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“So,” Epel asked as the party walked down the staircase to Taurus.
“How did you and Vice Housewarden Rook even meet? I've been meanin’ to ask.”
Rook and Vil looked to each other with the same wide eyed, tight lipped face, casual conversation about how they met felt very off when they were walking to certain doom.
“It's a long story,” Vil finally answered plainly.
“You must have met being in the same dorm,” Yuu reasoned. “But how did you become friends?”
“Oh, non non,” Rook shook his head with a smile “We didn't meet in Pomfiore, I used to be in Savanaclaw!”
“You WHAT?” Epel shouted as loudly as he could without the phantoms catching them mid walk.
Rook laughed at the reaction, while Vil hushed the younger student.
“Oui! I transferred to Pomfiore!” Rook confirmed.
“Bu-but you were in Savanaclaw!” Epel protested, offended that someone would leave such an athletic dorm just to go to the one known for being pretty. “Wait, you can transfer? And ain't nobody told me this before?”
Vil crossed his arms, ignoring Epel's new idea. “It's incredibly difficult to do and there is no need for it!”
“Then why did Rook do it?”
“I couldn't talk him out of it!”
Yuu butted in once more, “So Rook must have met you when every other student was harassing you?”
“Oh no, we didn't meet until after the crowds left,” Vil corrected. “He just jumped out of nowhere saying ‘hello there’.”
The staircase grew darker the deeper down they went, blot visible on a few stairs, they were closer to a phantom.
“But that is a conversation for another time, right now we need to win Ortho's game and find Grimm and Idia.” Vil sighed, and pulled out his pen for battle.
As Yuu and Epel complained about wanting more information about how they met, and how Rook even transferred, Rook and Vil walked ahead to take the lead in any fights they may find.
Though, that didn't stop a shared, knowing smirk to cross both of their faces.