I have nothing to say about Izzy-san's previous chapter. Whatever happened to your innocence, Izzy-san.. I didn't expect that you'd let Rei and Rose do IT. And sorry for updating too late, I'm pretty busy with school work. I hope you understand.

"Oi! Oi! Enemy! Enemy!" Gil bellowed, pointing out to a cat in a playful manner. In a way that represents weirdness. Ray haunched down to the white cat, he slightly flicked his hat up to parse the domestical cat better. "He's an enemy! An enemy! Right, Ray?!"

"I dunno, doesn't seem like it." Ray brusquely curted for the very first time, he rubbed under the cat's chin as it purred. "It kinda reminds me of Demise's animal form, I like these types of cats."

Gil turned pale as Wrath peered over the cat, "If Greed's Eve was here, he'll probably pet it." She said as she petted the cat as well.

"Hmm, I'd like to pick it up and take care of it but I know that •••• wouldn't let me." Tsurugi smirked as he locked his eyes at Wrath who raised a brow.

Gil, on the other hand, was freaking out. "Uwaah!! Guys, what are you doing?!" He shrieked, gripping on his head. "Don't be yadda-yadda hypnotized by that fiend's endearing face!"

But Ray chuckled and said, "It's alright, Gil. It's just a cat."

Gil's jaw dropped as his face turned bluish purple. "Ray's right, Gil. It's a normal cat and it's harmless." Wrath even approved, "Do cats count as monsters in Venice, Italy?"

"Nope. Gil's the only one." Ray huffed.

Gil sulked more and freaked, he gripped his head as he alarmed. "Gaahh!! It's too late! Too late! The Catpocalypse has happened! Cats ruled the world! They ruled and ruled every single living organism! Noooo!"

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"Ahaha! I can't believe this! Damn, Mahiru-kun! You look like a girl!" Mikuni laughed as he pointed out to Mahiru, who wore a dress and thick make up.

Mahiru had an irk mark, "When I said that you, Sakuya, can come to the mall just to go, this was not what I thought it'd be!"

"Sure did!" Sakuya jutted his tounge out while he watched Mahiru getting annoyed. Sakuya then whispered to Mahiru, "Aww~! You look pretty~!" Once he turned his back, whispering, "I lied.."

"Heard that!"

"Now, Mahiru. Just to what extent was all I said about you looking pretty a lie?" Sakuya pestered.

Mahiru's face bloated up in irritation, "Obviously, a hundred percent!"

"You..look like a clown.." Jeje mumbled, prompting Mahiru to sweatdrop with a bluish purple face. Rude.. He thought as Jeje slightly shrugged.

Mikuni grinned as he tossed the make up pallet he wielded over his shoulder, "Haha, well, that was fun! I don't need that pallet anymore!"

"Why?! Didn't you purchased that with more than 50 yen just now?!" Mahiru freaked as Mikuni had his cruel face once more.

"Didn't I say this before? Can't use it? Toss it. Need it? Steal it. Man up or get eaten alive. This is--"

"Yeah. Yeah!" Mahiru huffed.

"Yo, Yandere-chan! How's your yandere tendencies?" Mikuni grinned, obviously refering to Sakuya who turned and sulked. His face bloated up as sad blue aura shrouded around him.

"I'm not a yandere, Miku-san. So rude."

"Well.. Didn't you..grew envious when Misono says that..he's a friend of Mahiru's?" Jeje muttered lowly, but it was audible enough for Sakuya to hear. "Don't you..likely pursue him by insisting on walking him home everyday..while proclaiming your undying love to him..?"

"Say what?!" Mahiru gaped. "Undying love?!"

"That's not..very, uh, likely at all." Sakuya blushed in embarrassment, twiddling his fingers constantly.

"Actually, it is, Sakuya." Mahiru sweatdropped. "Guys, let's focus on finding Dream Eater, 'kay?"

Mikuni yawned and stretched his arms out, "Maybe," Jeje turned into a snake and latched himself over Mikuni's shoulders. "It's just that what can we find in a mall? Sure, there are toys, supplies, foods and stuff but why would Monochrome choose his plan to engage here?"

"Practically, I dunno. To extract attention?" Mahiru guessed, shrugging.

"He's not like Beru, alright?" Sakuya said. "Well, whatever it is. I'm ready for anything." Mikuni promptly creased a grin, holding his make up pallet once more.

