xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Psycho Circus Guildhall, 11:55 p.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

With a roaring crowd of happy fans screaming from the bleachers, the Psycho Circus' tri-weekly "Ultimate Carnival" performance was coming to a close as Corvus flew around, close to the ceiling of the big top of the guildhall. Standing in the center, with the spotlight pointed directly at him, was Chester Woodstock, dressed in his usual ringmaster uniform.

"Ladies and Gentleman! As the night draws to a close, I have only one simple question to give you!" Chester asked of the crowd as he extended his arm, allowing Corvus to fly down and perch onto it. "Has the magic of the great Psycho Circus guild excited you once again?!" He asked.

'"Yeeahh!"' The audience screamed in agreeance.

"Well then, all I have left to say is... Good night to you all! And see you next time under the big top!" Chester exclaimed as Corvus flew up off his arm and proceeded to spark up, unleashed bolts of his red and white lightning that exploded into makeshift fireworks, dazzling the crowd as they begun to get up from their seats.

Perching back onto Chesters arm, the spotlight went out over him as he walked to the back area where the other members of the guild were. As he walked in, a cocky smirk on his face, Corvus proceeded to peck him in the side of the head, knocking off his top hat.

"Ouch!" Chester exclaimed angrily as Corvus flew up into the air as the puppeteer looked at the crow with annoyance. "What was that for?!" He exclaimed.

"For trying to drown me in a water tank!" Corvus replied.

"That was weeks ago!" Chester complained as the seven foot tall Gigantia and the duct taped mime Silencio had walked over to the leader of their small group.

"Hey, calm down, Chester." Gigantia said as she looked at Chester with Silencio putting his hand on his shoulder to stop him from fighting the crow.

"Ugh, fine. Matter of fact, I'm in too much of a good mood to be fighting poultry." Chester said as he rolled his eyes as he moved Silencios hand off his shoulder.

"Who you calling "poultry?!"' Corvus angrily exclaimed in response as he begun to spark up until he felt the feeling of a flat wooden board lightly hit him as he turned around to notice Camilla, holding a clipboard and dressed in a tight blue V-neck shirt with blue jean-like shorts that exposed much of her legs, heeled open toed shoes and her hair tied back in a long ponytail, had approached the Celestial Spirit.

"No fighting, either of you." Camilla said as she looked at Corvus and Chester, with Marlene and Pietro walking up to the group.

"Hey, Gigantia. Great job out there." Marlene said with a smile towards Gigantia.

"I should be thanking you, you were practically carrying me through the whole dance routine." Gigantia said with an earnest expression.

"You too, Silencio. That was a great performance for your Invisible-Make Magic to have the audience play "invisible golf."' Marlene said as she looked at Silencio, prompting the mime to make an embarrassed expression from the praise and turn away, hiding his face.

"Fine job out there, Chester." Pietro said casually to the ringmaster, prompting a smile full of cockiness to form on his face.

"Oh? Finally accepting me as the great ringleader of the show? I know, all my hard work entertaining the crowd as the presenter has paid off wondrously." Chester said with an overconfident look as the others looked at him with embarrassment.

"I think someone's getting a big head, right?" Marlene whispered towards Camilla as the S-class wizard nodded in agreeance.

"Hey! Where's my praise!?" Corvus exclaimed as the group looked towards him as Vulp and Baurs had walked over to him.

"I think you mean "our" praise." Baurs said as Vulp nodded in agreeance.

"You guys did great for your first time entertaining a crowd." Camilla said with a smile to the Celestial Spirits and Earth Elemental.

"Thank you." Baurs said casually as Vulp and Corvus both gained smiles from the compliments.

"Frankly, I think you only did well because the audience thought you were my pets." Chester said as the creatures looked at him with frustration. "Speaking of which, where is the "king of douchebags?"' He asked as the others took offense to his comment.

"Hey, he has a name you know…" Marlene said with annoyance.

"Are you saying he doesn't act like a douche?" Chester said as Pietro, Camilla and Marlene looked at eachother for a half second as Vulp, Corvus and Baurs looked at the Psycho Circus wizards.

"...Well..." Camilla said as she scratched the back of her head.

"...Fair point..." Marlene muttered.

"Granted, he needs to work on his grouchiness but I wouldn't use such an insult to describe his him overall." Pietro said with his hands in his pockets.

