Hello Everyone, TomboyJessei13 here. I'm really sorry if this took too long or if it looked like crap, I was running out of time because of the release of the Heavenly Yard novel coming out, not to mention suffering from a major writer's block that I had to get JustBmPLove to help me. I hope that you can like it though, if not then that's understandable.

Chapter 18

Return of the Emperor

Sateriasis began to open his eyes, the first thing he saw was a ceiling coated in sunlight. He turned his head and saw that not only his roommates are nowhere to be found, the clock on Gallerian's side seems to indicate that it's almost 8:30 in the morning, it is already the next day. He sat up on his bed, feeling his stomach has settled down since eating the lasagna Gallerian made, and there were no traces of having a hangover, which means that he's cured of his ailments. Sateriasis got out of his bed to see if the Sinners are downstairs.

"Hello?" He asked, "Is anyone awake?"

"You up, Sateriasis?" Someone downstairs asked, it was Allen, Sateriasis when down the steps and found the Sinners in the living room, still in their sleepwear, and showing signs of a hangover. "How's your stomach and hangover, Duke?"

"Much better, thank you."

"Good to hear, there's cereal in the pantry."

"Luckyyyyyyyyyyy." Banica groaned.

"What's wrong with everyone?" Sateriasis asked.

"We have hangovers, you idiot." Nemesis snapped at him. "And Allen refuses to gives us medicine for it."

"I'm not gonna give you guys medicine because you won't learn anything if I do."

"How long are you gonna make us suffer?" Riliane asked, holding an ice pack.

"For as long as your hangover naturally lasts...which is the next 12 hours."

"You're so cruel." Margarita whined.

"That is your personal punishment for getting piss drunk and causing a ruckus and I like to keep it that way, now one of you help me put this picture up?" Gallerian wobbled his way to him and helped Allen hold up a picture of a beautiful Lucifenian countryside while Allen nailed the wall.

"Huh, who made these?" Sateriasis asked as he walked out of the kitchen, in his hands are a small plate of meat buns.

"We don't know, someone just left them on the kitchen counter addressed to us." Riliane said.

"I see." The Duke nibbled on one of them.

"I think I'll take a shower, maybe it'll make the day more bearable." Kayo sighed before heading for the stairs. Once in the bathroom, she notices something different, the room is all warm and steamy, and the mirror is fogged up with a smile drawn on it. "Who used the bathroom?" Kayo thought to herself, she then spots a bunch of bubbles on the floor under the shower curtain. Kayo opened the curtains and..."AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Hiya, Kayo, I warmed it up for you." Someone is already in the bathtub filled with tons of bubbles, and he was no stranger either, he was someone Kayo knew from the other day, the Emperor of Yingmu himself.

"JUN!? WHEN DID YOU CAME IN!?"

"Late at night, I was-"

"What's going on?" Allen asked as he entered the room. "I heard a scream and...Your Highness?"

"Hi Allen, long time no see." Jun got out and put on a towel, he then pulled the plug to let the water out.

"How did-?"

"How I got in? I went through the back door, I was so tired after my trip for political business and didn't feel like getting trampled by the welcoming community at Yingmu, so I decided to spend the night here until I'm rested up for my trip back."

"I see, but where have you slept?"

"The attic, remember I made a bed in there?"

Oh right, I've seen that you've settled in nicely , Jun." Allen looked at the tub behind Jun. "Y'know that tub was meant for relaxing, it's not suppose to have bath bubbles."

"Sorry."

~Downstairs~

The Sinners are in the kitchen still suffering, with the only exception being Sateriasis. Jun came flying down into the room in his trousers. "Hiya guys!"

"Not so loud..." Banica hissed, she then looked up and saw how it was. "Oh your Highness! You're back." The sinners perked up to see the Emperor before them and started to feel ecstatic about.

"Juuun!" Margarita called out, she got out of her seat to hug him.

"Hiiiiiii Margarita!" He hugged her tightly, only for her to loosen up slowly, groaning in pain. "Oh no did I hurt you?"

"Noooo, we got a hangover, and Allen won't give us medicine."

"It's Punishment." Allen said, crossing his arms.

"For what?"

"It's none of your concerns, Emperor."

"Well maybe my bears will do you all some good." Jun snaps his fingers, which causes giant stuffed bears from when they were in the hospital, dressed as the sinners, appeared out of thin air, floated to them.

"Hey! Our bears!" Riliane said happily, hugging her bear.

"No no nooooo." Allen whined. "Don't heal them! they're supposed to be punished!"

