Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 377

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The professionalism of the senior just now was quite commendable. His performance was realistic, successfully arousing the consumers' desire to spend.

And these figurines, which were rushed for release in merely half a month, were also amply exquisite.

Even if what they got wasn't a rare item, it wouldn't make people feel that it was "not worth it".

They were truly fine products, on a completely different level from some crudely made figurines.

As he looked through the guidebook, Dark admired the craftsmanship of .

On the whole, the academy executed the plan according to his suggestions.

Not only did the guidebook indicate the star ranking of the magical spirits, it also rated them based on their popularity.

In the future, when the sales of the became widespread, a popularity poll would be held, and the popularity level would be reset based on the result.

There were currently only five popularity levels, classified into A, B, C, D, and E.

For example, [] and [] were both magical spirits with A-level popularity.

They were also extremely rare. Only three of each had been produced so far.

Among them, the figurine that could move like a magic chess piece, similarly called a "", was even more rare.

As for the S-level (super popular) above A-level and the F-level (failure) below E-level, both of them had already been planned but had yet to be implemented.

S-level would later on most probably be adjusted upward from A-level, whereas F-level would be selected from E-level, assorted until they were worthy of their rating.

In addition, each region would have region-specific magical spirit figurines that could only be purchased in that region.

There would also be holiday-special magical spirit figurines which could only be purchased during the specific holidays.

For this Easter, there was the human-type magical spirit named [Numinous Priest(灵光牧师)] whose popularity was especially high.

"This is…" Dark's eyes suddenly lit up. He put up the guidebook and showed it to . "Look at what I found."

DemiDevimon, who perched on Dark's shoulder like an owl, looked at the figurine guidebook with a face full of confusion.

But after a moment, its eyes flew wide open.

In the guidebook, there was actually an illustration of [DemiDevimon]!

Perhaps because it had appeared in a competition, the academy included it, who was supposed to be a familiar spirit, in the general category of magical spirits.

Aside from DemiDevimon, ’s figurine was also included.

But DemiDevimon quickly puffed up its cheeks, because its popularity level turned out to be E!

And yet, Gatomon’s popularity level was D!

As magical spirits who both had only shown up once in a formal competition, why did they have different levels of popularity?

DemiDevimon refused to accept this!

……

In fury, it leaned into Dark's ear and rapidly muttered.

Dark couldn't help feeling startled: "Are you sure?"

DemiDevimon firmly nodded.

Dark helplessly replied, "Then choose it by yourself."

And thus DemiDevimon jumped off his shoulder, landed at the edge of the table, and began choosing among the rows of Easter eggs.

→It wanted to enshrine its own figurine!

"Hey!"

Dianna's little head popped out from under Dark's armpit, looking at DemiDevimon with great interest.

"Do you want to buy Easter eggs? With 200 credits, you can buy 20 of them!"

DemiDevimon turned back and glared at her, its gaze becoming sharper.

It carefully observed the Easter eggs on the stall.

In just a short time, more than half of the Easter eggs on the table were already gone.

Some of the eggs were bought and taken away, while others were opened on the spot.

The students obtained various kinds of magical spirit figurines, but most were D-level and E-level. Only one of them obtained a C-level.

There wasn't a single B-level magical spirit like [].

Upon discovering this, DemiDevimon instead felt relieved.

There were actually not that many types of magical spirits in the guidebook, only about fifty or sixty. Moreover, its figurine was merely an E-level, which made up the largest number. In theory, it should be very easy to get one.

After a while, DemiDevimon used the tip of its wing to point at one of the Easter eggs with a solemn expression.

Similar to the Easter egg from which it obtained the credit points, it was an egg with black as its main color.

It believed that "black" was its lucky color!

……

"This one, is it?" Dark asked once more.

DemiDevimon solemnly nodded.

Dark paid 10 points, then took the Easter egg and put it in front of DemiDevimon.

DemiDevimon stood upright on one foot, then used the other to grab the small hammer and smash it hard on top of the Easter egg.

Crack!

The shell of the Easter egg broke apart inch by inch.

A brand new figurine appeared in front of everyone.

"This is…"

"Congratulations! Congratulations!"

