Chapter 1-9: Friends New & Old

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"Argh! Damn that little red haired megalomaniac! Does he think HE's the Queen of Hearts or something?" Ace rants as they walk through the rose maze.

"Banished by the Dorm Leader from my own dorm... My dream of becoming an honor student is slipping further and further away..." Deuce laments.

"Stupid collar! It's so tight! Grrr... Hey, Ren, how'd you get rid of yours?" Grim growls then asks the ravenette. Before he could reply, another voiced spoke.

"Those are some stylish collars you got there. And you're all matching as well. How meowervelous~." Says a disembodied head of a boy with purple hair and, cat ears...? Wait, disembodied head!?

"Myah! A ghost head!" Grim exclaims and jumps into Ren's arms while Morgana starts hissing at the floating head.

"Oh dear. Seems like I fur-got my body." The head says as a body appears with it.

"What? Er, so you do have a body, then? Who are you?" Deuce says then asks.

"The name's Alchemi Alchemevich Pinka. Am I a cat? Am I a purrrson? I'm a great enigma." The strange cat-like boy introduces himself. Huh?

"Al... Alche... Come again?" Ace asks, fumbling over saying the name correctly.

"Hehe~... Everyone just calls me, Che'nya." The boy, Che'nya, says. "At the very least... I'm on a different level than those back there." He says next.

"Yet another weirdo in this place..." Morgana says with a sigh.

"What dorm are you from?" Ren then asks, curious.

"You think so? I'd say by the standards here, I'm no more mad than anyone else. As for my dorm... You take a wild guess." The cat eared boy says.

"Don't you mean 'madder'?" The tuxedo feline then asks.

"After the insanity that teapot tyrant put me through, I'm not in the mood for whatever this is. Just leave me alone." Ace says with an annoyed tone.

"Riddle the teapot tyrant. Heh, heh. Well, I can't dismiss that perspective as wrong. He's always been quite strict." Che'nya says. Wait...

"Do you know something?" Deuce asks him.

"Perhaps there are things that I know, and perhaps there are things that I don't." The cat-like boy replies, cryptically.

"That's not an answer!" Grim states, having jumped down from Ren's arms and was crossing his with a narrowed look.

"Is there something you wish to know about Riddle?" Che'nya curiously asks.

"Yeah, what created such a control freak?" Ace asks in return. Good question.

"I believe his four-eyed friend may have the answer." The cat-like boy replies.

"Four-eyed friend? Do you mean Trey Clover?" Deuce guesses.

"He's known Riddle since we were all little boys. If you want to know more about Riddle, I would begin my quest there." The cat boy says next.

"They're childhood friends? I really didn't get that impression." The blue haired boy admits. Yeah, Ren could tell that Trey was scared of Riddle.

"Hang on a sec, you said 'we'? Does that mean you yourself were friends with both of them?" Morgana then says, bringing up a good point.

"If you're so perceptive, then what are you asking me for? Buh-bye!" Che'nya says as his body disappears, once again leaving only his head visible.

"H-hey!" The spade boy exclaims but the purple haired boy just hums as his head then vanishes and he was now gone.

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