Doki Doki Chuunibyou Club!

by remiboi

Growing up many tend to think that they're more special than others. Some may think that they have 'powers' to make them look cool. This 'disease' is what you call "chuunibyou" which can cause embarrassment to many. Our protagonist looks back at these memories with humiliation. But what will he do when his childhood friend brings him into a club with girls who have this 'disease?

3. Chapter 3

AN: Heya, it's been awhile. It's been roughly around like what, two or three months since I last updated?

On my behalf, I must apologize to you all.

During the time when I last uploaded, that was when I first started to work over the summer. Working 30+ hours per week takes a lot of energy from you. Not only that, I was not really motivated much to write. Now that school started, I have a consistent schedule on when I can write. Hopefully I don't take too long in between uploading.

Around that time, DDLC was wearing off of me. I'm still surprised that a game with such little replay value and gameplay could still make me think about it till today.

But, I noticed that a handful of you guys had still placed reviews, follows and favorites on this story which in returned, made me a bit more motivated. Little by little, I started to write until eventually I enjoyed writing this chapter.

Anyways enough with the excuses and enjoy this tremendous chapter. Constructive criticism is always welcomed. All review responses will be down below.

Also, four words are going to be italicized to explain what they mean at the end of the chapter since I feel some of you may not know what it means. (But y'all can prove me wrong lol)

Text- Regular text.

"Text"- Dialogue.

'Text'- Inner thoughts.

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I stare at the clock's hand as it slowly moves forward, inch by inch. I blink as the seconds hand kept shifting forward and stared off into nothingness.

'Why the hell aren't we doing anything…?'

How long has it been since the club meeting started today? It had to be around twenty minutes after those two had that little 'duel' when I first came in. I put both hands in each pocket, rummaging through them to find my smartphone to look at the time.

'And, it's only been three minutes. Nice.' I give out a frustrated sigh and slumped my head back down onto the table. 'How long do I have to stay here for? An hour or so? What the hell is everyone even doing?'

I slightly raise up my head to search around the clubroom. Apparently, everyone had resigned to do their own routines instead of doing something like a club.

From the corner of my eye, Yuri was reading a book but kept nervously glancing downwards towards something as if she was contemplating on doing something. Monika was busy writing something down; visibly looking frustrated which led me to assume it's something for the school festival or about the club. In the background, Natsuki's rummaging was slightly heard throughout the classroom.

'Now where's Sayori hiding at?'

My eyes shifted towards the right; she wasn't there, only desks with chairs and posters with papers were scattered on the walls were on my right. My eyes shifted to the left; she wasn't there also, only the windows that let in the sunlight into the room was in my view.

'Whatever, she's probably playing off with her delusions somewhere else.' Giving out a small yawn, I lay my head down onto the desk, preparing to take a nap.

My eyes slowly start to close and I start to let the darkness overtake my vision. I slowly started to fall asleep in peace.

"Surprise attack!"

I jolted back up in my seat as I felt someone quickly poked the both of my sides with force. All symptoms of tiredness disappeared on my face and were replaced with both shock and pain. I quickly turned around to see who was responsible for committing such a horrible act. An annoyed expression filled my face as I saw my childhood friend wearing a smug face as she couldn't hold in her laughter.

She places both hands on her hips, "Ehehe~ You know, you shouldn't keep your guard down Bahamut. I get times two sneak damage from that attack! Another victory in my book~!"

I quickly get revenge on her as I delivered a quick chop to her forehead. She recoils in slight pain as she rubs her forehead.

"Owieee… Critical hit...Ryota! That really hurts!" she pouts.

I rolled my eyes in response, "Well then don't pull something like that on me again. Also stop calling me that please." I say as I turned back around in my seat. In response she pulls a chair from a nearby desk, setting it next to my own desk.

Sayori puts both of her hands on her cheeks and laid her elbows on the desk. Her excited sapphire eyes piercing through my amber eyes. "Sooo~ What did you think about that duel?" Lifting up her arms, she flexes her non-existing biceps to me, "Did you see how far I come with my training?"

I give out a small snicker, "Yeah. I see that you've come a long way with your 'training'. It must be some really killer exercises huh?" I sarcastically said.

Her smile becomes even brighter, most likely not understanding the sarcasm in my tone. "Yup! Radio exercises are the best!" she says as she gives me a thumbs up.

"Right…" I said in a disappointed tone as she confessed what she does on her free time, "Though, didn't you lose to her with all of that training?' I teased.

She crosses her arms and shifts her head to the left, pouting her cheeks, "S-she was too strong! I couldn't help it."

Chuckling, I teased her as she lightly blushes, reminding me of some good memories back then. Emphasis on some though, because now many memories of us in middle school make me want to bury myself.

"Well, what about you Bahamut? How's your training going on so far? The presence of the Demon King is still looming in the Land of the Rising Sun. The jaws of oblivion could open up again one day unexpectedly."

I sigh and shake my head, "Sayori, I told you that I don't go by that anymore. Also, I don't need to 'train' anymore." I say with air quotes.

My mind wanders back in time as I quickly remembered the dark ages in my life when I used to 'train'.

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'Radiant Soul Strike!' I yell as I successfully completed another downward strike with my sword. I wipe off the sweat from my forehead as I kneel down, still holding onto the hilt with my left hand. Turning around as I hear Sayori's footsteps approaching me, she hands me a water bottle.

'Here you go Ryota~! Keep it going!'

I chugged halfway through the water bottle and returned it back to her, 'Thank you Sayori. Only fifty more swings to perfect my Radiant Soul Strike skill. Surely the Demon King will cower in fear as show off Excalibur's truest potential!'

'Yay~! Do you best Ryota! Kick that meanie's butt!'

I rose back up and prepared myself for another swing, 'Radiant Soul Strike-'

'Um excuse me, children…' said a woman who seemed to be in her early thirties, 'You're disturbing everyone here in the park, may you please tone your voice just a bit down?'

A visibly frightened Sayori quickly runs behind me, tugging the back of my shirt as she nervously put her hand on her chest.

'H-hey, Ryota… we should just...' She whispered in my ear with a fearful tone.

I interrupted her by extending my arm out and pierce the ground with my blade as I held the hilt.

'Sorry ma'am, but the upcoming battle against evil is soon upon us! Time is at the essence as millions of lives here will be taken if I don't train my hardest! The Demon King will rule the Land of the Rising Sun if I am not successful in perfecting my skills!' I say with determination.

I looked back at Sayori with a bright smile as I gave a thumbs up. Her face lights up in response.

The now worried women started desperately looking around the playground, 'Ah! Excuse me, mister park manager!' she said as she waved over to a person in a uniform, catching his attention.

My eyes widen in fear, 'I see! Y-you're one of the D-demon King's Generals here to disrupt my t-training! I must take my leave then as I am no s-shape to fight!' I quickly grabbed Sayori's hand and ran out of the playground.

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At that very moment, I wanted to slam down my head onto the desk so I can forget that ever happening at all. My face heavily blushed in embarrassment as I covered it with my hand.

"Hey, Ryota? Are you okay?" Sayori said with a worried tone.

"Y-yeah, just a mild headache. I'll be fine though." I lied.

What the hell was wrong with me? If I were struck down right now by some unnatural force, I wouldn't mind. Well, at least it doesn't matter anymore anyways. It's not like I'll ever see that women ever again, right?

I sigh and regain my composure, "Anyways, what about you Sayori?" I say as I lay my cheek on my hand.

"Eh? What do you mean? Has that duel not showcased my newly grown powers? She said as she covers her right eye with her left hand, while her right hand laid on her left side.

"No dummy, I'm talking about your appearance of course."

As she looked visibly confused, she places a hand on her chin and lightly swayed her head back and forth, humming. Suddenly, her face lit up, "Oh! You're talking about that camouflage skill right?" she said as she covered her face with her hands, tilting her head slightly to the right. She then adjusts her fingers to reveal her right eye. "Too bad for you, I already upgraded mine to the max level! I can teach you if you want."

I pinched the bridge of my nose and shook my head, "No silly, I'm talking about your clothes of course." I say, pointing out her slightly dirty blazer.

Yet again, looking visibly confused again, she takes a good look at her blazer, moving it around, "Oh! You must be talking about my armor! I just enchanted it yesterday, it gives increased Magick-uwaha! Wah-wait! Ryota, that hurts!" She said as her voice get slurred as I started pinching her cheeks.

"No, of course not dummy! I'm talking about how you look right now." I say as I let go of her cheeks. She starts to rub her cheeks to ease the pain. "Clearly you didn't take the time to properly fix yourself up before coming over to my house. First off, just look at your hair!"

"W-What are you-?!" My flustered childhood friend exclaimed as I ran my fingertips down the side of her hair to straighten it out. "Another surprise attack out of nowhere?!"

Running through her blazer pocket quickly, she takes out a pencil and grips it tightly, "Looks like it's time for a counter attack old friend..."

