Ed's Anything-but-Ordinary Life Chapter 7: Humanoids Stalking the Night, an Ed, Edd n Eddy + Touhou Project Crossover fanfic

Chapter 7: Humanoids Stalking the Night

Ed started to stroll down the dark road stretching between worlds, eyes slowly flicking around to see anything that draws his attention despite the darkness covering literally anything that could be seen.

Not that it really matters, anyway; the tunnel was rather bland, only going onwards in a perfectly straight path and the door leading back to the woods some ways behind Ed.

But why would he want to go back? That's literally the antithesis of the reason why he's in that corridor, to explore.

Ed turned away from the gate, almost refusing to look at it like it was an unpleasant eyesore.

Taking off and away down the road, leaving the green door behind, Ed dashed down the road nimbly, sprinkling a couple of light hops and jumps into the air to gain more momentum as he did so.

Seconds converted to minutes, and Ed was still left in the dark of the road as he ventured further down the path, with only minor changes in light as he did so.

It wasn't until Ed had run headlong into a tree, falling on his back and seeing the late night moon did he realized he had already left the passage; it was such a dark nighttime it was practically indistinguishable from the darkness in the pass.

"Yo~h…" Ed bemoaned, "Is so dark—!" The darkness didn't reply back, but a voice could be vaguely heard replying, "I know~!"

Either not hearing the voice or not caring about it, Ed showed no signs of paying heed to the voice as he hopped to his feet, gently blinking to adjust to the black and grey of everything while simultaneously feeling his path around, blindly groping around for something to help him move ahead in his journey.

As he moved forward, carefully circumnavigating around trees and keeping a watch out for any hindrances, Ed couldn't help but felt rather…alive in the new world he walked in.

He wasn't changed or anything new or anything happened, it's just that his body felt more active for some reason, and the air had an attractive...sensation to it, for a lack of a better word.

Ed shook himself out of his contemplative mindset; no silly mind, I'm here to explore! What had you drawn there all of a sudden?

Ed carefully plotted a course around the autumnal trees, delicately trodding around the trees and ducking down and away from the low hanging branches, ears twitching around to detect anything that might compromise his plans—

"A—A—A—And then that kid—Ed—just ups and left Gansokyo before Ai knew et!" Reimu's familiar voice drunkenly stuttered, "And he left wit' ma food too! Ai just wanna Fa—Fan—Fantasy Seal his a—"

Before Ed could hear the end of Reimu's violent statement, the sound of a head thudding against something like cloth entered the boy's ear and snoring entered it soon after.

"Eek," Ed shivered, "I don't know what a Fantasy Seal is, but it sounds scary…"

"Wa~h? She's out already~?" a childish voice complained, "Ma~n, what a lightweight! Heh heh he…"

...Ed quickly darted behind the tree as soon as the screen door slid open, with the opener of the door stumbling out unevenly, giggling into the night's air.

"Ooh, an Outsider~," the girl laughed dizzily, "from what Reimu told me, that guy sure was a handful for her. He sounds like a fun guy~!"

As the girl laughed into the heavens, Ed carefully poked his head out to see what she looked like.

She was rather short and stout; maybe about Sarah's height or so. She also had a light tinge of orange coloring her hair. The girl's most identifiable feature that caught Ed's eye, though, was the two large yellow horns sprouting from her head, as wide from her elbow to elbow. She also had a purple colored gourd thing in her hand that was dripping with some sort of liquid slightly, with chains falling and swinging to and fro.

Before Ed could get a closer look at her, the drunkard slowly oriented her head to his position and he ducked behind the tree before she could see him.

"Oy, someone there?"

"Eek~..." Ed squeaked childishly and delicately bounded to the next tree's shadow, slinking through the darkness like a shadowy snake.

"Hey~, you're no fun when you're hiding~." the horned girl groaned in a disjointed manner, stumbling disorientedly towards his general direction.

Ed shook his head, refusing to let himself to be seen with adamant refusal as he carefully navigates his way around the trees of the shrine, keeping his peripherals on the horned girl as he did so.

"Ah, musta been my imagination," the girl shrugged off, flapping her hand as she did so before reclining onto a sleeping position, "I think I'll take a nice ol' nap now. Ha~h, zzz… zzz…"

Despite the fact that her horns had propped up her head up from the ground at least half a foot from the dirt, she had looked rather content, if her drooling smile was anything indicative with a rather loud snore. Ed, however, wasn't taking any chances as he quietly tiptoed around the drunken and sleeping girl's body and into the shrine's backdoor, gently closing the screen door once he entered through the doorway.

