"Good afternoon, cadets!" Exclaimed a man with a black metal mask.

"Good day, commander!" the children Exclaim of the zero classroom that can be counted on the finger.

"Today we have two new students in this class, actually they are still members of Suzaku Peristylium, but they are each from a different class, I hope you will receive it well."

"Okay, taichou."

"Cadet Machina and Cadet Rem, please come in and introduce yourselves."

Then the two cadets entered the class, already wore red mantel, it means they had become part of Class Zero.

One male, already wore a longer collared mantel and almost covered his entire body, especially on the shoulder, glimpsed like a vampire cloak. While the other female, wearing a standard cloak like the other Class Zero, only along her thighs, but her appearance is much more feminine because on the sleeve there is a white cloth frayed in it, even at the bottom of her skirt there is also a frilled black cloth like lace that increasingly sweeten her overall appearance.

"My name is Machina Kunagiri, I was from the Second Class,nice to meet you."

"My name is Rem Tokimiya, I was from the Seventh Grade, nice to meet you guys."

"We are glad to meet you two. Class Zero is open for you." Queen said.

"Thank you, I can't believe we could be the part of the Class Zero with you all. It's an honor for us." Machina said politely.

"Thank you all, I can't believe we can be in this legendary Rubrum class, we are really very honorable in here," said Rem.

"Then from now on you two, Machina and Rem as a Class Zero student, will follow all of these scheduled Class Zero' activities. I hope the crystal bless you. "Kurasame said.

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Machina and Rem express their admiration for Class Zero. They didn't expect that they could finally be part of Class Zero, the legendary Suzaku Peristylium class in which they not only fight with their own weapons, but also fight using magic. Something that they rarely discover as long as they were in their regular class before. They do not know what made them move to Class Zero, but if they see the extraordinary of Class Zero' achievement, then definitely the school has seen their better abilities so they moved to Class Zero.

Then they talked to the few of Class Zero' students. Class Zero accepted them dan threated them friendly, as if they had been part of Class Zero for a long time.

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In the Chrystarium...

Ace visited Chrystarium as a place to spend his free time rather than with his friends, especially the men, who are tried to take him out to eat in the cafeteria or to play cards. He saw Machina stood in front of the bookshelf, apparently looked for a book to read. Ace then approached him.

"Machina, looking for something?" Ace asked.

"Oh, yeah...kinda."

Then Ace read the information tag that printed in front of the bookshelf which now being observed by Machina.

"Capital Liberation Campaign Report? What do you want to know?" Ace asked curiously as well as investigating.

"Oh, y'know. Just some stuff."

"I see..."

"So uh, I guess even Class Zero doesn't have access to top secret mission reports, huh?" Machina asked investigating back.

"Only division heads have the authority to read classified mission reports." Ace explained.

Instantly silence enveloped both of them. They didn't know what is these feeling, but Ace felt like he had been close to Machina before. Even very closely. But, when did he know him? He has never met Machina all that time.

"Umm...by the way... any particular reason you want to know?" Ace asked a little carefully.

"Oh, i was just a little curious. Yeah, y'know. I just want to know who's the one that joined to involve into those secret mission. But, it doesn't matter anyway. Really, just curious." Machina answer more careful but a little stutter, a little lie because actually he wanted to know about his brother's death. But he could not tell anyone else he had known even though he was in his class with him now.

Instantly Machina gasped when he finished speaking. He felt that i had know Ace before, moreover he had ever been so close with him. But he didn't know when he knew Ace? Though he just met with Ace along with Seven and Jack as they rescued him and Rem from Milites' attack s that led by a masked woman named Qunmi True.

"Oh, hello! What are you two talking about?" Deuce interupted suddenly after she came, instantly broke the silence of two boys with different body size and hair color.

"Ah, nothing important. See y- ugh!" When Machina would leave from his place, he got sudden headache unreasonly.

"Machina, are you alright?" Reflect, Ace asked worriedly.

"I'm OK. Just a little migrain. It's OK, guys, don't worry about me. I'm fin- Akh! My head is hurt so much!" Machina sighed once again though he tried to lit about his condition.

"Machina! Don't lie about your condition like that. Your face looked so pale."

"Machina-san, let us bring you into the health clinic for check up."

"No, i'm allri-... AKH!" Machina's head felt the great pain until he almost fell down and hit the bookshelf.

