Book 1 - The Rose-Red Tyrant: Chapter 3; Garden Decoration

The changed beginning plays then the chapter title shows "Chapter - 3; Garden Decoration".

The group had headed to the mirror hall, where they had first found Deuce. They head over to the archway that has "Heartslabyul" over it.

Now able to take a closer look at the mirror portal thing that would teleport them to Heartslabyul. It had a couple of stairs leading up to the actual teleporter, and on the utmost sides of the stairs there were different types of mushrooms. There were also strawberry looking lights that produced a red glow on either side. On the last step type thing before the teleporter there started it's design, all in stone. It looked like an open thick book. The outermost area around the mirror teleporter were stone cards, 4 that showed one of every suit, and 6 card backs. There were also a few stone roses with leaves for extra detail. Then at the top was the Heartslabyul house symbol with two things that looked like arrows pointing in both directions left and right of the stone portal.

It swirled as they walked in and produced a glow as it took them into the dorm lands on the other side of it.

Now inside the dorm grounds Yuu took in her surroundings.

She was standing on a stone brick path that led up to a fountain and then the main dorm building. On either side there were rose bushes, some in pots, others made to look like a small tree with the leaves in the shape of a heart. There were a couple of black lamp posts, although off due to it being the day and bright enough so that they don't need to be on. But with it there is a banner that has a red border and the bottom has a zig-zag pattern with yellow tassels sewn on each of the outer ridges.

But the main good thing that comes of this is that now the Heartslabyul logo is clear to see. It is heart with a banner over it showing the dorm name, in a color that makes it seem like it was written on old paper. The heart has a gold border and is split in 4 sections. The two main ones are above the banner and on the right it is two shades of red making it look like a diamond pattern. The other left side is just black but has all of the card suits, first a golden spade, then a gray heart, a golden diamond, and lastly a gray club. Then at the top there appears to be something like a puffed up collar around a golden crown.

There are hedge mazes on either side of the stone path as well.

Finally pulling her attention back to the main building, it is mainly red with just some ivory and dark brown detailing and a black roof. Now the build itself is much more complicated. The main entrance is in the shape of a heart and right above it on the next floor is another heart shaped window but this one has detailing as if thorn vines are covering it. All the windows are rather strange, as some are hearts, diamonds, and a few more regular ones. And above the main entrance to the building is another one of their dorm banners.

Grim, now having fully taken everything in, shouts out and complains "Dang, this place is swank! This is nothing like our dumpster of a dorm." Yuu rolls her eyes as she thinks 'Our dorm is just a work-in-progress.' Before folding her arms over her chest and starts to walk forward as she says to Grim "Comparisons will only make you more miserable."

Before she stops walking as she realizes she has no idea where to go. So she turns around awkwardly and makes a motion for either Ace or Deuce to lead to the way.

Deuce takes charge as Ace is still moping, as he leads them into the beginnings of the rose maze.

The rose maze is a mess as there are paint buckets everywhere and some roses are white, others red, and some not fully red yet. They then see a student painting some of the roses.

He had orange hair that is arranged in a way that most of his bangs are pulled behind his head into a ponytail while the rest is just flat. He has green eyes and under his left eye is a red diamond mark, it's unknown if it's real or face just like Ace and Deuce's marks. He's wearing the school's uniform, although kinda messily.

Trying to get into it while sweating he shouts "Aww yeah, I am getting my paint on!"

The group had already stopped as Grim said "Ah, someone's here."

The student, still unaware, says "They all gotta be red, or it's 'off with my head'!"

Yuu thinks 'I've seen this somewhere before…' as she remembers the dream she says "Whoa, Déjá vu."

The student hears Yuu so he turns around saying "Huh…?" Before seeing them and asking "You guys need something?" Ace asks the student "What are you doing there?" The student then makes a fake, judgingly pointing finger at Ace as he says "Are you blind? I'm painting these roses red, duh."

This surprises most of the group but Yuu still has half of her focus on the dream where something similar was happening so she isn't all that surprised but more confused. Deuce then asks, shouting "What? Why?!" The student laughs as he says "So naïve, you put the 'n' in newb."

