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When Yuu first landed in Twisted Wonderland, they immediately realized that they were way out of their element. Who could blame them? Magic was now very much real, they were now responsible for a fire-breathing cat, and they dormed with a bunch of rather chill ghosts. But despite all this, Yuu continued to try to blend into the new world they were essentially isekaied into. They made friends (and enemies), visited different cities and tried all sorts of food, and even learned about the history of this world. However, they soon learned the greatest lesson of all when it came to the students of Night Raven College; despite being a group of stubborn, top notch mages, at the end of the day, they were still human(ish).
And still susceptible to human fear.
It had started with Riddle.
A week or so before his untimely overblot, Yuu had been assigned to receive history tutoring from the heartslabyul housewarden. In the middle of their session about the Human-Fae war, a student walked in with a math assignment for him to check over when he got the chance. As Yuu began some of the review work Riddle assigned them, Riddle began going through the math assignment and had nearly fallen out of his chair.
"Is something wrong, Riddle?" Yuu asked, looking up from their work. The housewarden had a look in his eyes like he had witnessed a war firsthand.
"This is...atrocious..." he mumbled to no one, "There's so many errors I don't even know where to begin..."
"It can't be that bad..." Yuu tried to reassure him. The prefect looked at the assignment and- Oh, it can be that bad. How did someone make it all the way to high school and not know how to add?!
With each page of the assignment Riddle went through, his despair grew more and more. After the third page, Yuu took pity and decided to check it over for him while he checked their history assignment. However, Yuu did make a note of the fact that Riddle was terrified by wildly inaccurate math.
Which came in great help, a week later, when Riddle overblotted at the Unbirthday Party. Yuu, along with the rest of their friends in Heartslabyul, were doing their best to keep Riddle busy until the headmage returned with help. (That's if he ever came back).
"At this rate, we're gonna run the risk of overblotting ourselves," Trey spoke up, turning another wave of thorns into playing cards.
"If he was focused on one of us, the rest of us could knock him out instead of being stuck on defense," Deuce was shielding Yuu from the brunt of the damage while Grim burnt down anything that got close.
"Ummm, that would absolutely get you killed," Cater responded. "Plus Rids seems deadset on getting rid of all of us right now so we wouldn't be able to distract him if we tried."
"Seriously? You guys have known him for years and theres nothing that could distract him? Like couldn't we scare him or something? Pretend to be his mom so he freezes?"
"Acey this isn't exactly the hiccups, y'know."
"Also I don't think any of us could imitate her craziness well enough," Trey added.
"Wait, Ace, that's it!" Yuu exclaimed much to the others confusion. They ran to the front of the battle and yelled with all their might: "FIVE PLUS FIVE IS NINETY NINE!"
Riddle paused his onslaught and just stared at Yuu, confused as to what they had just said.
"Guys, go!" Ace hissed to his dormmates, who were also confused. "While prefect's distracting them!"
"Thats what you taught me last week right?!" Yuu hollered. Riddle's face was redder than ever.
"I WOULD NEVER TEACH SUCH INCORRECT MATH!"
"WELL YOU DID! ALSO THAT ONE PLUS ONE IS WINDOW!"
"WINDOW ISN'T EVEN A REAL NUMBER!" Riddle screamed hysterically. Yuu continued to scream incorrect math equations at Riddle, who continued to argue back, forgoing attacking altogether, and nearly in tears.
He never saw Ace coming until the freshman was right behind him, knocking him out with one of the Unbirthday Party chairs.
Leona's irrational fear was much more difficult to discern, especially since the only thing he did was sleep. However, there had been a couple instances where the prefect would see him rushing back towards campus, a haunted look on his face. Yuu, one day, decided to see what had spooked him so much, only to find a student with a large purple hat and one of the worst bob-cuts they had ever seen, just watching him run. Once Leona was inside, the student turned their attention towards Yuu.
This was how Yuu met Rook Hunt, and learned of his fascination with beastmen (also that nearly all of Savanaclaw actively went out of their way to avoid him).
So when Leona overblotted and nearly dried everyone's insides, Yuu knew exactly who to call. They rushed towards Riddle and borrowed his phone sending the hunter a quick text.
"Roi de Lions, I must say, this wild, untamed look is absolutely magnifique for you!" Rook hopped down from the bleachers, landing right in front of Leona and his phantom. Leona paused his onslaught.
"What are you doing here?!" He growled.
