Book 2 - The Usurper from the Wilds: Chapter 21; Plan Synchronizing

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 21; Plan Synchronizing".

Riddle had just finished telling them his plan as Ace said "Huh. That's actually not half bad, dude." Deuce shouts the compliment "That is quite a plan, Housewarden Rosehearts!" Cater says with enthusiasm "Sounds like ol' Cay-Cay has a lot of prep work to do before the big day!"

Riddle says "Thank you, Cater." Before cautioning him "Take care not to raise suspicions."

Cater nods before asking Jack "So H-B-U, Jack? You heard Riddle's plan. Are you in? Or out?" Jack says slightly unwillingly "There's nothing cowardly about it, at least. I suppose we can work together this one time."

Grim tells him "Really feelin' the trust there, Jack."

Ace then changes the topic as he says "Cool beans. Let's all get back to our dorms for today." Before complaining "I know I'm about ready to keel over." Grim agrees, complaining "Yeah, and I'm starving!"

But before they can walk away Riddle tells them "Hold on a moment, freshmen." The freshmen faced him as they listened. As Riddle continued "Because of the information it yielded, I am going to overlook your flagrant violation of rule #6 "No fighting on campus. But rest assured that if it happens again," He pauses as he warns them, anger showing clear as day on his face "-it will cost you your heads. Are we clear?"

Ace, Deuce, Grim, and Yuu say "Yes sir, Housewarden Rosehearts." While Jack says shortly after them "...Yeah." as all eyes were on him. Riddle nods in satisfaction then says "Very well. Let us return to our dorms."

Jack whispers to them "Man, I thought he looked like a wuss, but your housewarden is one scary dude." Ace whispers back "You ain't wrong. Mistake him for a friendly hedgehog and you'll quickly learn he's actually a furious porcupine."

All the freshmen shutter as Yuu tries to move everything along to a better topic. So she shouts "We are going to stop this crime, no matter what!" Which gets actions of agreement from everyone.

It then has a time skip as it is now night, and it switched places as now it's in the Savanaclaw dorm lounge.

The lounge is very rocky and all the furniture is the same as that an island resort would put outside on the beach. Everything built is in the most basic way, as if it was from a long time ago or just made by amateurs. There are some plants growing out of anywhere they can. But the main point of attraction was the two story waterfall into a small pond. The water seemed to be glowing or at least there were lights behind or underneath it to make it appear that way.

Leona was lounging around as he say Ruggie and asked slightly angry "Ruggie, what's this I heard about you gettin' chased around by the Heartslabyul kids at lunch?!"

He then scolds shouting "You idiot! I told you a thousand times to make sure you didn't leave any evidence behind!" Ruggie is kinda nervous as he defends himself "I… I didn't! That was some kind of fluke. You don't need to worry about a thing, Boss. They've got no evidence whatsoever. Cross my heart and hope to die!"

Leona goes "Hmph."

Before moving on telling him "Anyway, I secured the cooperation of that squid at Octavinelle, but it didn't come cheap."

He then warns everyone there "If you idiots mess things up on tournament day, I am gonna fry you up and eat you myself." Ruggie comments "The main dish is coming along nicely."

A Savanaclaw boy tells him "Don't worry. We're gonna have those Diasomnia jerks pleading for mercy on tournament day!"

Ruggie says excitedly "I do look forward to watching this all play out. Oh, how the world will praise us when they see you standing over a battered Malleus Draconia! Maybe some top corporate recruiters will even take an interest in a little ol' hyena like me." The same student as before shouts to Ruggie "Even the pro leagues will be scouting you!"

Leona chuckles as he says "Look at all'a you – celebratin' when you've only just sunk your claws into your prey."

Another student shouts up and says to Leona "You're gonna be the most famous of all, Leona!" The first student also shouts "Everyone in the Sunset Savanna is gonna have some second thoughts about who should be the next king!"

But this just irritates Leona as he says "Succession ain't got nothin' to do with ability."

Ruggie questions "Huh?" Leona rolls his eyes and tells them "Nothin" before yawning and telling them "I'm headin' to bed. All of you, scram." Ruggie answers "Yessir."

All the other students leave and as Ruggie is the last one tells Leona "Sleep well, Housewarden." as he walks away with a smile.

Leona puts a hand to his head and massages the space between his eyes as he says "As if conquerin' this school is gonna fix anything in the real world…"

It then switches over to Yuu as she sees the flat shadowy yellow background with the small puddle of that black stuff as three more drops fall and join the puddle making it bigger.

Then as it shows her concerned face again the screen fades to black as "To be continued" plays before it fully turns off.