The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　Ball Ball the sea lion wanted a larger water bowl, so Dak bought it a small inflatable pool.

　Hu Hu wanted a teacup, so Dak bought a whole new tea set.

　As for Eevee, Gatomon, Sylveon, and Miltank...

　They all want scarves!

　……

　The scarf was personally chosen by Devimon—even though its heart was bleeding at the time, it had no choice but to do its master's job.

　Fortunately, after completing the task, it received a new hat, which made it happy again.

　As winter gets colder, only familiars like this, who are often outdoors, need such a warm hat.

　nice!

　……

　The magical spirits were naturally very excited to receive what they wanted.

　Dak waited until they calmed down before distributing the textbooks and readers to each one.

　The magical spirits held the textbooks with blank expressions, looking at their master as if he were an idiot.

　But they'll soon find out who the real fool is!

　……

　During the rest of the holiday, aside from spending some time every other day setting up beds, cat trees, and wooden dummy stands, Dark spent most of his time teaching the magical spirits.

　Even Devimon couldn't escape Dark-sensei's lesson.

　Room 201 of the Noble House Tower was filled with unbearable suffering!

　……

Chapter 221 Darkdemon's Opening Ceremony (4k)

　Teaching someone to read from scratch is an extremely difficult task.

　Moreover, the students being taught are magical spirits...

　In order to better motivate the magical spirits, stimulate their enthusiasm for learning, and comprehensively evaluate their learning status.

　Room 201 of the Noble House Tower has specially set up a reward and punishment system called "Little Red Flower".

　By awarding little red flowers to magical spirits who demonstrate excellent grades, hard work, and significant progress, we can encourage them and help them develop good study habits.

　If the behavior is bad, the little red flower will be deducted as a warning to others.

　At the same time, the little red flower will be incorporated into the internal monetary system.

　Magical sprites can use little red flowers to buy "wishes".

　Whether it's a material wish or a spiritual one, as long as enough little red flowers are paid, Dak will try his best to fulfill it.

　At first, the magical spirits might not have taken it seriously. But once someone starts using the little red flowers to "make a wish" and has it granted, everything changes.

　Dac has certain expectations for this.

　December 12st.

　Dark stuffed each of the magical sprites into the little bed, covered them with cute little blankets, and then contentedly crawled into his own bed.

　The first long holiday of first grade has passed in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow is the beginning of the new year and the start of the next semester.

　That being said, there are actually no classes tomorrow.

　Some students and professors who went home for the holidays will return gradually tomorrow during the day.

　The school will hold an opening ceremony at 6 p.m., followed by dinner together in the auditorium for all teachers and students.

　At that time, the principal will summarize the situation of the previous semester and introduce the new professor of history of magic.

　Professor Claire appears to have decided to step down. However, there is almost no news regarding the new professor of the History of Magic.

　Based on the positive impression Professor Claire made, the students were very excited about the new professor of the History of Magic.

　Dak was also quite curious.

　"System, expand the indicators."

　Before going to sleep, he brought up the system panel.

　A moment later, seven indicators appeared in the field of vision.

　Compared to the end of last month, the result is:

　[Arrogance: 106→105]

　Jealousy: 41 → 39

　[Rage: 90→88]

　Laziness: 64 → 69

　Greed: 97 → 103

　[Binge eating: 64 → 69]

　[Paradise: 109→106]

　Despite drawing 12 points of "Ecstasy" and 3 points of "Pride" in December, the overall value still showed an upward trend.

　Among them, "Arrogance" was reduced by 3 points, but then increased by 2 points, rising back to 105 points, which was unavoidable.

　The continued decline in "jealousy" was also expected.

　With the help of cat grass, "rage" also decreased.

　Meanwhile, "laziness" and "binge eating" are still rebounding.

　The surge in "greed" was also expected, and some of it was intentional.

　As for "Paradise", after a full 12 points were taken away, "Paradise" still rebounded to 106 points, which means that it increased by a full 9 points in December!

　Darko had actually anticipated this result.

　Moreover, he did indeed relax his self-discipline this month.

