For the time being, back outside of the Sam's Shop were everyone else watching what had happened with the help of Ortho.

"To think the tall-boys crew would fail so utterly..." Crowley sighed in disappointment.

"Did you see? The ghost struck Floyd across the face in a flash!" Riddle burst out laughing. "That is precisely why you shouldn't choose your fiancé based on their height!"

"Ahahahahah! What the hell was that song, Trey!?" Ace laughed as well, "Oh man, I'm losing it! Ahahaha! There's gotta be a limit to how lame you can be!"

"Shut it, Ace! Don't tease Clover... Pfft." Deuce controlled not to laugh it out but in the end, he did. "I can't, I keep thinking about it... Bah hah!"

"Oh my, poor Vil! To see a crimson mark upon your crystal-clear face!" Rook said, with a sad face. "Seeing your peerless beauty marred in this way is an unbearable tragedy."

"Yes... That's right..." Epel said, then started to chuckle. "The face Vil made when he got flat-out rejected...! Pfft!"

"That was like watching a variety show," Felix said, laughing.

"Everyone. Enough," Lucas clapped his hands once to get their attention. "This isn't a laughing matter!" While everyone is chatting, the girl who was minding her of business puts her headphones around her neck and walks towards Ortho and the screen monitor.

She gazed at the screen, where she could see all the seven suitors frozen in their place with Idia tied in the chair. Her eyes then move towards the ghost bride sitting at the table; reading a book on her hands that made her so happy and giggle.

Ortho turned to the girl beside him and asked. "Is there something wrong? Big sis." Y/n placed her hand on his shoulder as she looked closely at the screen.

"Ortho, can you zoom in a bit closer on the book that she read?"

"Alright, zooming in," Ortho said. The video zoomed near the book, but it was blurred by the quality of the CCTV.

"Can make it a bit clear?" Y/n asked. Ortho nodded his head, making the quality visible, the girl took her hand from the little boy and walked to the screen.

"That book, where did she get it?" Y/n asked herself. The title of it is the 'Enchanted. 'I get it now! So, that's where she gets her ideal prince.'

Y/n turned back to Ortho and patted his head, "Thanks! You can put it back as it was before." With that said, she walked towards Lucas and whispered something that made his eyes widen. The girl grinned and went to the tree as she decided to rest there while wearing her headphones on her ears again leaving the little Ortho confused.

"Precisely!" Crowley shouted, "This is not a game. Don't forget that Mr. Shroud's life hangs in the balance! Oooh, whatever should we try next..."

"Fear not, for help has arrived!!!" Everyone turned their attention to the voice.

"Hm?" Kalim hummed.

"My deepest apologies for the show Jade and Floyd put on. They have absolutely no idea how to speak with women." Azul said as he stepped in. "Leave everything to me, Azul Ashengrotto. I guarantee that I'll slide the "ring of severance" onto her finger."

"Hold it, if you're talking about approaching a cute girl you've gotta come to me first!" Cater said, joining Azul.

"Diamond, you're pretty fired up," Deuce said.

"Huh? Well duh, I know what I'm doing!" Cater told Deuce. "Oh! Deuce, you should come along. The more the merrier, right!"

"M-m-me!?" Deuce questioned with eyes widened. "No way. I've got zero experience... And I don't know how to talk to girls at all... Other than Y/n, of course."

"Woah? You just gonna leave Trey like that?" Ace said.

"Leave him!? I'd n-never do something like that!" Deuce stuttered out.

"Then go get 'em. He probably waiting for you to come to the rescue." Ace said, smacking Deuce back.

"... You might be right. It's up to the juniors to pick up after their seniors." He said, determined with little nervousness.

"Yeah, yeah! Go out there and make the best proposal ever!" Ace chuckled.

"Okay... Diamond! Let's bust our way into the wedding ceremony!" Deuce said, turning to his senior classman.

"Oh, Deuce... Ace just played you for a fool." Cater soft smiled.

"Then I shall join you," Lilia said, walking towards them. "I can't call myself his mentor and stand by after watching Sebek's performance."

"S-So cool...!" Epel mumbled.

"If I may..." Lucas steps into the group, "I too, will be joining you."

"Huh! Lucas will be going to be a suitor as well," Deuce said in surprise. "Did Y/n even allow you to come?"

"Yes... M-my lady did." Lucas forced a smile.

