Sorry for the long wait. But this chapter is a bit hard for me to write, since I could under or overwrite it. But, the time of delay is over. Enjoy the new chapter everyone!

Ruby: "So that was in the original as well?" "Yeah. Though it's not very wise to let them know about Yama."

Monty: "That's kind of a bad luck if you see her, right?" "Yep."

Weiss: "So what's next?" "Va lung tung." Only Vietnamese can understand this XD.

Jaune: "...What?" "You will understand soon. Though, there wouldn't be much of that in this chapter."

Kuro's 'room'

"Hold this for a while, Negi. It would make the wound heal faster." Everyone has returned back to the location above, with the additional of a certain nurse and a certain agent already waiting for them, as the former tending the young teacher's wounds. The current owner of the room was happily eating the treatments his wives just gave him after being 'docile' for the month, with his granddaughter sitting next to him and doing the same.

Asuna looked at her over-happy teacher in comical confusion. "Is he always like this every time he eats pudding?"

IF just giggled. "It's everyone who eats Compa's pudding for the first, OR waiting too long for her to make it."

Compa punched her 'girlfriend's shoulder playfully. "No need to flatter me like that. I'm sure he could enjoy the others more than..."

"NOT HAPPENING!" Both the eaters responded instantly before devouring another cups of the snack.

Setsuna sweatdropped as she saw the pack the nurse brought here. "That amount of pudding is unreasonably high..."

Fuka just waved it off. "Neptune could eat more than that, and she could just ask for more."

Nora: "Like my love with pancakes!"

Monty: "Sounded like you managed to get them back with no further problems." "It, unfortunately, was just the start."

Asuna then asked Compa: "I know you are a nurse, but I thought you could use magic? Wouldn't thaf be faster than normal medical treatments?"

Compa disagreed. "That's how normal people thinking, so I won't blame you. But, healing with magic means draining your own power to regain the others... While it sounds okay on the paper, there are cases that it would make the problems worse."

IF continued: "And there are records if you think we don't have evidences. We have done researches in Halkeginia, and we found out that magic heal not only people but what inside of them as well. So if a person has cancer..." She left the words hanging for everyone to think about it.

And Eva responded first: "The cancer would be worse instead of being fixed."

Compa nodded. "Also, too dependent on magic would make your body either reject future medication, or slowly cripple while being absent to them. You can think of drugs in that matter."

Everyone shuddered at the thought. Magic sounded convenient at first, but after hearing that... They were now glad that they didn't know about it much before...

Luckily Kuro has satisfied, as he put his spoon down and said: "Don't think about it much. If using it now and then, healing magic is a really life saver."

Yang: "Wow, magic could cause that kind of problem?" "That's why some magical worlds have diseases that they couldn't fix, and the people just brand them as curses."

Saya suddenly asked out of thin air: "By the way Kuro-sensei, how was your marriage?"

Kuro asked back: "What do you mean?"

Saya: "You said you married both of them at the same time, but from what I remember, the bride and the groom will kiss right? Then who did it first to you?"

That put Kuro in an awkward silence, as his cheeks slowly turned red. "That... is a bit embarrassed to say..."

Asakura grinned at that moment. "Come on big guy, no need to be shy. Whose kiss did you steal first?"

This time both IF and Compa turned away in embarrassment. Asakura's grin widened. "Hoho, now that's something I like to see. Even when you have gone through many things, you are still like teenagers like us when it comes to love huh?"

"S...shut up, Asakura." Kuro weakly protested. "Anyway, since it would be unfair to the girls, we didn't do it in the event. Also, I didn't take any of their first kisses."

"Um...Then who took theirs?" Saya asked 'innocently'. Kuro just pointed both of his index fingers to his wives, who just blushed even deeper.

"Hey Dada." He turned to Clem. "How about you tell us how you managed to get Grandmas confess to each other?"

An instant 'Nope!' sign appeared right above Kuro's head. "Sorry, but not in front of the students. I don't want to get beaten again."

And luckily for him and his wives, someone knocked on the door. "I will get it!" Kuro said, his voice was a bit too high, as he stood up and walked to the door. Upon opening it, he saw Nodoka and Yue with a tube containing the clues Negi asked them to search for. "Oh, you two. You want to see Negi?" A quick nod from them, he stood aside and let the girls coming in. The two came in and saw who's currently in: Eva and Chachamaru with cups of tea in their hands (the later wasn't taking any sips yet), Asuna, Konoka, Setsuna and Compa taking care of Negi, Clem, the twin and IF sitting next to empty cups of pudding, and Asakura writing something in her notebook.

