𝗕𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹

LAVENDER: Episode 3.13

Azul's eyes opened as he gasped out in shock. He clenched his chest and immediately tried to sit up, but he felt someone helping him up as soon as he tried. Glancing at the person, he saw Mayumi smiling at him.

"Welcome back."

His eyes widened at her worn-out state. But the one that worried him the most was the mark on her neck.

Noticing what he was looking at, Mayumi shook her head, telling him to ignore it for now.

Azul hesitantly touched the ravenette, paranoid she wasn't real as he still remembered what he had experienced before waking up. It was too odd and it only left him with too many unanswered questions. Once he felt Mayumi's warmth, he released a small sigh of relief.

"Oh, he's awake." Floyd announced, getting everyone's attention.

Jade stood in front of Azul holding up 8 fingers to his face, "Azul, how many fingers am I holding?"

Azul blinked, getting back some of his senses. He let himself be helped by the ravenette and slowly replied to the question, "Ei..ght?"

Jade nodded, bringing down his hands, "Hm. You appear to still be out of it, but I'm so relieved." He smiled, his eyes softening a bit. He was more glad that Azul was stopped before something more tragic could occur. "Jellyfish was able to stop your induced rampage."

Leona scoffed, disagreeing, "Pain in the neck." He grunted out, staring at the dried blood from his cuts.

Ruggie raised a brow at the lion, wanting to slap him for his hypocrisy, "Leona, you're in no position to talk."

Hearing this, Azul stared at everyone and noticed some of their injuries along with their wear out uniform. Confused by this, he turned over to the ravenette, "What did I do?"

"An overblot." She calmly replied.

"W-What!?"

"You used a lot of magic. Do you remember?" Jade asked, looking over at Azul for any injuries. But he was surprised when he found none.

"'Give me your strength~' You were crying while running around sucking up people's magic. You were even putting them into webs like a spider." Floyd imitated, upset with what happened. "It was hard to look at. Super uncool." He cringed.

"I-I... really went on a rampage..? Unbelievable..." Azul muttered, staring at the group in disbelief.

Mayumi rubbed Azul's back, trying to comfort him from the fact he went crazy, "Well, it wasn't entirely your fault. There were other things that influenced your negative actions, like losing all your hard work."

"Yeah. Anyone would be pissed if something they'd been working on for so long got erased right in front of them." Ruggie sighed and pouted, imagining the same thing happening to him, "If someone went and cracked open my piggyback, I would never forgive them."

"But you gotta knock it off with the shady business, y'know. Shape up." Grim lectured.

Mayumi displayed a deadpan expression while Jack glared at the raccoon cat, finding his words hypocritical, "And you should 'shape up' and stop using test notes created by someone else!"

"Yeah, next time just join my study sessions." Mayumi frowned. 

She turned to Azul and gave him a bright smile, "But no lie, you're super amazing! Studying and observing tests from 100 years ago is something very incredible! You had so much dedication and with those, you made test notes that could make anyone pass, like Grim. I'd say you're kind of like a miracle worker."

"E-Eh?" Azul blushed, not used to, well, honest compliments. When he did receive one, it was mostly because the person wanted something. "Y-You're joking..."