"Whew," Ed huffed, gently correcting the sleeves of his shirt as he did so, "that's kinda fun~, I should do it again more often."

Once Ed had readjusted all his clothes to its' proper position, he had taken notes about his surroundings as he did so.

It was rather dim, but not unbearably so; it was dark enough for him to see only the most noticeable of objects around, but not so much he could have accidentally walked into a wall or stumbled into a vase. The scent was also off; not nostril burning off, but off enough for Ed to notice it was off.

"Hmm, this place looks familiar, but I can't remember if I saw it before…" Ed pondered. He shrugged, "Ah, no biggie. It's probably nothing too important."

Ed then left the backroom of the shrine after looking around and entered the primary living room, which didn't look all too different from the room he had left, with the exception of a kotatsu in the center and Ed counted two couches on the sides. Reimu was snoring carelessly away on the couch on Ed's left, snorting and twisting in her sleep as she did so.

"Eh~? Who are you?" Ed poked at his teeth, clueless to what her name is (or anything that happened on the day he had ventured to Gensokyo) yet feeling like he had seen her before, "Are you someone I met before?"

No responses from the drunk maiden. Ed merely grinned toothily, "Well I need to give you a name because I dunno yours! Hmm… what do you think about, uh, Oliku?"

No response. "Uh… Allo?"

"Ruri?"

"Poko?"

"Sanae?"

Still, no response, with the only thing that's even remotely like a response was Reimu's obnoxiously loud snore. Ed frowned, "Gee, it's hard to come up with a good name…"

Before he could give up, a proper (and suitable) name for her had popped up into his mind. Ed smiled, already liking it, "Oh! I know! Reimu! You like Reimu, right?"

No response, but Reimu did say drowsily, "Yeah, and you better remember it, youkai… argh…"

Ed smiled happily, "Then you'll be Reimu!"

"No Marisa, it's not Meimu, stop calling me that…"

Ed had no idea who 'Marisa' was—though it did seem familiar— he had merely waved it off, "Okay Reimu!"

No more response.

Ed then left the napping girl in peace after a second, walking around the room to gain a bearing of his surroundings as he did so. As he did so, however, a drop of some sort of liquid splashed onto Ed's cheek, making him freeze instantaneously once he had felt the sensation.

"Eh?" Ed poked his cheek in curiosity and stared at his fingertip. It had some sort of liquid on his finger, somewhat smoky looking and opaque, and it made his fingers feel slightly dry.

"Ooh, what are you?" Ed asked curiously, staring at his fingers. Without any warnings, even to himself, he popped his finger coated in the substance into his mouth and licked it.

It tasted dry like he was licking dry ice and it tasted somewhat strange, like something slightly bitter but sweet in an overbearing way. It was also somewhat addictive.

"You're weird," Ed said blandly, staring at his finger without much thought. He wiped his finger on his jacket and started towards the entrance, bobbing his head from side to side as he walked towards the entrance, curling a tiny lock of his red hair around his finger.

He slid pass the entryway leading into the inner sanctum (or more accurately the living room) and around a small wooden box, leaving behind the Hakurei Shrine as he departed for the outside lands foreign to him.

Ed squinted slightly as the surrounding light faded away, leaving him once again with most of his vision completely crippled and drowning in the nightshade.

Undeterred by the shadowy veil of the night, Ed hopped off the wooden porch of the dilapidated shrine, creaking a plank that would otherwise disturb the tranquility of the night as he did so. Reimu in the room behind him gave a loud snort and tumbled over herself under her blanket.

Ed then jumped off into a run once his toes touched the ground, breaking out in a brisk jog as he went along through the shrine grounds and down the cobblestone stairs, counting the steps as he went along.

"7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 24, 65, whoops, I forgot to carry a one!"

Eventually, Ed finally reached the last ten steps of the obscenely long stairs, ever-present smile still fresh on his lip despite the fact it had taken him a full three minutes to traverse down the steps.

Stepping onto the springy grassy grounds, Ed started to walk through the small forest with watchful eyes, either for examination for anything he never saw before or maybe for any attackers out to attack him.

Fortunately, it was far into late nighttime, so that means the forest was covered in darkness, obscuring Ed's vision and any would-be attackers as well, meaning any predator would have had just as good as a vision as Ed right now.

