Book 1 - The Rose-Red Tyrant: Chapter 14; Delicious Varieties

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 14; Delicious Varieties".

They're still in the kitchen, and are finishing up the tarts. Trey says "Okay, now we just sprinkle on a little powdered sugar, and…" Then Ace and Grim cheer out "Finished!" While Deuce less enthusiastically says "Fin…ished…"

Ace then leans in towards Yuu as he asks "Did something happen to him while you were shopping?" As he took a closer look at Deuce who appeared to be totally out of it and depressed looking. Yuu, not fully explaining, says "He's still in shock."

Deuce then mumbles out "For sixteen years, I was so sure…" Ace now getting slightly weirded out just says "Yeah, whatever. I'm pretty beat. Making tarts sure takes it outta you."

Cater then walks into the kitchen and says "Hey fam! You look wrecked."

Then while looking around he asks "Are the tarts done?"

Trey shows Cater where the finished tarts are as Cater exclaims "Ooh, those look sooo cute! Lemme snap a quick pic for Magicam!" But he took the pictures before he even got an answer.

Ace, annoyed, says to Cater "What, NOW you decide to show up?" But Cater only says "I just came to see how hard my little newbs were working." Trey tells Cater and the rest of them "It's tough work if you're not used to it. But there's no better cure for the ails of fatigue than something sweet from the oven!"

Then putting one of the tarts in front of everyone before he continues with "Help yourself to some of this tart." Everyone cheers "YAY!"

Ace then points something out by saying "Pretty funny how you managed to show right when it was ready to eat, Cater." Which Cater simply chuckles at as he says "Someone's gotta be the official taster!"

Grim taking a good sniff of the tart says "Mmmm… That smells so good… Glossy chestnuts on top, fluffy cream below… I can't wait another second, I'm going in!"

As Grim essentially sticks his face into the tart. Ace is the next to try the tart, and says "Oh, dang…" having the same extremely good taste the one he ate that night did. Cater tries his next, and after he says "Yuuum! Liked and subscriiibed!" Deuce is amazed by the taste as he says "This is like something from a fancy bakery."

Grim then goes on another one of his rants about how things taste "Rich in flavor, yet not too sweet… It's like chestnuts are dancing across my tongue!"

Trey, then slightly nervous and confused, asks Grim, "Is that…a good thing?"

But Cater starts to wave his hands as he says to Trey "Oh, Trey! You gotta do the thing." before Trey was able to get an answer out of Grim.

Trey was confused at first before getting it as he said "The thing? Oh… That."

The first years are also confused but have no idea what their two juniors were talking about.

Ace takes the lead for the first years and asks "Uh, wanna fill me in here?"

Trey, not explaining yet asks them all "What's everyone's favorite food?"

They're still confused but answer. Ace says "Me? Probably cherry pie. Or hamburgers." Grim answers a bunch of things "Canned tuna's at the top of my list. Then maybe cheese omelets, roast meat, pudding…" But before he could list more Deuce answered "If I had to pick, I guess I'd say…omelet rice?" Cater fully aware answers "I like a nice lamb chop with diablo sauce."

Trey takes a second to make sure he remembered it all before saying "All right, you've got it… Let's 'Paint the Roses'!('Doodle Suit' real name)" As Trey casted a spell.

Deuce asks "Huh? What does that mean?" But Trey decides to let the magic do the explaining as he tells them "Take another bite of your tart and see."

They all decide to just listen and take another bite of their tarts.

Ace takes his first and says "Huh? How – Now it tastes like cherry pie!" Grim takes a bite next and says "It's just like canned tuna!" then takes another two bites and exclaims "Now it tastes like a cheese omelet! And grilled meat!" Then takes two more and finishes with "And pudding!"

Cater, really excited, says "Nice trick, eh? That's gotta be a hit when Trey's having tea with the ladies."

Deuce responds "It's very impressive." Before turning to Trey and asking him "Is changing flavors your signature spell/unique magic, Trey?"

Trey then explains "Technically, it's "overwriting characteristics". I can change taste, color, smell, whatever. It only lasts for a little while. But it is kinda like covering up the real thing hence, 'painting'."

