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Ace and Deuce knew that Yuu has been getting a lot of backlash as a magicless student. They tried helping them Yuu whenever they could, but even if they were friends, they weren’t always there for them. 

Yuu would always wave them off, saying that there was nothing to worry about, but that guy would always hide away their feelings no matter what. So they asked Grim.

“That guy’s actually scary. I’ve never seen them actually mad, but...eh..” Grim looked away as if wanting to not go back to the memories.

It made them even more worried, so they went around spying on Yuu.

It was nothing at first. Senior Trey would bring samples of his new recipes to Yuu, Senior Vil fussed with Yuu’s appearance, Senior Riddle adjusting Yuu’s necktie into a bowtie, and just many more like that. 

Ace and Deuce were about to pack up for the day when 3 students came up to Yuu and Grim in the library, studying basics by themselves as Grim still needed to learn about Human history while Yuu needed to learn about Twisted Wonderland itself.

The students looked at the textbook provided by Professor Trein and laughed.

“You’re studying from a book that even elementary students know? What are you, 5?” Yuu didn’t look up from their book when they piped up, “Yeah, 5 inches deep in your MOM .”

That made all who heard drop their jaws, heads swirling to the scene. Grim only flatten his ears, shuffling to the side

“YOU-!” “That’s my name, don’t wear it out!”

“You’re just a magicless nobody! Why did the Ebony carriage even bother to pick up someone like you!?” The student picked up his magical pen, about to attack them when Grim shot out his flames at him at a gesture Yuu made.

“I can’t use magic, but I can fuck your bitch!” Yuu, still a pointing finger at the downed student, gave a shit-eating grin. 

Ace and Deuce rushed up the moment the other students were about to fight back, Deuce summoning up a cauldron while Ace directed it with his wind magic. 

Knocked out. 

“Yuu! What are you doing!?” Ace scolded, checking up on Yuu to make sure they weren’t injured. 

“I was doing my generation justice.” Ace, Deuce and Grim stared at them.

“Yeah, they’re fine.” Deuce decided, getting confirmation from the others. 

They helped Yuu and Grim collect their belongings, heading out of the library. Ace and Deuce could see jaws dropped and startled eyes following them.

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“ The theme song for the audition is going to be ‘Piece of my world’. Application to 3A Rook Hunt. That seems interesting!” Ace turned towards them, “For the school festival, us sports club members have been doing backstage work the entire time, so why don’t we try it out?” But of course, he had another motivation. 

“If we got chosen, we don’t have to do those annoying task!” Yuu squinted at the poster as their Heartslabyul friends started bickering. 

“The song ‘Piece of my world’ was pretty popular last year, so in MagiKam, there’s definitely going to be a lot of dance tutorials uploaded online. You can just remember it easily!” Ace smirked.

“Fgna! Yuu got their phone, so we can see the recent MagiKam!” Grim scrambled behind Yuu to pester them into bringing their phone out of their pockets.

“Now that I think about it, Yuu, your world should have different songs, right?” Yuu nodded, not looking up from their phone.

“Ooohhh!!! Nice idea, Grim! Yuu! Sing for us!” Ace clapped his hands in glee. “Sing, Sing, sing, sing” He chanted, clapping his hands to emphasise.

Yuu was hesitant. They realised that this world...doesn’t really have the explicitness that their world has. So if they sang it in front of everyone in the cafeteria ….welll…

“...I would like to hear it too, please,” Deuce added, making Ace grin more widely at Yuu, who pursued their lips.

“Don’t regret it then….” And at this moment, Ace and Deuce knew that they had to stop Yuu somehow.

“ I said certified freak, seven days a week. Wet-ass pussy, make that pullout game weak, woo!” Yuu started getting into it, not caring about the scrambling Ace and Deuce had to do.

“ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you fuckin' with some wet-ass pussy. Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass pussy. Give me everything you got for this wet-ass pussy” Eavesdroppers and those who had good hearing were suffering a case of dropped jaw and wanting to turn deaf.

“Yuu! Stop! Sorry!” Ace begged, pulling on Yuu’s blazer while Deuce tried to shut their mouth. But Yuu, who was feeling a bit mischievous and nostalgic, continued on. Dancing as they continued

“ Beat it up, stranger, catch a charge. Extra large and extra hard. Put this pussy right in your face. Swipe your nose like a credit card .” While Yuu was busy singing, Deuce had a look of desperation on his face. 

“I have student duties, so let’s drag them out.” Ace, wanting to escape the embarrassment nodded and they proceeded to drag Yuu out of the cafeteria 

“ I WANT YOU TO PARK THAT BIG MACK TRUCK RIGHT IN THIS LITTLE GARAGE!” Yuu screamed out, but was satisfied, falling limp as they let themselves get dragged by their friends. Grim meekly followed out, holding their phone.

In the cafeteria, Cater, even as affected as he was, uploaded it online.

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“Oh, it seems that the Prefect and others have come again.” Azul greeted them at the entrance.

“Busy as always.” Ace shook his head, shrugging as he did.

“Ahh~ It’s Shrimpy, Sealy, Crabby and Macky~!” Floyd poke out from the corner and ushered them to a table. “Table for 4!” He called out before ducking towards Yuu’s height.

“It’s a good thing that you came on time for the performance!” He giggled. 

“I hope you’ll like it!” He said ominously, which made the four suspicious. He left soon after to start his own performance. 

Flagging down a waiter, they took their order and waited for it to start. On the centre of the stage, Azul stood alone at the centre with a spotlight on him. He still held his (pimp) cane as he practically crooned.

“ The seaweed is always greener. In somebody else's lake ” Azul sang, the spotlight shone brightly on him. Jade appeared from the shadows behind Azul, 

“ You dream about going up there. But that is a big mistake ”

“ Just look at the world around you. Right here on the ocean floor. ” Floyd peeked out from behind Azul, joining in with his twin. 

“ Such wonderful things surround you. What more is you lookin' for? ” The trio sang, extending a hand towards Yuu. The spotlight shifted from the trio to Yuu, who jumped at the attention literally shining on them. 

An Octavinelle student shoved a spare mic towards Yuu, as if he knew that it was going to happen. Yuu took the mic with a gaze that screamed ‘help me’ as well as ‘deer in the spotlight’. Ace, Deuce and Grim look away. 

Stiff from all the attention, Yuu panicked and sang. 

“ PTSD .” Azul’s face contorted into confusion. “ Anxiety .” Jade blinked. “ Crippling Depression, there is no question. You should kill me!” Floyd was amused at the sudden change of lyrics by the way how hard he was laughing

“ Let me be with Harambe. I feel like shit every day. ” Yuu glared at the idiot trio that always seemed to cause them trouble. And just recently, they were homeless and squatting over at Savanaclaw. 

The said idiots studiously concentrated on their choice of food. 

“ I’m asking nicely, do it by drowning Under the Seaaaa~! ” Yuu felt satisfied in revenge and after shoving the mic back to the Octavinelle student, they sat down back on the sofa with a huff and sipped victoriously on their drink of the day. See if they would ever make them sing again. 

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Today was a Mixed class so anyone, from 1st year to 3rd year, could choose their wanted course for the day. 

Yuu had a handful of people in the same class as them, but the only ones they knew besides the idiot trio were Azul, Riddle, Leona, Ruggie, Cater and Lilia.

That made them stop. Ruggie, they could get, but Leona in singing classes? What?

“Today, we have plenty of time for everyone to do some short songs, so all of you will have a turn.” The teacher said before turning his back on them.

“Hey, Ace. What do you plan to sing?”

“Hmmm, that’s a hard question. I have plenty of songs to choose from, but I don’t know what to choose.”

“I can’t sing.” Yuu sheepishly admitted.

“Ha! You can’t sing, you don’t have magic. What qualities do you even have that are good?” Annoying students behind them who definitely wasn’t eavesdropping on them laughed. 

Ace and Deuce stood up, ready to defend their friend when Yuu touched their arms, shaking their head. Even Riddle and Cater were ready to defend, and it made Yuu touched.

“I don’t think Twisted Wonderland is used to this genre.” Yuu gave a smile .

When the teacher asked for a volunteer to go first, Yuu raised up their hand. 

“I’d like to go first, Professor.” They said before heading up front. 

“Senior Cater, could you please set the timer for me? To make sure that I don’t go over 1 minute?” Grim shrunk into his seat. Being near Yuu almost 24/7 made him sensitive to Yuu’s mood, and he knew that Yuu was angry . Leona and Ruggie, having lived with them for 3 days, had experienced hell with them, so while they were nervous, they knew that it would be worthwhile watching the show.

Cater, who didn’t know what he was going into, gave a thumbs up, deciding to record his junior to send it to the others. Riddle was interested in seeing what his junior had to sing as he was interested in another world’s song.

“ Look, I was gonna go easy on you not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. " This was the only thing that rap they’ve tried so hard to memorize without stumbling over their words to impress.

Impress they would. 

“ Uh, summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assumin' I'm a human. What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman? Innovative and I'm made of rubber so that anything you say is ricochetin' off of me and it'll glue to you and I'm devastating, more than ever demonstrating how to give a motherfuckin' audience a feeling like it's levitating. Never fading, and I know the haters are forever waiting for the day that they can say I fell off, they'll be celebrating cause I know the way to get 'em motivated.

I make elevating music, you make elevator music

"Oh, he's too mainstream."

Well, that's what they do when they get jealous, they confuse it

"It's not hip-hop, it's pop,"—'cause I found a hella way to fuse it.

With rock, shock rap with Doc

Throw on "Lose Yourself" and make 'em lose it

"I don't know how to make songs like that. I don't know what words to use."

Let me know when it occurs to you while I'm rippin' any one of these verses that versus you. It's curtains, I'm inadvertently hurtin' you. How many verses I gotta murder to prove that if you were half as nice, your songs you could sacrifice virgins too? !” Yuu screamed out at the last verse. Mic. Drop.

Cater looked at his phone in shock. He couldn’t believe that it was possible.

“38 seconds.” There was a pin drop silence at that moment. Even the teacher couldn’t believe his eyes. 

