Y/N POV

It took us a while to get the chestnuts peeled, even their many of us.

"Puag! We're finally done with the peeling." Ace said

"Ugh... My arms hurt..." Deuce moves his arms around.

"Haha! Big bro Ace and Big bro Deuce did a great job on peeling the chestnut, " Olivia said, trying to cheer them on.

"Big bro! Hey, Olivia. How old are you?" Ace asked.

"How old? Mhh... I am six." Olivia answered, "Celestia and Felix are thirteen."

"OLIVIA! Why did you tell us our age too?" Felix shouted as Olivia walk backwards.

"Ehehe! Sorry."

"They are younger than us." Deuce mumble.

"Haha. Good job. Your hard work will make it tastier." Trey commented.

"Mhmm, I'm full from just the smell." Grim almost drooled by the smell.

"Grim! Don't drool your saliva in the chestnut." Celestia told Grim.

"Next we mix butter and sugar into the chestnut paste then add oyster sauce as the secret ingredient," Trey said as his mix was all.

"OYSTER SAUCE." Everyone yelled in shock.

'Is he joking? An oyster sauce doesn't taste great when it comes to sweets' I thought to myself.

"Yep. The savoriness of oysters adds depth and richness to the cream. Here's some young oyster sauce with the walrus' seal of excellence."

"He's crazy! Put oyster sauce in a tart." Celestia said.

"Famous patisseries all use this in their tarts." Trey finished.

"Seriously... That's a pretty salty sauce." Deuce muttered.

"Right!" I agreed.

"Even chocolate gets put in curry all the time... It might be good." Ace commented. While Olivia took away the oyster sauce from Trey.

"...Pfft. Ahaha! It's a joke." Trey started laughing, 'I knew it. He was fooling us.' I, Felix, Celestia, and Oliva thought to ourselves. "Oyster sauce does not belong sweets."

"Screw you! You said it with a straight face." Ace told Trey.

"Haha! If you took a second to think about it like Y/n and three familiar here, you might figure it out. Don't just accept things without a healthy amount of skepticism. Better study up."

"Oh, boys." Celestia sighs.

"This guy looks nice but is pretty good at lying." Grim and Felix said in sync.

"Next is the whipped cream...Huh?" Trey looks worried.

"What's the matter?" Ace asked.

"You all gathered so many chestnuts that I got ahead of myself and made too much marron paste." Trey sighs, "Ahh... We don't have enough whipped cream to mix into it."

"I can go out and buy some. Is it sold at the... school store?" Deuce asked.

"You can find anything at that place so it should be there. Could I ask you to pick up a few other things?" I took out my notes, "Two cartons of milk, a dozen eggs, aluminum cups, and five cans of fruit."

"I don't think I can carry all that alone. Y/n, do you mind coming with me?" Deuce asked.

"Sure! I see why not? Plus, It's my first time going to the school store." I replied, "Celestia and Felix you both rest here! Olivia let go to get some fresh air."

"Yeah!" Olivia changes to the owl.

"I'm going too! I'm tired of mixing flour endlessly." Grim jump in the Deuce shoulder.

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We headed out and started walking towards the school store.

"Pardon us... Wow, this is amazing. There's a crystal skull... Grimoires...What kind of taxidermy is this?" Deuce said

"Woah! Do they really sell whip cream here?" Grim shocked.

"Amazing," I said.

"Hey! My lost little demon, how goes it?" A man pops off behind the counter. "Welcome to Mr. S's Mystery shop. What can I do for you today? A charm for uncharted lands? Mummy of an ancient king? Or how about some cursed tarot cards?"

"Ffgna! You scared me." Grim groaned.

"We'd like the thing written here," Deuce said and I handed in the note what we should buy.

"And some cans of tuna," Grim added.

"No! We don't need any tunes." Deuce quickly said.

"It's fine! Deuce, I'll pay for Grim tuna." I told Deuce as Grim quickly hugged me.

"What, what? Whipped cream, eggs... Oh! A nice sweet lineup. And a can of tuna." Sam said, "Ok! Coming right up." Sam goes back to the shop and gets the things we need.

"Ooooh... He really has them, "Deuce mumble.

