The Villain Young Master Just Wants to Live a Buddhist Life

He thought for a moment and decided to give it a try: "Very well, Broheim's question is very constructive. It seems everyone is quite concerned about this, so why don't we conduct an experiment?"

Robert: "What kind of experiment?"

Dark suddenly said in a loud voice: "Broheim, deduct five points!"

Robert's expression changed instantly!

He hurriedly picked up his Sorting Card to check, and sure enough, five points had been deducted!

Dark asked: "How is it? Were points deducted?"

Robert nodded with an ugly expression on his face: "They were."

Dark then smiled slightly: "Broheim, add five points."

Although he didn't know the principle behind it, it was clear that in this class, he possessed the authority of a professor and could manipulate the students' academic credits.

As a substitute teacher, his position was now officially recognized.

And as expected, once they realized that this fellow student could truly deduct their points, the students who were dissatisfied with him immediately toned it down quite a bit.

Dark said: "Since no one has any questions, let's officially begin the lesson. Please take out your exercise books and turn to page xx. By the way, surely no one failed to do their homework, right?"

Facing his questioning, the students of Magister House looked slightly disdainful, and someone from Knight Academy even spread their exercise book open to show him.

Come to think of it, the last arithmetic class was last Thursday, a full five days ago.

As long as they were normal students, it would be impossible not to have finished it, right?

Impossible, surely that's impossible?

Originally, following Professor Lily's method, the exercise books would be collected before the end of the class, graded, and then returned in the next session, along with the assignment for the new week.

But Dark was thinking about killing some time, so he planned to go over the homework directly today.

In any case, he was the one grading most of the first-year assignments anyway.

Going over it today would save him the trouble of grading!

But just as he was about to open his exercise book, he suddenly looked up and noticed that Robert's expression seemed a bit off!

Robert wasn't just "a bit off"—he was on the verge of tears!

Because he had truly forgotten to do his homework!

Of course, Victor, who was sitting next to him, hadn't written a single digit on his either!

It was just that Victor's emotional control was better than Robert's, so he hadn't shown it as much.

The arithmetic homework was assigned on Thursday because it was close to the weekend, so many students usually left it to do over the weekend.

But last weekend was the first opening day of Traveler Street!

Victor and Robert had spent a small fortune buying the latest Magic Chess set, and from Friday afternoon, they had spent the entire weekend fiddling with it.

Lost in their play, how could they possibly remember any homework?

And by Monday—which was last night—they had been busy trying to find ways to borrow credits, so it was even more impossible for them to have done the work!

"Hey."

Robert suddenly felt a pain in his thigh and instinctively turned to look at Victor.

Victor pulled his hand back and hurriedly signaled with his eyes: Pretend.

Ah, just pretend, you idiot!

But how could he keep pretending at this point...

Dark originally didn't want to get involved—he was truly too lazy to care—but Robert's behavior was so obvious that even the students from Noble House across the aisle had noticed.

One student even looked at him with malicious intent and slowly raised his hand!

If he didn't intervene now, it would be impossible to justify.

Dark said helplessly: "Powell, is there something you'd like to say?"

Powell stood up slowly, pointed at Robert, and said triumphantly: "Dear Dimon, I saw a rat trying to hide an exercise book in his crotch."

Dark turned his gaze toward Robert, glanced at Victor beside him, and said bluntly: "Gaude, check Broheim's homework."

Victor lowered his head helplessly and reached out to take Robert's exercise book.

He had to take it!

Because he hadn't done his either!

At this point, he had no choice but to sacrifice the pawn to save the knight!

After pretending to check it, Victor said helplessly: "Sorry, it seems he really forgot to do the homework."

Dark's expression turned "gloomy": "Very well. Broheim, do you remember how many points are deducted for not doing homework?"

Robert gritted his teeth.

Dark said expressionlessly: "Broheim, deduct ten points!"

Victor gripped the edges of his workbook tightly.

A sudden, extremely ominous premonition welled up in his heart!

Dark did not dwell on it further, instead copying the exercises onto the blackboard and explaining them one by one.

He occasionally asked questions and used stories to explain difficult concepts, making them simple and easy to understand—he was far more adept than Professor Lily, who merely read from the textbook!

The students gradually realized that those exceptionally tough exercises suddenly seemed to become simple!

Meanwhile, Robert sat below with a face ashen with despair.

Victor, for his part, tried his absolute best to pretend he was listening; he had never hated himself more for not doing his homework.

They were both first-years.

They were both sons of the Kingdom's Twin Swords.

Yet now, one was on the podium giving a lecture, while the other was down below, terrified of being discovered for not having done his homework!

His hand, clutching the pen, was exerting force like never before.

