Twisted-Wonderland: Our Precious Treasure (Part 1)

(14) WttVW: Miracle of Reconsideration

Crowley couldn't believe it. He didn't think that these children would do it.

He thought when he said that the mine was closed and there weren't any magic stones left, the children would just give up and accept their fate. He had already completed the paperwork for their expulsion, all the documents were kept save in his drawer. He honestly didn't want to do it. A kind headmaster wouldn't just throw his student out! But he couldn't take it. It was only the first day, the second day if you count the Entrance Ceremony, and these children, especially the mysterious one, created even more chaos than one could imagine in their early school years.

But when the three children and the cat came barging into his office with smiles and grins decorated their faces, Crowley knew that they did it.

"Hoh hoohh...a mysterious monster living in the coal mine," the headmaster stated, his gloved finger playing with the magic crystal that Argentum gave him earlier, "and the four of you worked together to defeat it and bring back a magic crystal?"

"We..." Trappola rubbed the back of his neck, cheeks slightly pink, "we didn't work together..."

"It was more like our goals were aligned..." added Spade, folding his arms in front of his chest, cheeks also pink.

Argentum glanced up to Grim who sat on his head. Both of them shrugged, not knowing what to add since they had already told him everything, from how they were bickering with each other to working together as comrades in the face of danger, setting aside all their protests and finally reaching their goal. All under the leadership of Argentum.

This is...

It is...

BEAUTIFUL!

"Ooh... Ooooh... OOOOOOOOHHH! OOOOOOHHH!" Crowley burst into tears, shocking the children. All of them looked at each other, wondering which one of them made the headmaster cry like a baby. "In all these years that I've been headmaster..." he said between his sobs, "for the day to come that students from Night Raven College, to go hand-in-hand to face and defeat their enemy!"

Spade's cheek became even pinker. "What!? I did not hold this guy's hand!"

"I would never do that, gross!" Trappola stuck out his tongue, cheeks just as pink as Spade. Meanwhile, Argentum looked between the two of them and tried his best to sniffle his laugh. Grim on top of his head just laughed out loud.

"I am overwhelmed with emotion." Crowley wiped a tear from below his mask. "This incident confirms it! Young Jonah Argentum!" Argentum automatically straightened up, Crowley stood up from his seat and walked toward the small group so that he could stand face to face with the boy with different eyes. He put his hands on the smallest child in the room's shoulder. "Without a doubt, you have talent as a beast-tamer!"

Both Trappola and Spade let out an "Eh?!" while Argentum blinking in confusion.

"A what? Didn't you say something like this yesterday?" he asked.

Crowley nodded. "Students of Night Raven College are budding magicians called here by the Dark Mirror. However, they are of a superior class that makes them prideful and egotistical people that have not even the slightest inkling to work with others. Making many of them selfish and egocentric."

Grim, Trappola, and Spade looked at the headmaster with a deadpan stare. "You're not saying anything good," the cat muttered.

Crowley ignored the comment, only focusing on the boy under his hands. "You cannot use magic. But, maybe, precisely because you cannot use magic means that you could give instructions to magicians and get them to cooperate. Perhaps that mediocrity is exactly what this school needs right now!"