"Regardless, where is he?" Chester said as he looked around the back area as he saw the other members of the guild getting changed and relaxing at the tables from completion of their performances for the show until he spotted a lone table in the back that had whom he was looking for. "There you are... Time to rub it in his face..." He thought with a grin of superiority forming as he walked over to the table.

"Hey!" Camilla said aloud as she followed after Chester with the others following behind as Chester approached the individual at the table.

Sitting at the table, hunched over as he looked down at a small black book with a pen, was Bernard. Dressed with his usual beanie with a brown t-shirt and black baggy pants with black shoes, he was staring at the book and facing away from the group of people approaching him from behind.

"Did you hear all the people out there? Cheering for me and the show we put on?" Chester said with a cocky expression. "Gotta say, it must be so hard to be the one person in the entire guild who thinks he is so important as to not actively participate in the show and hide in the back area doing nothing the whole time." He said mockingly as Bernard continued to stare at the table. As he talked, Pietro approached Camilla.

"Camilla, I thought these two were done having fights?" Pietro asked as Gigantia approached.

"I can slightly answer that... Chester still views Bernard as his main rival for "the star" of the guild." Gigantia said as she looked at Camilla and Pietro. "When we left on jobs, Chester was working up new ideas for puppets to use with his magic so he could finally face you again by the way Camilla." She said to the S-class wizard who rolled her eyes in response.

"Great..." Camilla said unenthusiastically.

"Did you know I have built three brand new puppets to use at my disposal?" Chester said aloud as Bernard still wasn't facing him. "I saw you had picked up one new monster with that big lizard made of rocks but it looks like the advantage is still in my court when it comes to fighting ability and overall talent for performing in a "performers guild."' He said with a continually mocking tone.

"Knock it off!" Corvus said with an aggravated tone as Camilla stopped the crow from going forward.

"Hold on... Look." Camilla said as she stopped the Celestial Spirit as she noticed Bernard was still not moving.

"Hey! Are you even listening!?" Chester said as the other members of the guild noticed that Bernard was continuing to ignore Chester. As he raised his voice, Bernard looked up and turned around as he noticed everyone was staring at him and then shifted his eyes to look at the annoyed face on Chester.

"...When did you get here?" Bernard said with an honest tone, prompting everyone to look at him with disbelief.

'"Did he not even notice Chester was here?!"' The collective of all the Psycho Circus wizard thought simultaneously.

"...What?!" Chester exclaimed loudly as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his marionette cross in frustration.

"I didn't write you anything for the show so I forgot you showed up." Bernard said as he turned back around. "That outta piss him off... Hehehe." He thought with a chuckle as he managed to smirk.

"Pff…" Camilla snorted as she started to laugh with some of the members of the guild like Pietro and Marlene begun to chuckle as well.

"Why you little-" Chester said threateningly until the sound of glass bottles clanking entered the room and prompted everyone to turn their heads.

"Your alcohol carrying savior has arrived!" Anatoli said as he was carrying six large bottles of booze in his hands.

"Guess now that everyone is gone, it's time for the traditional afterparty in town." Pietro said as the other members of the guild cheered loudly in response as they all started to head into Hemlock to party.

"Chester- Yeouch!... Ugh, let's go. You need to clear your head." Silencio said, after ripping off his duct tape over his mouth and hurting himself from the sensation to speak. Putting his hand once again on Chesters shoulder, Chester took a deep breath and put away his marionette cross.

"Fine... I could use a drink." Chester said as he walked away with Silencio.

"See you guys in town. Sorry about him too." Gigantia said as she followed her teammates out of the guild.

"Shall we get going as well?" Pietro said as he looked at Marlene, Camilla, Anatoli and Bernard as the creatures approached Bernard.

"Yeah, let's go have some fun." Marlene said.

"Woo!" Anatoli screamed in delight as he floated away on his ball with Pietro walking behind him with Marlene following as well.

"You ready to go?" Camilla said as she looked over at Bernard as the Celestial Spirits and Earth Elemental returned back into his body.

"Nah, I'll just stay here and clean- Ahh!" Bernard said until he was grabbed by the collar of his shirt and was yanked out of his seat at the table.

"Oh no you don't." Camilla said with a troubled expression as Marlene, Pietro and Anatoli looked on. "I'm not letting you sit around in the guild all night when you're work is done for awhile and there are people who want to hang out with you so you're coming along and having some fun." She said in a commanding tone as Bernard struggled to get out her grasp as she dragged him.

