Prologue - Welcome to the Villain's World: Chapter 14; To the Dwarfs' Mine

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 14; To the Dwarfs' Mine".

It opens on what was on the other side of the mirror.

It was a forest, or would it be a woods? It doesn't matter either way though, everything was dark and almost somber.

Yuu looked as though she was about to barf, due to her first time getting teleported via a magic mirror. Meanwhile the other three took a quick scan of their surroundings, obviously a lot more used to it than her.

Deuce says "So this is the Dwarfs' Mine… Long ago, this mine was flush with magestones." But Grim was creeped out although kinda trying to hide it as he asked "Urgh… Who knows what lurks in there now?"

Ace was kinda ignoring the others as he was paying more attention to his surroundings says "Look, I can see a house. Let's see what the people there have to say."

The group walks towards the house, they pass by a little river, walking over the bridge that although in poor shape is still holding strong. After that there was an actual path that led to the house that they followed. But once they got to it, all of them grimaced as they looked at it. It was in even worse shape then Yuu's dorm was in.

The roof was clearly falling apart and most of the windows were actually broken with cobwebs covering what was left. Meanwhile the actual building was also falling apart as in some places you could actually see the tiny house's foundation. All the while moss and mold were growing on everything making it seem like the house used to be painted green, but due to the small spots that weren't it was clear the house used to be a pale yellow white color or possibly even just white. Also not to neglect there were spiderwebs almost everywhere as well.

Deuce tried to knock on the door asking "Hellooo? Is anyone home…?" And the group waited for a second before he continued "Must be empty. It looks like it's been abandoned."

Ace takes that as a chance to just open the door, and Grim rushes in wanting to be the first. But quickly after he yells out "Bwah! I got a spider web on my face! Ptchoo! Ptchoo!"

The rest of the group had flinched slightly at Grim's yell but after knowing why they followed him inside. Now they had a chance to look around the inside of the now labeled cottage.

And once again the inside was even worse than the outside. There were still cobwebs everywhere but there were still a lot of everyday things making it seem like the inhabitants had to leave in a rush and didn't have the time to take anything with them or that never had the opportunity to do so. Since there was still a cauldron for cooking, silverware, plates, cups, and other kitchen items including food. A broom lay against the fireplace where the cauldron was. There was also a table with a bunch of chairs around it, plus a pickaxe stuck inside of its wood, and a only half burned candle.

Ace looked around the table first and commented "Look how tiny these desks and chairs are. Did children live here? One, two…Seven! It's like a clown car in here!" Now surprised at how many of the tiny people must have lived there. While Deuce was instead looking around the more kitchen area answers Ace with "When the mine was flourishing, this house must have been a lively place."

But Ace switches the topic back to why they came here in the first place "Well, this isn't getting us anywhere. If we're gonna find a magestone, it'll be inside the mine. Let's head inside and take a look."

The group then leaves the house and follows the other direction the path that was on the other side of the river leads to, hoping and guessing it was the mines. And it seemed luck was on their side as they ended up at the entrance to the mines.

There were rail tracks leading into the mine, most likely to help get the gems out of it with a minecart. There was a tree's roots that grew to somehow perfectly skip over the entrance of the mine. A lot of spare wood planks lay around as well, plus there were a bunch of large rocks that ranged from a stone to a boulder, a lot of the larger ones and the tree roots also had moss growing on them as well as vines growing in some places.

The two non-students of the group got freaked out by the looks of the inside. Yuu managed to steel herself while Grim then asked "You wanna go inside THERE? It's pitch black!" Which made Ace taunt Grim "What, are you scared of the dark? Pathetic." This made Grim forget his fear as he argued back "Myah?! I'm not scared of anything! I'm taking the lead. You all follow me!"

Meanwhile Ace snickered since this was the result he wanted so Grim will get the first blow of anything that pops up while they're inside.

The group of four then head inside, and while it was offly dark at first, once they got farther in some gemstones appeared that glowed causing the mine to be brighter.

There were wooden supports every once in a while and the railway tracks followed them all the way inside.

But suddenly Deuce paused as he told them "Huh? Hold up!" appearing to notice something the rest hadn't as Ace askes annoyed "What now?" Deuce says "There's something there!" As he points right in front of them. Which caused the rest to give him an annoyed glare, about stopping them for no reason and not believing that he had heard something.

Well that was until they turned back to where he was pointing as Grim yells out "Myah?!".

In front of them are now two ghosts, they look just like the cubby and normal ones at the dorm but they had their cardigan hood over their ghostly head.

The cubby one laughs as he says "Hee hee hee hee! Visitors! The first in ten years!" The normal one says "Do make yourselves at home…" While the chubby one finishes "So you can stay forever!"

The group then goes to run back out of the mines but fails as instead they run deeper inside instead.

The three with magic also are firing spells back at the ghosts to try and get them to just leave, or even slow them down.

But before the result is unclear the screen fades to black and "To be continued" plays before it fully turned off.