Chapter 120: Dark Demon Doesn't Want to Go On Stage
Just past two-thirty.
Students began to emerge one after another from the four tower dormitories.
They took the first school-wide assembly since the start of term very seriously.
Especially since too many inexplicable things had happened last night.
They urgently needed the Headmistress to clear up their doubts.
When Dark Demon opened his door and walked out, Diana and Rose were already waiting at the entrance.
He smiled faintly and went with the two of them towards the castle.
Just as they left the tower, Diana asked curiously, "Dark Demon, do you know what the Headmistress is going to say?"
Dark Demon shook his head; "I don't know."
He indeed didn't know, but he had his suspicions.
Based on the Headmistress's behavior last night, she probably wouldn't attribute this matter to Professor Didi.
After all, too many students were involved.
If this matter were attributed to an academy professor, and someone then tried to escalate it, St. Marian Academy's position would become very awkward.
In this relatively sensitive political period, St. Marian Academy had to maintain a "transcendent" status and couldn't be brought down by such a trivial matter.
Therefore, Professor Didi could resign, but it couldn't be a resignation due to taking responsibility!
The root of this matter could be traced back to the initial student.
It could also be attributed to the remnant consciousness of the Moon Goddess.
It just couldn't be attributed to Professor Didi.
From the standpoint of the academy protecting its students, Headmistress Cynthia probably wouldn't push that student out to take the blame.
Then the only option was to attribute everything to the remnant consciousness of the Moon Goddess.
And due to religious reasons, the Headmistress might even invent another name for the Moon Goddess.
Such as "Evil Moon God," "Moon Calamity Beast," and so on.
This way, St. Marian Academy could present itself as a pure victim, minimizing criticism to the greatest extent.
As for the names of those captured and brainwashed students, of course, they couldn't be revealed either.
They were, in fact, all victims.
Revealing their names would cause them distress.
...
Roughly, this was Dark Demon's speculation based on the existing information.
But then another problem arose.
If the school authorities had really decided to do that, he, as one of the insiders, should have received a notification from the Headmistress long ago.
...
So until he stepped into the hall, Dark Demon was also completely bewildered.
Like the other students, he was waiting for Headmistress Cynthia's explanation.
St. Marian's students were always grouped by their houses.
Dark Demon sat down in the area marked with a "Crown," conversing quietly with Diana and the others.
The entire hall gradually grew noisy as more and more students arrived.
It wasn't until 2:55 PM, when basically all teachers and students had gathered in the hall, that Professor Silf walked onto the stage and clapped her hands at the audience below.
Merely this action, without any spellcasting, suddenly quieted the audience.
It was as if Professor Silf had cast a group silence spell again.
It had almost become a conditioned reflex.
Professor Silf nodded with satisfaction, then invited Headmistress Cynthia onto the stage.
The Headmistress, surrounded by her nine spirits, was as beautiful and noble as ever today.
After taking the stage, she spoke a few words as an opening, then got straight to the point: "Today, I have an announcement to make. Professor Didi Maxwell resigned last night."
No other embellishments, just that plain sentence.
The students below erupted in an uproar.
Although Professor Didi's lectures were very dull, and she would deduct points at the slightest provocation, as the Dean of the Fools' House, she was indeed very amiable outside of class and had never been seen angry.
Moreover, she was also the professor of astronomy.
It could be said that however dull her magic history was, her astronomy was equally interesting.
First-year students had only attended one astronomy class and didn't have a deep impression, but the senior students loved astronomy very much, even forming a club for it.
For senior students, the presence of such an elderly professor seemed to have become a habit.
Professor Didi had indeed accompanied them throughout their entire student careers.
But such a professor had left them without any warning.
To say they weren't sad would be impossible.
...
But next, Headmistress Cynthia showed the students a completely different Professor Didi.
Even Dark Demon, who had heard some things from Professor Lily Laplace, was quite surprised.
What slowly came from Headmistress Cynthia's mouth was the Didi Maxwell seen from her perspective.
Willful, arrogant, overbearing, stubborn—these words that students couldn't quite grasp were indispensable parts of Professor Didi's personality.
Headmistress Cynthia had known Professor Didi for a long time.
She depicted the Professor Didi she knew without any concealment.
From a fledgling little pixie to becoming a member of a four-person adventure team, then to being trapped in an ancient temple and suffering an old man's curse.
Except for matters related to Professor Kazel, which weren't detailed, she recounted everything.
It was as if she were reading that resignation letter on Professor Didi's behalf.
She also recounted Professor Didi's inner torment over the past decades and the details of recent events.
...
Completely different from what Dark Demon had thought.
Headmistress Cynthia didn't fabricate anything at all; apart from concealing the students' names, she told everything.
The students listened very attentively, more attentively than in class.
Headmistress Cynthia also showed no partiality, leaving the judgment of Professor Didi's actions entirely to the students themselves.
It could be good, it could be bad.
It could be evil, it could be wrong.
They could take a subjective stance and defend her.
Or they could take an objective stance and criticize her.
Anything was fine.
...
Finally.
Headmistress Cynthia first invited one of the participants in this incident—Virt Gold—to provide a victim's testimony.
Virt, though completely unprepared, looked bewildered when he was called up.
For him, this was undoubtedly a public execution.
He didn't know why Headmistress Cynthia was doing this.
But encouraged by Headmistress Cynthia's gaze, he still recounted how he was ambushed last night, taken to the temple, and offered as a sacrifice.
The words of the Hero's son were still quite credible.
No one really blamed a first-year student for not acting in this incident, they were just slightly disappointed.
But next.
Headmistress Cynthia invited another participant in this incident—Dark Demon.
Dark Demon likewise hadn't expected to be invited onto the stage.
But under Headmistress Cynthia's gentle gaze, he had no choice but to cooperate, recounting what he had seen and done after discovering Virt's dropped magic cards and following the trail into the secret chamber.
Of course, details were skipped.
The struggle with the goddess ended with Professor Didi vanquishing the goddess and refining the "Goddess's Tear."
Both sons of the Kingdom's Twin Swords.
The performance of the Valkyrie's son and the performance of the Hero's son formed an extremely stark contrast.
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