The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

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　Dark put on his pajamas and went into the bathroom to change before coming out and saying, "So, Professor, you came so late just to pet the cat?"

　Professor Lily was engrossed in petting the cat and paid no attention to anything else.

　After a while, she sat up at the head of the bed, put the cat grass on her lap, and beckoned Dak to sit down beside her.

　The little fairy always exudes a pure and refreshing aura, like a wilderness.

　Dak sat down beside him, ready to be a good listener.

　After calming down by petting the cat, Professor Lily asked softly, "Dark, have you ever had someone you liked?"

　Dark shook his head.

　Professor Lily: "I thought so too, you're still so young."

　Suddenly, Dark asked, "And what about you?"

　Professor Lily proudly replied, "Of course I have them, I'm already this old!"

　Dak then asked the question he had been wanting to ask: "How old is the professor?"

　Professor Lily: "Not much, only about two hundred years old."

　Dark did a rough calculation and exclaimed in surprise, "Isn't that just childhood?"

　Lily: "Hey! Ugh, I'm not a little girl!"

　Dark: "..."

　Professor Lily: "You humans, your lifespans are just too short, gone in the blink of an eye. Alice is like that, Paddy is like that, Am is like that..."

　Dark: "Who are they?"

　Professor Lily: "Alice was my first friend, even before Didi! She was so gentle and a great cook. Her vanilla cookies were especially delicious. She was about my height, yet she could do everything... Unfortunately, I went home one day and never saw her again."

　Dark: "Where's Pudge?"

　“Paddy.”

　Professor Lily rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment, "He was a butcher, but after each pig he would go to church to repent. I heard that he later married a nun from the church, had a baby, and became a doctor."

　Dark: "What about Amu?"

　Professor Lily was silent for a moment: "Am, Am is my best friend. He's amazing. He's only a teenager, but he's better at swordsmanship than I am. We signed up for an adventure team and always went to dangerous places. He's always the one who saves me."

　Dark: "An adventure team?"

　Professor Lily: "Yes, a four-person adventure team. Me, Didi, Kazel, and Am."

　As she spoke, she took out a beautiful floral card decorated with blue flowers.

　That's the Blue Enchantress, a type of blue rose that grows very rarely in nature.

　Pure love and kind-heartedness, a blue enchantress who keeps her promises.

　Professor Lily infused the flower cards with magic, and blue roses bloomed in profusion.

　As the flowers emerged from the card and scattered outwards, a face appeared on the card.

　He was a human boy with a round face, a sweet smile, and an angelic appearance.

　Dark had seen it once, on the day Professor Lily got drunk.

　……

　Time flows by, and the long night is still.

　Professor Lily held the floral card and began to tell the story of her, Amu, Didi, and Kazel.

　Those were the happiest, most exciting, and most memorable days of her more than two hundred years of life.

　A cowardly but kind-hearted young swordsman, an arrogant and stubborn little fairy mage, a mischievous little fairy sage, and a goblin alchemist who is both father and mother to his child.

　Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.

　Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.

　Only by taking care of each other and making up for each other can we move forward in the long run.

　Although it was only five years, Lily felt that it was a longer period of time than fifty years.

　This is the fifth year of my travels.

　Using a tattered map, they found an ancient temple buried underground in the deserted forest, a place that had been buried for who knows how long.

　The temple is decorated with various murals, silently recounting the past.

　Deep inside the temple are many statues.

　Some are broken, some are intact.

　Some were completely abandoned, while others still retained divine remnants.

　They encountered the greatest crisis since the group was formed when they entered a temple dedicated to the moon goddess.

　Having finally broken through all the thorns, they stirred up the last lingering resentment of the Moon Ruler.

　Only by enduring the final test can the four leave the temple.

　The so-called test is to choose between "love" and "time".

　Didi chose "Time".

　Kazel chose "love".

　Lily chose "love".

　Am chose "Time".

　……

　Dak scooped out the cat grass and covered Lily with a blanket.

Chapter 117 Darkdemon's Bliss Overflowing His Mind

　A short story full of meaning can always make people think deeply.

　But when the story happens to someone you know, it's never so pleasant.