Yuu wanted to give the middle finger but refrained for the sake of the fragile mentality of the Twisted Wonderland citizens, they settled for a thumbs down and a raspberry

“I am done with my presentation, Professor.” Yuu turned to the poor man and bowed before heading back to their seat.

“Hoo? Is yond what songs kids art recently making? Interesting…” Lilia muttered, staring at Yuu in interest.

“Definitely not. That’s only unique in Yuu’s world.” Cater shook his hand and head furiously, denying it. 

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Yuu loves to give out their affection, and it isn't weird at all. What's weird were the words that came out of their mouth whenever they gave affection.

Ace and Deuce knew when to avoid Yuu when they got to that point because of their lack of affection which makes them triple their affection mode when they felt lonely.

They predicted when Yuu would be in that mood through the pain and suffering of Grim who was getting suffocated in Yuu’s grips. The second hint would be his nickname during that time. Grim, instead of being called Grim, would be called Yuu’s ‘Furry fluffy bunny baby wayby’. The moment they are hearing that, they would scatter as soon as possible. There is no way, they are risking that embarrassment.

Yuu looked up at them and beamed, that’s when they ran as fast as they could. 

“Deuce, run faster!”

“I’m trying !”

"My honky ponky scrumpalicious Love and Berry honies!!" That nickname for the both of them, their faces flushed as they rounded around the corner. 

Deuce, being on the Field and Track club, was getting further away from Ace. His legged pumped even faster than anything before, and if Deuce wasn't busy running, he might have realised that he was beating his all-time best score during this chase. Ace, not wanting to be in Yuu’s grip,  tripped Deuce over so he could gain more momentum, leaving Deuce reaching out to him in betrayal.

“ACE!!!” 

“My hubba bubba scrongadoncious Berrypie!” Yuu shouted in glee as they flung their hands around Deuce to keep him safe from bouncing on the floor. 

“I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS, ACE!!!” 

“I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR SACRIFICE!!!”

Ace prayed as he ran back to the safety of his dorm. When Yuu gets like this, he'd rather suffer Dorm Leader Riddle's lectures than to be suffocated in Yuu's 'Love and Affection'.

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The joys of being the Child of Man’s friend, Yuu, was their nickname for him. In a book of friendship, Malleus had read that close friends would give each other nicknames, and he took up that nickname with joy and honour. He was Yuu’s ‘Precious Nugget Horned Baby’.

Previously, he was called ‘Tsunotaro’, but as they became closer, their friendship became tighter that the Child of Man had relaxed with their affection, and Malleus had always anticipated the hugs and the coos of affection whenever he visited the Ramshackle dorm.

Lilia may have done the same thing, but that was because he was family. This was his friend whom he was interacting with, someone who didn’t fear him at all.

Speaking of Lilia, Malleus did tell him about the new nickname bestowed upon him, and upon hearing it, Lilia burst out in laughter before congratulating him on the close friendship that he had cultivated with Yuu.

Malleus made it to the point where he visited Yuu every day and accompanied Yuu until it was their bedtime, which was important for a growing human. Malleus didn’t need much sleep, so he was fine with taking the long trek back to his room because he always treasured the time with Yuu.

So when he received the VDC ticket from Yuu, who had friends but decided to invite him of all people, he promised that he would come and see them, and did the pinky promise Yuu had taught him. 

He would rather perish than break the promise.

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“Puppies! Shut up this instant!” With a crack of his whip, the class soon became silent. 

“Listen up as I am not going to repeat. Today, as the overblot issue seems to be a bit too frequent, we are going to learn first aid. I don’t want any of you to mess around with potion-making this time at the moment, so I am going to teach you how to apply this.” Crewel carefully demonstrated where exactly each potion should and should not go, especially with the allergies that some people might have to the ingredients. 

“I want you all to be careful in applying these because you never know what is going to happen. For example, the anti-freeze for hypothermia is extremely flammable due to it storing heat from the surroundings. You do not want to catch on fire while in the cold.” Crewel pointed out to a frost-coloured potion that he had in his kit. 

Crewel handed out these kits for everyone to keep, having had an expansion spell just in case. You never know what would happen due to many students having Unique spells that vary in many different cases. 

Yuu looked at the list of the ones they were given and in there, there was a hydration potion. It must have been because of the incident with Leona-senpai, they thought. 

Then, there was a water expeller potion if any non-aquatic species drowned. An emergency pocket-sized fire extinguisher, some shock blankets, and the classics in there.

“Now, you may all have noticed that there are only a few water expeller potions in the kit. I did that on purpose as today, you all are going to learn how to do CPR.” With a wave of his whip, a few CPR dolls were laid on the floor, and the students were all ordered to make a group and take turns doing the CPR.

He explained that at the side was a heart monitor to see if they were doing well or not. As they were just beginners, they should learn how to keep the heart at a steady pace. He demonstrated how to do the motions and told everyone to try it out before they would start the roleplay simulation.

Yuu observed the CPR doll and noted that it was just a plain mannequin face. It was interesting to see that the CPR doll in their world was called Annie and was usually based on the girl who drowned in a river and nobody could identify her. 

Yuu took note of that and told their thoughts towards their group members, which consisted of the idiot trio. Deuce was going first so he was nervously practising on the doll while Ace made fun of him for thinking that the doll was even alive.

“So, since we are doing some roleplaying, we should think of the doll as Annie?” Ace looked at the doll. Just before anyone was about to comment, Professor Crewel cut them off,

“And begin!” The heart monitor began to stimulate how a person’s heart usually was when they just drowned.

“ANNIE!!! DON’T DIE!!!” Deuce shouted in panic as he saw the heart monitor start to falter. He started to pump the doll as hard as he can, but instead, broke the doll’s chest.

“Ah, you broke her ribs.” Yuu pointed out. Deuce stopped in a panic, and as he didn’t know what to do, he let go of his hands. A few seconds later, the heart monitor flat-lined. 

“You killed Annie!” Grim cried out, pointing at the screen.

“ANNNIEEEEE!!!!” Having seen the death of his patient, Deuce flung himself onto the doll in despair.

“SHUT UP” Ace yelled, nudging Deuce with his foot.

“What are you screaming about there?!” Crewel stalked towards them and saw the damage that Deuce made. He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

“Well, you are not the first nor the last to let the doll die.” He said. 

“Annie’s dead! I killed her!” Deuce mumbled. 

“Wait, who is Annie.” 

Yuu explained to the Professor what their world’s version of the CPR doll was like, and he seemed interested in it. 

“Interesting. Even if it is a worldwide known face, it still is unrecognisable from anyone?” Yuu nodded 

“Okay, since you named the doll Annie, you better treat her like a gentleman.” Crewel snarked.

Deuce sobbed and took out his handkerchief, covering the doll’s face with it. Grim just patted his hand awkwardly while Ace was busy filming this scene. 

Crewel sighed and called for them to change after repairing the doll with a wave of his whip. 

For the next round, Ace decided to go next. Unfortunately, he also caused Annie to die. 

The entire time, Yuu was looking at him with a look of disgust and he asked why. 

“Why were you twerking. You weren’t even pumping anything, you were just using Annie as a stabler instead.” Ace blushed and shouted, 

“Does it look like I know how to do CPR?!” 

Yuu just glanced at Grim who was busy recording Ace’s technique with their shared phone and told him to show the video of Ace doing the CPR. Ace shouted at them to delete it, trying to snatch their phone, but Grim immediately uploaded it to social media, the same thing that Ace did to Deuce.

Knowing that it was of no use now, he gave up and told Yuu to do it since they know so much about it. 

“Well, actually, I do.” Yuu told him haughtily and told him to move so they can demonstrate. Ace scooted over and decided to pull out his phone once more to record Yuu and laugh at them if they failed. 

“Begin!’

The time started and the entire time, Yuu kept the same pace and the monitor was kept at the same pace. 

Ace noted that they were muttering something beneath their breath and asked what they were singing. Immediately, the volume became loud and he regret it once more due to the attention Yuu brought to them. 

“- I save dick by giving it CPR

I save dick by giving it CPR (Yes)

Put my mouth on it like CPR

Let's make porn and watch it on VCR.” Crewel’s head spun to them in horrification, especially since Yuu sang in a breathy tone, and the video immediately cuts off. 

“What was that?” The four of them were sitting on their knees right in front of Professor Crewel. 

“Fngaa…” Grim complained, not being able to do anything even if he didn’t do anything except record. 

“That was the CPR song in my world.” Yuu muttered.

“What?!” Crewel’s voice became high-pitched in his shock. 

“Yeah, it’s name is CPR. Well, it’s one of the songs in my world that has the right beat to do the CPR….” 

“Right, is there an alternative song?” Crewel rubbed his temples in annoyance. Yuu looked up to the ceiling in order to properly recall what songs there were and opened their mouth. 

“Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive-” 

“-No. Next.” The song was dark and morbid. That wasn’t what anyone wanted in that type of situation even in desperation.

“Uhhhhh…..” Ace nudged Yuu to hurry and quickly think of something as he didn’t want to kneel any longer. 

“Oh no, not I. I will survi -”

“ Next .” Crewel ordered with his teeth gritted and his veins popping. 

Yuu immediately changed in panic and it was a lyricless song. The Imperial March. 

“Are you joking? Seriously?”

“Uh, Um. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. I know the perfect thing.” Yuu took a deep breath before using their hands to demonstrate.

“Since the disaster last time. I have consulted with Mx. Yuu and they have shown me a different song after numerous attempts.” Crewel’s hands were covering his face. The class didn’t know what his emotions currently were and so the class was dead silent. 

Crewel’s hands clenched in rage before relaxing. He looked away and demonstrated on the beat. 

“Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

Baby shark!” 

The class was silent and horrified. 

Crewel finally looked at the class properly and saw that Grim, on top of Yuu’s head, had recorded what he had done and proceeded to upload it to social media. 

“NO!”

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Sometimes, Yuu’s mind went to places that nobody would have thought in this world. However, it was something that some might have thought back in their world. For example, Dendrophyllia was something noted in the Alchemy Textbook they were using. 

Yuu gazed at it and made a comment about it out loud.

“Huh, Dendophyllia….” 

Ace looked up to them to inquire about it.

“Nah, it just reminds me of like, necrophilia, paedophilia. Makes me think that it may be a tentacle. Plant-based.” Ace’s face looked at them in disgust.