"Then in that caseee~ Sakkun~" this spooked Sakuya whole, he gulped. "Would you like me to do a make up for you too?~"
From cowering back to scampering away, Sakuya dashed, crying out, "Stay back, you fiend!" As they chase each other in a chase of fun (for Mikuni) Mahiru sulked as Sakuya yelped for help, "Mahiru! Help!"

"N-No, I'll pass," Mahiru fearfully bailed out, "Mikuni-san's too frightening. Well, it was nice knowing you, Sakuya." He recoiled away in horror as he blanched but in overwhelming fear, he was tottering himself.

"Mahiru!" Sakuya yelped.

Kuro and you were basking in the sun, beneath the sakura tree. "I wonder how Rose is doing... I hope she's alright." You mumbled in concern underneath your breath.

Kuro held you tight, "She's fine, I know it."

"You're inevitably predicting? Or are you just guessing?" You cocked a brow as Kuro blanched in silence. "Ash, answer me. Don't be voiceless." You sulked. You sighed and stared at the sky, "Monochrome's planning to kill every being in this world just like Tsubaki, right? I want to know his reason."

"Why is it that the youngest and hidden kids are always the ones who're troublesome?" Kuro muttered as you recoiled because his cold breath reached your skin. "Can't the world just live in peace?"

To make it subtle, you grudgingly smiled in a forceful way. "A-Ash, peace can't last long. It'll never stay in a steady way. It may totter."

"Hmm, I guess you're right." Hours of waiting, Monochrome didn't appear so you two decided to return back to Sendagaya's Hot Spring Resort. Arriving in the resort, you saw Misono and Lilly first.

"Hey Misono! Where's Mahiru-kun and the others?!" You shouted, cupping your hands around your mouth. Thankfully, Misono didn't grew mad with that but his face was annoyed. He's not exasperated by me, is he?

"Huh? (Y/n)-san..? Sloth..?" He turned in a stunned way, "Oh, Shirota and the others aren't yet. How about you? How's your investigation?"

"We haven't found anything in hours. It was already night and still nothing. Just where is that guy?"

"We've got no trace on Monochrome as well. Everything looked pretty fine back at the Alicein Mansion." Lilly added, right now unable to strip because Misono tied his limbs up like what Tsurugi was back at C3.

"L-Lilly, you're tied up!" You squeaked as Lilly derrangedly laughed. He really is dementing.

"Misono made me wear this because I was stripping all day." He laughed, spooking you whole. "Well, it can't be helped if the Alicein Mansion today is too hot, right?"

"Lilly, I'll just advice you wear more of a lighter clothing such as a shirt?" You sweatdropped but Lilly disagreed.

"No, no, (y/n)-san, T-shirts aren't really my label." Lilly stated, much to your bafflement. "Trenchcoats and button-up shirts are fine."

"Hu-Huuh?" You blanched and said to Misono, "Ne, Chibi-chan, can you--"

"C-C-C-CHIBI-CHAN?!" He's really sensitive about his height, is he? His face bloaten up as if it belonged to a child's. "H-How rude! Where are your manners?! I'm sixteen!"

"Oh, so you don't prefer Chibi-chan?" Kuro joined in to cause more trouble. "Then how about Mikkun?"

"I'm not cheap either!"

"Guys, care to stop?" You steered them up as Misono slowly calmed down. "Ahoge," Misono stared at you in a rude way but you shirked his glare away. "As I was saying.. Can you ask Lilly to send his butterflies around the city? That could make things easier to find Monochrome."

"I'll-I'll do that.. If Misono unties me, eheh.." Lilly chuckled even though there was nothing to laugh at in a crisis such as this. All of Love is a cheerful and caring person, though, being cheerful can't suffice everything.

"Ugh. Fine." Misono rolled his eyes and untied Lilly. Before Lilly could undress, Misono warned him, "But if you try stripping again, I'll surely tie you up with a more tight belt!" Lilly blanched in horror due to the hint of darkness and coldness glinted in Misono's eyes.

"Mi-Misono, you're not abusing me, are you?" Misono took slow and small steps closer to Lilly, causing him to cower back. "M-M-Misono?"

"When I was a kid, I originally tell you to stop undressing yourself and when I was thirteen, that's when I start to yell at you again, correct? Snow Lilly, you choose, yelling at you or abusing you? I'll count from ten. Choose wisely."

