AN: Well dang, it's been awhile huh? Well since I kinda know how this arc will play out in my head, why not continue it? But I would of uploaded this MUCH earlier, but real life comes first of course.

But anyways, 10 favorites and 22 follows off the first chapter?! I was absolutely shocked that I would get this much! For that, I thank you all.

I'm just gonna respond to the reviews that I didn't respond here though, you can skip this and enjoy the chapter if you want.

Flairina: I see what you mean, but I wanted to take the chuunibyou disease trope and apply it here to the characters here in DDLC, while also taking some ideas from the show (it's going to be heavily inspired by it). I didn't want to do a crossover since I feel that it would be a bit to much for me to handle. But anyways, this doesn't take place in the game, I'm using the game lines to keep it similar to the game's script while adding in a few twists. These are just some girls who have a serious case of chuunibyou, for certain reasons of course.

TBTNGamer and XxShadowofTheFuture: Thank you to you both!

Anyways, enjoy this chapter! Again reviews and constructive criticism is always welcome.

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"Text"- Dialogue.

'Text'- Inner thoughts.

The journey back home was a silent one for me as I was still in complete shock. Sayori accompanied me since she wanted to walk back home together (though we do live nearby each other, so either way we were bound to anyway). I mean, what do you expect when the chuunibyou infected school idol blackmails you into joining her club?

I actually want to believe that this was just all a silly game by a cruel God.

Seriously, why me? What did I do? I learned from my stupid mistakes from the pasts and tried my best to get my life back together. Don't you think I deserve some type of reward?

But don't get me wrong, these girls are cute. But the fact that they all have this silly chuunibyou disease is just a huge turnoff. Seriously, I thought that this 'disease' only lasts until your last year of middle school or something... By the time you get into your first year of high school, you should at least develop some common sense like me!

Will I actually survive spending the afternoon with these cute but delusional girls every day?

I wanted to shut myself off from the outside world and be in peace to collect my thoughts on how to deal with this dilemma, but...

"Ohmygosh, Ryota! We're going to have so much fun every day now! Countless fun- I mean- adventures! Big fights! I can't wait for it~!" Said by my excited childhood friend.

Sayori couldn't stop running her mouth. Literally from the walk from school to the train station, to the actual train ride, and up until now she couldn't stop talking. I only gave simple responses to her as she kept rambling on and on. But for someone like me who has been with her since almost the beginning, it's actually bearable and I can't say that I don't miss it.

As we kept walking and approached our neighborhood, a sense of realization hit me as I stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. 'That's right… SHE'S THE ONE WHO GOT ME INTO THIS MESS!'

Sayori immediately turned around as soon as she noticed that I wasn't next to her.

"Eh? Ryota…? What's wrong?" She said with a curious tone.

I only gave her a light smile and placed my hand on her shoulder. "Sayori," I said with an icy tone, her body tenses up in response. "How did Monika know about Bahamut? She never went to our middle school, so how in the name of the heavens did she know?"

Her eyes widened in realization and a guilty look fell onto her face as she puts her two pointer fingers together. "W-what do you mean? D-didn't she told you already? She's the Lady who Knows Everything, hehe…"

I put my hands up in a ready position and I took a few steps closer to her, in response, she took a few steps backward. "Sayori. Tell the truth."

"I-I am! She has time-telling powers and stuff!" She says as she struggles to give me a straight face and look me in the eyes.

Having enough of this, I quickly approached her and used one of her weaknesses to my advantage.

She was ticklish ever since she was young.

I launched my fingers to her sides as I gave her a barrage of tickles. She desperately tried to resist as she tried to pull my hands away from her, but unfortunately for her, I was stronger. Sayori started to giggle and eventually, it turned into laughter. Tears started to form in her eyes as she slowly starts to fall to the ground.

"HAHA, s-stop! I-I give up! You win! I'll tell you everything! Pleas-AHAHA!"

I ceased my tickling and let her catch her breath as she slowly gets back up. "Well?" I said as I cross my arms before continuing. "Care to tell me how she found out? Or do you want me to do it again?"

"Okay, okay! I'll tell you!" She raises her hands to show that she surrenders. "But first… LOOK BEHIND YOU! ENEMY SPOTTED!" Sayori says, pointing behind me.

I sigh in annoyance. "Sayori, no one is there."

She puts her two pointer fingers together and shows her puppy face to me. "P-please?" In response, I shook my head while rolling my eyes and turned around.

'I already know she did it… might as well let her off the hook…"

Of course, I saw nothing besides the houses and a few people in the neighborhood walking around. I turned my head back around to face her, "See Sayori? There no one is- ah."

I saw that Sayori was already booking it to her house as she was already close to the corner where we separate usually. For a delusional girl like her, she runs pretty fast if she tries, though I am going to say it's because of our adventures during middle school.

"Ha! You may have won this battle, but I will be notorious-"

"Victorious."

"Victorious the next! I shall strike when you least expec-UWAHH!" Sayori says as she trips onto the sidewalk. She fell flat on her stomach as she tried to turn the corner. I only shook my head in disappointment as I pitied her.

