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Guest: Chapter 4's here!
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Ryoma froze as he ponder the same question once more: what the heck is going on? The moment he wakes up and tried to use the restroom, he saw two strangers laying on his floor wearing his clothes (since his first initial was stiched onto the clothing- it was his habit to mark his property in some way, for instance, his favorite hat has a letter R enclosed by a square).
Three options immediately entered his brain once his brain finally absorbed the information. One, Ryoma can call for his parents and seek help. Two, call the police and let the police take them away. Or three, do nothing: this is only a dream. Once he wakes up, everything will be normal.
He inhaled deeply. Okay, first, he shouldn't call his parents because he doesn't feel comfortable speaking to them at the moment right after their argument from the previous night. Also, who knows how his father would react and in the first place, seeking his advice was such a foolish thing to do. His mother, on the other hand, would react more strongly than he would and she would probably freak out, so it was best to keep this news away from his parents' ears. Second, at first glance, things aren't as bad as it seems. The two strangers haven't done anything except for sleeping, so for now, they aren't dangerous. But still... Ryoma couldn't comprehend why the strangers were wearing his clothes. Are they perverts? Ryoma's face turned slightly blue at that thought.
He gulped. Now the idea of calling a police were stronger than before. However, Ryoma pushed away that thought; he shouldn't be rash after all. For now, he'll keep an eye on them and then think about whether or not he should seek help.
And since the first and second option is out, that leaves the third option: go back to sleep. Ryoma nodded. Nice idea, he had to say. And in addition, it was still too early to wake up in his opinion. And since that was what he decided to do, Ryoma walked back to his bed and was about to flung the blankets over his body but he suddenly stopped.
He glanced back at the strangers.
'But first', Ryoma thought, 'I had to...'
And so he advanced toward the strangers... with an evil grin on his face.
Syu was the first one to stir awake and the first thing he saw once he wakes up wasn't a pleasant sight. It wasn't the fact that he was laying on the floor with no blanket covering him, not like he needed one anyways, but the problem was that it felt suffocating to be bounded by a rope.
He doesn't know how this happened, but for sure, whoever do this to him wouldn't be let off easily.
Syu could use magic to get out, but he knew he couldn't afford to be reckless. Staying in the human world was already taking a toll on his body and if he used up more energy, then the outcome would be unimaginable and Syu wouldn't want to know what will happen. Some things are meant not to be known by others; sometimes knowing less is better than knowing more.
Syu tapped Sei's shoulder, Sei, wake up! Sei!
Using his foot, Syu kicked Sei and his last resort finally stir the bluenette awake.
Syuu, wha-?
Sei, someone tied us up while we're resting. What should we do?
Should we change back to our snake form?
We can't, if we do that, we'll be more weaker than before! Syu shake his head violently. If they became weaker, they're no more than just regular humans with no power whatsoever. And at that point, anyone and everyone can attack them and they'll be defenseless, couldn't even fight back to the best of their abilities.
Then, let's see if this works... Sei bend down and opened his mouth. Then, using his teeth, he grabbed onto the rope around Syu's body and tried to break the rope.
This isn't working, Sei... Syu said after 10 minutes of Sei trying to help Syu.
"You guys aren't thinking of escaping are you?" Ryoma suddenly said. He was already awake when Syu was trying to wake Sei up. Because the two demons were too focused in their little world, they didn't notice Ryoma.
Ryoma... Sei thought.
"If you continued to resist, I'll call the police," Ryoma threatened. And then he thought of another great idea. "If you refuse to stop struggling, then I'll call my snakes and let them torture you. You wouldn't want that right?"
But we are the snakes... Sei thought.
Hahaha, I wonder how he'll react once he realize this...
Ryoma, however, misunderstand and thought that the change of expression on the snakes' faces was fear. "I see that you guys understand the situation you're in. But, just in case..." He bend down and flipped open the bedsheet and saw... nothing.
