The Villain Young Master Just Wants to Live a Buddhist Life

Victor hesitated for a moment, but ultimately shook his head: "Forget it."

Then, he silently began searching for information.

The minds of young boys and girls are always hard to guess.

It was as if, even though Victor said to forget it, he had been thinking about it the whole time.

It was also as if Emma had finally realized that the person reading books to her front-left was Dark, and she felt that this person was so annoying, constantly hovering within her field of vision.

Yet, deep down, she couldn't help but feel a hint of joy.

After all, among the freshmen of Magister House, there were truly very few people who studied as "seriously" as they did.

Dark was the only person she felt wasn't quite so childish.

Nine o'clock sharp in the evening.

Emma was still studying intently, and Dark acted as if he didn't see her.

He found the bookshelf according to the remembered number, returned Selected Works of Magitech Spirits to its original spot, and then took a casual glance at another location.

Into the Abyss had been taken by someone.

Chapter 12 Dark Demon survived tenaciously

Tuesday's classes were Dueling Class, Arithmetic Class, and History of Magic.

The Dueling Class professor for the first years, Power Jones, was a Dueling Master with one-sixteenth giant blood!

Not only that, she was also the Dean of Noble House!

By the way.

The Dean of Knight Academy was the Summoning Class professor, Sarah Sylph.

The Dean of Magister House was the Arithmetic Class professor, Lily Laplace.

The Dean of Fool House was the History of Magic professor, Didi Maxwell.

Just like the typical tropes of a galgame, all four deans were female!

Saint Marian Academy, from the school's name to the principal and the professors, exuded an atmosphere where the yin energy outweighed the yang.

Professor Jones, with her one-sixteenth giant blood, had features larger than the average human in every aspect—crisp short hair, robust muscles, bronze skin, and overdeveloped secondary sexual characteristics, all radiating a sense of health.

Although Dark wasn't particularly interested in this professor who stood over two meters tall and came with her own "basketballs," she seemed quite popular in the academy.

It was said that Professor Jones's giant bloodline came from the giant royal family, while her father was an orthodox human noble. Although not pure in terms of race, she was as pure as could be in the sense of "nobility"!

Among the upperclassmen of Saint Marian, there were many admirers of Professor Jones, regardless of gender—one could also call it a worship of the strong!

Whether they were freshmen from Noble House or Knight Academy, everyone was full of anticipation for Professor Jones's Dueling Class.

However, after this class, Professor Jones had only explained some very basic theoretical knowledge.

This included the rules of dueling matches, tactics, the combinations of various Magitech Cards, the mutual restraint between racial attributes...

The good news was that the recruitment for the Duel Club would be held on Friday afternoon this week.

The bad news was that the prerequisite for joining the club was to own at least a deck of twenty Magitech Cards!

This bad news caused the freshmen who were looking forward to dueling to collapse on the spot!

It was only the second day of school; who could possibly have twenty Magitech Cards?

But then again, if you couldn't even assemble a single deck, what kind of dueling club were you going to join?

The subsequent Arithmetic Class was even more boring and profound than the Dueling Class.

The freshmen were miserable, all saying that this must be the hardest class for the first years!

Diana said she had been dreaming through the entire class.

Although Rose was listening attentively, her face was dazed, clearly only half-understanding.

As for Dark.

Dark wasn't listening at all.

This elementary-level math class was truly an insult to his intelligence!

[Pride +1]

The Arithmetic Class professor, Lily Laplace, was said to be a pixie, a non-human race related to the elves.

Like the elves, they possessed long lives and the wisdom accumulated over time.

Professor Lily Laplace preferred that students call her Professor Lily.

Like the vast majority of pixies, her physical growth had stopped at the appearance of an eleven or twelve-year-old human, making her look even younger than the freshmen sitting there.

Her height was about the same as Diana's.

In addition, she had a pair of dragonfly wings and liked to keep her feet exposed, never letting them touch the ground.

The History of Magic professor for the third period, Professor Didi Maxwell, was also a pixie. However, she had butterfly wings, and judging by her appearance, she was quite old, with deep wrinkles etched across her forehead.

Professor Didi's teaching style was cut from the same cloth as Professor Lily's; both were entirely committed to reading straight from the textbook.

Perhaps they both possessed profound knowledge and deep wisdom, but they were truly ill-suited for lecturing...

History of Magic could be called the most tedious course of all. Fortunately, Professor Didi was very kind and amiable; even if a student accidentally fell asleep in class, she would only give them a light tap and deduct five or ten points.