"Are you okay?"

"Owie… I-I'm okay!" She says as she struggles to get up. "This is but a battle wound! I only lost five HP!" She starts to limp as she continued to walk down the road. "See you tomorrow! Ow…" Sayori says as she left my vision.

I sigh and put my hands on my temples, "Why did I even try to convince her? She's a lost cause..." I mumbled to myself as I continued my path back home.

"I'm home..." I say with a hint of exhaustion in my voice as I entered my house. I took off my shoes by the front door and made my way into the living room.

"Ah. Welcome back, big brother. Where the heck were you? You're later than usual you know."

I looked over to the couch and saw that Haru watching television, dressed in her pajamas. She was lying down with a bowl of chips on her stomach.

"Sorry, I joined a club today. Secondly, don't finish all the chips. I don't want you to get too fat." I said jokingly.

"Booo~. That's mean Ryota." She says as she throws a potato chip towards my direction without looking, her eyes still glued on the television. I caught the chip with two hands and sat down next to her as I ate it.

"I'm joking, I'm joking." I looked over to see what to see what she was watching. "What's this? New seasonal anime?"

"Oh, this? It's the anime adaptation of Parfait Girls, came out like three weeks ago." She says as she stuffs another handful of chips into her mouth. "Anyways, what club did you join?" My dear sister said as she chewed on her snacks. "I thought you would have never joined any. You didn't seem like the type to join any."

"Oh uh, It's a literature club that I joined today," I say in response as I stretched my arms. 'Actually, more like forced…'

I tried to grab some chips from the bowl, only to get my hands swatted away from her.

"Rude." I quietly mumbled.

"Really, literature? You don't seem to be the type of guy too- oh my gosh!" I raised an eyebrow towards her and saw her surprised face directed at me. "Why do you look so pale? You look like you've seen a ghost!"

"Huh?" Curiously as to why she said that I took out my smartphone and turned on the front camera. My face was actually somewhat pale which kinda caught me off guard, though I blame it on the shock that I experienced earlier when Monika exposed my darkest secrets. I guess you could say that I've seen the ghost of my past haunting me.

I never knew someone can be pale from shock for this long though.

"Ah. Well, I'm kinda tired from school and joining the club." I said with all honesty. 'I'm going to leave out the part where I got blackmailed…'

"Jeez, then what are you doing here? Go to sleep or something." Haru says in response as she returned her gaze back onto the television.

"I just might, though I'm pretty sure you would get hungry if I didn't cook," I say in response.

"I'm fine, I already ate earlier. Just go away and rest up because right now, you look like your about to throw up any second. And there's no way that I'm going to clean it up!"

I shrugged my shoulders in response and got up from my chair. I started to make my way upstairs to my room. "Fine, suit yourself Haru. Don't come knocking into my room in the middle of the night because your hungry." I say while walking upstairs.

"Yeah yeah, I won't. Goodnight Big Bro. Seeya in the morning." She says loud enough for me to hear.

I made my way into my room as I tossed my school handbag onto the floor. I laid on my bed and rubbed my temples to regather my thoughts of today's events.

'Okay. So I got blackmailed into joining a literature club by our chuunibyou infected school idol, who also has members who have this stupid disease…

What the hell do I do? Actually, what can I do?'

The answer was simple.

Nothing.

When one of the most influential people in the whole entire school knows about your stupid secret, what can you do? There would be excessive amounts of looks that I would get if the whole school knew about my dark past, and I would have died in embarrassment. I don't think I'll be able to take them shunning me out like in middle school ever again.

And I knew if I don't go to each club meeting, she would probably reveal it to the whole school or something.

'Or… would she? Even though I don't know her that much, she seems to be like a nice person… Right?'

Either way, my whole nonexisting reputation is on the line, and so was my high school dream of being apart of the normal crowd was too.

I laid my hands on my stomach as I stared into my grey ceiling. "God? Are you there? If so, why me out of billions of other people?" I asked, even though obviously I knew I wasn't going to get a reply back.

I sighed as I got up from my bed, 'There's no point of sulling over this, I'll get over this eventually…' I started to get changed into my casual clothes to sleep in; a black t-shirt and sweatpants, and sat down by my desk.

'Homework isn't going to do itself… at least it will get my mind off things."

Eventually, I finished my homework in around a few hours or so since my school gives A LOT almost every day. What do you expect from one of the most prestigious schools in this area? It was a given that they were going to give us a massive amount of work.

Despite the fact that our school is one of the best, I still couldn't wrap my head around the fact that there actually are some people who act like them in our school somehow.

Well, the more you know am I right?

As I closed my notebook and placed it into my bag, I gazed over to my alarm clock. 'Looks like this time I'll actually sleep early huh? It's only 10 pm thankfully…'

I walked towards my bed and immediately collapsed onto it. Today might just be marked down as probably one of my unluckiest or maybe even the worse day ever. My mind starts to wander between the four girls.

Sayori or her identity as 'Aurora Sunshine' whatever it was called. My childhood friend who always filled with happiness, who I also influenced to make her who she is today sadly.

