Lotte and Sucy stood stunned for a brief moment, made sense they had just been debriefed on a said sacred duty to reawaken seven magical words; and given Akko's track record on explaining it in her own 'unique' way, they were left for cliff notes version from Kenji.

"That's basically it, well given some minor parts I skipped," Kenji paused, admittedly a bit bemused by their gaping faces.

Akko had the opposite reaction, immediately wanting to jump into any kind of research for the fourth word, "I'll find it no matter how long it takes," As expected, it didn't take any longer than a couple seconds for the brunette to get unwillingly impatient, squirming about on her bed, waiting for the fortune telling spheres you would see oracle's use.

Or the hacks who would try and scam people back in Kenji's world.

"Akko, you're not gonna find it instantly...seriously you've gotta wait longer than that. The other three showed up so this one probably will as well," Kenji reminded lightly flicking her in the head, irking a small pained 'ow' from her but he could till it hadn't actually hurt.

"Yeah, but this is Akko we're talking about. Asking for patience from her is like spotting Santa," Sucy commented dryly.

'Well, that's because he isn't real..'

Kenji held against speaking aloud, he'd had the argument with Akko previously on the reality of the Tooth Fairy; safe to say it hadn't ended well.

Upon Sucy's words, the Shiny Rod that laid beside Akko lit up, three of the orbs glowing a striking gold, "Neat, guess Sucy's supposed to unlock the other words," Kenji joked, earning him a not so pleasant glare from Akko.

"Kidding."

Without wasting much time, they had visited Professor Ursula who hadn't given them too much information to go off of other than the fact than what the word was, although knowing it wasn't going to be useful on how to figure out how to awaken it.

Lotte seemed the most concerned, "Akko, about tomorrow..."

"Oh, right! I almost forgot!" Akko's eyes widened in acknowledgement.

Ursula tilted her head in a confused manner, "What's going on?"

"I asked Akku, Sucy and Kenji to my hometown and to visit my parents with me and have a traditional dinner. But, if the word is really that close, then there's no point in coming if you're going to miss it..." Lotte expressed, a little downtrodden at the fact she wasn't going.

"No, you should go, being close by doesn't necessarily mean here."

Kenji blinked, mulled over her words for less than a second and blinked again, "That's cryptic as hell you know...how's Akko gonna figure that out.." He was going to saw more if he hadn't been stopped by the heel of a foot grinding into his own, "I mean, all of us would have a hard time figuring it out."

"She's really got you wrapped around her finger," Sucy chuckled lowly, stopping when Kenji stepped on her toes.

"No, I just don't like getting my toes stomped on," Kenji grumbled, wincing slightly from the throbbing pain he could feel from his toes, 'Damn, that actually really hurt..'

With that, the four left Ursula's office, or was it her bedroom? Kenji honestly couldn't tell. They each went their separate ways to pack for the oncoming stay the next day,

'As much as I like Akko, because it is a lot. More than I have for any other girl...but my god when is she gonna stop talking about the fourth word!'


Having rode through a vary janky leyline, in part due to Akko's constant shaking on Lotte broom. They had made it onto a train, forced to endure her blithering questions on the vehicle for a grueling four hours, and then she had expressed her worries on whether she could even activate the word for the entire bus drive into town.

Now, walking along the street to the cafe owned by Lotte's parents, "I know that I should be enjoying myself in this cute little town, but I seriously can't stop thinking about it!" Akko groaned, letting everyone they were passing on the street know her problems.

Sucy turned to Kenji grumpy and tired, "Can't you tell her to stop, she'll at least think about it if you say it," She griped loosely, wiping on her baggy eyes. Kenji droopily nodded, overly agreeing with her and hobbling towards the somehow wide-awake Akko.

"Kenji, do you reckon the word might have something to do with Chariot and what she did with it?" Before she could go off on another spiel, Kenji cut her off momentarily, slightly peeving and embarrassing her.