Ed hummed tunelessly and walked around a small wall of trees, deep in thought;

"This place feels so familiar, was I here before~?" Ed picked at his teeth, mindful of the low-hanging dense branches prodding at him as he ducked under the dense crowd of leaves.

"Did I lose my memory or something? Ah, whatever, memory losing schmoozing, I'll get back to it later." Ed waved off the short train of thought and chuckled heartily, but before he could stop laughing, another high pitch giggle joined him.

Ed screeched to a halt and whipped his head around, confused at the sudden voice projecting from the shadows.

"Hey, who's that?" Ed asked out loud, now slightly apprehensive at the fact he wasn't alone as he had thought.

"Who's that?"

"Yeah, who~?"

"There you are again! Are you invisible?"

"I don't know, am I?"

"Well I can't see you, that's for sure silly!" Ed pouted, flapping his arm in indignation.

He then walked off into the darkness, toddling carefully around the shadows of the trees as the moon shined its' pure light overhead.

Ed stared skywards; the sky was relatively clear, with thin, pulled apart clouds slowly shifting eastward. Faint stars glimmered gently in the dark sky, with some slowly coming into light as Ed's eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness. He bounded forwards and the sky was swiftly obstructed by the thick autumn plume of the trees.

As he walked through the trees, he could vaguely hear the trees' leaves gently rustling, alongside with soft breathing. Intimidated, Ed then picked up the pace and trotted faster, carefully keeping a note about what's off and what isn't. He then whistled in an attempt to feign ignorance; if there's one thing comic books taught him, it's to fake being oblivious as to wouldn't trip the attention of the predator and to avoid being interesting!

The faint shadowy forest then slowly grew brightness, making Ed subconsciously increasing his speed out of excitement. The light grew in luminosity before Ed dashed out into the green expanses beyond the small forest.

Ed gave the scenery a once-over in excitement; it was relatively flat and grassy, with small bumps scattered over the terrain. The tall grass reached up to Ed's kneecaps and folded whenever a gentle breeze blew pass, rippling like water on a lake surface. The plain had gradually dropped down into a slope where a small village walled off from the rest of the world, with an aged stone stair and pathway some ways to his right that lead down to the bottom of the mound and backwards into the forest behind him, presumably leading to the shrine he had left some time a while back.

The yellow-skinned oaf then made a run down the hill, without further thought and tumbled down the grassy field, guffawing like a moron.

"Hah hah hah~!" Ed yelled as the ground beneath him flattened out, sending him headlong into a wall.

An ordinary person would have screeched in torment at the pain and went unconscious soon after. Ed just stopped laughing and grinned like nothing had happened. If anything, the wall was the one that suffered; judging from the Ed-shaped imprint in the beige wall and a hole about the approximate size of his fist.

Ed gently propped his body up and on his feet, dusting off the dirt and rocks on him and made his way around the wall.

As he circumnavigates around the wall dividing the inside from the outside, it finally dawned on Ed it was quiet. Sure it was quiet the moment Ed had stepped onto Gensokyo's grounds, but he had thoughts that distracted him from the silence at the time, and now he was uncomfortably and fully aware of the fact that it was night, and it was completely silent. The fact that he was possibly stalked by an unknown someone didn't make it any more comfortable.

Ed shook off the ominous feeling in his gut and trod around the wall fencing off the area inside, chewing on his thumb as he did so. After a moment of patient walking, Ed finally stumbled upon the large wooden gate leading into the settlement.

There was no one hanging around the wooden door, and Ed was certain it was also the same thing on the other side. He stepped up to the double doors and started to push inwards. Nothing happened.

"...mhm?" Ed uttered in genuine confusion, surprised that the door didn't open like he had planned. The oaf pushed the door once, twice, thrice before frowning.

"Locked," he concluded, picking his nose as he said so. Ed perked up and dug around in his putrid pockets, searching for the item that had unlocked his gateway into the strange realm he had stumbled upon.

"That's the sandwich, the Evil Tim Issue #05, where is it~..." Ed silently muttered, prodding around the countless miscellaneous items stuffed in his pockets in search of his item. After a moment of searching, Ed pulled out the key and turned back to the door, clenched the wooden item in his hands with enough force to split a rock for a moment and started to insert the key where there was supposed to be door handles.

The tip simply bounced off the timber door.

Ed blinked. That didn't go as planned either. The boy frowned and tucked the key back into the moldy recesses of his jacket, assessing the door in front of him in deep thought.