"MACHINA!" Ace tried to hold Machina's body so as not to fall on the floor.

"Machina-san. Do I need to call Rem-san to take you too?" Deuce asked.

"I...i... i can't see anything...Guys, where are you?" Machina said limply. His vision was blurred now.

"Machina! Are you so sick until you being like that?. Ace asked, really couldn't bear to see the condition of Machina which even worsened by the sudden headache. Ace tried to hold Machina's hand to convince Machina that he and Deuce are still there.

"I...I..." Machina passed out instantly before he finished speaking.

"Oh no. Machina-san really unconscious for now. What should we do?" asked Deuce with panic.

"We just bring him to the clinic first. Then we tell Rem about Machina's condition." Ace said. But Deuce did not answer at all.

"Deuce! Did you hear me? Deuce!"

"My head is dizzy..."

"What?!" Instantly Ace look toward Deuce who hold her own head.

"Deuce? Are you allright? Did that Machina's headache infect you?" Ace asked panicky again.

"I don't know, Ace-san... But, ugh...my head really hurts." Deuce passed put instantly and fell on the floor.

"DEUCE!" Oh no! This time Ace really alone with two unconscious people in front of him. Surprisingly, many people in the Chrystarium but no one paid any attention to their incident. 'What are they thinking? Did we made a drama?' He thought.

"Please, can anybody help me bring my two friends to the clinic? I can't bring them by myself." Still, no one paid attention to him. Moreover, there are two other people that passed them without turned their glance as if they are invisible ghosts.

"Hei, are you all really dea- ugh!" Suddenly, his head felt great pain.

Wait! Was it possible that he had started infected from Deuce and Machina who had sudden dizziness to faint? What exactly happened to him and them? He thought.

Ace groaned in pain while held his head. Surprisingly, no one came just to approach them.

Now his vision began to blurred because of his headache.

Instantly, he began to collapse followed his two friends and everything became dark.

_epha_

The darkness which covered his vision began to fade slowly along with he opened his eyes. His head still felt dizzy, but not began to reduce than before.

But now the image in his vision has changed background. Not in the chrystarium, but in the Class.

Wait! Since when he in the class? Who was the one that move them?

He remembered about the unconscious Machina and Deuce. Instantly he looked for them and got Machina who besides his right side while he slept on his chair and his head leaned to the chair. Their distance is only one seat away but they are seatmate.

Followed Ace, Machina also awake from his 'sleep' with his dizziness.

"Machina? Are you allright?" Ace asked carefully.

"Ugh, i don't know. My head still dizzy. Wait! Why...why we are in the class? I thought i was brought into the clinic." Machina asked with confused suddenly.

"I don't know too. Suddenly i was here already in this class."

"What? How can you don't know if you move me to this class? Are not you and Deuce there with me then?"

"Deuce and me also had a dizziness and fainted just like you felt. I don't know how this gonna be happened. Seems like you got infected by you. But we don't know how is the way of this infection, this is too long story."

"It's no makes sense. How can it be? Whereas i didn't eat or do anything too heavy. And suddenly my head was dizzy and you said my pain infected you, and I didn't have any fever. Oh yeah, where is Deuce? "He immediately heard a woman's groan on his right side and turned toward him.

"Rem? Are you in here?"

"What? Machina? Why i'm in here? From what i know i'm talking with Seven and Cater on the Balcony. And suddenly my head was dizzy and after that i didn't remember anymore what happened and suddenly i'm in here. Ouch, my head is still dizzy..."

"Yo-you had to feel the same with me? Last time I was also being like that. Moreover i remembered that I was in the chrystarium with Ace and Deuce that time."

"Deuce? She is in here." Rem pointed besides her right side.

"Deuce?! "Ace exclaimed

"Ace-san? Wait, where am I? How can we are in here?"

"Ugh ... Huh, Deuce ?! Why are you in here? And how can I'm in the class now? Where is Seven?"

Ace began to notice all Class Zero, once again all Class Zero, also in the same condition as himself and some earlier. One by one, they began to wake up from their 'sleep' and find themselves already in the somewhere else by themselves. Each of them shows their own confusion.

"Huh?! Why are we here, are we not talking about COMM?" asked Cinque.

"Neither do I. What's the problem with the COMM system?" said Queen.

"Eight, how can I be here when my head gets dizzy? Do ya mean to give meh something in the food, yeah? Said that! Do you want to try to do something to meh?" Nine shouted across the room.