"Look...Akko, I get it I really do. You want to find the words like Chariot, that's fine, but you can't just try and activate or awaken or whatever you wanna phrase it as at every waking moment, Lotte invited us here to enjoy ourselves so try to enjoy yourself. Besides, you awakened three of the words without even realizing it, the fourth'll come up sooner or later, you need to give it time," Kenji finished finally removing his hand off of her mouth.

Sulking at the fact that he was probably right, Akko nodded and properly tucked the Shiny Rod away in her backpack, "Why do you always have to be right.."

"...Kenji's wrong like eight five percent of the time, he just gets lucky all the others," Sucy said, a mocking grin on her face.

Sucy: 1 Kenji: 0

'It begins...she's already a point up..'

Before any further bickering could commence between the two, they were stopped by Lotte looking up to store sign labelled, 'L Klosk'. "This is my house," Lotte explained as she pushed the door up, a bell signaling their entry.

Once they entered, Kenji couldn't help but smile at the simpleness of the store. With a few magical items on some shelves and food and other appliances on the others, "Wait, what kind of store is this Lotte?" He questioned.

The sound of footsteps thumping down the stairs stopped her from answering. Barging the door open was a bearded, burly man, resembling Lotte a little too much, "Lotte! It's you, you've gotten so much bigger since the last time I saw you!"

Exclaiming his own excitement, the man now presumed father swung Lotte up into the air as she dizzily told him to stop.

"Welcome to our home," A smaller woman with glasses spoke, appeared behind Kenji almost scaring him half to death; yelping back with a startled freeze about him, "Oh, sorry I didn't mean to startle you, Kenji. Lotte's told us the most about you, we certainly thought it was strange for Luna Nova to let a boy into their school but we're glad you're a nice young man."

"Yeah, he better be considering he's friends with Lotte," Out of nowhere, Lotte's dad had a dark expression on his face staring down at him.

Tugging on his school collar, Kenji did his best to avoid eye contact and slowly inch his way behind Akko, "He's not gonna kill me, is he?" He shuddered on the spot, looking over to a anxiously smiling Lotte for confirmation.

He got none.

"Well, best to not make you stand out here. We're just finishing up dinner now," Lotte dad ushered them all upstairs and onto a table filled with a weird looking pastry stacked up in a pile.

"Here they are, Hapansilakka pies!" Lotte dubbed the food, taking a bite out of it herself.

Seating himself next to Akko, the two of them bit into the pies in unison, both threatening to throw up at once. Kenji had a greater will compared to Akko, actually managing to swallow it instead of hiding the evidence in the bin behind them.

"Akko! You have to finish at least one!" Kenji yelled in a whisper, once more taking a reluctant bite of the food, a green hue streaking across his face.

'Go down! No matter how horrible this tastes I need to eat it!'

The fact that Sucy was sitting pleasantly beside them, now on her third pie only served to make them feel bad, "No, I refuse. C'mon Kenji me and you both know these are horrible..."

"Yeah, and it'll be rude if we don't! Just eat one, it won't be that bad," Kenji began to push one towards her only for it be swiped by Sucy.

"What? You two are right next to me of course I can hear you, these are so good anyway, no problem in eating yours," She explained, swallowing the Hapansilakka whole.

Kenji and Akko shared a look of relief, apart from the food it looked as if their stay was going to be relaxed and easy.


Waking up the next morning, Kenji was thrusted off of the couch he'd been graciously granted sleep on by a raging Akko. Stringing him by the neck of his shirt to the store downstairs, there he was met with Lotte's mum covered in some kind of thick moss that was now her entire body, "...W-What the hell happened?" In horror he attempted to pick off the moss but was promptly stopped by Sucy.

"We don't know what it is yet, don't touch i-" Peaking outside the store window, the mauve-haired witch couldn't get her sentence out at the sight of Lotte's dad in the same predicament.

'What the hell!? Did someone cast a spell on them, did they drink something?'

Sucy shook the mossy neighbours hands amongst the chaos, "I really loved your pies, I was hoping I could get the recipe from you.."

"Not the time Sucy," said Akko dryly.

Kenji could see the look of confusion and fear on Lotte face, irking a reaction out of him, "Sucy, this up to you we need to find out what this is and how we can stop it."

