Everyone was staring at the empty husk that was Luigi.

Red Toad, Alice, E. Gadd, and the recently-new Mokou and Cirno.

"...has Luigi always been like this?" Alice turned to E. Gadd and Red Toad in which they both shook their heads.

The professor sighed. "He was always a bit scared but never traumatised."

Red Toad pondered. "How did he end up in this situation anyway? He looks completely fine."

Alice thought and then looked at Luigi. "You know, I saw him all damaged and beaten when Mokou brought him in... but..."

She looked at Luigi's face now. Completely healed and fine... but that traumatised face indicated that the incident was real.

Red Toad was just casually talking to E. Gadd. "Can't say I blame the man. I would say to him 'use your super jump to get out' but he probably got a head rush from panicking and didn't think of it..."

Meanwhile, Mokou was deep in thought about something. "Huh. Wait a second. He WAS damaged before... How is he fine now?"

The ice fairy, known as Cirno, finally got back her tomboyish attitude. "Well, luckily, I snuck into the gross man's belongings and found this!" She whipped out the 'buff-against-youkai' Elixr.

Everyone stared at it. Mokou snatched it away much to Cirno's dismay. The fairy protested. "H-hey!"

The immortal girl slowly pulled out her finger. "I wonder if..."

She slowly rubbed her finger on the word 'Youkai' that was plastered on the bottle.

And then another word was hidden underneath. Mokou struggled to breathe a bit. It... couldn't possibly be.

"What?" Everyone turned. "What is it?"

Mokou turned the bottle around so that everyone could see the label.

The label, previously saying 'Youkai Elixr' was now saying 'Hourai Elixr'.

...But nobody understood. Mokou sighed and then explained it.

"It's how I'm immortal."

E. Gadd shook his hands. "Wait, wait! If Luigi is IMMORTAL, if that is what you're truly implying, then he should be fine! Immortals are invincible and-"

"People who drink the Hourai Elixr ARE immortal, yes." Mokou interrupted. "But they still feel pain. I don't want to imagine Luigi's pain... but I saw them."

E. Gadd's stomach churned. "How bad is the damage?"

"Well, all the damages are healed, but I noticed several slices to the stomach, blood patches around his eyeballs, as well as various other brutal details."

Cirno actually used her brain for once. "Brutal details, huh? Must be that scary lady Yuuka!"

Alice then continued. "Regardless, I contacted Reimu as soon as I put Luigi in bed, she should be here right about now-"

And then, Alice's door was kicked down!

"Alright, who's traumatised the innocent green man?!" Reimu was pissed.

Cirno raised her arms in surrender. "Yuuka! Yuuka did!"

Reimu turned to leave but Alice spoke loudly to stop her. "Reimu, please. Yuuka isn't here now. I'm sure everyone had their reasoning..."

What Alice didn't know was that Yuuka was the one who started it and brutally traumatised Luigi.

"..." Reimu had an idea clicking into her head. "Oi, mushroom thing."

Red Toad pointed at himself and Reimu nodded.

"Come with me. I know someone that'll teach you all about Gensokyo."

Mokou knew who this 'someone' was. "Ah, Keine-sensei?"

"Her, yes." Reimu confirmed.

Alice nodded. "I see. I need to head to the Human Village too. I should talk with a certain someone about the elixr."

Mokou sighed. "I guess that leaves me to supervise Luigi along with the nutty professor."

But there was a protestor in the room. Red Toad. "Hold on! What if this is someone leading me to a death trap and- AGH-"

Red Toad was picked up effortlessly by Reimu. "Come on, we're leaving."

"Noooo, wait!"

Everyone left, leaving just Mokou and E. Gadd. Alice took the empty elixr from Mokou before leaving. Mokou frowned as she looked upon Luigi.

"Please... let his suffering be over soon."

Voila, the Human Village. Red Toad was here before but he was still amazed by all the beautiful details of the village.

The water was even blue-r than in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Alice went forward and found who she was looking for instantly. A purple-hair bunny girl who was selling medicine. Reisen.

Everyone followed Alice to be in front of Reisen.

The rabbit noticed Red Toad. "Huh. The 'other world treasure' that Kaguya had was actually a living thing..."

Reimu noticed Alice's intentions. "Ah, right, you plan to interrogate the rabbit about the elixr."

Alice didn't lie and pulled out the empty bottle. Reisen gulped. "Fine, fine, you deserve the truth. It started when Luigi was first leaving..."

"Now then, I do believe you should be on your way." Eirin stated while having a guilty expression on her face.

"Oh, yeah, thank you!" Luigi thanked the residents of the mansion while being cautious of Kaguya's smug grin. And with that, he was out of the way.

Everyone went back into serious mode. Eirin looked at Kaguya. "You know what's up, don't you?"

Kaguya turned her head to Eirin. "Yes, you gave him the Hourai Elixr, didn't you?"

Eirin stayed silent.

"..." Kaguya didn't show any malice to Eirin. "May I ask why, though?"

"..." Eirin finally spilled the beans. "Those were the eyes of someone who suffers on numerous occasions. I could tell just by his tone that he was on a desperate mission. He is definitely an outsider and Gensokyo is brutal to those. I gave him the Hourai Elixr out of sheer mercy from this world."

"So, you'd rather have him suffer eternally rather than to let him die at peace?"

"...It was an impossible decision. Both scenarios would likely be very bad."

"...True. Well, Reisen, I suppose you should pack up to sell medicine for the Human Village."

"...I know." Reisen nodded.

"...And that's it."

"...So... Everyone just took pity on him?!" Red Toad snapped. "Don't give us that! He tries his best!"