The small but feisty petite, Natsuki who is apparently is the ruler of the 'Red Crimson Demons' and wears an eyepatch to cover something called her 'Wicked Eye'.

Yuri or 'Tsukuyomi', the tallest out of the four and the most elegant apparently was born something called the "blood moon" and got some sort of powers from a witch. But for compared to the other girls in the school, she has a large pair of-

I slapped myself for thinking such indecent thoughts. Sorry, mom.

Lastly was just Monika. Dokisai High School's very own loveable school idol. The one who seems to have everything from looks to popularity. But what they don't know is that she calls herself 'The Lady who Knows Everything' who is some sorcerer or something like that.

What's with these girls? There has to be some reason why they all believe that they have some secret powers or magic whatever it was… right? Anybody with common sense would know that they don't exist, and apparently, these girls don't have any whatsoever!

Was watching way too much anime or playing too many video games when they were younger the reason? Did they hit their head really hard or something? Or are they merely doing it for fun?

I sighed and closed my eyes, 'There's no point of thinking about this anymore. I can only hope that tomorrow good fortune will find me, unlike today…'

Eventually, I drifted off into a peaceful slumber without a care in the world.

I was running.

I just don't know why, but I was just running.

I found myself dashing through somewhere very familiar.

Was it my middle school?

Despite it reminding me of my middle school… the place looked haunted. The school hallway walls were aging the paint on the walls were peeling off and holes started to appear in them. Glass was scattered everywhere on the broken wooden floors, making an ominous creaking sound as I quickly took each step.

Eventually, as I kept running through the halls, I started to see school children all around me as they were all laughing as I kept running. Their laughs were all creepy and disorientating, leaving a chill down my spine.

But were they laughing at me?

I turned back and my eyes widen in fear. A black figure surrounded by a dark mist was chasing me, you can slightly see it's body structure through the mist and what frighten me the most was it's piercing green eyes staring straight at me… or maybe through me?

The ominous figure started to get closer and closer to me, I tried running faster but it was no use. Eventually, I hit a dead end and I turned around. The figure started to slowly approach me, and I soon saw that the body structure belonged to a woman.

"I FiNaLlY cAuGHt yOu~! wHy wErE yOu RuNnInG?" the black figure said in a demonic voice.

I tried saying something back, but the words did not come out at all. I kept moving backward as it started to move closer to me, eventually falling onto the floor and back into the corner.

'NoW tHen, nOw ThAt I cAuGhT yOu, dOn'T yOu tHiNk yOu DeSeRvE a PuNishMent?' The figure said as it started directly into my eyes.

I braced myself for whatever was coming next…

"Aurora Smash!"

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I woke up in pain on my abdomen as I quickly shot up from my bed. I quickly came back to my senses and realized that Sayori had somehow come into my room and ELBOW DROPPED ME AWAKE.

I looked over to my door and saw Haru recording me as she laughed her heart out.

"SAYORI?! WHAT THE FU-"

"I told you that I'll be victorious the next!" She interrupts me as she wears a proud look on her face as she points up to the ceiling. She covers her right eye with her left hand while her right hand is on the left side of her stomach. "You've doubted the powers of me! Aurora Sunshine the Third!"

"HOW DID YOU EVEN GET INSIDE?!"

"Oh, Haru let me in~!" She turns around and pointed towards Haru, who was clutching her stomach from all the laughter. Her face was beet red and tears appeared in her eyes. "Now then Haru, where's my reward for beating the big boss?"

"Here you go big sis Sayori!" Haru tosses Sayori a newly unopened box of cookies as her reward.

A box of cookies that I had bought for myself and myself only. Damn that girl.

Sayori then gives Haru a bear hug, "Thank you so much Haru~ Now that the boss has been slain, I shall take my leave for now! Aurora Dash!" She lets go of Haru and quickly makes her way downstairs into the living room.

Haru makes her way towards me, still struggling to keep in her laughter. "Are you okay Ryota? She hit you pretty hard ya know."

"Oh, of course, I'm fine. It's not like I GOT ELBOW DROPPED AS A WAKEUP CALL IN THE MORNING! WHO THOUGHT HER HOW TO DO THAT?!"

Haru then bursts out laughing, it took all of my willpower to not punish her on the spot right there.

"Sorry, sorry! She said she watched a video from somewhere called the 'Electric Ocean', I just wanted her to do something to you to wake you up! I didn't expect her to do THAT!"

I sigh and rubbed my stomach to relieve the pain I felt. 'So she means the internet?! What the Hell is that girl watching?' Thankfully, she didn't hurt me that much.

"What the Hell is she doing here so early though?"

"She wanted breakfast."

I had almost forgotten, Sayori can barely cook for herself. Her parents usually leave early for work in the morning and come in late when she's sleeping, so she usually orders food. She almost burnt down her house once trying to cook and if it weren't for me and Haru, she would have been homeless.

"Just get out of my damn room then…"

"No problem, 'Bahamut'!" She teased as she closed the door. I quickly threw a ball of paper by my bedside table and threw it at her before she closed it.