"I was told by Monsieur Trickster that you had taken to a new style and I was beside myself with curiosity!" Rook smiled. "I never would have imagined getting to see you this close!" Rook took a step forward, Leona took a step back.
"Riddle, come with me," Ace whispered to his housewarden. Riddle gave him a confused look. "Come on, while hat guy has him distracted."
"What is it that we're doing?" he whispered back.
"What I did to you." Despite being more confused than before (everyone was sworn to secrecy about how Ace ended the fight with a metal chair to the head) Riddle followed Ace.
"Stay back or I'll turn you into sand!" Leona threatened Rook.
"Ah, try as you might but you would not be able to hit me. Nothing will stop my pursuit for beauty!" Rook reached out to grab Leona, but the savanaclaw housewarden swiftly moved out of the way, right to where Riddle and Ace were waiting for him. As Rook continued to speak of Leona's animalistic beauty, Ace swung Riddle's scepter right at Leona's head while Riddle conjured a boulder big enough to break the jar on his phantoms head.
(Later on, in the infirmary, Yuu would add children to the list of fears when they watched Leona try, and fail, to escape Crown Prince Cheka).
Jade and Floyd were all too eager to help out with Yuu's plan. As they emerged from the museum, photo in hand, the prefect revealed their plan to the twins; as well as their suspicions that Azul would be in an overblot state when they all returned to the dorm (not that Yuu would blame him; he must have had over a thousand contracts in that safe).
So Yuu appealed to the twins, as their multiple stakeouts of Azul bared no fruit in terms of information that they could use to stop the octavinelle housewarden in his tracks. Jade and Floyd exchanged looks, then donned matching grins that only meant chaos. They turned back towards the group of freshmen.
"Floyd and I can distract Azul long enough for you to incapacitate him, prefect" Jade stated. "After all, we know him better than anyone."
"Wait so now we have to work with them?!" Grim said, exasperated.
"Looks like its our only choice," Jack mumbled. Just as Ace was about to protest the idea, the anemones faded from his and the others heads.
"We don't have time to come up with a different plan," Yuu stated before turning back towards the twins, "Do not make me regret this."
"Don't worry your little heads about it," Floyd cackled happily, "Scaring Azul is our specialty!"
They arrived to an ocean of ink and wet sand, courtesy of Leona. Azul was in the middle of the ink cloud, a terrible concoction of his own ink and blot. The freshmen went to back up Leona and Ruggie against the phantom while Jade and Floyd jumped right into the ink cloud.
"Y'know, you're being a very big crybaby right now," Floyd spoke up first. "You haven't thrown a tantrum this bad since fourth grade when that one shark mer knocked over your pot."
"I thought we agreed not to bring that up!" Azul hissed at them. The ink cloud surrounding them was slowly beginning to dissipate.
"Honestly, Floyd," Jade shook his head in mock disappointment. "That was nothing compared to when he spilled ink on one of his contracts and cried about it for an hour."
"Jade not you too!"
"Oh yeah!" Floyd cackled, "That was funny! Wait, Jade, I got an idea!" He leaned towards his brother and whispered a single word. Jade's eyes went wide in realization before his whole expression morphed into one of excitement. He nodded and Jade took a step forward, shielding his brother.
"What are you two scheming?" Azul asked, trident poised at them to strike.
"You think so little of us, Azul," Jade placed a hand over his heart, "We were just trying to decide when to show you what we brought from the Great Sea." The vice housewarden stepped to the side just as Floyd finished his spell, revealing a baby dolphin staring up at Azul with its beady eyes. Azul shrieked, scrambling backwards. The ink cloud had fully dissipated by now, letting everyone present watch the scene unfold.
"Why would you bring one of those creatures here?!"
"Floyd just wanted a new friend, is all," Jade smiled.
"Yeah, Zuzu! I'm naming them Melody!" Floyd piped up. He gently nudged the baby dolphin forward, "Go on, say hi to Zuzu!" Melody the baby dolphin eagerly swam forward, trilling excitedly.
"Should I go for it?" Ace whispered to Yuu, who nodded in response.
"Take Ruggie with you." Ace pulled Ruggie aside and the two of them began their part of the plan.
"No! Stay back!" Azul's voice went an entire octave higher. He shakily pointed his trident at the baby dolphin.
"Surely you wouldn't obliterate such a small, defenseless creature," Jade said.