"How dare you to accuse me like I'm a bad guy, and I also think you're the one who tried to poison me before we finally got dizzy, and now I do not know how we can go back to class?" Eight cried no less than the opposite.

"Aww, my head was very dizzy... Eh! Why are we in this class? Not in the garden when we play the card game?"

"I do not know, Jack, I was dizzy when I was reading Ugh, is it a dream?"

"Argh! My head is really dizzy ..." Sice complained.

"It really feels like a dream, but it feels real." King commented with folded hands.

DEG! Feels like a dream? But it feels like real?

"Is it possible that we are dreaming together in congregation?" Jack asked.

"It makes no sense if we are dreaming while me and Cinque are in the same place, so are you in your own place."

If so, then the introduction of Machina and Rem as a new student of Class Zero is also a dream and they should not be in Class Zero anyway considering the introduction of a new student to Machina's meeting at Chrystarium in just one day, perhaps in the span of a few hours only.

If so, then ...

"Someone must have sedated us all Class Zero."

HEEEE ? ! Instantly the silence began to split.

"How do we get sedated if we were in a separate place at the same time and we were not eating anything, Machina?" Trey asked

"Maybe it's just me and Nine who's having lunch and we suspect it could be that canteen cooker who put something in our food." interrupted Eight.

"I also do not know, I'm just guess it, and considering that our country is capable of magic, it's not impossible for someone to use it for black magic and harm us, but I can not accuse anyone of doing this if there is no evidence. " clear Machina.

"It could be that what Machina says is true. Our headache is really very unnatural as if someone controlled it all. But the most surprising thing is that none of the people who came to help or just approached us the same once." Ace said

"You're right, Ace, and so was me. When I was overwhelmed with Rem and Cater that fainted together, no one came to help us as if we were ghosts, they were totally indifferent" Seven's story.

"Especially when you see their flat face you know, it's really bustling to see it, like a robot." Sice commented in an annoyed tone.

"Me and Ace-san were having that as well, and we had time to call people at the Chrystarium to help bring Machina-san to the clinic, but nobody took any notice of us." Deuce explained.

"Really? Are you all right, Machina?" asked the Rem as he held Machina's hand.

"I'm okay, but I'm not the only one experiencing dizziness, you know." Machina said to Rem soothingly also seemed to have a tendency to worry about him other than he about her.

"Is not it strange that some of them are the masterminds behind all this?" Given some of the Peristylium people do not like us. " thought Eight.

"Do not be prejudiced first, Eight, not sure they are like that, but there are still many good ones with us and accept us." said Seven.

"But speaking of other people, the Class First girl named Aki Minahara, she is very friendly to us and she is also act as Peristylium guide tour for us." said Queen.

"Yeah, you're right. What's wrong?" Seven asked.

"Well, the last time we met her, when we greeted her suddenly she ignored us like she did not know us." added Cinque.

"Really?" Deuce asked disbelieved over the Cinque's story.

"Hm ... it's hard to believe, but the fact is ... They're not like the students we know all the time, their behavior looks more like ... err ... like ..." words Queen paused to find the right words to describe the situation.
"Robots, they look like robots controlled by someone." Trey continued.

"Or they look more like zombies ... hiiii ... I'm afraid ..." Cinque shuddered.

"The word of 'zombie' for them is too much, Cinque, they do not eat us like zombies without a brain." Sice protested.

"Maybe this is an illusion." Ace said.

"Illusion?" asked all Class Zero simultaneously heard Ace's statement.

"The incident before we passed out and we scattered everywhere you thought it was an illusion?" asked Nine, who really did not believe in Ace's statement.

"Well, I didn't mean us are an illusion, people other than us who I think are illusions." Explained Ace clearly.
"You've seen for yourself how their behavior looks like not themselves, as if they're haunting."

"You mean we really are still there while they are not real, right?" Seven asked.

"So they're ghosts?" Jack said

"Hiii ... Cinque afraid with ghost ..."

"No. Not ghosts. They are still the real. But there is something that made them actually 'not real'. I confused how to explain this. This is too complicated."

"I more don't understand what did ya say that, kor-" Nine said but cut by Machina.

"Sst! Shut up, Nine! It's OK, Ace. Don't think too much like that. If in my opinion, there is someone over there who tried to manipulate our minds. Or rather, our subconscious mind," Machina said.