"Oh come on! This place is going to be a mess tomorrow and I don't want to deal with cleaning it then!" Bernard complained as he was still being pulled by Camilla on the floor.

"And it doesn't matter if you clean it up now or later." Pietro said as he looked at Bernard.

"Come on! Let's drown in the waves of rum!" Anatoli said as he started to chug an entire bottle from the large stack of the liquor bottles in his arms.

"We may want to start before Anatoli drinks them all and makes an even bigger mess in here." Camilla said as she looked at Anatoli continue to down the bottle he was drinking. "And you are coming too... Or else." She said as she looked back at Bernard with a stern look in her eyes.

"...Or else what?" Bernard said as he begun to sweat as she bent down and whispered something in his ear. "Okay! Let's go!" He said nervously as he quickly jumped up from the ground and walked past the others.

"What did you tell him?" Marlene said with interest as Pietro and Anatoli followed behind Bernard, to keep an eye on him.

"This." Camilla said with a smirk as she whispered in Marlenes ear. After backing away, Marlene blushed profusely and looked at her with surprise.

"...Wow... You'd do that to him?" Marlene said with surprise.

"He'll be annoyed for only a little bit... But he'll like it soon after. Hehehe." Camilla said with a smirk as she and Marlene left the guildhall.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tenthouse, 8:10 a.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Laying back on his bed with Camilla, who was dressed in a green tank top and brown shorts and with her hair down, as she clung to him in her sleep. Bernard, dressed in a black t-shirt and white shorts, was staring at the ceiling as he clutched at his head with a disgruntled look on his face.

"I said I didn't want to drink too much and freaking Anatoli wanted to have a chugging contest... Least I won... Ten bottles later... Ugh." Bernard thought with a headache. "I'm surprised I have a better constitution for alcohol then most... My body is like a twig from my pacemaker and yet I can handle knocking back nearly a dozen bottles..." He thought as he scratched his head as he tried to ignore the splitting feeling in his skull.

Shifting his head downward, he looked at Camilla as she was laying on his chest as she nuzzled her face against his body. Prompting him to blush, he quickly turned his head away from his beautiful girlfriend and roommate.

"...Does she have to grind on me every time I wake up?" Bernard thought with embarrassment as he felt Camilla start to rub her body against his. "Guh! Faahh…" He mumbled as Camilla tightened her embrace around his waist as she continued to rub herself against Bernard.

As she continued to nuzzle herself against his body, Bernard looked over at the nightstand next to the bed as he noticed something familiar. Reaching over with his right hand, Bernard had picked up his small black book that he was looking over the night prior before he went out partying with the Psycho Circus guild.

"That jackoff, Chester, said he had made three new puppets for his arsenal... If he wasn't ringmaster for the show, I could come up with a routine for whatever he has but I'd rather die than have a conversation with that guy... Lucky he doesn't need my help with doing his bit for the show..." Bernard thought as he lifted up his book and begun to skim through it in his right hand.

"Hmmm..." Camilla muttered in her sleep as Bernard noticed her stirring. Wanting to let her sleep longer, Bernard moved his left arm around her waist in a light hug, gently rubbing her backside with his hand. "Ahhh…" She exclaimed contently as she went back to laying on him, a smile forming on her face as she enjoyed using him as a pillow.

"Can't say I never did anything for you besides guild work now, huh?" Bernard thought as he looked down at Camilla while he comforted her in her sleep before turning his attention back to his book. "Okay... That one idea could work and that one would be interesting too because people haven't seen one of those before but I'm not sure where to find one." He thought with a contemplative expression forming.

Before he could continue his internal string of thoughts, a feminine hand reached upwards from below and swiped the book out of his palm. Upon seeing this, Bernard gazed downward to see the face of a now awake Camilla, sporting a rather disappointed expression, looking him in the eyes.

"...It's the day after the show and we're all on break, do you seriously have to spoil a good moment like this to look at your little book?" Camilla said as she readjusted herself to be looming over Bernard, face to face with him as his head was still on the pillow.

"Can you blame me? After all the drinking last night, I needed to make sure I had brain cells still left in my head." Bernard replied back.

"Well it's nice to see you still have a sense of humor so you have to be fine." Camilla said as her disappointed expression changed into a more calmer one with a smile. "Especially since you have enough brainpower to give me a rub... Hehehe." She said with a chuckle as she tilted her head back to see Bernards hand on her lower back.

