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The sight of [Paradise-1] passing through his field of vision brought a slight smile to Dark's face.
However, this experiment has other significance besides its experimental purpose.
He carefully put away the remains of the flower cards, but his gaze couldn't help but drift towards the deep, dark castle.
The ability of karuta to absorb the essence of "paradise" originates from the existence of the Moon Goddess Statue.
Even though the statues are gone, the effects of the flower cards remain.
……
"How many unknown secrets does this castle still hold?"
Back in his dorm, Dark glanced at the tiny fairy and the huge bed, and ultimately decided not to make do.
He simply took a new quilt from the closet and lay down on the other side of the bed.
He had a beautiful dream of running freely in the wilderness of nature.
……
While most students are asleep.
After seeing the three princesses off, Professor Arte went to Professor Didi's office and opened the resignation letter that was lying quietly on the desk.
The letter did not use magic, but instead used the simplest language to record Professor Didi's inner torment over the past ten years and a detailed account of recent events.
The writing style evolved from somber at the beginning to gradually becoming lighter later on.
It reveals the constant changes within her heart.
"I see."
Professor Arte read the entire letter carefully, and his brow gradually relaxed.
The whole thing started when a student accidentally wandered into a secret passage.
The student, heartbroken from a breakup, did not leave the secret passage immediately, but instead slowly ventured deeper inside.
Unlike Dark, he didn't leave any traces on the road and soon got lost.
Professor Arte still remembered the incident, and it was Professor Didi who ultimately rescued the missing student from the secret passage.
The student didn't realize he was lost until much later, and then, consumed by hunger and thirst, he succumbed to despair.
He blamed his girlfriend for breaking up with him for his predicament, constantly accumulating curses and hatred. After despair, he began to recall the sweetness of the past, and finally continued to move forward like a corpse, praying for God's forgiveness and redemption.
At that very moment, the temple of the Moon Goddess appeared.
Professor Didi did not discover the temple at first; the student had concealed the information.
Later, he was bewitched by the goddess's lingering resentment, formed a cult, studied karuta (flower cards), repaired idols, and then revealed his true colors again.
Because he was watching him, Professor Didi noticed his unusual behavior and quickly discovered the existence of the temple.
But after discovering that it was the Temple of the Moon, she did not stop it.
The marks of time were becoming increasingly evident on her, and she could no longer suppress her desire to find a way to break the curse.
then.
Observe, investigate, participate, cover up.
……
After the Robert incident, in order to prevent Professor Sylph from discovering the truth, she even covered for Dark when he first entered the secret passage.
Chapter 118 Darkdemon is unremarkable [18.5]
The first day of November.
Wednesday.
On Halloween.
Six o'clock in the morning.
……
Lily Laplace woke up in a slight chill.
"Mwah—"
She smacked her lips and opened her eyes a crack.
Then I saw a short-haired cat lying on the headboard licking its ears.
"Don't make trouble."
Realizing that this wasn't her own little home, Lily struggled to regain her composure.
She slowly crawled out of bed and breathed out a little air.
Then he saw the blond boy curled up in a ball next to him.
"hey-hey."
Seeing Dak fast asleep with his eyes closed, Lily couldn't help but reach out her finger and carefully poke his cheek.
It's soft, like jelly or pudding.
He pulled his finger back.
The highly elastic skin returned to its original state along with the retracted fingertip.
Lily only tried it briefly.
"Let's go back to sleep."
The little fairy, flapping its wings, flew away and slowly returned to its little house.
Dark remained asleep.
He hadn't slept so soundly in a long time.
When all the burdens were lifted, and both body and mind felt comfortable, sleepiness became exceptionally strong. It wasn't until 9:30 that Dak suddenly opened his eyes.
He immediately checked the "laziness" metric, only to find that it had not increased.
"Because you go to bed late enough?"
"Or is it because I genuinely need this much sleep?"
Once he came to his senses, Dark quickly noticed that Professor Lily had left without saying goodbye.
He didn't pay too much attention to it. After that, he washed up, changed his clothes, applied some trash slime to his face, and welcomed a new day.
LadyDevimon, who emerged from the Sorting Card, still didn't revert back to Devimon.
Perhaps because it absorbed too much power from the goddess statue, this evolution lasted an exceptionally long time.
Left with no other choice, Dak went to the cafeteria for breakfast himself, something he hadn't done in a long time.
The students were probably just waking up around this time, and the cafeteria was surprisingly crowded.
They were still discussing roughly the same topics as in the early hours of the morning.
