After hearing introduction to Teacher Aanya from new student, Sai Joshi was also astonished. "Teacher, if this teacher does these sort of things, why doesn't the school seem to care?"
Grandmaster spoke in a low voice, "Although Teacher Aanya is a strict teacher, she's honestly a very good one. Of all the students promoted from her class, none of them have actually said that she was a bad teacher. Teacher Aanya's strictness is mainly reflected in the high requirements that she sets for her students, as well as in her harsh teaching methods. However, almost a fourth of the students who've been taught by Teacher Aanya, and passed, have entered the inner courtyard. This statistic is one of the best within the entire academy. Teacher Aanya was only demoted to teaching freshmen because the commotion was too big this time. However, as long as you work hard enough, and are outstanding enough, Teacher Aanya's teaching will only have benefits for you."
Sai Joshi relaxed and replied, "So it's like that. Teacher, you guys must have plenty of other things to do. I'll return to my room first."
Grandmaster smiled and said, "That's fine, my students want to go and take our promotion test. If they can pass this test, they'll be promoted to fourth-years. They live in Room 316, 317, so you can go there if you need anything."
After Sai Joshi send farewell to Grandmaster, then he passing through the white school building for first-years, and the yellow school building for second and third-year students, Sai Joshi saw the dormitory. The dormitory occupied an extremely large area, and although it was only a single building, the same four colours—white, yellow, black, and purple—were still present on it. The building's colours clearly represented the different living areas of the students from their respective years, and had a total of six floors.
Sai Joshi arrived at the entrance to the white building, and was met with the sight of a man who looked quite old. The old man had a set of grey clothes on, and the the number of flies that his wrinkles could crush to death had reached the double digits. His eyes were yellow and muddle-headed, while his eyelids were droopy. His appearance was as if he had one foot in the grave. The sunlight between the buildings spilled perfectly over his body. His body, which was half-lying in a chair, actually gave off a very comfortable feeling.
Sai Joshi walked forward and spoke respectfully, "Hello, Grandpa. I'm a new student who's come to live in the dormitory. Would you like to check my freshman badge?"
The old man didn't even raise his head as he stretched his trembling right hand out. Then, a slightly deep yet hoarse voice echoed out, "Take your badge and dormitory key out for me to see."
Sai Joshi hurriedly passed the two items over.
The old man waved them in front of his eyes before returning them to Sai Joshi, "Go on. Room 108 is the third room from my left on the first floor. The women's dorms start from the fourth floor, so you can't go upstairs at all. If we discover you up there, you'll be expelled."
"Thank you." After bowing and greeting the old man again, Sai Joshi walked into the dormitory building.
The old man didn't move from his original position as he muttered nostalgically to himself, "It's rare to see a kid with manners."
As he muttered to himself, a few new students walked past the area. However, they clearly hadn't taken note of the old man beside the building, and directly went inside. The old man didn't stop them either. He simply sat there drowsily.
After following the old man's instructions, Sai Joshi quickly found his dorm room. The dormitory had a standard hallway layout, with both sides of the long hallway having dorm rooms with numbers etched into their doors. The passage of time was clearly visible in the dorm rooms, and it could be seen that they had been in use for an extremely long amount time. The two ends of the corridor had shared bathrooms.
After using his key to open the door, a gust of slightly musty air surged out of the room. Sai Joshi hurriedly turned to the side, waited a while, then held his breath as he charging into the room and opened the window. The room had been uninhabited for over a month, at the very minimum. A layer of dust covered the entire room.
By relying on the window's ventilation, Sai Joshi was able to clearly see the dorm room's layout. The dorm room was very small, its area only about ten square metres or so. The two beds took up a large portion of the room's floor space, but there was also a table, two metal wardrobes, as well as a lamp on the ceiling. There were also a few metal protrusions on one of the walls. Grandmaster had told him that lamps were basic spirit tools that needed spiritforce in order to light up. The metal protrusions were places that one could pour spiritforce into.
After some ventilation, the musty air within the dorm room had finally cleared up. As Sai Joshi looked around the small room, a hard-to-describe excitement appeared in his heart. From today onwards, this would be the dorm room that he'd live in for a year. From the looks of it, he'd even have a dorm-mate. I'll clean up a bit first.
The saying 'poor children can manage a house earlier on in life' was true. Although he'd been born in the small village. He used a little bit of his saved money to buy a basin from the student convenience store located outside the dorms, and after requesting a used cleaning rag from the shop, he immediately started to clean the dorm room.
After only an hour had passed, not even a speck of dust was left under the meticulous scrutiny of Sai Joshi's Spirit Eyes. Although everything in the dorm room was still in-place, there was now a sort of fresh smell to it. Sai Joshi didn't plan on buying any sort of bedding for himself.