Dropping her hand, the four of them rushed inside to find Lotte's mum holding a book on the very subject they were looking for, "Greenman's disease? So that's what it's called. How come you're mum was looking for a way to cure it, did she know about it?" Akko questioned turning the book over to the so they could read it.

"It's because she was supposed to be the witch to cure it. It says here that a witch is supposed to come through the town and dispel the disease..."

"I guess it got to your mum before she could," Sucy added, "This all sounds pretty cool to be honest."

"Sucy!" The other three shouted.

They were all at a standstill as to what had caused the outbreak of the disease, the book explained how it happened but they couldn't think what the disease had spread to and thus everyone else.

Until...

"It's the pies!" Kenji blurted startling the girls, they didn't have any time to question his thought process watching to dart up the stairs and into the kitchen, finding the leftover pie much greener than when they'd left it, "Knew it!"

All of a sudden, Akko grasped the pie off the table and tossed it straight in the bin, "I knew you were horrible for a reason!"

Lotte arrived soon after, reading the last section of the chapter on Greenman's disease, "If we don't find someone who can do something then my mum and dad, everyone in town. They'll be stuck as moss forever and eventually...wither away and die."

'This is bad..'

Of course, Akko was the one to try and lift everyone's spirits, "Don't worry Lotte, if there isn't a witch around to cure everybody then we'll just have to do it. There must be some reason why we're not moss either.."

"Come to think of it, why aren't we moss? Me, Sucy and Lotte did actually eat one and Akko at least had some even if she spat it out. We should be just like the town right now, right?" Kenji asked aloud, getting no complete answers, "Look, not the point. Akko's right, no one else can do this so we have to, Sucy that book must something on how we can reverse this."

Slamming the book down with a hurried thud, they discovered the five ingredients needed for the antidote: One flake of snow that has fallen from pinewood, a berry leaf that was blown off by the wind, dropping of newborn reindeer raised by the Samhain people, green omineta and a medicine capsule made by a yeti.

"Wait!? Yetis exist, how come none of you told me this!" Kenji shouted in outrage.

"Should you even be surprised, we can literally turn into animals," Sucy retorted snippily.

Sucy: 2 Kenji: 0

'Not the time for points, but she's running away with it'

Akko scratched her head, "These are really random though, do you have any of these Lotte?" She queried.

"No, but I know where they are!"

"I can find the green omineta," Sucy said.

'I bet it's a mushroom'

Just like that, Sucy hopped on her broom alone, insisting that it was a one witch job to locate the green omineta and that they would require more hands for the rest of the five ingredients.

So, with some struggle; they all collectively squeezed onto Lotte's broom and set off to the pinewood forest and berry filled field ahead.


Safe to say, things were going well, at least somewhat.

Kenji wasn't a fan of waiting around, but given the circumstances there wasn't really much they could do but wait, although he wasn't going to admit that waiting for snow to fall was anything but pleasant, "Huh, nature sure is taking its sweet time. Your town must have some resilience to do all of this, still of course we're the unlucky ones to show up to your town when this all happens."

Lotte admittedly felt a little guilty for that, if she had just invited them a week earlier or later than none of this would've happened, "Guess it's good you did bring us though, cause if you're mum wasn't able to do it in time and we weren't here then...you know," Kenji finished, avoiding the subject.

Akko was having a hard time waiting for the amount of time they had, kicking her feet up and down into the snow, "Akko, sit down. Come on I'll let you tell me all the random facts about Shiny Chariot," Kenji called out, trying to cater to his girlfriend's needs, it was about to work if she had kicked her foot into the tree they were eagerly waiting to drop some snow.

"Akko! Seriously!" Kenji barked pulling on her shoulders relentlessly, "You know we can't use that right?"

"We can't just wait around Kenji, we're on a time limit here," Akko argued, getting right up in his face, the two of them too angry to feel flushed with their distance.

After an hour of waiting, the snow finally dropped into a jar and they quickly picked it up much to Akko's delight. They made their way to a large open field, now watching over a bush of berry leaves - Kenji kept hold of Akko's hand ignoring his and her blushing faces, this time they couldn't afford for Akko to make them wait longer.