As Misono oozed out his menacing aura, Lilly stuttered, "U-Uhm, neither? I don't like being abused because I dislike inflicting pain, but I don't like emotional pain either."

"Ten.. Nine.. Eight.. Seven.."

"Misono?!"

Overlapping, the others in the mall were heading back to the Onsen Resort. It was a long way and Sakuya didn't really like being bugged by someone. "Sakkun, are you sure you don't want to--"

"No," Sakuya curtly snapped at Mikuni as they walked along with neighborhood. He closed his eyes shut in a rude way. "If you want to do a make-over on me, don't. Do it to Mahiru. He seems to enjoy it a lot, speaking that he hasn't even disposed of it."

"I'm only keeping it because all of the water back at the mall strangely dehydrated! So troublesome!" Mahiru ranted, he was still wearing the dress.

"Man, you're jinxed, Mahiru-kun." Mikuni said, still has the pallet in his possessions. He's been begging to do a make-over on Sakuya for hours but all he gets is rejection.

Sakuya opened one eye, "Then why can't you remove the dress? It's starting to creep me out."

"No, no, no, I like it when Shirota-kun looks like a girl." Mikuni derangedly crazed, waving Abel leisurely. "Abel says he looks flawless."

"Gosh, you're so dementing." Sakuya sweatdropped. "Might as well remove the heels, huh, Mahiru?" He said to Mahiru who wore red heels.

"I'm not going back bare-footed!"

"Psst, you're wearing..socks," Jeje hissed as he transformed into a snake and latched over Mikuni's mandarin-colored scarf. "Psst, psst."

"Psst, why are you whispering..?" Sakuya hissed as well, getting closer to Mikunu and Jeje.

Mikuni chuckled as he rubbed under his pet's chin. "Jeje has a very quiet voice but he is gullible and bullheaded," by just uttering those words, Jeje bit Mikuni's forefinger and crawled to his foot, latching himself around it. "Oww, he bit me!" Mikuni poorly stucked his finger into his mouth.

Sakuya sighed, "That's what you get for teasing your Servamp.." somethingthen caught their eyes that made them turn to the sky, a flock of butterflies (similar to Lilly's butterfly form) was up at the sky. "Huh? Aren't those..All of Love's?"

"Lust is out to search in the night with his subclasses, I think." Mikuni complicatedly said between his mouth and finger.

"I guess Misono and the others need help back there since Lilly left." Mahiru added, "Let's get back!"

You, on the other hand, passed your finger through the full-body mirror from which when you used to get in the Demise Manor. A proud smile slithered in your face, "Yes! I knew this was possible!"

"Hmm, Austere must've lied to keep you safe." Kuro said, lazing around again.

"You sure you want to go back in? I heard what happened last time and according to what I've heard from Big Bro, it didn't end up well." Tetsu said from behind, a distance away.

And Misono said, "Demise's subclasses are very dangerous. All of them may have sacrificed for their love ones but either way, they have something monstrous inside of them."

"Yeah, but not every subclass in the Demise Team is a bad person. Some of them are very nice, like Lepido-san for instance. I'll count Snow-chan and Muzu-san as nice people as well."

"Don't be fooled. Be aware of the possibilities." Misono said before you went in. He trailed his eyes at Kuro, "Sloth, do you want to come with her?"

Kuro shooked his head and remarked, "(y/n) can handle it. After all, she does need to learn how to protect herself. What if she ran up to Monochrome, alone? Who would be there to help her?" Misono stayed silent as Kuro promptly mumbled, "Should've thought so."

You were transported to a dark and deserted village that cleared a large path to the Demise Manor. This is where you clearly transported back then. You sighed and walked up to the mansion miles away. It was a long way to go and most of all, the path's creaky edges were spooking you.

And just when things go even in a worse situation, a familiar voice bellowed in the air. "Card No. 26: Flames of Hell!" Burning flames spread out of nowhere, burning half of the houses.

You gasped in fear as a sigh flowed above the air, "Let's do this, you fool." Water sprawled out and relinguished the fire as you squeaked.

"Card No. 83: Blazing Meteors Shower!" And now meteors were crashing down everywhere as you screamed when a meteor was about to hit you 'till somebody dragged you put of the way.

