Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 406

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Chapter 406: Dark Demon Only Wanted to Live a Peaceful Life

Looking at the envelope icon that popped up on the card, Leah Goethe suddenly felt a sense of foreboding in her heart.

But after hesitating for a moment, she ultimately clicked on it.

With the injection of magic energy, the envelope opened, revealing the content inside.

[Ophelia Bullard, come to my office.]

[——Sarah Silver]

"......"

Leah Goethe instantly fell silent.

She silently closed the "notice", then flipped the access card and tapped it with her fingertip.

A drop of bright red blood flowed out from her fingertip, winding along the back of the access card as if it possessed a consciousness.

In just a few seconds, an extremely complex blood magic circle was automatically inscribed.

Immediately afterwards, Leah Goethe continued tapping with her finger and shockingly began to craft it.

The fine threads condensed from blood instantly surrounded the entire access card!

……

This scene made Joseph Bruno's pupils rapidly shrink as a trace of dread appeared in his heart. He couldn't help but feel lucky that he didn't act rashly.

But he didn't completely take no action…

"Aren't you leaving yet?" All of a sudden, Leah Goethe looked up and asked.

Swallowing his saliva in reflex, Joseph Bruno finally chose to believe in reason.

He muttered, "I believe you, but you must fulfill your promise, otherwise..."

But Leah Goethe no longer looked at him. "Otherwise, you'll tell everyone what you know. No problem, you can even go to your professor now. Okay, bye-bye."

As she spoke, she raised the access card and waved at him.

A bright red spider had been affixed to the back of the access card.

The spider's eight legs crept to the edge of the front side, emitting a faint red light.

Upon taking another look at the access card, Joseph Bruno quietly retreated half a step, then abruptly turned around and hurriedly made his leave.

As the saying went, the experts see the ropes, while the laymen see the knot.

In the eyes of ordinary magisters, what Leah Goethe had done was just a "re-crafting" of a magic card.

But Bruno recognized it at a glance—it was a mysterious "blood sacrifice" method, and the person who was proficient in this method...

He turned a little pale, walking faster and faster.

……

It wasn’t until Joseph Bruno's figure completely disappeared that a look of hesitation finally appeared on Leah Goethe’s face, full of confliction.

Although she had sealed the communication function of the access card with [Blood Spider Seal], it still didn't change the fact that she had been discovered by Professor Silver.

But no matter how hard she racked her brain, she couldn’t figure out how Professor Silver found out that it was her.

Theoretically, she shouldn’t have given away even the slightest clue of her true identity.

"Did Medea give me away?"

"Impossible."

Leah Goethe... No, Ophelia Bullard almost immediately denied this conjecture.

Medea had no reason to betray her.

"But if it wasn't Medea, who could it be?"

While muttering to herself, Ophelia had already started to walk away.

No matter what, it wasn't a good idea to stay here for long.

As for Professor Silver's "notice".

"She can't be thinking I would go just because she sent such a notice, can she?"

……

Half an hour later, Professor Silver's office.

Ophelia Bullard knocked on the door.

……

The end of the Easter Duel Festival did not take away from the festive atmosphere.

After leaving the dueling hall, the students generally split into two groups—one to Traveller Street, and the other to the cafeteria.

Although the cafeteria's dinner still came with free Easter eggs, most students had lost interest in the cafeteria's Easter eggs after getting two consecutive "boiled eggs". It also happened that the competition had just ended, so while the excitement was still there, they might as well go to Traveller Street to enjoy the activities.

Therefore, there were a lot less students who chose the cafeteria.

Dark and his group chatted and laughed together, and nevertheless still opted for the cafeteria.

When the halfling chefs in the cafeteria spotted the blond boy with the bat familiar spirit in the queue, they couldn't help lowering their heads to talk for a few words, smiling one after another.

When it was Dark's turn, the halfling aunt in charge of the Easter eggs winked at him, then took out an egg painted with red petals and put it into the pile of eggs right under his eyes.

Witnessing the halfling aunt's blatant trickery had Dark truly stunned for a moment.

The halfling aunt then congratulated him, "Congratulations on winning the championship."

Dark instantly understood. Then, without any pretense, he directly reached out to take the egg.

Of course, DemiDevimon also didn't forget to pick one.

The menu in the cafeteria tonight was very rich, with large plates of meat arranged on the trays in the display. The rich aroma of meat permeated the air, mixed with the sweet smell of desserts.

While picking his dishes, Dark even found bottles of fruit wine.

In this world, there was no rule prohibiting minors from drinking.

But for the protection of the students, the fruit wine provided by the cafeteria had very low alcohol content.

Dark picked up a bottle and put it on his tray, then continued to hunt for food.

At any rate, he had won the championship, so was going to reward himself well with a feast. And thus, more and more meat was added to his tray.