"When its a creature that grows up to kill me, then I will gladly wipe it off the map!" The trident glowed with power. However, Floyd's illusion of a dolphin was never hit, as Ruggie smashed the head of the phantom while Ace used a broken table leg to knock Azul out.
"Aw, I wanted to do that, Crabby!" Floyd threw his hands up in frustration.
"Sorry," Ace grinned at him, "Headshots are my specialty."
(As it would turn out, Octo mers were still afraid of their natural predators, much like their normal world counterpart, such as a dolphin. So when Azul woke up and saw Floyd's illusion still present, he shrieked and promptly passed back out. )
Yuu had never been more glad for their trip to the Scalding Sands than in this particular moment. Despite the wonderful memories with Tsunotarou and the amazing food they tasted while they were there, the most valuable thing Yuu had gained from that trip was information. If the group had never met Jamil's sister, Najma, then they would have never known about Jamil's extreme fear of bugs. (Though there was a small chance that they could have coaxed it out of Kalim). And after everything he ad put them through this winter break, the ramshackle prefect was all too ready to exact revenge. However, Yuu, Grim, and the residents of Octavinelle dorm now faced another problem.
"So what's going to stop Jamil from setting the whole dorm on fire like he did the vendors stand?" Grim tactlessly asked. Floyd would be on the ground laughing if not for the fact him and Jade were swimming through a man-made river back towards the dorm.
"I think the real issue is, how are we going to find a bug right now?" Kalim asked, "After the last incident, Jamil made sure that we never had a bug problem again."
"Plus I would wager he could see through an illusion of one," Jade commented.
"Unlike someone we know..." Floyd singsonged.
"I do believe we agreed never to bring that up," Azul said sharply.
"Wait I wanna know this story though," Kalim pouted.
"I'll tell you later," Yuu answered much to Azul's dismay, "But you have a point about the bug thing. Any chance there's some in the sand?"
"Even if we employed that tactic, we'd be here all night looking for one," Jade spoke up. "Which puts Jamil and the rest of the dorm at risk."
"Although there might be one closer than we think," Azul said, locking eyes with Grim. He grabbed the feline and ran a gloved hand through his fur. "Just as I suspected."
"What is it?" Kalim asked.
"I figured Crowley would never foot the bill to groom Grim so there would be a chance of finding a flea in his fur." He turned towards Kalim, "How would you rate your growth magic?"
"Pretty decent, I think."
"I see where you're going with this," Yuu spoke up.
"Can we please stop picking at my fur now?!"
The five of them stood in front of Jamil, ragged from the fight against the mob of students that intercepted them before they could face the Scarabian Vice himself.
"Honestly, you people don't learn!" Jamil huffed. "I tried to be nice and spare you once but it seems mercy is wasted on the likes of you." The blot snakes that now made up his hair hissed at them.
"Jamil..." Kalim started.
"Any last words? Maybe I might reconsider if you get on your knees and-"
"HOLY SHIT WHAT KIND OF BUG IS THAT?!" Yuu screamed, interrupting Jamil's tirade. Jamil froze.
A bug.
A bug.
There was a bug was in the goddamn dorm.
"You're bluffing to buy yourself time," he refused to look behind him; because if he did and saw that revolting creepy crawly skittering about, he would probably cry. Or set the place on fire. Or both.
"No, Jamil!" Kalim spoke up, there really is one!" Jade nodded in agreement.
"I could kill it for you if you wish," Azul began to step forward but a look from Jamil halted him.
"Not another step," he warned them. The standoff lasted for approximately three seconds, which at that point the magically grown flea now moved in front of Jamil and the others. Jamil paused. Azul and Kalim paused. Floyd pulled out his phone and started recording.
"WHAT KIND OF BUG IS THAT?!" Jamil echoed Yuu's earlier sentiment as he attempted to burn the flea to a fine crisp. However, the flea was a nimble little thing, dodging all of Jamil's spells as if it predicted his movements.
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE ALREADY?!" He yelled at the flea like it had murdered his family.
"Hey Jade," Floyd tossed him his phone. "Take this for a sec." Jade obliged, recording the scene in Floyd's place.
"Kalim, be ready to cast Oasis Maker once Floyd gets to Jamil," Yuu said softly. Kalim nodded in acknowledgement. After a particularly large plume of fire, Jamil stopped to take a breath.
"Did I...did I get it?"
