Grim Reaper’s brows furrowed even more severely.
“I really didn’t expect class to be more important than your father’s life. How should I put it, as a student, you’re very qualified?” Grim Reaper Tessa’s tone clearly carried a bit of speechlessness.
She glanced around. The physics teacher’s mouth was still frozen in the shape of “Fl= Fl”. The poor physics teacher had no idea that something violating physics was happening right now.
“This is part of the plan.”
Ian blinked.
“What plan?”
The Female Grim Reaper’s eyes narrowed. She seemed to have learned Flash from those Evil Spirits too, suddenly appearing in front of Ian with a whoosh, yet without bringing even the slightest bit of wind.
“I can’t tell you, that’s also part of the plan. Trust me, I really have a plan—if I tell you, it might not work.” Ian made a Three-Body Problem reference, but unfortunately, everyone present, whether able to move or not, probably couldn’t understand his humor and bad joke.
“If you still want to save your father, you’d better hurry.” Female Grim Reaper Tessa didn’t press further and instead demonstrated on the spot what a proper threat looked like.
However.
“Maybe you can provide me with some help? You know… I’m just an ordinary person.” Ian wasn’t playing pitiful; he had a clear understanding of his own strength.
Grim Reaper Tessa frowned again upon hearing this.
“What does it have to do with me? You think I care?” She showed a slightly displeased expression, arms crossed over her chest, looking like a delinquent maiden keeping strangers at bay.
“If it really has nothing to do with you.” Ian’s fingertips lightly tapped the desk, his tone certain as he stated the guessed fact, “then you wouldn’t be here.”
Discovering this kind of secret didn’t actually require profound insight.
“…”
Grim Reaper Tessa fell silent, and the temperature in the classroom dropped sharply. No one knew if it was influenced by her mood. And just as the atmosphere was at its tensest.
“What a cunning brat, you win.” Grim Reaper Tessa shook her head a few times as if having a headache. Her compromise made Ian increasingly feel like he might really be the Metropolis Gambler.
The boy secretly gave himself a thumbs-up.
“Why not start investigating from yesterday’s airplane crash? Your father hasn’t failed in a long time, has he?” Grim Reaper Tessa had already opened her mouth to give a hint.
“Should go to Metropolis General Hospital, right?” Ian quickly followed up, which aligned with his previous line of thinking. Perhaps he had potential to be a Metropolis famous detective.
“Mm.”
Tessa’s eyebrows lifted almost imperceptibly.
“Looks like you did some investigation and research.”
Her tone softened a lot, once again proving she really wasn’t monitoring Ian’s progress every moment. Fair enough, being a Grim Reaper, she must have a lot of business-related matters to handle.
“I’ve told you, I have a plan.” Ian emphasized again, and just as he was about to ask for more clues, he suddenly saw the Grim Reaper raise her slender finger.
“Let me save you some time executing the plan.” With that, the woman with beautiful cold pale skin snapped her fingers, and the black-and-white frozen world peeled away like a torn canvas.
Ian felt the world spinning, and when his vision cleared, the smell of disinfectant filled his nose. Under the starkly pale lights, the large signboard reading “Metropolis General Hospital” hung right in front of them, the post-rain puddles reflecting their two figures—the world had somehow regained its color.
But time still seemed not to be flowing.
Ian looked at Tessa’s hand in astonishment. There was no Gem, no Infinity Gauntlet, but a snap still achieved a world-changing effect.
“Is this a Grim Reaper’s ability?”
Ian didn’t know much about this special species. He only knew that American Drama Supernatural featured Grim Reapers, which also made him realize what his Death Knight’s Kin meant.
“If you want to be a Grim Reaper, I can submit an application for you, the early employment kind.” Grim Reaper Tessa seemed utterly speechless toward the youth brimming with curiosity.
Her tone carried a hint of veiled dissatisfaction.
“Calm down, no need to panic about anything.” Ian looked up at the hospital building’s name, deep in thought, which once again prompted Grim Reaper Tessa to ask.
“What are you staring at there thinking about?”
She tilted her head and asked in confusion.
“I think this hospital’s name doesn’t sound good.”
Ian responded.
“???”
Grim Reaper Tessa took a deep breath.
“If one day I have the interest to become mayor, I’d definitely rename this place Metropolis First People’s Hospital…” Ian was still muttering on.
“Stop!”
Grim Reaper Tessa couldn’t help but interrupt him.
“Has anyone ever told you your head might have some issues?” The woman, who always prided herself on her good temper and high demeanor, really couldn’t hold back anymore. She even somewhat regretted her choice.
“Yeah, I even have a doctor’s certificate for it.”
Ian rummaged in his school uniform and pulled out a somewhat crumpled medical certificate, which had originally been placed in the living room drawer along with the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
The medicine was finished now, but the certificate remained.
“?????”
Grim Reaper Tessa was already thinking about returns.
“Hurry up with the time.”
She took a few more deep breaths.
“This is the last help I can give you afterward.”
With that.
She jabbed fiercely at Ian’s forehead like she was rushing off work, and before Ian could react, the Female Grim Reaper had completely vanished from the spot.
The next moment.
The world roared back into motion. Ambulance sirens, cart wheels rolling, and medical staff shouting all surged into his ears at once. Ian noticed that despite the hustle and bustle around him.
No one paid attention to the boy who seemed to appear out of thin air.
【Temporary Curse: For the next twenty-four hours, you will be immune to death.】
On the status bar.
A clear icon was flashing.
It was a seemingly negative but actually positive status.
The heaven-defying effect almost made Ian unable to resist stabbing himself twice right there.