"Um?! Damn it, were you awake that whole time?!" Bernard exclaimed in annoyance as he removed his hand from her while Camilla was still straddling him.

"So what are you working on now?" Camilla said as she got off of Bernard and sat with her legs off the bed, starting to look at some of the newer entries in Bernards book.

"What the- Hey! Don't look at that!" Bernard said as he sat up and tried to get his book out of Camillas hands but she put her hand up to keep him away so she could continue to read his writings.

"Whoa... What is all this?" Camilla said as she turned her head towards Bernard, a look of concern forming on his face. "What's with these little drawings you have in here, what are they?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's... Ideas..." Bernard said with some embarrassment as he shifted himself to sit next to her with his legs off the bed.

"These look like your normal routine ideas but it's for some of the pets you have and some monsters I don't recognize." Camilla said as she handed the book back to Bernard.

"Yeah, that's what they are..." Bernard said as he grabbed his book back and put it on the nightstand.

"Soooo... Why are you coming up with ideas for stuff you don't-... Ohhhh… I get it now." Camilla said until she realized what Bernard was thinking as a sly expression was forming on her face, prompting Bernards eye to twitch with bother.

"Don't say it..." Bernard muttered as he put his hand on his face.

"You're getting interested in finding more pets to have at your disposal so you could use them in the show." Camilla said as she noted Bernards troubled face.

"...I hate the fact Anatoli had a good idea for once..." Bernard said as he scratched his head.

"Happens every once in awhile. Hehehe." Camilla joked as she looked at Bernard. "Granted, his way of saying that you should find more pets was a bit dimly presented with the "let's lob off his leg and fill a prosthetic with starfish" bit." She continued.

"I'm handicapped enough, thank you very much." Bernard said as he poked against his Lacrima pacemaker with his finger. "But there's just one problem before I could even begin to find any more monsters."

"Containing them?" Camilla answered.

"Contai- Huh? Yeah, actually..." Bernard replied until he noticed that Camilla guessed correctly.

"Score one for me!" Camilla exclaimed with personal satisfaction over her accuracy.

"Yeah, uh-huh..." Bernard said sarcastically. "Anyway, yeah. Corvus and the others living inside my Lacrima has been pure luck at this point and they just happened to be compatible. If I were to find other monsters, I would need some other way to keep them around." He continued.

"Any ideas?" Camilla questioned.

"Not really... I'm barely even a wizard so it's not like I could learn a spell or anything to seal off something." Bernard said as he continued to think.

"And it's not like I can just lock a bunch of monsters in my barriers. My boxes are strong but they do have limits." Camilla said. "Also, you gotta stop with those "barely a wizard" comments. After everything that's happened, you are practically one of us now." She said with a serious tone as she caught Bernards attention.

"Kinda hard to agree with that notion when my only magical feat is hording mystical monsters inside my body." Bernard retorted as Camilla stood up from the bed, facing him as he looked up at her.

"Then if you really want to learn some kind of legitimate spells, why don't you go in the archive in the guild?" Camilla said.

"Yeah, I'll- wait... We still have one?" Bernard said until he questioned Camilla back, confused.

"Yeah. Why wouldn't we?" Camilla said with surprise.

"I've never cleaned it." Bernard replied.

"Well, Master Barnum uses his spatial magic to alter the inside of the guild all the time. Usually he makes the rooms he doesn't have any need for at the moment disappear until someone needs them." Camilla said as she scratched her face with her finger.

"I'm surprised he's never done that for the bathroom as a sick joke..." Bernard said as he gave another criticizing comment about his fathers unfunny antics.

"I think your father wouldn't be that cruel for a joke." Camilla said.

"The guy wants his spell-less, handicapped, ne'er-do-well of a son, who barely counts as an actual wizard, to be the guildmaster of his guild of magical performers... And making a bathroom disappear sounds like the most "cruel" thing you think my old man can think of?" Bernard thought with a raised eyebrow as he looked at Camilla.

"Hey, don't give me that look." Camilla said back as she noticed Bernards judging gaze.

"Think you can go ask the old clown if he can open the archive for me to look around at some old books of spells and whatnot?" Bernard asked as Camilla looked at him a raised eyebrow of her own.

"Why don't you just ask him yourself?" Camilla replied.

