This fic has been posted on Wattpad and AO3 under the username: justamethyst3 These are the only places this fic should be ~ * ~ Tsukasa wants to get better at doing his makeup. He feels it would help bring more life to the characters he played! But... he doesn't have it down yet. He has Rui to help him, though! ... Oh... Tsukasa didn't expect Rui to do that... or Tsukasa needs Rui's help with his makeup. Rui can't help but tease Tsukasa a little, but not how he thought he would. ~ * ~ ⚠️Rui and Tsukasa are both 18 in this fic⚠️ Cover drawn and edited by me! Banner inside also edited by me! Started: April 26, 2023 Ended: October 31, 2023

Before Wonderlands x Showtime happened to him, Rui had always felt so alone (apart from when he was with either both or one of his childhood friends, of course). He was prejudiced, ignored, avoided, et cetera. He stayed quiet during class and had never spoken much to anybody in school other than the school nurse, his teachers, his friend Kusanagi Nene, his other friend Akiyama Mizuki and some of their friends. Nobody had heard too much of his voice before. His past left him scarred and insecure and his chronic disease didn't help with his depression... and neither did those rumours. But what if a specific popular sunset-haired boy were to invite him to his band and befriend him? Tsukasa, a popular highschooler known for his amazing singing voice, determination, charisma and arrogance, just so happened to stumble upon the supposed teenage arsonist (rumoured to be planning to blow up the school) at Phoenix Wonderland, singing and telling stories softly and sweetly with the help of several cute little robots to a group of little children, who all had big smiles plastered across their faces. Would he be a good recruitment for the band? Would he be a hazard to anyone? Most importantly, if any of his classmates, or ANYONE, were to catch him hanging out with Kamishiro, would his reputation falter?

"You didn't give up before, so why are you giving up now, right after getting him back?" A virus has spread to the Virtual Singer, Hatsune Miku. It turns her mind upside-down and she decides to destroy every bit of life on the face of the Earth and replace it with artificial slaves-and she was starting with Japan. With this newly discovered strength of hers, Miku destroys and takes over every inch of the country. The longer this virus lingers inside her core, the smarter-and stronger-she gets. Eventually, her intelligence gets to a point that she is capable of infecting humans as well and taking them under her control. Wonderlands x Showtime had been sticking together with Vivid BAD SQUAD while all of this was happening... Until Miku got their friend, Shinonome Akito, and then Kamishiro Rui. Luckily, before getting captured, Rui had been able to start reversing the infection in Akito. Tenma Tsukasa has a burning determination to rescue his friend-and crush-from the MIND before it's too late to get him back. Over the time Rui had been used as a mindless puppet by the MIND, his memories had begun to get more and more blurry and indistinct. Slowly, piece by piece, he was forgetting who he was. Who everyone was. After successfully getting Rui back and reversing the infection process... Tsukasa discovers that his friend most likely won't make it.