"Prinnies!" The Prinny Squad heard the Overlord bellow, and immediately dropped everything they were doing to rush to his side. They had been making sure to be extra obedient since they were caught taking one of their much loved Prinny Days,atleast until they could finally get their new secret quarters up and running; And by running, they meant with a new television, and cable to access PNN. Laharl had stolen their TV - or technically his TV, since they did originally steal it from him - from the old Prinny HQ to punish them for running away.

"What is it, dood?" What seemed like the entire Prinny Squad asked in unison.

"Since I'm feeling very generous today, I've decided to give you idiots the rest of the day off to watch your ridiculous soap opera." Laharl explained in a very uncharacteristically friendly manner that almost struck fear in the hearts of the Prinnies. It would have, too, had they not been so in awe of what the Overlord just said, rather than how.

"Really?! You mean, you'll actually let us off early, dood?!" Ulrich questioned the obvious thought on every Prinny's mind, in utter disbelief.

"No! April Fools! Haaahahaha!" Laharl laughed in pure amusement. When he first heard about the human world concept of April Fools he thought it to be, well, foolish. But, after Gordon, Jennifer, and even Thursday insisted how fun it was, the Overlord just had to give it a try. He was happy he did.

The Prinnies fell over, completely dumbfounded. Of all of the tricks Laharl had pulled on them over the years, this was by far the lamest. Not to mention the most cruel, too. Nobody should ever joke about being able to watch the much adored All My Prinnies. Ever.

Being the first to pick himself up, Ulrich spoke in bafflement. "...You do know that April is an Earth month, right, dood?"

"Of course I do! What do you morons take me for?!" Laharl snapped, before adding, "But I was thinking of adding it to the Netherworld calendar, since it's so much fun!"

"...But, April Fools is on the first of the month, and today's not the first, dood." Another Prinny, Gareth, countered knowingly. He had heard the Defender of Earth's explanation of the day, too.

"Well..." Laharl started, not quite sure how to counter that. The damned Prinny did have a point. So, instead of actually having to think of something to rebuke back, the Overlord decided to just make full use of his authority. "Well, I'm the Overlord, and which ever day I say April Fools is, it is! Now shut up, and get back to work!"

Dejectedly, the Prinnies did as they were commanded, and headed back to the menial jobs they had been doing before they got summoned.

"That was mean, Laharl!" Flonne scolded, approaching the half-demon. "I saw the whole thing! You shouldn't have tricked those poor Prinnies like that!"

"It's their own fault for falling for it!" Laharl shot back, chuckling. He just couldn't believe how foolish those Prinnies could be sometimes.

"No! It's your fault for tricking them! They trusted you, Laharl! How can you expect anyone to love you if they can't trust you?"

"You really are one loopy love freak, aren't you?" Laharl scoffed, "You should know by now that I couldn't care less whether anyone loves me! Especially those half wit Prinnies!"

"You know you don't really mean that! Everybody wants to be loved! You should apologize to the Prinnies!"

"Hmph, the great Laharl doesn't apologize to anybody! And you can't make me!" Laharl dared, crossing his arms tightly over his chest with a smirk.

Flonne simply smirked back, in a very uncharacteristic way for her angel demeanour, before uttering two simple words. "Eternal love."

Laharl cringed, and let out a small pained yelp as those vile words reached his ears. That was such an under handed tactic. Some angel Flonne was. She was more like a demon. A loopy, love crazed demon. "...Fine. I'll apologize to those morons. But let me make this clear; I'm not doing it because of you."

Even though Flonne knew otherwise, she just smiled happily. "Yay! Thank you, Laharl!"

"...Whatever." Laharl muttered, followed by another comment about the cruel and unusual tactics used by certain tactics, before once again yelling. "Prinnies! Get over here! Now!"

With much less speed and enthusiasm, the Prinny Squad once more made their way to the Overlord. "What is it this time, dood?"

"What took you so long?!" Laharl demanded, but didn't bother waiting for an answer before continuing on with what he was originally planning on telling them. "Anyway, I just wanted to tell you idiots that I'm sorry for fooling you... No matter how easy it was to do."

The Prinnies stood totally speechless, almost not believing what they were hearing. Laharl never apologized to anybody for anything. Ever.

"So, to make up for it..." Laharl continued to the astonished Prinnies, "I've decided to really give you guys the rest of the day off to do whatever the hell you freaks do."

Although still in complete awe, the Prinnies managed to best as they could through their beaks. Some of them even managed to get out a shocked 'Really?' They just couldn't believe it.

"No! Haaahahaha! I can't believe you morons fell for it twice!" Laharl laughed, even more amused than he was the first time. It was just too funny to think that the Prinnies were foolish enough to believe him after he already tricked him! How dumb could they get?!

"..." The entire Prinny squad was at an utter loss for words, and any respect they had left for their Overlord quickly plummeted. How could Laharl be so cruel, dood?

Not wanting to just sit back and deal with Laharl's abuse - which is exactly what it was, abuse - Gareth got a sudden flash of inspiration to get just a tiny speckle of revenge for him and his comrades. Though, it wasn't exactly the most creative of clever, but it would definately give Laharl a taste of his own medicine.

"Hey, Overlord, dood." The Prinny started, trying his best to sound non-chalant, "That was a good one, dood."

Laharl could feel his chest puff out a little in pride. A compliment from the Prinnies wasn't worth very much, but it was still better than nothing. "It was, wasn't it?"

"Yeah, you really fooled us, dood!" Gareth continued, earning confused looks from all of the other Prinnies. Except one.

"I guess we wouldn't expect any less from such a great Overlord as you, dood!" Ulrich added, seemingly following his cohort's thoughts. Or atleast, he hoped it was what Gareth was thinking. If not, then the other Prinny had gone completely off his rocker.

Laharl smirked, the compliments given to him by his usually insolent vassals ringing like sweet music in his ears. "Maybe you morons are smarter than I thought... Well, a little."

Gareth and Ulrich locked eyes for a moment, a non-verbal way to say that their plan really was working, before Gareth carried on, "Since you've been such a good Overlord, dood, and have such a great sense of humour, we'll work all night, dood!"

"Really?" This time it was Laharl who was a little taken aback, but he quickly dismissed his suspicions. He just chalked his vassals' strange behaviour up to them finally recognizing just how great he was.

"No! April Fools, dood!" Ulrich and Gareth shouted in unison, before quickly turning tail to ran as fast as their stumpy legs could carry them. The rest of the squad was soon to follow, knowing that the Overlord was going to be seriously pissed off and take his wrath out of no matter which one of them he encountered first, whether they had anything to do with fooling him or not.

And follow after them Laharl did, taking off at full speed. With his antenna-like hair standing on end and eyes glowing a very ominous red, the Overlord bellowed as he continued to run, "PRINNIES!"