Yuu can do it!

Bullying Ace because I love him

In Grim's defense, he was left unsupervised.

'What about Kuroki?', you may be asking.

Well, Kuroki... was also left unsupervised.

'What about Ito and Enma?'

Yeah... no.

Really, Crowley should have expected something to happen when he sent out three teenagers to be janitors.

Of course, it had started out pretty civil.

Enma and Ito had looked at each other with identical exasperated expressions before getting back to work. And, to be fair, Kuroki had expected Enma's attention to wane the moment the conversation stopped being interesting to him... but he had thought Ito, at least, would stand up for Grim. Except they didn't, only bothering to shoot Ace a dirty look before grabbing the power washer they had been trying to figure out for the past hour and starting to mash buttons again.

"Pft! I can't bear it anymore!" Ace laughed openly at them, leaning back against the statue of the Queen of Hearts and crossing his arms over his chest. "You guys are the ones who went crazy at the entrance ceremony, huh? What're you still doing here after that? What, did you do too much property damage and now you gotta pay it off? Pathetic!"

"What did you just say?"

The way Grim puffed up was accentuated by the sound of Ito finally figuring out how to turn on the power washer. They gasped a little at harsh blast of water that came from the tool, their eyes lighting up, and then began spraying down the stones at their feet. It was much faster than scrubbing by hand, they were apparently very pleased by this new development.

"You don't even know who the Great Seven are," Ace continued to taunt, reaching back to rap his knuckles against the stone rose bushes gathered around the Queen of Heart's feet. "It's no surprise you didn't get into NRC, I mean you couldn't have even passed kindergarten if you're that ignorant."

Enma hummed a little, tipping his head to the side as if making a note of that to look it up later.

There was something dangerous in the cat-like slant of Grim's eyes, and Kuroki would have been stupid not to notice the fight that was brewing... but, hey, he was a firm believer in the idea that you shouldn't dish unless you can take – unless your name is Kuroki Yuuya, then it's totally fine.

(Besides, he may have been a little pissed at Ace as well. Sure, he wasn't going to go around getting in unnecessary fights – especially when he was at a clear disadvantage, what with his lack of magic – but he understood where Grim was coming from... and, admittedly, he might have been in a bad mood. Getting sent to another world without warning only to nearly get murdered several times in one night, sleep in the world's most uncomfortable bed, have nightmares about how none of your old classmates will care that you're gone, and then being forced to wake up early for a terrible janitorial job... well, it tends to be a lot to deal with for the average person. Forgive him for being a little bitter.)

Grim began to make a low growling noise in the back of his throat.

Ace either didn't notice or didn't care. "I thought I'd just mess with you a bit, but you really blew my expectations out of the water –."

He nearly fell over when Ito hit him with their pressure washer.

It wasn't a long blast, and it had been on the lightest setting to make sure that it didn't hurt, but it was more than enough to thoroughly soak the student.

"What the –?!"

"Ah! Sorry!" Ito said, sounding genuinely apologetic as they stepped forward until they were just barely standing in front of Kuroki... but their eyes flashed strangely in the light as they scratched the back of their neck 'sheepishly'. "For a second there I thought I saw some grime on the statue!"