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The 5-pm bell sounded throughout Kamome Academy as a certain radish legged girl started to pack away mops and other cleaning supplies.
"Yashiro why can't you stay longer?" Hanako whined, grabbing onto his assistant's shoulders and beginning to shake her tired and exhausted form.
"Hanako-kun you know well that it's going to be dark soon, plus I don't want to stay at school till then" Yashiro tried to explain but was just hugged tighter by the saddened apparition.
"I also have to feed black Can-" Yashiro started but was cut off as quickly as she started.
"But aren't I more important than him..." Hanako silently whispered as he hugged her form close.
"I-...Ummm"
Yashiro started feeling her head becoming dizzy. The world felt as if it was spinning her faster and faster as she began to lose her breath quickly.
"Yashiro!" Hanako exclaimed as he held the frail girl tightly in his arms, feeling himself also become weaker as if the air had contained toxins.
Both of their visions quickly darkened to that of black, as their bodies fell unknowingly to the wooden floor of the 3rd-floor girl's bathroom...
"-ro~"
"-shiro~"
"YASHIRO!"
Nene rapidly opened her eyes, suddenly being met with amber ones.
"W-wha- where-" Yashiro yawned, rubbing her eyes whilst she spoke.
"You sure do sleep a lot for a radish~" Hanako slyly teased, putting his arm out to her.
She grabbed onto his extended arm and hoisted herself upwards onto her abnormally large ankled legs.
"W-what is this p-pl-... AHHHHH!" Yashiro suddenly found herself tripping from an unknown object hidden within the green illuminating grass, shone only by the light of the moon positioned upon the horizon.
Hanako quickly grabbed onto the shoulders of the falling girl, stopping her from having an impact on the ground.
"Yashiro, be careful..." Hanako whispers to her, putting her back onto her feet.
"Why is it so dark and where are we?" Yashiro questioned turning around to gaze at the large moon lighting up the grass field.
"I'm not exactly sure, sorry Yashiro" Hanako admitted sheepishly, peering deep into the layers upon layers of illuminated grass.
Yashiro promptly walked closer to the boy upon realising that he was somewhat saddened.
"Hanako-kun are yo-" Yashiro started but stopped when she saw his face lift, slowly forming a devilish grin.
"Yashiro did you know, you sleep so adorably~" Hanako started edging his face closer to her.
"So cute in fact, I was too dazed to wake you from your slumber, radish~" at this point in time Hanako has pushed his forehead against her own, peering into her ruby encrusted orbs full of awe.
She quickly pushed him away causing him to tumble onto the ground.
"This is what you get for being a pervert!" Yashiro angry said storming away.
"Yashiro wai-"
"I-I think it was a bad idea leaving H-Hanako-kun..." Yashiro said, her voice croaked due to the cold moaning of the strong winds.
She continued walking slowly finding her eyes adjusting to the blue-lit night.
"W-wait w-what is that"
She saw lights abruptly appear to show a hidden city, the aroma of various desserts flooding her nose.
She quickly rushed towards the lights to search for shelter and warmth.
Hanako blankly stares forward watching the radish legged girl disappear from his sight.
"All I wanted to say was this boundary is a candy-themed one, run by the Mokke..."
"Well she'll find out either way"
Hanako stood up from the ground and brushed off his uniform.
"This way to the city, I guess..."
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Yashiro soon found herself in the heart of the town, looking around she was unable to see any human nor apparition.
The only life visible in the city were unreasonable amounts of Mokke.
She slowly walked up to a few houses visible in her field of view and peeked into the windows cautiously.
Inside of the home, she saw a Mokke cuddled into a purple blanket, ears wrapped around a peppermint swirl lollipop.
'Aw adorable' Nene thought until, 'OH MY GOD, I MUST LOOK LIKE A STALKER TO THEM!' She then jolted away from the window to search the rest of the mysterious city.
The town was quiet and the air started to pick up quicker than before causing the lost girl to shiver to an extreme.
"Are you okay... want some candy..."
A small soft voice spoke that made Nene turn around with surprise.
"Are you cold there is a hotel over there" The pink small creature waved around its ears, now pointing towards a dark building that suddenly lit up revealing a sign saying Candyland Hotel.
'Candyland?' Yashiro thought to herself but quickly brushed it off thinking nothing of the peculiar name.
She reluctantly followed the Mokke towards the hotel.
"This is where I leave you..." The Mokke then disappeared into a pink sudden puff of smoke.
Yashiro slowly reached outwards opening the door as a loud creak was heard through the building.
She swiftly sprinted to the reception to be met with a Mokke dressed in formal attire.
"Welcome to the Mokke hotel... Assistant of lord 7"
Nene jolted backwards from hearing the words said by the Mokke.
"H-How d-do you know that" She stuttered trying to hold her ground within the unfamiliar environment.
"We know all..." was the only reply they gave as it handed her the keys to her room.
"Bye-bye daikon girl," The Mokke said as the room became lit revealing pink cloud-like structures within the room as a chocolate fountain started.