“ Why would you suddenly think of that!??!? ” He hissed at them. Yuu looked at him and shrugged. They pointed furiously at the word on their textbook in defence.

“It’s the phyllia! Anybody would think something of it!” 

“No one would! It’s only you!”

“Dude, do you not even know dendrophilia? The difference is just the y and the i. Its-” 

“I don’t want to hear anything about it!” Ace shouted in frustration. 

“Mr. Trappola. Please see me after class.” Ace glared at them, before sinking down onto his seat. 

“Whoop.”

“Hummmmm. Mhhhh. Huhhhhh.” 

The collar around Ace’s neck. It seemed a bit sus.

“What?” Ace was sulking as he literally did a ‘run-away-from-home-because-I’m-upset-and-I'm-not-going-to-come-back’ kind of thing.

“Oh nothing.” They weren’t close and they were probably never going to be close. The words in Yuu’s head probably shouldn’t be blurted out and should be kept in their head…. Probably. 

After all, there wasn’t a promise about pointing out the Heartslabyul’s Dorm Leader’s possible collar kink to Ace. After all, Riddle-senpai now has a lot of different things about him on top of his mommy-issues. That rose whip? The orders that he is absolute? Yeah, a whole lot of cake right there.

Yuu stayed on the bed of the clinic, having been exhausted from being knocked out by Grim’s disk. Now that everything is in the past right now, Yuu could think back to the Leona-senpai’s overblot incident. Yuu looked at the group that was surrounding Leona’s clinic bed because of his nephew, Cheka.

Cheka was bouncing on top of Leona despite him complaining about his injuries, but even then, Leona didn’t really do anything to stop him. 

Ace and Ruggie were teasing Leona about it, who growled at them in warning. But despite this, the two of them continued to annoy him while catering to the child’s whim.

Deuce didn’t know what to do with Cheka, so he only stood nervously off to the side, but fretted a bit since Cheka was being very rowdy that he was afraid that he might possibly slip and fall. But what he didn’t know was that, despite the complaints and the threats that Leona was making towards his nephew, he had a steady arm on Cheka….

The arm that was used to lift Ruggie-senpai in the air by the neck…..

Yuu snorted, ‘Choking kink, maybe'.

Ruggie had a cold feeling, shuddering unconsciously and looked back at Yuu, rubbing his neck in an uncomfortable way. Whatever it was they thought, he didn’t like it.

Tentacles. Glorious tentacles.

“Huh, Dendrophilia, but isn’t plant-based.” Yuu stated seriously, despite the destruction that an overblotted Azul was causing.

“SHUT UP AND HELP!” Ace screamed as he knew the context of it. 

Those who weren’t in the know were curious, but shut up about it as they were after all, in a place that had no time for that type of conversation, despite what Yuu was doing.

When Azul has calmed down and was embarrassed about his past and all, Yuu decided to chime in.

“But I think you’re hot though. You would be pretty popular in my world. Very, very popular.” Yuu chirped. “The beauty mark is also a plus that makes you super gorgeous.”

Azul, who was confused at the sudden straight attack, blinked in confusion and mortification. He wasn’t used to genuine compliments that he was taken aback. 

Ace smacked Yuu in mortification and decided to help Azul out by pulling Yuu away from him. 

“No. We are not going down that road at all.”

“But I’m telling the truth! His features, both merman and human, would be like super popular in my world that they even have it called Ter-”

“NO!”

Ace and Deuce ran towards where Yuu was, playing happily in the waters of the Oasis. Yuu nearly cried when they actually came and sacrificed their time to come running to help them. Kalim was using his magic to entertain his fellow dormmates, including Jamil who was on standby near him. 

Yuu spotted the Octavinelle Trio over to where the shades were mostly at, with Jade and Floyd in the waters while Azul was sitting on the sands. Ace, Deuce and Grim, noticing that Yuu was heading towards where nobody would ever dare to go because of the fishy mafia gang, decided to follow them.

Yuu sat down on the sand next to Azul who just glanced at them, phone in hand. 

"Ah, is that the recording of the Live?" Yuu pasted their cheeks onto Azul's bicep in order to see more of it. 

"Yes, while I did go on Live, Jade was the one who recorded on his phone so we can get a closer look at the reaction."

Hearing about this, Ace, Deuce and Grim decided to crowd around him in order to better see it. Jade and Floyd laughed and decided to get into the dry lands with their wet bodies, which prompted complaints due to how the water was now seeping through.

As the live went on, Yuu popped up as they had a question at the very beginning.

“Are snakes considered tentacles?”

“No.”

“Is he wearing a fishnet? Wait, that’s hot.”

“Yuu, shut up for once in your life!”

“What do you mean by fishnets? That doesn’t seem like it will capture any fish.” 

“Azul-senpai, whatever you do, do not ask Yuu. Fishnet stockings is called that since it resembles one.”

“The beard tattoo is kind of gross.”

“Is that a tattoo or is it real?” 

“Nyaha! Why does he need that?”

“Not you too, Deuce. Grim”

“Hehe, Jade. Shrimpy’s funny.”

“Waiiit, do you think that he has a dom kink?” 

“Shut up!!!”

The VDC was a success, yet also a failure and it was all because it was Rook’s fault. Everyone except Jamil and Kalim was currently gathered in the Ramshackle dorm, packing up to go back to their respective dorms and rooms as the VDC has ended and thus, they have no more practice anymore. 

Jamil and Kalim had left early because Jamil ran away and Kalim left after him, so it was only them currently in Ramshackle. Yuu stared at the visage of Vil’s back and decided to comment.

“Vil-senpai.”

“Yes, Potato?”

“It may be too soon, but your overblot outfit was pretty cool. You slayyed.”

“Was it? Thank you. I suppose that even if I overblotted, I still have to retain my looks.”

“What’s slay?” Deuce asked.

“A word people use when someone is hot and smexy-” “What’s-” “ Smexy means smoking hot mixed with sexy.”

“Oh.”

“Well, We all better pack up as quick as possible, and Epel. I expect you to come to Pomefiore before 4pm.”

“Yes, Dorm Leader.”

Vil picked up his bags and left out the dorm. 

“Now that I think about it, his outfit, while it rocked on him, it reminded me of an iron maiden…”

“Iron maiden?”

“Yeah, it’s a medieval torture device back in my world.” Yuu explained in detail to a fascinated Epel who had asked. 

“Oh la la!” 

“Do you think that Vil-senpai has a BDSM kink?”

“NOOOOO.”

Ace was fed up with Yuu. He wasn’t supposed to be the straight man. He was supposed to be the party in the friend group, but he supposed that it wasn’t possible due to Yuu being a world traveller and that nothing about them should be normal.

By now, he recognises Yuu’s thoughts just before they blurt them out. Deuce and Grim were clueless like a baby and any dirty thoughts that Yuu would have would just pass over them, and Yuu wouldn’t explain further regarding it, which was good. 

But not good for him as the image is now permanently stuck in his mind. 

He glanced at the Prefect who was glancing at Leona-senpai and Malleus Draconia arguing with each other as they butted heads with each other in aggression.

“Enemies-to-lovers, slowburn. Hey, Ace. Who do you think would top? I think that it’s-”

Ace whimpered as he closed his ears and eyes, trying to hide away from the world and from Yuu. Why did he even understand?

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“What’s wrong with Yuu?” Deuce chewed on omelette rice while watching his friend clutch their head and stare into the table with wide eyes. 

“Existential Crisis."  Grim answered uncaringly, having gone through multiple sessions of Yuu having a mental breakdown because of culture shock.

“What is it about this time?” Ace rolled his eyes, taking a bite out of his chicken gumbo as he chewed on it gustily. 

Yu slowly raised their head, looking into nothing but everything, as their mind worked like a browser page, with multiple windows divided into four sections and multiple tabs open at the same time. 

“Ace. Deuce. Grim.” Yuu uttered. “I just realised. Furries and scalies exist . Do you know what that means??????” 

Ace cringed and decided to put on his earphones to tune out, gesturing for Deuce and Grim to do the same because once Yuu gets into a rant, it gets more graphic and confusing. 

“It means they can lay fucking eggs ! Eggs! There’s fucking egg-laying trope, and with the furries, that means there’s the bulge at the end. Like, how many tropes are there that have to exist just because Twisted Wonderland’s a fucking fantasy realm as compared to my old boring world with just science that is not as advanced enough, nor is it mythical enough.” Yuu furiously gestured as they explained what they meant, signing quite literally at each and every emphasis. 

Ace didn’t want to know what the fist Yuu made was nor does he want to look. He decided to zone out and scroll through his phone, slamming the volume out to drown out Yuu’s rants. 

“I don’t care about knots because they’re the equivalent to anal beads, but you know? Eggs? That’s one heck of a thing I’d like to explore. Because yeah, if mpreg exists with alchemy and potions and all, along with tentacles because of bontanistry or what ever you call growing magical bean stalk and screaming gingsengs,” Yuu pointed at their fingers to count, before throwing their hands away exaggeratingly, ”Then it shouldn’t matter on dudes having the eggs because you can literally grow a safe space for the egg or just like a womb, you know?”

“Meanwhile, women. Oh my god, how do they even survive with the egg trope? Because those eggs, once laid, then they need to be inseminated. However, even if the egg is laid inside, then what about the eggs that they already have? Does that mean that the egg and the egg exists together alongside each other? Would it mean that you create an Irish Baby? However months apart? Because the egg comes out, right? To get incubated another way just like every egg does. But what about the egg that you already have that has been fertilised? I can’t believe I’m ranting about a fucking egg-laying trope, but since it apparently exists in real life, I sure want to know the answer to MY FUCKING QUESTION!” Yuu slammed their head onto the table, gripping tightly onto their hair as they stared into nothing. 

“It’s going to be difficult for the woman to give birth separately because the egg definitely have to be incubated in the womb, but when one wants to come early for another set of incubation, then wouldn’t it hurt? Because you have the other baby in you as well??? Does that mean you have to get some magical C-section or something?” 

Away from the table, you can even hear some people having questions about the methods of childbirth, a startling start to an existential crisis.

“Somebody…please stop the prefect.” A beastman cried, clutching his ears tightly to his head, trying to drown out Yuu’s voice.