I laid down on my bed in pain while staring at the ceiling. "So I wake up to a nightmare by getting elbow dropped by my delusional childhood friend huh? What a great way to start the day."

I slowly started to get off my bed to get ready for the day.

'And I doubt it's going to get any better…'

25 Minutes later.

After showering and getting dressed, I head down the stairs to the living room and saw Sayori happily munching away with the box in her hand as she watches TV. Haru, on the other hand, was laying her head on Sayori's lap, texting. I quickly walked over to Sayori and snatched the box out of her hand.

"Uwah! My mana potions!" She moves Haru's head from her laps carefully and quickly gets up to cover her right eye with her left hand and sticks her right palm towards me. "You violates the law! You must pay the court a fine or face punishment from me!"

"First off, it's around 6:30 in the morning right now Sayori it's unhealthy to be eating MY cookies this early, and secondly, WHY DID WAKE ME UP BY ELBOW DROPPING ME?!"

She crosses her arms and pouts towards me, "I needed the mana after beating the big boss of course. And I had to use my new ultimate move to one shot the boss!"

I give out a frustrated sigh and delivered a quick chop to her forehead, causing her to flinch. "I'm not a boss at all Sayori."

She rubs the spot I struck at while giving me a defiant look, "Yes you are Bahamut! You're like… level... ninety! We are eternal rivals to the end~!"

I slapped my forehead in response, "You know what? Whatever, please just don't ever do that again."

I made my way to the cabinets and placed the box on the highest shelf so that Sayori nor Haru can grab it. 'I have to remind myself to lock my door before sleeping…'

I looked through the lower shelves to find something that I can cook for the both of them. My eyes eventually looked towards the pancake mix sitting all the way in the back of the bottom shelf.

Usually, I would never cook pancakes on the weekdays, only on the weekends but since we had nothing else, we had no choice. I grabbed it and showed it to the both of them, "How bout' pancakes then?" I looked towards the both of them and they instantly shot up.

"Oh, oh! I want to help!" Haru exclaimed as she quickly made her way towards me, Sayori followed behind with a cheerful expression.

"Fine, the both of you wash your hands. Sayori put on an apron on and let Haru do the mixing, I don't want to have a repeat what happened last time."

"Okay…" Sayori said in a melancholy tone as she opens up the bottom cabinet to take out the apron.

The last time I let her help me make pancakes, she whipped the batter way too hard while saying something along the lines of "Aurora Spin!" and had made a mess everywhere.

Needless to say, my mother had gotten really pissed at the both of us.

I took out all the ingredients out; the eggs, sugar, salt, baking powder, and the milk, and laid it on the counter as Haru and Sayori took out the tools necessary for pancake making.

As Haru and Sayori quickly mixed in all the ingredients, I sprayed the frying pan and readied up the stove. My eyes glanced over to the both of them, "Oi, you guys finished mixin-what the?! What are you adding?"

"Hehe~ This will give us increased mana for the whole day! Right Haru?" Sayori states as she adds in chocolate chips into the batter.

"I just said it's too early too… you know what, just don't put in a lot." I say in response while putting the maple syrup in the microwave.

Sayori then hands me the batter while Haru prepares the table with the kitchen utensils and placed the microwaved maple syrup in the middle. A sweet aroma fills the kitchen as I poured the batter in the pan, both Haru and Sayori are visibly drooling over the smell.

I took out a ceramic plate from one of the cabinets and placed the delicate pancakes onto it and brought it over to the table where both Haru and Sayori were waiting anxiously for. We all placed a stack of pancakes on our own plates and poured syrup onto it and spread the butter.

Sayori had taken the first bite out of the three of us, as she already ate almost a quarter of the pancakes. "I see you have been blessed by the Gods of cooking Bahamut! This is really good!" She says as she swallowed down the pancake.

Haru starts to giggle as soon as she heard my past persona, my cheeks heating up in embarrassment. "Sayori, I told you not to call me by that anymore…" I said.

"We should invite the rest of the club next time!" She says as she puts another piece into her mouth.

"Errr, maybe one-day Sayori. I only just met them yesterday." I state while twilling my fork around.

'Yeah, most likely not. I can somewhat deal with one chuunibyou patient, but three others? Who knows what they'll do.'

"Oh, you're in big sis Sayori's club, Ryota?" Haru then perks up.

"Yup! He just joined yesterday~ His powers are essential for our club!" Sayori states proudly, Haru giggling even more in response. Thankfully she didn't ask any more questions and continued to eat.

Eventually, we all finished and cleaned up our mess (though it was me who did all the cleaning). We all made our last preparations before heading out the front door.

"Well then, this is where I depart! See you two later." Haru states before giving the both of us a hug each. She then opens the front gate and leaves, disappearing out of our sights.

"Are you ready to go Ryota?" Sayori says with a bright smile.

"Yeah, we better hurry before the train leaves though." I replied as we both started our long journey to school.

"And if you just write down the problem like this…" The teacher explained as he writing down an equation on the chalkboard.