"Uh, Jamil..." Yuu began. "It's on your hat." Jamil screamed, brandishing his blotted pen and pointing it at himself. Just as he was about to set his hat (and proxy, himself) on fire, Floyd knocked him out with a clean hit to the back of the head. Yuu and Grim decided to tag team the phantom and break it using any piece of intact furniture they could find. Kalim immediately cast Oasis Maker to put out the fires while Azul stared incredulously at Floyd.
"Don't give me that look," he shrugged, "only reason I didn't do it to you was because Crabby beat me to it."
(Floyd showed the video to the entire basketball team after winter break. While Jamil was thoroughly embarrassed, Ace complained about Floyd stealing his job.)
Despite staying together for about a month, Yuu realized they barely knew anything about the inhabitants of Pomefiore Dorm. (Though there were a few close calls with Jamil and some bugs). So when Vil very nearly killed the lead singer of Twisted Wonderland's version of BTS, Yuu had to admit, they were surprised. What they weren't surprised about, however, was the fact he overblotted immediately after; the stress of everything finally getting to him toppled with the crushing guilt of nearly killing someone.
Although, whereas Yuu only lived with Vil for a month, Epel had been living with him all year, and knew exactly how to get under his skin. So while Rook and Kalim took the brunt of his attacks, the freshman began doing what they do best, getting on Vil's nerves.
"Men should not be wearin' no makeup," he hollered, "It's too girly for guys like us!"
"After everything I've taught you, you're still assigning genders to inanimate objects?!" Vil snapped at him.
"Ya didn't teach me jack shit! Hell I coulda learned alla' that from Magicam if I wanted to!" Deuce caught on immediately.
"Oh yeah, Cater senpai was showing me a video on there! some guy got a bunch of makeup, smushed it together in a mixing bowl and used it as a self care mask. That's what we use it for, right?"
"NO! THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU USE IT FOR, YOU IDIOTS!" Vil screeched at them.
"Really?" Kalim asked, completely oblivious to their sarcasm, "I've done it a few times and my skin feels great!"
"KALIM, YOU'RE JUST AN IDIOT IN GENERAL!" Jamil choked on his laughter, but continued his task of keeping stage debris from hitting them.
"Even skincare is girly! We should be proud to look so rugged and manly!" Epel continued.
"WELL THAT ISN'T THE CASE FOR EVERY MAN AND YOU KNOW IT!" Vil shouted back.
"OH REALLY?! AM AH GONNA TAKE THE WORDS OF A GUY WHO PAINTS HIMSELF LIKES HE'S IN THE CIRCUS EVERYDAY?!" Epel yelled back, a wide grin plastered on his face. Vil, face red in anger, launched a volley of attacks at Epel and Deuce, who dodged them like it was second nature. Deuce summoned a cauldron that sent the phantom crashing to the ground.
"Ace!" Jamil hollered from his position on the magic carpet. He held a hand out to the freshman, "Get on!"
"YER A BIG OL' IDJIT, Y'HEAR?!" Epel taunted his housewarden.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!"
"I'M THROUGH WITH ALLA THIS DARLIN' CRAP! IM GONNA BECOME A BIG MUSCLE MAN AND PLAY SPELLDRIVE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!"
"YOU WON'T HAVE MUCH OF A LIFE LEFT IF YOU KEEP SPOUTING SUCH NONSENSE!"
"YEAH? YOU GONNA STOP ME?!" Jamil and Ace stealthily got off the magic carpet just as Vil readied another attack. Epel then decided to unleash his ultimate move. He brandished a royal purple bag, inscribed with Pomefiore's insignia.
"HOW DO YOU HAVE MY MAKEUP BAG?!"
"HOW'S ABOUT YOU STOP THIS FIRST!" He set the bag on fire and tossed it to the ground.
"YOU INSUFFERABLE LITTLE-" Ace nailed him with a piece of debris, knocking him out cold, while Rook and Jamil destroyed the phantom's head.
"So why do you have his makeup bag?" Yuu asked Epel.
"Was borrowin' some of it. Also his makeup wasn't in it when I burnt it, I stuffed it full of rocks."
"Smart."
(Ace proceeded to refer to Epel as a "Big Muscle Man" for the duration of the year, only stopping when Epel nailed him in the head with a spelldrive disc.)
