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Chapter 330: Dark Demon Needs No Whitewashing
"If you know that you're wrong, then you've got to change, got it?"
Dark solemnly took off the wooden placard hanging on Meowth's neck and put it aside.
Immediately afterwards, the cat grass carried the wooden placard into the cradle with its mouth…
Seeing that, Meowth quickly reached its paw into the cradle, took back the wooden placard engraved with the words [naughty troublemaker], and then hid it behind its back.
Dark couldn't help but feel astounded as he witnessed the whole process.
……Only after Meowth stored the wooden placard in its drawer as if it was a treasure did Dark recall it into the magic card.
Then he lay down on the bed, held the dark purple bead between two fingers, and carefully observed it against the ceiling.
After a brief pondering, he abruptly pinched it hard. For a moment, the spiritual light circulating inside the bead became slightly brighter.
"Mhm?"
Due to that glint of brightness, he gradually figured out the magical effect of the bead.
But he had no recollection of any similar items.
Last time, he still had a clue to follow for the 'Seven Star Coin', but for this bead, he was completely drawing a blank.
Normally, unless one was lucky enough to find the correlating information in the library, it would be easier to get the answer by enquiring the professors.
But it wasn't good to keep relying on the professors, so tomorrow, Dark planned to first check for information in the library and then see how it would go from there.
……
The first day of March began with an arithmetic class.
At six thirty in the morning, Dark received a private notification from Professor Lily.
Abusing the sorting card for personal gains—he strongly condemned such an act!
But at about six fifty, he still came to Professor Lily's office.
"Good morning, Professor Lily."
Upon opening the door, Dark saw textbooks piled all over the floor.
Hands on her hips, Professor Lily looked at him with a face full of pride. "How is it? Isn't my textbook well-bound? I even followed your suggestion and changed the name to 《Mathematics Ⅰ》. Mathematics—the study of numbers. It really sounds great!"
Dark picked up a copy of 《Mathematics Ⅰ》 and flipped through it only to find that the content was better than what he had expected.
Not only was there no major problem with the typesetting, most of the chapters were even supplemented with cute illustrations.
Just by looking at it… he could tell that it wasn't done by Professor Lily.
Dark casually asked, "Professor, did you ask someone for help?"
Professor Lily's expression instantly stiffened, her gaze erratically shifting about.
Dark added on, "They did quite a good job. Must've been a meticulous professor, surely?"
At last, Professor Lily awkwardly smiled and answered, "It's the lecturer in charge of the second year's arithmetic class, Professor Bacon. She heard from the students about our current lesson content and came to seek for cooperation, hoping that we'll allow her to use our textbook for the second year."
"Professor Bacon?"
Despite combing through his mind, Dark couldn't recall any professor who had anything to do with the name 'Bacon'.
However, he did start compiling this textbook with the intention to popularize it, so he had no objection to the addition of Professor Bacon.
It was Professor Lily's obvious delegation of work as a means to shirk her duty that made him quite helpless.
But a labor of force wouldn't produce satisfactory results.
It was Professor Bacon who took the initiative to involve herself and put more care into the production of the textbook.
So all in all, it was a huge profit!
Seeing him look a little doubtful, Professor Lily said, "Professor Bacon is unexpectedly nice, how about I help introduce you to her? I can hold a mathematics tea party, for instance."
Dark smiled and said, "That's not necessary. Just help me say thank you to her when you see her."
"Huh?" Professor Lily was puzzled. "But she's the beneficiary, why are we the ones saying thank you?"
Dark merely smiled without a word.
…….
When it was almost time for class, Dark summoned [Meowth] and asked for its help to move the textbooks of the two Houses to the classroom.
Professor Lily also summoned a fine-featured beauty with a strong and sturdy figure to help.
The four of them carried the textbooks all the way to the classroom.
By the time they arrived, the classroom was already full of people.
Professor Lily made full use of her authority as a professor and appointed a few boys to help distribute 《Mathematics Ⅰ》.
The students basked in the joy of finally owning a textbook—some of them were even moved to tears.
Afterwards, Professor Lily started her lecture on simple geometry.
The main subject of this lesson was 'Pythagoras theorem', also known as the '3-4-5 rule'.
People who were new to the Pythagoras theorem would generally find it astounding.
In fact, it was indeed amazing.
The students learned it with gusto, feeling that this was akin to learning magic.
What they didn't realize was that magic was very abstruse and difficult to learn.
And in this regard, mathematics was the same.
……
During the break after arithmetic class was over, Dark clearly felt how the atmosphere had changed.
It seemed that the arrival of March had sparked a sudden awareness of the upcoming White Day among the young magisters. No matter whether or not they were holding out hope, those boys and girls couldn't help but feel nervous.
As for what they were actually nervous about?
Who could say for sure.
Perhaps it was the anticipation of a response.
Perhaps it was the fear of friends growing distant upon finding their other halves.
Perhaps it was because they didn't want the person they liked to reciprocate or be reciprocated by somebody else.
In short, there were more reasons than people could generally think of.
Being in this situation, Dark too, couldn't help getting a headache over this.
The combined setting of Valentine's Day and White Day was good in all aspects—except for the person who was given chocolates on Valentine's Day.
If both parties were in a relationship that was more than friends but less than lovers, then it would be an even bigger problem.
Depending on how you respond, it might cause the collapse of the friendship you originally had.
Dark was currently trapped in this tangled state of mind.
But if he carefully thought about it, the atmosphere when Pandora, Rose, and Professor Lily gave him chocolates on Valentine's Day was actually pretty casual. There wasn't any vibe of passionate love at all.
The Valentine's Day they spent together on the snow field even had that ordinary and natural feeling, as if they had skipped the period of passionate love altogether and fast-forwarded into the stage of living together.
Perhaps the reality wasn't as such, but at that time, it truly felt that way.
Thus, Dark also decided to take it more casually.
"Just take it as a way to improve our relationships."
Initially, he wasn't planning on giving any response.
But it was only proper to reciprocate in kind.
So in the end, he finally decided to keep up an appearance.
……
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