"Well I think that's just cruel, and I know crueler punishments." Jun said, he then snapped his fingers again which causes another bear to appear, the bear had Allen's coat, vest, dress shirt, and tie. "Here, I made you a bear." A bear landed in his arms.

"...Thanks I guess."

"Thank god, I can feel my headache fading." Gallerian said, relived as he snuggled his bear.

"That's the power of healing magic, you could say they're "Very Amazing Healing Bears"."

"Now that sounds familiar, Elluka would never shut up about that so-called "Very Amazing Octopus"." Riliane sigh while putting her hands on her face.

"Because they are amazing! Everything about them is amazing!..." Nemesis called out suddenly, she placed her fingers in her lips after that. "Strange...where did that come from?"

Later

Jun and Margarita are in the basement that has been furnished with Jakokunese furniture and flooring, it has been modified into Kayo's personal tailor shop even though she had no costumers to attend to. Margarita was looking over a book filled with ideas for a wedding. "Hmmmm, maybe we can...hm, noooo, oh how about...nooo, ummm..." Margarita seems to be having a hard time.

"Anything the matter?" Jun asked.

"I don't know what's going to look good."

"It's fine, take your time."

"I know I've already asked this, but I would be more than happy than assist with your wedding." Kayo, who was sitting by a low table with tailoring tools and fabrics, and listening to their plans, asked. "I'll even provide you a wedding dress." She held up some white fabric to her.

"Oh you don't have to, but thank you anyways."

"I'm still open of you need anything."

"Hmmm, maybe we can have some doves or maybe cranes." Jun was suggesting.

"I don't think cranes are appropriate for a wedding." Kayo said while snipping some thread. "Wait are you referring to actual cranes or paper cranes?"

"Actual cranes."

"Lets stick to the paper ones, it's safer and it brings good luck if you make a 1000 of them."

"Wouldn't that take a long time to finish?" Margarita asked.

"No prob." Jun snapped his fingers, causing a paper crane to appear. "Only 999 to go, ow, paper cut."

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, it's not as bad as the assassination attempt." The room fell silent for a while, Margarita's face began to twist up in worry.

"YOU WERE TARGETED!?"

"Yeah, but I made it out alive." Jun said as he patted Margarita's head. "It was not a good weekend for me though."

~Flashback~

In Yingmu, there stands a palace on top of a mountain overlooking the city below, and inside is a master bedroom that is enormous in size, furnished in dark red carpet, wallpapers with beautiful pictures of animals, furniture with golden lining on them, and a bed that's large enough to fill in 14 people, mahogany colored covers, sheets, and all. And in them was Jun himself, sprawled over the bed in nothing but his grey sweat pants, his butt was in the air, hugging one of his pillows in his arms, drool leaking out of his mouth, and his black hair was draped over his face.

"Knock knock knock" There was knocking at the door, that in turn made Jun stir in his bed a little. "Your Highness, it's time to get up." He heard a voice soon after, finally it made Jun wake up.

"Huuuhhh? Whose there?" Jun asked in a groggy voice while looking for his glasses, someone walked in with a small container in hand, it was his adviser, wearing a indigo blue changshan with white pants, slicked back raven hair, and a goatee, he seems to also seem to show some signs of aging so he's possibly middle aged. "Oh is that you Huang?" He feels his adviser's face.

"Yes it's me, you gave me your glasses remember?" He gave the Emperor the case.

"Oh, thank you." Jun takes the glasses out and puts them on. "Now then, what was I gonna do?"

"Well maybe do something about your wings?" Huang asked, Jun cocked an eyebrow, he looked on either side and found that they're up stiff.

"ACK! NOT AGAIN! H-HUANG GET THEM!" His adviser began bending his wings up and down one by one, before pushing his wings down, they disappeared soon after. "Phew, thank you."

Later at the main hall, his servants were waiting for him outside of his room, as he opened the door, the servants bowed, smiled at him, and said: "Good morning, Your Highness, your breakfast is just about done."

"Morning everyone, thanks for the heads up." Jun said as he walked down the hall. In the Dining hall, his lady-in-waiting was ordering the servers.

"Put the spoon on that table...NO NO NO I SAID SPOON NOT FORK!"

"Morning Mei-Ling." Jun said, the hairs on the back of her neck started to stick up in surprise.

"AHHH! OH! Oh! Oh It's you, Emperor." She calmed down afterwards. "We were just setting up breakfast for you."

"You guys don't need to try so hard, I'm find with just a bowl of Congee and Youtiao."