“Why does it always happen in the cafeteria. Do your own existential crisis in your dorm.” A Scarabia student wailed.

“Is this why the rules only state that you have 15 minutes? So you don’t get into an existential crisis?” A Heartslabyul student was numb. He couldn’t feel pain anymore. He just stared into the same realm of nothingness Yuu had looked into. 

“Ohya? Looks like someone needs answers?” Lilia popped near Yuu, laughing as he heard their rants. It was an exciting soliloquy, and if they needed answers, then why not this old man informs them?

Twisting their back, Yuu stared blankly at Lilia and grabbed onto the lapels on his blazer, stared dead straight into Lilia’s eyes and nodded.

“Not even mock google research can tell me about it,” Yuu informed.

“I do not know what you mean by ‘mock’ google research, but if you wish to explore with that question, why not test it out with Mal- I mean, Tsunotaro, in the future?” Lilia giggled. “I’ve at each moment did want grandkids.”

“Wait, why?”

“He’s a dragon.”

Yuu’s eyes perked up, finally seeing the light in their eyes. “Dayum, teratophillia Dragon fucker. That’s going to be my title if I ever was to tell the people from my world. I. AM. DONKEY!” Yuu cackled, half joking because, in their mind, that would actually be an accomplished achievement that they bet nobody but them in their world could ever achieve. 

However, they were sure they were not the first, nor were they the last person to ever isekai into a different fantasy world. 

“Eh, but I need answers, Lilia. Yes or no in the fertilising both eggs?” 

“Who knows? That might be something you would have to explore in the future.” Lilia popped away, disappearing into who knows where. 

“Did he just volunteer him to-...” 

“Oh, I thought you were ignoring me.”

Ace ripped out his earphones in frustration. 

“So you know that I’m ignoring you, so why do you keep on ranting about unnecessary things!”

“It’s not unnecessary! It’s an important question because, news flash, Ace! I’m not a native person in this country, and there hasn’t been any research about it, so of course I had to ask the question! Who wouldn’t?” 

“I wouldn’t! Deuce wouldn’t! All of the people in this cafeteria wouldn’t! You and your stupid questions are unneeded!” Ace yelled, his voice cracking in teary frustration because he didn’t want to lose his only remaining brain cells!

“You don’t have to be mean! Sure, this question is probably not asked in my world, but because my world is super boring and we have researched lots of interesting but stupid things to the point we have an award ceremony for it, of course, we would make up theories on something that only exists in fantasy! This is a fantasy world to me! I don’t have magic because my world lives on science!” Yuu protested.

“What the fuck , why do you need to have such a useless thing if that ceremony made your mind because of your world messed up!”

“It’s like a Schrodinger’s Cat theory! Does it exist, or does it not?”

“Don’t you fucking dare bring the cat into this! It didn’t do anything wrong for it to be used by you!” Ace lunged at Yuu, who screamed, backing up into Grim and Deuce, seated right next to them. 

“Huh? What?”  “What’re you doing!”

Ace grabbed Yuu’s hair while Yuu bit on Ace’s arms to get him off them. They rolled out of the bench, with Ace landing on the floor first. Yuu wrestled against Ace’s arms and legs as they fought to restrain the mouthy Prefect. Yuu slammed his head against Ace’s jaw, and while it hurt, Ace did the same while in pain.

“YUU! ACE! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!” 

Collars slammed on Yuu’s and Ace’s necks, and a furiously red Riddle came running at them and dragged them to the Heartslabyul dorm for a good scolding. Trey followed behind to help Riddle, but it looked like he got it. 

Deuce and Grim followed behind meekly, with Grim's ears flat on his head, muttering how unfair it was. 

Despite being dragged back to Heartslabyul, Ace and Yuu kept fighting and pushing each other until Riddle bonked them over their heads did they let him silently drag him back into the dorm. 

Riddle made both of them sit on their knees as he scolded them both furiously. Ace, feeling as if it was unfair, burst into tears.

“Dorm head!! I didn’t do anything! It was all Yuu!!” Ace whined, literal tears coming out from his eyes. He sobbed and wiped his tears with his arms. 

“I didn’t do anything! I didn’t!”

Riddle stared at him in panic, not knowing what to do as they were usually hard-headed. Ace never cried. 

“Haha, you made him cry.” 

“Shut! UpPP! It’s because of YOU, YOU STUPID DUMB HEAD!”

“Yeah! It’s all because of you, you stupid ugly face!”  Grim stared at Yuu, daring them to say something.

“Don’t do it anymore, otherwise, I’m actually going back to being a gangster if it gets me away from you.” Deuce slapped his hands over his face, trying to also not to cry, partly because he was also frustrated and partly because he was a sympathetic crier. 

“Maa maa, why don’t we calm down? Ace, here.” Trey tried calming down the 1st years and RIddle, handing Ace a tissue. 

“It’s not my fault!” Ace wept. Trey just collected Ace into his arms and let Ace cry on his shoulder while patting Deuce on his head. 

“Prefect.” Trey gave a look of scolding to Yuu, who felt guilty. “I know you have some questions, but let’s not ask them until everyone is old enough yet. I know you are more mature, but there are some that are still innocent.” 

“Not a baby.” Ace muttered, but he didn’t back away from Trey at all.

“Sorry…” Yuu muttered.

“If you have any questions, you can just write in a notebook. It can be your research topic in the future if you have any questions you can’t find on the net. That is, if you still are stuck here.” Trey sympathetically said. That made Riddle realise this was also part of the Prefect’s homesickness case. Someone stuck in a world that was not their own, away from their own families and friends. A culture that was entirely different from theirs. Fashion trends, brands, phone applications, and even education. 

They came into a different world without any knowledge of how, couldn’t contact anyone, and was stuck here in this world until who knows when, only coming here even without their clothes on their back. They lived in a dorm called Ramshackle , didn’t have magic in a world of magic, and basically lived in poverty as that Headmaster couldn’t do anything but the bare minimum. 

He cleared his throat to try and stop feeling guilty.

“Prefect, I know that you miss home and have all these questions, but sometimes, even this world doesn’t have the questions you seek. You have been saying things about your home, and we are sorry we didn’t notice your homesickness.” Riddle put his hands on Yuu’s shoulders, gripping them in reassurance.

“If you need anything, do not hesitate as you are practically one of Heartslabyul.”

Yuu felt touched but was also a bit tad confused. But because Riddle doesn’t give a lot of compliments, they felt touched so they concentrated on that part.  

“Dorm head!!”

“Yuu! I’m so sorry! I’m a bad friend! I didn’t notice that you miss your home and have been trying to share with us!” Deuce gripped his hands, bowing in apology. 

“Heh?”

“Oh, Yuu. If you were feeling lonely, you could have come over to the dorm at anytime. I would have baked you something nostalgic if you want.”

Ace sniffed loudly and long. He turned around to face Yuu with splotchy red eyes and a runny nose. 

“Sorry.” He muttered. “I know you miss your world, and your family. And unlike you, we can visit home at any time.” He sniffed once more. “As long as you don’t do stupid rants like that….” He mumbled and looked away before opening his arms towards Yuu.

“Make-up hug?”

Yuu’s tried not to cry and slammed into the hug, bringing Deuce and Grim into it. Riddle and Trey also joined the hug as they were proud of their juniors for making up.

It was a warm and fluffy moment between all, having their friendship stronger and healthier than ever as Yuu sometimes talked about their world and the differences between it. The trio would carefully explain things to Yuu, but nudge Yuu into doing research by themselves after promising not to go into another ‘existential crisis’.

All in all, Yuu didn’t actually know why they started feeling bad for them. Still, as their goal was made, they actually decided to do research about it, seeing as they were permanently stuck in Twisted Wonderland. 

Their research into things made inter-species couple boom as they now know more about each other and whether or not it was safe for them even to have children. That was usually one of the major problems for hybrid children and how they would grow into the future after their conceptions.

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Time flies by quickly when one is having fun without anyone realising it. On their last period, class ended early, so they were allowed out of the classroom only as long as they returned to their dorm. 

Grim and Yuu returned to their dorm but with two extras: Ace and Deuce. 

They sat in the common room, hanging out like typical teenagers at someone's place. 

Ace laughed as he leaned backwards on his hands, his vision spying on an old grandfather's clock not far from where they were as he tried to catch an eye on the hands of the clock. 

"Hey Yuu, is that clock accurate?" Ace looked at the device that was old as time. No matter how much Yuu tried to clean and polish it, it still showed its age. Old and weary, but it was still stained gold and rustic wood. The golden pendulum swung back and forth with every second that ticked on the clock.

"Nah, didn't I tell you a few days ago? The clock broke and now it's slower for about 30 minutes."

Ace's eyes bulged open as he screamed and ran towards his school bag. His heart lurched in panic, feeling it drop with dread and fear as he scrambled onto his feet to get up and start packing up the things he scattered around once he reached the lounge. 

"Oh shit! I forgot it was my turn on the Flamingo duties!" 

"Ace! Doesn't the Dormhead come to the garden at precisely 5pm for his daily tea routine?" 

"I DON'T hAVE PINK!" 

The panic was undeniably raw in its truest form. Ace would have his head cut off. He was going to get squashed into a littler form than the Dormhead himself. 

"I'm gone. I'm dead." Ace had no life in him anymore. This timeline had abandoned him to be left for dead. God isn't with him now. He had been left astray like a puppy, having been kept in a cardboard box and left outside in the rain. 

"Hmmm, I think we have a pink somewhere..." Yuu mused, an idea sparked in their mind. Grim looked at Yuu, a lightbulb clicking as he understood what  Yuu might be thinking about pink. Unfortunately, he didn't pick up on the fact that Yuu was going to make trouble for Ace. After all, Yuu had talked about trying to make tie-dye clothes as an experiment. 

"You need pink! I think we have pink somewhere!" Grim piped up, knowing how scary Riddle can be. He dragged Deuce to run along with him, leaving Yuu to help Ace quickly pack his things up, as he tends to throw his things once he settles. 

"Ace! I got the pink!" Deuce had a bright grin on his face. Eyes sparkling with excitement, like a puppy running happily through the fields. Ace paled in realisation. 