Fumika waved her hands to greet the Librarian Duo. "Hello Nodoka, Yue. What brings you here?"

Yue looked a bit uncertain about if she should say it or not. However, Kuro has closed the door and answered: "Based on the tube, I'm assuming you want to talk about what Negi has asked you before, right?"

Nodoka nodded at that: "Yes, Kuro-sensei. But, I'm not sure if..."

"Don't worry. There are enough spaces here." Kuro answered.

Yue decided not to argue, and she walked to the big table and pulled out the map and spread it out. Then, she pointed to one point. "I think we have found one for you, Negi-sensei."

Everyone stopped what they're doing and got closer to the table, as Negi looked at where the girl pointed at. "...'My...clue'... WHAT? THAT'S NOT CODE! IT WAS JUST WRITTEN IN JAPANESE?"

As Negi started re-reading the map in comical confusion, Kuro and Clem just chuckled right behind him. IF just shook her head in amusement. "You saw that coming, didn't you?"

Kuro: "I mean, he's just a kid. Something like this would eventually happen."

"Kuro-sensei, Negi-sensei." The two turned their heads to Yue. "There's something I want to clear up. "During the time our class was in Kyoto, there were many things surrounding you two that felt... unreal. But, if we counted everything in, even the most ridiculous situations... you two are mages, aren't you?"

Negi was immediately panicked and tried to find a way out, but Yue continued: "There's no need to panic, Sensei. Aside from Nodoka, I haven't told it to everyone. Though..." She now looked around the room. "I suppose that everyone in this room already knew about it."

Kuro just shrugged. "You could say that. Also there are some more aware of it in our class, not only this group. So how much has Nodoka told you?"

Yue: "She tried to hide them, but I can make something out of it. First, about Evangeline, she's very powerful if she could go toe-to-toe with Ku Fei and Kaeda in the pillow fight. Then, the ermine Negi-sensei had, he must be a magical animal due to how he acts around us. And you, Kuro-sensei, are the dead give-away. The way you react to the rumors about mystical beings, then about your age and your claims about time-travelling, then how you would just disappear from here to there... How was that?"

While Negi was having a crisis in his mind, Kuro just casually answered: "You got that right. Those are magic. Except the time when Makie tried to grab me and when I sat before Negi's room, that's science at its finest."

Yue's lips curled up into a grin. "Then the mysteries inside the Academy, the Underground Library and the moving statues..."

Kuro interrupted her: "About that statue, it was the Headmaster himself."

Yue and Nodoka's eyes turned blank as they received the truth. Yue recovered first: "Wait...that giant statue was... but how did you..."

Kuro: "Time travel, remember? I could observe the events without anyone noticing me being there."

Nodoka could only nodded at the answer, since she couldn't counter that logic. Meanwhile, Yue immediately asked back: "If you're using time-travel that frequently, how come did you say that we couldn't go with you?"

Kuro: "Time travel is science, but ONLY in some places in the future. Mine is Dark Magic, I couldn't let anyone who's inexperienced with magic being influenced by it."

Yue sighed. "It seems you already knew beforehand..."

Kuro: "The world will know about magic sooner or later. Anyway, I suppose there are more that you want to ask?"

Yue: "Yes. Could you take us along when you investigate the clue? We want to know more about the Library Island, the Academy's secrets...about you mages."

Negi finally found his voice back as he said: "We couldn't do so! There are too many dangers in this trip! Did you remember about what happened in the Cinema Town?"

Kuro agreed: "Yes, there will be a lot of dangers..." only to that point. "But it's our duty to protect our students as well, Negi. If they want to come, let them. But once the danger is present, we pull them out of the place instantly."

Eva: "You're not letting them counter any of your logics, huh?"

Kuro: "I'm just stating facts."

Glynda: "Your facts are like nails to the coffin." "The advantage of knowing things before hand."

Compa suddenly pointed to the window: "Hey, is that Yukari?" Everyone turned to that, to see the Youkai hanging upside-down through her gap outside of the window.