PIN-PON-PAN-PON

The Westminster chimes play through the PA system, indicating the period ended and homeroom started.

"Ah, well looks like the period is over it seems. We will finish this lesson tomorrow, please speak to me after class if you have any questions." He states while organizing his papers. "Oh, one more thing before I'm finished, I am sure that all of you are aware of the school festival."

I had forgotten all about the school festival, I don't usually go to them and usually stay home. Usually, every class and club participates in them, but you have a choice if you want to help or not.

"That being said, can both of our class representatives please come to the board and help organize? Can Mr. Shujinkou please stand up?"

I slowly rise up and made my way to the front of the class. Since I keep watching myself on how I acted because of my dark past, everyone voted that I should become one of the class representatives in this classroom.

"And also can Ms. Fujisawa please come up?" A girl with shoulder length blue hair stands up from her seat. Her two strands of hair next to her face were tied by light blue elastic hair bands, halfway. Next to her right orange eye was a small mole. She goes up to the class podium with a bright smile.

This girl, in particular, was named Amy Fujisawa. If I were to describe her, she is almost like Sayori with her bubbly personality, but of course, she actually has common sense and isn't a chuuni. Apparently, she is one of the more popular girls in the school, ranking in the top ten overall. Usually, I let her do all the talking while I do the writing and organizing.

"Alright everybody, pay attention now!" She said with a cheery tone. Amy then looks over to me and gives me a wink, making my heart skip a beat. I take a piece of chalk to start writing down the plans for our classroom's plan for the festival.

Eventually, we all decided that our classroom was going to do a maid cafe, much to most of the girls' dismay.

"Okay, now that that's settled for our plans, we're all finished for now!" Amy concluded as she glanced my way. "Good work, Ryota! Though, it's a shame that you won't be participating in our class festival." She says before crossing her arms and pouting.

"Y-yeah, sorry about that Amy. I'm not really a big fan of attending these festivals."

"No, no it's okay! Whatever makes you happy is good for you, alright?" She said as she gave me a cheerily smile. "What do you even do on the days of the festivals?"

My face flushes in response. "O-oh, well I actually go to my friends' house from other schools…" I responded. 'I can't say that I usually stay home and play video games all day…'

"But, uh good work today Amy." I awkwardly state before quickly sitting down on my chair.

"Alright students, only a few more minutes till second period starts!" Our teacher states as he sits down on his desk.

I put my head down on my desk to relax for the remaining class period. Suddenly, I felt something light hit the back of the head and I instantly I shot up.

'What the… who the Hell?' Someone had thrown a crumpled up paper ball behind me, I picked it up and looked at the direction it was thrown at.

"...Monika?" I looked at the slightly open door behind me and Monika hiding behind the door. She gives me a small wave and gestured to me to open the paper ball to read what's inside.

'The time to strike is upon on, Bahamut. I cannot speak in person as the ancient order of assassins are onto us here in the everlasting place of knowledge. Rendezvous at the Halls of Consumption when the clock hits high noon!

The Lady Who Knows Everything~ M.T'

A look of confusion had appeared on my face.

What in the name of Hell was she talking about?

I looked back towards the door and signaled her to come inside. She shakes her head and gestures to write inside of the note.

"Okay then…" I took out my ballpoint pen out of my pocket and quickly scribbled down a sentence.

'What does that even mean Monika?' I crumpled the ball again and readied my arm to toss it back to her, only to realize she was already gone.

I felt a book lightly tap my scalp and my body tensed up in response. "What were you planning to do with that paper ball Mr. Shujinkou?"

I looked up and saw my teacher staring into my eyes with an annoyed face. "O-oh, uh just throwing the piece of paper away."

"By throwing it from your seat? Get up and properly put it in the bin. Cleaning duty at the end of the day for you today." He demanded with an assertive tone.

I heard giggling in the classroom as I walked towards the garbage can in shame.

'This day is definitely not going to be a good one…'

Before I knew it, the clock had turned to twelve and it was finally time for lunch. Judging by what Monika meant in her message, she wanted me to come downstairs to the cafeteria. Since I had always brought lunch from home or skip lunch entirely, I usually spend my time in my classroom alone while browsing through my phone.

My mind shifted to a certain middle school memory as I walk downstairs.

'Yo, Ryota do you want to-'

'Do not disturb me!' I said as I covered my left eye with my hand, the other hand held a protein bar. 'I am recovering my mana for my many upcoming battles against the Demon King!'

I banged my hand against the wall as I remembered such an embarrassing moment.

'Seriously, is there a reset button I can press?'

As I pushed open the doors to the cafeteria, I immediately start my search for the club president through the crowd of students. My eyes then shifted over towards to the very far corner, where I see Monika waving towards me while she's sitting down on an empty table.

Approaching the table, Monika starts to pat down on an empty seat right next to her. "A good knight should always sit next to the person whos he protecting, no?" She says with a sweet smile.

My face flushes in embarrassment, "I told you I don't go by that anymore…"

"It's just the two of us anyway! Well at least for now." Her face became somewhat annoyed when she had said that last sentence. "The rest should be coming in soon."

