Chapter 311: Fortune Telling for Love (4k)
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On the other side of the cafeteria.
Angus Jeffery forcefully cut through the syrup cake on his plate, his brows furrowed the entire time.
He was in a terrible mood.
Mike Owen had indeed gone to duel with Dark Demon.
Although the outcome wasn’t particularly ideal, it was within his acceptable range.
But why did he feel this inexplicable odd sensation?
It was as if everything he had done before was all for naught.
As a core member of the Noble History Research Society, Mike Owen’s actions should naturally be attributed to the society itself.
This would create an impression that the society was in opposition to Dark Demon.
But in reality?
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Jeffery recalled the last words Dark said to Owen, “Senior, take care,” and suddenly felt a strong urge to vomit!
Why did he now feel that the duel just now resembled a friendly exchange between seniors and juniors?
Owen had specifically chosen a more dangerous street duel mode!
Yet, why did the result end up like this?
After a while…
Jeffery finally concluded the reason.
The problem must lie with Mike Owen!
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As twilight gradually descended from the horizon, merging into the orange-red sunset.
A thin layer of snow covered the ground like a veil.
While taking care of the golems, Dark also sat down to eat with the girls.
Senior Pandora unexpectedly appeared very reserved in front of so many people.
She was known for her love of meat and her big appetite, but tonight she seemed to stop short of indulging.
Professor Lily, on the contrary, had been freely expressing herself since they were in the snow.
Diana held back much in front of the professor, but sometimes couldn’t help but compete for desserts.
Rose remained as quiet as ever.
However, she noticed that Pandora’s familiar seemed to have extra spirit.
They sat together, not quite like a Valentine’s dinner, but more like a family gathering.
Professors Lily and Diana didn’t react much.
But Pandora and Rose seemed to enjoy this family-like atmosphere.
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By six thirty in the evening, Pandora looked at the time and said, “It’s getting late, I need to leave first. Today was very enjoyable, thank you everyone.”
“Leaving so soon?” Professor Lily said with lingering desire, “I wanted to continue the rest of the night!”
Dark couldn’t help but sigh, “Professor, we still have classes tonight.”
“Eh?” Professor Lily was surprised, “Is that so? Maybe my brain automatically blocked out this part of the memory.”
She couldn’t help but show a regretful expression.
Nowadays, such happy times were few and far between for her.
The professors at the academy were too serious; no one dared to roll around in the snow!
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“Well then, Professor Lily, I’ll leave first. Everyone, goodbye.”
Pandora waved at Dark and left the cafeteria.
Then Dark and the others began cleaning up.
The golems placed their small forks and spoons in their plates and carried them directly to the kitchen.
Dark cleared the table slightly and went into the kitchen to thank the halfling chefs.
Afterwards, the whole family left the cafeteria.
Professor Lily, despite her disappointment, had to bid farewell to Dark and the others at the fork leading to the professor dormitories.
In the end, only Dark and the trio remained.
“We have to start class again!”
Diana pouted and grumbled.
“I’m actually quite interested in tonight’s astronomy class,” Rose said with a smile.
Then the two began to play around in the wide corridor.
Yellowish light poured in from the castle windows, and the three of them walked into the light, then sank into darkness, constantly moving through the interplay of light and shadow.
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When they entered the tower and returned to the dormitory, Dark suddenly noticed several chocolates placed outside his door.
He bent down to pick them up.
Thinking that eating too much sweet things wasn’t good, he still carried them inside.
Using the remaining free time before class, Dark unwrapped the chocolates one by one.
Some chocolates came with cards or letters with names, but some were just plain chocolate, as if the sender was too shy to leave a name.
Overall, the people who gave him chocolates were still the same, though there were a few more first-year students from outside the Noble Academy.
He put away the cards and letters, then moved the chocolates aside.
Although embarrassed, he couldn’t possibly finish all the chocolates himself, so he decided to let the golems share some of them.
In the end, only the chocolates from Professors Lily, Pandora, and Rose were left.
