𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐘 ! || 𝘠𝘈𝘕!𝘛𝘞𝘚𝘛𝘟𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘋𝘌𝘙

𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 3

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"Fugya! It hurts! What is this?! A string?!" Grim yelled out.

"It's not a string! It's a lash of love!"

Lash of love..? Is this monster into something that I do not want to consider..

A tall figure emerged from the shadows. His clothing was quite.. flamboyant. He bore a top hat with keys accompanied by raven feathers on it. He wore a suit with glitter(?) on it in the shape of a bird spreading its wings. On top of the suit was a coat, with feathers hanging off the tips. The man also had very short, black and curly hair. And lastly, what covered his eyes was a masquerade mask with a bird beak, but through the mask, were yellow eyes that could pierce into anyone.

Accompanied his gloves with golden nails or claws to resemble those of a bird was his so called "lash of love", which was currently holding Grim hostage.

"Aah, I finally found you." He spoke, his yellow eyes staring into your colored ones.

"Whatdoyoumeanyoufinallyfoundme-" You could only feel more and more nervous as he approached you. You definitely couldn't find a way to get past him and escape.

Finally, he stopped right in front of you. Looking at you, he spoke again, "You're this years new student, right? My, my, weren't you eager to make your debut."

"Huh—"

"Also, you've failed to look after your familiar and tame him. Which is a violation of school rules!"

Grim, who had been struggling to get out of the whip's grasp the whole time had stopped and looked directly at the man. A look of offense displayed on his face.

"I am NOT this persons familiar! Let me go!!"

But the stranger was not buying it, simply shrugging off Grim's words, "Yes, yes, that's what all the rebellious ones say. Time for you to be quiet."

What the hell was going on??

The stranger focused his attention from Grim onto you, "Its quite unheard of for someone to willingly leave their coffin. How impatient are you?"

Before you could even speak, he continued,

"Come, the opening ceremony has started quite a while. Let us head to the Mirror Chamber."

"What do you mean by 'new student'?" You asked the man.

"I'm sure you're aware of the room you woke up in, correct? Every student that's been enrolled into this school goes through that room to come here. But, usually a student doesn't wake up until we open their coffin with a key.."

"I pushed the lid off because that thing was trying to burn me alive.." You said as you pointed to Grim, who appeared to be sleeping all of a sudden.

"Ah, so it seems that in the end, the culprit is your familiar." The man replied, focusing his attention onto Grim as well. "If you're the one who brought him here, then it's your job to look after him!" He added.

Before you could refute this statement, he stopped in his tracks. Leaving you confused.

"...Oh!" He said, eyes widening. "It's not the time for this lengthy talk, we must hurry or else we'll miss the opening ceremony. Come now, let us get going!" He stated before speed walking, leaving you to rush after him.

"Uhm.. before that. Who are you?" You asked.

"Oh? Are you not fully conscious yet? Must be because you're still adjusting to the space transportation magic.. Oh well, happens a lot after all. I'll explain to you as we walk!"

"Oh, okay.. thanks-"

"I am kind after all." He smiled, seemingly pleased with himself.

.....

Okay..

"This is Night Raven College, it's a place where exceptionally talented magicians enroll here to learn. We are Twisted Wonderland's most prestigious magical academy. And I am the Headmaster supervising this academy, Dire Crowley."

Twisted Wonderland? Night Raven College? Magical academy? What?

With this new information, you had only assumed that this man was too egotistical for his own good as well as prideful, and believed his school to be so good to the point where he considered it to be magical.

But that didn't explain why you were here at all. Why were you at this supposedly prestigious school?

What if.. this is a school that studies science, or biology, and as part of its research, studies humans. So.. did your parents not hold a funeral for you after all and just sold your body to science without your consent?

That was the most reasonable thing you had come up with as of now.

"Uhm, well. I need to tell you, I never agreed to have my body sold to science.." you said.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" The man looked at you, confused.

"You must've heard, right? I'm sure it was on the news, but I was murdered. And my parents must've sold my body to science research. I mean, there's no way they would hold my funeral at a literal school! I'm sure your school is very great in whatever it studies, I wouldn't call it magical but.."

"You don't look dead.. or are you a result of Necromancy? But only fourth years start learning Necromancy as an elective, which isn't a lot since it's a hard subject." Crowley continued to look at you confused, which made you panic since you weren't being understood by him.

"No, there must've been a mistake. I'm not dead, I must've survived, somehow.. and now I'm here..!"

"You must still be dazed. Huh, I never realized side effect of transportation magic could be this serious! I think if I explain more, it'll come back to you." Crowley merely dismissed you as simply being confused because of apparent side effects. Then, he continued speaking,

"The only ones who can enroll to this school are, like I said, exceptionally talented magicians, and they the ones approved by the 'Mirror of Darkness'. The chosen ones are called to this academy through the carriage from all over the world. Surely, you must remember a carriage coming to pick you up."

"No, I don't remember any carriage..!" The fact that his explanation was not resonating with your memory at all was only making you panic more.

"Huh.. but anyways. The black carriage is intended to pick up new students chosen by the Mirror of Darkness. It is a special carriage carrying people to the academy. From time immemorial, it has been decided by conventional wisdom that carriages are used as pick-up in special occasions, right?"

"I guess..?" You replied, I mean, royalty are usually driven around in carriages. So, I suppose they are used in special occasions. It doesn't change the fact that you still don't remember a black carriage at all.

"Mmgggn-mmmnngh-!" Turns out, Grim was not asleep, but rather, the lash had switched its position to cover Grim's mouth to muffle him.

"Come, we're going to the opening ceremony now." Crowley spoke up, opening the door to the chamber that you awoke in.

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a/n:

hihi! two chapters hooray :)
from now on, i won't be putting warnings for cussing, because from now on, i feel like every chapter will have some cussing in it. so just assume that all chapters from now on have cussing, yknow?

anyways ya. ty for reading <33