"Hope you have fun in Candyland!"
The cream haired girl was soon led to a room by a cheerful Mokke.
She reached out her hand slowly swinging the door open to reveal a gigantic room with pinks drapes around the room, a giant arched glass window behind the bed, and a royal type queen-sized bed.
"W-wow" She whispered to herself quietly walking inside and locking the door.
She then jumped onto the bed laying herself down onto it. Yashiro moved her hand into the air, staring at it for a few seconds before resting it on her forehead, closing her eyes.
"I wonder where Hanako-kun is...."
"School mystery No.7 has entered our domain..." a Mokke remarked in a lifeless tone staring at the mystery.
"Woah there, calm down I just wanna know if you have seen Yashiro anywhere" Hanako quickly explained, stretching his arms outward as a sign of defence.
"The daikon is there..." The Mokke continued pointing at a building that suddenly lit up.
Hanako made his way to the designated building to search for his short-tempered assistant.
"Wow Yashiro, you really do get into a lot of trouble huh..."
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"WHOM THY MYSTERY DARE ENTER THE DOMAIN OF THE MOKKE! BEGONE AT ONCE!"
Fire suddenly went ablaze in the lobby of the hotel causing everything to turn to a dark tint of blood-red as loud sirens could be hurt.
"Urgh, it's just me... The leader..."
'Knock... Knock... Knock'
Sounded within the empty hallways of the hotel as Hanako knocked on the door of which Yashiro resigned, progressively becoming louder.
Nene awoke from her sleep in a drowsy mood as she heard knocks echo from outside.
She untangled herself from the drapes of the bed being oblivious as to why she suddenly felt cold as she slowly opened the door.
"Yashiro there yo-..." Hanako said relief present in his voice, suddenly stopping himself as he stared at Nene's form.
"What's wrong?" Nene yawned her voice trailing off as she spoke.
"I-it's j-just..." Hanako said still unable to take his eyes off the girl, his face progressively reddening as the seconds passed.
"Just what?"
"You should dress like that more often in front of me, don't ya think~," Hanako said a large smirk forming on his face fully ignoring his stuttering from seconds prior. Yashiro then peered at what she was wearing, quickly getting shocked and feeling her mind become clouded with various perverted thoughts.
All that Yashiro was currently wearing was a white laced bra and white lace panties to match...
Her clouded mind quickly gave up on her as so did her rising blood pressure causing her to promptly faint.
"Guess I was too hot," Hanako says, lowering himself to pick up the fainted form of his assistant, placing her in a bridal carry leaning his face closer to her ear.
"Weren't I, Yashiro~"
Hanako slowly carried her non-moving form into her designated room, softly placing her upon the bed and swiftly moving a blanket onto her.
"Mmmh..." Yashiro quietly whimpered, moving within the covers.
Hanako slowly moved his head closer to the girl to inspect her odd and unusual behaviour.
A pair of hands grabbed onto the apparitions wrist, quickly pulling his form into the white sheets, as the cream haired girl wrapped her petite arms around him.
"Stay... please," Yashiro said her voice soft and quiet as she snuggled her head into him.
"Y-Yashir-" Hanako began, as his face slowly emitted red from her soft skin brushing against his uniform.
"P-please don't leave-" Yashiro spoke to no one in question.
"Yashiro, who are-"
"Minamoto-senpai" Yashiro hummed drowsily.
Hanako quickly jolted away from the girls grasps realising whom she had been referring to. He peered at the sleeping form huddled in white silk sheets.
"Goodnight," Hanako whispered softly leaning in towards her lips, chastely connecting them to one another.
'I love you Yashiro' Hanako thought to himself, pulling away from the girl's lips, slowly exiting the room...
The light of the sun emitting from the giant arched window lit up the room causing many reflections of pink and gold to scatter onto various surfaces; in the room of Yashiro Nene.
She got herself out of the bed given by the Mokke and walked towards her closet.
The previous night she was told that somehow in some way number 7 of the school mysteries had predicted her stay at this specific hotel and had already pre-given clothing.
At first, she was reluctant knowing well what Hanako would have in mind of 'clothes for his assistant', but soon she realised there were no other options.
She quickly scanned through the closet, her eyes landing onto a cropped red top with a light pink mini skirt. She searched through various socks finding interest in a pair of black knee-high ones.
Yashiro Nene gradually walked out of her room, continuing to glide down the wooden staircase, being cautious to not step on creaky steps and uneven flooring.
She was soon presented by a large hallway carpeted by velvet red and gold outlined windows.
"I-I t-think I took a wrong tur-" Nene said, her voice filled with doubt.
"Morning Yashiro~" A voice yawned from behind the girl, looping arms around her form and embracing it tightly.
The girl whimpered at the sudden embrace from something or someone unknown.
"How was your rest, my little radish~" It cooed at her, drowsiness present in the voice.
"H-H-HANAKO-KUN!?"
"Yes~," The boy said unwrapping himself from her, making his way in front of the unsurprised girl.
"Why are you here?" Yashiro questioned him staring into his amber orbs with hate.
