Into the World of Twisted Wonderland Pt 2

👑 The Beautiful Tyrant: Chapter 70 👑

Whie the sounds of cheering filled the coliseum, the Heartslabyul group clapped with the crowd, looking over the group. "Aceyyy! Deuceyyyy!" Cater happily cheers, his voice being consumed by the crowd. "They KILLED it up there!"

"I was ready to have both their heads if they made a poor show of it..." Riddle says, only for a smile to appear. "But that was a splendid performance. It did Night Raven College justice."

"Good grief, I was tense just watching that," Trey sighs. "My Palms are all sweaty."

"C'mon, Trey. You sound like a PTA mom!" Cater teases.

"Our dorm's problem pair has carried out their duty," Riddle states with pride. "I'll make them some tea once they return to the dorm. It's the least I can do."

"I have to hand it to Vil," Azul happily says. "He delivers, and his quality exceeds all expectations. They'd draw enough of a crowd to fill this place even if the NRC Tribe was the only act here," he smirks as he looks at the full seated coliseum.

"Daaaang! That school of betta fish has got some moves!" Floyd happily says. "Now I wanna dance."

"I'm curious, Floyd," Jade speaks. "I know you love dancing and singing. Why didn't you audition for the SDC?"

"Seriously," Azul sighs. "If you'd made a cut to be a member, I could have had a day in how the group was managed."

"What can I say? I wasn't in the mood at the time," he admits. "But Crabby and Sea Snake looked like they were havin' a good time. Maybe I should audition next year."

"Heh heh," Jade chuckles. "That should be quite a sight. Not that there's any guarantee your mood will be better next time around, I suppose. Oh, by the way, Floyd," he looks at him in thought, seeing something missing. "I thought you were on drink-vending duty right now? You're not carrying your drink cooler."

"Hm?" Floyd looks down, seeing that Jade was right. "Oh, I got tired of hawking, so I left t my the entrance with a sign sayin' 'Free drinks.' Ahah!" He laughs.

"What?!" Azul exclaims in shock as he glares at him. "Are you out of your mind?! Go get it! Right now!"

"Maaaan, I don't wanna," he whines. "The Floyd Café is closed for business today."

"Well, now. That's a bit of a pickle," Jade states.

Azul sighs. "What am I going to do with you? I'm taking the costs of those drinks out of your pay, just so you know," he states to Floyd.

"Vil's stage presence was incredible, but the freshmen held their own up there," Jack says with a smile. "They're not half-bad!"

"Whew," Ruggie lets out a sigh of relief. "I was scared outta my wits when all the lighting-related program data vanished after rehearsals...Thank goodness we got it restored in time."

"I set it up to automatically save data to the cloud, and it paid off big time," Leona states. "We were this close to dealin' with some giant hissy-fit from Vil otherwise," he sighs. "It's ostensibly a culture fair event, but there's a lotta commercial interests tied up in the SDC. Then again, knowing the headmage, he's probably got it insured somehow..."

Ruggie looks around in confusion. "I'm not exactly some computer whiz, but I'm still confused about what happened. The equipment wasn't busted or anything. How did the data get wiped without anything else affected? What could cause that?"

"Aside from Leona, most of the sports club guys are pretty bad with tech," Jack says in thought. "We could always bring the equipment over to Ignihyde later and ask them to investigate it."

Leona looks around, crossing his arms. "Maybe it went over you chumps' heads, but there were traces of a massive spell cast over the whole arena," he states. "If I were to guess..." He thinks.

Jack and Ruggie looks at him intently for answers. "...Well?" Ruggie asks. "Don't keep us hanging."

Leona was silent for a while before sighing. "Meh, never mind. We've got enough work to do today as it is without addin' more to the pile. The SDC is up and running. That's good enough for me. There's no relaxing for us until this place is closed again," he declares.

"Yes, sir!" Jack and Ruggie simultaneously exclaim.

"Heh," Malleus chuckles at the stage. "That was somewhat entertaining. Worth fixing up the stage to see it, I'd say."

Lilia looks at the smile on his face and chuckles. "What's this, Malleus? You seem even more engaged than you were at my live show."

"Have you taken leave of your senses?!" Sebek exclaims in shock. "Lilia, your performance clearly had more of an element of surprise that left the audience wowed! Why, your singing was like the voice of a vengeful spirit risen from the grave! It had me trembling!" He states, shaking a bit at the memory.

"Lower your voice, Sebek," Silver scolds and Sebek gave him a slight glare, but didn't push further. "The next team's performance is starting."

"We were given a generous invitation here," Malleus states to the others with a smile. "Let us enjoy the entire show."

"Next up: The Royal Sword Academy entrants!" The host happily announces.

"Ooh, Neige and the boys are up!" Chenya happily says as he looks at the stage seeing that they were walking on it. "Mew can do iiit!"

"Hello, everybody!" Neige says to the crowd, followed by the seven dwarfs from before.

"Hellooooo!" They all say to the crowd.

"Eeeeee! It's Neige!" An audience member squeals.

Another one gasps at the sight of the dwarfs. "Who are those tiny kids?! They're adorable!" The audience only cheers at the sight.

"Come on, everyone!" He says to the dwarfs. "Let's sing!" He happily says to the group, and they only nod at the declaration, facing the crowd to start their performance.