Alfer was a little uneasy, as Carl's face looked like it was about to break off his skull when he was gulping, and the sweltering heat caused by the kitchen connecting the dining room had been working overtime to bake bread, which made Alfer even more restless.

After Carl swallowed the second loaf of bread and drank most of the soup, Vincent ran into the dining room sweating profusely, and Alph saw the headmaster and the two caregivers who usually tended to the sick children far behind him.

Vincent blurted out at the first glance when he saw Carl, "Stuck ...... Carl...... Are you more swollen?"

"Huh?" Vincent's words diverted Carl's attention from the food, and Carl touched his cheek stained with breadcrumbs and said, "I was going to talk about it after eating, I have nothing to do, but I was curled by the 'water tongue' yesterday, and it was the horse chicken lizard that helped me, otherwise it would not be strange that I would have become transparent today." ”

"What is a water tongue?" Vincent, sitting across from Karl next to Alver, "how do I feel my level of ignorance, that I can't live a day alone without school." ”

"A magical creature with a special toxin that lives in swamps or ponds, but is rare, like a slender slug, which will wrap up its prey as it reproduces, inject a part of its body fluids to make the prey transparent and liquefiable, and then lay eggs inside. Carl held the soup bowl, "Oh, it's safe anyway, let me finish the meal first!"

When Carl "purred" drank the first bowl of soup, the headmaster came to Carl's side, and Alver and Vincent stood up and nodded to the headmaster, but Carl only bothered to get the toast at the bottom of the bowl into his mouth, tilting his head and almost covering his face, so he only noticed that the headmaster had arrived when he put down the bowl.

"Mr. Headmaster!" Karl also stood up, "Thank you for taking me in." ”

Principal Krent nodded, "I'm glad you're awake, kid, let's eat first, we'll go back to the dormitory to check on your body after eating, and then we'll talk about what happened yesterday - I have a few questions you need to confirm." ”

"Yes sir, but there's nothing wrong with my body," Karl pursed his lips, the action made his swollen face look like an orangutan, "the edema will go away in a few hours." ”

Headmaster Krent was noncommittal, and Alfer noticed the large area of black green under the headmaster, "Mr. Headmaster, Carl will send him back to the dormitory after eating, you can wait for him there, it's too hot here." ”

Seeing the headmaster leave, Alfer said to Vinson, "Mr. Krent probably didn't sleep yesterday. ”

"I wouldn't have been able to sleep if I had been him," said Vincent, "and though he always looked unhappy, the old man was a good man." ”

After Vincent returned the plate to the cutlery recycling for Carl, Alfer and Vincent cautiously walked with Carl to the dormitory, where Carl's skin was a little reflective in the sun.

"You really don't have any problems," Elph really found it hard not to pay attention to Carl's question, in fact he felt it when Carl sat down to eat, Karl had been surrounding his body with some kind of magic, albeit faintly, but was caught by Elver.

Karl nodded, "There's no problem, I just want to go to Elba City with you and use some small means to speed up the recovery." ”

Vincent stepped in front of Carl in a few steps and × with his arm above his head, "No, you must not go to Irba City with us now, don't you feel the flesh on your face that is about to fall off?"

Carl suddenly hugged Vincent, which made Vincent a little overwhelmed. "No...... Don't do that......"

"Let me go, Brother Vincent, I'll be fine soon. Karl's voice was muffled, "Nothing will be delayed." ”

Vincent seemed to be very coquettish, he put his hand on Carl's shoulder, and pushed Carl not without pushing, "No...... Absolutely not......" Vincent looked at Alver as if asking for help, "you should talk about him, Alf, don't just look at and laugh, this is not a trivial matter." ”

Alfer went to Lakal, "Let's at least go back to the dormitory first, the school is up to Mr. Principal, you have to listen to the principal when you join the school, he said it's okay, if he doesn't agree, there's no way." ”

"Messing around will lock you up in the stables and beat you up," Vincent bared his teeth to scare Carl.

Karl didn't answer, but looked up at the sky and sighed.

"Are you angry?" Alver asked cautiously.

"No," said Carl, "I just think I'm going to be beaten in the stables for a long time, let's go back to the dorm, and then you and Carl will have to go." ”

Back in the dormitory, Alver and Vincent packed up and listened to Carl's account of what had happened to him yesterday: Carl said that he had been teleported back to Erward, in the middle of a swamp, and that he was entangled in an acid-spitting "water tongue" as he tried to escape Constantly absorbing Carl's magic and physical strength, before he almost fainted, the Horse Chicken Lizard appeared in time, bit the water tongue, the two magical creatures were entangled together, Carl had a chance to get out, and finally the Horse Chicken Lizard used the magic of the wind system to tear the water tongue into pieces, Carl learned that the Horse Chicken Lizard had lost two people, one was himself and the other was Mr. Emerson, so he told the Horse Chicken Lizard School and the location of the town of Meima, so that he could come to the school.

Regarding the body, Carl said that he did not feel pain or itch except for some swelling in his body, which may be caused by the mucus on the epidermis of the water tongue, and Principal Krent had never heard of the magical creature "Water Tongue", and there was nothing he could do about Carl's symptoms, so he could only let Carl stay in bed and observe at any time.

Carl didn't mention that he wanted to go to Elba City with Alph and Vincent, and when he said goodbye to the two, Carl gave Vincent and Elfer a straw ring-like thing, which was very rough in workmanship, not at all like the previous grass firefly ring, but Alfer could clearly feel the magic attached to it.

"The amulet," said Karl, "is too late, and can only barely make a look, but the effect is about the same." Afterward, Carl honestly half-lay on the bed, sucking and drinking from the straw, and watched as Alfer and Vincent left the dormitory.

"I don't think there's such a deterrent to beating him in the stable," Vincent said, "but it's best if he's willing to stay in school." ”

At the time of departure, Elver's second bad luck came as expected, and the Banshee of Resentment seemed to be trying to provoke Elf's horse, so that the horse was frightened and threw Alver off, but strangely, the horse only walked anxiously for a short time before regaining its composure.

Alver touched the crudely straw ring amulet on his ring finger and smiled gratefully as he turned back in the direction of the dormitory.

The fat-headed and swollen-faced Carl stood in the corridor, looking at the direction of the main entrance of the school from a distance, in fact, the main entrance of the school could not be seen from the place where the dormitory was located, but Carl still looked over there, the scales on the back of his neck exploded, and the back of his pajamas was slightly raised, and after standing quietly for a while, Carl stretched his clothes, turned around and went back to the bed in the dormitory to lie down again.