"Our subconscious mind?"

"Hm. Because I feel like I've had an earlier incident at Milites arriving in Peristylium until me and Rem become part of Class Zero and the last one I met with Ace and Deuce at the Chrystarium at another time." Machina took a breath for oxygen for a moment to speak again.

"I did not remember my past before I became Agito cadet, but strangely enough, I remembered my brother's death when nobody reminded me of it, nor did I know my brother's name and the cause of his death, since the crystals make us forget people die.

"That's why I want to read the Capital Liberation Campaign Report to find out news about my brother's death if it is true that he died in the battlefield. I'm sorry if I'm finally being honest with you right now. Because I can't tell you about my family when I'm still a new student and we just got to know. It's strange if I tell you a long story about it."

"It's okay, I understand now."

"But to me, the most bizarre thing I've ever felt until know is ..." Machina paused then he sighed after he talked too long.

"I felt like if... I had ever know you before. I mean before you saved me from that, i had ever know you so long. But i don't know where and when."

"Of course you already knew him, because he is a part of the legendary Zero Class, isn't he? That's why you should know a lot about us- "Nine said and Sice's turn cut him off.

"Shut up, Nine! From here you were a lot of pretentious, noisy, you know! Just listen to the story." Sice nagged.

"More than I know, I even feel that I've been a long-time friend with Ace."

"Do you feel like what I feel?" Ace asked

"You ... you also feel you had knew me?"

"Yeah .. I also feel that I've been close to you, like we're old friends."

"Really? I guess there's something wrong with our subconscious."

"Besides, I feel that we are close because we have something in common, don't you and me both love chocobos?" asked Ace spontaneously that made Machina shocked.

"What? How did you know that i love chocobo? I never even told you if I liked chocobo." Machina asked incredulously.

"Well, you're right, I do not know too, it suddenly flashed through my head about you, maybe we've been friends before?"

"In my opinion, maybe you two were formerly friends of childhood long-termed until you had forgotten about it, that's only natural when it comes to that." said Seven.

"Since I was a kid I have never met and befriended anyone other than you not the mother limiting our association with others and advising us not to make friends with strangers when we were kids?" Ace said.

"It's true that I do not remember my past, but as I recall, Rem is my only childhood friend I have here, and I do not know I've ever met Ace as a kid."

"Maybe you two do not care for each other if you actually meet often, just do not get acquainted but do not realize that you are meeting each other." said Seven who was cut off by Machina.

"But it's not just Ace that I think I know, as I and you are all old friends, and I feel like I've been part of Class Zero before."

"I'm getting more and more clueless with you, kora ~!"

"I also like that."

"Heh ?! Rem too?"

"Yeah, I feel what Machina feels like when I'm talking to Seven and Cater, I think I've really known them for a long time, and I've just met them." said Rem reassuringly.

"I still feel that way, and not only do I feel like I've been through it, but in a few moments when we're together, I feel like I remembered it all." added Cater.

"Could this be de javu?" said Queen.

"De javu?" Deuce frowned.

"Yes, De javu is a thing where we have experienced a new, natural-looking event before-"

"Trey-san, I did not ask about the meaning of de javu, I just asked about this truth." scolded Deuce.

"We are talking seriously instead of vaguely babbling." Eight nagged.

"Sorry. Habits ..." Trey said shyly as he scratched his head.

"Meaning if this is de javu, then we've lived a life before this, maybe some kind of ... reincarnation?" guess Deuce. Just silence as the answer because no one knows about it.

"Speaking of de javu, I feel like giving something to Taichou, even though Taichou is only one day as a teacher in our class and I have not met him in person." Sice explained.

"If I did, I felt like I liked one of the teachers here, but I did not know who I liked, and I had never met that teacher for now." Nine explained.

"If I ... I feel de javu that I am a boy band at this school." Jack said, standing up and raising his hand and closing his hand slowly.

Everyone was staring at his. Still, Jack was behaving silly at times like this.

"Jack, are you healthy?" Seven asked.

"Huh? Healthy? Of course I'm healthy, I'm serious if I ever felt like I was a boy band when I never knew what the band was like." defended Jack.

"Jack! What you're thinking does not sound like de javu, but the fancies you just happened to be in your dream." Eight said.

"I'm serious, guys, I never dreamed of being a boy band, but that's what I remember when I was with the band with Trey and King."

