MTLNOVEL Chapter 307 (2)
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Because Trash Slime's body was too small, Ditto folded its scarf into a swaddling cloth and wrapped it inside it.
Miltank certainly wouldn't forget to bring its [Ultimate:Milk Drink]. Since Dark would be watching over them, it wanted to try exploring further lands.
Popplio, who was the fastest to get ready, had already started dancing around, bouncing a huge bubble on its snout.
……
With such a ruckus, time passed by in the blink of an eye.
Inside his own bag, Dark put his notebook, book for reading, tea mug and the likes, and then retrieved [Wonderland] and put it into his card pouch.
Anyway, plenty of people in the school already knew that the little milk cow who often took many little cuties to wander all around the place with it was the magical spirit of a first year student from Noble House—Dark Demon!
As for the consumption of magic energy, a mere short trip before reactivating [Wonderland] was something he could bear with ease.
After all, be it winter outing or spring outing, the key point was on the 'outing'. The journey from the starting point to the destination was also part of the experience.
Dark still vividly remembered the times in elementary school where he would carry his backpack, line up in a row, and walk to the park and various other places under the guidance of the teachers.
The happiness of that time had been something that was hard to re-experience after he grew up.
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Dianna and Rose, who showed up in front of room 201 on time, probably never expected that they would be going in such a large group.
The two girls had changed into beautiful winter clothes. Scarf, gloves, hat—they were wearing the complete set.
Dianna appeared to be very eager. She was probably already fantasizing about building the biggest snowman in Saint Marian.
But upon seeing the line of magical spirits bashfully walking out of Dark's room, the snowball fight agenda she had previously shelved once again overtook her current idea of building a snowman.
She thought there would be nobody to have a snowball fight with, but now, she didn't have to worry about this at all!
Dark let her mingle with the magical spirits. Like the class monitor of a kindergarten class, she walked at the frontmost, becoming the group's locomotive.
He himself was walking side by side with Rose.
This large group of people and pets grandiosely went downstairs to Noble House's common room.
The magical spirits and Dianna's lively chattering promptly flowed into the room.
They immediately grabbed the attention of the students who were huddling together around the fireplace for warmth.
This magnificent sight they had never seen before made them almost forget what they were doing.
Even the couples who were busy cuddling with each other were dumbfounded by the sight.
Some people also liked to bring their magical spirits around, but such a large group like this…
Did their owner have too much magic energy or something?
Moreover, no matter how they looked at it, the movements and behaviors of these magical spirits were of living creatures; each of them seemed to have been brought up with a lot of love!
In the past, there was a profession called 'beast tamer'. Those people fought using the magical beasts they tamed.
They too, often traveled in large groups such as this.
But in this era, beast tamers had long fallen behind the times and the profession had nearly gone extinct. At present, they could only be found in circus troupes.
The current Dark had a slight demeanor of a beast tamer.
It wasn't until the train composed of Dianna and the magical spirits left the common room did the students of Noble House finally get back to their senses.
And then, like a volcano, they erupted into a heated discussion.
There were few girls who, after whispering to one another, couldn't hold back the urge and followed after them.
Of course, they weren't planning on rushing over and snatching one of the magical spirits away. Just by looking at those little fellows from afar was enough for them to feel a sense of satisfaction springing up in their hearts.
……
Amidst the commotion, a student who had been staying in the common room suddenly got up and quietly went upstairs.
Inside room 501 in the tower of Noble House, Angus Jeffrey, the president of the Aristocratic History Research Society, was currently having afternoon tea while surrounded by the members.
Angus Jeffrey was a fourth year student. He became the president of the club in the latter half of his third year, and almost a full year had passed since then.
During the Rookie League, Elvis Kevin—the top student from the second year whom he had delegated—not only lost the duel against Dark, but even unexpectedly turned into a strong backing for Dark. Ever since then, he had stopped making any loud movements for a while.
The Aristocratic History Research Society was not a monolithic group.
Once his decision resulted in a big failure, jeopardized the collective interest, or damaged the reputation of the club, he might be ousted regardless of the fact that he was the president.
In fact, his decision to target Dark during the Rookie League already counted as a failure. It caused a considerable loss of reputation to the club.
When they got into a confrontation with other clubs some time ago, they were ridiculed on the spot and couldn't even refute it.
Because of that, he needed to do something to make up for the loss.
So when someone told him that Dark was going on a trip with a large number of magical spirits, he knew that his chance had come!
Everybody knew that releasing magical spirits consumed a large amount of magic energy.
Even though Dark Demon's magic energy seemed to be particularly strong, humans ultimately had their limits.
No matter how strong he was, it wouldn't be possible to continuously expend magic energy without restraint.
As long as they could seize the opportunity when his magic energy was depleted, they would be able to pull a scheme to bring down his prestige.
As long as Dark Demon made a fool of himself in public, Angus Jeffrey would be able to recover some lost ground.
But he needed to be careful with this scheme.
It must not violate the rules.
Saint Marian Academy expressly stated that fights were prohibited. Instead, it encouraged all forms of disputes to be resolved through duels.
Coupled with the fact that this day was Valentine's Day, a day on which disputes were prone to happen, the timing couldn't be more appropriate.
Now, they only needed to find a person to duel against Dark.
But finding this person was a difficult problem.
Jeffrey took a sip of his tea. He couldn't help but to look at the members around him and asked, "How about it, is there anyone you'd like to recommend?"
Hearing this question, the members lowered their heads even more helplessly.
Recommend? Who to recommend? Even Elvis Kevin was of no match to him, who else could they recommend?
Should they ask Mary from the second year to duel him in hand-to-hand combat?
If they really did this, they might be the ones who would get beaten up!
But if they ruled out the second years, were they really going to find someone from the third year, fourth year, or even fifth year?
Hey!
The fact that they selected someone from the second year to deal with Dark Demon last time was already shameful enough, alright?
He was a first year student who had only been in the school for a little more than half a year!
"Here's what I think." Mike Irving, Jeffrey's trusted aide, twirled the lock of curly hair on his forehead and said, "Dark Demon is after all no ordinary person. He even publicly defeated Kevin in the Rookie League. I don't think it's disgraceful for us to pick someone from the third year."
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