Lo and behold, I live. Nexon continue to resist suing me thanks.

In memory of the very first friendstory playthrough being with my demon slayer lmao. This is a very dead fandom and I'm dead inside too whoo.

Sugar stifled a large yawn behind the history textbook she had propped up to cover her face, if Professor Will continued to drone on about historical conflicts any further, she would definitely be hitting destination dreamland soon enough.

Yeah, you heard right the first time, her name was Sugar, she got it sung enough teasingly by classmates to her from the Maroon 5 song already. Though she still pitied all the girls named Siri and the bad jokes that followed them around. Her parents were so loving and sweet, that the end product just had to be sugar. Or maybe the light caramel tufts of new-born baby hair inspired them. She was stuck with it now. Curse all naysayers with cavities.

Just then, Dean Stan entered the classroom and everyone immediately snapped to attention, Sugar sheepishly folding the book back covering her face to avoid getting yelled at by "Scary Stan" for daydreaming in class.

"Ahem, attention class, today you will be having a new transfer student, her name is Yume, be nice to her or face the consequences. I have enough of a headache dealing with Hawkeye and Mihile as it is already." The latter part was muttered under his breath.

The class chorused their agreement but Sugar did a double take. Were those wings? Like actual wings sprouting from the transfer student's back? She rubbed her eyes in shock and looked towards the front again.

Yep, purple bat wings were sitting folded on her back. Why was no one else freaking out about this? This was too much, she asked to be excused to the bathroom after introductions were made and sped past the new student to reconsider her life.

Only to return to the new transfer student seated right next to her desk. She 'eeped' meekly as Yume raised an eyebrow at the terrified response she'd garnered.

Fiddling nervously with the two loosely tied twin tails trailing down the sides of her face, her forest green eyes kept flicking to the side before she decided to just take a leap of faith and whisper, "Hello, my name's Sugar, nice to meet you."

Now it was Yume's turn to do a double take of her own at the start of a conversation in the middle of class. "Sugar huh? Nice to meet you too." Her clear voice sent weird tingles down her back.

Sugar nodded hesitantly and turned her eyes back to her history book. She seemed nice enough so that was good, despite the wings attached to her person. Wasn't it uncomfortable to be pressing them against the back of the chair...?

During lunch break, she grabbed a tray full of food and made her way to the weirdo table. Not that she was really very weird mind you but it didn't seem to matter to the rest of the cohort, being a poor scholarship student that had to study fervently to keep her position otherwise it was goodbye Shinsoo Academy and hello endless disappointment from her parents.

"Omg Sugar, did you see the new transfer student? I heard she climbed a tree to impress Cygnus and she also beat up the bully cuz he threatened Cygnus then challenged her to a duel!" Francis babbled once she sat down. "Not that I really care about that kinda thing, when Orchid still isn't attending school and all..."

"Woah really? She doesn't seem like the type to go all out just to impress someone." A spoonful of soupy rice got shovelled into her mouth.

"How would you know?"

"Uh, she's sitting next to me in class?"

"OMG WHAT!?" Francis flipped the hood of his jacket down just to turn and stare at her dramatically.

"Yeah and also she can hear you."

A very serious nod came from beside her and Francis almost fell out of his seat in shock as he noticed just who had followed Sugar to the table.

"H-h-hello! I'm Francis, number 1 fan of superstar idol Orchid!" A shaky sweaty hand was thrust out in Yume's direction once he had gotten over his surprise.

"Pleasure to meet you, new transfer student Yume here." She grasped his hand firmly without even flinching. She set her own tray down beside Sugar, ignoring the flurry of whispers that had started when she sat down herself.

"So! Did you really climb a tree in the hopes of impressing Cygnus? You do know she has a super scary bodyguard in the form of School President Nineheart right?" Francis quickly got over his embarrassment and started running his mouth.

"Hmm yeah so what?" A nonchalant response from an unbothered girl as she sipped her melon milk and gazed at it in surprise before chugging the whole bottle.

"Did you also beat up the bully?!" Francis' eyes started sparkling at this hero of the student body.

"Yep." Now Yume was on her third bottle of melon milk.

"You're actually a god."

"Nah, I'm a demon." A sly smile curled her lips at her personal inside joke as Francis continued to pepper her with questions.

The bell rang, signalling the end of the lunch period, and everyone shifted to return their lunch trays before leaving to return back to their classrooms.

"Uh, if you want, I could show you around the school later after classes end!" Sugar piped up when they were walking back.

"Sure, I'd really appreciate that." Yume glanced her way again, hesitated a moment before continuing. "Would you happen to be an undercover goddess by any chance?"

"W-what?! That's such an out of the blue question! No, I'm definitely not! Just a regular human being!" Sugar spluttered in shock. "If you want to work on your pick up lines, you'd better look somewhere else!"

"Just kidding." Yume had a placating expression plastered on her face at the outburst.

"Okay in return, I have a question for you too! Are those wings behind you real?!" Sugar mustered up the courage to ask the thing she had been pondering during their first encounter.

"Ah... So, you can see them huh. Damn you Elwin, your magic sucks and you suck." Yume's hand got crushed into a fist as she cursed out an unknown individual who had promised she would be able to fit in with everyone else in this new world.

"Uhmmmmmm, are you okay? I'm sorry for asking such an invasive question! You don't have to answer me!" Sugar bowed her head in equal parts of shame, fear, confusion, and apology.