Kuro just opened it with magic and asked: "Hey now, I know I called you sometimes, but you have appeared too frequently now. What's the occasion?"

The woman used her fan to hide her smiling face. "How about you started checking on your drones?"

Kuro rasied his eyebrows, then opened his phone while saying: "They are Observers. And why do you..." A little silence. "Oh you have got to..."

He then connected the phone to the TV so everyone could see. In the Academy's Ground, one of the Observers was focusing on a duo. One of them wore a white suit and a brown dress. Due to her black hat, they couldn't see the most of her hair, but they managed to see a small string of brown hair. The one walking with her...

Nodoka turned back-and-forth between the TV and the Youkai. "Um...Why do you two look similar?"

Kuro then asked the Youkai: "So YOUR Gensokyo is in this world as well?"

Yue asked in surprise: "Wait, Gensokyo? You mean the Land of Fantasy?"

Kuro looked between the girl and the Youkai, before groaning. "No wonder... But, do you want me to reveal Gensokyo to the two, or just let them there?"

Yukari answered: "They have suspicions, and that girl has visited my world a few times. But, that's your choice. You could make them your allies or so."

Kuro: "Wouldn't that affect Gensokyo?"

Yukari: "It's a Land of Fantasy. Anything could happen." Then the woman just disappeared.

After that display, IF asked Kuro: "You didn't even know about..."

Kuro: "I wasn't expecting it to be here, in this world. Also, Yue, you read about Gensokyo?"

Yue: "I just happened to find a book about it while we're stuck there before Negi-sensei could become an official teacher."

Setsuna: "I heard about it as well. But to know that it existed..."

Kuro: "It was well hidden... if it happened to have one in my Earth as well..."

Blake: "You were saying..." "Never mind about it."

"By the way..." Yukari suddenly appeared behind Eva while holding a card. "I was surprised that you would do that to our little boy while he's unconscious." Eva turned back, instinctly reached her hand to her pocket to find something, only to find out it's gone. The loli vampire tried to take it back, but the Youkai just disappeared into her gap and reappeared before Kuro and showed it to him.

Kuro grabbed it in confusion and looked... and his blood drained away. IF and Compa leaned to see it, then sent him 'smile' that made his spine shiver. IF said first: "And you said you didn't do anything to her..."

Kuro tried to talk it out: "I swear I didn't know this..." Then, he remembered: "Chachamaru...you said there's nothing... Urgh..."

Chachamaru immediately bowed and apologized: "Sorry Sensei, but it's Master's orders."

The said person managed to grab the card and pocketed it back. She then coughed: "Leave that aside, Bouzu, your training will start from Monday. Make up your schedule quick." Then she stood up and walked away, with the robot girl following her steps.

"No, don't comment on that." *Everyone giggles*

Negi, after snapping out of his shock, commented: "Now that's an info dump."

Kuro groaned. "Tell me about it." Then he explained to his wives what could possibly happen before. Clem didn't join in, instead she invited Saya to play more games after turning off the camera.

Then, Fuka said: "Hey, Yue, Nodoka, how about we take a walk? During that, we could answer some of yours questions."

The two then nodded, as they went out, followed by Asakura who's writing something on her phone.

Konoka just giggled as she looked at the women 'interrogating' her assistant teacher. "That looked like girlfriends finding out their boy was cheating."

Setsuna nervously smiled: "I couldn't agree more. But... Gensokyo existed. That's a surprise."

Asuna: "Mind telling us what Gensokyo is?"

Setsuna: "It was a part of Japan, then one day it was sealed away, and no one was able to find it again. Rumors were said that almost all of Youkai has disappeared into the place due to the evolution of science and technology. That's why the outside world has stopped its awareness of magic and such."

After the 'interrogation', Kuro continued Setsuna's words: "Gensokyo is also holding major stuffs that's forgotten by people here. Stuffs here include everything, even people as well."

Konoka then asked: "Is there a chance you know the way in?"

Kuro: "There is, but I'm not saying anything, because even if you reached there, without a certain event, the gateway won't open. Most of the time I talked to Yukari, the creator of that place, and when it's time, she will open a gate for me to enter. I don't want to expose her place too much."

Setsuna: "What about the duo?"