He thought for a moment and decided to keep them for later as a surprise.
Life always needs some surprises.
Sometimes they come uninvited.
Sometimes, they need to be created.
“Come here.”
Dark beckoned to Lil’Eevee.
Eevee, who had already put on her little backpack, immediately jumped like a frog and landed in his arms.
Recalling an action from an animation, Dark tried to place Eevee on his shoulder.
But the thirteen-pound Eevee was quite heavy.
In the end, he chose to hold her in his arms.
At this moment, “Paradise” had already unfolded again in the dormitory.
The golems, after playing wildly all afternoon, were contentedly lying around the dormitory doing their own things lazily.
But their glances at Lil’Eevee were filled with envy.
Every Wednesday night, Eevee went out with these envious looks.
This was probably one of the reasons supporting her continued interest in astronomy class.
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With Professor Metia agreeing to let Dark bring Lil’Eevee to the classroom, there was no need to keep her in the card anymore.
The path from the Noble Academy Tower to the Spiral Bell Tower was quite long, so Dark had to leave early.
He met Rose and Diana in the common room and headed to the classroom together.
As the first-year students walked towards the Spiral Bell Tower, their voices gradually decreased, and their minds slowly shifted from the Valentine’s Day atmosphere to that of a student.
Everything was quietly changing.
When they climbed the long spiral staircase and arrived at the top floor of the Spiral Bell Tower, where the astronomy class was held, panting replaced all other sounds.
Apart from the climb up the “Spiral Hell” staircase, astronomy class wasn’t bad at all.
Tonight’s astronomy class at seven thirty inevitably saw some students arriving late.
But Professor Metia, who was also late, seemed to lack the confidence to deduct points…
On this Valentine’s Day, the astronomy class began three minutes after the bell rang.
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As usual, Professor Metia, wearing a highly sensual witch costume, entered the classroom through the ceiling of the carriage.
The increasingly cold weather didn’t seem to affect her at all.
There wasn’t even a single snowflake on the pumpkin carriage.
As night fell, snowflakes sporadically fell from the sky, emitting a faint, beautiful aura.
Professor Metia put away the carriage, placed her pointed witch hat on the lectern, and waved her slender wand in the air, writing, “I love you…”
Then she smiled and said, “Today is Valentine’s Day, gentlemen and ladies, have any of you received chocolates from your loved ones?”
The classroom was silent.
Although the first-year students were always up-to-date with trends, true interpersonal interactions were shallow, and few truly benefited from Valentine’s Day.
Professor Metia naturally saw right through this; she was merely teasing them lightly.
Seeing most of the students’ disappointed expressions, she derived pleasure from it.
When everyone was struggling with this, Professor Metia turned to the topic the students were most interested in.
“At last week’s astronomy class, I predicted that there would be a heavy snowfall on Valentine’s Day. Snow is a symbol of a bountiful year. Today is a day suitable for declarations of love. Those who muster the courage to give out chocolates today will have a greater chance of receiving a response on White Day.”
As she spoke, her gaze briefly passed over Dark.
Dark’s mind stirred, stroking the soft fur of Lil’Eevee beside him, wondering if Professor Metia was hinting that she would respond to every chocolate given on White Day?
No way!
Valentine’s Day isn’t Christmas!
Even if he could, he wouldn’t be that shameless!
But thinking about this, Dark actually felt a bit troubled.
He could ignore chocolates from others, but he couldn’t ignore those from “them” and “them.”
The promotion of “obligatory chocolates” was still in its initial stages, and people’s attention to Valentine’s Day chocolates was still relatively high.
Returning chocolates on White Day might change some relationships.
Dark hadn’t considered these aspects much before, but now he had to.
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“Under the blessing of the first snow after winter and spring, tonight’s fortune telling will be more accurate.”
“I imagine some of you have already heard. Tonight, our topic is the essential Valentine’s Day activity—fortune telling for love!”
Professor Metia waved her wand in the air, drawing a red magical heart, then turned to write “Fortune Telling for Love” on the blackboard.
