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Chapter 51 Dark Demon Has His Eyes on the Masquerade
The magic card of the dress-up series was extremely popular in Saint Marian Academy.
Students always wished to take off their old school uniforms and put on their favorite clothes immediately after entering Traveller Street.
But there was no changing room at the entrance and exit of Traveller Street.
If they didn’t have a dress-up card, they needed to borrow a place at the clothing store, and they also needed to bring a complete set of clothes, which was neither convenient nor beautiful.
Moreover, the clothing store on Traveller Street would only provide the latest trendy clothing, not a dress-up card.
Therefore, students who wanted to get a dress-up card could only buy it from the stalls set up by senior students, in addition to making them themselves.
However, because the production of the dress-up card was very complicated, and it wouldn’t earn many credits, there were not many people who would sell it.
Therefore, Dark stopped to watch curiously, and found that all the dress-up cards sold at this stall were all "Halloween-themed style".
Speaking of Halloween, it would naturally make people think of pumpkins, candies, ghosts, and masquerades!
On the eve of Saint Marian’s Halloween, there would be an unprecedented masquerade that would turn the entire castle into a stage!
If one could catch the hidden "ghosts" at the masquerade party, one could redeem them for credits!
Those who caught the most "ghosts" would even get a special title.
As Halloween approached, some experienced seniors were already gearing up, and Dark would occasionally hear them mention it in the common room.
For first-year students, Halloween was a rare opportunity to earn a lot of credits!
In any case, on that day, no one would wear school uniforms!
Dark certainly didn't want to be the only exception.
Since he happened to arrive before the stall selling dress-up cards, he thought of buying one card to use. It was not expensive anyway.
At first glance, there were three grades priced at "33 credits", "66 credits" and "88 credits".
Dark didn't care much about the price.
He knelt down and looked at them carefully for a while.
For the Halloween theme, the majority of the cards would cover most of the body. Of course, there were also succubus models that revealed a lot of skins. But they weren’t that many.
The most abundant ones were the "Vampire Series", "Knight Series", "Monster Series" and "Royal Palace Series". Although there were many others, there was no uniformity.
"First year, Noble House?"
The senior student who set up the stall asked casually.
Dark nodded and said politely, "Hello, senior."
The senior student smiled in satisfaction, "Although I belong to Fool House, I am still considered your senior. My name is Leon. If your classmates also need dress-up cards, you can tell them to go directly to Fool House’s common room to find me."
Dark curiously asked, "Does the common room of Fool House have no entrance guard?"
Leon explained, "Of course, it has, but our guard is very hospitable. As long as you bring a gift, oh, I mean, bring a small bottle of lubricant, it will open the door for you."
Dark surprised, "lubricant?"
"Ahem!" Leon looked away and said embarrassingly, "You just need to bring it. Since you are a freshman in Noble House, I recommend this vampire suit! This is the most popular series of Noble House costumes in the past. I also injected sweet blood jam into the fangs. As long as you inject magic energy into it, it will ooze blood!"
"That's really good."
Dark lowered his gaze, flipped through the vampire suit first, and found that they were all traditional red and black colors. It looked good, but he felt that something was missing.
He asked casually, "Are there any demon king suits?"
Leon’s expression became stiff, "No, but there is a hero suit. By the way, I remember that in this year’s freshmen, there is a student who claims to be the son of a hero in your House?"
Dark, "No, he is in the Knight House."
"Knight House?" Leon said with emotion, "I wish he could put on my Kamen Rider suit."
Dark was startled, "Kamen Rider Suit?"
"Yes." Leon proudly said, "That was a very famous hero in the era when the demons still existed. He would transform into a Kamen Rider by inserting the dress-up card into his special belt. It is very similar to the magic card of the holy cloth series nowadays. Do you know Alvette, the Valkyrie? She is one of the holders of the Twelve Holy Gold Cloths."
Of course, Dark knew the Valkyrie. He had also seen her complaining that her outfit was too tight.
The so-called "holy cloth" was very similar to the "saint clothing" in Knights of the Zodiac. The twelve holy gold cloths were designed based on the twelve constellations, which could increase the user's power and speed by hundreds of times!
→Only when the Valkyrie wore the holy cloth, did she become the real Valkyrie!
Dark couldn't help but become interested in the Kamen Rider suit.
But the more he looked, the more he felt something wasn’t right.
Why did the Kamen Rider outfit made by Leon look like a Beelzebub outfit?
‘Forget it, I should choose something normal.’
The full-body outfit would affect his mobility. If he planned to have some big action on Halloween, it was better to choose a lighter outfit.
For example, the "Tuxedo Mask outfit" was very good.
Black dress, white glasses, crimson cloak, white gloves, and a blood red rose!
And it only cost 33 credits.
"Just this one."
Dark didn’t spend too much time thinking about it. After all, if he didn’t like it, he could still get a new one.
Senior Leon wasn’t upset because he chose the cheapest dress-up card. He also explained very patiently how to engrave the last crafting magic circle on the dress-up card.
Dark had learned a lot from him so he felt that these 33 credits were worth it!
When he was about to leave, Senior Leon suddenly stopped him, "By the way, I'll give you a love divination card as a gift!"
...
Dark held the love divination card given by Leon, his mind was a little confused.
‘Senior Leon looks quite honest, and he is a student of Fool House. He doesn't look like he would lie. Then, are these love divination cards really distributed by Professor Cazer?’
‘Professor Cazer does have sufficient magic skills, but why does he want to do this?’
Dark looked carefully at the delicate flower card in his hand, and he couldn't imagine Professor Cazer, who had goblin blood, would make such a thing.
And according to Leon, Professor Cazer just gave them the flower cards and asked them to give them to people who they liked.
The number of flower cards was not much, and the one Dark got was the last flower card Leon had.
But when Dark went to the Strange Candy Store to buy some toffee, he got another flower card!
Then he went to a flower shop, a jewelry shop, a clothing shop...
Some shops gave him a flower card, and some shops had already given out all the cards they had.
After visiting a few shops, including the one gifted by Leon, Dark got a total of eight flower cards.
Plus the one he already had, and it was nine cards!
"Nine flower cards. This trip is quite rewarding."
When Dark walked out of the lake pavilion, he happened to walk past White and Robert.
The estrangement between them seemed to have disappeared, and they were playing together again.
‘Speaking of which, did they finish their homework?’
Dark was puzzled.
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It's rather timely for this chapter to be released in october. Thank you for the chapter.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chapter!!!
ReplyDeleteSo now there is a possible Saint Seiya reference as well. Although, 12 constellations are used by a lot of authors so calling it a parody is a little too extreme. Also, is the Tuxedo Mask thing a Sailor Moon reference, or is that just a thing on its own now?
ReplyDeleteCould also just be Phantom of the Opera.
Delete"Of course, Dark knew the Valkyrie. He had also seen her complaining that her outfit was too tight"
ReplyDeleteOkay, see, now I really want to see his mom.