"Stab me with it, and you're dead," I say with an icy tone without looking up at her.

Sayori quickly puts back her pencil in her pocket, "S-sorry."

"Anyways you should really fix your hair, it's really messy right now. Do you not use a brush whenever you wake up? It keeps just sticking out whenever I try to push it back down..."

"Ehehe~ What's the point anyway when I'm constantly in battle?" She says with a smug smile. Averting her gaze towards her feet, she slightly blushed with her smile, "Besides, my hair is really hard to get right anyway…" she mumbled loud enough to me to hear.

"Yeah, yeah. Like I would fall for that." My eyes shifted over to her iconic red bow, "Were you really in a rush to come over to my house for food?" I start to adjust her clip-on bow to make her look more presentable, "Just look at your bow, it's not even straightened out!"

Sayori starts to twiddle her thumbs, "W-well, I'm always almost out of mana every day you know... so I have to regain it somehow." She quietly says as her blush deepens. Her downcast eyes started to dart back and forth from my eyes to the floor.

"Look, you need to take care of your clothes too. There's toothpaste on your collar, and even some syrup stains on your sleeves too somehow."

I started to rub off some of the toothpaste on her collar with my fingers. "You know the student council will punish you for not look presentable. I've heard that they're strict with it."

"W-well I can just hide from them anyway… plus my armor is always damaged from my c-constant battles, so no one would care about some stains anyways…"

I rolled my eyes, "First off, you can't hide from them forever. Secondly, your "armor" is more dirty than damaged. Also, people are going to care about how you look. But they wouldn't want to embarrass you, so they aren't going to say anything unless they're a teacher or apart of the student council of course."

I stopped and realized what I just said to her as I look at Sayori with a deadpan look.

"What am I saying? She wouldn't know what embarrassment is if someone showed it right in front of her face…"

Putting her hands on her hips, Sayori's smug expression appeared on her face once again, "Aurora Sunshine the Third does not get embarrassed that easily!"

"Right…" With her confirming my thoughts, I finish wiping of the toothpaste off her collar. "Anyways why don't you button up your blazer once in a while? You look like a mess right now. I'd doubt that you would ever get a boyfriend looking like this."

I stopped to think about what I just said, "Actually, I bet she would make people run away from her…"

"Hey! That's mean! Besides, my armor needs to be loose so I can move around quickly in the battlefield, Bahamut."

Rolling my eyes, I started to button her blazer from the bottom up, "Yeah, yeah whatever. You'll thank me later when your 'armor' looks better on you." I say as I move up to the third button.

She starts to say something, but I didn't really pay attention to her as I was focused on her blazer. For some reason, the button near her chest was hard to close around that area.

"Uh well…anyways Sayori, why is this blazer so hard to close? Does this not fit you properly?"

She puts her two pointer fingers together and looked at me with a nervous expression, "W-well it did when I first got it… a year ago when we came into the Place of Everlasting Knowledge as the First Children…" she said with a lowered tone.

"What? So it only fitted you when we were in our first year? Sayori, you need to buy new blazers since this one clearly is not your size."

Noticing that she a smile had formed on her face, I raised my eyebrows in curiosity, "What's so funny?"

"Well, it means that my boobs leveled up finally! Too bad Natsuki isn't leveling up hers." She said with a smile. I quickly punished Sayori by giving another light chop to her forehead.

My eyes wandered back and forth from her breasts and back to the floor as my face blushed in embarrassment, "D-don't say that out loud dummy! That girl might hear you!" I quietly said.

I quickly turned my head over to the closet to see where our other club member was. Thankfully, she didn't hear what Sayori said.

My dearest childhood friend says nothing back as she rubs her forehead and allows me to button up her blazer.

Finally, after a few minutes of hard work, it finally fits. I sit back down and looked at the strange sight of her blazer being button up. "There we go. See? It's much better now."

Sayori, on the other hand, had an uncomfortable look on her face, "It's really tight… It's not worth it at all!" She then claps her hands together, "I must purge your curse you placed on me!"

She quickly unbuttons her blazer, making my hard work wasted.

Remembering what she said about her chest area early, I let my eyes wander but I soon stopped myself as I felt the blood rushing into my cheeks, averting my attention towards the posters in the classroom.

Sorry mom for teenage hormones.

"Phew! Much better~!" she said with a satisfied tone as she stretched her body. "See? This makes me moves faster in my armor!"

"You mean flexible."

"Yeah that! Anyways, if I keep it like this I won't get a boyfriend right? I think it's better for me to keep it like this!"

Looking at her with a dumbfounded look, I was lost for words to question her logic as I raised a finger to protest her. Yet silence was my only response.

"Why get a boyfriend when I have you to take care of me? Even if we are eternal rivals!" She says in a happy tone, making me blush in response.

"W-what are you s-saying? Stop saying embarrassing things like that!"

"Embarrassment doesn't affect me!" She proudly replies.

Letting out a tired sigh, I started to lightly rub her head, "Yeah, yeah, just take better care of yourself. I won't be able to do this all the time you know."

In response, she giggles from the contact of my hand.

"Ahem."

Sayori and I flinched at the sound of a stern voice clearing their voice from the front of the room. Despite trying to keep her calm and collected expression, our club president showed signs of irritation as she held her paperwork in her hands.

"Sayori, I'm having a bit of trouble here regarding our club and the festival. Can you help me out for a bit?" She asked in a voice that showed signs of slight anger.

My childhood friend gives her a salute, "I'll be right there Ms. President!"

She turns back to around to me, scratching the back of her head, "Ehehe~ Looks like I received another pop-up quest! I'll be back in a bit~" she said, heading off towards the direction of the teacher's desk.

I give her a little wave goodbye as I slump back down onto my chair. "Good luck then..."

After a few minutes, I put my head down on the desk to start to relax. But I couldn't help but listen to their conversation that they were having.

"We can't give up on making our performance outstanding. The festival is our time to show off what our club is all about! Even if we can't use our powers to show them how cool we are!" Monika said. Her tone was one with determination to bring success towards the club by reeling in new members from the school festival.

"Yeah. Too bad we can't use them… we're going to seem lame compared to all the other clubs! If we could have used them, I would have used our magic circle for our performance!"

I turn my head just by a few inches towards their direction, looking at them as I raised my eyebrows in curiosity that made me form the question: what the hell are they talking about?

"If only we could of Sayori. See, the problem with us being a literature club is that it sounds like we're intellectual and dense, this is why I wanted us to be the Mystic Arts of Magic Club to show off how amazing we are!"

'That would have made us laughing stocks…'

"But anyways, our club isn't really like what is it sounds like since it's a literature club!"

'It's the opposite of intellectual actual.'

"Not only do we discuss the wonders of both modern and past literature, but we also get to test our might here!" Monika then gets up from the teacher's chair and puts one foot on the desk, the other on the chair and clenches her left fist, amazing me how she can balance herself since the chair was one with wheels, "The next generations will tell our tales for centuries for sure Sayori!"

Sayori then starts to bounce on her toes, clapping her hands, "Oooooh! I can't wait to hear what they say about us~! Maybe about the time when we slew that cockroach- I mean monster!"

"That was a scary fight…" Monika recollects as takes her foot off the teacher's desk. She then puts her hand on Sayori's shoulder and raises a fist, giving her a confident look, "But I'm sure they will Sayori."

Laying my head down, I rolled my eyes as they started to talk more about their delusional fantasies. Quickly, I found solace from blocking their conversation off and eventually started to fall asleep.

But of course, the sounds of footsteps slowly approaching me distracted me from falling asleep much to my slight annoyance, since I wanted to sleep away the club meeting.

Turning around behind me, my eyes shifted over to my fellow elegant, but nervous club member who held something behind her back.

"Yuri?"

I found out that she had more interest in looking at the floor, rather than my face, "Ah… um. H-hello Ryota." said the nervous maiden.

"So, uh-" "I, um-" We both say at the same time, interrupting each other. Upon realizing this, Yuri starts to shy away.

"Oh, sorry for interrupting you, Yuri," I say as bow my head slightly down.

The elegant purple hair girl bows back in return, "Ah… no, it's me who should be apologizing, not you…"

"No, don't sweat it then Yuri." I nervously replied, scratching the back of my head.

An awkward silence fills in between us after we apologized to each other. How the hell am I suppose to deal with this type of social interaction?

Sure she's a chuunibyou patient. But not only does she have trouble from separating what's real and her delusions- or in her case, her beloved "Third Eye" that she possess which gives her some sort of dark magic that she likes to call it- she seems to be a person who would rather be into books over people due to her mannerisms and the way she interacted with me so far; in other words an introvert. Normally back in middle school, I was the loud one in the class so most of the time so most quiet people like her would avoid me at all cost.

And if they did approach me for a certain reason…

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'Um… excuse me, c-can you p-pleas-?'