Idia Shroud was known for three things: being a shut in, being the older brother of NRC's resident technomatic humanoid, and being a massive gamer. So when it was revealed that it was his family's organization that had kidnapped everyone who had ever overblotted and Grim, as well as put some of their closest friends in the infirmary, Yuu craved revenge. They stormed over to Ignihyde dorm, taking advantage of the ongoing chaos at NRC, and went straight for Idia's room.
The setup in here was massive; a large bookshelf filled to the brim with mangas sat next to the most advanced advanced looking computer Yuu had ever seen. Ortho's bed was across from his own (though it was more akin to a charging pod than a bed). The ramshackle prefect was overwhelmed with choices as to what to grab, until they saw it.
Yuu grinned and reached for the object in question and placed itin their school bag. Then the prefect reached for the computer.
(Perhaps everyone here was starting to rub off on them).
One annoyingly long trek, two titan fights, and no Grims later, Yuu found themselves face to face with an overblot Idia, with Ortho as his phantom. Riddle and Leona had both dealt heavy amounts of damage to them (With Riddle's hair turning white and Leona very nearly passing out) leaving Yuu and the rest of Pomefiore to deal the finishing blow.
"Monsieurs!" Rook hollered over the groans of the phantoms, "please distract Roi de Ta Chambre while we aim the Thunder Spear."
"Don't worry," Yuu smirked, "I got this!"
"Ah will back them up!" Epel boldly declared. Yuu rushed towards the gate, where Idia and Ortho were climbing back out of for the third time. Idia saw the two freshmen and let out an arrogant laugh.
"They really ran out of fodder to send our way so they sent two utter noobs?"
"Well at least we can easily wipe the floor with them, Idy!" Ortho piped up.
"You could," Yuu slowly removed the school bag they had held onto this entire time and opened it. "But if you do, you risk damaging this along with me." Idia's proud demeanor dropped as the ramshackle prefect brandished a set of agonizingly familiar books and DVDs.
"Is that..."
"Your Sled Over Heels collection?" Yuu grinned maliciously. "Why yes, yes it is."
"Oh yeah," Epel realized, "Ya mentioned that it was your favorite when we visited my hometown."
"But that's not all." Yuu pulled out a phone. "I got some help from Cater. He's currently at your computer, waiting for a message from me. If I don't respond to him, saying that I've left the island, he deletes every save file he can find."
"You wouldn't," Idia tried to call their bluff.
"Would I?" Yuu nodded at Epel, who wordlessly conjured a fireball. He brought it closer and closer to the set while Idia watched. Eventually, Idia couldn't take it anymore.
"STOP!"
"Are you really going to stop everything for some DVDs and manga, Idy?" Ortho huffed, "We can get more after they're gone." Idia hesitated.
"Yeah, but then he would grind through so many levels to regain his rankings. Would sure be a shame if MuscleRed stopped playing with him since he was so underleveled now."
"Wha was it ya called us?" Epel grinned, "You'd be a total noob at that point." Idia looked between Ortho and the prefect. However, he was saved from having to make a choice by Rook and Vil blasting him and Ortho back with the Thunder Spear.
"Wait- shit they're going to fall in!" Yuu exclaimed.
"Not when he has a lot to answer for!" Vil rushed forward to catch them.
"Damn, Ah wanted to nail 'em in the head like Ace normally does," Epel grumbled as Rook helped Vil out.
"Well you could slap them awake instead," Yuu suggested.
"It ain't the same and ya know it."
"Yeah, it really isn't."
(Yuu and Epel ended up reading through the manga collection the entire ride back. While Yuu remained unfazed, Epel was not ready for the amount of yuri content in the manga.)
Yuu had picked up on the pattern after Azul's overblot and had been dreading this moment ever since.
Malleus Draconia. Their Tsunotarou.
Yuu always knew there would come a moment where they would have to face him in a overblot fight, but no matter how much Yuu tried to predict the outcome, there were too many unknowns they were working with.
He wasn't someone so easily fazed or scared; being alive for nearly two hundred years does that to someone, after all. Plus he had put pretty much everyone on the island to sleep. If it wasn't for Silver's quick thinking, they probably wouldn't have had a fighting chance to begin with. After rescuing them from that weird little house, Silver insisted on grabbing Sebek and Lilia so they had more of an advantage.
Now here they were, trekking through Lilia's dream in the world of Briarland during his days as a general (how this was the happiest time in Lilia's life, Yuu would not understand). However, Yuu found themself learning more about their little group as they continued along. The most interesting being Silver and Sebek's irrational fear of Lilia's cooking.