Before pausing and saying "Hold the phone, I know you!" then taking a closer look at them he asks them in confirmation "You're the ones who broke a billion-thaumark chandelier and nearly got expelled for it, yeah?"

Ace then face palms while saying "That chandelier is gonna haunt us till the day we graduate, isn't it?" While Deuce also looks remorseful.

Now only talking to Ace he shouts "And you! You're the one who ate the housewarden's tart the same night!"

Then turning his focus back to all of them he says "You guys are THE hot topic around campus! I've gotta get in on this fleeting fame." He then goes up to them and pulls them in for a picture saying "I'm just gonna grab a selfie real quick…" He then takes said selfie with flash, blinding Grim temporarily, as Ace, Deuce and Yuu are just surprised.

The student tapping on his phone asks rhetorically "It's cool if I post this on Magicam, right?"

Now taking a look at them again he says "Gimme your names so I can tag you." Deuce, still surprised, says "I'm Deuce Spade." And Ace grumpily says "Ace." Grim now out of that blindness says "I'm Grim, and that's my henchman, Yuu." Yuu sends a glare in Grim's direction causing him to shrink away slightly.

The student then puts his phone back away as he says "Uploaded! Sweet!"

Now realizing he hadn't introduced himself the student says "Oh, I'm Cater Diamond, by the way. I'm a junior here at Hearslabyul." while making a peace sign after the first sentence. Now having a little fun he also says "But Cater is fine. Or Cay-Cay if you're Cray-Cray! Soooo nice to meetcha."

Yuu decided to be nice as she offered a handshake saying "It's a pleasure." Then snapping his fingers he says "Ah, you're the perfect of that so-called Ramshackle House dorm, right? Like, I can't believe you actually live there! It's all gloomy and looks like hot garbage on Magicam. No filter could salvage THAT dump." Yuu narrows her eyes, now slightly regretting her choice to be nice to this guy. As Grim says also mad at the slander of his dorm says "Y'know, you've doing nothin' but diss us here, pal!"

Now realizing how long he was talking he panics slightly as he says "Gah, what am I doing? I don't have time to chat! The party's tomorrow. If we're not ready, it's 'off with my head'!" Then seemingly coming up with an idea he asks them "Hey, you kids wanna help me paint some roses?"

Ace, still slightly suspicious of this guy and still confused asks "Yeah, uh… Why are you doing that exactly?" The student, Cater, responds "Because red roses are so much more photogenic! Or…something…?" But moving past the question he says "And after that, I've gotta start getting things ready for the big croquet tournament. And that means coloring all the flamingos." Then he sighs. Grim complains "You're colorin' flamingos now? Isn't anything the right color around here?!"

Deuce turns to Ace saying "Now it's coming into focus, Ace. That tart you ate must have been for the housewarden's birthday. That explains his reaction!"

Cater suppresses a laugh as he explains "Hm? Oh, no, it's not Riddle's Birthday." Ace, now confused, asks Cater "It's not? Then whose birthday is it?"

Cater then explains a dorm tradition "It isn't anyone's birthday. Tomorrow is our dorm's traditional unbirthday party. It's a special tea party we throw when no one has a birthday – if the housewarden feels like it."

Ace, now confused and slightly annoyed asks "And why would you do that?" Cater then says "Again with the questions! Listen, I need these roses to be red. Like, yesterday. Can't you guys help out with magic or something?"

Both Yuu and Ace cross their arms since they can't use magic. Cater catches on and says "Oh, but Ace is on magical house arrest and Yuu is a total normie, so you two better stick to paint."

Deuce, surprised and confused, says "Recolor the roses with magic…" Meanwhile Grim rolls his eyes as he says "Can't say I've done this before."

Cater waves them off saying "Relax, it'll be fine. You got this! But maybe do it before I lose my head? K! Thanks!"

He then tries to run off but Yuu grabs him and says "None of us know how, you at least have to at least show us before you run off." with an eye roll.

Cater gets slightly unsettled so he decides to just listen and do one more rose bush with them, to show them how it's done.

As they start painting the screen fades to black as "To be continued appears on the screen before fully turning off.