'QUIET! I AM TRYING TO ACTIVATE MY HIDDEN MAGIC!' I say as I rudely interrupted the face of a girl who always kept to herself in the back of the class. The face of the girl who I don't remember showed signs of fear as she trembled.

'Ah! Are you in fear because the Demon's King's troops are here? Do not worry, for I am her-!"

*BANG*

A loud noise of someone slamming their hands on the table interrupted me, 'RYOTA SHUJINKOU TO THE OFFICE NOW!' Boomed my teacher whose face I somewhat don't really remember.

'Tch, if only you weren't such a high leveled demon…" I say as I stormed out the classroom.

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I put my hands on my head, my eyes finding interest on the desk. I couldn't look anyone in the eye, even towards the galaxy purple-eyed girl.

"Ah… I-I should leave you be... You seem to be in such distress right now." She said in a dejected tone as she started to walk back towards her seat.

"N-no, wait! You've got it all wrong!" I insisted as I quickly got up from my chair and placed a hand on her shoulder as she turned around.

The initial contact slightly shocked her body, turning right back around to me, wearing a heavy blush on her face.

I quickly pull my hand back from embarrassment from seeing her reaction, "S-sorry…" I say in a low tone as I scratched my right cheek. "Anyways, you've got it all wrong. I just have a slight headache right now, so you have to bear with me."

"Well… I suppose it's the after effect from yesterday from my introduction… I apologize for demonstrating it to you..." The look on her face worsens as she seems to look even more dejected.

'Are you fuc- How did this conversation get worse? I have to quickly make an excuse somehow now..."

"No no, it's not because of that! I… uh, well…" Words began to escape from my mouth as I tried to say something back to her.

Suddenly her face began to slowly brighten up as she realized something.

"Ah! If I do remember correctly, it must have been the intense magic training that Aurora Sunshine had mention that you do daily. It must be the strain that comes along with it."

Her response that she gave me caused me to look at her with a deadpan expression, "Yeah. It's because of that."

She covers her mouth with her hand as she giggles in response, "You shouldn't really put that much strain on yourself. It can harm you in the future." Her eyes widen as if she realized that she made a mistake without her realizing until the very end, "Oh! N-not that I'm trying to tell you on how you should handle on how you train!" she says as she gives another small bow to apologize.

"It's fine Yuri, don't worry about me." I reassured, sighing in the process, "Anyways, was there something that you wanted to talk about with me?"

Yuri's face starts to glow bright red as she flinches in response, "Ah w-well… I-I have s-something for…" she says as her voice starts to go lower. "S-sorry, it's just that I never really done this type of thing before."

I raised an eyebrow in response to her. What was she talking about? Never had done something before? As much as I wanted to know what she was talking about, I figured being patient was the answer as the introvert showed signs of being nervous. I gave out a reassuring smile to help comfort her, "Well whatever it is, I'm here to listen to you."

I blink twice after listening to what I said, 'That didn't sound weird right…?'

In response, Yuri took a few steps back and took a deep breath in and exhaled out to calm herself. She then suddenly with a serious face, lifts up her bangs to reveal her poorly drawn red eye on her forehead.

"I, Tsukuyomi, the wielder of the Third Eye, present to you with this!" She extends her left hand from behind her back and presents me a book with an ominous eye on the middle of the cover. I tried to see the title of the book, but it was slightly covered by her thumb.

Yuri then over dramatically shifts her head to the other direction and covers her left eye. "Thou art to be granted a gift containing the magic of the Third Eye! The Portrait of Makarov!"

My eyes widen in surprise as my mouth was left slightly agape as I stared at the red cover she had in her hand. Was someone actually giving me a gift? But... what did I do to deserve a present from her since I just joined yesterday? I paused for a few seconds as a sense of realization hit me as I realized that she was giving me a welcoming present for joining- or being blackmailed- into the club.

Yuri's hand started to slightly shake, due to probably the fact that she was anxious for my answer; or maybe in fear that I wasn't going to like it at all and reject it altogether.

"I-I w-went to the boo- Ah, I mean I b-bought two of th- No, I mean… the Third Eye…" she stammered as she tried to find the right words.

Besides Sayori or anyone of my family members, I don't ever recall receiving a gift from anyone outside of them. Gifts were usually people your close too like your friends, family or co-workers. But of course, in my case, Sayori was my only friend at the time.

I caught her attention by clearing my throat and extended my hand towards the book, "Thank you, Yuri." I said with a smile. All of her worries had disappeared when I took the book out of her hands as she let out a relieved sigh.

Feeling a small smile appearing on my face, I felt the hard red front cover as I finally had a better look at it. Apparently, it was written by someone with the surname of "Salvato" who I can assume is someone from all the way in the west.

"Well, what's it about Yuri?"

Her face brightens up as I asked her, she covers her right eye with her left hand and holds her elbow with the other, "Aha! So you wish to be enlightened? I shall respond to your noble thirst of knowledge! This is the origins of the one who had bestowed her powers onto me, the great witch, Elyssa Libitina!" she proudly states as she kept rambling on and on about the book.

'Shouldn't have asked of course...'

Trying my best to understand what she was saying, I intently listen to her, only to hear things about the dark magic of the 'Third Eye.'

Yuri then suddenly stops talking as she realized she just went on and on about the book. "O-oh, I did it again... S-sorry if I was bothering you with my rambling…" she said as she bowed her head.

I give out a sigh, "No. It's fine Yuri, I don't mind listening if it's something that you enjoy."

'Even if you're going to give me a migraine…'

Her face grew a bright red as she turned her face away, leaving me confused. "I-I see…S-sorry, just whenever I let writing or stories fill my thoughts..."

She then faces towards me with a confident look and raises a fist close to her brea- heart, "I can feel the power course through my body, extending my knowledge by tenfold! Not as powerful as the Lady who Knows Everything though." Yuri then bows once again, "So I apologize if I say something strange, please stop me if I start to talk too much!."

'What you just said was strange though…' I found myself thinking instead of correcting her.

As much as I wanted to say those words to her, I was afraid that I was going to scare someone as shy as her. "Well, that just means you're just being yourself which is fine," I said instead.

'Besides the fact that it makes you look crazy…'

"I-I see. Thank you, Ryota. Or would you prefer Bahamut?"

"Ryota is just fine, thank you very much."

Another awkward silence fills the air as we said nothing else. Eventually, my eyes fell upon the book, allowing me to find a way to get rid of this atmosphere, "Well then, I guess I can start reading the book…"

"Y-you don't have to just yet!" she implored.

I raised an eyebrow, "Hmmm? Well, why not though?"

Her eyes start to dart back and forth, "W-well because…!" She then strikes a dramatic pose by covering her left eye with her right hand as she held her right abdomen with her left hand, "The seal that was cast upon it by the Seer of Makarov is still preventing anyone from opening it!" Yuri with newfound confidence coming out of nowhere.

Knowing that she was lying, I ignored her warnings and opened the book to the first page, much to her dismay.

"I-I see! S-so this is the true power of The Greatest Magic Swordsmen! As expected, w-well done Ryota! This tale will be jotted down in history!" She said with a worried face as her eyes start to dart back and forth. Her face was slowly beginning to turn red as well.

I felt a sly smile crept on my face as her flustered reaction only confirmed her lying.

Strangely enough, I still felt her presence over me after I was a few pages into the prologue. From the corner of my eye, I can figure out that she was still staring with her galaxy purple eyes at me for some reason.

"Yuri?" I questioned as I turned my head to face her, "Is there something else-"

"S-sorry!" She blurted out as she did another apologetic bow, "I-It's just that I recently started to reread-!"

'Ah…So her eye caught the book huh?' I lie down my book onto the table, "You realize you apologize too much, right?"

"I do? I don't mean to…Sorry. I-I mean!"

Chuckling in response to her obvious mistake, a red hue forms on her face as she tries to cover it up with her hands. "Well, then why don't you get your copy out? We can read together then."

"R-read together?" Her surprised facial expression turns into a sad one as she contemplates her answer. "I-I'm afraid that I left my book at home…"

"I see…" I nodded in response, "If that's the case then…" I say as I lifted the nearest desk adjacent to me and set it next to my own. I pat the desk next to my own, "This should work, right?"

"Ah! Y-you didn't have to do all of this…"

"It's fine. Now do you want to read or what?" I questioned.

She contemplates for a few seconds until finally sitting down to the desk next to me. I notice that she started to shift a bit in her seat as she twirled her hair idly.

We both lean in a little bit more, our shoulders almost touching so we both can read together. Feeling a bit awkward, I started to shift my left arm away from her and moved my right hand to hold down the book. I felt my blush intensify from this.

"Ah… this makes it kind of difficult to turn the page… Here…" Yuri said as she holds down the left side of the book by using her left thumb and forefinger.