That was until she sneezed directly over it, blowing the bush away and some of the leaves, "For the love of-" Kenji grabbed at her snotty face, "WHY!"

"I couldn't help it..."

Onto the next ingredient, Lotte was saddened to see that the usual man that was supposed to give them a fresh dropping from reindeer had disappeared without a trace. Even the house was gone, "What do we do now? Sucy will have the third ingredient, do we go for the Yeti?"

"No," Lotte shook her head lowly, "Let's meet back up with Sucy, then we can figure out what to do next.."

Upon their return, they were shocked to find Sucy waiting for them, only this time she was covered in moss and holding onto a green and purple spotted mushroom, "Sucy!" Kenji yelped, sprinting over to her seeing if he could shake the moss off of her.

"I guess she was getting a mushroom. Wait, not the point, if Sucy's turned and she had a larger amount the Lotte then," Kenji's worries were proven correct at the redhead slowly approaching Akko and him, holding the book outwards.

"Please, you two have to find the other ingredients, before it's too late..." That was all she could get out before being completely frozen still, the book dropping from her open palms.

'Why, why haven't I been frozen, I ain't one didn't I? That must have some effect on me...'

Underneath his loosely buttoned up school shirt, Kenji pulled out the green crystal attached around his neck. It had been glowing the entire time and he had yet to notice it.

Made sense given everything he knew about the crystal, it had its own magical properties, strong ones at that. It had been contained the disease that was most likely inside of him, if he were to take it off, he'd probably turn it moss in the blink of an eye.

'Well...that's reassuring'

Staring at the magic infused crystal, Kenji got an idea as he brandished his wand, 'It won't be as strong without the crystal, but it's at least worth a try..'

Thinking back on what Miss Ursula had told him to do just a few days prior when they'd gone to rescue Akko from Croix, Kenji imagined a reindeer being following by a small green wisp of magic tracking him wherever he went.

Eventually, it flickered out from the low-level amount of magic he was producing, emitting the tiny flame out from the wind and dancing down the street, "Akko! Come on, I have a way to find a reindeer, we have to move though, now!" Not giving her anytime to react, Kenji tugged on her the baggy hood of her uniform and pulled her along the street until she was running alongside him.

"Woah, Kenji! You can do magic out here!?" She gasped in awe at the flame.

"Not really, I think if I tried anything else it would've been a fluke. This isn't that much of magic needed spell, I only needed some crumbs from the crystal to make it work," Kenji explained, usually he would've been exhausted from running this fast for so long, but his several escapades at Luna Nova had mostly gotten him accustomed to something like this.

"Your so cool Kenji!" Akko complimented, stars in her eyes.

"He...I think you're overexaggerating a bit there," Kenji responded, turning his attention to the small remnant of magic that had no made its way into an open snowy field, right where a reindeer was drinking out from a lake.

"THERE!" Akko shouted impatiently scaring the creature from its drinking spot.

"Akko..." Kenji scolded angrily, pulling on his hair slightly but begrudgingly giving chase to the reindeer as it ran for its life. Kenji wondered if it thought there were trying to hunt it down or something along that line.

They gave chase for the reindeer once again, this time following it all the way to a lone tent in the middle of nowhere, the two brunette's tripping over one another and landing flat on their faces, practically shoving the book in the man's face, "Oh, are you a witch?" He said, mainly focused on Akko for the time being.

"Yes! Are you Nikolai?" Akko questioned remembering what Lotte had said on the reindeer owner previously, earning a nod from him. Not long later Kenji was closing his eyes, a gas mask around his face holding a jar out behind the deer, waiting for it all to be over.

'God...the things I've done here'

Having acquired the fourth ingredient, they were nicely borrowing Nikolai's sleigh to make it a much easier trip over to the yeti that was across the entire snow field ahead of them; as they sat there, with Akko kicking her feet about abruptly, Kenji swore he could see the stains of moss along Akko's knuckles.


