Izuku and Kamui were drinking hot cocoa with warm blankets, looking like they've just been rescued from a serial killer. "We will never speak of this again. We don't utter a single sentence about it. We don't even waste a single thought about it. We take it to our graves and whatever happens afterwards. No one is to mention this moment in our lives ever again lest they be hacked by an axe and turned to Mcdemon meat."

"Pretty sure one kid wrote it as the war of the Love Bunny … but I'm not sure." Izuku muttered, taking another sip of his coco. Everyone else was either blushing and looking away out of embarrassment, despair, or in the case of Picero, doing both.

"Love Bunny." Eiko was sitting next to Izu with a mixture of laughter and miff on her face. "Well, being the danger-junkie was fun while it lasted. Now everyone's going to know you as that from now on." It fit Izu to a tee if she was being honest, but now the competition was just going to get worse!

"Let's never bring this up with Azz at the very least." Gaako was covering her face. "It's bad enough I became the most insane member of our Battler, I don't want my boyfriend thinking I'm aiming for his best friend too."

"Oh, so you are dating." Elizabetta pointed out.

"Keep it on the down low, my dad's already making a big deal, we don't need his mother knowing to." She whined. Yeah, with a parent like that she could understand. She still remembered the awkwardness about that dinner.

"Tell that to the hundreds of students you threatened to burn if they looked at your 'boy toy." Picero called the dragon out. "You basically marked him as your personal property. No one's going to let Asmodeus live this down, ever."

"It's already trending. #Azzlovesscales." Kaumi pulled out his hellphone. "I'd be more mad if you weren't a traitor to the lovely queen."

"Yes, a traitor indeed." Kerori … She was in 'standby' mode. The only reason she wasn't attacking them is out of fear of another dose of pheremones. "Please tell me the effects aren't permanent. It felt like getting aroused by a little sibling...so unpleasant." Once again, Kerori didn't remain a threat to Eiko at all.

"No, they're not. But it's lovely to hear how you made your version of my power Izuku, I'm very impressed." Elizabetta spoke, gazing at Lied. The boy in question was more absent minded.

"Please, don't bring it up … so much-" Izuku coughed up a hairball. "-and that's going to be happening for the next few days." He turned. "Thanks, but I'm not going to be using this again unless I don't have any other choice. It's too close to brainwashing for my taste. I don't mind pacifying a crowd, but none of these people would like me like this of their own free will."

"Ironically, it only doesn't work on people you yourself like." Elizabetta smiled.

"Izu, use it on me." Eiko turned to him. "Now."

"Eiko, I don't…

"NOW!" She needed confirmation!

"Hey guys, didn't you forget we're currently hunting an asshole that traumatized us?"Lied brought everyone together again. Right, couldn't get off track. "We need anything we can find, but no one knows anything." He growled.

"Nagayo." How did they keep forgetting about Nafra? Especially with that awful smell.

"He's right. Guys, has anyone here seen or heard anything about a student with an illusion bloodline, someone that can create traumatic visions?"

"Nope."

"Nothing on my end."

"Never heard of visions other than the plants."

"A few rumors from the beasts but no concrete details other than smells."

"His name is Orobas." They all turned to Kamui. "What, the lady here said so." He pointed at Nafra.

"You can understand the twerp?"

"Translate works on languages?"

"Narfra's a girl?" That last one was the major thought in her head. This girl helped Izu in a cave...a cold..dark...isolated...cave. "Izu. The next time you suggest anything about splitting up, I'm going to respectfully ignore everything you say and stick to your back like glue."

"It worked out in the end, I got the seed. Anyway, Kamui, do you mind translating?" Izuku asked.

"After what you did to me!? I'll never do anything for you, scum of the earth! Burn from the deepest pit, you damn bunny!" Kamui spoke with anger and finality.

"What about me?" Eiko asked.

"Of course, anything for a lady as beautiful as yourself." Sucker. She'll kick him across the field later for his blasphemy.

"Now then, you may begin."

"Nagayo. Nagaga. Nayoyo. Nagayo!" The little hussy just kept spouting the same variation of 'Nagayo' over and over.

"Yes, hm, I see, interesting. You have a very unique scent. Is that so? I completely understand. Don't worry, I memorized this whole thing." And apparently Kamui could treat it like a conversation. "Alright, a student named Orobas is using Trama magic in an attempt to harm any and all Misfits during the Harvest Festival." A beat of silence. "... The queen is in danger!" The beasts began to surround Kerori.

"Well, as long as we all stay together this time, we might be able to have a fighting chance at getting the pot back. Yes, all three of us.." Izu looked at Elizabetta. "Wait, wasn't Clara teamed up with you?" At once, all the misfits and the Calamity Cult members present gasped.