Grim then exclaims "If I had magic like that, I could be eatin' canned tuna every meal of every day! That's way better than Riddle's stupid collar magic!"

But Trey looks away and denies the complement as he says "Oh, that's in a whole other league. His signature spell/unique magic is a weapon. Mine's just childish prestidigitation."

Trey now wanting to move the topic along tells the first years "Speaking of Riddle – it's too late to give him these now. Let's call it a day and do it tomorrow. Don't forget that tomorrow's the unbirthday party. You don't want to be late."

Ace then tries puppy dog eyes as he asks "Yuu, can I crash with you again? It doesn't sound like I'll be allowed back in my own dorm tonight."

Cater then looks embarrassed for Ace's sake as Cater asks "Again, seriously?" Deuce also says "It isn't right to keep mooching off of Yuu, Ace." Grim, also not really wanting Ace to stay, tells Ace "Yeah, it ain't! If you wanna stay tonight, you gotta pay for the privilege! Ten cans of tuna!"

Ace drops the act as he sees it isn't working and says "What?! Guess I'm sleeping outside, then."

But Yuu just rolls her eyes as she gives Grim a disapproving head shake.

Allowing Trey to infer that she will be allowing Ace to stay either way.

So Trey tells Deuce "Why don't you go and stay at Yuu's dorm too, Deuce, so you can keep an eye on him?" Then looking at the two Heartslabyul first years tells them "As Vice housewarden, I can issue you a sleepover pass."

Cater gets obviously jealous as he says "That's our Trey, always spoiling the newbs. What fun for you." Now trying to get in on this sleepover he pulls the puppy dog eyes like Ace as he says "Ooh, maybe I'll come too! What do you say, Yuu?"

As Cater realizes that Yuu's the one who's pulling the strings of the dorm.

But Trey shoots him down before he can get an answer saying "No pass for you." Cater then slightly pouts saying "Aww. Sad trumpet… Womp womp womp."

Now having that over with, he turns to Yuu and says "Sorry to dump them all of you, Yuu. At least it's just for tonight."

She slightly narrows her eyes as she has a feeling it will become longer than that but it's out of her control. So she sighs and smiles as she tells Trey "It's no problem."

Ace, now thinking about what will happen with a bit of a glazed over look, says "Tomorrow's the unbirthday party." Then turns all grumpy as he continues "Finally, I'm gonna get rid of this stupid collar! Just you wait, Riddle!"

They then start to go their separate ways, with the first years going to Ramshackle dorm and the Juniors going back to their dorm, Heartslabyul.

As they walk in they are immediately greeted by a random Heartslabyul student almost running but withholding himself, most likely due to a rule, as he quietly shouts "Trey-senpai! Cater-senpai! You're finally back! We've been looking everywhere for you!" Trey asks the student "What happened?" As they walk into the dorm longue, which is too dark to be able to see anything. While walking the student explains "Ten dorm members were caught violating rule 256…'No drinking honey-sweetened lemonade after 8 p.m.' Housewarden Riddle collared them all!" Trey and Cater are silent at this.

The student seeing their non-reaction yells out "I can't take it anymore! I can't live like this! Everything we do violates some insane rule! I want to transfer to another dorm…" The student then starts to cry. Trey lightly rubs the kids back and tells him "It'll be okay. We'll go talk to the housewarden. You go back to your room." In as gentle a voice as he could manage.

The student still crying nods as he walks away back to his room.

While watching him walk away Cater sighs and says "...Guess I'd better go make some tea or something, as a show of deference to the Queen." Trey gives him a sympathetic smile and says "Thanks, Cater."

As Cater's walking away Trey reminds him "Oh, but make sure it's herbal tea, not black. You know what rule 153 says about drinking tea at night." Cater stops for a second looking back and says "...yeaaah, sure. Of course."

It then shows Yuu as she welcomes the Heartslabyul first-years into the dorm. When suddenly she freezes and it zooms into her face.

It shows that red flat shadowy background gets two more drops of that black liquid. Before zooming out proving that it's only her who can see this.

The others are waving a hand in front of her face, trying to snap her out of being frozen. She waves them all off and she finishes showing them where they'll be sleeping.

The screen then fades to black as "To be continued" plays before it fully turns off.