The Villainous Young Master Just Wants to Live a Laid-Back Life

Chapter 132: Omen of Crisis at St. Marian

Ten o'clock.

As Dark Demon was leaving the library, he happened upon the tide of people returning from the secret passages. A dense swarm of tiny pixies blotted out the sky, urging the students back to their dormitories as if escorting prisoners.

"I wonder when this wave will pass?"

Dark Demon shook his head, leaning against a window to wait for the crowd to pass.

The moonlight remained unaffected, as clear as water.

Half of his face was illuminated by the light, just in time to see Virt and Robert hurrying past on an external bridge.

"I remember being at this same spot after the last astronomy class, right?"

A faint memory surfaced in Dark Demon's mind, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

...

The next day, Friday.

Nobles' House, common room.

Dark Demon enjoyed the breakfast brought by DemiDevimon as usual.

This morning's "Great Sage Daily" finally mentioned the incident at St. Marian Academy.

Despite the school's efforts, the effect seemed minimal.

The "Great Sage Daily" still listed the event as a headline, with Headmistress Cynthia's photo on the front-page banner.

However, the angle of attention it drew was slightly different from what Dark Demon had imagined.

The outcry against the "little pixie" wasn't as strong as expected. It seemed her established reputation for being unreliable made people unsurprised.

Some parents were surprised that the academy would appoint a pixie as a professor, but due to the "Hundred Races Alliance Treaty" signed during wartime, the kingdom's nobles were not in a political position to openly criticize this.

Most people were simply thankful that the affected students were all safe and sound.

The academy submitted the names of the involved students to the court, but the court did not release them due to confidentiality regulations; only Mr. Sea Star's name appeared in the public documents.

After a full day of fermentation, the most vehement denunciation came from the completely unrelated Holy Cult.

And the angle of the Holy Cult's spokesperson's denunciation was rather bizarre, actually accusing Headmistress Cynthia of slandering the Moon God!

Dark Demon couldn't help but laugh when he saw this.

"Moon God" was actually a very general term. Any deity related to the moon could be called a Moon God.

Among them, the more famous Moon Hunting Goddess was an ancestor of Headmistress Cynthia.

In ancient myths and legends, some gods who descended to earth lived among humans. Their bloodlines were passed down through normal reproduction, and although diluted over generations, a small number of people still possessed a high purity of divine blood.

Headmistress Cynthia was one of them.

For the Holy Cult's spokesperson to accuse a descendant of the Moon God of slandering the Moon God, of all people, was truly something else!

Dark Demon continued to flip through the newspaper and saw a clarification post in a small corner regarding yesterday's headline. In the post, a certain reporter apologized for his "fabrication" and clarified that the Duke's son did not have a marriage contract with the royal princess.

"So the rumor gets the headline, and the clarification only deserves a corner?"

After seeing this, Dark Demon seemed to suddenly think of something. He looked back at the report on the Moon God incident and then fell into a brief contemplation.

"If Headmistress Cynthia was busy outside until last night, then who was teaching Magic History yesterday afternoon?"

"It couldn't have been her magic spirit, could it?"

...

Time passed quickly.

As Dark Demon put down the newspaper, the House Card in his card case suddenly vibrated.

Taking it out for a quick look, he found it was a notification that the location for Dueling class had been changed.

Dueling class was usually held in a classroom, but sometimes it was moved to a dueling hall.

Professor Jones always gave advance notice for every classroom change.

"I wonder what Professor Jones will talk about in Dueling class?"

After experiencing the fierce battle with the Moon Goddess, Dark Demon's anticipation for Dueling class had risen slightly.

However.

When the first-year students from all four houses entered Dueling Hall No. 2 together, what awaited them was a high-intensity physical training session!

Professor Jones seemed to feel that the students' poor physical fitness was insufficient to cope with potential crises, or perhaps she simply thought they had too much energy with nowhere to release it.

In any case, she put the first-years through a harsh drill in this class.

The students with weaker stamina suffered immensely.

Some gritted their teeth and held on, stubborn and beautiful.

Others protested but were ignored.

It wasn't until the class was halfway through that two students suddenly fainted. Only then did Professor Jones temporarily halt the physical training and rush the two students to the infirmary at top speed.

About fifteen minutes later, Professor Jones returned to the classroom.

A student from the Nobles' House immediately lashed out, loudly denouncing her inhumanity, and was rewarded with a doubled training task.

Professor Jones frowned in thought.

A few other students asked about the condition of the two who had been sent to the infirmary.

Professor Jones said, puzzled, "It's strange. Sister Carian said they fainted due to long-term malnutrition. But our cafeteria is the battlefield of halfling chefs; don't they eat?"

When a Knight's House student who was close to one of them claimed the person was a big eater, Professor Jones became even more confused.

But the young magi did not escape the subsequent training because of this.

Those two students hadn't fainted because of the training.

This matter seemed to become a mystery, joining the ranks of the few inexplicable things one encounters in school life.

At the end of the class, Professor Jones assigned homework, requiring the students to write a long essay on the topic "On the Importance of Physical Fitness to Magic Duels."

She also announced that a second in-class competition would be held before Christmas.

...

Regardless, that morning's Dueling class was not pleasant.

The two who fainted were Eixico from the Magic House and Wagner from the Knight's House.

Wagner was the big eater the Knight's House student had mentioned; he was strong and sturdy, not at all looking like someone suffering from "malnutrition"!

Therefore, some students believed it was an excuse Professor Jones had made up to evade responsibility and even called on classmates to go to the infirmary to verify it.

But in reality, most students had lost their mobility due to the high-intensity training; some didn't even eat lunch and just slept in bed until the afternoon.

Dark Demon's physical fitness was only about average; he almost fell asleep in the bathtub.

Conversely, Diana and Robert finally showed their advantage, still full of life after the training ended.

In any case, after this incident, Dark Demon began to consider whether to make morning exercise a daily routine.

...

Eleven-thirty.

Dark Demon dragged his sore body to the cafeteria for a bowl of noodles, then began to wait for Traveler Street to open.

This trip to Traveler Street, he had more credits than ever before.

The things he needed to buy were also more numerous than ever before.

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