"You must be..(y/n)-tan, pleasure to be in assistance with you." That voice was familiar to the one who said "Let's do this." He wore a white button-up shirt with a blue tint under a long white hooded coat with golden edges. He had blue above-the ankle laced boots and long white pants. He also wore a pair of wrist-length black gloves.

His eyes were blue and you could see his narrow shoulder-length silver hair. "Ugh. Atara-dono, why did you--" Lepido glided down and landed his feet on the ground. After seeing you, he gasped. "(Y/n)-san? You're back?"

You panted as you clutched your stomach because of all that running, "Seriously, don't you know how hard it is to run from a meteor shower?!"

Lepido remained unfazed as he smiled insensibly, "Oh that'll actually help you amplify your surviving skills. Never know when a meteor shower might come back after hiatus years, right?" You smacked him in the head out of annoyance.

"Damn, your unawareness is stressing me out!" You snarled and turned to the man who saved you, he's about twenty, I guess. "Oh and thanks for saving me.. uhh, Atara-san..?"

The young adult shooked his head and said, "No, it's Arata. Lepido-tan loves to call my name in reverse. I'm the alchemist of the Demise Team while Lepido here is the hypnotist."

"A-Again, thanks for saving me, Arata-san." You lowered your head and back as a symbol of respect.

"It's Atara-dono! The top star subclass!" Lepido exclaimed, "More respect, (y/n)-san! More respect!"

You squeaked in fright and bowed constantly to Arata, "G-Gomenesai! Gomenesai! Gomenesai! Gomenesai, Arata-dono!"

Arata blushed in embarrassment and raised his hands up to his head, "I-It's alright! Le-Le-Lepido and other subclasses are only the ones who calls me that! You're different, (y/n)-tan! You're Demisu-tan's subclass! Please raise your head up!"

Lepido laughed at Arata's flustering, "Man, you can fluster? The most calm one of us subclasses?!" He then earned a firm smack on the head from Arata.

"My apologies for Lepido's strange demeanor. He can get..ecstatic from time to time." Arata placidly said as you three began walking up to the mansion. "Why did you even come here, (y/n)-tan? First of all, when did you get here?"

"Well, not long. Only a recent time before I bumped into your bewitchery," you countered back. "How about you guys? What are you guys doing here?"

"We're practicing for our next fight. Never know when an enemy might come, right?" Lepido winked blissfully, "Atara-dono, my bestfriend and I were just here to practice 'cause the manor has to be kept safe since last time's incident gotten worse when others rampaged the mansion."

Your eyes fell when remembering the moment, "Lepido, I'm sorry about what happened before. I should've listened to Rose's advice."

"About what? Forgeting us?" Lepido crazily creased a grin as he felt like laughing but Arata gave him a glare that says "Now's not the time for your foolish laughing."

"N-No, I meant about.. uhm, actually, scratch that. I meant that I shouldn't have gotten there without thinking about the subclasses' dark sides." You said, and turned to Arata, asking, "Arata-san, how did you die?"

"Sacrifice, like all us subclasses did." Arata answered, "My little sister and I sacrificed ourselves for our younger brother."

"Where's your sister now?"

"Onii-san! Onii-san!" You turned and saw a toddler. She walked up to Arata in small steps with her hands up, "Carry me..! Carry me, Onii-san..!"

Arata smiled a bit and picked up his little sister, "Hai, Hai, Mitsubu."

You blinked, "Is this her?"

"No," He turned to you and introduced her, "This is Mitsubu, the child. She's just a close friend of Saya and Shuun's, the doll twins. Mitsubu likes to call me Onii-san and Snow Onee-chan because she always wanted siblings."

"So..where's your real sister?"

"Back at the Demise Manor, she's Snow."

Your eyes shot open wide as you dazed, "Snow?! Y-You mean, your little sister was snow?!"

"Well, yeah. Why?"

"Just how old were you before you died?" Snow and Arata really looked like they were in the same age.mention a userabout twenty and Snow was about fifteen. Things are complicated these days. I'm a hundred or more years old now."

You sulked as you ulkedred, "U-Uhh, h-h-how does it feel to be back alive?"

"Uhh, still the same except I don't feel like my body's active anymore. Probably because I drowned in water several years ago and Snow was almost frozen to death severely." Arata nonchalantly said as it left you in a shock. It doesn't even bothers him when he says stuff like that. "We were chased by bandits. Snow and I seperated, she was lost in the woods while I surrendered to the bandits for them to stop chasing Snow. They eventually thrown me in the lake where I almost died 'till a hand reached over to me."