"Well, what do you have in mind since you called all of us here?"

"You shall see soon."

"Heeeeeeeey!" I hear in the background. The both of us turned around and saw Sayori running towards us, lunch tray in her hand. Carefully, Sayori sets her food down right next to me; a beef barbeque combo which included: a bowl of rice with of course barbeque beef on the side, miso soup, and pickled vegetables, and gives both me and Monika a quick hug.

"Thanks for the food~!" Sayori cheerily said as she clasps her hands together and picks up her chopsticks to begin digging down on her food.

"Um...hello everyone." A tall purple hair girl said, clutching a book near her chest as she sat down right in front of me.

"Heya, Yuri," I say, giving her a small smile to help her feel welcome.

"So the new guy is flirting with the wielder of the Third Eye of Makarov already I see. Not that I care." Says a small pink hair petite wearing an eyepatch, sitting down next to her. Yuri and I blushed instantly.

"Natsuki! I-I w-was just merely saying hello to everyone…" Yuri, clearly embarrassed, said in a low tone.

"Yeah! We're just being friendly to each other you know." I added in to back her up.

Natsuki crosses her arms and looks away. "Hmph."

"Okay everyone!" Monika says while clapping her hands together to grab all of our attention. "It's finally time to strike for the benefits of our stronghold!"

I raised my eyebrows in curiosity. "So… you must be talking about the club right?"

"Correct. As you may all know, it is time for the annual ritual here in the everlasting place of knowledge..."

'Ah, crap… don't tell me she's talking about the-'

"The festival!"

'Damn it. I'm not going to participate in it either way…'

"That is why I all called you down here to discuss ways on how we shall participate to gain more members to our stronghold."

"Couldn't this had to wait until the actual club meeting Monika?" I said with a curious tone as I lay my cheek on my hand.

"Of course not. We use all of our time honing our powers during club meetings!"

I sigh and shook my head in disappointment. "Right. Either way, I'm not going to participate in it either way." I say while getting up out of my seat. "I'll see you guys later."

Monika then grabs my head and cleared her throat, "Oh my! Is that the famous Baham-!" She says very loudly before I cut her off by putting my hand over her mouth. My face now scarlet red from embarrassment as I looked around the cafeteria. Thankfully no one heard her.

"I-I change my mind. I guess I really want to participate haha…" I say in shame as I plop right back down onto my seat, Natsuki snickers at my misery.

"Oh oh! I can't wait! It's going to be soooo much fun!" Sayori says while chewing her lunch mid-sentence.

"Hey, hey, eat first then swallow Sayori." I say as I slightly raise my voice at her.

"I see that you always look after her Ryota. I might be a little jealous." Yuri then spoke looking away from her book right into my eyes.

Sayori takes a sip out of her miso soup before responding. "Well, yeah! He's always helping me ever since I was young, like cleaning my room, cooking or even helping me with home!"

"Ahem. Anyways back to the subject at hand." Monika then spoke up, catching all of our attention. "That is why I would like to ask you guys for suggestions!"

"Ugh, do we have to participate? I mean, I'm fine with five members." The pink hair girl said with an annoyed voice.

"I must agree with Natsuki," Yuri adds in her thoughts. "I don't really do well with crowds."

"Well here's the thing, Sayori and I had already signed the club for it today," Monika says in an apologetic tone.

The small petite as she rises out her seat and slams her hands on the table, her eyes widen in both surprise and anger. "WHAT!"

I looked over to Yuri who was also in surprise. I couldn't help but feel bad for her since she seems to be such an introvert.

"Sorry, but I really want our stronghold of literature to grow in numbers. This is the only way to do so to protect the fate of it here, Sayori also agrees." Monika calmly says as she tries to defuse the situation. Sayori then gives a thumbs up as she stuffs her face with another piece of barbeque beef.

Natsuki then gives a sigh, clearly giving up as she rubs her temples. "Fine, whatever then," she says as she sat right back down on her seat. "Since we don't have any other choice."

"I'm glad that you understand, leader of the Red Crimson Demons. Anyways, suggestions are welcome."

Natsuki then gives off a small smirk. "Okay then…how about we show off a little taste what our powers can do so we can show how cool we are then? You know, a little performance!"

I was mortified from the suggestion Natsuki made, I couldn't move a muscle as I was frozen in place. 'Oh no… anything but that! I'm going to die in embarrassment!'

Sayori then perks up as she takes a sip of her cup of water. "Oh oh! That's such a good idea! If we just show off our skills and tell them that they can be just like us, then for a fact they'll join!"

'No they won't! They'll look at us like we're weird!'

"I agree. There is a great possibility that they'll join if we just show them a preview of it. I'm sure I can do it with no problem." Yuri piped up with a new sense of confidence out of nowhere.

'WHAT!? NOT YOU TOO YURI!'

I looked over to Monika, who seemed to be troubled about something, "Hmm… well, okay then! Since mostly everyone here agrees on that, I guess it's settled then."