"Why do you carry my name?" Trey asked in surprise when his name was mentioned.

"Where do I know? It's what I remember, what do you think about this, King? Do you also experience de javu like me?" Jack asked King who had just been quiet.

King just quietly ignored the words of Jack.

"King! Did you hear me?" Jack asked in annoyance as King ignored him.

"The windows and doors are closed." King said shortly. Absolutely nothing to do with Jack's question.

"Huh? You mean you have de javu where the windows and the door was closed?" Nine asked.

"Which the windows and the doors do you mean? How come you don't connect to my question?"

"No, look at that." said King, pointing to their class window which was covered with a ... iron portal.

"What? How is that possible?" The Ace who was supposed to be sitting by the window was completely unaware that the window was completely closed. Some of the other children who were supposed to be sitting in the window did not even notice that the window was closed with an iron portal, so it was fun to talk about what had happened before they passed out.

"No wonder the room is dark, I just wanted to ask, and it was closed." says Jack."The door is also handcuffed." cried Cinque.

Instantly they turned their eyes toward the Cinque.

Nine then gets up from his place and then tried to break through the door that was chained to the handle.

"Damn! The door as access to our back garden is also locked."

"It's as if the outside access to this place is closed. I do not understand how this can happen?" Trey asked.

"But the main door of our class is not handcuffed, but it's still locked from the inside."

"Who did all this? Huh ?!" cried Nine in a rage.

"It seems that the person who has sedated us is doing all this. Someone out there has trapped us here." says Machina.

"Then we're imprisoned in our own classroom?" Deuce asked frantically.

"No, I do not want to be locked up here forever. Cater cried.

"But the garden windows and doors were locked from the inside." said Rem.

"But the main door is also locked, maybe locked from the outside like that." said Seven.

"Is this the damn masked taichou?" Nine accused.

"How come that supposed to be taichou?" Deuce wondered with Nine's accusation.

"Of course, was not when we went to class for the first time he attacked me, Cater, and Ace?"

"That's because we are attacking him first, so he reflexes against us." Cater said.

"But it could be taichou is the culprit." Queen said.

"We just got to know him, and his attitude was so cold at first, could he try to lock us up like this for a particular purpose?"

"But is not taichou said he's commanded by the mother to teach us? Is that also a mother's order?" Eight wondered.

"It could be a lie, he's obviously a liar, do not you at all suspect him, huh ?!" Nine asked.

"I do not know ... but it all looks convincing, but I know taichou is very kind though outside it looks cool." said Rem.

"But by the window covered with iron portals, it would not be possible for one person, but also some people to carry the heavy iron portals to cover all the windows in this class." says Machina.

"Then who are these people who do this to us?" Ace asked still looking for answers to all these events. Starting from headaches and stupor congregation, de javu about life that he never experienced at this time until locked from their own class.

"Popopopo ..."

"Huh ?! What's that sound? Who's laughing like that? It's so awful." Nine almost shivered in horror.
The typical laughter grew louder, making the whole room shiver. Because the sound of laughter is unknown origin while it is not possible one of the Class Zero laugh like that. The voice sounded shrill like a child's voice but terrible at the same time, as if trying to intimidate the Class Zero.

"OI! ANYONE ANYWHERE! WHO ARE YOU ?! DON'T BE LAUGHT LIKE IT! DAMN YOU!" Nine angrily whimpered as he spun around to find the source of the sound. The rest can only be silent heard a voice that is not clear its origin.

Suddenly behind Kurasame's commander's table billowing thick smoke that began to spread to almost the entire space, causing some children to cough by accidentally inhaling the smoke.

Suddenly...
POP ... DUK!

Moogle emerged after jumping from under Kurasame's desk and landed on the table. But the moogle sits sideways, showing only the body and the right face only.

"Mo-moglin? Did you laugh that way? asked Cinque to make sure. All also pay attention. All nodded their heads.

"Moglin?" Moglin asked.

"I'm not a Moglin." all frowning, confused by Moglin's answer as if he did not acknowledge himself, when he was really Moglin.

"I am ... MONOGLIN !"

Suddenly, all the Class Zero boys were shocked by the call from Moglin, no, I mean Monoglin.
What made them even more shocked was that the left side of his body and face were black, the red left eye was shaped like a thunderbolt and also a very horrible grinning mouth under his big nose where the right side of his head had no mouth. It was as if the body of the creature looked like a patch.