"Hm. That's it." Reimu nodded. "Luigi drank the elixr and is now eternally suffering. Not much I can do except wait for his condition to recover."

"...how long will it take?"

Reimu blanked out upon that question. "I don't know. I'm not a doctor. Eirin is."

She grabbed Red Toad's hand.

"Anyway, YOU, I still need to bring you along to Keine."

And so Reimu dragged Red Toad along.

And then they met a silver-hair girl with a blue dress.

"Keine. I got a new student for you." Reimu casually said as she dropped Red Toad brutally.

"E-eh?!" The woman known as Keine was confused. "I can teach him, sure.. but I have various questions and-"

"What? Spit it."

"W-well.. you see... This mushroom thing looks like a youkai... and... This all seems sudden! Like, why would you suddenly drop him off here and say 'go teach lol' to me so suddenly? Is there a reason?"

"Keine, please, I don't have much time. I'm stressed and solving an incident. Can the 50 questions wait after that?"

"Fine..."

Keine sighed.

Reimu nodded in satisfaction as she went to leave.

"A-ah, you're just leaving me with him?!" Keine shouted.

And then Reimu was gone.

In the middle of the classroom, Red Toad raised his hand. "Keine!"

"It's Miss Keine, weird mushroom head."

The classroom was filled with various students ready to learn about Gensokyo.

"Keine-sensei!" Red Toad corrected himself as he slumped back into his seat. "What am I doing here to begin with?"

"School life. Ready to learn about the history of Gensokyo."

"Yes! School life!" Red Toad stood on his chair. "An important part of everyone's life, despite how everyone says how hell it is!"

Red Toad paused and then pointed out the massive elephant in the room.

There were children amongst grown-ups at deaths door in the same class.

"But don't schools usually have an age gap?!"

"Now, now." Keine waved her hands to calm Red Toad down as the latter sat back down on his seat. "If you say 'gap' then the troll may appear."

"...Uh, no thanks, I'll get back to work!"

...Red Toad slammed his head down in the courtyard of the school.

"...things were making sense until a 'Scarlet Mist Incident'..." He groaned. "How much history does this isekai world have to begin with...?"

He looked up in the clouds as he continued his rants. "Keine keeps saying the 'Outside World' is the famous country Japan... And Japan is nowhere near the Mushroom Kingdom... how the heck do I get home with Luigi?"

Keine was sitting on a bench near Red Toad. "You're working hard."

"I'm not done yet, though. Next up is a Cherry Blossom Incident and then I'll stop for then."

"Ah, I do believe that's where Yukari really started interfering..." Keine pondered.

"Yukari? That troll?"

And then an unknown voice spoke out. "Troll? That's a really nasty word."

A gap appeared in front of Red Toad as he stood up. Out emerged the main antagonist of the story herself, Yukari. She sat on the gap while holding a fan to hide her smug grin.

Usually, any type of Toad would flee immediately. It always worked for Bowser, so surely it would work for Yukari.

But this specific Toad did not back down. He clenched his fist, showed his teeth and glared in anger at Yukari.

Yukari didn't take anything from it. She just found it amusing. "I'm always so unwanted by you two. It's like a dramatic rom-com..."

Keine didn't flinch either. "So, anything you want, Yukari?"

She just lazily relaxed atop her gap. "Not really. I just came to say hi. I also checked in on Luigi, but a certain immortal phoenix insisted I wouldn't touch him. There was also an ice fairy who tried to attack me but that was no problem."

Red Toad stepped forward, his confidence getting a bit too much here. "Yeah, you better not have touched him..."

"Someone's a bit salty. Not to worry. Luigi seemed a bit dangerous to touch anyway. He's an empty husk now."

"...I suppose you're not gonna tell me why."

"Yuuka did indeed do it. So feel free to go all out on her. But there's probably no way to get Luigi's emotion back."

Red Toad clenched his fist tighter. "So what happens if we do bring his emotion back?"

"Then I fully await for the day...

he saves this world from the real upcoming incident."

And with those cryptic words, Yukari was gone.

Red Toad was baffled. Keine was about to say something when Alice walked in. Alice went straight to Red Toad.

"Uh, you might wanna come with me."

Red Toad's objections were halted as Alice dragged him by the hand to the main village. There, she saw Mokou holding hands with Luigi. She lead him all the way here.

Luigi didn't even blink. His creepy smile was gone and replaced with a depressed blank stare. Black circles were under his eyes.

Red Toad was shocked. "Wait, why is Luigi here? He should be resting!"

"Well, uh..." Mokou struggled to find the words. "I was trying to show him the many wonders of Gensokyo to get him back to normal, but he stayed silent the entire time. I was at the docks alone when I ran into a certain someone. I, of course, asked this someone if they could help Luigi get back to a normal state, and they said yes! So, I brought Luigi all the way here to the Human Village where that person and I agreed to meet."

"Brilliant!" Alice and Red Toad said at the exact same time. "So how do we get him back to normal?"

"Having a friendly fight, duh."

"...eh?"

And just then, that certain someone arrived. "I'm here, so this is Luigi, huh?"

A blue-hair girl wearing a hood swept onto the scene. She was carrying rings on her hands.

"Sure is, Ichirin."

Ichirin went up to Luigi's face and awkwardly looked at him. "Yikes. He really is out of it. Don't worry, there's an arena near here. I'm sure we'll get him back. I'll be sparring with Mokou here. You are all free to watch."

Alice tilted her head. "You two really got along in the short conversation you had earlier..."

"Sure did! Now, let's get a good fight under way!" Ichirin pounded her fists together.

Apologies for the cringe that was Chapter 12, but don't worry, that was the peak of Luigi's suffering... for now. He'll be back to good ol' Luigi in the next chapter. Spoiler alert.