How many new students would become first-years at Saint Marian Academy this year?
Dark rummaged through his drawer and took out a letter congratulating him on becoming a fifth-year. Amid his joy, he inexplicably felt a trace of melancholy.
He would attend the opening banquet tonight, but he would not be staying at the academy.
His new dormitory was on the sixth floor of the Noble House Tower, but it might remain unoccupied until the end of the school year. He had grown used to having the Magic Spirits borrow books from the library, then bring them out of the academy for him to read in [Magic Guidance City]. He no longer even needed to use the dormitory as a reading room.
It made him feel less and less like a student—but that was not quite right. He had merely entered his graduation internship period ahead of time. As Dark thought this, the corners of his lips rose slightly.
He had already found time between research sessions to finish studying the fifth- and sixth-year curriculum. He was no longer a "lopsided student"; he had mastered everything, with only certain areas in which he excelled more than others.
Five in the afternoon.
After finishing a day of research, Dark Dimon went into the bathroom to wash up and change. He fixed his hair, put on the fifth-year Noble House uniform, and then used the [Gate of the Holy Domain] to arrive at the Duke's Mansion.
Diana, Rose, and the others were already waiting inside the Duke's Mansion. His task was to take them all to the academy for the opening banquet.
There were many people waiting in the Duke's Mansion, and the chatter made the place lively. Some were deeply dissatisfied that the holiday had passed so quickly. Others, on the