I also do the same with my right side. Looking at her face, I noticed that she also had on a slightly red blush due to the fact of how close we were, which made us both embarrassed about our current situation.

'This girl… on the outside, she looks so shy and well-mannered, but then she acts like THAT…'

"Are you ready to turn the page?" She questioned, taking me away from my thoughts.

"Yeah! Sorry, I was just distracted about something…" I say as I turn the page over to her side.

We both kept reading along together at our own pace, but I can only assume that Yuri is a much faster reader than I am since she doesn't mind when I turn over the page. I sometimes ask her questions to help clear up any misunderstandings about the book so far, which she was happily ready to explain normally.

Catching my eye was both Monika and Sayori at the teacher's desk. Both were sneaking glances at the both of us reading together, prompting me to hide my face with my hand, blushing in embarrassment.

"Is something the matter, Ryota?"

"Well, nothing really actually…" I half lied to myself, "It's just that the prologue's tone just completely switched up from something light-hearted to being suspenseful and creepy... " Saying as I turned the last page of the prologue over to Yuri.

In a nutshell, the beginning started off as a new transfer student coming into a high school, and there she quickly became popular due to this. She then meets her long-lost sister down the road, but then suddenly her sister was killed and now the protagonist was being abducted by some cult.

'Seriously… this is going to give me nightmares…' I thought to myself. I don't know how someone as shy as Yuri can like this type of genre.

She starts to chuckle to herself, "Well, I should advise you to start preparing yourself for the rest of the book."

I gulp in fear. Even though I know that this book is going to probably horrify me, it has my interest so far.

"Ryota, I have to thank you." She says with a smile. You're jumping straight into this book and you're not used to reading right?"

"Yeah actually, I usually don't read novels that much."

"That's fine. It's always a pleasure to see someone try something out new. And since you're being so patient with me… I don't mind being patient with you since it's the least I can do…" She blushed.

"Oh well… Thanks." I say, turning the next page.

"Reading is quite beneficial to your mental health if you didn't know." She informed, not lifting her eyes away from the page.

Raising an eyebrow in curiosity, I turn to face her, "Oh? How so Yuri?"

She takes her eyes off her book and sits straight up as she breathes in and out, "It can help open your Third Eye." She said with an enigmatic smile as she faced my direction.

My elegant club member starts to close her eyes and lift up her bangs to reveal her forehead once more, exposing her 'Third Eye.'

'Oh, god… Just when I thought... '

I could only watch in complete dissatisfaction as she lifts it up. In the middle of our reading, I forgot that she was a chuunibyou, but instead this shy and polite bookworm. But that wasn't what shocked me the most about her, suddenly she faces the pages of the book, eyes still closed as she held her bangs up,

"I awoke when the van I was held captive in hit a large pothole, jolting me wide awake. I sat in silence, trying recollecting what had happened the night before. I tried moving my hands, but I soon found out that my wrists were handcuffed.

Alarmed, I also tried to move my legs, only to discovered that my ankles were duct taped, preventing me from moving.

Suddenly, it all comes back to me. The murder of Charlotte, her dead corpse lying on the living room floor as blood splattered all over the furniture and the face of the man who knocked me out. I started thrashing in pain as the rush of memories filled my head…" she reads perfectly.

I was absolutely stunned.

My eyes start to widen in surprise, 'Yuri is actually reading with her eyes closed?!' I thought as I read along with each word, 'Did she actually have this whole book memorized or something?!'

I looked up from the book as she kept reading, amazement filled my face as I looked at her with deep interest. 'Either way that's actually pretty coo- WAIT A DAMN MINUTE!'

Upon further inspection of her face, she wasn't actually closing her eyes. Instead, she was squinting her eyes extremely hard to make it seemed it was closed the whole time. Feeling angry that I was easily fooled by this girl, I tried my hardest to not say something to her since I felt that she wouldn't be able to handle it.

All with a devilish smile to get revenge, I put my hands in front of her eyes, blocking her vision.

"Ah! U-uh, t-the m-mysterious... ummm…" She stammered, realizing she was caught red-handed.

I chuckled to myself low enough so that she wouldn't hear me.

"Yuri? Can you please come over here for a second?" Called a voice up front by the teacher's desk. I turned my head to the direction of the voice and found out that it was the voice of our club president once again.

Relief is shown all over her face as soon as she heard Monika's voice.

All with a relieved smile, Yuri quickly gets out of her seat to walk over to the teacher's desk, not before looking at me. "I apologize for this inconvenience Ryota, but it seems that a pop-up event has occurred for me." She timidly starts to play with a lock of her hair and looks away from, "B-but if you don't mind… Shall we continue reading… perhaps later?"

I lay my cheek on my hand, "I don't see why not. Just… no more 'Third Eyes' or whatever it is please."

In return, she gives me a surprised look, but soon transformed into a jubilant one as her body becomes less tense in relief, "I-I see… I look forward to continuing our reading then!"

As Yuri walks to both the president and vice president of the club, I couldn't help but notice that she had an extra bounce to her step. The three of them started to talk to each other as I pay no mind to it because the chances of them indirectly giving me a headache from whatever they were talking about would be extremely high.

As they were finishing up talking to each other, Yuri gives them a bow right before walking out of the classroom and into the school hallways.

'That girl… Such a waste.'

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Having nothing better to do now that my reading partner was off doing a 'pop up event', I let my head down to rest.

Looking towards the teacher's desk, Monika and Sayori were now both busy doing paperwork for which I assume is either the festival or the club which surprised me the most.

'So those two girls take the club seriously huh? I gotta give props to the-'

"Look Monika! I've found the answer to our problems!" Sayori interrupted my thoughts as she held up a piece of paper with a doodle on it, "Since we can't use the magic circle for the actual festival, why don't we use it for this?"

I placed a few fingers on my temples and messaged it, 'Ah. Nevermind.' All credibility that I was going to give to the both of them were gone.

I look over to Monika who held her chin in thought as she stared at the paper, "I see…This… this might just work!"

'I'm actually getting scared for their futures…'

Deciding to ignore them, I decided to lay my head down for the rest of the club period until it ends. Darkness had overcome my vision as I started to slowly fall asleep, finally finding peace...

"Argh! Where is that damn thing! Where did she put it!" said a voice all the way back in the closet, along with loud rummaging.

Jolting back up from hearing the noise, I looked back in curiosity. 'That's where Natsuki is right?' Deciding to see what was the problem, I walked over to the opened closet behind me.

"Finally! I found that damn thing!" Exclaimed the small, eyepatch-wearing, pink-haired petite. "Damn that emerald eyed sorcerer… If only she wasn't so powerful, I would have given her a piece of my mind for putting it up there!"

"What's the problem?" I questioned as I peeked through the closet, startling the poor girl.

"Argh. It's nothing. It's just that Monika keeps putting my collection somewhere else when I specifically told her not too!" She says as she points up to the top shelf.

"But you can leave now." She starts to stand on her tippy toes, desperately trying to reach the top, "N-nothing that the l-leader of the Red C-crimson D-demons can't h-handle!"

Sadly her height doesn't allow her to reach that high.

"Woah, woah. Stop right there." I gently pushed her head down, preventing her from hurting herself, "You're going to strain yourself doing that. Let your senpai help his kouhai out, okay?"

A small smile forms on my face from saying that, even if it was cheesy.

I noticed that Natsuki was starting to get visibly annoyed. Without any warning, she lightly yanks my tie to bring me into eye to eye level with her, "Listen here blockhead, you've got another thing coming if you think that I'm going to let you slide looking down on me!" she warned, "I'll also have you know that I'm a second year just like you!" she finally lets me go from her clutches.

I slowly start to fix my tie, surprised by her unexpecting action against me. I placed a hand behind my back, "Sorry about that." As much as I wanted to say something back to her, I ultimately decided not to so I wouldn't feel her wrath again.

She crosses her arms and huffs her chest, "Hmph. Better be! Now watch how a real pro does it!"

Natsuki then bends her knees and jumps, desperately trying to grab the box on the top shelf. "Almost… there!" The petite says in between jumps.

Having enough of pitying her, I move up next to her and got on my tippy toes to grab the small box she was aiming for, "Is this what you wanted?" I questioned as I grabbed the pink and red striped box and gave it to her.

She quickly grabs it and looks away from me, "T-th…" Natsuki struggles to say as her voice starts to trail off.

With a smug smile and a chuck, I look at her waiting for her response, "You're what now?" I say to tease her.

In response, she gives me a light scowl and sticks her tongue out at me, "Hmph. Foolish swordsman, by the power of the Wicked Eye, I could have gotten it easily if I just used it!"

"Yeah, yeah." I started to observe the small storage box in her hand which was plastered with cat stickers which contradicted her 'leader of the Red Crimson Demons' persona.

"Say, what's in it anyway?" I asked as I moved my hand towards the box.