"How about your little brother?"

"The bandits never knew our brother existed so we gave our brother to our aunt who lived far away from the village secretly and had the bandits track us down."

"I guess that does count as a sacrifice," you pondered. "Why is every Demise subclass has sacrificed themselves for their love ones?"

"The word 'Demise' means death and mourning but for us subclasses it also means sacrifice. People sacrifice themselves for others and after that, they live in a world of demise. Even in demise, they're still glad that their love ones are still alive. Mortal or immortal, it doesn't matter, as long as everyone's living in a happy world. 'Live in a world, whether it's filled with demise or life. Feel happy even you were dead before.' Those were Demisu-tan's words when I was depressed after brought back from death. That means, I don't regret whether if I sacrificed myself for my little brother."

"So that's what it means. Rose makes you happy, huh? But can you make her happy for me?"

"Whoa, whoa there. It's kinda hard for it to be Rose, she's a tough nut." Lepido laughed before slamming the front doors open to see the six subclasses again. Though, Snow and Muzu were guarding them.

"Ugh. You again?" The butler snarled, tilting his head to you with an annoyed face but an ice shard slid near his neck. He turned and saw Snow's scary eyes.

"Dare to move an inch and I'll cut your head off, understood?" Snow snarled back as the butler rolled his eyes and continued reading his book.

"Snow-chan.. Snow-chan..!" Mitsubu got down Arata and walked up to Snow with a small smile, "P-Pick me up..!" She implied in a faint voice.

Snow smiled and did so, "Looks like I won this time, Nii-sama."

"What's that supposed to be mean?" Arata lifted a brow as Snow giggled, "I'm fine if Mitsubu loves you more."

"Why are you here anyway?" You felt a tug on your shirt's sleeve, you turned and saw Shuun, the male doll. He behaved like a normal servant now, instead of the way he acted before.

You looked down at him and countered back, "I'm just here to ask if some of you might know where Monochrome might be. Also, we need help in finding him."

"Hmm, I guess we can do a simple thing." Keima, the mister showed up, slunging a long scepter across his shoulders. "Say, Monochrome doesn't have subclasses, right?"

Pathetic. A subclass is truly pathetic. You don't need them at all, You shooked your head and retorted, "No, I don't believe so."

"Well, that makes things much more convenient." The butler idly sighed as he sat up, cracking his knuckles and gave you a steer gaze. "You can only let us out of here if you make Demise assent. It's her decision after all. We're still grounded, you know." He cringed at that word. Yep, implying it as grounded isn't really an appropriate word for that.

"Rose is still out there, looking for Monochrome. Can't you do it now?"

"Well, I suppose that's a fair assumption." Shuun chimed in, dredging out a pair of ryyk blades.

"Really? It sounds flimsy," the butler said and threw a knife at the door's board, emitting a surge of a ripple that reverberated the whole room. "Furthermore, Demise unleashed an indestructable barrier to prevent us from leaving. I'm afraid we can't help you."

"Indestructable barrier, huh?" You slithered an optimistic smile and slid out your strings, then slashing the barrier constantly. "Let's see about that!"

Saya, the doll girl, tilted her head. "She's.."

"..stubborn," her twin finished as both of them smiled. "We like that very much."

"I don't believe that'll break," Arata said, "It's quite hard. Rose's barriers are very difficult to break. You must have brute force to smash it."

"But it could be a possibility that I can destroy it! After all, I'm her Eve, right? Maybe I can do it."

"Eves can take over a Servamp's control over something but it's difficult to destroy a barrier, not unless you command the Servamp." Arata held his chin as he tend the barrier. "Though, I can see that you're determind. I guess I can't stop you from doing something."

The barrier then partically cracked, you smiled and exclaimed. "Yes! It worked!"

"Whoa, that can actually work?" The butler framed a baffled face and just sighed, dredging out a machine gun then began firing it at the barrier. "In that case, I'll help you out."

"I have no idea if it'll work but I wanna help too!" Lepido threw a deck of cards at the barrier, shouting, "Card No. 108: Destructive Missles! Let's shatter the barrier!" Missles fired at it as a larger crack slithered.

And..

The end.

Ha, just kidding! I'll let Izzy finish the entire thing! After all, she WAS begging me to finish this chapter because it's already been days, weeks, maybe.