•◈──────◈Short flashback◈──────◈•

Lucas rotating his head and saw Y/n walking to him then softly bumped her shoulder on his as the girl stopped. "Lucas. Later, they will make a new suitor to go in and I want you to join them." Y/n held to him a piece of paper with a magic symbol, "Use this magic to break free from the spell. If anything went wrong," Lucas's eyes widened and before he could say a word, his lady left him.

•◈──────◈End flashback◈──────◈•

"Hm. Leave everything to us." Lilia said he stands with the four boys.

"Make sure to don't take all the credit, Lilia and Lucas," Cater said to the boys.

"Me being there is more than enough." Azul chuckled, then grinned.

"OI, Lucas!! As the familiar mistress, don't you dare humiliate the lady's name!!!" Felix shouted. Lucas grinned, fixed his gloves, and changed his clothes into an all-black noble suit.

"I'll try my best."

"Hey, that's cheating. You can't just change clothes to something cooler." Cater said, jealousy.

"Hm~ No one said any about that. It only said that the goal is to win her heart." Lucas told him with a charming smirk.

"Fufufu~ This is going to be fun!" Lilia said. With that, the next group leaves the others.

While walking to the Night Raven College gates, Deuce goes to Cater right side with Lucas on the left side. "Diamond-senpai and Lucas." He whispered. "Do you know anything about how to propose to a woman?"

"Hmm~ Easy. You said you talked with Y/n before then just imagine that you are proposing to her then the ghost bride in front of you." Cater gave some advice.

"Ah...ah!? Diamond-senpai, that is not helping." Deuce mumbled with a blush, just imagining it in his mind.

"Well, in my guess. The first thing you should do is introduce yourself, with a kiss on the hand and probably give a gift like Jade did but of course not poison or any terrifying." Lucas placed his thumb and index finger on his chin. "Girls also like when you give her comments about her appearance. Take her hand for a dance."

"Ohh~~ Lucas, you sure do know your stuff," Lilia said, smiling.

"I have to agree. Not like, Mr. Diamond's advice." Azul said.

"Hey, at least I am trying to help," Cater told Azul.

"Lucas." Deuce calls out, "Have you done this before?"

"Done, what before?" Lucas asked.

"Proposing to a girl."

"Hmm..." Lucas stopped as he and others arrived at the gates.

"Yes, I have... 500 years ago."

•◈──────◈✧✦✧◈──────◈•

In the amidst of the Wedding Ceremony, the five men tried their attempts to woo the Ghost Bride, unfortunately it wasn't end well for them...

SLAP!

"Woah!" Lilia screamed.

SLAP!!

"Ugh!" Deuce groaned.

SLAP!

"No way!" Cater yelped.

SLAP!!

"Hm! Apologize." Lucas controlled the pain and apologized.

SLAP!

"What!?..." Azul shocked. Every one of them failed to win the ghost bride's heart.

"... But why? WHY WAS I REJECTED!!!!!!!" Azul shouted.

"Gahhaha! Azul, she slapped you at max power~~!" Floyd said to his dorm head.

"I put together all the data from the previous attempts, so I should've been a perfect match for this ghost's ideal" Azul growled, in rage. "Even though I presented to her a bouquet of roses and only the most majestic of love songs... Where did I go wrong!?"

"The part where you looked completely insincere with how much you ran you got on her nerves," Jade said.

"Obviously. All that talk shows you don't actually know how to talk to women." Leona added.

"I don't want to hear that from the one who was knocked out first," Azul argued.

"Ugh~ This brings me down~ I thought I had this." Cater sighed.

"No one would want a womanizer like you as their groom. The ghost could totally tell you weren't taking this seriously." Vil told Cater.

"By the way, Deuce, what'd you come for?" Trey asked.

"I wanted to your rescue, but I got so nervous in front of her that... I completely froze...!!" Deuce mumbled embarrassing.

"I would have won her love if I weren't wearing all black." Lucas sighed, for failed as his lady familiar.

"She also said that the way you smile at her keeps her heart beating fast like it's going to explode any moment," Jack said.

"She said I was out because I'm "Too cute"." Lilia whimpered. "I'm devastated. To think this would come from my adorable visage... Boohoohoo."

"Lord Lilia received a slap to the face..." Sebek groaned. "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!!!! ALL BECAUSE LORD LILIA IS CUTER THAN THAT GHOST!!!!"

