And then I realized that I really should update this…

Len's P.O.V

Of all the girls, there's Rapunzel, Alice, Belle, Cinderella, Goldilocks, Snow White. But no, life just hates me.

"So…we're all late…" Gumi smiled, "And now you're sitting beside Len…In class…For the rest of your school life…Which is probably going to end after the story crisis is done with…Which is probably forever…Which means in class you're going to be stuck here forever with Len…am I correct?"

"Gumi, shut the hell up." Rin snared.

"I agree," I immediately added in.

"You shut the hell up too." Rin glared at me.

…Okay.

Rinto snickered from behind, "Rinny and Lenny sitting on a tree, K-I-"

"-L-L-I-N-G, which is what I'm going to do to you if you don't shut up." Rin growled.

"What is your problem with Len anyway? He's a good guy." Gumi cut in.

"See, even she says that." I stared at Rin's frowning face.

"He's harmless, he's weak, he's kind, he's useless in most situations, but would make a good guy friend," Gumi added.

…That was unnecessary.

"Whatever," Rin rolled her eyes, "Teacher's here."

I looked towards the door, and sure enough, a man just ran in here.

The man had purple hair, long enough to become the male version of Rapunzel. He wore lab coat and glasses that made him look like a mad scientist. His face was red from running and he panted like he just escaped the zombie apocalypse. (Which sometimes happens in this place…)

"Stupid knights and dragons…Next thing you know Creas and Neo would be burning castles down…God damn it…"

…I have no idea what he's talking about.

"Okay, class." The man sighed, "My name is Kamui Gakupo, otherwise you would know me as Merlin. I will be your teacher for the rest of your life, as we are all immortal unless someone sticks a knife through our organs, but that probably won't happen. Now, I will be reading out your names and your partner."

People started whispering, calling out their friend's name, staring at their crush, etc.

"Which have already been arranged by the school," Gakupo smiled. Most of them groaned and sighed loudly, "Oh, I love seeing the disappointments on your face."

He took out a piece of paper. Sorry, I take it back, it wasn't a 'paper', it was a long ass scroll.

"Team No.22, Rinto Bigna and Lenka Bigna."

The twins high-fived. Of course they were going to be in the same team, they did everything together.

"Team No.94, Miku Zoloto and Gumi Blanka."

Miku…I've heard of that name before…who was she again? Gold something….

"Team No.41, Kaito Vulpo and Meiko Xiao."

Oh shit, we have a China warrior in this class, someone help Kaito…

He kept on reading. (I wasn't paying attention, there were these names with very strange alphabets, I swear there was an Indian busta rhyme involved.)

"Team No.66, Len Lykos and Rin Rubeno."

Rin's P.O.V

Hmm, maybe I didn't hear that right, let me just clean my ears for a while and stare at Len's incredibly shocked face that is filled with despair. So, excuse me, what did you say? I'm going to pair up with Len, oh, okay; of course, Len is going to be my partner for every school project, experiments, homework, hunting and et cetera. Of course, of course, let me just scream internally that there is NO WAY IN HELL I'M GOING TO DO THAT.

You have to be kidding me. Of all the people, there's that one prince (Apparently, I just found out he's in another class.), there's generals and loyal servants, there's these animals and wizards, and I get teamed up with Len the wolf.

"No, no, please, this is not happening," Len muttered.

Somehow he's looks more hopeless than I am.

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G," Lenka smiled.

"What am I going to do? I can't team up with you!" Len looked at me.

"Does it look like I want to team up with you? You're the most worthless, useless, purposeless, weakest person in this class."

"Well, you look like a nerd with nothing but anger issues; you can't even get to your grandmother's house safely without almost dying!"

"You can't even kill three pigs, and the only reason you got to eat those lambs were because the boy was a lying shit that deserves it."

"That wasn't even me! I'm not the only wolf in this place! And at least I almost killed you and your pea-brain!"

That's it.

I pulled out a small little knife that I kept in my pocket, "Come and fight me, you useless paperclip."

His claws grew; his fangs were sharp like a vampire, "Bring it on, loser."

"Stop it!" Gakupo slammed his fist into our desk, breaking it into two.

Both of us stopped, then glared at him.

"Yeah, we should stop," Len laughed a little, "Let's kill him first."

"Agreed," I smiled and nodded at Len, ready to point my knife at Gakupo's throat.

"…Please ignore me and continue." Gakupo backed up.

"How come you two are cooperating this time?" Gumi asked with a sly smile.

Both of us ignored her, then I suggested, "How about we fight somewhere else?"

"How about a challenge, the last time we fought, we burned down a bridge."

"Tonight, first one to climb to the top of the tower wins."

Len was puzzled for a while, "Which tower?"

"I'll tell you later," I smiled. Ignoring Gakupo who's trying to give us a detention, a bunch of eyes staring at us and the girl with twin pigtails who is smiling at me.

I'm going to win, and I'm going to get this hairball to beg for mercy.

I took a shower, then proceed to sharpen my weapons. They would come in handy later. I smiled at the dagger my dad gave me, 'Quick slit in the throat, silent and deadly kill. Protect your friends with this, protect the ones you treasure.'

Too bad he couldn't see me use it.

Just like everyone else I treasured.

Len's P.O.V

I was sharpening my claws when I saw a picture that fell into the back of my piano. There were cobwebs everywhere, dust bunnies so big I almost thought black fairies invaded my house.

I picked up the picture.

It was a picture of Rin and me.

Looking at it, it was as if Rin never grew up, she had the same face, the same eyes, the same beautiful hair.

But not the same smile.

We were best friends before. Weren't we?

Yeah, I remembered.

The first time we met, it was because she didn't want me to eat her grandma. I never wanted to eat her anyway, the meat's probably sour and hard to bite, a dinosaur might taste better.

But that was how the story must go.

So instead, we decided to fake everything. I was eight, she was seven, I could just tell the adults that I ate her and they would probably believe me. After that, we go out every day secretly and played in the woods.

She would run to me and give me muffins, we role-played as video game characters, we climbed trees every day, we stole from the witch every time we were hungry, we played, we laughed…

And she forced me to dressed in maid dresses, she tried to get me to swim in winter, she baked apple pies that tasted like beef for no reason, she invented a mini flamethrower and lend it to me, she made me an iron dagger so that we could go hunting, she insisted that I learn ballad just so she could see a wolf dance…

Then one day, she decided to leave me, she mocked me, insulted me, completely ignored me.

And I still don't know what I did wrong.

I miss her.

I opened the drawer and stared at the iron dagger she gave me, it was roughly made, not exactly the best dagger, but it was hard as diamonds, there were three alphabets carved on the hilt.

ILU, apparently according to Rin, it stands for I loathe you.

Typical Rin.

I slid the dagger into my pocket. Then I felt my phone vibrate.

There was a message by Rin: Rapunzel, when Ella runs.

Rapunzel's tower, when midnight strikes.

I'm going to get that girl begging for life.

There are a lot of references in here.