As the words were written, the classroom atmosphere gradually shifted towards a pink hue, with an air of ambiguity filling the room.
No, it truly became pink!
Students looked up to see a large magic circle appear on the ceiling.
The pink light emanating from the magic circle illuminated everyone’s faces.
Pink lights flickered.
The atmosphere grew hazy.
Professor Metia tapped the podium and said, “The gates of fate are open. The blessings of the Goddess of Love will guide us to the path of love. Take your magic pens and pour your truest feelings into them, then look at me and draw the magic circle on paper.”
She then turned around and drew a delicate magic circle on the blackboard with a single stroke.
The center of the magic circle was a symbol Dark was extremely familiar with.
He recognized it at a glance—it was the astronomical symbol representing the moon!
The appearance of this symbol made Dark, who had been in a playful mood, suddenly take it seriously.
The emblem of “Bliss” contained this symbol, which seemed to represent the root of “Bliss.”
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“Professor, what is this magic circle?”
Seeing that Professor Metia didn’t plan to explain the origin of the magic circle, Dark raised his hand to ask.
Professor Metia’s lips curled slightly as she said, “You can call it the ‘Lover’s Magic Circle.’ I discovered it in the ancient Moon Temple, and it guides people under the moonlight. Its effects are strongest on every Valentine’s Day.”
Dark asked again, “Is the symbol in the center of this ‘Lover’s Magic Circle’ a symbol of the moon?”
Professor Metia nodded with a smile, looking at the other students, “Dark Demon is right. It is indeed the star symbol representing the moon. Each star has a corresponding star symbol. I will explain this in detail in the next lesson, but not today.”
Meaning it’s beyond the current curriculum; better to shut up and not ask.
Dark opened his mouth but sat down helplessly.
However, the information revealed by Professor Metia did clear up his confusion.
The astronomical symbols of this world indeed possessed extraordinary power.
They should be similar to keys that communicate with stars, appearing frequently in corresponding magic circles.
If he deepened his understanding of this, he might find the direction for researching the “Capital Sin IV” conjuring method.
He gradually understood that after reaching “Capital Sin IV,” the differences between each sin would increase, and the unified conjuring method would no longer be sufficient to support the conjuring of “Capital Sin IV.”
Perhaps each “Capital Sin IV” would require an independent conjuring array.
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With this realization, he needed to spend time accumulating related knowledge.
Once enough knowledge was accumulated, it would be possible to achieve results naturally.
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Dark refocused his attention on the class.
He spread a white sheet of paper on the desk, took out a magic pen, and tried to inject “true feelings.”
Hmm…
What are true feelings?
They certainly aren’t familial or friendly feelings.
That means romantic feelings.
But Dark didn’t have a romantic partner.
If he had to choose someone, he admitted he had a certain level of fondness for Senior Pandora.
Before injecting “true feelings,” he turned to look at Lil’Eevee squatting on the table.
Lil’Eevee had also laid out a piece of homework paper in front of her, but she only had a regular pen.
Dark wanted to give her a magic pen, but she needed to know how to use it!
“Don’t force yourself to use a pen. Think about the feeling of using an ultimate skill. Try to guide your mana to your fingertips.”
“Bluh?”
Lil’Eevee tilted her head, confused.
Dark covered his head, “Let’s start with a regular pen first.”
Then he picked up the magic pen himself and slowly recalled his encounter with Senior Pandora.
Emotions gradually welled up, guided by mana into the magic pen.
He began to sketch the magic circle on the blackboard quickly.
When the completion of the “Lover’s Magic Circle” reached seventy percent, a thread slowly descended from the large magic circle rotating above the ceiling, connecting with it.
Mana began to flow.
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[Combined Chapter 4200]
[Took a break during New Year’s, weather changes intensified, constant coughing, please take care of your health.]
[This month, aim for a daily goal of 8k words, although it may not be achievable (ρ_?). But it’s better to set a target, otherwise, where do you aim after raising your gun?]