Kuro thought for a second, then he answered: "I will go and see them. If you want to, you could see it from Observers, but you shouldn't face them yet." Then he walked off after saying his goodbye to everyone...

Later

Renko said in excitement: "Naho said that there's a ghost there! So the ghost we saw before in Gensokyo was real!"

Maribel sweatdropped a bit after remembering the feeling. "It's not pleasant at all. But we can't be sure it's Gensokyo itself, right?"

Renko just patted her partner's back. "Come on now. It's definitely real if both of us could see it, right?"

"It is, young ladies. Gensokyo is pretty real." The two turned to their right to see a man in white lab coat looking at them from a close distance. When the two looked at him, he bowed down. "Hello you two. My name is Kuro. I overheard your conversation about Gensokyo, and I myself am interested in it."

Renko was a bit skeptical, but she just greeted back: "Hello mister Kuro. My name is Renko Usami, and this is Maribel Hearn."

The other girl bowed as well, however, she felt something very wrong about this man. Though she didn't voice it out. "Nice to meet you sir."

Kuro: "Likewise. I haven't seen you girls around here often. Are you new here?"

Renko: "Something like that. We heard about the rumors about a ghost here from a friend of us. So we decided to investigate it for ourselves."

Kuro nodded. "I heard that as well. Saenoki sure likes to find out stuffs like this."

The two were a bit surprised that the man knew the paranormalist. Maribel asked: "You know Naho?"

Kuro: "We met each other before. Anyway, first, about the ghost. She was currently in the class I'm teaching, but she's registered as a student. I know you want to meet her, but can you pick another time? She was just adjusting to the fact a few of us could see her and interact with her."

Renko nearly shouted: "You could see ghosts as well?"

Kuro: "Supernatural beings in general. Also Maribel, the discomfort I'm giving you is due to my Dark Power."

Maribel took a step back in fear. "You read my mind?"

Kuro shook his head. "A few people showed discomfort like you when they found out my power. It's easy to notice after a few times."

Renko looked from head to toe of the man, before asking back: "That aside, you said Gensokyo is real?"

Kuro said nonchalantly: "I just happened to know its creator."

... Renko immediately stood before the man, as she stared into his eyes with hope. "PLEASE! TELL US EVERYTHING!"

Kuro let out a small chuckle. "I can. Though, let's pick a place to sit down. This is not a good place to talk."

Ozpin: "You sure like that kind of approaching, don't you?" "The more mystery I could be, the more I like."

"So, where do you want to start first?" The three have picked up a cafe, and took a table for themselves. Kuro started the conversation.

Renko said first: "What about how you met its creator?"

Kuro: "I was in the search of copies of dangerous copies of a book. Then, my search led to Gensokyo. Due to its nature, I reached to the person who's in control of that place first."

Maribel: "So you have psychic power?"

Kuro: "No. But, I'm aware of those. And I can use similar power."

Renko: "Magic?"

Kuro: "If Gensokyo is real, then magic is too, right?"

Renko grinned. "Yep, it is. Next, how did you meet Naho?"

Kuro: "She tried to kill me before." And he laughed at the girls' shocked expression. "Knew you would be like that."

Maribel was a bit frightened at how he addressed the matter so casually. "But... you didn't look like you hate her."

Kuro: "I dislike some of her perks, but that doesn't make me hate her in general. Tell me, how much do you know about Heavenly Host?"

Right after that, the waitress brought the drink to them. After they received the orders and the waitress was away, Renko answered: "Wasn't there a group of survivors or something? Naho was the member of that group, but she didn't tell us much about it."

Kuro: "It's better for you not to hear it. What happened there belongs to the deepest depth of Hell."

Maribel changed the subject: "You said the ghost is your student, right? Then you're a teacher?"

Kuro: "An assistant to be exact."

Renko: "That sounds more reasonable. You're too young to be an official teacher."

Kuro chuckled. "You will be surprised if you know who the official teacher is."

Renko: "We're a bit off track. Can you tell us how the creator of Gensokyo look like?"

Kuro scratched his chin. "I'm not sure if I should say this... I can say she's one of the most powerful beings."

Renko: "You can't tell her appearance to us?"

Kuro: "Maybe when we meet again, will I tell. This is not the approriate time."

Maribel: "Have you visited the place by yourself?"