But when he turned around with a tray full of meat, he was shocked to find that among the three people following behind him, two of them had a hill-like pile of meat on their trays!

He looked down to glance at his tray, then looked up again to glance at the trays in Dianna and Pandora's hands, and couldn't help but sigh.

Sure enough, people shouldn't be compared with one another.

……

If Dianna and Pandora had restrained themselves during lunch because they weren’t very familiar with each other, then tonight, they had completely let themselves go.

Besides, as long as they used "celebrating Dark's victory" as an excuse, it wouldn't look baffling even if they were to grab more meat.

And thus, a mountain of meat was soon piled up on the table the four sat on.

Standing on the table, DemiDevimon looked up at the mountain of meat with a stupefied look on its face. Next to it stood Pandora's familiar spirit [Young Winged Dragon], with a gluttonous look on its face, and far in the corner was the sleepy chinchilla grass.

"Well then, let's open the eggs first!" Dark moved the egg painted with red petals in front of him, itching to crack it.

"Mhm, let's open the eggs first," echoed Pandora, yet she didn't touch her own egg and just stared at Dark.

Dark looked around and found that everyone was staring at him—not only the three people at the same table, but even the students at the next table were all looking over.

"Hey, stop dilly-dallying, hurry up!" A senior student from Knight House shouted rather impatiently.

The others responded in agreement.

Dark couldn't help laughing. "It seems that everyone wants to know what’s inside this cheat egg?"

After holding back for a long time, Dianna finally couldn't help blurting out, "It must be a phoenix egg!"

Rose replied in a low voice, "Didn't I already tell you? There’s no phoenix egg."

Dark pacified, "Just crack it and we'll find out."

So he reached down and pulled out the small golden hammer, which was given as one of the prizes, and gave the egg a hard strike.

Knock!

Throughout the entire day, Dark had cracked open many Easter eggs, but the shell of this egg was undoubtedly the hardest.

After hitting it so hard, he surprisingly only made a thin crack.

He frowned, then put in more strength and slammed down a couple more times.

But after these two hits, he still only made two more cracks.

"Inject your magic energy," reminded Pandora.

Dark injected magic energy into the golden hammer, and then knocked down hard, activating the magic circle installed on the hammer!

A colorful halo spread out in an instant, attracting even more attention.

Immediately afterwards, the Easter egg the size of a goose egg finally shattered.

Dozens of eyes instantly zeroed in on it.

Amidst the remaining one-third of the eggshell, a teardrop-shaped gem slowly floated up, emitting a fiery red light.

"What is it?"

"A fire-attributed gem?"

As voices of discussion followed, the gem suddenly burst into flames, causing the surrounding temperature to rise sharply!

Pop.

Pandora casually grabbed it, extinguishing the flame of the gem.

She brought the red gem in front of her and took a look at it, then handed it to Dark and said with a smile, "It's an unexpectedly good thing, don't lose it."

Dark took the gem and, without giving it a closer look, directly stuffed it into his card pouch. "Well then, let's eat!"

……

The fact that Dark Demon obtained a gem from the cafeteria’s Easter egg was just a small episode during dinner time.

As he quickly put away the gem, the people around him soon brushed it off and started chatting with each other.

Afterwards, Pandora, Dianna, Rose and DemiDevimon all cracked their own Easter eggs, and DemiDevimon actually obtained another credit point voucher!

Although it was only a 30-point voucher, it was enough to make it happy.

In this way, DemiDevimon had once again gathered a full 200 points.

It happily shared meat with its fellow familiar spirit Young Winged Dragon, feeling on cloud nine.

Affected by DemiDevimon, the atmosphere became more and more joyful.

The mountain of meat on the table was also decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Dianna ate until her whole lips were glistening with oil.

Pandora, on the other hand, ate very gracefully, but the speed with which she inhaled her food was just as fast.

Dark had known about her appetite a long time ago, so he wasn’t surprised.

By the time they finished their meal, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. The four of them then left the cafeteria contentedly.

It was a rare free time on Sunday night.

After leaving the cafeteria, the four did not return to the dormitory, but took a slow walk along the castle path, taking it as a way to digest the food after dinner.

At some point in time, they reached the "Lover's Bridge" situated between the castle. Leaning on the railings, they enjoyed the night breeze and narrowed their eyes to take in the night view.

It was very quiet all around.

Perhaps because most people had gone to Traveller Street, the "Lover's Bridge" was surprisingly tranquil tonight.

The youths enjoyed the serene atmosphere, as if a gap had opened in the flow of time, engraving an unchanging scene.

……

After quite some time, Dark was the first to speak, "Senior sister, the experiment you mentioned before..."

Pandora brushed back her hair and replied in a soft voice, "It's a small experiment. I'll tell you when I need your help."