"You are loud!!!" Princess Eliza shouted, "... Why must all the men of this world be unsightly, violent boars? They say they all came to propose but one of them only dressed as the part, yet the color is so dark. I hate it..." Her sad expression changed into a happy one. "Idia really is my ideal man. None of you even come close!"

"You are correct, princess," Chubby said to Princess Eliza. "None of these boys are suited to be knights in shining armor for our gentle princess."

"Th-this is infuriating... I can't accept losing to that shut-in!" Vil growled.

"I bet, he gloomy ass can't even sing!" Leona added.

"Didn't I tell you? Idia is the perfect prince, unlike you lot." Princess Eliza said, gazing at Vil and Leona. "Certainly, he'd sing with me if he wasn't so flustered right now."

"Goodness, everything I've heard you say this entire time is nothing but a fantasy..." Lilia sighed. "You go around forcing your ideals on others, but have you ever truly looked at Idia? Turning your eyes to the horizon is no way to find what you're looking for. What is important is already right beside you."

"Enough with your babbling, I've already found what I've been looking for." Princess Eliza told Lilia, "Idia, my Ideal prince!" Then she smiled brightly.

"...." Chubby frowned.

"This has been a waste of time; we have to get ready for the ceremony."

"Your Highness, aren't you tired after dealing with all these people? There is no need to rush..." Chubby said.

"Are you worried about me? Fufu, thanks, Chubby!" Princess Eliza smiled at him, "Since we were alive, you've really been the greatest friend ever."

"Friend... " Chubby mumbled while lowering his head with a sad expression shown to his face. "... Yes, I am here for you, always."

"Bring me Idia." Princess Eliza ordered.

"As you wish! He's here!" The handyman and the housekeeper ghosts said, bring Idia in.

"Uuuhh, uuuuhhhh..." Idia has no words could express what he is going to say.

"Ah, Shroud! He's stiff as a board..." Deuce said.

"Did Idia get smacked too? The bride is super picky." Cater mumbled.

"How rude. We just had to restrain him a tiny bit because he tried to escape." Princess Eliza said.

"All of these guys are totally useless... They super rejected and dropped like flies; it was hard to watch..." Idia mumbled.

"Grr..." Everyone growled.

"What've you all been living outside for!? Aren't you even a little embarrassed goofing off all the time!?" Idia said to them with a straight face.

"Grrrrrr...."

"You're right, Idia, and you should say it~" Princess Eliza giggled, "All other men are just annoying flies. Being kind enough to tell them like it is, that's just another one of your good points. Aahh, you're so amazing I can't wait any longer... LET'S HOLD THE WEDDING TONIGHT!!!!!"

"T-TONIGHT!!!" Idia yell.

"Yes, darling. Tonight at midnight we shall have our first kiss in front of the mirror and be bound for eternity." Princess Eliza said, with a smile of delight. "Then, we'll become two souls, just souls... And enjoy our honeymoon!"

"No way! You're telling me that I have to leave this world without reading the manga I've been hyped for!" Idia screaming, turned to the boys. "G-G-Guys! Do something!"

"Aren't you happy? There was someone out there who'd pick you despite your shyness." Vil said.

"Yeah. Now that I think about it, you two are a perfect match." Leona added.

"WHAT NOW!?" Idia shouted.

"Well, anyone's be pissed if you talked crap like that about them," Jack told Idia, who shaking in fear.

"Oooh, at long last, the wedding we've been waiting for, for the last 500 years is tonight!" The handyman ghost said, happily. "... I wish we could celebrate with the whole kingdom. Our damn neighbor's forgetting their debts and turning on us!"

"Aah, the pain is like it just happened..." The housekeeper's ghost included.

"Now you two, we can't move forward if we're always in the past." Princess Eliza said.

"Princess..." Both of the ghosts mumbled.

"... Oh, I know, I'll have everyone here in the wedding ceremony as groomsmen!" Princess Eliza said, "That way we'll have the lively ceremony that you both want. I hope you'll all celebrate Idia and me starting our next chapter, alright!"

"Noooooo!!! H-h-help... Ah!" Idia screamed for rescue. "Azul!! Are we not board game club buddies? Use that silver tongue to get me out of this!"

"Idia that Shut-in's wedding day... I'm moved I could cry..." Azul said while pretending to cry. Then smiled, "Congratulations! I'll make sure to prepare a gift!"

"NOOOOOOO!" Idia shouted. On the side, Chubby isn't even happy in the slightest.

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