Breaking it down was definitely an option—despite it's imposing size, it had definitely seen better days, with evidence of time's wear and tear on it made clear it was hardly as durable as it used to be—however Ed had a gut feeling that even if he punches holes in the door, it'll merely complicate plans more than he wishes.

Dig a hole? That's definitely a more sound plan than outright demolishing the door; there was soft dirt all around the perimeters of the small settlement, so it was easy for Ed to find a good base to work with, and he didn't have to break anything in that plan.

But...the possibility of him overshooting, missing the settlement and end up somewhere COMPLETELY DIFFERENT was so high that Ed could have laughed at himself before he had even made the mistake.

Ed groaned.

"I don't wanna break the door and get in trouble, but I don't wanna make a mistake and go to a different place either." Ed murmured voicelessly to himself, scratching his ears in thought.

He leaned against the door and closed his eyes, wild visions of whatever's beyond the wooden door flew through his mind and disappeared into empty blackness, along with the new mantra of, "I wanna see what's beyond the door," that he came up in three seconds flat.

I wanna see what's beyond the door.

Ed's eyelids closed and he yawned; he was so tired and sleepy today and he wasn't even sure what time it is back in his hometown. Ed's wrists felt like lead and for some reason he was growing somewhat nauseous. The Ed dropped to his backside and rubbed his eyes, allowing his head to lean to the right as he falls backward.

Wait, backward? How? There's a door behind—

—Without a chance to finish his half-formed thoughts, Ed's eyes shot open as he stumbled awkwardly to his feet, only to fall forward instead and smash his forehead against the door, sending him falling backward again.

"Oh look, the door is yellow," Ed slurred disjointedly, gently backing up and onto his feet as he delicately massaged his forehead.

The pain in his forehead dulled somewhat and allowed Ed to examine his new surroundings peacefully without having a stinging sensation plaguing him every two seconds.

It was rather plain and wasn't worth a second look. For some reason, visages of neo-futuristic buildings rushed through his brain when he imagined what was behind the barrier; tall, sky-piercing skyscrapers with space elevators filled up his mind despite the fact he would have seen it the moment he left the forest. Bright city lights spilling into the air and overpowering the stars' own lights. Loud chattering, gossip, car horns, the things one would've easily found in a modern city like New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong.

Not a land that hasn't seen the most recent technological advances in the past three-hundred years like Gensokyo.

Ed frowned in slight disappointment at the complete lack of any futuristic structures whatsoever, no fireworks, no lights, no people. Just...eerie silence, a complete lack of sound, not even natural noises like owl hootings and chirps of crickets.

The disturbing lack of noises was so frightening and unusual that Ed's hair stood on end and the already-cool air felt like it was coming from a freezer.

"Cold..." Ed shivered and pulled the protection of his jacket closer to him. He then walked off down the road while keeping a firm grip on his jacket.

The dirt street was sparse and empty; small patches of thin dried up grasses sprinkled all around every couple of paces here and there, small wooden houses on platforms with completely dark windows, small stone lanterns placed in between every three houses and small trees were found in various places.

It was like a ghost town.

Ed quickened his pace; he felt like he was the main character of a cliche camping horror story, so Ed felt like he needed to act the part. And just like a horror story, the protagonist was alone in an empty town, with no one but a single character with a more mythical or sinister background behind them.

The only thing that would make the already cheesy situation even more cliched was if there was a thick fog rolling in abou as high as Ed's knees.

But Ed laughed, but this is real life here! Reality may be frightening and boring, but there's no way someone can come out of the shadows without him knowing about them and touch his shoulders and drag him away, right—

"Excuse me."

Ed's laughter ended abruptly and a squeal of surprise overtook it instead. A slender but firm hand landed on his shoulder and prevented him from progressing any further, causing him to freeze in mid-move. Ed moved his neck so jerkily that one could have heard creaking from his spine.

It was a woman that seems like she was in her mid-to-late 20s, with long silver hair that had vague blue streaks in it and a hat that looked like some kind of building or castle perched on her head. She also wore a large blue dress with white sleeves. Her eyes were narrowed with heavy suspicion and with how her hands were tense Ed doubt he'll be free from her grip anytime soon.

"Uh—*cough* *cough* Uh, hi! My name's Ed! What's yours?" Ed said as Japanese took over his words. As he spoke the sentence, he couldn't help but feel odd as he spoke words in a completely different language, yet he can understand it as fluently as he did when he spoke English.