Dark nodded and stopped asking questions.

But Pandora continued speaking, "A drop of fire-attributed monster blood is sealed within the gem you got from the cafeteria."

"Could it really be a phoenix?!" Dianna asked in surprise, her eyes lighting up.

Pandora leisurely answered, "That's not necessarily the case, but since it’s one of the rewards specially given by the academy for the winner, the level of the monster will not be low. Otherwise, it's impossible for a drop of blood to emit such a strong fluctuation of fire element. My suggestion is that you go directly to a professor to ask."

Dark nodded and said, "Then I’ll go to Professor Cazer to ask him tomorrow."

Pandora asked again, "You seem to have a good relationship with the professors?"

Dark chuckled, "Just so-so."

Pandora advised, "It’s indeed good to have a good relationship with professors, but you can't be too dependent on them. I think you should know how to strike a balance."

Dark: "Of course."

As a trace of lethargy appeared in Pandora's eyes, she then took a deep breath, her chest undulating with the breath.

She said, "It's getting late, I should go now. You guys should rest early too."

Then she took two steps away, waved to the three people, and smilingly said, "Good night."

Dark and the two girls also smiled and waved back. "Good night."

……

"Hey."

After Senior Sister Pandora left, Dianna became lively again. She excitedly asked, "Where to go next?"

Dark: "Back to the dormitory."

Dianna: "Huh?"

Dark smiled: "I mean, we can go to the common room and sit for a while."

Rose took Dianna's hand and walked towards the end of the bridge with a smile. "Let's go."

The three of them returned to the tower of Noble House, and then sat in the common room for a while. It wasn't until Rose showed obvious fatigue that they returned to the dorm rooms.

"Then, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

……

With a trace of exhaustion in his eyes, Dark pushed open the door of Room 201.

Continuous high-intensity magic duels actually took a great toll on the dueler, especially mentally.

After entering the room, he first summoned [Magical Scribe], and then fully handed over the heavy task of summoning all the other magical spirits to it while he himself flopped onto the bed without any image.

Feeling the coldness of the bedding against his cheeks, he merely closed his eyes for a moment, and then accidentally fell asleep.

When he woke up with a start, he subconsciously sat up and saw that the hour hand of the clock had passed eleven o'clock.

"Eleven o'clock... It's already eleven o'clock!"

Instantly startled, Dark then reflexively looked around.

The magical spirits who were quietly doing their own things turned to look at him.

But after his eyes swept across their faces, a look of confusion still remained on his face.

"Really, nothing actually happened..."

"Then what does Professor Medea's reminder mean?"

"Or is it that something did happen, but I just didn't notice it?"

"Or perhaps..."

As he sat there pondering for a while, he suddenly remembered that today was the first of April, so he mechanically picked up the magic brain dropper and collected a drop of [Greed] from his brain.

After participating in this duel festival, his [Greed] did increase by a lot.

"In short, the primary goal for this month is to craft [Greed III]. Other matters can be put behind it."

"There are still 2 points of [Greed] stored from last month. With today's 1.5 points, that makes it 3.5 points."

"It’ll take another 5 days to gather 10 points."

"In other words, I can start crafting it next weekend."

……

After drawing it, Dark injected this drop of [Greed] into the worm branch, and then sorted out today's harvest, placing the figurines of DemiDevimon, Gatomon and Pure White Dragon Maiden on the bookshelf.

As for the Troll figurine, he put it in the drawer for the time being.

Afterwards, he washed up as usual, went back to bed, and soon fell asleep again.

Perhaps due to the fatigue caused by the duels, or perhaps because they didn't want to wake up their master, the magical spirits didn’t sneak under his quilt tonight.

Meanwhile, [Misdreavus], [Leomon] and [Meowth] were also recalled into their magic cards as usual, and then placed onto the small stands on the table.

Sitting cross-legged inside its magic card, [Leomon] was unable to sleep.

It felt extremely guilty about nearly falling under [Parasitic Demon Seed]’s control in today's duel competition, attributing it to its lack of willpower.

It clearly possessed the ultimate [Heart of Justice], and yet it couldn't even resist this level of mental interference.

It was truly unworthy of the title [the Brave One].

Unlike Gatomon who spared it no thought, [Leomon] actually cared about the so-called "qualification of the Brave One".

It hoped that just as the title signified, it could become a true Brave One who could protect everyone.

But today's experience proved that it was still lacking.

But after realizing its own shortcomings, how was it supposed to make up for it?

This made Leomon feel at a loss.

Just as it was ruminating about this, a familiar sound of movement suddenly came from next to it.

[Misdreavus]’s magic card began to glow.

At first, it paid it no mind—

Before this, Misdreavus would slip out of its magic card almost every night.

It had already gotten used to it.