"He's the last person I want to talk to considering the topics that will come up in the conversation..." Bernard said as he stood up from the bed and proceeded to walk to the changing curtain to get dressed.

"Have you even talked to him since you came back?" Camilla asked.

"Nope. He normally just says some comment out loud in my vicinity but I haven't said two words to the guy... And I don't plan on talking to him either." Bernard replied.

"Hmmm..." Camilla mumbled to herself with a concerned tone as she watched Bernard go behind the changing curtain.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Psycho Circus Guildhall, 11:03 a.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Following several hours of cleaning the inside of the guildhall after the prior nights show, the various members of the Psycho Circus guild had arrived as Camilla was propping up the job requests on the board for the wizards to find work. As she did this, she noticed a peculiar piece of paper amongst the pile, as she was putting up the fliers, that had a noticeably large red S marker on it, signifying an S-class quest.

"Hey, is that what I think it is?" Anatoli said as he approached with Harriet, the large and bearded sister of Pietro, and the conjoined twins, Nole and Andy overhearing from a nearby table.

"An S-class quest? We don't see those every day in here." Harriet said as she stood up and walked over to Camilla with some of the members of the guild appearing nearby.

"Only problem with being a lesser known guild." Nole said.

"Never getting the larger grade quests with higher payouts." Andy said as Camilla looked at the S-class flier.

"This is definitely a new quest, some of the fliers I have been putting up lately have been some older ones no one has taken yet." Camilla said as she looked at the S-class quest logo on the paper.

"Most of the time we get these, either you have already left to do it or- Blerguh!" Anatoli said until the sudden feeling of a hand made of hair covered his mouth, coming from Harriets large prehensile beard, to stop him from completing his sentence. Looking at the small crowd of Psycho Circus wizards, all of the female members in the group, with Camilla and Harriet included. were giving Anatoli a harsh glare.

'"We don't speak his name in the guild."' The collective of the guilds female wizards said aloud, as Anatoli grabbed Harriets beard hand and took it off his mouth.

"Okay! Okay!... Usually these quests are gone by now because Camilla takes the job already or... "you know who" comes by and takes it." Anatoli said, being cautious.

"Thankfully he isn't around..." Harriet said with a shiver as her beard hair cringed in response. "So Camilla, you taking the job?" Harriet asked of the S-class wizard who was looking at the paper with an unsure expression.

"I don't know." Camilla said as she looked over the paper.

"What's the job for?" Nole asked.

"I was going to ask that!" Andy screamed at his conjoined twin.

"Well I asked first!" Nole angrily replied.

"Shut up you two!" Camilla screamed back as the pair stopped fighting upon hearing her yell. "It says; "Please help lift our haunted curse from the oldest building in our town. Destination: Oak Town. Payment on completion: 360,000 Jewels."' She said as she read out the flier, prompting the other wizards to look at eachother confused.

"360,000? That's it?" Anatoli said with surprise.

"For an S-class quest, that's remarkably cheap for being considered dangerous enough to be ranked that highly." Harriet said with concern.

"Has to be a prank or something." Andy said.

"Or the poster is short on funds." Nole said.

"Some quests change prices based on how long they have been active, we just got the quest today so it might be an old one and the request sender might be running low on money to place it higher, regardless of the marker." Camilla said, trying to theorize the nature of the request.

"You gonna take it?" Harriet asked as Camilla continued to look at the flier.

"Oak Town..." Andy said.

"...Oak Town?" Nole said.

'"Why does that sound familiar?"' The conjoined twins said in unison.

Meanwhile, downstairs from the big top, was the guild archive room of Psycho Circus. Strung amongst the room and packed with dust in the air, books upon books were held on shelves with ladders laying against the walls. Sitting at a table as his beastly allies were looking around at the library, Bernard was skimming over a series of open texts.

"Fire spells... Water magic... A spell for turning frogs into bread? Who the hell needs an ability like that?!" Bernard complained as he continued to look at the spell books as Vulp used his tail, transformed into hairy hands, to pick up some of the books off the floor as Baurs stood around, looking at Bernard read.

"Achoo!" Corvus sneezed as he flew above the group. "For the love of all that is holy, why is this room so dusty?!" The crow bellowed in annoyance.

"Because my father likes to use his magic to make rooms in the guildhall disappear when they aren't needed and I doubt anyone has needed this room in a good while so now that we are here- Achoo!" Bernard explained until some dust got under his nostrils and he sneezed.