"Oh...well, YOU HEARD HIS HIGHNESS, BOWL OF CONGEE AND A PLATE OF YOUTIAO! ON THE DOUBLE!" Mei-Ling called out, Jun only sighed. Soon enough, breakfast was brought to him at the dining room table, he took a spoonful of congee into his mouth...and then another bite...and then another...and then another...until Jun stopped his actions, he started to shiver as his eyes became bloodshot.

"Urk...Ah!" Jun started to react slowly, then he started to cough hard into his hands, he looked at his hands as there was blood on them, he was wheezing heavily before he fell to the ground, convulsing violently.

"You're Highness?...YOUR HIGHNESS!?" His adviser called out, he went to Jun's side and started to try inducing him to vomit.

"YOU IDIOT! DON'T INDUCE VOMIT!" Mei-Ling scolded him. "WE NEED MEDICAL HELP!"

"R-Right, SOMEONE GET A DOCTOR AND FAST!"

"Who would do this to the Emperor?" A Maid asked in worry.

"THERE HE IS!" Another Maid pointed at someone running down the hall, he seems to be wearing a chef's outfit. "HE WAS THE ONE COOKING CONGEE!"

"SEIZE HIM!" Huang called out, and several guards began to chase the culprit.

"*COUGH! COUGH!* I-it hurts!" Jun coughed. "S-Someone please h-help me!" As Jun's conscience began to fade, he saw two shapes appearing above him."

"What has happened to him?" One of them asked, he looked like he had platinum hair.

"He's been poisoned by whatever our chef put inside his breakfast." His Adviser said. As Jun's eyes started to close, he saw another shape with green hair kneeled towards him.

"...Jun...Jun...how are you feeling?" A voice began to call to him, Jun opened his eyes to find himself in his own bedroom again, he looked around to see his servants and his saviors by his bedside, those saviors were old friends of his from a long time ago: Sickle and Held.

"Hazuki, Yggdra." Jun said in a shaky voice.

"Feeling better?" Sickle asked.

"A little." As he said that, he gave Sickle a handshake. "Thank you so much."

~Flashback Ends~

"...To this day we're still looking for the one who tried to kill me with poison, regardless of it all, I was lucky that the two Gods showed up to check to see how I was handling Yingmu, otherwise I wouldn't be here today."

"What a horrifying experience." Margarita said, she then looked down. "Though I'm not the one to talk considering what I did to Toragay."

"Did you find out what kind of poison the culprit used?" Kayo asked while adding the finishing touches to an article of clothing.

"We're certain that it maybe arsenic." Jun answered. "But it could be something else since I coughed up blood instead of...well you get the idea, I'm not finishing that."

"Understandable, still... it's always best to be on the look out for potential usurpers." Kayo suggested as she brushes the clothes she made. "At any event, what do you think of this dress I made?" She held up a black evening dress with a v-neck, a detachable choker with small white gems, and a slit opening on the leg area. "It's made from one of the fabrics I purchased from Yingmu."

"Woooow, Kayo it looks so beautiful!" Margarita beamed up in excitement.

"I'm impressed, Kayo." Jun brushed it with his thumb. "Who did you made this dress for?"

"I used Nemesis for size and reference so it's her dress."

"I hope she likes it." Margarita said.

"Maybe, maybe not, we should ask."

~In the Girl's Bedroom~

Nemesis was sitting on her bed setting up a metal item in her arms, she then placed an arrow in it, the arrow didn't seem to have an sharp tip on the front. She stood with a weapon in her arms: A Compound Crossbow, with a body of a Barrett REC7. "It's set up, at least according to the instructions." She said. "It's amazing what kind of Second Period tech you can find in Lunaca Labora." Nemesis said in amazement.

"Yeah but I still ain't happy with what you did." Riliane sigh irritably.

"...Let's just do this before I get angry." They went to the window that was in their room and placed the weapon by the edge. Nemesis aimed the crossbow at a bullseyes nailed to a tree near the house. "Alrighty, initiating crossbow training in 3...2-"

"Hi Nemesis!" Jun disrupted her.

"ACK!" Nemesis's concentration broke and she ended up pulling the trigger into the air inside the room, the arrow began to bounce all over the place on the walls before it flew out the window.

THUNK

"OW!" Nemesis and Riliane looked outside to see where the arrow landed and found that it hit Banica on her back while she was tending to her vegetables in Margarita's garden, she was laying face flat on the ground, an arrow sticking out of her back even though it didn't have an arrowhead, and covered in dirt.

"...Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I'll come back later." Jun said sheepishly as he slowly closed the door.

~Downstairs~

Banica groaned in pain while Sateriasis pulled on the arrow stuck in her back with two hands, though gentle, it was enough to move it. "Ahhhhgh, it huuurts."