　Dak drank a glass of apple juice, then opened the door and quietly left his dormitory.

　He still has a lot to do and cannot let a little worry stop him.

　At three in the morning, the tower finally fell silent, and there was not a sound in the corridor.

　It was the first time that Dak had stepped onto the stairs leading to the upper floors. His footsteps seemed to match his heartbeat, and they continued all the way to the eighth floor.

　The eighth floor of the tower is a dueling practice room, and the top floor above it is an observatory.

　After entering their second year, students at St. Marian's University form their own clubs, with the Duel Club being just one of them.

　The dueling practice room on the eighth floor of the tower is usually occupied by members of the dueling club, while the observatory is the domain of the astrology society.

　The astrology society is also known as the "astronomy society," and the two names are interchangeable.

　If Professor Didi were still alive, the next astronomy class would likely have taught about astrology.

　Professor Didi himself is also an astrologer.

　……

　Dark glanced into the dueling practice room, then turned and continued upwards, entering the observatory.

　The torrential rain had long since stopped, and the night sky had returned to its clear state.

　He circled the telescope inside the observatory, then stopped and summoned LadyDevimon.

　LadyDevimon yawned, blinked, her eyelashes trembling slightly, and tried to cling to Dark.

　Dark asked helplessly, "Ladybodomon, when can you turn back?"

　LadyDevimon asked in confusion, "Why do you want to change back?"

　Dark coughed. "You see, it's quite inconvenient if we don't change back, isn't it? You don't want to always be stuck in the Sorting Card, do you?"

　"That makes sense." LadyBeast thought about it and agreed.

　Dak successfully tricked her into standing guard aside, and then silently chanted in his mind, "Expand the indicators."

　【Yes. 】

　After a while.

　Seven indicators emerged in Dac's field of vision.

　Arrogance: 105

　Jealousy: 42

　[Rage: 94]

　Laziness: 62

　Greed: 89

　[Bingeing: 62]

　【Paradise: 111】

　……

　In general.

　Apart from "paradise", the growth rates of these seven indicators are all within a controllable range.

　The most threatening "Arrogance" was successfully reduced by 10 points thanks to the Magic Brain Dropper, and last month's growth was also brought under control. It only increased by 3 points, eventually dropping from 112 points at the beginning of last month to 105 points now.

　That's quite acceptable.

　The "jealousy" level then dropped by two points.

　This is mostly thanks to the fact that "the melons are big and sweet enough".

　Similarly, the "rage" level also decreased as a result. In fact, because of the cat grass, the "rage" level once dropped to 90. However, the cat's temper has been a bit difficult to control lately, so it has risen again, but it is still lower than the 96 points at the beginning of last month.

　Next is "laziness," which rebounded by two points, but it's not a big problem.

　"Binge" also rebounded by four points, which is still not a big problem.

　It was this "greed" that caused the price to rise by a full 7 points!

　But this is actually quite unfortunate.

　With increasing temptations, greed is always hard to resist.

　Just like "paradise," it is the same.

　From 90 points at the beginning of last month, it has surged to 111 points now. Although most of the increase was concentrated tonight, it is also related to the gradual neglect of the Nasdaq itself.

　Fortunately, it was only "bliss".

　Dak breathed a slight sigh of relief and took out a face card from the shoulder bag he had brought.

　After eliminating the goddess, he originally thought that the flower cards might become ineffective as a result.

　However, just now, Professor Lily gave a demonstration on the spot.

　That means the function of the flower cards is still there.

　What needs to be tested now is whether the derivative function of using Hanafuda to draw "Paradise" is still still there?

　Dark placed the face card on the table, took out his magic pen, and began to infuse it with magic.

　As magic was infused, familiar faces flashed across the cards one by one.

　Dak held his breath and suddenly saw the flower on the card undergo a strange change, with a sharp beak of fine teeth growing out of the flower's stamen.

　He continued to channel his magic, and several flowers burst forth from the card, their countless stamens and sharp beaks biting at his fingers!

　"hiss."

　The demon beast beside her glanced at it, then waved its hand, and with a flash of black light, severed the flower's stamen at the root.

　【Paradise-1】

　"good."