It wasn't unpleasant or painful or anything bad, just that it doesn't feel right.

"Are you a youkai?" the woman asked without a beat, ignoring his question entirely.

"A what?"

"Don't play dumb," the woman said sternly, "you must be a youkai. No one could have entered the Human Village at night, the locked gates would have prevented that."

"Human Village? Oh, is this a village? It looks nice, I don't think I'd mind living here for a bit. What do you usually do here? Are there any events coming up soon? I wanna see!" Ed hummed and turned the other way, slowly walking down the path before the woman quickly pulled the boy back.

"Don't change the subject! Are you a youkai? How did you get into the village?" the woman's voice, which was stern but carefully quiet at first, was now loud and pointed as surgical scalpels. Maybe she's reaching the end of her ropes with Ed's stupidity.

"I don't know! I swear!" Ed cried, feeling ashamed. Her height and the tone of her voice made him felt like he was being chewed out by a teacher, or even worse, his mother, "I just wanted to see what the village was like then I just appeared in here!" Ed confessed further.

The woman gave Ed a careful examining look, starting with his shoes and ending with his head. She bit her lower lip and carefully formulate her thoughts. The woman then said, "I'm not completely sure if you're a youkai or a human, but your clothes make you look like an Outsider. Are you an Outsider?"

"What's an Outsider?"

"Someone who came from the Outside World."

"Oh...! Well, when you put it like that, I guess I am an Outsider."

"It...still doesn't explain how you manage to get to the other side of the village wall. Could you have flown over it? That outsider girl definitely can..." the woman pondered to herself, placing a hand on her head in thought.

"Umm..."

"Oh right, I suppose from what I know, I'll have to assume you're an Outsider human. Goodness gracious," the woman's icy-cold tone shifted to something resembling care and worry, "you're lucky you managed to get inside the Human Village; you wouldn't have fared well outside of these walls."

"Uh? Why not?"

"It's...not a pleasant fate for those from the Outside World to get lost here," the woman said grimly, releasing Ed from her grip, "you're very lucky you managed to get into the village; it's the only place in Gensokyo that's safe for humans.

"But what are you going to do now? Surely you don't plan to venture out beyond the village, do you?"

"I think I'll be okay." Ed smiled, "I'm strong, so I can yell for help if I get in trouble."

She sweatdropped, "Erm, that doesn't make much sense."

"I think it makes lots of sense," Ed said in a serene diplomatic tone.

"If, you really insist on being out in Gensokyo alone, just know that you can always come to my home if you need a safe place for tonight. My name is Keine Kamishirasawa, and my house has four lanterns with a red roof, so you can find my home." Keine introduced herself. Ed replied, "I'm Ed Christensen, superclass junior explorer of the cosmos! Pleased to meet you!"

Keine cracked a slight smile, "I have no clue what that is but that sounds rather charming."

She turned the other way and said as she pulled away, "Remember, if you require a safe place, I'm always open for those in need!"

Ed made a waving gesture and Keine disappeared into the night road. He turned around and proceeded down the road with a warmer feeling in his stomach, knowing there's somewhere he can be safe in.

So far, three hours and a half had passed and the moon had started to slunk slowly beneath the horizon, where it was slowly being overtaken by a faint blue glow at the eastern edge of Gensokyo. Stars faded and Ed found it more difficult to keep his eyelids open as time went pass.

So far, Ed has a fairly decent understanding of the Human Village; it has four walls boxing in the settlement with four doors, one at each wall. One lead back to the Hakurei Shrine, the other three he currently doesn't know yet. The roads and streets were also simple and bland, it was simply laid out in a grid pattern with houses laid parallel to each other. True to her words, Keine's house had four lanterns stationed right outside the entrance of her home that illuminated the bright red roof of the building.

Despite the straightforward layout of the village, Ed somehow managed to stumble back to the entrance of the village twenty times. It was admittedly rather embarrassing, though he laughed it off as usual.

It had brought his thoughts to how he phased through the door, though; as far as he know, he wasn't related to that one cartoon hero who can turn ghost and phase through solid surfaces, and Ed was relatively sure he can't willingly turn intangible at will (if so, then Ed would've abused it from hell to back), so how did he got to the other side of the door?

It was an admittedly curious case, though it wasn't one Ed was in any rush to answer though, so he had pushed the question to the back of his mind for now, and he continued his self-guided tour of the Human Village.