"Well I can have my assistant go running around in an unknown boundary all by herself, can I~" Hanako explained, holding out his hands soon starting to tug on the girl's cheeks.
"What even is this place?" Yashiro questioned once more as Hanako continued to play with her cheeks.
"It's the Mokkes' main boundary," Hanako said simply as the girl gave confused looks.
"Have you ever wondered how the Mokke have so much candy and where they sleep, well it's from this place," Hanako said pulling his hands away from Nene's sore cheeks.
"Anyways, wanna explore the candy forest in a bit, I heard there are a lot of handsome princes there," Hanako said as he felt a mental arrow pierce through his soul.
"Sure!" Yashiro answered making her way back to the staircase when...
"Hanako-kun..." Yashiro says, tugging onto the sleeve of the boy in question.
"Where is this place exactly...?" Yashiro questions, Hanako then restraining from walking.
"Oh, I thought you would've noticed by now, " Hanako giggles, moving the cream hair towards a large window.
"Everything here is solely made out of candy, " He continues, pulling a piece of red rope from the window frame.
"Here, try this, " Hanako slowly placed the red object, onto the tongue of his confused assistant.
"Red liquorice, " Is all the boy says, moving away from the girl and then pulling his hat to cover the majority of his current reddening face.
"H-How is I-it, " Hanako asks, his hat still visibly covering his eyes.
"It's delicious, " Nene exclaims, slowly walking towards the boy.
"Here, have some, " Yashiro says, happily placing the red roped candy into his mouth.
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"I have to leave, bye Yashiro!" Hanako says, racing out of the corridor.
"Huh, that's was weird..." said Yashiro, turning towards the large corridor, skipping gleefully to down the spiral staircase.
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"Gosh, why is she so cute?!" Hanako whined, peering out from behind a large curtain.
Lunch had now since past, and our lovely daikon legged protagonist Yashiro Nene was currently laying in the large candy fields. As a matter of fact, these happened to be the same fields they stumbled upon one day prior.
All was calm; all was quiet, as the aroma of candied apples flooded the planes. Nene soon felt her eyelids flutter as she basked into the afternoon sunlight.
It wasn't long until the cream haired girl began to be devoured by drowsiness, her eyelids soon shut.
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"Soo~ what's my favourite radish assistant doing"
Yashiro quickly twitched her eyes open to be greeted with that of amber, peering from above her.
"What do you want Hanako-kun?" Nene whined, burning her face into the grass away from Hanako's gaze.
"Oh- nothin', " Hanako answered, kneeling down next to the presumably 'dead' at first glance, daikon legged girl.
"Do you have any ideas to get out of here?" Nene asked, her voice muffled from laying face-first into the grass.
"Hmm, I guess so, " Hanako commented, "I asked the Mokke how to get out of here, and well all they really said was 'to find where the sky meets the water'..."
"Well that's pretty stupid, " Nene said rolling over onto her back.
"Not as adorably stupid as you, " Hanako teased, lightly pressing onto the tip of her nose.
"You take that back!!!" Nene yelled, getting up from laying on the grass seconds prior, to chasing Hanako around the field.
"Nope~, no way I'm taking that back~" Hanako managed to say whilst running around having no sense of where he was going, surely enough Nene followed suite.
"Hanako-kun, no fair—" Yashiro whined, leaning herself against a tree trunk.
"I'm not wrong, am I~" Hanako teased her once more.
"Yes, you are wrong" Nene sternly answers back.
"That was rhetorical, Radish"
Yashiro and Hanako quickly found themselves in unknown terrain, every corner and crater was coated in large amounts of forestation as a loud splashing sound was heard throughout.
"Um, Hanako-kun where are we?" Yashiro asked looking towards the boy.
"Unfortunately, I don't know..." Hanako replied, looking around as baffled as Yashiro.
"Well only guess is follow the stream, right?" Hanako suggested looking toward Yashiro.
"Yeah I guess, doesn't a stream always lead to civilisation" Nene added.
"I mean if you call a bunch of Mokke 'civilisation' then sure" Hanako finished, reaching his arm out to hoist up the girl.
Yashiro and Hanako search around for the source of the sound as it progressively got louder until they were greeted by a large waterfall.
"I guess this is the place," Hanako said, eyeing around the waterfall, his eyes landing on nothing in certain.
The two of them searched around the area until Hanako stopped just facing the side of the waterfall.
"Where the sky meets the water..." Hanako whispers to himself, slowly stepping towards the water source.
"Yashiro can you come here for a second," Hanako asked, he then suddenly pulled her towards the side of the waterfall, both of their figures jumping into the source.
Everything suddenly faded to black once more, the same as it had begun.
"Argh, my heat hurts" Nene whines, picking herself up from the wooden floor of the 3rd-floor girl's bathroom.
She then peered up to find herself nestled into the chest of a male. Within further inspection she soon found it to be Hanako.
The apparition of which whom she grew to slowly love.
"Just a little longer," Yashiro whispers, closing her eyes once again.