Additionally, the Astronomy class on Wednesday nights was also under Professor Didi's charge.

However, Astronomy was an "elective course" that was only held when Professor Didi issued a notice.

In other words, for the first month after enrollment, there would definitely be no Astronomy classes.

Similar to this was Magical Beasts on Fridays!

It was said that Magical Beasts on Fridays would not begin until the next semester.

Moreover, it was highly likely to be delayed even further.

First-year students were not permitted to enter the Dungeon outside the castle, making it very difficult to study Magical Beasts effectively.

In this way, there were only six courses left in the week: Summoning Technique, Magic Theory, Potions, Dueling, Arithmetic, and History of Magic, with two sessions for each.

It could be said that it was very relaxed!

Library.

Dark finished his registration before Pandora arrived and managed to snag yesterday's seat in the reading room.

Afterward, he took out his Arithmetic exercise book and began to solve the problems.

These problems were truly too simple!

Relying on the multiplication table, Dark swept through them with ease.

By the time Emma sat down behind him to his side, he had already finished nearly half.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, the entire exercise book was completed!

This meant that the Arithmetic homework for this entire semester was basically finished.

Dark finally closed the exercise book and placed it in the top-left corner of the table with satisfaction.

Because his state of mind while solving the problems had been sufficiently calm, he did not trigger the "Greed" index.

But just as he felt happy about this, [Pride +1] drifted across his vision!

Does this mean I can even feel arrogant just by doing elementary school math?

Dark was shocked! Emma was shocked too!

Emma simply couldn't imagine how Dark had managed to finish an entire exercise book in such a short amount of time!

We are all first-year students, so how can you be this incredible?

Stunned, Emma began to study Arithmetic on her own with double the effort!

Having finished his homework, Dark looked at the "Pride" index that, for some reason, refused to drop, and though his inner anxiety didn't show on the outside, he could no longer suppress it.

"Am I really that arrogant?"

Dark began to ask himself.

He spent an entire month asking himself this question.

Dark didn't even know how he had managed to endure that month!

But as the saying goes, life is like being targeted by a stalker; since you cannot resist, you must learn to enjoy it.

Dark became the most eye-catching star among the first-year students!

He would wake up at six o'clock every morning and appear in the common room promptly at six-fifteen.

His Familiar would fly around the outside of the castle and enter through the ventilation duct of the cafeteria kitchen.

The Halfling chefs were very fond of this DemiDevimon that always came to deliver little gifts.

Even though those gifts were things like pebbles picked up by the river, small flowers gathered from the roadside, four-leaf clovers found under the sunset, or pretty colored feathers...

They were the best gifts a tiny Familiar could find.

The Halflings would tuck the small flowers into their hair, press the clovers into their cards, and collect the pebbles and glass shards in jars.

Every morning, the DemiDevimon would fly in right on time.

Then, they would hand the DemiDevimon a basket they had prepared, filled with snacks and milk.

The DemiDevimon would then use its two sturdy claws to grab the basket and fly steadily back to the Noble House dormitory tower.

Dark had already grown accustomed to finishing his breakfast in the common room.

Reading a book while eating was an effective way to lower the probability of triggering Gluttony and Greed.

This was absolutely a lesson learned from his own experience!

Once he finished eating, DemiDevimon would take the basket back to the kitchen.

Dark would then continue reading in the common room.

He would only head to the classroom for his first period once the flow of people here began to increase.

At the beginning, he was always the first to arrive at the classroom, but he later discovered that as long as it was a class shared with the Knight Academy, there was someone else who arrived even earlier than him.

Fortunately, this primary heroine from the game had not yet fully matured, so she was not within his hunting range.

Compared to the more troublesome Diana, Emma was practically like a little kitten on the side of the road, completely harmless.

Diana had gradually become more clingy toward him.

The cause of this was the Arithmetic homework.

Diana truly had no talent for Arithmetic, and Rose was no better.

And so, these two little best friends had a flash of inspiration and sought out Dark, who had gradually begun to display the temperament of a top student.

Left with no choice, Dark had to teach them a secret technique—the "Vertical Calculation Method"!

Vertical calculation refers to setting up a "vertical column" during the calculation process, which makes the math much simpler.

This secret technique was immediately pilfered by Professor Lily and spread throughout all of St. Marian.

For a knowledgeable fairy, this method of calculation was completely unnecessary, but for beginners, it was like manna from heaven.

Professor Lily even named it the "Dark Vertical Calculation" and awarded Dark a full fifty points!

This left Dark very troubled—his Pride index had increased once again!