How Could the Villainous Young Master Be a Saintess?

Vinny glanced over the clothes the three of them had bought. Fennia’s was a sharp, simple white robe that looked almost like training wear, with two gold-edged panels hanging down behind it. Worn on the body, it gave the impression of a knight’s dress uniform.

So this was the kind of style she liked after all.

Amisha had chosen a white velvet dress. It used an openwork design, carved with many delicate, intricate patterns.

As for Luna, what she chose was rather interesting—a pure-white women’s formal hat, decorated with a golden feather. Of course, the feather was not a real feather, but a piece of art carved from purple-gold chalcedony.

“Luna, you’re only choosing a hat?” Vinny asked.

“Yes. I was only missing a hat, so buying one hat is enough.” Luna smiled, then put it on and turned in a circle in front of Vinny. “Your Eminence, does it look good~?”

“Mm-hm. It looks very good. White suits you, and the ornament on top matches your hair color very well,” Vinny said sincerely.

When praising someone, you could not just say “it looks good” or “it’s pretty.” That would sound too perfunctory. You had to point out the specific details—what exactly looked good. You had to say those things out loud, or the other person would think you were only being polite, or answering casually.

Luna really suited white and gold. Or rather, she carried them perfectly. Her skin was as fair as polished jade, and her platinum-blond hair was as sweetly lustrous as honey. Gold looked too flashy and eye-catching on most people, but on a platinum-haired beauty like Luna, it matched so well that it made it hard to look away.

There was one more thing Vinny did not say.

That white formal hat matched Luna’s white stockings far too well.

Mm. Sure enough, that kind of thing could not be said out loud in public.

“You have good taste, Luna.”

“As long as you like it. After all, I am your loyal servant~ If you have to see me every day, and I dress in a way that does not please you, would it not become a kind of annoyance every time you looked at me? Would you still be willing to listen to me then?” Luna said with a smiling squint. “Learning how to make myself pleasing to your eyes is also a required lesson for a loyal servant.”

“Uh.”

Vinny felt that compared to himself from a year ago, he had already built up a lot of resistance. But after Luna’s offensive, he still could not quite withstand it. For a moment, he was a little flustered and did not know what to say.

Pleasing to his eyes, or whatever.

He suddenly thought of something. Luna—she could not possibly be wearing white stockings so often in front of him because she knew he liked them, could she??

Ah, no, no. It probably was not that, right??

How could Luna possibly know his tastes? Where would she even have learned that??

Ahem!

No, no. It was not that he liked them, exactly. It could only be called appreciation! This was his personal attitude toward appreciating beauty.

That said, if someone asked whether he appreciated black stockings or white stockings more, that was a very difficult question. For him, it was a little hard to choose. But the two were not in conflict.

White stockings during the day, black stockings at night. Was that not allowed? Of course it was.

The young female attendant listening to their conversation from the side had both hands folded neatly over her abdomen, and for a moment, she froze.

Wait, loyal servant??

What did that mean? Were these two in some kind of superior-subordinate relationship??

But they did not look like that either.

The girl did not quite understand. Then, all of a sudden, something occurred to her, and her cheeks reddened.

N-no way.

Wasn’t that a little too bold?!

“Have you two chosen as well?” Vinny asked Amisha and Fennia.

“Yes, we’ve both chosen, Sain—cough, my lord,” Fennia said.

She had nearly called Vinny Saintess in public. The instant the word was about to leave her mouth, she reacted and changed it, but her brain failed to turn the corner in time. Instead of remembering to call him Vinny, she changed it to “my lord.”

“?!” When the young female attendant heard that, her gaze became even stranger.

“Miss, the three of them have all chosen and tried everything on. Could you please wrap these up for us?” Vinny spoke, jolting the girl back to herself.

“Uh, ah! Yes, of course. I understand. Please come with me.”

“How much is it altogether?” Vinny asked.

“The total comes to eight gold coins and three silver coins,” the girl said after calculating the price.

“All right.” Vinny took out his coin pouch and handed the money to the girl. Fortunately, he had not lost his money pouch on this trip.