"WAI- NO STOP!!"

"Has there been any problem with the order?" Riddle asked Trey and Cater as they walked back to the dorm, taking notes on what needed to be done for the next UnBirthday Party in the next two days. The roses are currently being painted red, the dormouse has been fed, and the ingredients for the tea party have been prepared. All that was there to it was making sure everyone was being in an orderly manner. 

"Currently, there's no problem for now. All I need to do is make the tarts, or maybe a roll cake would be fine?" Trey mused. After the incident that concerned with Riddle overblotting, he has been avoiding making anything that has to do with chestnuts. 

"Ah, but I can make savoury version of a roll cake for you, Cater." 

"Really~? Thank you, Trey-kun!" Cater cheered. 

"There's been no~ problem on my side!" Cater's duties, even if he wasn't a vice, was to make sure that the students would know and be reminded of their duties. Unofficially, he's considered the reinforcer because Riddle said he was good at connecting with other students and empathised better with them. Well, it wasn't a big of a deal since he's always taken on this role even before Riddle went cray-cray. 

Just then, Cater spotted a red mop of hair, the only thing he could see as the bushes were hiding everything except the top of the head, usually, with how tall the hedges were. 

"Hey, isn't that Ace-kun?" Cater pointed out. "Ace-kun!" He waved his hand. 

Ace turned around and saw them, and the look of 'oh shit' on his face was incredibly visible, making all of them suspicious that he had done something wrong. Riddle frowned deeply, thinking about what else Ace might have done this time. Cater was trying to stifle his laugher while Trey tried thinking what Ace was currently doing to hide evidence.

"Oh, wasn't he in charge of the Flamingoes today? Let's go and say hi.:" The three of them went around the bush, only to spot Ace behind one of the larger flamingoes that made them hide his frame. 

Riddle stomped up to Ace, only to have his mouth hang open at the utter audacity happening right before him. 

Ace was wearing casual clothes that weren't pink. No, no. He had on casual clothes that were painted pink.

The paint wasn't even painted on properly, and it looked like someone had splashed a bucket of pink paint on him. The paint was still wet, by the looks of it dripping on the grass. There was even a trail of it that he didn't realise until he looked down. 

Cater bursted out laughing while taking multiple photos, with Trey just holding his head in exasperation. 

"OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"

"IT'S NOT EVEN MY FAULTTTT!!!!"

"LOL! #Pink #DyedPinkFlamingoAttire."

"Riddle-kun, Riddle-kun. We painted our white rose red; why don't we even paint our clothes that we use to tend the flamingoes pink? It's fair that way, and that way, everyone gets a set of pink clothes!" Cater beamed. Riddle immediately turned red in anger, stomping on his feet with a furious face.

"NO! I REFUSE THAT NOTION! ACE! I WILL EXCUSE YOUR TEMPORARY ABSENCE IN TAKING CARE OF THE FLAMINGO AS LONG AS YOU GO AND CHANGE INTO A PROPER ATTIRE AT THIS INSTANCE!!!!"

"SIR YES SIR!" As if being chased by the devil, Ace hightailed to the dorm in order to try and avoid his dorm head's fury by trying to be out of sight and out of view. Trey sighed in exasperation. 

"Riddle, you should take things easy."

"If I take things easy, that thing might happen again!" Riddle huffed. 

"But there never is a day that doesn't go without an incident because of the trio."

"Haha! It's either Grim-chan or Deuce-kun!"

"I think that it might be Deuce."

"Eh~ I think that work of art may be Grim!" Cater pouted before brightening, "I know. Let's make a bet! If I'm right, make me a quiche!"

"Cater. Trey. It's not good for you to make bets. It's improper." Riddle scolded before making a large sigh. "What makes you think that the instigator wasn't the Prefect in the first place?"

"Ahhhh."

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Whatever they call Japanese here in Twisted Wonderland, Yuu struggles with it. Japanese was not their first, nor was it their second. They may be Japanese, but they could barely understand it. 

They were always placed in an international school, and to go from that to practically a national school??? WHERE ALL THE PEOPLE SPOKE JAPANESE?

English was dead to Twisted Wonderland, and all they had was who’s German, whatever French, Wherever Greek, when’s what, and why’s it. They also had Chinese, whom they called the ‘Far East’ or something. Yuu thought that was meant to be Japan, but whatever. 

Like, wow. This must be a world where the English didn’t rule. 

English in Twisted Wonderland was something that was like Latin back in Yuu’s world. Something spooky and mysterious, something that was bound to summon some demons or some sort of suspicious voodoo hoodoo. 

Wasn't there Alice in Wonderland? That was British, wasn't it? How was there no English when there was that? Princess and the Frog based in New Orleans???? 

Yuu hated the fact that whenever someone told something to them, they would always stop them -even mid lectures- in order to ask for the kanji. When they gave it, they would always think of the kanjis that said person gave in order to understand the meaning. 

Yuu could understand the kanjis, but it doesn’t mean that they could read them at all. With the kanjis, it was easy to understand what the word means, but having to read it out loud? HELL NO.

Whenever Yuu was told to speak a sentence out from the textbook, they always struggled so hard at it that it had people snicker at their incompetence. Ugh, just another fact to be mocked at, other than HAVING NO MAGIC. 

Yuu grumpily kicked at a random stone in the road, their friends once more arguing and making a large crowd-pulling fuss. 

Kanji SUCKED! JAPANESE SUCKED!! EVEN CHINESE WAS EASIER TO LEARN BECAUSE EVEN WITH ALL THE STROKES AND ALL, YOU DON’T NEED ONE HUNDRED MILLION WAYS TO LEARN HOW TO READ THE KANJIS!

It's similar to English like how refuse and refuse were TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. SEAN AND BEAN!? Yuu was thankful that English was their first language if they had that, but ANOTHER LANGUAGE THAT REQUIRES BULLSHIT?

“-!”

“--!!” 

“Yuu!!” Yuu snapped out of their sulking to pay attention. They don’t ever really bother to pay attention when people are speaking in Japanese, sometimes . English is English; they would always process it no matter what. But Japanese is impossible to process. 

“監督生!!! 聞いている？ まあ、いい。とにかく、エースが言ってたんだけど、錬金術テストの14番で「人魚の涙」が書いていたのよ。でも、僕は「トカゲのあご」。”

(Prefect!!! Are you listening? Well, whatever. Anyway, Ace was saying that in the Alchemy Test number 14, it mentioned 'Mermaid's tears.' But I chose 'Lizard's Jaw.')

“ははは！デュースは馬鹿だよね！それはもちろん「人魚の涙」でさ！”

(Hahaha! Deuce, you're such a fool! Of course, it's 'Mermaid's tears!')

“だって！それが材料を大釜の中に入れたときに散らからないからって理由だったんだ。監督生、君はどっち選んだの？”

(Because! The reason was that it prevents the ingredients from scattering when you put them into the cauldron. Prefect, which one did you choose?)

“にゃははは！ 馬鹿だね、お前たち！俺様は「バッタの足」って書いた！”

(Hahaha! You guys are idiots! I wrote 'Grasshopper's legs!')

“ばーーーかかお前は？「バッターの足」は飛ぶ効果になるでしょ！”

(Are you crazy? 'Grasshopper's leg' gives a jumping effect!)

“ふなああ！！！”

(Fgnaa!/ Dang it!!)

Yuu just stood there with a look of full concentration, wanting to give up, but they knew that their friends were asking a question. They wanted to cry, they wanted just to be the ones looking at TikTok at people’s experiences in Japan when they used either of the dog memes that had a huge look of confusion on their faces.

“.....アイ・オブ・ニュート.....だって、あれは..umm, what do you call stabilising agent in Japanese?” Yuu mumbled, trying to find the right words for it. Ace and Deuce stared at each other while Grim had a huge look of panic at them, tugging on their pants. 

“なああ、そうじゃないでしょ???”

(Hey…it’s not that right???)

Despite Yuu being slow in Japanese, they worked hard in order to understand the lesson plans, often ending up having two notebooks. One to take notes in class, the other to translate back at the dorm so they could understand. They were thankful that all of the Professors were helpful because they’ve always had “asshole” students (Yuu forgot the exact Japanese word they used, and Yuu’s head automatically only remembered the translated words), so they liked Yuu’s diligence as a student. 

So, while Yuu might have gotten it right, unlike them, sometimes, Yuu takes too long to understand what the question is telling them; thus, they didn’t know if Yuu was right or not. 

“それじゃあ、テストが返ってくるのを待つしかない？” 

(Then we can only wait until the test has been returned?

They hung their heads in defeat on Deuce’s words. 

“あ！安定剤！Eye of Newt は安定剤！”

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Yuu was very affectionate. That fact was true. But Ace and Deuce were not used to the amount of skinship that Yuu gave them.

They try to reciprocate with a shoulder brush, lean towards them, or do little harmless things like being around them. But with Yuu, if you give an inch, they will take a mile.

Yuu likes to hold hands with them, firmly with their hands tightly tangled around fingers, cuddling, hugging, and leaning into them. Ace and Deuce weren’t used to it.

So, of course, Yuu often goes to the number 1 person who doesn’t mind if they did anything to them. Tsunotaro.

Yuu happily sat on Tsunotaro’s lap, squishing and playing around with his hands.

“YUUU!!!!”

Yuu screamed as their legs got dragged; their head only barely got saved by Tsunotaro’s hands as Ace and Deuce dragged them by their legs. Grim landed roughly on Yuu’s stomach to catch a ride, making Yuu grunt at his weight.

When the both of them came to a halt, Yuu realised that they ended up in their homeroom and that their legs had been released for them to get up.

“I DON’T HAVE ANYONE TO BE AFFECITONATE WITH!”

“WHAT ABOUT US! WHAT ABOUT EVERYTHING WE’VE BEEN THROUGH!”

“DEUCE GETS ALL BLUSHY, AND ACE WOULD ALWAYS TRY AND HIDE HIS EMBARRASSMENT BY BEING ANNOYING!!” Yuu screamed back, holding Grim, who was smug, in their arms because even Yuu was very affectionate with them.

“Huh…you’re right. Juicy always gets red whenever you try to hold his hands.”