When they arrived, Kenji scratched his head at how remote the home looked. It may have been bigger than a typical house, but other than that he could easily have mistaken it as a isolated house for some kind of witch.

Going to knock, Akko barged past him and let herself into his home, "Hello! Is anyone home, I need your help to make a capsule for me and my friends!" She declared loudly, not hearing anything in return; it was obvious that the yeti wasn't home.

Honestly, Kenji wasn't sure if he wanted it to be. They had no way of knowing whether or not it was friendly or would try to kill the on sight, especially after he'd find them breaking and entering.

His fears were soon to be answered as a white creature trudged in behind him, jerking him to the floor and Akko to the seat behind her, seeming much smaller in its size, "S-Sorry t-to disturb," Kenji stammered out, shaking from his reared spot on the floor.

"But we really need your help!" Akko spoke much more confidently, going on to explain their situation, the yeti seeming to understand most of what she was saying, "So you can make me one?"

There came no nod or even so much as a grunt from the snowy creature. Deciding to not wait any longer, Akko jumped off the chair in a huff about to walk straight out of the door, "Hey Akko, what are you doing, we need his help."

"Well, he's clearly not gonna give it to us, I can't just wait for him to decide we don't have much time left," Upon her words, Kenji's eyes narrowed in on the spreading moss up her arm, 'It's getting worse..'

"Look, he's the only yeti for miles. And we need to get him to make a capsule, don't just walk away cause you have to wait, giving up that easily isn't even like you," Kenji said, he was becoming somewhat tired with have to be the voice of reason, had this really become his role for today, before he was fighting with magic to rescue Akko and now, he was having to constantly push her into the right direction.

I supposed he didn't mind.

Akko prostrated herself in front of the Yeti, now pleading for him to make a capsule. After a little while it finally agreed, moving over towards a cauldron of wax, scooping it up with a ladle and swiftly getting to work, hammering it into shape until a weird star-shaped capsule was left, 'Well, it's accurate to the book at least, I think we're done now-'

"No, that's not right I'll need you to do it again, please!" Akko demanded softly, the yeti sagging at her request but going along with it anyway.

Not to long later, after several retries of the same capsule, all of which Kenji was sure would work just fine, but his inputs were thoroughly ignored. He could see the look of frustration on the creature's face, it wouldn't be too long until it reached their breaking point.

It looked as if it was going to burst out in tears, even Akko noticed the discontent look on its face, "...Look, I'm sorry I went a little too far, especially with the amount I made you make, let's try it one last time, I'm sure you can do it really I believe you can!" Akko announced, getting the yeti riled up enough to make one last capsule.

Kenji sighed with a smile, he hadn't actually had to step in that time, stepping back he came across a pile of letters. Peaking at one of the already open ones he realized it was a review, discrediting the yetis work as horrible.

'Guess that makes sense why he got so sensitive on the subject..'

With a raging amount of enthusiasm, the yeti was done with his work quicker than he had with all of them combined, freezing the steaming brick mold with enough fog to cover the household, "It's done!" Akko cheered lifting it up into the air.

"Is it supposed to be that big?" Kenji questioned quietly, deciding that it didn't really matter.

Before either one of them could leave, Kenji fiddled with the crystal that was no longer tucked under his shirt, catching up to Akko as she was about to open the door, throwing the necklace around her head before she could even react.

"Eh! Kenji what are you doing, I don't need this..." She asked in a confused turning around to meet his face, shocked to see moss trickling up his face faster than she'd ever seen, she even noticed the moss on her own arms dwindling away, as if it was never there.

"You kind of do...I'm not sure I can do this alone, and you'll turn to moss any moment now, having that happen out in the snow won't be good...so I'll stay here while you fix up the antidote then you can just come get me, alright," Kenji explained, no longer able to move his legs due to the moss keeping him still, "You're the most capable to do this Akko, all you have to do is get back and make it."

Akko was forced to watch as Kenji turned to a moss statue like everyone else, the green color around her body disappearing immediately.

'Fine then, if Kenji trusted me to do this then I have to!'