"Oh no, Clara went out to explore!"

"Damn it!" Izu freaked out, gripping his fists. "Lied, scan the area!"

"I'm on it." Lied went onto searching fast. "Come on, come on … your voice is high pitched and your singing is terrible, it shouldn't take this long to find you!"

"Kaumi, send out as many birds as you can find! I want every single inch of this jungle searched top to bottom!"

"Anything for the ladies!" Kaumi did as he was told, ignoring his irritation at Izu for the seduction mist.

"Relax Izu, it'll be fine." Izu's face refused to relax. "You'll save her. We all will."

"I know. I don't want to risk it." Izu looked to the sky solemnly. "The last thing I want in this world is for Clara to cry."

Orobas as he watches the girl walking around from the tree line. So innocent and carefree, the bitch. "Izuku-kins and I are gonna play. Then I'm gonna give him a smooch, on the lips!" Okay, even he knows he had a hate boner for these guys, but that singing was just awful.

"Ugh, so annoying. So naive to the world around her. She probably doesn't even realize how serious this competition is." Ocho whispered to his ear. "So careless to everything she does, and yet she's so close to taking your spot, so close to taking everything that belongs to you."

"And then I'll be number two." Once again, that wouldn't stand. He would abandon that putrid number. With his own might he would overcome that title of the 'two' guy. "I'll win, I'll beat her and win!"

"Yes, you'll become number one, the best, the strongest." Ocho cackled. "The title of young king belongs to you and you alone. Win this, and no one will ever think your second best at anything again.""

"Yes, I'll win this, prove I'm a young king. Because unlike these lucky arrogant bastards I worked for it, every day, to win fair and square." Yes, all that effort … but he didn't play right, did he? All the underhanded tactics instead of gathering his own ingredients?

"Who says this is unfair? It's your magic. It's your brilliant strategy, and last time I checked, taking ingredients from other's isn't against the rules. You're a demon, after all. You take what you want because it's what you desire. There's no shame in that at all. You're a prime example of a true demon."

Yes, he was a true demon, he would win. He'd give this girl a nightmare she deserved, since she was just happy to go lucky scum. "I'll crush her. I'll crush her with every trauma I have. I'll break her down till she has nothing left."

Although it would be better if his depth perception wasn't suddenly distorted. He blinked in confusion, rubbing his eye. It was just blackness. Almost like … his sense was gone. Someone was watching out of his eye, the damn misfits!

"Found her!" Yes, now they could go warn her and- "Someone is watching her from the treeline, I think it's Orobas."

"We gotta go now!" Izuku screamed out. "I'm not going to let her experience the kind of hell I just went through! Kaumi!" He shouted at the bird demon. "Are there any beasts that can fly us fast enough?"

"Well yeah, but it'll take a while to find one that can carry you. Also I just sent out every bird to search for them so …" Right, mistakes were made.

"What about Land beasts, running?"

"We're talking a good three miles, we won't make it fast enough." Lied argued.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Why was the universe constantly getting in the way of his happiness? "Fine, I'm heading out by myself. Lied, sorry in advance." He began twisting his ring.

"Izuku, what do you mean?" Lied started to say, before he fell to the ground. "Wh-what! Dude, you can't use it at its maximum! You couldn't handle it before!"

"That was Omniscient. This time I'm using just your ability, combined with Perfect Path. I can locate her all by myself. Quartz-Quartz" He readied his Tool Arms and launched himself. "I'm sorry guys, but I need to save her now!"

"Izu, don't…!" Eiko cried out to him, but he ignored it, already far above the trees using Perfect Path at its fullest. Alright, now to add Lied's bloodline to the mix.

Three miles, Lied said three miles. That was his exact measurement. Meaning it would help narrow down Perfect Path and Controller simultaneously. He could feel parts of the suit begin to burn in patches, but he could ignore the pain. He had to ignore his pain to save Clara from hers.

"Don't you dare, don't you dare, you son of a bitch, don't you dare take away her smile!" The suit was starting to form holes across his arms as Tool Arms brought him closer and closer. "Where are.. There!" He saw Clara walking obviously, suddenly stopping for something in front of her.

He saw a fly trap like monster approaching. The range was far, but this would work. He focused Perfect Path into his aim and detached his wings, shifting his position as an archer and drawing back on the nonexistent string. "Azz's Fire, burn away those plants!" He screamed, firing off a shot of fire in the shape of an arrow. "Pyro SMASH! ARROW FORCE!"

Clara giggled as she walked, happy to finally be free to wander. She had to find Izuku-kins, and give him a smooch! To think she was blind this entire time! She didn't need all that makeup and perfume! No, she was sexy enough now to sweep him off his feet naturally!