“Hey, stop dodging yourself. Whenever Yuu holds your hand, you always try to pretend they’re not holding yours.”

“Does it have to be him, though? Is it only him?”

“Ummmm, yessss???????”

So, looking through their own bag that they left in the classroom to eat lunch, Yuu took out their large pencil box that held anything that interested Yuu and a post-it note.

Yuu drew on the blackboard an alignment category

Blushy                No                Maybe                Yes

“Look, if I categorise Deuce, he would be completely on the blushy side.”

Yuu took out a blue pen to draw a quick rough sketch of Deuce and paste it on the board. Then, they took out a red pen to draw Ace.

“You’re like, in between the blushy and no category. So there. I can’t do the same as you. MEANWHILE!”

Yuu took out a black pen, drew Tsunotaro, and pasted him right directly into the yes category. Yuu didn’t bother drawing a face for it and, with no hesitation, just wrote ‘Tsuno’ on it.

“TSUNOTARO SAYS YES!! NO HESITATION! HE AIN’T AFRAID OF THE BROSHIP, UNLIKE YOU LOSERS!”

“HAHHHH!?!? YOU WANNA FIGHT!?”

“I’LL SHOW YOU ‘LOSERS’!”

Grim screamed to show dominance that he wasn’t the only one not screaming.

“Wait, what about others?” Ace drew a quick sketch of Riddle.

“Are you sure you should be drawing that?”

“You’re going to get off-ed.”

“Not if you don’t say anything about it.”

“But anyways, where do you think Dorm Head would be placed?”

Yuu silently took the offered piece on the ‘Blushy category’.

“Isn’t the Roseheart-Dorm Head in the ‘no’?”

“Aren’t we talking about me?”

“Eesh, don’t flatter yourself.”

Deuce took the initiative to draw Vil. He took out a purple pen to draw and just used a yellow highlight to indicate his blond hair. Ace and Yuu could only watch in horror as he drew.

“You’re going to get killed!”

“I don’t know how to draw!!!” Deuce protested as he slammed the Post-it onto the ‘No’ category directly.

The three of them then proceeded to draw whoever came to mind. Grim wasn’t able to hold a pen to draw as he usually struggles with writing, much less drawing, so he just cheered and laughed at the lack of creativity from the trio but ended up creating one as he felt it was unfair. So, the four ended up making different people on the Post-its.

Deuce: Vil, Rook, Jade, Floyd, Silver, Leona and Ruggie

Ace: Riddle, Jack, Azul, Epel, Cater, Sebek, and Jamil

Yuu: ADeuce, Tsunotaro, Kalim, Ortho, Lilia, Trey, and Idia.

Grim: Himself and Yuu.

Ace and Yuu took a glance at Deuce’s drawing and burst out in laughter, with Ace pointing out at one of the drawings. Yuu looked at Jade and Floyd’s drawing with a look of scepticism as if a Deja Vu was occurring where they had actually seen this before.

“Omg, I can’t believe you just drew Phineas and Ferb.”

“MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHO IS THIS?!?!?” It was just a drawing of a brown egg with curly hair beside it.

“I can’t draw a braid!” Deuce weakly defended.

It took a while for them to get, but Yuu burst out, “THAT’S LEONA-SENPAI?!??!”

“Deuce, you’re doing so bad! You should do this!” Grim took hold of the pen that was used to draw Leona and directly wrote [おじたん] (Ojitan)  on the face.

The three of them stared at Grim for the sheer balls he had for this. No fear of death during that moment.

“Well, whatevers. We going to categorise them?”

“Sebek with 'Waka-sama' on his face, lol”

“Thank you, I worked very hard on his spiky what's that hair”

“Why does Grim look like he has blue ear hair coming out of his ears?”

“IT’S MY BLUE FLAMES, YOU WANNA BE ORANGE!”

“SCREW YOU!”

“SHAARRUPP!!!”

As Yuu slowly categorise them to sort it out in their opinion, Deuce blurted out, “What do you mean that Ashengrotto-senpai is in Blushy!??!”

“Ah, I tried it. I also asked Jade-senpai and Floyd-senpai to do it. There’s a reason why Floyd teases him to be a boiled octopus: because he turns really, and I mean really really red. Almost as red as Riddle-Dorm Head.”

“That’s really red.”

When Yuu was done categorising, the four of them stepped back to look at their masterpiece.

“Ew, Grim, why did you make me like that?”

“It’s because you’re ugly.”

“Screw you”

Grim only blew Yuu the raspberry.

Ace took a picture of it and sent it to their group chat in order for them to view it in the future. Maybe as a test of some sort.

“Heh, I guess that despite Kalim-senpai being totally the ‘yes’, Jamil-senpai would drag him to the ‘no’.”

“OOOOhhhh, you don’t know the half of it and how pissy he can be. Kalim-senpai and I used to hug a lot and be suuuper affectionate, but Jamil-senpai told him to stop, because he’s pretending he’s not jealous but he totally is, but because Jamil-senpai told him to stop, Kalim stopped :(”

“Ah, no wonder Asim-senpai is hidden behind that….” Deuce snickered as he saw the Medusa form of Jamil.

“That flamey dude always tries to hug me despite him kidnapping me! I don’t like it!” Grim harrumphed.

“He’s strictly in the ‘no’ category for humans, hunny bunny.”

“I still don’t like it!”

“What about the Leechs?”

“Ew, no. I don’t want to die.”

“Touche”

“So what if we do it in general then?”

So Yuu drew an X and Y axis graph beside the previous category.

“If this was in general, then…”

“LOL! You can just cram Leona-senpai, Vil-senpai and Jamil-senpai to the corner.:

“I don’t know about Azul-senpai….He sounds like he’ll be a yes, but its only if there’s a benefit. But he can be super blushy, so I don’t know where to put him….” So Ace decided to take it out of Yuu’s hands and paste it where he thought it would be.

The four of them immediately tilted their heads in a thinking gesture.

“Maybe? I have no clue.”

Once they were finished, the four of them stepped back to see their masterpiece.

“Ahhh, beautiful.”

“Gorgeous.”

“WE ARE GREAT, HAHAHA!!”

“Amaz-Hey, aren’t we missing one more?” Deuce asked.

They all tried to see who was missing.

BANG

“Oui! I’m in the yes category!”

“A

Chapter Text

Yuu woke up to a sunny day next to her cat, Grim. She stretched her arms in bed, pushing out her chest, which was of average size in her opinion, to refresh herself. 

She got out of bed, her breast heaving as she sighed in relief that she didn’t wake up her cat. With just a pyjama shirt on that was fully unbuttoned so you could see the valley of her breast, peeking through the slit, and her cute pink underwear, she put on a robe to ensure her modesty. 

“Ah, what a beautiful morning! Time to get cleaning!” She proclaimed, hands on her child-bearing hips. It was a Saturday, meaning no school, so she had all the time to get ready! She had to start her day doing her chores. It was the usual routine she had since entering Night Raven College, the Greatest School for Magicians in the world!

As the Ramshackle dorm had been unused for around 100 years, she had so much stuff to do! She started by sweeping the floor and dusting furniture until everything was tidy. Then, to make the floors look newer, she started polishing and waxing them. 

All that was left was to mop so the floor could shine.

As Ramshackle is pretty old, she took out a large basin full of her laundry, placed it against her hips, which stood out against her waist, creating a beautiful hourglass figure, and went outside. 

“Ah, what a bright morning!” She said, covering her eyes underneath the sun. 

She placed the basin on the floor, akin to when someone places down their cute pet, her cute pink underwear showing as she bent down. She went towards the well and took out several buckets of water, singing how she wished her life would change for the better. 

Yuu placed the water into the basin and placed her dainty white feet into the basin full of laundry. She giggled as the more she stomped on it, the more bubbles formed underneath her. Her small petal-like feet were pink and shrivelled by the time she finished her laundry because the water wasn’t warm despite the warm weather. 

Once she finished with her laundry and hung it to dry,

After she finished all her morning chores, she decided to head back to her dorm to read books! All she had was the textbook provided by the school, and because she knew nothing about the world that was so different from hers, Twisted Wonderland, she studied it.

And despite that, only a little time has passed. 

So she decided to knit a scarf as well as bake a pie to kill more time. 

With her child-bearing hips and instincts to be a mother, everything she made turned out perfect. 

Yuu, having nothing else to do, decided to walk around campus, dressing up in a cuter dress, but as the wind blew, the frilly blue dress would lift to show her cute underwear to the boys in NRC. A small blessing and a tease to them as she frantically tries to cover it back. 

In a hurry, she accidentally bumps into Mobuo, who catches her in his arms by her thin waist. She bumps into him quite hard and nearly falls because she is a delicate being. He feels he can hold her in the palm of his hands because of how delicate and gentle she is in body and manner. 

“Are you okay?” Mobuo asked handsomely. Her ovaries quavered. Her womb had always ached for a future father for both of them to raise, and she finally found him. Her wish had come true! It had come for the better! She had always been bleeding just for him!

Her heart beat rapidly behind the hills of her chest, soft against the hardness of his pectorals and muscles. She looked up at him, ebony eyelashes quivering as she blinked in disbelief at how handsome he was. Her pupils widened like a full moon at night, where stars could only dream to outshine it.

“I’ve been looking for you for a long time!” She cried out. “My Prince!”

Mobuo and Yuu fell in love at first sight, knowing that their future children-”

“UHEEEHEEHEE! YUU-SHI! STAPHH! I’M GONNA PISS MYSELF!!!” Idia cackled, with tears streaming down his eyes. 

They were in a meeting for Dorm Heads only. Since Yuu was a Dorm Head — of Ramshackle— herself, she attended the meeting. The only reason why Idia, or more for the fact that everyone attended the meeting, was because of Yuu. While others typically attend the meeting, cryptids like Idia and Malleus were told specifically by Yuu to attend, with force or not. 

“How could you even read all this!?” Riddle was worried for the mental health of Yuu, especially since they were reading out this horrific filth that shouldn’t be for anyone!

“Who even wrote this!? It’s so…?” “Cringe?” Vil was, for once, at a loss for words, so Yuu popped out a suggestion.

“Well, whoever wrote this better not be from my dorm because that is extremely horrible!” Vil fumed.