Ryoma dived under the bed and double check. "Where are you guys?"
After few minutes of checking, Ryoma finally gave up and crawled back out. The snakes were grinning, clearly amused.
Ryoma coughed, "It seems that they decided to go hunting for food, so consider this as your lucky day. The same thing wouldn't happen next time."
Next time, he said... Is he implying that he'll tie us up again? Syu teased despite knowing that Ryoma doesn't mean this.
"Hey... why aren't you guys talking?" Ryoma felt uncomfortable at the silent treatment from the snakes and what makes him feel more uncomfortable was the creepy twin grins on their faces. Just why are they finding this amusing?
"Ah, sorry. We are just communicating with ourselves," Sei replied.
"Through what? Eye contact?"
"Something like that."
"Ne Ryoma, I'm Syusuke and this is Seiichi. And we're the snakes that you rescued on that snowy mountain," Syusuke said suddenly, bringing Ryoma and Seiichi's attention to him.
"Hah? Yeah right. If that's so, then I might as well say that pigs can fly," he rolled his eyes.
Syusuke knew that this will be Ryoma's response, so he wasn't affected by Ryoma's behavior. "If we can prove it to you, will you believe in us then?"
Ryoma waved a hand, "Go ahead. Let me see what magic trick you'll show me."
Syusuke turned to Seiichi and said, "I'll do it." Sei nodded, knowing that this was the only way to go.
After making sure that Ryoma was watching, Syusuke closed his eyes and slowly, his body starts to shrink and all his human limbs and organs were replaced by a snake's body parts.
Ryoma couldn't believe what he was seeing. "What in the world...?" Can magic tricks perform something like this? This was simply unbelievable.
Syusuke had already finished transforming and he and Seiichi were watching Ryoma, wanting to see what he'll do next. They know that it must been shocking to Ryoma, and so Sei used this chance to explain things in detail, just so that Ryoma will be able to believe in them more.
"We are actually demon snakes, able to transform into a snake and a human whenever we want," Seiichi began. "Before you found us, we... escaped our homeland and came to the human world to seek shelter and become free at the same time. However, since we aren't familiar with entering the demon realm to the human realm, we ended up landing on a mountain rather than a city or a place that humans occupy in. Knowing nothing about this world, we couldn't really make any move without knowing what the possible consequences of it, so we decided to try to survive on the mountain until the snow, hopefully, stopped. Things however, as you can probably infer, didn't work as well as we thought and not only was finding food difficult, but the snow also came falling down nonstop, and that leads us to a state of starvation and hunger."
"Why did you escape your homeland?" Ryoma asked as that was the only detail that doesn't sit well with him.
Seiichi looked down, "I'm sorry, we couldn't share that information as of yet..."
Ryoma sighed, "And what is your plan now?"
Seiichi smiled nervously, "We were hoping that you'll let us stay here in the meantime until we find a place that we can call it ours."
"And if I say no, what would you guys do? Live in the streets?"
"To be honest, we didn't think about that because we both have a feeling that you'll accept our request. I mean, you do enjoy our presence when we are in our snake form."
Ryoma consider his options and finally agreed, "Alright, you can stay here if you're willing to eat snake food and live under my bed."
Seiichi nodded, "Of course."
"Umm... Ryoma? Do you perhaps have any clothes that matches our size?" Syusuke said for the first time after being ignored by the duo.
Ryoma turned to Syusuke and immediately regreted his decision, "Argh! Why aren't you wearing anything?! Cover yourself!" Syusuke was now in his human form and currently, he was naked, which caused Ryoma to turn away from him. Seiichi on the other hand, weren't fazed by Syusuke's naked form since they were friends when they're babies, so it was natural that they already seen each other naked.
Syusuke chuckled, "Why so shy, Ryoma? I don't have anything that you don't have."
Ryoma blushed, "Urusai!"
And so the teasing continues... and Syusuke still didn't bother wearing any clothes.
