Prologue - Welcome to the Villain's World: Chapter 12; Punishment Ducking

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 12; Punishment Ducking".

It opens in a slightly strange looking place. It's a dome building and there are a total of eight archways, one for each dorm then the entrance to the school buildings. Due to the angle there are only four visible archways, those being for the dorms Pomefiore, Heartslabyul, Diasomnia, and Octavinelle. Each has a magic mirror that connects to their dorms, but the outer ridges of each mirror have a slightly different design each. But it's hard to see them from the angle. Each of the arches are a purple-ish color with the dorm logo plus the school one for each mirror at the top of their designated arch.

Ace is then seen walking into the Heartslabyul archway saying to himself "Yeah right, like I'm gonna wash a hundred windows. I'm just gonna go back and-"

But is cut off as Yuu and Grim burst in while he shouts "AHA! GOTCHA, PUNK!" Ace panics slightly shouting "Oh, no! They saw me!" Grim then says angrily to Ace "Stop right there, pal! No fair gettin' a head start! Wait!" Ace is now running away shouting out to the two "Who in their right mind would ever wait?! Seeya!" Grim then shouts at him "No way are you gettin' out of this! You think I WANNA wash windows?"

Another student that was walking to the Heartslabyul arch notices the three saying "...hm?". This student has blue hair that fades into teal and green-teal eyes. He also has a spade similar to Ace's heart but over the left eye instead of the right.

Ace pushes the kid while running and yells at him "Outta my way!" This makes the blue haired boy yell back "Hey! What gives?!" Yuu then yells at the blue haired boy telling him "He's shirking his cleaning responsibilities!" This catches the blue haired boy's attention somehow as he asks the other two "What? That's not right! But how do we stop him? Like, freeze his legs? Or bind them with a rope? Or maybe I could…Hmm… No"

Noticing him wanting to help but hesitating, Grim yells at the boy "I don't care how! Just do something! Anything!" The boy is shocked and yells "Anything?!" before realizing something and saying "Anything. huh…All right! Here goes anything!" The boy then prepares his magic pen to use a spell and yells out "I summon thee… something heavy!"

A cauldron then falls on top of Ace's head as he cries out in pain "Bwaaah?! Wha?! A pot?!" Grim laughs at him before saying "Look, Yuu, look! That Ace guy got crushed beneath a giant cauldron! It squashed him flat! Aha ha ha! That's what you get!"

The boy is also shocked at what he summoned saying "A cauldron?! I wasn't expecting that. I may have overdone it this time…"

Ace then finally manages to get out from under the cauldron before saying a pained "Owwww! What are you bothering me for? You guys coulda just banged out the work yourself!" Yuu then combats saying "Headmage's orders. You heard the man."

The other boy is now fully invested asking "You have to wash a hundred windows as punishment? What the heck did you do?!" Ace explains "I was just screwing with that furball a little. …Okay, and the statue of the Queen of Hearts got a teeny bit charred. Sue me." The boy exclaims "You damaged a statue of the Great Seven?! No wonder he flew off the handle at you! After you managed to get into THIS school, how could you get in trouble on the very first day?!" Ace, now feeling bullied, tells him "Oh, shut up." before pausing and asking him "Who are you, anyway?"

The boy then introduces himself saying "My name is Deuce. Deuce Spade. Don't you remember your own classmate? Uh…" Then gets slightly embarrassed as Ace says "You don't remember my name either, do you?"

Deuce quickly switches the topic saying "That's not the point! You shouldn't try to shirk an order from the headmage!" Ace then rubs the top of his head for the pain while saying "Yeah, yeah, message received… Fine, let's bang out the windows already."

Ace then looks around and notices someone disappeared during that conversation asking "Huh…?" Yuu then asks him "What…?" slightly nervous about what's going to happen. Ace then yells out "That furball! He's gone!"

It then switches to Grim who's already outside the building laughing before calling out "I'll let you two handle the rest! See ya, suckers!"

It then goes back to the two boys and Yuu as Ace exclaims "You caught me so YOU could run away yourself?!" Ace then turns to Deuce saying "Hey! You there! Uh…Juice?" Deuce corrects him saying "My name isn't 'Juice.' It's Deuce! With a D!" Ace ignores him saying "This is partially your responsibility. You know! So help me catch that little furball!"

Yuu rolls her eyes at being ignored as another person who will be trying to catch Grim. Deuce then says "How is this my responsibility?!" Ace explains in a rude tone "Grim's useless janitor friend can't use magic. That means this is up to you and me!"

Yuu is offended but lets them do the work, since it was Ace's fault they were in this mess to begin with. But she felt a little bad for Deuce who was dragged into their mess.

The two boys then run out after Grim as Yuu walks out calmly, following behind them.

The screen fades to black as "To be continued" plays before fully turning off.