"Don't worry, love." Sateriasis said. "It's almost out." He pulled on it again until it finally came out. "There we go." He began wiping the blood off of it. "I never thought that an arrow without a sharp tip can cause injury, you're lucky that you're a demon, otherwise you be dead by now."

"Nemesiiiiiiiiiiiis." Allen turned to Nemesis with a dark tone in his voice.

"It was an accident, Jun surprised me while I was testing the crossbow."

"I was gonna tell you that Kayo finished a outfit." Jun answered.

"Apology excepted dear...ow." Banica hissed in pain, Jun was placing his hand on her back as it began healing the arrow wound. "I knew you never attended to hurt me."

"Still, you should know better than to sneak weapons here, Nemesis." Allen snatches the crossbow from. "I'm keeping this locked up, we'll only be using weapons like these for emergencies from now on. If you want to shoot stuff with, use this." Allen took out a revolver that is entirely colored neon green. Nemesis pulled the trigger to which shoots water from it.

"Seriously? A water gun? What do you think I am? A two year old?" Nemesis asked in a irritated tone, Gallerian began snickering at her, she then shot water on his face, silencing him.

DING DONG

The doorbell rang. "I'll get it." Allen said, he got to the door to open it and saw a Middle aged Makokunese man at the door. "Can I help you?"

"Yes um, have you people heard of Emperor Jun? If you have then have you seen him? Because we were expecting him to return last night at the palace but he never showed up at all." He explained.

"Oh hey Huang!" Jun said happily upon seeing his Adviser.

"OH YOUR HIGHNESS!" Huang exclaimed, he entered the house. "Thank goodness you're alright, you never returned last night and-."

"I'm fine I just came here to rest for a bit before returning to the palace." Jun reassured him.

"So he's the adviser Jun told us." Kayo thought to herself.

"But you've could've been assassinated..." He then looked at the Sinners. "Um, excuse us." He turned the Emperor around and began whispering: "Like I said, You've could've been assassinated like the last time, and may I remind you that these neanderthals: these sinners, were the ones who decimated their own home for the sake of their own satisfactory?" The Adviser turned his head to them for a horrific surprise: Sinners, glaring at at the Adviser with very angry faces.

"WHO'D YOU CALLING NEANDERTHALS!?" Nemesis scolded in fury, she began tugging the crossbow away from Allen even though he began pulling back. "Give me that." She pushed him with her foot, that made Haung's face turned white in fear.

"It's time to go back, Your Highness!" He grabbed Jun by the arm and ran off as Nemesis chased after them.

"DON'T WORRY, HUANG MEANS NO HARM, HE'S JUST BEING PROTECTIVE, I'LL SEE YOU GUYS LATER, BAI-BAI!" Jun called out to the Sinners while being dragged away by his Adviser.

"HEEEY! STOOOOOOOP!" Allen called out to Nemesis.

"SHOW HIM WHO'S BOSS, NEMESIS!" Sateriasis called out.

"GIVE HIM A TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE!" Kayo cheered.

Meanwhile

Behemo was in the control room in his sleepwear, laughing, and eating a bowl of Froot Loops while watching the monitor. And in the monitor was Nemesis chasing the Adviser who had ticked her off. "There's nothing like watching Sinners making fools of themselves." He giggled mischievously. Just then, monitor started fizzing up, Behemo got frustrated and tried to fix it by banging it. Suddenly, the modified Black Box that was sitting on a wooden table next to Behemo across the room started to glow. And from it was Jun being dragged by Huang, and following them is Nemesis, crossbow in hand.

"What the hell!?" Behemo exclaimed in surprised, just then an exhausted Allen came out.

"Haaaaaah...Haaaaaaah...She can't be out of the box." Allen panted "...Haaaaaaaah...SHE CAN'T BE OUT OF THE BOX!"

"Relax, Irregular." Behemo reassured as he wrapped his arm around his shoulder. "She won't even make it inside of the Heavenly Yard anyways, since she's still contractors."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They heard her scream.

"Speaking of which." Allen and Behemo went towards the entrance of the building and found Nemesis laying on her, twitching and covered in soot with smoke coming out, she was electrocuted. "Don't worry she's very alive, just paralyzed by a barrier Gumillia sat up, since the law says that no sinner contracted to a demon can enter the Heavenly Yard."

"Well at least that's good for something." Allen sighed under his breath.

End Chapter

*The dress that Kayo made was inspired by the dress Levia wore in a picture of her and Behemo dancing by Ichika, since Nemesis is an incarnation of Levia of course.

**The crossbow Nemesis uses is a custom made rifle inspired by a MMD video of her VOCALOID GUMI using it.