Nicholas ultimately did not leave the tough choice to Liu Feifei; he decided to report the matter himself in her stead.
Undoubtedly, it was a very brave but also very foolish decision.
When he submitted the Painted Skin of the pet snake to the School Works Committee office, the school's reaction was not beyond Xiao Xiao's expectation—the School Works Committee immediately closed all external passages, launched a full-scale inspection for a day, and issued new campus safety regulations to all students.
This reaction was not excessive.
For Jiuyou Academy, which had experienced several safety incidents within the year, it was no surprise that the atmosphere within the academy suddenly became tense when the security departments heard that the school had concealed a demon with a history of killings (referring to the death of Xiao Bai)—especially since the investigation into that particular killing incident had been ambiguously handled by the academy.