While everyone was still stunned, the merchant swiftly pulled the contraption. In an instant, pieces of paper and ribbons spurted out from above, falling all over DemiDevimon.

DemiDevimon loathingly looked at the ribbons hanging on its wings and shook them off vigorously.

But when the other students looked at it, they were all showing envious gazes.

　　▼

　　C-level magical spirit——[]！

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As the cream of the crop among 3-star magical spirits, although [Troll] was ugly and stupid, it did have a certain popularity.

It was the popularity accumulated by each and every [Troll] over a long period of time. Naturally, it couldn't be compared to [DemiDevimon] and [Gatomon] who had only shown up once.

Speaking of which, it was already very amazing for [Gatomon] to get a popularity rating of D after only showing up once.

[] most likely played a big part in this.

As for why [DemiDevimon], who was also one of the fusion materials of [Bastemon], didn't benefit from it?

That was because beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

……

Dark fished out the [Troll] figurine from the broken eggshell and smilingly put it into his bag.

Anyway, DemiDevimon would definitely not want this thing. When the Easter egg figurines became more popular, he could just sell [Troll] to White and easily earn back its cost~

Maybe he could even make a slight profit.

In short, Dark Demon had made a small discovery today—DemiDevimon seemed to possess great luck in this regard!

……

DemiDevimon, who "failed" in its first draw, simply gritted its teeth and started picking its second Easter egg.

The students surrounding the stall looked at the expressive magical spirit with some curiosity. People who originally wanted to buy the Easter eggs also paused and focused their attention on DemiDevimon.

Under everyone's gaze, DemiDevimon once again selected an Easter egg.

It was an Easter egg with a strange pattern. One side of the eggshell looked very much like a [].

In short, Dark paid the 10 points and placed the Easter egg in front of DemiDevimon.

DemiDevimon took a deep breath. This time, it didn’t even use the hammer and directly smacked down with its paw, instantly crushing the upper half of the eggshell.

Then it pulled apart the eggshell, revealing the figurine inside.

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　　A-level magical spirit——[]！

　　▲

"That's…"

"Isn't that the second-tier main force of the ?"

"A dual type of light and dragon, demi-human-type, pure white and aloof icy beauty, the extremely rare Pure White Dragon Maiden!"

"Its popularity isn't much lower than [Heavenly White Dragon]!"

"Wait a minute, I remember it's classified as A-level in the guidebook... Is it so easy to get an A-level magical spirit? Boss, give me an Easter egg too!"

However, the merchant blinked and vigorously rubbed his eyes, so surprised that he even forgot to pull the celebratory contraption.

"What the heck? It's already great luck to get a C-level figurine on the first try, alright? And now they directly got an A-level on the second try? Can I still do this business?"

Even though he was grumbling like crazy in his heart, he didn't forget to collect the money.

The [Pure White Dragon Maiden] figurine still inside the eggshell was indeed exquisite.

It had a pair of dragon horns on top of its head and a stern expression. The white combat robe it was wearing clung to its graceful and lithe body, perfectly highlighting its figure.

A long spear stood on an angle behind its back with a blood-like bright red glow, exuding an ice-cold fighting spirit!

Although it wasn't a "magic figurine", the value of this [Pure White Dragon Maiden] could be clearly perceived from its appearance.

Dark actually had quite a deep impression of this [Pure White Dragon Maiden].

Senior Pandora danced with it at the .

Later, during the experiment to craft the [Fusion] card, she had also summoned [Pure White Dragon Maiden].

Dark had always felt that its intelligence was higher than the ordinary magical spirits.

Even if it was lower than 3.0, its intelligence level should probably be at 2.5, a level comparable to a familiar spirit.

Dark was certainly very happy to see this A-level figurine that could make people burn with jealousy.

Seeing DemiDevimon's look of disdain, Dark once again smilingly put the [Pure White Dragon Maiden] into his own bag.

"Want to buy another Easter egg?" Dark asked proactively, his attitude becoming much more enthusiastic.

But DemiDevimon, who was fixedly staring at the Easter eggs on the stall, was currently seriously doubting whether or not there was a figurine of itself among them.

It was already quite distressed over spending one-tenth of its 200 points.

If it still didn't get what it wanted from the next one, would it buy another one? And yet another one?