'NO! I CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO ME AND THE REST OF THESE DELUSIONAL GIRLS! I HAVE TO THINK UP OF WAYS TO STOP THEM!'

"Woah, okay wait! We can't do that here in the school!" I say as I rise out of my seat to make an X sign with my arms, the girls raised their eyebrows in curiosity.

"Why not chump? You scared or something?" Natsuki retorts as she snickered.

'Jesus, it's not that I'm scared from that… IM SCARED FROM THE AMOUNT OF EMBARRASSMENT WE'RE GOING TO FACE!'

I quickly gather my thoughts to create a counter argument to her. "W-well uh... first off, if we do use our powers, don't you think that we're going to destroy something?"

"That's why I said preview dummy! Not full force, try to listen to next time blockhead."

"Okay, but if we do just a preview of it, think about the consequences if we used it in public! We'll probably get suspended and frankly, I'm not trying to get in trouble from my parents!"

Natsuki eyes widen in realization when I mentioned parents. Her face scrunches up as she starts to think about something. "I mean I guess..."

"Or even worse, taken by the government so that they can research and do experiments on us!"

Monika then nods in agreement. "He's right you know."

"Grrr… w-well, why don't you suggest something blockhead? I don't see you suggesting anything better than mine!"

'Damn… I was hoping she didn't ask me that question…'

I sat back down and started to think on a different alternative to using instead for the festival.

Suddenly, an idea pops up into my head, "Well… why don't we perform something then, like poems and take turns performing them? We are a literature club, so why not?"

"I see you're talking about something similar to slam poetry Bahamut." I roll my eyes in annoyance as she mentioned that name. "I actually like that idea as it suits us as literature club better."

She turns over to Natsuki, looking directly into her eyes. "Don't you write poems anyway Natsuki? I remember you left a piece of scrap paper behind, called-"

"Don't say it out loud!" She says as her face blushes in embarrassment. "I don't want anyone to know!"

I looked over to Natsuki as she was calming down from the sudden embarrassment. 'So… you're embarrassed by your poems, but not embarrassed for being a chuunibyou?'

"Okay, fine~ I was just joking Natsuki." Monika apologized.

Natsuki notices me staring at her, "What do you want chump?"

"Oh, well I was thinking how impressive it was for you to write your own poems," I say only telling half the truth as she starts to blush. "You should share some of them for the festival then."

Natsuki starts to take an interest in her school slippers. "N-no! I don't think no one would like them…"

"Ah, so you're not that much of a confident writer I see. Well, I'm not either as well..."

Yuri starts to speak up, "If I may… I understand how Natsuki feels. Sharing that level of writing takes a lot of more confidence as it is the truest form of writing to oneself. You must be willing to share your emotions deep with your hearts with the readers."

"Surely the great Tsukuyomi, has some experience in writing. Your third eye must have given it to you when you were granted those powers. It would be helpful if you could share some of it to us and even make Natsuki feel comfortable sharing." Monika suggests to her.

Yuri's face was slightly filled with discomfort as she plays with her hair in silence.

I give out a small sigh, "I see that you aren't a confident writer either…"

We all sit in silence, not knowing what to say or suggest.

Sayori then perks up, "Hey... why don't all of us make poems tonight and share them tomorrow? If we do that, all of us will be even the next time we meet!"

My eyes widen in surprise. Who knew that this girl had some bright ideas herself? I'd expect that from Monika, but Sayori? That totally unexpected from her, I have to give props to her for that.

"Wow, as expected from the one who holds the title of Aurora Sunshine! Okay then everyone, it's settled. That's what we are going to do for the festival then!"

Monika then gets up and clasps her hands together, "We're all going to make poems for the festival and perform them! And to prepare for it, we're going to create poems each night to practice for every club meeting leading up to the festival!"

Everyone nods in agreement, I only give out a relieved sigh in response. 'Thank God that I got out of that one... all that I need to do tonight is just make a good poem. I'm pretty screwed huh?'

I look over my smartphone to tell the time. "Alright well, it's almost time to leave. So I'm going to start heading upstairs, I guess I'll see you all during club time."

"Okay then, Well this is it for our short little meeting here everyone. I'll see you all during club time~" Monika happily states justs before she started to bring her bag with her.

I waved goodbye to all of them as I started to head towards the exit of the lunchroom. 'I only have to spend time with these delusional girls again after school… then I can finally catch a break…'

I let out a relieved sigh as I entered my classroom, sitting down and patiently waited for the Westminster chimes to ring for the next period.

"Hey guys, sorry for being late…" I say with an exhausted tone as I slide the door open to the classroom.

I immediately saw Monika who was sitting down on the teacher's desk who was focusing on doing paperwork. She turned to me and gave me a genuine smile, "Ah! Welcome back, Ryota. I thought you had run away on us! That would have gone against our contract you know~!"

"Well, I had cleaning duty since I had gotten in trouble earlier in the first period…" I say as I set my school handbag down on the floor. "It only took around fifteen minutes though, so no worries."