“Could be from yours because your dorm specialises in these, don’t they?” Leona taunted, his tail swishing in amusement. 

“Well, it could be from your dorm because this is as inelegant and brutish as those in your dorm!” That tail stopped swishing and instead twitched in irk. That was a possibility because not everyone had…the brains for it.

“Who is Mobuo, anyways?” Kalim asked curiously.

“I have no clue. There was just M/N, but reading it out loud is kinda cringe so I just named it to a generic name that nobody would probably have because it basically means Mob Man.” 

“Why have you deign to inform this to us??? In this meeting???” Azul asked, irritated that he had to endure Yuu from speaking entirely the fanfiction she found lying on the ground. 

“To see which of you have this person in their dorm and laugh at you. Because too bad so sad, I’m lucky enough to not have this embarrassment in my dorm.” 

Riddle, Azul, Leona and Vil twitched. Idia looked away because it might be people from his dorm. Kalim only laughed because it was funny , while Malleus took the paper from Yuu to actually read it with his own eyes because he had never seen a fictional story that was like this.

“By the way, do I really have average boobs? Also? ‘Child-bearing hips?’ ALSO! I do not have any cute pink underwear. Not any is cute. Crowley was the one who provided the undergarments I wear and its those generics 3 pack type.”

“TMI, Yuu-shi.” 

“And hourglass figure? If anyone has an hourglass figure, especially because of their BHW measurement in this room, it would be Leona-senpai.” Yuu had to run away from Leona, attacking her as the room erupted into jeers and mockings from the others.

“YOU GET BACK HERE!”

“I’M A TRUTHER! NOT A LIAR! YOUR WAIST IS SMALLER THAN MINE!!!” Yuu jumped into Malleus’ arms and helped her get away from Leona. 

“BUT ANSWER ME! DO I REALLY HAVE AVERAGE SIZE BOOBS! I mean, I have great boobs.” Yuu cupped her chest but got snatched by Vil, who then proceeded to scold her alongside Riddle for being unladylike. 

“Compared to the women in my country, you’re normal.” Leona, who was done and sick and tired of Yuu’s antics (3-day sleepover), bluntly replied. 

“You wouldn’t stand out.” Azul, who also knew of Yuu (Anyone who was able to befriend the tweels wasn’t normal, and that included him; actually, it was just anyone in NRC), adjusted his glasses.

“It’s kinda small compared to what I’m used to, but it’s okay! You aren’t defined by what you look!” Kalim smiled with no bad intentions at all. 

“I only look at 2D women, and they’re better.” Without any hesitation, Idia spoke.

“You’re all a bunch of meanies!!”

“Heh, meanies”

“It’s pleasant.” Malleus smiled, trying to reassure Yuu from Leona’s quip. 

“Tsunotarooo!!!” Yuu’s lips wobbled, eyes tearing up. 

“Anyways, I don’t really get the list of chores. Sweep, polish, wax and then mop? Isn’t it sweep, mop and then polish and wax?” Yuu took the papers back from Malleus to point them out.

“Huh? Is it? Does it mean that you polish with a mop?” Riddle asks, having no experience in chores.

“What’s that suppose to do?” Kalim, who absolutely knows nothing, asked. 

“So incompetence with writing, wordings, AND chores. I wonder if they are even struggling with their grades.” Azul sneered at the paper. 

“You know, now that I think about it, seeing this fanfiction is funny.”

“What do you mean, Yuu-shi?”

“Well, you know, in my world, apparently, when one is riled up full of ew hormones, they end up searching for porn with a vague description of their crush so they can get off to a woman that looks kinda similar to said crush. So I wonder what my description would be if they search online? Tiny black haired Asian girl? Like, compared to the dudes in my country, you guys are freaking tall that I would be considered tiny in comparison.” Yuu shrugged. Leona had a complicated expression on his face, mixed with disgust. 

“Oh! What’s ‘Asian’?” Kalim asked.

“Huh, is there even black-haired people here? I’ve only seen Tsunotaro and Lilia with black hair, and they’re faes. Also, to Kalim’s question, uhhh.” Yuu stopped to try to think of the definition. She never had to answer that question because it was something everybody knew, one way or the other. 

“It’s a race? Asia is basically a huge island with many different countries, which of course, have different ethnicities with how big the island is. Like, we have 7 different continents, big islands-” Yuu clarified because she saw Kalim’s hand pop up to ask a question, and she couldn’t believe she had to clarify what ‘continents’ were, only to realise that there were only countries in Twisted Wonderland. “And each have different features. Since Asia is so big, we have like, 4? 8? Different types of Asians. I’m East Asians, where our features are predominantly pale skin, black straight hair with more narrow eyes.” Yuu explained. 

“Like, if I had to explain, Kalim and Jamil looked like someone who is West Asian in my world. Middle Eastern. Also, Rook-senpai actually speaks what’s called ‘French’ in my world, a country in a continent named Europe. Eh, I never bothered to check what its actually called in TW. Actually, all of you except for Leona-senpai look like some people who comes from Europe.”

“Huh.” Vil only said. 

“Anywayssss, other than that, you guys know any porn site? It’ll be funny if there were some people with that description.” Yuu took off their shoes and hopped on one foot each time to get her socks off, jumping up and down to gain balance. 

Yuu planted her foot on top of the table, ignoring the cries of “Manners!” and wiggled her toes.

“Does this look like ‘dainty white’ to you?”

“Yuu-shi. I have an even more dainty white than you.” Idia deadpanned. 

“So, is that a no to a porn site?”

“““NO!!!”””

“Excuse me! What is going on here!” Professor Trein stepped into the room. Yuu perked up and waved at him, as he has always emitted dad vibes to her. He briefly softened but readjusted his expression to strict once more.

“There has been loud noises that has been echoing throughout the hallways.” He stated. 

“Sorry about that! Yuu was just telling us about her world! Apparently, I look West Asian! Yuu is East Asian!” Kalim interjected, one of the only 3 who didn’t notice the tensing atmosphere. 

Trein, looking interested, asked more. Yuu happily gave out more information about her world, letting the boys in the room sigh in relief.

Chapter Text

It all started with Crowley (Derogatory). Yuu normally was never able to sleep in because they have multiple living beings in the dorm that likes to wake up early and thus wake them up. If it weren't that, then it would be having to wake up to go to their part-time job because they don’t have money to live . THEY WERE POOR.

Then, if it weren’t money problems, it would be their friends who barge in, complain and expect them to solve their problems. It was either pissing off Riddle or forgetting that there was homework/exam and asking Yuu for help with that. 

Then, there was Crowley . 

Yuu wanted to throw a tantrum and scream into the sun, the moon, and that thing that calls himself the Headmaster. 

This was how it went:

C: I know you are busy, but as a student, you do need to join a club.

Y: I DON’T HAVE MONEY TO AFFORD TIME TO A CLUB

C: Yes, but I was so nice to let you live here rent-free. You have to be so cruel to reject the nice me! 

Y: Are you threatening me???

C: No, No. I wouldn’t say that. As I am kind, this dorm and your tuition are fully provided by the generous me. As a student being provided by someone as unselfish as yours truly, which is me, I would have thought that you’d try to make an effort. 

Of course, this was just all paraphrased, but it was basically how it went. ‘The KiNd, GeNtlmenLy and gEneROus aS mE’ Yuu mocked with their hands mimicking a talking gesture. 

So now, because C****y, was being sooooo generous, Yuu was granted the privilege to join any clubs they wanted. 

Yuu sneered as they looked through the sheet of clubs that were open to new members, their hands crumbling and slightly tearing the edge of the papers. They had asked Professor Crewel for one, and he took one look at them and promptly stuck a bunch of flyers on them. 

Then, they found one that immediately interested them. It was a flyer that advertises a study club.

“We will now welcome a new member of the club! Welcome, Yuu!” 

“I sincerely hope that I got that club’s name right. Because if it wasn’t what I thought, I am very disappointed and I will never trust any of your decisions ever again if that offensive thing was ever considered to be anything but one.” Yuu grumbled, hands crossed angrily as the room held a lot of Crowley-shaped paraphernalia all over the room. 

The room looked almost like a place someone would expect in a therapist’s room. There were a bunch of sofas, bean bags and comfort zones. Currently, there was a line of people heading towards a cupboard that was definitely muffled. A person came out of the cupboard with eyes red, hair messy and a sore throat, but they headed straight to the snack section, where there were various quantities and brands of water and cough drops. 

“I am disappointed, Mx. Yuu, that you would ever think of us as such.” Yuu’s eyes perked up when they saw a familiar figure in the club. 

“Professor Trein!!” Yuu gleefully exclaimed before sighing in relief. “I’m glad that I’m in the right room, then!!!!” They clapped their hands in excitement before going around the room and spotted more than half of the professors. Yuu threw their head back in maniacal laughter. 

“As a new member, please share with us why you chose this club,” the person who introduced Yuu to the club said. He first shared one detail on why he decided to create this club. He was a third year from Heartsylabul named Jamie Burton.

“When I was a young boy! So naive and wide-eyed, I trusted that man because he was the Headmaster of the renowned school of Night Raven College! However, that trust was gone! My rose-coloured glasses shattered like my heart did when I asked for help in my studies, asking if there were any study groups or a student mentor program! All he did was laugh, pat my head and leave! LEAVE THE HELPESS WEE LAD THAT I WAS! Out of spite, I started studying and asked any other professors other than him! When I do encounter him in the hallways, I would sprint the other way, pretending I’ve never seen him!" Jamie ranted, hands flying everywhere in anger. Yuu ducked down slightly to avoid getting hit by his metallic prosthetic hand. 

"As a leader that was chosen by my predecessor, I’ve dedicated myself to leading this club in order to save those poor helpless souls find their way and be guided! As well have immense hatred of that headmaster!” He wove his mechanical prosthetic hand around dramatically while his alright one clenched where his heart should be. "When I managed to be in the Top 50 after finding my salvation when my predecessor came down to me like an angel coming down from the heavens, He also had the nerve to come up to me to say he knew I could do it. 'What did I tell you?' He says? Nothing!!!" Jamie raged, his hands forming into a claw like he wanted to hook it into Crowley's heart or maybe choke his neck. He closed his eyes and took multiple deep, calming breaths, only opening them once he was calm enough to speak once more. 