As it turned out, Yume spilled the beans about how she was actually from another world and how she had swapped places with the actual transfer student who had fallen into her world by accident. There was also the fact she had to deal with monsters being spawned as a result of this interdimensional shift in space that just so happened to be popping up in this school. But it was totally fine, it wasn't like she was doing this completely against her will or anything, she just had a great heart full of warmth and compassion that everyone praised and applauded.

Sugar's head spun at the deluge of information being spewed by the other girl. However, she didn't have much other choice but to believe it, even though it seemed like no one else was noticing the supposed wings. She herself seemed to be a real special case, and that was it. Not even Francis had any awareness that there was something different about Yume, and he was the supposed occult fan.

"One more thing, can you actually fly with those?"

"Wanna find out?"

"YES PLEASE."

Classes continued on without a hitch, Ms Lucid taught English very well, Mr Leon was so-so at art class(but he liked to wax poetic about his utterly beautiful wife and drag the class on sometimes) however Yume was soon being toured around the school with a revitalised and perked-up Sugar.

"So this is the (haunted) science lab, this is the library (generally for nerds), this is the rooftop where cool kids eat (and make out in secret), this is the nurse's office(the nurse's name is Ms Hilla), the school canteen where we ate at earlier in the afternoon, the gymnasium where Mr Magnus is usually found, the student president's office-" Sugar rattled off each location they walked past.

"What was that about the science lab being haunted?"

"Nothing!" Sugar beamed and refused to elaborate any further.

The sun was slowly sinking in the horizon when they finally reached the main school entrance, where a little brown puppy eagerly ran up to the pair, head tilted in cute innocence.

"The gig's up Elwin, this girl over here can see my wings somehow." Yume cut in before anything else could happen.

"WHAT! I PETTED THIS PUPPY EARLIER IN THE DAY. YOU'RE TELLING ME HE'S SENTIENT?!" Another shock fell upon Sugar.

"Aw darn it, Grendel's gonna beat me up and Lily will help too..." The puppy's fluffy tail sagged in despair.

Sugar couldn't help but pet the despondent canine in reassurance. "At least it's a cute girl though!"

Her comforting hand shot back towards herself as she recoiled in disgust and Yume smirked.

"I'll see you tomorrow then?"

"Yeah, see ya."

The two parted ways at the gate as the otherworlder stayed behind to continue chatting about events behind a clump of bushes.

Her old group of friends at Maple High would not believe the craziness she had been through today! Tess would tease her for being such a magnet of trouble, Olivia would offer curt words of reassurance, and Rondo would be cold but still care if she was okay. Such a group of mismatched misfits but they were her misfits and she wouldn't trade them for the world!

And then everything else happened as per the plot with Sugar helping to keep a look out for Yume when the situation arose to eliminate the monsters that popped out of the woodwork. The reputation of Yume being a bully gradually ceased and faded into obscurity as the student body witnessed how chill she really was.

Francis drooling with heart eyes over the picture of Orchid that Yume gifted to him was one she had set as her lock screen to make fun of him. Said idol started to attend classes too! Adding to Francis' continued adoration. P

She could barely even look at how lovey-dovey Ms Hilla and Mr Magnus had become while Mr Arkarium lurked jealously in the background staring at the couple.

Cassandra was eccentric as always with her fortune telling and rumor mongering, but you couldn't say her methods weren't effective. Sugar still fully believed the science lab was haunted. And the abandoned building too. There was nothing to be done with changing her opinion. Heaven and earth would move before her heart would.

The new temporary relief White Mage teacher was hot but every female except Yume and herself turned head over heels for him. Yume warned her to keep a distance from him, a wary expression on her face the whole time, that Sugar couldn't help but acquiesce until the time he left the school premises and she heaved a sigh of relief.

And she had also met the aforementioned Lily too! She made a very cute kitty but bullied Elwin a little too much.

There was a very pained yet longing expression that had popped up on Yume's face when the incident of the band gang occurred and she had met punk rock Damien and his crew for the first time. Sugar wanted to ask, burning with curiosity, but refrained from poking at an obvious old wound, which would hurt Yume even further. She didn't expect that Boogie really knew how to jam! She had to ask her for some tips on music next time along with Irena, the secret hidden superstar.

Oh, and she did become casual friends with Cygnus (the angel who bought over the school and prevented it from being shut down in the first place) and her compatriots! Nineheart looked stern but really he was such a softy for Cygnus, Oz and Irena invited her out to eat rice cake skewers at the roadside stall, Ickhart reminded her of Rondo a little (she had to introduce them sometime), and seeing Hawkeye and Mihile butt heads with each other because of their contrasting personalities was always entertaining!

So yeah, it was an incredible school year for Sugar, even if her life had met with peril and danger sometimes, overall it had been awesome! It was sad when Yume said she had to return to her own world in order to chase after more looming threats, but the memories would always be with her and also on her phone!

The actual transfer student when she returned to classes with no one any the wiser wasn't so bad of a friend either.

End.

Can you see where I gave up, I bet you can!

Thanks for reading another random instalment of that time I got reincarnated as... What? You say there was no SI!OC in this? You want to sue me for false advertising and clickbait? HAHA I fear nothing. Anything I say will be held against me? Then... PHANTOM, LUMINOUS, LUCID, ORCHID, ETC!

Any feedback will be appreciated, flames will be thrown into the campfire at the radical party I'm hosting that you're not going to be invited to for being a meanie!

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