Kuro: "Not at the moment. But I do have an appointment in the future. How about a small deal? Who could get the access to Gensokyo first will tell the other. How does that sound?"

Renko grinned. "That's a deal!"

Both sides shook hands as the agreement. Then, they traded numbers and talked a little bit more about the stuffs in Mahora. After a while, Kuro said his goodbye to the girls and walked away...

"That's a way to cover tracks."

"The girls will find out soon. What are you going to do, Yukari?"

Yukari: "Probably enforce the barrier. Your fight will draw a lot of attentions, and I don't want you to divert it into my place."

Kuro: "I'm not planning to do that. Though, did the girls from your place come out here often?"

"None, at the moment."

"... Speaking about your hibernation..."

"Don't need to change the subject like that."

Pyrrha: "Hibernation?" "I'm not even sure if she did so. It's like an excuse to slack off or so, but for a person like Yukari, I couldn't even sure."

Ren: "You did meet her in the future and find that out, right?" "It was best for me not to do so. Who knows what she could do behind my back?"

Ruby: "But, after that they just left?" "Well... that's something I didn't think of..."

"Did you see that, Merry?" "I did. And that woman looks too much like me, in a discomfort way."

The two have followed the man after finishing up their drinks (Kuro left enough to pay for all of them), and hidden themselves out of his sight. Then, Maribel said she felt the boundaries being bent around them, and when they looked back to the man, they saw him talking to a female who looked like an older version of her.

Once they hid again, Renko said: "I think that's why he didn't want to talk about the creator. It could make both of us be confused."

Maribel: "But then, why does she have too much similar things to me?"

"That's something worth to find out, right?" The two turned their heads back in surprise to see Kuro and Yukari already standing behind them, the later sitting on her gap while asking the question.

Renko immediately turned back to see none, then turned to the two and asked: "How long did you know we're here?"

Kuro pointed his thumb to the Youkai. "The moment before she spoke to you."

Yukari then closed the distance between her and Maribel, as she touched the younger girl's cheek with her finger. "Eavesdropping someone requires more subtlety. We know a person who's so loud but she still managed to sneak around with no problems."

Renko pushed the Youkai out of her partner and threatened: "Don't you dare doing anything on her..."

Kuro also pulled Yukari back as well. "I know you like to scare people, but now is not the good time." He then apologized: "Sorry about that. But you girls shouldn't follow me like that. You should head back home now."

The other duo blinked, as Maribel asked back: "But... I thought you would be mad?"

Kuro just waved his hand off. "That stuff happened too many times. At least you girls are not planning to do bad things so I will let it slide."

And after that, the girls apologized and they were about to leave, before Maribel asked her last question: "Why does the creator of Gensokyo look so much like me?"

With that, Kuro answered: "Sorry, but she won't answer. Not now at least."

Once the girls were out of sight... "The Savior just let his guard down..."

"They showed nothing malice, so I can't find them off. Also, you showed up twice in a row. What's that about?"

"*Giggle" Just want to remind you of that day."

"It was passed to this point."

"Depends on the girl." And with that, she's gone, and the boundaries that covered them broke.

"...if she's talking about Eva..."

Blake: "You sure have problems when it comes to love." "I don't even know about Eva that much. I mean, I know the series, but the time I speak to her is not that much to..."

Jaune: "Um, it's a bit off, but doesn't vampire gain something else rather than blood when they suck off people's blood?" "... Yeah, you caught me. After she sucked my blood, and do 'that' while I was unconscious, she found out my past. Needless to say she's a bit scared of me, despite being older than me."

Yang: "So then, what's next?"

"Did... did you just say that?"

"I'm not joking."

They're currently inside Eva's resort, as they watched Negi training with Chachamaru and Chaos.

"I mean... Charlotte might mind a bit, and we do not know each other as much..."

"Not so much? You knew even the past that I even forgot sometimes. While I knew nothing about you."

"But still..."

"How about we hold it until Mahora festival? It could give us more time." Then, the girl joined in the training.

"...damn it. I can't get out of this, can I?"

Sorry, but I am cutting short here. I don't want to spoil the next event. But if I want to write it into this chapter, then it will make the chapter too long to read.

So yeah, I decide to make this chapter a teaser for what I'm about to do in the future. And in case you forgot the date this chapter was released, it was just the next day after Valentine.

Chao for now guys! We will meet again!