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Welcome to the Villains' World!
In this game, you take the role of a protagonist who has awoken in an unfamiliar place named Twisted Wonderland. After being freed from a coffin by a rowdy magic creature named, you find yourself about to be enrolled in the prestigious magic training school,. However, during the dorm assigning ceremony, it's revealed that not only do you not have any magic, but you're also from another world! Surprised, the masked headmaster offers you shelter in Ramshackle Dorm while you get your bearings. He comments that you're extraordinarily good at getting people to work together, and names you a Prefect. As a two-in-one deal, since you don't have magic, you and Grim are enrolled together! The headmaster gives you a mission and hands you a special camera capable of recording memories. He entrusts it to you to record the lives of you and your classmates!
However, as talented and prodigious as they may be, the students waiting for you here are all uncooperative troublemakers! Will you ever be able to work with them and return to your original world? And just what secrets are these students hiding, who hold the souls of villains...?
The description for the game hadn't caught your attention at first, it sort of wafted to the back of your mind as you continued to go about your life. Working your job, making sure you had enough to eat, pay the bills for rent and phone. That changed pretty quickly as soon as twitter exploded with the first episode releases of the game. Then it caught your immediate attention.
You broke out into a smile as the mobile game designed by Aniplex and Walt Disney Japan fully downloaded onto your phone. You had already spoiled the game for yourself on twitter, Instagram, and on YouTube, lets play. Now you finally had the game in your hands for you to play to your heart's content! The little square app had popped up beside your latest download.
"Thank you for the food."
You allowed yourself to recline against the wall that your bed was pushed up against, excited as you poked at your phone screen lightly for the game to open. You watched as the familiar logos lit up the screen for what seemed like the longest sixty seconds of your life before the home screen appeared.
Things were looking good as you touched the screen again and typed your name in the 'who are you?' box. The original MC called Yuu just like how MC was just MC in 'Mystic Messenger' and 'The Arcana' if the player did not wish or have the time to provide an actual name to be used in the dialogues by the fictional characters.
You pressed the 'ok' button and watched as the loading screen faded to black to show the mirror at the beginning of the prologue. You let out a small inhuman sound as the voice shot through your phone's speaker.
"Ah... My beloved-"
You smacked the phone face down against your bedspread, a hysterical giggle escaped your throat. You've heard the same scene over a dozen times, but hearing it from your device caused you to lose it slightly. You could understand now why there are people on the internet thirsting over the voices.
"Okay, okay, I'm fine." You reassured yourself, smushing your face with your hands. "It's just a game, it can't hurt you. No matter what the internet says otherwise." You picked up the phone again to see the flash of the Ebony Carriage on the screen carrying the coffin that contained 'you' in the game.
"Guided by the Mirror of Darkness." The voice continued. "If you ever so desire. Take thy hand that lies within the mirror." The green fire in the mirror died away to reveal the gloved hand stretched out invitingly before the screen turned black.
"Eh?" You knew that wasn't supposed to happen. There would be a loading screen again that would take you to see black and white portraits of the villains. A small circular loading icon appeared instead for a moment before disappearing. Oh. You pressed the home button a few times, yet the black screen remained unchanged. Your phone died.
"Seriously?" You muttered, irritated. Clambering over to the other side of the bed to grab the phone charger that rested on the floor by your nightstand. "I was looking forward to interacting with Grim and the other characters." You liked all the characters' designs but you had your secret favorites. Those little gems were hidden in twelve different open tabs of fanfiction and fanart on your mobile that wasn't appropriate to look at while working at your job.
You set your phone on the nightstand right beside the set alarm ready to go off at seven in the morning. Sleep was something you needed desperately after the stressful day you had after dealing with demanding customers. You shoved your socks off with your feet, kicking them to the floor to be bothered within the morning. You weren't tired but you knew if you stayed up any later you would regret it when the alarm would go off.
With your face pressed into one of the many piled up pillows on the bed your phone buzzed twice.
Once was to announce that it turned on and was properly charging. The second was a notification of one of the games saved on the mobile. 'No matter what, don't let go of my hand...'