The explanation of the exercises went much more smoothly than Dark had anticipated, especially in terms of stalling for time =_=!

Ten minutes for questions and half an hour for the exercises—forty minutes had passed in the blink of an eye.

Dark checked the clock, knowing it was time to share some useful knowledge.

And so, following his initial train of thought, he began to tell a story about "exponential explosion."

Of course, he couldn't actually teach exponents; after all, that was far beyond the curriculum.

The idea had stemmed from the debt dispute between Emma, Victor, and Robert that he had accidentally stumbled upon yesterday.

Although Dark hadn't heard the specific details, it didn't stop him from recalling a story about a millionaire going bankrupt.

Since he was standing on this podium today, he had to leave them with something.

Thus, he continued along his train of thought: "The famous Magic Guidance master Da Vinci once said that arithmetic is the foundation of all Magic Guidance! Some of you think arithmetic has little impact on Magic Guidance duels, so you don't study it diligently, and you don't even bother with the meager amount of homework assigned. Such behavior is extremely foolish!"

"If you don't even know basic arithmetic, let alone Magic Guidance duels, you might be played for a fool in everyday life."

"Once upon a time, there was a millionaire named Jamie who went bankrupt precisely because he didn't understand arithmetic!"

One day, the millionaire Jamie encountered a strange situation.

A man named Weber said to him: "I want to sign a contract with you. I will give you 100,000 Holy Coins every day for a whole month, and you only need to give me 1 cent on the first day, with the amount you pay me doubling every day thereafter."

Jamie only saw the gap between 1 cent and 100,000, and exclaimed in surprise: "Really?! Do you keep your word?"

The contract went into effect, and Jamie was overjoyed.

On the first day, Jamie paid out 1 cent and received 100,000.

On the second day, Jamie paid out 2 cents and received 100,000.

By the 10th day, Jamie had received 1 million in total, while having paid out only 5.12 Holy Coins.

By the 20th day, Jamie had received 2 million in total, while Weber had received only a little over 5,000 Holy Coins.

Jamie couldn't help but think: "If only the contract could last for two or three months!"

But from the 21st day on, the situation changed!

On the 21st day, Jamie paid out over 10,000, and received 100,000.

By the 28th day, Jamie paid out over 1.34 million, and received 100,000.

In the end, while Jamie received 3.1 million Holy Coins within the month (31 days), he had paid Weber over 21 million Holy Coins in total!

Jamie went bankrupt!

Chapter 31: Victor and Robert Attempt to Walk the Straight and Narrow

Robert regretted it the moment he shouted out.

But once some things are out, they cannot be taken back.

He braced his hands on the desk, half-standing, bearing the gaze of almost every student in his year, when suddenly his mind cleared and he realized his predicament.

"Broheim, do you have an opinion regarding Emma Metis?"

Dark's voice remained calm and devoid of any hostility.

Yet Robert heard a different tone in it; cold sweat broke out instantly, and his legs trembled.

The story of the millionaire Jamie overlapped with his own situation far too closely.

He had already been emotionally unstable from being exposed for not doing his homework, and upon projecting himself into the story, it felt as if he were the one who had been swindled out of 21 million credits by Emma, and he lost all control, spiraling into a frenzy!

"It's over, I've completely messed up!"

Robert was filled with despair, not even noticing that Victor was desperately tugging at his sleeve.

"Broheim, I will ask you one more time: do you have any objections regarding Emma Metis?"

Dark stood on the podium and asked for the second time.

Only then did Robert bite the bullet and answer, "No, none at all."

Dark: "In that case, Broheim, ten points deducted."

The Arithmetic class ended.

Dark packed up his textbooks and headed toward Professor Lily's office, intending to help her tidy up—or at least throw away all the wine bottles.

Once he left, the first-year students immediately erupted into a commotion!

The students of Noble House were the most excited, as Dark's lecture had been absolutely brilliant!

They were all saying that they would rather have Dark teach the class from now on instead of Professor Lily!

Even the students of Magister House had to admit that Dark's performance in this lesson was outstanding.

The students of Fool House were also offering their sincere and simple praise.

Only the students of Knight Academy endured the strange gazes from the other three houses, their hearts filled with a complex mix of emotions.

Throughout this lesson, they had been like the negative examples, members of a clown's circus.

And Robert, who had played the role of the clown, had nearly crawled under his desk!

A full twenty points had been deducted in this single class!

Not only had his base points for the lesson been wiped out, but Victor's base points had been wiped out as well!

The brothers had originally combined for 75 points, and with only 5 points left to pay off their debt, those 5 points had suddenly become an insurmountable chasm!

Whose fault was this, anyway?