"Oh? So the Emperor's swordsman has gone into a life of crime now I see. How the great have fallen. Don't worry, since you're bound to our contract you'll always be with me so you can't get in trouble~!" She says with a flirtatious tone.

I blushed as she teased me and averted my eyes away from her, "I thought I said...you know what, whatever."

'Thinking about it now, Monika kinda had something to do with me getting in trouble…'

My thoughts were interrupted as I heard footsteps coming closer to me, suddenly Yuri and I were facing each other. "Welcome back, Ryota. Thank you for respecting the contract you are bound too. Though I hope it isn't too overwhelming for you to handle. Being apart of the club and protecting the greatest sorcerer in the century just seems…" Yuri's voice starts to trail off.

"Don't worry! Bahamut here has taken down countless armies. There's nothing that he can't beat." Monika says as she reassures Yuri, much to my own chagrin.

Yuri gives out a relieved sigh and gives me a small smile, "I see. It seems that I can be at ease then." She then sits down to the table next to her, "You should sit, something that will be in your interest is about to start."

"Something in my interest? What are you-"

"Natsuki! I challenge you to a duel to test our strengths once more!" Sayori interrupts me as she wields a yardstick with both hands, ready for battle.

'Oh my God don't tell me…'

"Heh, so you are here to challenge me again Aurora Sunshine? I shall accept it then. You are about to witness the powers of the leader of the Red Crimson Demons! Prepare yourself!" Says a small petite as she also wields a yardstick with her left hand.

"Manifest my madness from the depths of the oblivion! Let the power course through my veins! I am Natsuki of the Crimson Demons! Wicked Eye... hear my call and reveal yourself!"

Natsuki then lifts up her eye patch, revealing a red eye, "I hope that you're ready to experience my powers!"

'Holy crap… does she have heterochromia?! That's actually cool…'

She then gets into a battle stance, waiting for Sayori to strike. "You are about to feel the wrath of my- ah." The red eye contact that Natsuki was wearing had fallen out of her eye somehow. She now had a matching pair of bright pink eyes that matched her hair color.

The room had gone dead silent as all of us in the room stared at the contact that fell. Natsuki then quickly picks it up and cleans it before putting it back in her eye in shame.

I shook my head in disappointment, 'Should have thought otherwise…'

"A-anyways, c-come at me!" Natsuki stammers as she struggles to keep a straight face. The poor girl looked like she was about to cry.

"Okay…here I come!" Sayori starts to rush at her opponent, yardstick in hand. She strikes her yardstick downwards, only to get it blocked by Natsuki's own weapon.

"Tch… so I see that you been training I see!" She says as she struggles to keep her stance against my childhood friend. They both back off and started to circle each other, waiting for one of them to strike again.

I looked over to both Yuri and Monika, "Hey guys? Should we stop them before it gets too…" I stopped myself as I realized they were both focusing on the ongoing battle with intense looks. Monika rested her chin on the bridge of her fingers while Yuri put her hands together. It was as if they were focused on studying their movements.

Sayori then grabs a ball of paper from her blazer pocket with her left hand and aimed it at Natsuki, "Aurora Blast!"

In response, Natsuki 'dodges' to her left to avoid the 'blast'. "So I see we are using magic in our duels then…in that case!" She then grabs a ball of red paper and quickly throws it with force at Sayori, "Wicked Eye Enhanced Spell: Dragon's Breath!"

"Oh no!" Sayori tries to 'dodge' the Natsuki's 'spell', but it failed as she got hit in the stomach. She falls onto the floor as she got 'hit' from the blast. My childhood friend starts to clutch her stomach in 'pain'. "Oww! I-It burns!" Natsuki then walks slowly to her and points the yardstick at Sayori's head.

"That's what happens when you try and cheat in a duel by using magic Sayori. Especially against me. Now then, do you surrender?"

"I...I yield…" Sayori says as she gets up and raises her hands in surrender. She then crosses her arms and pouts. "I thought I had you this time!"

"You have a lot to learn you know," Natsuki says as she puts both of the yardsticks into the closet. "Plus, you can't win by cheating by using magic in our duels."

She starts to approach me with a smug look on her face and crosses her arms. "So, what do you think about the power that the Wicked Eye holds blockhead?"

"Well, y-yeah! I thought it was pretty strong." I lied to her. Guilt had washed over me by lying to her, but I didn't want to say that I pitied her when her eye contact fell.

"Heh, that's what I thought!" She proudly states before she starts to head off to do her own thing.

I slump down into the seat near the exit of the classroom and put my head down on the table.

That duel that I witnessed between both of them was one of the most cringiest things that I have ever witnessed.

Ironically, that's how both Sayori and I used to play back in my middle school days.

'This is only the beginning of the club meeting today too… What else are they going to pull off today? '

AN: If you guys don't know, I was trying my best to describe u/Cylent-Nite's Amy sprite that he had made over on the DDLC subreddit over on Reddit. You guys can look it up if you want too. Credit goes to him for the design of course.

Also, I apologize for that fight scene.

Edited as of 1/26/19. Grammar changes, edits of certain lines and added in a bit more description.