In response she pulls away, putting it right behind her back. Sighing in response, I started to walk away from her, sensing her discomfort from sharing something with me."If you don't want to tell me, I'm fine with that too. Just let me know next time if you need help again."

'It's probably something about her 'Red Demons Clan' or whatever it's called. Not that I really cared for anyway.'

A couple of moments go by as I left the closet, only for her to grab my sleeve, stopping me in my tracks, "Wait." she said as I was being pulled back into the closet with her, as I turn back around to face her, she pouts her cheeks and sighs.

She puts one hand on her hip while she carried the box underneath her arm, "Since you've done a good deed helping me, the Red Crimson Demons leader, out on a quest, I guess you can take a look like a reward." Natsuki says as she pulls off the lid.

Upon removing the box, I see around ten small books, which is what I'm assuming is the volumes of her favorite manga series. "And don't you dare say that it isn't literature, cuz I'll tell you otherwise!

"Well, I'll be honest. It's the only literature that I actually actively read."

Natsuki gives me a toothy grin, "Glad we're on the same page then." she says as she turns back around and moves her fingers across the spine of each volume, most likely looking for the first one.

I felt myself getting excited thinking about the series that she was going to show me for some reason. The pros of her being a chuunibyou, is her probably knowing a good shounen series considering her condition. Hopefully, it was a series that I never heard of before.

"Anddd…Here it is! Behold!" She says as she pulls out a small white book with pink polka dots. The edges and the spines were the same shade of pink and on the cover was four girls in colorful attire striking feminine poses. "The first volume of Parfait Girls!" She proudly states. "The first one out of ten, which is currently still ongoing with an anime adaptation!"

My jaw drops and I look at her in disbelief as she proudly holds the volume with pride.

'What… What the hell is this.'

In the hands of the supposed 'Leader of the Red Crimson Demons' was a shoujo manga that my younger sister is into. Wasn't she supposed to be into an action series instead of something like…this? I wasn't trying to judge her or anything, but this of course had caught me off guard.

Today is just filled with surprises, isn't it?

She puts her left hand in front of my face and the other covering her own face, only revealing her right eye, "If you're going to judge, you can do it once I obliterate you with the magic of the Wicked Eye. Your swift death will be painless."

'Your personality and likes don't match up…'

I cleared my throat, "I wasn't judging in the first place. Nor did I say anything about it." I half lyingly said.

The pink haired chuunibyou-infected girl crosses her arms, "The power of the Wicked Eye sees through all. Including your ugly face." Natsuki joked as a small smile on her face, prompting me to furrow my eyebrows.

"Why I oughta…!"

"I was only partly joking, blockhead." The petite insisted, waving her hands back and forth dismissively, "If you're going to be the personal guard of the Lady who Knows Everything and a member of this club, you best know this one lesson: Never judge a book by its cover." She proudly states.

"You can say that again…" I muttered, remembering how I got blackmailed into this club.

Natsuki then holds her chin in thought and immediately brightens up, "In fact-" She says as she yanks my sleeve, bringing me back into the classroom. "I'm going to show you exactly why!"

"W-wait, what?" I questioned as Natsuki then pushes me into a seat. Pulling a chair for herself, she puts it to the left side of the desk. She scoots her chair closer to me and pulls out the first volume of Parfait Girls.

"There. Now start reading Blockhead."

"If you wanted me to read with you could have just told me so," I said as I straightened out the sleeve that she pulled on. "Though, I guess it's easier to read if we're a bit closer together," I say as I observed the spine art of the book.

"Woah, s-slow down there Blockhead!" She suddenly says, slightly pushing herself away from me while waving her hands back and forth in embarrassment, "D-don't just say that you chump!" Her face had a light pink blush on it, "You're going to make feel weird about it..."

I scratched the back of my head upon realizing what I said, "Sorry…" I open the book to the first page, and immediately she inches back in to start reading with me.

I can feel her eagerness to read as she gets even closer, causing me to blush.

"Wow, you can see how much has Satchie improved on her art from the beginning…" She said after we get into a few more pages.

"Who?"

"The mangaka obviously, blockhead. That's just her alias. But hey, are you paying attention?"

"Err well… yeah, I am."

I'm somewhat lying.

The story starts off as one of the most cliche openings ever; the heroine, who is a girl by the name of Yuuna, is late for school due to oversleeping. Running through the streets of her neighborhood, toast in mouth, she meets the male protagonist by crashing into him.

If that doesn't scream overused then I don't know what is. Hopefully, the plot is actually good enough for me to keep up with the series.

"So is the beginning this slow?"

"Well of course it is! It just sets up the characters of course. I wouldn't read anything that's boring you know. Believe me, once you get into the later chapters, it starts to get good with the drama and romance plots."

"So you know what you're talking about huh? Maybe I underestimated you." I teasingly said.

Natsuki scrunches her eyebrows, "Hey wait! What's that supposed to mean?" She questioned with a hint of irritation. "Do I need to remind you who I am again? I'll have you know that I've taken countless armies just by myself with my Wicked Eye! If you want we can duel right now!"

"Relax, relax. I was just joking, I don't wanna mess with you."

She crosses her arms and gives me a satisfied look, "That's what I thought. Good save."

I roll my eyes in response and continue reading. So far, it seems that Yuuna is in a baking club with three other people named Minori, Alice and Yui.

'Wait a minute.'

"Say, these girls are in a baking club in high school… Were you inspired too-"

Natsuki cuts me off by giving me a little shove, "W-what? N-no. Of course not! It's just that I was learning how to bake around the time I picked this series up. Just a coincidence!"

I give a small chuckle, "I see. It's not a bad thing though if you did." I couldn't really judge her for picking baking up from a manga. If I were to do that, I would be criticizing a whole majority of other people. I've seen many other people pick up different things from certain types of mangas and apply it to their real lives, like playing sports or even an instrument.

Besides, her baking actually tastes really well made anyways.

"S-shut up and continue reading."

After reading after a few minutes, my eyes shift over to Natsuki who was still reading with me, "Hey. You sure you're not bored?"

"What? No, I'm not."

"Even if you are just watching me read? I'm going to assume that you're caught up with the latest chapters, so there's not really a point of you rereading it right now."

"Obviously, I am." She says as she stretches her body, "But… I'm cool with this."

"Hmm, I see. I guess it's fun to share something you like with someone one else."

Her pink eyes gazed towards the windows, staring at the sunset, "No one has been worthy enough to read my personal collection. You're just an exception though. Don't let it get it to your head."

"Right." I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

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Continuing reading until the end of the first chapter, I found that my suspicions on how the chapter was going to end were correct. The main male character ended up joining the baking club at the end, much to the heroine's dismay due to how they encountered each other earlier in the chapter.

"Say, Natsuki-" Turning my head and much to my surprise, I see that Natsuki had her head down on the table, silently sleeping.

I felt my face burning due to the sight of her sleeping so close to me without a care in the world, 'So she was bored of rereading after all…' I scoot a couple of inches away from her to make this situation a bit less awkward for the both of us...

Raising up from my seat, I took off my blazer and put it on her body so she can use it as a blanket. 'It can't be helped after all. I suppose I'll continue reading.'

*SNAP*

My body jolted from the sudden noise as soon as I placed the blazer on her body from all the way at the front of the classroom. Looking at that direction, all I saw was Monika, with an irritated demeanor holding a snapped pencil while Sayori with a worried expression.

"M-monika?" my worried childhood friend questioned, "What's wrong?"

"I...I felt a disturbance in the force." Monika replied.

That was an obvious lie. But I decided not to say anything and continue reading.

I noticed after getting halfway through the second chapter, the literature club's very own baker was finally waking up as the sunlight starts to hit her eyes. She slowly rose up and rubbed her eyes. On her right cheek was a red mark that had formed from taking her catnap.

"Good morning. You were out for a good five minutes." I say without looking away from the panels in the next chapter. Much to my surprise, I was actually starting to get into it for some reason.

She says nothing in return and takes a good few seconds to comprehend the situation she was in. Looking at her shoulders, she found my blazer resting on her body and looked back at me, finally realizing what was being used as a blanket for her.

Her eyes widen in surprise as a bright red blush appeared on her face "W-wh-haat...?"

"Well, it is getting a bit cold so I thought that-" I was interrupted by her when she throws my blazer directly at my face, "Hey! What the hell was that for?!"

"F-for… well! Arghh!" She gets up and snatches her manga volume out of my hands, "You're lucky that I'm going to spare you from the Wicked Eye's true power! A great catastrophe would of befall upon you and your loved ones if I didn't!" Natsuki snarled as she points her finger at me.

Feeling my blood boiling, I quickly got off of my seat and gave her a scowl, "Why you-"

The sound of the door sliding open interrupted both of us, "S-sorry for the intrusion… I hope wasn't interrupting anything…" said a shy bookworm, holding a floral tea tray. "I've bought the refreshments, It took a bit longer than expected…"

Monika clapped her hands to catch everyone's attention, "Thank you, Wielder of the Third Eye. Okay everyone! Gather around now." She said as she got up from her seat to arrange the tables into a larger one.