"Devi-devi-devi rank, devi-cutie! No one like me around, gonna make you crazy~" She hummed a song all to herself. Oh, it would be perfect! "Devi-devi-devi rank, devi cutie, this passion in my heart is burning brightly~" But now was the hard part, finding Izuku-kins in a forest so big.

"Hey, Clara!" Oh, not that hard! He was right there, walking up to her.

"Izuku-kins!" She ran up. This was it, she jumped up, grabbed him by the shoulders, and gave him a smooch on the lips. "I love you!"

"Give me some juice."

What?

"Izuku-kins." He never asked for anything before. "Izuku…" She let go of him, noticing something off about her best friend, specifically the eyes. The darker, sharper, eyes. "Deku-kins?"

"That's me, don't wear it out." He smirked, patting her head. "Now then, the juice, please?" No, that wasn't possible. Izuku-kins was happy, all the time!

"You, you shouldn't be here, Deku! It shouldn't be happening!" She pounded on his chest. "We were happy together! We played heroes and fell for each other! I made sure Izuku-kins knew I loved him!"

"Well that's the problem isn't it, you loved me." … What? "I can only take so much of you in small doses, don't you know Izuku is the super shy one? And you've just been hounding him all this time. Ugh, it's no different than last time either. All that stress from constantly watching you really brings a guy down."

"No, shut up, shut up you bastard!" Clara wanted to hit him across his stupid edgy face. "Izuku-kins never asked for anything from me! He knows the real me, just like how I know the real him!"

"That's because he didn't want you attached. He wanted to just be seperated but he felt sorry, like watching a sad little puppy." Deku-kins smirked at her tears.

"You're lying! You're lying you stupid asshole!" She tried covering her ears, but she couldn't get the words out of her head. "Izuku-kins will tell me the truth! He'll come back and erase wherever stupid nonsense you're saying."

"Clarine, oh sweet, naive, Claraine Valac." Deku-kins had the gall to caress her face with that dumb tail of his. "Izuku-kins is never coming back." He gave a very sharp and scary grin. "You made sure of that."

"Izuku-kins … is never …" She cried, it was all she could do.

"There might be one thing, just leave, walk away, and never, bother me, agai-" Deku-kins was cut off by a flaming arrow to the head.

"CLARA!" Izuku-kins voice cried out to her from behind. "Get out of the way!"

"G-get ou.." Barely understanding what was happening, she turned to where Deku-kins killed, but in the idiot's place was a burning plant monster. "Deku.."

"Get behind me!" Izuku-kins, in the scary bunny suit, jumped from the tree he stood, charging forward with long squiggly arms from some sort of pouch, which tore the plant monster to shreds. "Clara, are you okay!? Are you hurt? What did you see?!"

Crack

"Oh, not now, not-" The suit shattered and tore, revealing Izuku-kins and a smoking hand. "That … can't be good."

She hugged him tight, eyes tearing up. "Izuku-kins … I'm glad you're here …" That was all that mattered at the moment.

"Of course I am." He hugged her even tighter. "I'll always be here for you."

Asmodeus burned the beast once more. "Please tell me we have enough. I just want to walk away and into a grave." Literally would have been preferable to anything else. Gaako would never let him live this down if she found out. She's probably been the only responsible one in the group.

"Well, there's an off chance no one will make the connection to you." Sabro tried to comfort him. "Admittedly, half the time I forget your name is Alice since we always call you Asmodeus."

"And there are plenty of people with a name like Alice." Even Ichiro, who tried to have him killed just days before, tried to comfort the man. Oh how low had Asmodeus fallen?

"Yeah, like that mysterious demdol that showed up a few months ago!" Niro shouted. "Which is weird. What are the chances that someone so popular and so cute would end up with the same name as you? I mean, I bet you get confused for her twin or something a lot."

Don't burn him, maintain the cover. He didn't connect it to you. "Yeah, it gets annoying." He looked to the sky. "The festival's almost over, isn't it?"

"Just about." Sabro confirmed. "Thy Rival is sure to make a big splash soon. You all heard his decree after summoning that giant tree, right? Haha! Walter Park made him pretty bold."

"I think it was Walter Park just snapping whatever was there in all honesty." Yes, all that destruction of civilization and his frustration at others just … broke something. And spite has boiled up ever since, in giant doses. "I should probably check on him actually."

"You sure?" Ichiro asked. "You're in the lead already. Staying in the competition any longer at this point will only hinder you."

"I'm certain. I don't need to worry about my rank, but Izuku does. He's going to be the Demon King after all." He smirked as he made his way. "And what's a King in battle without his spear?"

"I really think you're ignoring the whole equal thing you keep preaching!" You shared a class with him Azz, there was plenty of time to burn him alive after the Festival, where the only witnesses could be paid to hide a body.