“Now, fellow kindred, tell me why you are here.”

Yuu proceeded to tell all the dirty details on why they hated C****y and their ratchety ass cringe feathered cloak that seems so last century, and he probably used it because it makes him look younger, but instead makes him look like Yzma but less hot. If that were even possible. 

“Cheers to that.” It was Crewel who said that as he knocked back on his orange juice. He couldn’t drink wine since it was technically still work hours. But he could always pretend it had alcohol.

Yuu could spot Leona lying on a couch. A group of first-year students surrounded him with textbooks and notebooks. The softie, who probably said no to the teaching, pointed out their mistakes with his tail after just glancing at them. 

“Oh yeah, it is a requirement to at least help with studies to say that we’re at least doing something in this club.” Jamie spoke. “He comes here every time to make a point when the Headmaster pisses him off. Honestly, we aren’t even really sure if Crowley even knows that this group appears since there are so many teachers covering this club and says it is authentic.” 

He showed Yuu around the club room. 

“Here! We have a punching bag that is sewn in the image of the GREAT HEADMASTER!” There are several students in the room, punching already beaten-up-looking bags. 

“Ah, we may sooner or later need to replace that.” 

He escorted Yuu towards the next place. 

“Here, we have the Alchemy lab! Where we try and create the worst death ever imaginable for Crowley! Well, in truth, all of us here study for Alchemy, but whose to say we don’t experiment with poisons and curses?” All the students in the lab were geared with some of the most hazard-preventing suits and gear they had, complete with a mask filter with all the fumes coming out of the cauldron. It was completely soundproof, and you couldn't really see their entire face, but Yuu could tell that they were cackling menacingly despite the full outfit. “We won’t open the door at all, so let’s move on to the last room.”

The last room Yuu was escorted to was the weaponry room. This room had some of the worst killing intent of all the others.

“Here, we imagine stabbing, dicing and slicing Crowley with some of the worse weapons we can imagine. Those who are not blessed in the art of blacksmithery could submit their request here with a drawing of the weapon they like, as well as how they would like to besmirch the crow.”

Students were sharpening their weapons menacingly, and some students were beating the hot blade furiously like they wished it was Crowley’s face. 

When they left to go back to the main room, Yuu asked a question. 

"If this was a study group, why aren't many people here?" Yuu asked because she knew that if they existed, Riddle would have been in one. 

"Ah, this club is extremely protected by the professors. To join this club, the number 1 thing you should have is the mutual hatred of our beloved Headmaster." Jamie spat out like it was venom. "Our professors help us keep this club alive by vetting every member and would give the flyer to them. Should a person end up finding our flyer and go to the professor to join it? The professors would say that it was full."

"Huh. That was one question. Another question is, so that's why Azul-senpai is not here." As if like a trigger, Jamie once more burned with anger. 

"Ugh! If it wasn't for him! I transferred from Octavinelle to Heartslabyul ever since I heard that the Headmaster took money from him in exchange for looking away from his arrangement to find slaves in exchange for his study notes! Everyone deserves to study equally! That day incited my hatred of the Headmaster even more!" Jamie took a random doll in the shape of Crowley, which was hung from the ceiling in a noose, and snatched it apart. The stuffing flew out in a burst as the seams ripped out. He took deep breaths to calm down once more and smiled at her. 

"Well, that is it for the tour. Hope you like C.U.N.T!"

Chapter Text

It was a sunny, bright day. The halls were decorated beautifully, with flowers aligning the walls and in the corner. He was waiting near the altar, eyes peeled on the door excitedly. 

As the wedding march was played, the door opened to reveal the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, grinning ear to ear, arms in the hold of Ace, who was walking her down the aisle. 

It was like a fairytale where girls become Princesses, and this was the moment that she became that Princess, just for this day and probably the next if her future spouse was to treat her that way. 

Grim was there, holding the important job of bringing the ring to her and her spouse. He clutched it tightly like it was his most important mission ever, which it was. 

Yuu flashed a smile of giddy at him, and he couldn’t help but shoot one back despite the tears falling as he tried to hold back a sob. 

He reached out to Yuu, who took his hand. The three of them walked up the stairs to the altar together, where they would pass on the most important duty of being her protector to her spouse. 

“Thanks for being here.” Yuu smiled. 

“Stupid. Even if you’re old and ugly, we’ll still be there.” Ace whispered harshly, but he was still with a smile that couldn’t be deterred. Deuce could only nod as he looked away, already crying heavily. 

Yuu could only laugh as she took a handkerchief from Ace’s pocket to pass it to him. 

Just before the last step of the altar, they handed her off to her spouse, who took her gently in their arms. Deuce-

-woke up with a startled sob from his bed. That dream felt all too real, and he kept on sobbing into his knees. Yuu looked so happy and beautiful in that dream, and he had the honour of being the one to be her ‘Man of Honor’. 

Ace barged into his room with an irritated tone.

“Hey! You’re being nois-!” He was interrupted when Deuce sobbed so harshly that he could barely breathe. 

“Deuce?” Ace was uncharacteristically gentle. Deuce gestured for Ace to come to his bed and began to speak about his dream of being between gasps and hiccups. 

“So you dreamt that Yuu remained in Twisted Wonderland, huh.” Deuce could only nod. 

“Did you see who her spouse was?” A shake of the head was his answer. 

“Ace…I-I want to see Yuu that happy. As her Man of Honor, I want to help her find that wedding hall that she was the happiest. Would you please help me find that place?” 

“Hah? But she isn-” Ace stopped when he saw Deuce’s determination. Ace had to stop and think for a while. In Deuce’s dream, he had the honour of being the one to walk her down the aisle in the placement of her father. As someone who wasn’t able to go back to her homeworld, Deuce said that she still felt happy in spite of that because it was him. 

Ace nodded. He only nodded because he wasn’t about to go sappy as Juicy did, but he knew that both felt the same sentiment about that dream. 

They were planning to enlist the help of the others, but first- 

“Was she beautiful?”

“The most.”

“So, you dreamt of the Prefect’s future wedding…” Trey hummed. 

“And you want help with finding the wedding venue?” Cater said, immediately going to his phone to search for images of Deuce’s description.

“Yes. Yuu shone the brightest there and I would like to see that.”

“We’ll help. It’s time we returned the favour back to the Prefect, after all.” Riddle declared before getting up to get more help from the others. 

“By the way, were any of us in the dreams? Was I still pretty as always in the future?” Cater asked, batting his eyes at Deuce. 

“Sorry. I was just so preoccupied with Yuu…” Deuce said apologetically. 

“Well, the bride is the one that should shine the most, so it’s expected that you wouldn’t notice anything else.” Trey smiled. “I was hoping to be the one to bake her the wedding cake.”

“You probably did. There’s no way that Yuu would ask anyone else.” Ace scoffed as if it was absurd for Yuu to go to anyone other than him. 

“I’ll ask my parents if they know any places, as we do have connections with wedding planners.” Trey got up and started making calls. 

“Sorry, it’s not this.”

“Close, but the location seems off.”

“It’s the wrong colour.” 

With every search, Deuce rejected each and every one of them. It just wasn’t the right one. The Hearstlabyul as a whole were disappointed, but they still kept on trying to search.

“Eh, should I ask Kalim or Jamil? They may know some places.” Cater asked, after having been rejected multiple times by Deuce. 

“Oh yeah! Yuu is friends with a lot of other dorms! I should go ask them!” Deuce got up and started running out the door. 

Cater, Ace, and Riddle were left watching the silhouette of him disappear.

“Was that a yes or no?” 

“Yuu is friendly with the people from other dorms. It shouldn’t hurt too much by enlisting their help as well.”

“I’ll contact Deuce that I will be asking Octavinelle. Hopefully, Floyd will be in the mood to help. I will use point cards if else.”

“Then I’ll ask Scarabia since I was going to contact Kalim already.”

“I’ll ask Jack and Epel to ask their dorm head for help. So I’m making Juicy ask Ignihyde and/ or Diasomnia. I’m also going to tell Grim about it because he would be happy.”

“We should invite them over again sometimes.” Trey held a tray of tea and desserts.

“Did Deuce left?” He asked, trying to search for a spot of blue.

“Yeah, he left to go bother the other dorms.” 

“He seems very lively and determined.” Trey laughed as he poured a steaming pot of tea into their cups.

“I just wish that he uses it in his studies as well.” Riddle despaired.

Deuce went to Ignihyde, but he also went to Diasomina. As he asked Ortho for help, it was easy for him to ask Ignihyde, but going to Diasomnia, he had to look for Draconia-senpai. This was hard because he was already a nervous wreck around him despite being Yuu’s friend and having to approach him to ask for this favour made him feel uneasy. 

He approached the Diasomnia dorm to start looking for him but was stopped by Silver.

“Sorry. I’m looking for Draconia-senpai. Do you know where he is?” 

“You asked for me?” 

Deuce whirled around to find the man he was looking for behind him. 

“It’s about Yuu….” Deuce asked nervously, but he had to swallow it so he could help Yuu!

“The child of man? What happened to her?” Deuce’s worry went away, and Draconia-senpai took care of Yuu after all. 

Deuce then proceeded to tell him of his dreams and that he wanted to find that specific wedding venue. 

“Isn’t that interesting! We’ll help!” Deuce let out a scream as a face popped up in front of him upside down. But he calmed down to thank them sincerely.

Yuu was confused. For nearly 2 weeks, people have been telling her ‘Congratulations’ as they passed by her. They were looking for some venues as well and, for some reason, went to Deuce. About it? Even Grim looked at her with something akin to hope(?) in his big blue eyes.

Yuu doesn’t know if they have a surprise birthday party or just some time of party, but what does she have to do with all his? Was it because of the ghost wedding thing??

“Yuu! I finally found the perfect place!” Deuce shoved a booklet in front of her.

It was a wedding venue. It was a nice place, but what does she have to do with it? And that was what she voiced out.

“You can have your wedding here! It’s perfect and everything!” Deuce pointed out the pictures and started talking about how he would prepare it just like in his dreams. 

Yuu couldn’t curb his enthusiasm and was just left wondering the entire time.