"Ugh... Why are we here? You didn't tell us why yet." Corvus asked with a wing over his beak as Baurs and Vulp looked at Bernard, curious for an answer as Bernard wiped his nose on his arm.

"I'm looking for any kind of spell in these books that could potentially allow me to seal monsters somehow..." Bernard said as he continued to scan the books with his eyes.

"Huh?" Corvus grunted in confusion as Vulp and Baurs looked at eachother with similar confusion. "Why are you looking up containment spells?" The crow asked as Bernard closed the book in front of him and proceeded to turn his attention towards the Celestial Spirits and the Earth Elemental.

"If you want the truth, okay then. I... Have been thinking over what Anatoli suggested a number of days ago." Bernard said as he took his beanie off and scratched his head. "Having you guys participate in the shows now, it gave me a bit of an idea..." He continued.

"And that would be?" Baurs asked.

"Maybe... It could be interesting for the show to have more creatures as additional attractions to spruce things up..." Bernard said as he put his beanie back on his head. "Only issue with that is... How the hell are we going to do that?" He said as he looked at the creatures.

"Whoa whoa whoa… Are you saying monkey boy had a decent idea for once?" Corvus said in surprise at Bernards rather weird agreeance with Anatoli.

"He's a odd guy but even I can admit, it might not be such a bad idea." Bernard said with crossed arms. "But like I said, how the hell can we pull that off?" He said with an annoyed face.

"Well this is definitely different than what we were expecting. You learning magic and becoming a legitimate wizard and member of your families guild." Baurs said with interest as Vulp and Corvus made faces filled with optimistic enthusiasm.

"I wouldn't say that. I'm still not a wizard. I'm still not a member of Psycho Circus and as for learning magic... I'm having zero luck with that." Bernard said as he turned around, back to the books. "Besides... I'm still on "probation" and junk..." He continued as Vulp and Corvus' expression turned from optimistic to sullen as Baurs turned her head and noticed their faces.

"Something wrong?" Baurs said quietly as Vulp and Corvus looked the large rock lizard.

"It's... Complicated..." Corvus said as he rubbed the back of his neck with his wing as Vulps ears pointed downward in a depressed manner.

"Damn it! This is the third book of spells I've skimmed through and I still can't find a spell that can seal a monster somehow!" Bernard said as he stood back up.

"Why don't you just seal them inside your Lacrima like you do with us?" Corvus asked as he flew over to the table.

"It's not as simple as that. You, Vulp and Baurs are very specific cases and Formosa... Well that one still disturbs me as to how that works..." Bernard said as he looked at Corvus.

"We would need a lot of cages." Baurs said as Bernard and Corvus put their hand and beak on their faces, respectively, in annoyance.

"Yeah and maybe bait or something..." Bernard said as he shook his head. "But all of that costs money and it's money I don't have at the moment." He said with agitation.

As they continued to talk in the dusty archive, the group turned their heads as they noticed the door up the stairs had opened as Camilla proceeded to enter.

"Hey." Camilla said casually as the group looked at her.

"Something wrong?" Bernard said with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, no... Not something wrong but..." Camilla said as she pulled out the S-class flier from upstairs.

"Nole and Andy didn't clog a toilet again with their disturbingly large turds, did they?" Bernard said with an unimpressed expression as the creatures made disturbed faces after he said that.

"What? No. Something else." Camilla said as she scratched her head. "Hey, Bernard...?" She said as she hardened her expression.

"Yeah?" Bernard said with confusion.

"I want to make a deal." Camilla replied as the others looked at her with surprise.

"...Huh?" Bernard mumbled.


Oh? Oh? Oh? What do we have here? Well, it seems after all that hooplah with the artists and the Balsamicos, it was back to the normal guild stuff at Psycho Circus... Until the end. With the recent Ultimate Carnival show over and Bernard having come inspired to figuring out how to come up with another way to get access to monsters, he searched around in a series of spell books to find a way to seal monsters but has come up short but Camilla appeared to give him a deal of some kind. What is this deal? Does it have something to do with this S-class quest? Out of the fire and into the frying pan, see you next time on Menagerie!

Authors note: (Before you ask, Chester wasn't the returning character but within this chapter, I dropped a hint as to who the character was within the chapter. I'll leave you all to figure out the hint :P)