　Overall, however, these figures are still within a controllable range.

　He closed his eyes and thought for a moment.

　A new month is approaching, and there will be 15 "major sins" to collect in January.

　Within the insect tree, there is also a point of "arrogance".

　However, as things stand, his need for "Great Sin" is not urgent. He can save up this month's "Pride" and "Bliss" to prepare for the upcoming "Pride III" or "Bliss IV".

　In addition, research on "greed" can finally be put on the agenda!

　He was curious to see what changes would occur to the Impmon in its "Greedy" state.

　Will he reveal some of his greedy nature as a demon?

　Emmm...

　As he pondered this, Dark couldn't help but smile slightly, and then drifted off to sleep.

　……

　About ten minutes later, his breathing gradually calmed down, and he fell into a deep sleep.

　But on the small bed against the wall, several magical sprites quietly opened their eyes!

　A warm little bed and a lovely blanket could not stop the war from starting.

　In the dark and cold night, only by the side of the master can one feel warmth.

　……

　When Dak opened his eyes, he found several more furry, warm bodies around him.

　He covered his forehead in exasperation, suddenly wondering if he shouldn't have ordered the three-tiered bunk bed.

　Perhaps putting two more large beds together would be a better idea?

　What was that phrase again? Sleeping together under the same quilt?

　……

　January 1st, Monday, 7:00 AM.

　Dark took the breakfast out of the basket, then pulled out today's copy of the "Great Sage Daily," and rewarded Little Devimon with a little red flower.

　The little devilmon, who had suffered a defeat last night, immediately broke into a big smile.

　"I, Devimon, accept this first little red flower since the implementation of the Little Red Flower reward and punishment system!"

　Dak shook his head helplessly, then opened the "Daily Wise Man".

　He has been paying special attention to the newspapers these past two days.

　The repercussions of the Basdia prison intrusion by a heretical sect continue to unfold.

　St. Marian College has yet to comment on the incident.

　The dove faction, led by Princess Elizabeth, wanted to conduct a full investigation in the name of the kingdom.

　However, it was obstructed by the hawkish faction led by Prince Charles.

　However, this act of "protesting too much" only confirmed external suspicions that the Church was lying.

　Some dovish newspapers began to report on the matter extensively, strongly condemning the Church's cover-up of the truth!

　But this so-called condemnation is nothing more than verbal condemnation.

　The Holy Church, as a transcendent power comparable to St. Marian Academy, has a history even longer than that of the kingdom.

　For a long period before St. Marian's Academy entered the world, the Holy Church even controlled the kingdom's power.

　Had the Holy Church not performed so poorly at the end of the war, thus losing popular support, its power would have been even greater.

　Even so, the Church still holds several seats among the thirty-six members of the Senate.

　Now that the king is old and the royal family is weak, only the Valkyrie faction can rival the Holy Church.

　……

　Without taking a stance, let's look at this incident from the perspective of an observer.

　Dak also leans towards the idea that the Holy Church is hiding something, and that the heretics who invaded the prison may indeed have been wiped out as they claim. However, some important prisoners held inside the prison may have taken advantage of the chaos to escape.

　Otherwise, the Holy Church would not have remained silent, and the eldest prince would not have needed to intervene in the kingdom's investigation.

　This incident is definitely unusual.

　There's a vague feeling that something is about to happen.

　"Could it be related to the Demon King's resurrection?"

　After careful consideration, Dak felt that this was not impossible.

　If the Holy Church's mistake was a major event that could lead to the resurrection of the Demon King, then it's no wonder they chose to cover it up.

　……

　After breakfast, Dark continued to teach the magical elves how to read.

　Of all the magical spirits, Impmon and Gatomon are undoubtedly the fastest learners.

　Their ability to speak is very helpful for reading and writing.

　As for trash slime, it has basically been removed from the list of kindergarten children.

　At the bottom of the list is Hawkman, who simply can't sit still.

　It only wants to challenge the wooden dummy!

　……

　Teaching people to write is originally a very tedious task.

　But teaching his own magical spirits to write turned out to be a very interesting thing.