"Hmph, looks like you're lucky Blockhead." Natsuki says as she crosses her arms, the book still in hand, "I don't think you would even stand a chance against me, even if you are the Sorcerer's personal swordsman." She insisted as she stuck her tongue out at me to mock me.

"Whatever." I said as I rolled my eyes and walked towards the tables, deciding to let it go.

Unlike yesterday, there was two desk next two each other and two parallel to them and the fifth desk was at the end. Monika was sitting at the end of the table, Sayori to her left and Yuri to her right. Deciding sitting next to Yuri who was pouring tea into matching floral teacups and putting it onto tea plates, Natsuki was sitting right across of me.

As our eyes met each other, she sticks her tongue out to me once more before looking away.

"Eh? Natsuki, what happened to your cheek?" my childhood friend questioned.

Startled by the sudden question, her eyes started to dart back and forth on Sayori and me, a light blush forming on her face as she clenches her fist, "Well…" she pauses right before looking at her with a serious expression, "It's a battle scar that I received after fighting off Morpheus in the dream world." With a proud smile, she crosses her arms, "It wasn't nothing that the leader of the Red Crimson Demons couldn't handle!"

Sayori then claps her hands, her sapphire eyes sparkling in amazement, "Oooh! As expected of you Natsuki!"

Yuri then carefully places her teacups on each desk, "I hope you all enjoy. I chose to use something different today." she says with a calm smile.

I raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "Oh? What type of tea is it this time?"

She emits a humming sound from her mouth as she places a cup on my desk and pours the content of the teapot into it, "Ah well... I've traveled through various dimensions to pick the rarest jasmine blossoms for the most refined taste for all of us to have. I then crafted it into an intellect stat increase mana potion, only for the chosen ones of course."

"Right… Thank you Yuri." I responded to her, ignoring all the additional information that she added in.

"Ahem." We all look over to the club president who was holding a calm smile as she rests her chins on her interlocking hands, catching everyone's attention. Suddenly, her emerald eyes took on a serious look and the room goes dead silent as if she were a higher authority ordering silence.

I was completely taken back by her sudden seriousness.

The room's atmosphere becomes tense as she was looking into each of our eyes, making sure that we had our full attention on her with her unwavering gaze.

My gaze caught onto Sayori, who was probably the most talkative here and was usually excited about anything. She instead placed her hands together on the desk as she kept composure. Yuri on the other hand simply closed her eyes as she brought her teacup close to her face, silently savoring the taste of jasmine. Natsuki, who had full attention on our president and was sitting up straight, silently waited for orders.

Even I for some reason was getting nervous for her to finally break the silence. 'She's a bit scary when she gets serious…' I thought as I gulped nervously.

Finally, Monika slightly opened our mouths to speak, prompting me to move in closer to listen to whatever she was going to say.

"What do you guys want to do today?" She said as all indications of seriousness had left her face.

"W-what?" I quietly mouthed as I looked at her in both shock and disbelief.

Sayori who held her chin in thought was the first to speak up, "Hmm. What about honing our skills again as usual?"

"Nah. We shouldn't," protested by Natsuki who was now lying back in her seat without a care in the world, "we did that like all last week!"

Yuri then sets her cup down, "I agree. Too much of both physical and mental training can cause a strain on your body."

"Aww. I wanted to power up even more!" My childhood friend wept with a pout as she puts two fingers together.

'I don't even want to know what they do for 'training'…"

Monika then speaks up, "Hmmm. I suppose we can just-"

"Wait, wait, wait. I thought yesterday you said that had something planned or something?" I interrupted her.

Monika starts to tap her chin in thought to recall her memory, "Ah! Well actually about that…" She scratches the back of her head as a light blush appears on her face, "I was too excited discussing the annual ritual of festives with Aurora Sunshine last night that at some point, I forgot about it, haha..." she says in an apologetic tone.

"I see. Carry on then." I said with a sigh. Was the delusional number one model student really so forgetful like this?

"Thank you. Anyways what I was thinking is," Monika gets up from her seat, putting on foot on the desk and pulls out a yardstick seemingly out of nowhere and raises it to the sky, "that we show off our strengths to see if we are strong enough to conquer the reality of infinite choices!"

'Here we go again.' I thought, laying my head back down onto the table.

She then points the yardstick and waves it at me, "I sense that you a doubtful spirit clinging onto your soul, Bahamut. Do not fret, only through witnessing our true potential you shall be exorcised of the spirit of doubt."

"Oi. Please don't call me that…" I responded.

Natsuki turned away and crosses her arms, "Hmph. I doubt he can handle it."

"H-hey! Don't doubt him like that! Bahamut is really strong! Like really strong!" Sayori insisted, much to my own chagrin.

I shook my head, "I just- Stop calling me by that name!" I wept with a sigh.

"If I may…" added by Yuri, "I must agree with Aurora Sunshine. I had heard stories of him defeating the great Demon King long ago from her." She stated as she took another sip of her tea.

"Am I getting ignored? I did no such thing!" I whined as I placed a hand on my forehead.

"Bah. Whatever." Natsuki sighed, ignoring my protest, "I think we should do something else than that. Besides, we already know who's the second strongest here." All with a toothy, confident grin, the pink hair girl puts a thumb towards her chest, "Me of course!"

Yuri puts her teacup back down onto the table and stares at her own reflection inside of the cup, "I must disagree with you, Natsuki. That would be me instead."

The rest of the club's eyes widen at Yuri's bold statement.

In response, Natsuki face fills up with irritation as she raises her eyebrows "Huh? What are you trying to say Wielder of the Third Eye?" she questioned with hostility.

'Uh oh. This is probably going to go bad.'

"Well," Yuri starts to trace the rim of her teacup, "I thought the difference in power between the Third Eye and the Wicked Eye was apparent, with the winner being the former." she firmly states as she looks at Natsuki directly in the eyes.

Natsuki gets up from her seat, slamming the desk as she glares right back at Yuri, "I'll have you know that the Wicked Eye is much more powerful than your stupid Third Eye!" she snapped at Yuri.

I swear that I could see sparks forming between them as they gave each other death glares.

"Now, now girls. There's no need for this right now." Monika opined, catching both of the girls' attention, "Besides, there's a better way to solve this." She stated, a knowing smile forming on her lips.

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"You can always back down, wielder of The Third Eye." she warned as she gives her yardstick a couple of light swings, "You wouldn't stand against me anyways." now pointing the yardstick at her fellow club member.

On the other hand, Yuri simply examined the end of her yardstick, testing the sharpness of the edge with her thumb, ignoring Natsuki's words.

In return, Natsuki's eye started to slightly twitch from not getting a reaction from her opponent. A smug smile then suddenly appears on her face, "Oh? You have nothing to say? Looks like you just want to lose against me so badly. I guess I'll just have to give you this beat down."

Yuri then takes off her blazer and sets it aside towards one of the desks near her student shoulder bag. She then pulls out a small book from her bag and flips towards the middle. In her other hand was her own yardstick.

I didn't know what else surprised me, Yuri's sudden personality switch, or that the fact that she was willing to have a spar with Natsuki. Either way, the fact that they were actually able to create an argument off of who's delusions are more powerful was more baffling.

"Hey Sayori, this is going to go bad, we have-"

My childhood friend puts a finger to my lips, "Shush, Ryota! It's about to get good!" she cut me off much to my annoyance.

She starts to make a beat with her hands, humming along with the beat. Her humming gradually becomes louder and more in tune with the beat. As if on cue, the two girls start to circle around each other.

I felt my eyes twitch, "Are you trying to mimic a boss background music battle or something? There's no need for any of this!"

Yuri then gets into a stance and grips her yardstick, "Foolish little one, you've made the grave mistake of challenging the successor of the Third Eye! Your punishment is imminent! You are to be banished from this realm forever! En garde!"

'These God-given idiots are actually for real about this…'

"L-L-L-LITTLE ONE?!" Natsuki then grips her yardstick with two hands, "YOU'LL PAY FOR SAYING THAT!" she then raises her yardstick towards the air, "DARKNESS, BLACKER THAN BLACK, COMBINE WITH CRIMSON! I CALL UPON YOU-"

Sayori quickly gets up from her seat, "Hey! No magic!"

"BUT THERE IS NO MAGIC!" I quickly retort back to her

"It's fine!" said the battle ready Yuri who ignored what I said, "Let her come at me with her strongest!" She reveals her 'Third Eye' by lifting up her bangs, once again revealing the poorly drawn eye, "The Third Eye shall relieve her of her own ignorance and grant her enlightenment of who is more superior!"

"YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET SAYING THAT!" Natsuki snarled as she sprints towards her opponent

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"Ah! W-wait! Time out! I forgot something!"

This caused Natsuki to come to a full stop, almost tripping in the process, "Aw come on! I just did the full enchant!"

Monika then raises her hand, "I'll allow it. Take your time, Yuri."

Yuri then bows, "I apologize for the inconvenience." she said with a tone with sincerity. Reaching into her school handbag was a red pen from one of the pockets. Rolling up her sleeves, she starts to draw small red lines all the way from her forearm towards her wrist.

I only watch in disappointment while both Monika and Sayori were whispering towards each other.

I'm still surprised the fact that none of the teachers who still are in the building hadn't said anything yet about the girls yelling in the class. Though, this did make me wonder; shouldn't there be a club advisor to watch us in the classroom?

It probably would be for the best not to have one honestly speaking.

A frustrated Natsuki was tapping her feet, waiting for Yuri to finish doodling on her own arms. "Uuuuu! I'm tired of waiting!" Having her patience lost, Natsuki gets on top of one of the tables and starts to run across each table to strike Yuri from above.

My eyes widen in fear, "Y-you idiot! One of you is going to get hurt really badly!" I realize as I quickly get out of my seat to try and stop her, but of course, it was already too late.

Realizing the situation that Yuri is in, she hastily grabs her book and covers her face with it to protect herself from the incoming aerial attack from her smaller opponent.

"Your defense is futile, Wielder of the Third Eye! TAKE THIS! CRIMS- Ah."

By complete accident, the poor girl had taken a misstep from traveling from desk to desk, falling in between each desk, face first onto the ground. This was Natsuki's second time getting embarrassed during the length of this club meeting.

Getting up from my seat, I rushed over to Natsuki's unmoving body and so did the rest of the club members.

"N-N-Natsuki?! Are you okay?!" questioned a worried Yuri as gets on her knees to check on the pink haired petite.

Suddenly Natsuki swiftly gets up, yardstick still in hand and strikes her opponent on her forehead as Yuri stumbles back, "Haah...haah… I… I win this one! Submit to me!" announced as she clutches her left side. "Just accept it Yuri! I'm the- OUCH!"

Her words were interrupted as a book coming from Yuri's direction went flying towards Natsuki, returning the favor by aiming towards her directly on her forehead.

"N-never!" says the out of character shy maiden as she slowly gets back up.

"Why you-!"

A worried Sayori then steps in, putting herself between the both of them, "H-hey guys! No more fighting! It's a draw!"

"Eh?! A draw?!" They both exclaimed at the same time.

Monika then also steps in, standing right next to Sayori, "That's right. You two fought with all of your strength with such power. It's time for you two to give it a rest."

I give out an exhausted sigh for the actions that just transpired in the last few minutes. Unfortunately for me, this also catches the attention of both of the girls. They quickly made their way towards, moving their face close to mine, causing me to step back a bit as my face flushed. Gripping each of my sleeves, I saw they had a fiery determination in their eyes.

"Who did you think won, blockhead?! / Who was victorious in this battle, Ryota?!" They both questioned at the same time. I noticed that red marks formed on their foreheads.

Lucky, my childhood friend came to my rescue as she pulled away both of the girls away from me, "Girls! Please stop fighting! I just want everyone to get along!" she wailed with a worried expression.

"She started it!" They both say at the same time as they pointed at each other.

Eventually, the both of them kept arguing with each other, spurring out insults to one another as both Monika and Sayori were trying their best at ceasing their arguing. I felt my headache rising as I kept listening to the both of them spew out, about what? The delusional battle they just had? The fact that they were both serious about this was even more mind-blowing as it already is.

Using this chance, I quietly slipped out of the classroom. As I quietly slid the door closed, I lean my back towards the door, holding my head to relieve the pain.

"Haha… those girls are really arguing over nothing." I quietly said to myself.

I gently slide the door, peeking inside of the classroom to see if they noticed my sudden disappearance. Luckily for me, none of them noticed but they were both still going at it somehow. Taking this opportunity, I started walking towards the staircase leading to the second floor.

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I slide open the door to see the situation still the same the moment I walked out, much to my own anger.

"Ouuuuu! That's why I'm not the one who stuffed-!"

Feeling my blood boil, I interrupted Natsuki by slamming my fist against the wall, grabbing all four girl's attention. "YOU TWO! CUT IT OUT, NOW!" I yelled, raising my pitch a bit too much then I intended. Realizing my mistake, I cleared my throat, "Excuse me for the raise of my voice, but you two need to stop arguing now! You've been arguing for the past like... five minutes!"

Natsuki, with a somewhat shaken up expression, speaks up, "But…! She's the one who…!"

"I don't care!" I retort back, "Either way, you've both hurt yourselves!" I grab both of them by their hands, carefully yanking them to come closer, "Come here! Look at your foreheads, they're going to bruise up!"

They both silently look away from me in guilt, too ashamed to look at me in the eye. Scratching the back of my head, I sighed in response.

I run my hand through my blazer pockets, finding the items that I went looking for, "Here you two. Take it. A bruise is going to start forming if you don't treat it right." I said as I forcefully placed an ice pack on each of their hands.

All four girls looked at me with a surprised expression.

Sayori was the first to speak, "Ryota? Where did you get those from?"

"I got it from the nurse office while you four didn't notice me slipping out." I turn back over to the both of them, "Well? Are you going to use it or what?"

Both Natsuki and Yuri reluctantly placed the ice packs on their foreheads, still avoiding eye contact with each other.

"You two aren't off the hook yet."

"What?! We stopped fighting, so what's the big deal?" questioned my fellow pink hair club member.

"The both of you hadn't apologized to each other yet."

She shook her head in disapproval while rolling her eyes, "Blockhead, there's no point of-"

I cut her off by narrowing my eyes at her; giving her a scowl showing that I was serious about this. She was taken back from my sudden expression and averts her pastel pink eyes away from my own amber eyes, finding interest in the ground. The small girl clenches her fists, right before letting it go and looks directly at Yuri who was having trouble facing Natsuki.

"Wielder of the Third Eye, I-"

"I apologize for my actions! I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me for it!" Yuri quickly interrupts as she gives Natsuki an apologetic bow, "I-It was my fault! I-I was just trying to impress everyone today!"

"No... I was being a bit too cocky anyways… I'm sorry." Natsuki responded as she also bowed.

Sayori then grabs both of their arms, bringing them into a hug, "Yay~! We're all friends again!" she exclaimed, much their discomfort.

As I let out a satisfied sigh, I felt someone lightly tapping my shoulders. Turning around towards the smiling culprit, Monika leaned in forward with both hands behind her back, "As expected from my personal swordsman. I must thank you for resolving this conflict. A reward shall be placed for you in the near future." she giggled.

I sat on the nearest chair near me, observing the three girls in front of me as they all share a lighthearted laugh, "You're welcome. Though, it's your job to stop these types of situation. Even if it is a 'duel' or whatever it is. "

"Ahaha… Well, at least I have both you and Aurora Sunshine to help me out. Even someone with knowledge like me, The Lady who Knows Everything, conflicts like these aren't my strong points." She looks away from me with dejected eyes, "I just wish that I was a bit more assertive…" she mumbles loud enough for me to hear.

PIN-PON-PAN-PON

As I opened my mouth to say something, the Westminster chimes sound fills the entire school, indicating everyone that after-school activities were finished for the day.

Finally.

With this, Monika catches the attention of the three other girls in the room, "Okay everyone! Even if we hadn't found the way to the reality filled with infinite choices, I know we're all still close to finding that special day. Our meeting is dismissed for the day! Thank you for your hard work today!"

"Good work today everyone." The three girls wearily said to each other as they all went to grab their respective shoulder bags.

As I went to grab my own shoulder bag, Natsuki who had her shoulder bag around her arm and hands behind her back was blocking my path.

"Natsuki? What do you need?" I questioned as I raised my eyebrows.

She averted her pastel pink eyes away from me as she pouted, "H-hey about earlier. T-thank..." she mumbled quietly. Not finding the right words to say, she then took a deep breath and over dramatically covers her eyepatch with her right hand, "You have done well in pleasing the Wicked Eye, blockhead. So I guess I have to give you a reward for it!" She quickly exclaimed.

The eyepatch-wearing petite then shoves something into my chest, "T-take it and cherish it!" she says as her eyes found interest in the floor, "If you mess with any of the pages, I'll obliterate you with the power of the Wicked Eye!"

What the girl had placed into my chest was undoubtedly the first volume of Parfait Girls that I was halfway done with.

She points her finger directly to my face, "Y-you better finish it tonight! I won't forgive you if you don't!"

"Uh...Thank you?"

With a smug smile and flushed face, she crosses her arms, "Hmph. Better be thankful! The Wicked Eye only acknowledges only the worthy. I guess you're just an exception for pleasing it today though." She turns around and heads for the door, "Don't let it get through your head though. Seeya tomorrow blockhead." Natsuki stated as she left the room, waving.

