Chapter 29: You Could Even Send Me A Banner Of Appreciation
The second day morning.
The door to Zuo Hang’s dormitory was knocked on at 6:30.
White Dragon High has no morning self-study, normal class time is 7:40, and whoever came to find Zuo Hang at this time, no need to think, it must be related to the “good deed” done by Darkrai last night.
After looking through the peephole, standing at the doorway was a girl wearing a red armband, with the two words “On Duty” written on the armband.
Zuo Hang’s acquaintance, the Student Council Secretary, Huohuo.
“For the secretary to personally come invite you, you’ve got quite the face, Zuo Hang junior, let’s go,” Huohuo said.
“Where to?”
“Meeting room.”
“Because of last night?”
Huohuo smiled, “Looks like you know very well, so no more nonsense, leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist.”
“You might not believe me if I say it, but last night’s incident really has nothing to do with me,” Zuo Hang said.
Huohuo’s face still showed a friendly senior student’s smile, “Whether it does or not depends on what you say later, Zuo Hang junior, don’t let the president down~”
Some meaningful words, Zuo Hang temporarily didn’t understand the implication in Huohuo’s words.
But he could temporarily confirm one thing.
The Student Union seems to have some authority in judging whether students violate school rules, last night’s big incident of maliciously harming others’ Pokémon and trainers directly results in expulsion, and he hadn’t received a direct expulsion notice, instead being personally invited to the Student Union by Huohuo.
This means there might still be a turnaround for this matter.
*
Ten minutes later
The Student Union’s meeting room.
A very spacious large room, with a redwood long table placed right in the center.
On the chair in the center of the side of the long table facing the window sat a man with a stern face, with a Magnemite floating behind the chair.
When opening the door, Zuo Hang saw an acquaintance—purple-haired senior student Jiang Xia, not sitting but standing by the door.
Besides that, there was also an unfamiliar man sitting at the end of the conference table.
“Imagine a flat-top haircut, thousands-degree thick black-framed glasses, with a naturally dazed Magnemite floating behind,” Jiang Xia had once described the man in front of the Student Council President to him as not having a flat-top or black-framed glasses, but he had a Magnemite behind him, so Zuo Hang could roughly confirm this guy was the president himself.
Moreover, this was truly a guy who gives a stereotypical impression at first glance, with slightly furrowed eye corners exuding authority without anger, hands clasped with fingertips crossed, arms on the conference table, and upon seeing Zuo Hang enter, he didn’t speak but gave Huohuo a look. Huohuo’s smile restrained a bit, pulled out the chair at the end of the conference table, and gestured for Zuo Hang to sit.
At this time, there were five people in the meeting room.
—Zuo Hang, Huohuo standing behind Zuo Hang, and the unfamiliar man sitting face-to-face with Zuo Hang at the end of the long table, who hadn’t introduced himself yet, with a red armband like Huohuo’s on his arm. Finally, the Student Council President to Zuo Hang’s right and the purple-haired senior student Jiang Xia who had been standing by the door.
“Before formally starting, let me introduce myself first, I’m Han Dao, the Student Union’s Discipline Committee Member.” Compared to the president’s cold aura, this Discipline Committee Member felt much friendlier.
“So, regarding the vicious incident that happened on the No. 1 sports field last night, do you have anything to say?”
Zuo Hang said without thinking: “I know about that incident, but I didn’t do it.”
“Oh? Evidence?”
“The training ground cameras should have captured me, I was at No. 5 training ground until before nine yesterday, as for the sports field incident, that’s what I saw when I finished training and was heading back to the dormitory.”
“Easy to explain, but… Darkrai, who appeared on the sports field at 8:20, causing over 130 people and 52 Pokémon in the whole school to fall into nightmares, what do you have to say about this Pokémon?”
Discipline Committee Member Han Dao operated a few times on the terminal, and a video file was sent to Zuo Hang’s terminal.
Zuo Hang opened the video, this should be footage from a high-level camera in the teaching building, as the view was overhead.
Special night vision lens, the colors in the footage were a bit eerie, but the form of the Nightmare God could still be clearly seen in the picture.
Darkrai emerging from the shadows, waving a hand in the darkness, and everyone on the entire sports field fell down, then Pikachu appeared, a thunderbolt struck down the Nightmare God, but the people fallen into sleep didn’t wake up.
Oh.
So that’s how the events unfolded.
Zuo Hang had only heard Pikachu’s account, and this was the first time he saw the specific sequence of the incident.
The video was less than five minutes, Zuo Hang didn’t appear from start to finish, so no evidence indicated this Nightmare God was his.
“So… that’s it?” Zuo Hang said: “Just one video, that’s all? Oh, I get it, there’s only one Darkrai in the world, right? And that Darkrai happens to be mine, if you really think that, then I need to give you a proper lesson—although it’s a Mythical Pokémon with few in number, Darkrai hasn’t reached the point of extinction.”
Once he opened his mouth, it was a bit sarcastic, and the Student Council President sitting to Zuo Hang’s right frowned.
Sarcasm obviously wasn’t the demeanor of a future president, but setting aside what displeased him, that earlier defense still had some persuasiveness.
“The Nightmare God isn’t yours, fine, that explanation holds for now, then how do you explain Pikachu? This little guy who appeared on the sports field showed up again at the training ground five minutes later, No. 5, exactly where you were,” the Discipline Committee Member asked with interest.
“Oh, the Electric Mouse, my kid has liked acting bravely for a just cause since young, and hates evil like enemies, encountering this kind of Pokémon that deliberately harms people at night, it’s bound to give it a lesson, what? Does the Student Union even manage acting bravely for a just cause? Hiss~~~~ There seems to be a rule against maliciously harming Pokémon, but mine doesn’t count as malicious harm, right? Without my kid, the people on that sports field would be cold corpses by now, right, Pikachu?”
“Pika~”
The Electric Mouse called out, indicating Hang Hang was right.
He has hated evil since young, swore to be a partner of justice, eradicate evil, and bring peace to the world.
“So you’re saying, not only can we not expel you, but we should also give you a banner for acting bravely for a just cause?” The Discipline Committee Member narrowed his eyes and said.
“Zuo Hang, you’re now under interrogation by the Student Union, and your answers will decide if you can continue staying at White Dragon High, yesterday morning five people entered this meeting room, and they’ve all left now, probably won’t come back.”
“So what??” Zuo Hang asked: “Do you have solid evidence? Or is there a problem with my earlier answers? If not, can I go? It’s almost seven-thirty, my sister should be getting up, this kid sleeps in, no time for breakfast, I need to go back to the dormitory.”
The Student Council President, who had been silent, suddenly tapped the table lightly with his index finger, the redwood conference table emitted a dull thud, the pupils that made all Student Union officers instinctively fearful were staring at Zuo Hang, “At White Dragon High, the Student Union’s authority is higher than you imagine, if you really want to enter here, better watch your words, this attitude of yours…”
Zuo Hang chuckled lightly, stood up from the chair, “Watch my words? I don’t think Student Council President is a position that requires watching words, there aren’t many cautious trainers… Oh… Could it be? Classmate, have you been president too long and forgotten you’re still a trainer?”
Zuo Hang walked over, patted the president’s shoulder, his gaze sweeping over everyone in the room one by one, “If you’ve forgotten how to be a trainer, I can find an opportunity to teach you, I have some experience in this.”
Pikachu’s cheeks sparked with electric arcs, Magnemite’s magnets on both sides of its body faintly surged with electric energy, and the atmosphere in the room instantly became tense.
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