Gripping onto the crystal anxiously, Akko tucked the rest of the ingredients into her backpack and opened the door only to find the reindeer and sleigh gone, "Um...where did it go?" Akko asked aloud, not expecting to get a reply.

So, with nothing left to do, Akko began the long trudge back, a blaring snowstorm now standing in her way.

It gradually became harder and harder to move through the chilling mist, her hands and feet were drastically numb, the gloves and boots were doing nothing to ease the cold, it was only seeming to get worse.

Could she even do it? Kenji had put his faith in her, turning himself to moss just so she wouldn't have to, Sucy and Lotte were counting on her to get it done, she was the only one with all the ingredients, if she messed up there'd be no time to get more, it would all be a waste of everyone's efforts. She had to make, no she was going to make it.

The snow only became even thicker, sinking her into floor and tripping her onto her face, struggling to get back up. She could hear her own words biting back at her, telling her to quit, that it was wasn't worth getting back up for.

She persisted still, the small lamp attached to her side lighting the way, against the only path that was visible, "I have to, no matter how hard it seems, I have to keep going!"

From the pitch black ahead, a small jingling sound got Akko to peer even closer at whatever was in front of her. It was the reindeer from before riding forward with his sleigh, had it come back for her, to get her back to the town.

"Miss, you really were left out here! I'm so sorry!" Nikolai profusely apologized skidding to a halt.

"Thank you, you saved me!" Akko smiled, leaning against the reindeer for comfort, and hopping at the back of the sleigh, "Now let's get you back to the village."

"Wait! Before we do, we need to make a quick stop back to the yeti!"


Having made a quick pitstop to grab Kenji, making sure that he wasn't getting left behind, Akku hurried outside with the cauldron that was placed in the corner of Lotte's home. She didn't have that much time already, Kenji had only been moss for a couple of minutes and he was already completely covered in it, his face was no longer visible at this point, just like the others.

She slipped all five of the ingredients into the pot, stirring them all together to the point that the colour shifted to a purple hue, using the Shiny Rod to mix them all together, 'Endure it...I have to!'

'Kenji could do it, but he put his faith in me. I won't let him down; I won't rush it. As long as I can bring them back, I'll be patient!'

It was then that she remembered what Miss Ursula had said about the fifth word, 'Mayenab Dysheebudo..'

"So that's what it was, Mayenab Dysheebudo. If I want to see it through...then patience is key!"

Quickening her pace, Akko blended it together even more than before, "MAYENAB DYSHEEBUDO!" She declared, four of the orbs attached the Shiny Rod glowing gold and shifting into what seem like the spinning blade section of a blend spreading antidote high up into the air, raining it down on all who were covered in moss.

Soon enough, everyone was back to normal, Kenji being the last to poof back into place, collapsing onto the snow, "...Eh, I'm back!" Kenji pat himself down about to pick himself up from the snow.

That was until a large amount of weight barreled into his chest, with Akko tightly wrapping her arms around him, not fazed by the embarrassment whatsoever, "Kenji! Why do you do that! Leaving me alone, I had to watch you turn to moss!" She sobbed slightly tucking her head into him.

'Keep composed soldier! Keep composed!'

He reciprocated the hug, trying not to get fazed by the rising heat he could feel radiating off of his face, "I know it might've seemed stupid, but I couldn't just watch you turn into moss and I thought better you than me, right?" Kenji gently pat her head to try and calm her down the two sitting in the snow for a while.

"I was scared that I wouldn't be able to bring you back, or any of you," Akko quickly added, feeling Sucy's stare from behind.

"Are you two done?"

Upon her sarcasm, the two awkwardly pulled away from each other, both beet red.

Akko couldn't able but gaze at the four shining lights now on the Shiny Rod, she'd really managed to unlock the fourth word, all she had to do was be patient. It was a tad ironic that Kenji had been spouting about patience and she had completely ignored it.

"I wonder when I'll find the next word," Akko accidently spoke her thoughts.

Kenji dropped his brows in a shameful manner, "You really learnt nothing did you?"

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Been a while huh, I was feeling a little spontaneous so I decided to guess this chapter out, I hope you enjoyed for whoever is reading this.