He was paying for all three of them??

The girl looked at Vinny, then at the three girls behind him, each holding a wrapped package, all with very different styles. Her expression changed again.

Wait, there was more than one??

Fine. Although she really should not meddle in the guests’ private lives, this was still a bit too—

“Is there something else?” Vinny saw the girl’s eyes constantly moving between them and thought she had something to say to him, so he asked in confusion.

“Oh, I know. Miss, does this shop have some discount event you forgot to tell me about?”

“Ah, no, no. Our shop does not have any such event this season for the time being. I’m sorry, sir.”

“Oh, there isn’t? All right.” Hearing that, Vinny left Huawo Clothiers with the three girls.

“Whoa? The fabric of this outfit really is so comfortable.” Fennia could not wait to hold the garment in her hands, speaking in amazement. “It must be very comfortable to wear too.”

“You like it?”

“Mm-hm! Thank you for the gift, Sain—cough, Vinny!” Fennia said gratefully. “This is the first gift Vinny has given me. I’ll treasure it properly!”

“Mm-hm!” Amisha also nodded.

“You can skip the thanks. After all, the three of us are all your pos-ses-sions~” Luna blinked playfully.

“What do you mean, possessions??” Vinny felt himself fall into embarrassment all over again.

What kind of wild thing was that to say??

Amisha’s cheeks heated for a while at those words. Only Fennia, that silly idiot, did not think there was anything strange about it and echoed, “Yes, yes! Vinny, you only need to do whatever you want to do!”

“All right, all right. We should go back. We still have to set out first thing tomorrow morning!” Vinny said without looking back, then strode quickly toward the inn.

“Fennia, don’t stand guard at my door tonight. This is an inn. If people see you standing guard outside my door, they’ll think you’re a very strange person.”

“Ah, ah? Is that so? That does seem true.”

“You haven’t slept for two days. Sleep properly tonight. We’ve made it here, so people from the Church won’t suddenly come charging out,” Vinny instructed.

“Ah. All right.”

When they reached the inn, Fennia and Amisha both happily took their clothes back to their rooms. Only Luna remained standing at the door, as if she was not in any hurry to go back.

“Luna? You’re not going back yet?” Vinny, who was just about to return to his own room, asked.

“I’m not in a hurry.” Luna chuckled softly. Then those platinum cross-shaped eyes looked toward Vinny with exquisite charm. “Your Eminence gave me a gift today. If I do not return the favor, that would be far too rude.”

“Return the favor??” Vinny did not understand.

“Yes. Return the favor.” As she spoke, Luna stepped forward with her hands behind her back, walking up to Vinny. She leaned forward slightly, the corners of her mouth carrying a meaningful little smile.

“What is the return gift?” Vinny looked at Luna’s hands. She was not holding anything.

How was she going to return a gift like this?

Vinny did not quite understand. And at this time of night, how was she supposed to return a gift?

“Do you want to know what it is?” Luna asked with a smile.

“Uh, of course I need to know?” Luna was too close, so close that Vinny could smell the honeylike fragrance of her hair.

“Naturally, it is something you like,” Luna said mysteriously.

“Something I like?” Vinny liked a lot of things. He liked money quite a bit too.

But in this situation, Luna definitely did not mean money.

Then it was??

Vinny suddenly thought of something.

Uh. It could not be... white stockings??

“Ah, aah, it’s getting late today, Luna. We still have to travel tomorrow, so hurry back and sleep!” The instant Vinny thought of that possibility, he spoke quickly. Then he turned, went into his room, and shut the door.

“Pfft.” Seeing that, Luna could not help laughing.

Her Lady Saintess truly was as adorable as ever.

Once Vinny’s door was closed, Luna also turned and returned to her own room, shutting the door behind her.

After Vinny returned to his room, he looked in the mirror, patted his burning cheeks, splashed cold water on his face to calm himself down, took a deep breath, and lay down on the bed.

Early the next morning, the group waited for the carriage heading to the coast across from Carillian Academy. They officially set out, spent several days on the road, and arrived at the shore opposite Carillian Academy’s island.

