The people surrounding Bai Li Yuan gradually closed in.
"Wh-what do you want? I'm going to scream!" Bai Li Yuan hugged his body and shuffled backward.
My chrysanthemum must not fall here! Never!
"Scream all you want. Everyone here is with us. Even if you scream until your throat breaks, no one will come to save you!" An old man grinned, saying proudly.
Bai Li Yuan's expression instantly turned pale.
The others' expressions stiffened. They looked at the old man in shock, then distanced themselves from him.
"What do you mean?"
"We don't want to associate with perverts!"
"..."
"Alright, Elders, stop scaring him. I'll explain," the woman said, standing up and walking over.
"Alright, we'll leave it to you, Dean," the old men nodded.
Dean?
Bai Li Yuan looked at the woman with surprise. This woman was actually the Dean of the Badge Academy?!
No wonder she could refresh Diamond Eggs on her chest!
The woman smiled, walked in front of Bai Li Yuan, squatted down, and looked him directly in the eyes.
"Little brother, what a coincidence, we meet again," the woman said with a smile.
"Oh? Does the Dean know him?" an old lady asked curiously.
"We met earlier today at the academy entrance. He was trying to sneak into the academy then," the woman said.
"So, at that time..."
"At that time, he didn't have an Emblem on his hand yet, otherwise I would have brought him back already," the woman spread her hands, and the two mounds on her chest jiggled with her movement.
"However, he showed good skills at that time. I didn't expect him to awaken a Summoner Emblem in the end," the woman continued, curiously observing Bai Li Yuan. Thinking of how Bai Li Yuan had touched her chest earlier, she looked at him with a half-smile.
Bai Li Yuan, however, stared back at her without showing any weakness.
The woman showed an interested expression.
"An interesting child. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Andy, the nineteenth Dean of the Badge Academy. I apologize for what happened earlier; I scared you," the woman said.
"If you know you were wrong, why don't you let me go?" Bai Li Yuan said stubbornly.
"That won't do," Andy said with a smile.
"Why?" Bai Li Yuan looked like he was about to cry. The longer he stayed here, the more he felt his chrysanthemum was in danger; he was panicking.
"Aren't you going to introduce yourself?" Andy asked.
"Uh, my name is Bai Li Yuan, and I'm... I'm unemployed!" In the end, Bai Li Yuan did not reveal his true identity. Some things couldn't be said casually.
"Unemployed? That's really funny." A child seriously saying he was unemployed; the contrast made everyone around them chuckle.
"Where are your parents?" an old lady asked.
"They're in a very distant place," Bai Li Yuan said.
"Where?" Andy asked.
"It's... a very, very distant place, uh... another world." Under Andy's pressing gaze, Bai Li Yuan finally told the truth.
Another world, the M78 Nebula, Star of Ultra, no problem.
Thinking of this, Bai Li Yuan felt that if he cultivated for another tens of thousands of years, worked hard, and found a way to go back, his parents should still be in their prime then. And perhaps he could even marry a girl working at Silver Cross and pass on the ancestral light.
The others on the other side fell silent, looking at Bai Li Yuan with complex expressions. Even Andy temporarily put away her smile.
"An orphan?" an old man murmured, a bit emotional.
"How pitiful," a few old ladies wiped away tears.
Bai Li Yuan: "???"
He felt like they had misunderstood something.
"No, I'm not, I don't... Mmm, mmm, mmm~"
Bai Li Yuan was hugged by an old lady, who caressed him, pinching and rubbing various parts of Bai Li Yuan's body.
"Poor child, from now on, I'll be your older sister. Consider this your home... *sobs*~"
Andy opened her mouth but didn't know what to say.
However, the other party was an Elder, so she couldn't say anything.
"Alright, let go of Xiao Yuan first. It's better to explain things clearly, otherwise Xiao Yuan won't let down his guard," Andy said. Perhaps because of Bai Li Yuan's "tragic" background, her address for Bai Li Yuan had changed to a nickname.
What the heck is Xiao Yuan?
Bai Li Yuan's mouth twitched.
"System, tell me honestly, are you named Kyubey?"
"It's a misunderstanding~"
The old lady reluctantly released Bai Li Yuan, who finally relaxed.
"Alright, let me first explain why we're looking for you," Andy said.
Bai Li Yuan nodded. He also wanted to know.
He hadn't stolen or robbed anything, and he was just a child who only wanted to secretly touch an egg. How did he get caught?
"Because you awakened an Emblem!" Andy put away her smile and said seriously, as if Bai Li Yuan awakening an Emblem was a very important matter.
"Just because of that?" Bai Li Yuan was stunned.
"Do you know the minimum age to awaken an Emblem?" Andy asked next.
"Seven years old," Bai Li Yuan said. He knew that.
"Then how old are you this year?"
"Two thousand three hundred thirty-three years old..." Feeling Andy's gaze, Bai Li Yuan shrunk his neck, adding weakly, "minus two thousand three hundred twenty-eight years..."
"Do you see the problem? You awakened an Emblem at the age of five!" Andy said, and the others also nodded seriously.
"But my real age..." Bai Li Yuan retorted. If calculated by Ultraman age, he was already over two thousand years old! And he was a purebred Ultraman!
"No need to hide it. I already checked your bone age just now. It is indeed five years old," the old lady who had hugged Bai Li Yuan earlier said.
Bai Li Yuan opened his mouth. Why did he feel a sense of defilement?
"Cases like yours, where an Emblem is awakened before the age of seven, are not unheard of. Through extensive observation, we have gradually discovered the special characteristics of children like you who awaken an Emblem before the age of five," Andy said.
"What's special about it?"
"You will awaken a second Emblem after the age of seven!"