An hour has passed, and what resembling the start of the day was becoming more and more apparent; the eastern edge of the sky had grew a lighter shade of blue with a faint inner glow of orange as people start to emerge from their home to start their jobs. Ed's eyelids grew heavy and he had started to actually try to keep them open; a veritable challenge, considering his legs started to grow more reluctant to do what he wanted to do.

Ed yawned drowsily and raised his hand to his mouth, smacking his mouth noisily as he started to trudge back the other way after he walked to a dead end. His right hand started the motion of raising up to his eyes to check the time, but it was already a task to just walk in a straight path at this point, so Ed had stopped the movement in favor of moving somewhere else to recuperate and gain his energy for the day.

As he walked down the path to where the gate leading to the Hakurei Shrine is, some villagers finally took notice of him and his presence, casting curious sidelong looks at him without turning their heads. They quickly ignored him soon afterwards though, after seeing him simply (and literally) dragged his legs behind him in an attempt to get to somewhere he can sleep.

Ed, in turn, ignored them as he walked towards the now opened gate leading out from the Human Village and up the mound where the Hakurei Shrine sat upon, flanked with two lightly armored guards.

The guards tightened their spears as Ed slowly approached them. They had good reasons to be wary of Ed after all; number one, he was dressed rather oddly, so he didn't look too unlike a youkai. Number two, with the way how his head was hanged so flaccidly down and how he slowly lumbered towards then, Ed had looked somewhat threatening.

Ed stumbled awkwardly pass the two men like a drunken and unbalanced man, trying his best to keep balance and his hand grasped onto one of their spears. The guard made a surprised exclaimation and attempted to tugged it back. Ed stumbled unevenly and, as though he was fed up, wrenched the spear out of his hands with some effort.

"Gaah~..." Ed slurred with a dumb look on his face, limping weakly as he used the spear he took as a walking stick and walked up the path leading to the grove before the Hakurei Shrine.

The two men looked at each other awkwardly, with a mild expression of, 'What just happened' on their face.

Ed slowly walked through the forest sleepily, now only with a quarter of consciousness to help guide him through the shady forest. He had faceplanted on the ground quite a number of times, so his knees had been turned a dirty brownish in color. He had also walked into trees a couple times too, knocking surprised birds out of their slumber and into the skies.

Ed's eyelids closed as though they were the aperture of a camera, flipping between open and shut at random intervals. The spear slipped out of his hands and clattered onto the grounds, though he didn't payed it any notice. Ed took a deep, rattling breath that sounded like window blinds in a strong wind in an attempt to stay on his feet.

Ed eventually found the stone stairs that lead up to the shrine, though in his exhaustion, it seemed far taller than he had expected it to be. He weakly gulped and planted his left foot on to the first step, and then the right on the second.

At this point, Ed was as good as asleep, so the only thing that even propelled him up the stairs was his subconscious desire to climb the stairs.

It felt like an eternity to scale the mountainous stairs, and it was torture every step of the way. Ed was so exhausted and sleep-deprived at the halfway mark that he had resorted to using his hands to climb up the stairs, scratching up his palms and smearing a tiny bit of blood over the stone stairs.

After what felt like lifetimes of nothing but struggles, Ed finally made it through the red archway of the Hakurei Shrine.

And fell immediately onto his face.

It was irresistible, the desire to close his eyes, and his chest felt like it was made out of lead and collapsing like a burning house. Ed coughed harshly and it only made the peaceful blackness of slumber even more appealing.

"Get up, don't fall asleep here, c'mon, get up—" before he could finish his thoughts, Ed fell asleep on the spot, with arms spread out like the addition sign.

Not Ed adopting the decimal system.

Jack's Notes

I'm fucking exhausted, it's, like 2 a.m. where I live, my birthday's coming up, and I need to finish my homework ASAP.

Anyways, here's the anticipated Chapter 7! Sorry for months-long delay in getting this one out; I got a severe case of writer's block and I was working on a new story during that time (I won't tell you what it is, it's under wraps right now but I'll release it once me and my co-writer manage to get half of it finished). Nothing new to notify right now, just the same news as always except for one thing. I'm going on vacation on the 8th of next month, so I can't really guarantee an update during most of Febuary, but I'll see what I can do. Also, it'll be really helpful if you can give this chapter a review; I'm really proud of this one and it'll be nice to get some feedback.

Anyways, until next time, bye bye!