Who would pay for the points spent?

It had no channel to earn points, so the more it spent, the less it would have.

And thus, DemiDevimon was enlightened.

It firmly shook its head and immediately thought of a clever idea.

……

And so, more than ten minutes later, Dark bought a [DemiDevimon] figurine—whose popularity level was only E and was not cute at all—from a senior student.

It only cost 10 points.

Upon getting its own figurine, DemiDevimon immediately beamed happily.

It wanted to enshrine this figurine on top of the bookcase in the bedroom so that those magical spirits who had no respect for their senior would know what it meant to be green with envy!

In this battle, DemiDevimon spent 30 points, obtained an E-level figurine of [DemiDevimon], and was left with a balance of 170 points.

Dark Demon spent 0 point, obtained a C-level figurine of [Troll] and an A-level figurine of [Pure White Dragon Maiden], and achieved an overwhelming victory!

……

Afterwards, although Dianna was somewhat interested in the Easter egg figurines, she didn't buy anything because she was short of money after spending too much today.

Instead, it was Rose who bought an Easter egg purely as a memento of Easter.

She put the Easter egg figurine she had bought into her bag and hung it on her forearm, not in a hurry to open it.

After that, the three of them wandered around for a while, and then returned to the academy in the nick of time.

……

Eight o’clock sharp in the morning.

Most of the students in Saint Marian had gathered and entered the .

The huge Colosseum-like building was like a ferocious beast hibernating on land, exuding a vicious and savage aura.

But after passing through the giant gate that was akin to a wide open bloody mouth, the ferocious aura abruptly weakened a lot.

The breath of humanity diluted the remnant of the barbarous atmosphere from ancient times.

The only thing that will remain forever unchanged was the desire to fight engraved in the bone marrow of living beings!

This wasn't the first time Dark and the two girls came to this dueling hall, but upon entering it, they still felt their blood racing.

Not far from the gate, the staff of the dueling club had set up a signboard in the center.

The club president and vice president, William and Inya, were also personally taking part. They were in charge of directing the audience to the passage on the left, whereas the contestants were to go to the right.

Since this was implementing an unprecedented preliminary battle royale mode with no requirements for qualifications, it resulted in a far greater number of contestants than previous competitions.

Almost half the students in the academy wanted to try out the preliminary battle royale for fun. At a rough calculation, there were nearly three hundred people.

With the size of the dueling hall, it could naturally accommodate these three hundred people. However, it wasn't easy to maintain a stable order.

"Remember to save a seat for me!" Dianna grabbed Rose's hand and reminded her again.

Rose adjusted the Easter egg in the bag and pushed her hand away: "Okay, quickly go over there. Who knows, maybe you will qualify."

"How can it be?" Dianna glanced at the passage on the right.

There were tons of people participating in the competition, and among them, there were a lot of especially famous seniors.

If one accidentally provoked them in the preliminary battle royale, they would have to accept the fate of being swiftly eliminated.

On the other hand, if one were lucky enough, it was actually possible to avoid those people, quickly hunt ten magical spirits, and qualify straight away.

But this time, there were way too many people who came.

Due to this, the ten-point qualifying rule was highly likely to change.

The specific rules would probably not be announced until about 8:30, after the total number of contestants was counted.

This included the points needed to qualify, the fixed number of people who could qualify… and so on.

In short, although Dianna said she only wanted to "experience it", inside her heart, of course she also really wished to qualify.

Even if she was eliminated right in the first round after qualifying, it was still a valuable opportunity to compete against second and third-year duelers.

The person around her was constantly running in the lead.

If she wanted to catch up with him, there was certainly a price to be paid.

Dianna didn’t want to be left too far behind.

"Wait for me, Dark!"

……

Dark waited until Dianna came back before walking with her into the passage for contestants.

Looking at the contestants who had formed into small groups around him, he wondered how the academy would solve the problem of "off-site team formation".

Since it was a "battle royale", how would it live up to the name if there wasn't any chaos?

"They'll probably randomly assign the positions to scatter them apart. But it's also possible that they'll fail to notice this problem. After all, this is the first time they're trying out this mode. It's normal for loopholes to appear."

Dark shook his head.

There was always a solution to every problem.

……

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