Book 3 - The Merchant from the Depths: Chapter 22; Jolting Electrification

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 22; Jolting Electrification".

Azul is seen walking over to his desk and the vault behind it as he says "Now, then…"

Before he started to unlock the vault, before it opened with a creak.

The first-years are pecking out from under the desk as Deuce whispers "Hey… Those are the contracts we signed!" Ace whispers "So he's been keeping 'em in the vault after all."

Azul then starts to count all of the contracts as he says "One, two, three…" and he goes on for a little bit eventually doing skip numbers. Before he chuckled.

Grim whispers "He's counting those contracts like they're a wad of bills! Look at that smirk on his face." Jack whispers next "What a twisted pastime…"

He then seems to be finished as he says "Ahhh. That's that. I'd better be getting back now."

He closes and locks up the vault before walking away and out the door.

The first-years wait a bit before climbing out from under the table and letting out a sigh of relief.

Grim says "We were THIS close to gettin noticed." as put his paws closer together, leaving just a sliver of air in between them.

Jack then spots something as he tells the others "Wait, look! He left a contract out on the table." Ace excitedly says "For real?! Lucky us! Let's swipe it and see if we can tear it up."

They all go over to it as Grim rather smugly says "Who knew Azul was so sloppy with this stuff? Let's see what we got here…"

But as they touch it a yellow light flashes along with a buzzing noise which electrocutes them slightly as they yell out in pain.

Deuce backs into one of the bookshelf walls which makes some books fall on his head as he yelled in pain from the electric shock. Grim yells "MRAAAH! My whole body's paralyzed!" Yuu's mind go back to those alien movies as she says uncontrollably "T-taaake meee tooo yooour leeeader…!" which once out of her system her mind comes back and she panickedly thinks 'C-c-c-can't…move…!'

Just then some somewhat familiar insane laughter is heard coming from over by the door. Then an even more familiar voice is heard saying with fake sympathy "Dear me. You're all twitching like you got attacked by an electric catfish."

All of them immediately snap their heads over to the door as they see the one and only Azul, Jade, and Floyd standing there.

Azul has a bit of a crazed look in his eyes as he says "You look positively silly."

Jack clenches his fist as he shouts "You were onto us the whole time?!"

Azul rolls his eyes as he holds one of his elbows with his other hand and states "Of course I was. Your fluffy tail was perfectly visible under the desk."

He then feigned sadness as he continued "It would appear you were trying to steal the contracts… Unfortunately for you, they're rigged to jolt anyone who touches them aside from myself." Although he looked rather smug towards the end.

Ace then shouts at them "So the whole thing was a setup?!"

Azul smugly tells them "I told you that my contracts are completely unbreakable."

Floyd laughed insanely again as he yelled "What a bunch of schmucks! Why would you even try when you know how this is gonna go?" Jade snickered himself before telling Floyd "Floyd, don't laugh at the poor things. That's just mean. They're wracking their little peabrains. This is simply the best they could come up with." Before chuckling himself as well.

Azul pushes his glasses up as he rhetorically asks "Trying to steal someone else's valuables merits a proper punishment, wouldn't you say?" Jade puts a hand over his chest as he puts on a predatory smile on and answers "Indeed. They need to be taught a firm lesson so that they never think of doing it again." Floyd smiles as well as he playfully says "I'm gonna squeeze you all, ooone byyy ooone!~"

Jack shouts "Rgh… Watch out, guys! Incoming!" as he gets into a battle pose before they start fighting with them.

The fight isn't seen as the screen fades to black and "To be continued" plays before it fully turns off.