Diana's gift would need to be custom-made.
Then he would buy several blank Magitech Cards in the format of "Ball Invitation Cards" and try to refine them into animated "Ball Invitation Cards" once he returned.
Additionally, he planned to buy a batch of Christmas Stockings for the Magic Spirits to hang at their bedsides.
As for the Magic Spirits' Christmas gifts, he had finally gotten some ideas while telling stories last night.
Thus, he had come today to tell the two maids who were about to return to the Duke's Mansion about his plan, so that once the planned gifts had been custom-made, the newcomers arriving next week could bring them over.
Then he could stuff them into the stockings. Perfect!
After that, he intended to prepare a grand gift for the first-years—Mathematics Exercise Book!
Last year, at his suggestion, Professor Lily had compiled a complete set of exercise books for first-years. Once he revised them according to each person's shortcomings, they would be just right.
While studying his Alchemy Class notes yesterday, Dark had suddenly remembered that he seemed to have been asked to take good care of certain people among them... Though a month had already passed, he hoped it was not too late to make amends.
That was roughly the extent of it.
However, among the first-years, he still needed to prepare an extra Christmas gift for Aurora, though he had yet to decide what it should be.
In any case, there was still a long stretch of time between next Friday's vacation and Christmas. He could think about it slowly.
Dark glanced at the weather again. Seeing no sign that the torrential rain would stop anytime soon, he simply returned behind the counter, sat down, and chatted casually with the maids.
The two maids who