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

Chapter 47: Dark Demon's Study Secrets

At the end of the duel class.

After distributing the champion's reward of 1000 credits, Professor Jones invited Dark onto the stage.

Dark, who hadn't fully grown yet, stood next to Professor Jones, his head only reaching the lower edge of her spherical body.

Professor Jones, with one-sixteenth giant blood, was simply too large.

Dark tried his best to maintain a slight smile on his lips, calmly facing the chattering first-year students below.

Professor Jones said, "Demon, you don't mind sharing some study secrets with your classmates, do you?"

Dark readily agreed, "Of course not."

Professor Jones nodded in satisfaction, "Then I'll leave the next part to you."

Dark nodded, took a step to the center, and began speaking:

"In fact, there are no shortcuts in learning. The reason I've come this far is, besides self-discipline, moderation."

"Those who can restrain themselves are the most authoritative. But excessive restraint can sometimes backfire, so moderation is also very important."

"Whether it's the moderation of desires or the moderation of study, both are necessary."

"Personally, I prefer a balance between work and leisure, using some fun content to alleviate the monotony of study, giving the brain some rest time."

"Moreover, everyone is the architect of their own destiny..."

...

Dark spoke for about fifteen minutes.

Some understood the principles behind his words, while others just wanted to finish quickly and go eat.

This is just like on the road of life, where a fork in the road has a signpost, the left path rugged but leading to the peak, the right path smooth but leading to the valley, yet most people still choose to go right.

The so-called principles remain just principles because they are known but not acted upon.

Dark could only say that he truly shared his feelings from the past month.

Amidst applause of uncertain sincerity, he stepped down, and then welcomed Friday afternoon, when the Traveler's Street reopened!

Dark pulled out his academy card to check, credits: 1570.

...

Compared to the first opening of the Traveler's Street, the first-year students were much more reserved this week.

In any case, it was definitely not because of the unfounded reason of "not enough credits"!

Fortunately, some ordinary consumer goods weren't that expensive, with just one credit you could order a cup of coffee and sit comfortably all day at the Forest Café on Traveler's Street.

...

Before heading to Traveler's Street, Dark once again took out his notebook for item excerpts.

Compared to last week's item excerpts, this week added a few more items to the list.

These items were containers that could be used for long-term storage of mental substances.

[Magic Brain Bottle: One of the alchemy tools in the Magic Brain series, storing emotions, desires, knowledge, and other substances in a simulated magic brain. The advantage is its vitality, allowing for long storage times, the disadvantage is also its vitality, which may lead to contamination and deterioration of the stored substances!]

[Insect Tree: A potted plant with branches like insects, capable of injecting emotions, desires, knowledge, and other substances into the insect branches. Since the essence of the insect branches is plant, there's no need to worry about contamination of the stored substances. The downside is that if the tree dies, the insects die too, making it hard to cultivate.]

[Advanced Mind Bottle: The advanced version of the Mind Bottle, with no downsides except being very expensive, with a shelf life of up to a month.]

But in fact, all these things were expensive.

It's just that the Advanced Mind Bottle was even more expensive!

Dark's first goal today was to pick one of these to purchase.

...

From twelve o'clock to twelve-thirty was the peak period for crowding into Traveler's Street.

Dark deliberately waited until twelve-thirty before walking out of the Noble Academy's tower path.

On his way to the castle gate, he unexpectedly encountered Virt, Robert, and Emma again.

"Wasn't it them on Monday too?"

Recalling Monday's encounter, Dark kept a part of his mind alert.

...

Emma Matheson had unusually styled her fluffy brown hair, securing it with cute cat hairpins, and had applied some powder to make her skin appear fairer.

She had never dressed up to this extent before, completely changing the impression she gave.

"Could it be that the defeat in the duel match hit her too hard?" Dark couldn't help but wonder.

On the other hand, Virt and Robert were as usual.

After losing their last chance, they pondered hard and finally decided to apologize for their previous quarrel, begging Emma for forgiveness.

"I've already apologized, Emma!"

Robert once again blocked Emma's way.

Emma puffed her cheeks, somewhat angry: "So I've heard, can you move aside?"

Virt quickly grabbed Robert's arm, completely unaware how a well-intentioned apology had escalated to this point?

Robert's thinking probably still lingered at a child's level, believing that any issue could be resolved with an apology.

But Virt, having experienced more, knew that most of the time, apologies couldn't solve problems.

They were actually here to beg Emma to give up on collecting the debt!

That was a full 640 credits, and in half an hour, it would double to 1280!

If it were them, they definitely wouldn't easily give up on this debt!

Remembering his previous bold statements about repaying the debt, Virt couldn't help but blush, reluctantly saying, "Emma, we've realized our mistake, we shouldn't have forced you to lend us money to buy magic chess, and we shouldn't have insulted you afterward..."

Emma: "You've already said that! I've accepted the apology, so can you please immediately quickly right now move aside?"

"No." Virt mustered the courage of a hero's son, shamelessly saying, "So, can we settle the debt? Like revising the contract to fix the owed credits at 640?"

Robert interjected: "640 is already a lot!"

"Gasp!"

Virt was almost dumbfounded, wishing he could immediately seal Robert's foul mouth!

Emma coldly glanced at Robert, this time finally speaking plainly: "You don't owe me 640 credits. 5 credits, Virt. Repay me 5 credits, and we're even!"

Virt's ears twitched, thinking he misheard: "What do you mean? How could it be 5 credits?"

Emma said, "Read the school rules more, Virt! Credits are used as a special currency within St. Mary's, the academy couldn't not regulate borrowing issues. Credit loans exceeding 10 times the principal are invalid within the academy! From one o'clock Monday afternoon, the contract was void, you only need to repay me the principal."

Virt felt like he was about to fall apart: "But you said before..."

Emma angrily said, "Because Robert insulted me! I wasn't happy to tell you! So what?"

Virt: "Robert..."

Emma suddenly pulled out her academy card: "5 credits, Virt, hurry up! This afternoon at the Forest Café, there's a St. Mary's ladies' tea party, if I'm late because of you..."

Virt quickly swiped his card, clearing the debt.

The burden that had been on his shoulders for a whole week suddenly disappeared, Virt felt like he was floating, as if his feet could leave the ground and he could fly.

But after Emma took back her academy card, she showed no mercy: "Also, Virt. I think it's necessary to remind you, don't hang out with Robert anymore! Think of your departed parents!"

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