The second Percival finished speaking, Leopold, Thomas, and Lysander all looked like they'd seen a ghost.
What the heck had they just heard?
Percival was going to become a teacher?
Were they hallucinating?
Lysander was the first to pull himself together. He asked, hesitantly, "Mr. Percy, did you just say you're going to be a PE teacher?"
Surely he'd misheard, right?
That was what Mr. Percy said, right?
"Is that a problem?" Percival's gaze followed Vivienne into Class Eighteen, then pulled back.
"Uh, well." Lysander hesitated.
Should he agree or disagree?
He mulled it over for a moment, then finally said, "Sure!"
He had to make this happen, no matter what!
"You handle it." Percival paused, then said, "Don’t let anyone know my real identity. Use the name of Percival, the seventh young master of the Ellington family, for the hiring process."
Lysander was stunned. He thought, "The seventh young master of the Ellington family, isn't he disabled? Why would Mr. Percy pretend to be him?"
He had never met Percival and didn't know the man standing before him as Mr. Percy was actually the so-called useless young master of the Ellington family.
But he quickly pieced together some things. Percival and Mr. Percy.
"I get it." Lysander showed Percival around the campus. After getting a brief understanding, Percival left with Leopold and the others.
Back in the car, Leopold couldn't hold back anymore. He asked, "Mr. Ellington, are you trying to escape some trouble by becoming a teacher? We're really busy, you know? We still haven't found that potion, and people from GTO has reached Havenwood. Shouldn't you be rushing to find the potion instead of messing around with teaching?"
Percival leaned back in his seat. His deep-set eyes were half-closed, and his long fingers rested on the leather seat. He spoke unhurriedly, "I have some leads on the potion."
"You found it? Where?" Leopold immediately pressed, "We should go get it right away."
Percival didn't answer. "I need to confirm it first!"
"But since you already have leads, we should." Leopold wanted to say more, but Percival cut him off, "I have my own plans."
Then he turned to look out the car window, his stern face revealing nothing of his feelings.
After a while, he withdrew his gaze, took out his phone, and looked at a piece of information he'd received last night.
It was a top-secret level S file. The name on it was Vivienne!
He had ten files on Vivienne.
Each one was the same, except for this level S top-secret file.
There was very little information about Vivienne, not even a picture. Even in this level S file, there was no photo of Vivienne.
Other files showed that Vivienne moved to a place in the mountains at nine, left at nineteen, and then joined the Hawthorn family. He had a general understanding of what happened, and not much was left out.
The level S file showed that Vivienne was a strong learner from a young age. She took a university entrance exam at fourteen and became a nationally famous prodigy. At sixteen, she received double doctorate degrees in medicine and biochemistry from Elite University.
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