As Sam was getting all the things, I looked around the shop. 'There are so many things here... Like spell books, ruby, potions, and wooden staff. Amazing.' Meanwhile, a curtain crown caught my attention and I can feel it calling out for me. Before I could touch it, a weird shadow was looking at me.

"Sorry 'bout the wait. it's a bit heavy, here you go?" I heard Sam's voice, so I turned around. However when I turn back to shadow, it was already gone.

'The shadow isn't one of my shadow armies.' I thought to myself.

"If you order now you can get a 1/100 size floating platter to carry your purchases for 30% off," Sam added. As I grab our staff.

"What's that, it sounds cool!" Grim and Olivia said in sync.

"W-we're fine! Time to go, Grim and Olivia." Deuce said.

"Ffnya! I wanna hang out more." Grim yelled.

"Same here." Olivia agreed.

"Ok, ok. Make sure to come by again, my little demons! bye." Sam waves his hand. As Deuce grabs both of them, while I turn around to Sam.

"Mr. Sam, the next time I come to visit here. Introduce me to your shadow friend," I smile at Sam as he eyes turn wide. "Bye-bye."

Sam POV

I giggle, "So that the girl... everyone was talking about and she can see you." I asked my friend as they nodded. I turned around to see what she was looking at? "This is..." I grab the crown, "This is the crown of the 'Black wizard."

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Y/n POV

We soon started to walk back to the cafeteria, and we decided to take Main street to be faster.

"That store was crazy," Deuce said.

"Hmph. Stingy Deuce" Grim and Olivia said.

"Who are you calling stingy?" Deuce shouted at them, as I just giggled from behind. Deuce turned to me, "Hmm. Y/n, that bag of cans looks pretty heavy. I'll carry it. I'm used to carrying heavy stuff."

But I could say anything Deuce quickly took the bag away from me, "Do you usually buy a lot when you go shopping? Deuce."

"Yeah. My mom always buys more than we need during time sales and I get stuck carrying all the heavy stuff." Deuce recalled his memory, "Since I'm the only boy it was my job to take care of anything requiring strength... Ah, my bad. I've just been talking about myself."

"No, no, it's fine. I would love to hear more of your story." Waving my hands, "You really care about your mom. That's cute." Deuce turned around disappointed.

"...That's not true at all. I always made mom..." Deuce has cut off and hit someone, "Ooof!"

"Huh!?"

"Aaah! The eggs." Grim yelped.

"Oh no! What should we do?" Olivia panics while flying around the air.

"Shit, half the eggs are destroyed! There are eggs all over the bad..." Deuce said.

"Hey, you! Watch where you're... wait... You're the fools that wrecked eggs in my carbonara earlier." The White-haired student from lunchtime.

"It's you guys again. You can't catch a break." The Pink-haired student said.

I sighed, "Those senior students again."

"You were the ones who jumped out from behind the corner. At lunch, it wasn't like you couldn't eat the egg anymore but you still came to pick a fight... Just now, you destroyed half of our eggs." Deuce said, argued

"Yeah, that's right!" Grim and Olivia said.

"And? You sayin' it's our fault?" The white-haired said.

"Yes. Please pay for the eggs. And please apologize to the chickens, too." Deuce said.

'Wait! Did he say 'Chickens?' I flinched in confuses.

"Hmmm? You're getting all worked up over eggs." The pink-haired boy said.

"Huh!?"

"They didn't hit the ground, right? Don't sweat the small stuff." The white-heaired male said.

'This boy...'

"We saved you the trouble of breaking them."

"HAHAHHAh '' Both of them soon start laughing at us. I clench my hands about to hit them, yet I heard Deuce say something.

"... To laugh about." Deuce mumble.

"Huh!?"

"This ain't something to laugh about!" Deuce changes character, "You don't get to make decisions for us. These eggs... Instead of becoming a chick they were gonna make us a delicious tart. You get it! huh?"

"Ah...Ah... Deuce... I don't think..."I am trying to speak.

"What's this guy's problem all of a sudden!?" The pink-haired said.

"If you don't wanna pay for the six eggs you broke... I'll just punch you six times instead," Deuce told them with his fist in his hand.

"Deuce! I don't think that is a great idea." I warned him.

"Whaaaaa!?" The white-haired shouted.

"Grit your teeth, assholes!!" Deuce screams as they start fighting.

Here is the example of the crown:

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➤ 𝑼𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅: 03/17/2022