Occasionally, Halloween gifts are also mentioned.
However, they were mostly things like toffee, toffee apples, and chocolate cookies.
Halloween is different from Christmas; people don't place as much importance on gifts.
……
After finishing breakfast, Dak stopped by the infirmary.
Last night he didn't find a chance to return Witt's magic card to him, so he thought of coming here to find Robert and have Robert pass it on to Witt.
Is Sister Kallian here?
Dak carefully pushed the door open.
But they saw Sister Kalia still dozing off at the table.
She was clearly exhausted; her profile showed signs of fatigue.
Duck couldn't bear to wake her, so he tiptoed into the infirmary and found Robert Broheim among the patients near the outside.
Robert slept soundly, seemingly oblivious to everything.
Dak put Witt's cards in a bag and placed it on his bedside table.
Then it was time to prepare to leave the infirmary.
But just as he was about to turn around, he noticed that more than half of the patients in the infirmary were receiving intravenous drips.
But unlike ordinary intravenous infusions, the IV needle is inserted into the temple of the brain, and the medicine bottle hanging by the bed is spherical, containing a glowing magic potion.
Upon closer inspection, one can see the part of the needle piercing the brain. It's like the scene where Old John uses the hook of fate to hook away distracting thoughts—both are blurred or obscured.
Meanwhile, the potions in the spherical vials were all empty.
Although he didn't know what kind of potions were in the vial, based on his common knowledge of IV drips, Dark knew he needed to wake Sister Kallian at this point!
"Dark Dimon?"
Sister Kallian had already appeared silently behind him.
Dak was slightly startled.
Sister Kallian said, "You've come at the perfect time. Could you help me fill those potion bottles with the new potion?"
Dak nodded and replied, "Of course, no problem."
Sister Kallian rubbed her eyes and took out two test tube racks from the medicine cabinet. Each rack was filled with test tubes sealed with oak stoppers.
The test tubes contain two different liquids.
"This pale yellow potion is Grimm's Elixir, which can effectively eliminate the side effects of the Soul-Stealing Water, making the bond between the soul and the body more stable and less susceptible to mental illusions."
"This golden potion is Hans Christian Andersen's potion, which is very effective at breaking curses and can remove most spells involving brain curses and mind manipulation. If taken in advance, it can also protect the brain from mind manipulation."
"They may look very similar, but they are actually completely different potions. Follow me and don't put the wrong one in."
A total of thirty patients need their medication changed.
Fourteen of them require Green's Elixir, and sixteen require Andersen's Elixir.
The remaining nineteen people were also injected with the Soul-Stealing Potion, but their condition was not serious.
It only takes two to three days of rest to fully recover.
In fact, the most troublesome are the fourteen couples whose emotions and memories were extracted.
The Green's drug can only stabilize their minds; further treatment is needed to gradually restore their emotions and memories.
According to Sister Carlian, human emotions and memories are backed up in the brain and are not so easily erased.
"Anyway, it's good that he can recover."
After getting the information, Dak secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he had his own considerations at the time, he did not act when their emotions and memories were extracted. He would feel somewhat guilty if their emotions and memories could not be restored.
Sister Kallian seemed to see through his thoughts and couldn't help but scoff: "Dark Dimon, I heard about you when I was still working in the Holy Church. They all said you were the incarnation of a demon, a disgrace to the Duke's family. As the son of a Valkyrie, you didn't inherit any martial virtue. I thought you were quite an interesting person back then, but I didn't expect you to grow up to be such a boring person."
Dark: "??"
Sister Carlian casually poured the Andersen potion into the spherical vial of the last member of the Seafood Order, and continued, "Save ten people or save a hundred people. If one of the ten is someone important to you, and the hundred are innocent people even if you don't know them, which would you choose?"
Dark: "Ten people, I guess."
Sister Kallian: "??"
Dark shook his head and said, “Sister Kallian, human emotions and actions are separate. If I save ten people and cause the other hundred to die, I will feel guilty, but I will still save those ten next time. There is no conflict between them. The other hundred people did not die because of me. My guilt is only because I am not capable of saving all 110 people at the same time.”
Sister Kallian paused for a moment, then scratched her messy silver hair somewhat awkwardly: "Alright, I was wrong. I still have the remaining Grimm's Potion and Andersen's Potion here; you can choose one as a reward."
"Andersen's potion, perhaps."
Dak did not hesitate.
Chapter 119 The Flower of Pride Blooms in Splendor