"Is it really that bad?" Grim asked, his mouth full of food.
"Mouth closed Grim," Yuu reminded him.
"As talented as he is, Master Lilia's weakpoint was always within the kitchen," Sebek answered quietly, careful to make sure the general couldn't hear them.
"You did just see him attempt to eat a frog, right?" Silver pointed out.
"Yeah but that's no big deal," Grim shrugged.
"For a creature like you, maybe," Sebek shot back. Before the two could get into a full blown argument, Yuu spoke up.
"So would you two say that Malleus is also scared of Lilia's cooking?" the two of them nodded.
"He experienced it before any of us," Sebek explained.
"He used to sneak us out to the castle after Lilia's supper to make sure we actually ate food," Silver added. "Why the question?"
"I have a plan. But we need to wake up Lilia first."
After what amounted to weeks in Briarland and what would probably need years of therapy to work through, they had succeeded in waking up Lilia and Yuu shared their master plan. While Lilia was a tad bit confused about how his cooking would help the situation, Silver and Sebek began to plan in case this accidentally killed Malleus.
Yuu had followed Lilia's instructions in making Malleus a nice layered farewell cake and was now merely waiting for Malleus to come and realize they were in fact awake. Fortunately, they didn't have to wait for long, as Malleus appeared in front of them, angry beyond belief.
"You really wish to leave this world?" He snarled at Yuu and Grim. "You would rather go to a world where you'll wither away?" Malleus faced Yuu "Where we'll never see you again?"
"And you'd risk never seeing us again when your magic eventually runs out?" Yuu shot back.
"My dear child of man, my magic will not run out for a very long time." While Yuu tried to reason with Malleus, Lilia snuck away to grab his cake. With Silver and Sebek's help, he wheeled it in while Malleus was distracted.
"Hey Malleus!" Lilia greeted him. "How about we all calm down and have some cake?" Malleus went paler than he already did when he first overblotted.
"Ah... did you make that cake, Lilia?"
"I sure did!" Lilia smiled. He sliced a piece using his weapon and passed it to Malleus. "Have a slice!"
"I believe I will pass. However, you need to stop disrupting my goals here. All of you."
"Father... I think Malleus is rejecting your food." Silver said, trying his best not to laugh.
"YOU WOULD REJECT MASTER LILIAS KINDNESS?!" Sebek hollered. Grim put a paw over his ears to block out Sebek's booming voice.
"tsk. tsk," Lilia tutted, " How unruly. Looks like I'll just have to do things the old fashioned way." He surged forward, a spoonful of cake in hand, and tried to force feed Malleus. Malleus ducked and moved to the side. It was like Beans Day all over again; Lilia and Malleus ducked and dodged one another, somehow none of the cake fell off the spoon.
"Human!" Sebek hissed at Yuu, "I believe now would be ideal for the second part of you plan."
"Eat up Malleus!"
"I refuse!"
"You're being childish!"
"Lilia, your cake is likely to take years off my life!"
"It would not! Its both delicious and nutritional!" Yuu grabbed one of the cake pans and entered the fray, with Silver and Sebek at their back. After many graceful maneuvers, Lilia cornered Malleus.
"Ah," Lilia grinned, "Haven't had to move like that in a while."
"I am sorry about this, Lilia, but I refuse to lose you again," Malleus began to recast his spell, "And I refuse to die at the hands of your cake-" With Silver's instruction, Yuu whacked the prince hard and precisely enough to knock him out. As the fake reality faded away and everyone else began to wake up, Sebek stealthily dropped the rest of Lilia's cake into the phantom's jar shaped head; causing it to explode.
"Looks like they managed without you," Deuce nudged Ace.
"Damn, this is the second time in a row!"
"Was my cake really that bad?"
(Yuu managed to grab a bite from the cake when nobody was looking and quickly added Lilia's cooking to their own list of fears.)
The students of Night Raven College all had their own irrational fears and pet peeves; all of which Yuu employed when facing them in battle. However, while the students' fears were used against them in dire situations, the ramshackle prefect knew that such an ability could be applied elsewhere.
Such as on their Headmage.
Yuu sat in one of the office chairs, cross-legged and with Grim snuggled in their lap, happily watching as Professor Crewel tore into Crowley for having Yuu deal with these overblots with little to no support.
(After all, the only thing Headmage Crowley fears is the wrath of Professor Crewel).