'A simple thank you would have been fine instead of all of that…'

"Um… excuse me, Ryota." a shy voice stated. Turning towards the source of the voice, I turn face to face with the purple hair maiden, who was playing with a lock of her hair. "T-thank you for the pack of ice earlier. It helped me recover my health bar rather quickly."

I pat her on the shoulder, "No problem. Just try not to do anything like that ever again. Please, it's too dangerous."

"It's nothing that the Third Eye can handle." She giggled, "Through countless centuries, it has withstood many challenges, so do not fret."

"Right…" I nodded, ignoring all the extra details she added in, "Anyways, I'll see you tomorrow."

She bows in return, "Likewise, former Magic Swordsmen of the Emperor." Yuri responded with a kind smile, "I wish upon the ancient heavens, a good night." She said with sincerity, leaving the classroom.

'I thought I told her… Whatever, I'll tell her off tomorrow.'

I make my way over to Sayori who was packing her things up before putting her bag around her shoulder, "Yo, Sayori. Ready to leave?"

"Mhm!" She cheerfully nodded, "Let's be onto our next adventure!" Her tone was one with excitement as she happily skips towards the door.

I stretched my arms as I followed her out the door, 'Thank God, this meeting felt way too long… Time to cook for Haru and-' My thoughts were immediately interrupted as I felt someone tugged on my sleeve, lightly pulling me back.

"Hold it right there, Bahamut." Turning around, I faced Monika who was crossing her arms, "You aren't quite finished with your quest for the day."

Oh boy.

"What did I say about… bah, forget it for now." I quietly mumbled, "Anyways what do you mean? Club time is over, right?" I questioned, raising my eye in curiosity.

She then extends her arm over to the mess of the classroom. The desks and chairs were all over the place and even some papers were scattered along the floor.

"We have to repair the battlefield of course! The authorities of the Place of Everlasting Knowledge will condemn us for not cleaning up. So-"

"I'm sorry, I'm going to have to abandon this quest. Please forgive me for the inconvenience." I interrupted her as I bow to her. I turn and head straight for the door, "Come on Sayori, we gotta catch the train. I'll see ya tomorrow prez."

A spike of guilt had filled my conscious for saying that to her, but I brush it off. It was her who encouraged the 'duel' anyways, even if it is selfish of me not to help her out.

"W-well, actually Ryota…" I turn over to Sayori's worried expression as she puts two of her pointer fingers together, her moving her head towards Monika's direction, "I-I think it's best to help out the sorceress out."

I felt Monika tightly grip onto my sleeve as I slowly turned around. And there, was when I had feared for life. Despite her trying to keep a composed smile, you can see hints of irritation forming on her face.

"Excuse me, Bahamut." She said with such hostility, making me jump the way she had said my past persona, "I believe you forgot about our contract we made yesterday. Did you forget the consequences if you ever broke them?"

I nervously gulped at her warnings, "I-I changed my mind. I'll help you out cleaning up today, haha…"

Her grip loosens on my sleeve as she puts both of her hands behind her back and leans in forward, smiling, "Thanks for understanding! I knew you'd come around." She said with a wink.

"Right." I sigh as I turn back around to my dearest childhood friend who had a downcast expression on her face, "Sorry Sayori. You're gonna have to go home by yourself."

"O-oh no, don't worry about me! I'll be fine! It's nothing that Aurora Sunshine can't handle!" She reassured as her expression brightened up.

I noticed her expression instantly changed, "You sure?"

"Mhm. Positive!" Sayori nodded as she headed straight for the door, sliding it open to leave. She slightly slid the door close, allowing enough room to peek her head from the other side, "See you two tomorrow~!" and slides the door shut, leaving the both of us alone in the room.

In an instant, Monika takes my hand and pulls me over, causing me to blush "Come now, my swordsman. We have much to do."

"R-right."

And thus, one of many afternoons with my club president had just begun.

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Kouhai - Underclassman, opposite of what a senpai is basically.

Shoujo- Manga that is aimed at a teenage female audience. Example of a series: Sailor Moon.

Shounen- Manga that is aimed at a teenage male audience. Example of a series: Naruto.

Mangaka- Basically the author of a manga.

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AN: Wow. Not including the ANs, this chapter was around 13 close to 14k words. I'm starting to think I should actually cut a bit back on the writing and lower the standards, cause I really did not intend to write this much. Takes a bit of a toll on me.

Though, I do blame it on adding my twists of day 1 of DDLC. Whoops. But next chapter is where it's going to diverge from regular DDLC into something a bit different while somewhat being the same as the regular days in DDLC.

Also, need to cut back a little bit of the Sayori fluff and give it to all girls. I feel like she has received a lot.

Also, another note, if you guys have any tips on how to write the personalities of the girls (though, they are supposed to be somewhat out of character) I'd appreciate it.

Anyways let's get into the reviews.

Yeet: Thanks man! I wanted to do something a bit different regarding my fic.

Enigma: AYEEE WAS POPIN'? Let's jump straight into this.

I know I've said this on the my review on your fic but imma have to say it once more:

WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE!

Anyways, good for you to start watching just a bit. You should definitely start exploring just a bit though. Completely up to you if ya want. But yup, poor Ryota has to deal with them though and will eventually have to get used to it.

Well, it's not using her coding since this is story is going to be placed into the 'real' world, or anime world I guess? Anyways, it's half of manipulation and something else.

Regarding Sayori, I noticed literally the previous chapter and the beginning of this one focus on her a lot. I'm going to give fluff to everyone. Oh keep it a secret hehe. Anyways, memories are a bit essential to Ryota's characterization + backstory since the regular MC was given a lot in the base game and was kept as a generic person.

Huh. Never really played CS, only PC games I really played was MMOs. But for restoring health on Skyrim? Boi, you can just pause the game and drink hella potions LMAO.

Ah Haru. I can't wait til she meets the girls. Anyways, Natsuki is based off of someone else who you mentioned in this review.

Hey, don't tell spoilers! I actually don't get that reference sorry m8 don't kill me

I believe they use Mana, don't quote me on this tho. But frick, that reference was from a Machinima video right? I think one of my friends showed me it back in the day. But sheesh, whatever happened to Machinima, am I right? Just disappeared or something, idk.

In regular DDLC, they walk to school. But considering Ryota wanting to start a new high school life and forget his middle school life, he had to go to a school where he didn't know anyone from his older school would be at, besides Sayori of course. So he took a entrance exam to Dokisai High school.

I got plans for Amy in the next chapter hehe. But usually people are assigned for cleaning duty in classrooms after school from what I've seen. So I was like fuck it and gave it to him LMAO.

Fam, I love tsunderes! A1 character development when they get to the 'dere' stage + cute interactions when they get flustered.

I have an idea of how the festival is going to be like, but it ain't gonna be fucked up tho.

Back to what you were saying about Natsuki and Rikka, Natsuki is actually heavily based on Megumin from Konosuba. Considering how Megumin herself is a chuunibyou with actual powers (she does poses, says a lot of big words to make her look cool), I was like "why not?" Megumin's eyepatch and her enchants are almost the same on how I made Natsuki to be like. Oh and Rikka's eye isn't called Wicked Eye, its called the Tyrant's Eye.

You made me almost spit out my drink from reading what you put, good job

In last chapter, I kept switching from chump to blockhead, but decided that blockhead would be better for Natsuki's nickname for Ryota LOL. But damn, thinking about it now, I should of made Natsuki use a dragon shout like the fire breath one.

Regarding their poems, it's going to be tough to do… wish me luck on it (gonna need it).

Ah yes. Incendiary rounds. It gets me triggered whenever I see it in a multiplayer game. It's still pretty freakin cool tho to see.

Anyways, thanks for the large review man. I appreciate it! And i'll definitely ask you whenever I need help with something regarding my fic. Oh and I'm gonna put a reference to your fic soon, since you put a reference to mine in your fics. Hopefully I can deliver.

Anon: Thanks for leaving a review! But anyways, Sorry m8 but nope, that's how the whole trope works. Maybe if I ever decide to do a spinoff, they will actually have them.

Raincloxds: Hey, thanks! I really appreciate it. I hope this chapter was a bit up to par with the last one. Expect more of Ryota's adventures with these cute but delusional girls.

Tsudzukete: Thanks man, even though this chapter heavily reflects onto the first day on DDLC, I'm planning to diverge it into a different one. Anyways, he knows that it would be useless to protest cause he knows it's not going to make a difference with them. Eventually he's going to get used to it. Anyways thanks for the review man.

PS: I miss your fic lmao

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Again, I'm going to try and write next chapter a bit more shorter than this one and the other two. Unless if I decide not too, who knows. Have a great day/night to who's ever reading this.

Edited as of 1/27/19.