"Congrats, Rose!"

"Um... why all of a sudden?"

"I guess that genderbend potion was a success for you."

Rose blushes. The girls are making a circle again, but looking at Rose this time.

"Hey, hey! Tell me your secret!" Ara smiles.

"Well... to be honest..." Rose touches her pointy finger with her other pointy finger, "I teased him all day."

The girls' turn in silence.

Except Lu. She's laughing. "Seriously?!"

Rose gives a forced laugh. "Yeah. I'm not joking."

"Rena, do you have another potion?" Aisha asks.

Rena smirks. "Of course," she puts potions on the floor, "All of these are different potion, though."

She explains the potions one by one.

"Maybe we could use this!" Elesis chooses the blue potion.

"Alright! Good luck, everyone!" Rena smiles cheerfully as she opens the potion.

Blue potion: to makes everyone be honest with everything. No lies for today!

"Ara, I hate how you always trying to get Raven's attention by acting clumsy in front of him," Eve crosses her arms.

Ara rolls her eyes. "I'm not acting! I'm lucky to accidentally make trouble in front of him!"

"Ah, I see you're not lying. That's a relief," Eve smiles.

Elesis glares. "Listen to me, Rena. I won't let you have Elsword! You must get my permission first!"

Rena chuckles. "Easy. I'll just have to get Elsword. He'll ask for your permission."

"I won't allow it!" Elesis yells.

Rena laughs. "Hey, it's for your brother's sake. You won't allow him to be happy then?"

Rose sighs. "This is a bad idea."

"It's exciting, though!" Lu laughs happily. "Let's go downstairs and see how the boys are doing!"

Rose and Lu go downstairs. "I'm just being honest, Aisha. You're always trying to catch my attention. I hate it."

"B-But Chung! I did all of it because I like you!"

"I don't like you," Chung says as he walks away. Aisha runs to her room as she cries.

Lu looks at Chung walking away. "Ouch."

"This is a really bad idea," Rose gives a forced smile.

Ciel slowly approaches Lu. "Why are you so cute?!"

"My goodness you turned into a creep!" Lu kicks and punches Ciel until he's unconscious.

"Hey!" Elsword waves his hands. "Why are you two just standing there? Come here!"

They walk toward Elsword. "What is it?"

"Look!" he shows his doodle to them with sparkling eyes. "I've always wanted to draw this! What do you think?"

There are 2 horned stickmans with messy red background. Beside the 2 horned stickmans are effigies.

"You're bad at drawing," Lu comments.

Rose tilts her head. "I don't get it. What did you draw here?"

"Death!"

The two girls startle. "What?"

"I've always wanted to torture demons. Do they have the same thing inside their bodies like humans?" Elsword asks with innocent smile.

"You're also a creep," Lu backs away, "I'm going off. Bye!"

"Um… Rose?"

Rose looks at Elsword. "Yeah?"

He hides his face with his doodle. "Nothing. Forget it."

Rose decides to check on Add. "Add?"

Add pulls Rose's hand and locks the door. "What the heck, Add?!"

"Stay here," Add blushes. "I feel lonely."

Rose giggles. "Sure!"

"We have just to test which one Elsword chooses: you or me?" Rena smirks. "Let's go downstairs, Elesis!"

Elesis and Rena go downstairs.

Elsword approaches them. Elesis smiles. "Good morning, El—"

"Rena! Let's go somewhere! I want to crossdress!" Elsword shouts as he looks at Rena with sparkling eyes.

Rena gives a smile of victory. "Sure! You can use the dress we bought yesterday!"

"Yay!"

"Elsword, wait!" Elesis grabs Elsword's hand. "It's been 3 years. I have so much to tell you. Please stay with me!"

Her brother narrows his eyes at her. "Hey, you leave me alone for 3 years. You promised to come back, but you didn't."

Elesis feels like her heart is just stabbed. "I-I'm sorry—"

Rena winks. "See you later, Elesis~!"

"W-Wait!"

Rena stops. "What is it?"

Elesis is still looking at her brother. Elsword, please change your mind and talk with me.

"Nevermind. Forget it."

Rena and Elsword walk away.

"Honesty hurts, right?" Chung smiles.

Elesis sits beside Chung. "Yeah."

Meanwhile...

"So, who do you prefer? Ara or Eve?" Lu asks to Raven.

"Why all of a sudden?" Raven asks back.

"Just answer my question! I'm curious!" Lu yells.

"Eve," Raven answers without thinking any further. "In case my nasod arm brokes, she can fix it."

"Ouch," Lu giggles. "Okay. Have a nice day!" she walks away, approaches Eve and Ara. "You heard him. Try harder!"

Eve sighs. "I'm one step closer, though."

"I won't give up!" Ara shouts.

At the town...

"I think people like me more if I'm a girl!"

Rena laughs. "I like you both."

"Cool!" Elsword shouts cheerfully. He's wearing gothic dress and a pink haired wig. Surprisingly, no one notices that he's actually a boy.

"It's terrifying that you have childish voice," Rena comments.

Elsword just laughs. "I'm proud!"

"Let's take a break in that café. What do you say?"

"Let's go!"

They're taking a break at café. Rena is having coffee while Elsword is only having hot chocolate.

Rena looks at Elsword. I think he wants to say something since this morning... "Hey, is there something you want to say?"

Elsword chuckles. "Can we move from this town? I want to kill more demons. Maybe I can torture them first!"

Rena startles. She expects anything, but not this.

"Killing is fun, you know? It's stress reliever," he continues.