Several unicorn carriages were parked along the shore, and a few middle-aged people wearing Carillian Academy instructor robes were chatting nearby.

Once they had officially entered Carillian Academy territory, Vinny’s slightly suspended heart also eased.

Successfully entering Carillian Academy territory meant they were completely safe. Even if Church pursuers really existed at this point, they would not choose to act at a time like this.

Vinny and the others walked up to Carillian Academy’s carriage convoy and showed the instructors their student IDs.

“You are first-year students? Oh, no. After this holiday, you will be second-years.” After looking over Vinny and the others’ Carillian Academy student IDs, the instructors were somewhat surprised.

“Students, the holiday isn’t even halfway over. Why have you come back already? Miss the Academy that much?” one instructor joked. “If we weren’t required to wait here for work, no one would want to come back to their workplace during a long vacation.”

“Instructor, we ran into a faction hunting us down and were forced to flee back to the Academy,” Fennia said.

“Hunting you down??” When the instructors heard that, their teasing expressions instantly turned serious. “Who was hunting you? Who are they? Who has the nerve to hunt down Carillian Academy students??”

“Tell us who was hunting you. I’ll report it to the Academy.”

“A very troublesome local organization with deeply tangled influence. But they didn’t catch up,” Vinny said. Naturally, he could not say that the ones hunting them were from the Church of the Dawn.

“Now that you’re here, you’re fine. Don’t worry. Inside the Academy, no one dares do anything to you.” The instructors welcomed them onto the carriage.

Vinny also consciously looked at the unicorn in front of this unicorn carriage.

It did seem different from the Prismstone Unicorns of the elf lands.

At dusk, the group returned to Carillian Academy.

“Do your families know you’ve returned to the Academy?” Vinny suddenly thought of that and asked the three girls.

“Don’t worry, Your Eminence. Before we set out, Lady Luna had us all send letters home explaining the situation. Our families know,” Fennia said.

She even thought of that layer?

Vinny glanced at Luna.

“Then this is where we split up,” Luna instructed. “Although there are not many people in the Academy at this time, it is still better not to let other students see that the four of us returned together. After we go back to our respective dorms, we will act as if nothing happened. We never went to find Your Eminence. Understood?”

“Mm-hm.” Fennia and Amisha nodded, indicating that they understood.

The group quietly separated.

After stepping onto Academy ground, Vinny’s heart relaxed without him realizing it.

Who would have thought there would come a day when he actually felt that returning to school was such a comforting thing?

Sure enough, no matter what world you were in, for students, compared to the outside world, school would always be the purest and most stable place.

He wondered how Shicodale was doing.

Before he left, he had asked her to guard the house. At least he still had a home to return to, but she did not even have anywhere she wanted to return anymore.

Vinny quickened his pace and reached the familiar dorm area.

As he drew near his dorm, Vinny felt his sanity begin recovering faster.

This place was like the fountain on his own side. Once he arrived here, his mind automatically relaxed and his condition recovered rapidly.

Vinny knocked on the dorm door.

Very soon, footsteps sounded. Then came that familiar soft, tender, and slightly sweet voice.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me, Dale. I’m back.”

The voice inside the door clearly paused. Immediately afterward, there was a click from the lock, and the door opened.

That exceedingly familiar, lovely face was right in front of him.

“Vinny, you... you’re back??” Shicodale was first surprised, then her face filled with joy.

“Mm. I’m back.”

“You were gone for so many days.” Shicodale looked Vinny up and down, then welcomed him inside. “Vinny, Milian—how is she?”

“Don’t worry. Milian is already all right.”

“Then, did this trip go smoothly?” Hearing that Milian was fine, Shicodale breathed a sigh of relief, then asked about Vinny with concern.

Elves were very sensitive in this regard. She had a premonition that this trip of Vinny’s had not gone particularly smoothly.

“Well.” Vinny stretched lazily and sprawled on the sofa without any restraint.

Now that he was home, his whole body went from its previous tense state to a loose one.

“I guess you could say it went smoothly.” As long as he had come back intact, it already counted ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) as smooth. What more could he ask for?