The elf blinks her eyes several times. What the 'girl' in front of her said is totally unexpected. Did the Dark El he consumed change him?

"Rena?" Elsword looks at Rena. "Can we find a demon after this?"

"Well..." Rena stops for a moment. She's so surprised and can't think of anything to reply. What should I say now?! Wait, he said something about stress reliever? "Why are you stressed in the first place?"

Elsword lowers his head. "I don't like being a leader."

Rena startles. She remembers the time when the two of them and Aisha met for the first time. They have the same goal, so they decided to make a group. Without discussion, Aisha and Rena chose Elsword because he's the only boy and have to be gentle.

"I can't even lead. I've been trying to at least making sure everyone is safe, but I don't even know there was demons' attack yesterday. Add and Rose were handling it alone while all of us were having fun. What kind of leader am I? Why not sis or Raven or someone else?" he asks as he grips his cup.

Crack!

Crash!

"Ah!" Elsword's eyes widen. "Luckily I already drank it!"

And now Rena has to pay for the cup because Elsword doesn't bring a single ED.

She's been thinking about this all day—about why Elsword likes to crossdress. He really enjoys himself. "Elsword, the reason you like to crossdress—"

"It's nice to be treated as a girl. Everyone likes you and the guys are willing to do anything to make the girls feel comfortable," he smiles.

Should we change leader? Rena thinks inside her head.

"Did you ask anyone else to take charge?" she asks.

Elsword nods. "I did. Nobody wants to be the leader."

"Maybe you should explain to them your problem."

"I did!"

There's a moment of awkward silence between the two of them.

Rena sighs. "I could take charge. Let's discuss it with the others when we get home."

The 'girl' is looking at the broken cup. "Or maybe no leader at all?"

The elf doesn't expect that either. "Care to explain?"

"Nobody wants to be the leader, right? Why do we need one then?"

Now that you think about it...

Rena nods. "That might be better."

After paying the bill (and the cup), they're standing in front of the café without knowing where to go next.

"Rena?" Els looks at her. "Do you mind if we go outside the town for a while?"

Rena nods slightly. "Um... sure. What for?"

"I'm not joking about torturing demons!"

Meanwhile, at the house...

"Come on, Raven! Eat up!" Ara smiles.

Raven sighs. "What's with you guys?"

"We just want to see who's better at cooking," Eve answers.

Raven tastes the first cooking—which is Eve's. "L-Lady El is coming..."

He's now unconscious, thanks to Eve.

"Did you put poison in it?!"

"I'm not!"

"This potion is useless," Lu facepalms as she looks behind her.

"Hey, Chung! You're Els' best friend!" Elesis puts her arms on Chung's shoulder, "Tell me what he likes, please!"

Chung sighs. "What's with you girls all of a sudden?"

Hopefully THOSE TWO make some progress! Lu crosses her arms. All she wants now is Ciel coming back to his normal self.

"Hahaha! Come on, Rena! That was fun!"

"N-No! It's not fun at all!"

Lu opens the front door. Blood is everywhere on Elsword's dress (which is Rena's dress) and the smell is... metallic. Rena runs away from him and throws up somewhere else.

Lu gives a forced smile at Elsword. "You look like an obsessed psychopathic girl in animes, you know that?"

"I'm a great cosplayer then," Elsword gives an innocent smile.

"You're so creepy today," Lu laughs a little before she realizes something else from the smell. "Demon blood?!"

"Yeah, you're right!" the 'girl' claps.

Lu decides to accept everything and moves on.

Midnight, at the living room. The El Gang apologizes to each other because of their honesty-but-rude for the day. Especially Eve who almost killed Raven.

Elsword tells everything he told Rena at the café .

"No leader?" Aisha lifts up her one eyebrow.

"It's been around 2 years and I can't handle everything. I put everyone in danger," Elsword lowers his head, "I can't be a leader."

"Don't worry, Els! You're learning!" Elesis encourages.

"Yeah! You can do it!" Chung smiles.

"A lot of things happened at the same time. It's normal if you can't handle all of it," Eve comments.

Raven sighs. "If nobody wants to be the leader, then we don't need one."

"W-Wait!" Ara interrupts. "Then who's going to organize things?"

Add crosses his arms. "You're all idiots. Nobody listens to anyone in battle anyway. There's no point on having a leader."

"You're one of them, Add!" Rose hits Add's arm with her elbow.

"Shut up."

"That's good to hear!" Rena smiles cheerfully. "We don't need a leader then!"

Before everyone goes to their room, Elsword grabs Rena's hand. "Rena! I have something to show you!"

"Oh? What is it?"

They're going back to the living room.

Rose giggles. "Maybe you should give up, Elesis?"

Elesis narrows her eyes. "It's easy when you don't have a rival."

"Ha! Not really. It just happened that I'm cool," Rose smiles proudly.

"What do you think of this doodle?" Elsword shows his art.

Rena tilts her head. "What's this?"

"Death!"

Hey, I forgot to change the "In-Progress" to "Complete", so why not continue?

(And I'll turn it to "Complete" because I don't know if I want to continue this sh-tty series or not XD)

I guess awkward stories needs series, huh?

Thanks for reading!

(Meet Ra, my OC, to reply your reviews~)

LucasTheCookie

Ra: Apparently our author loves awkward things. Glad you enjoy it

Rose: Can our author just write "Rose and Add are dating" or something?! FFS!

Ra: ..No

Guest

Ra: There. She continues it, for now

Eve: Don't give fake hope to our readers

Ra: But-

Eve: You're useless

Ra: *okay*