You wheeze a bit in amazement at how much harder it was to fight against Crowley than the other ghosts- who are laughing hysterically at the scene- and Grim has flopped onto the floor.

You Pokémon watch blankly, and Poni hops up and hugs your leg to comfort you in her sweet and precious way.

"Well?" Grim asks, giving the Headmage an annoyed look as the fur on his neck bristles, still on the floor.

"Incredible..." Crowley says, having returned to normal already, "I must confess, I've never seen anyone bend a monster to their will in the way you keep managing to do Y/N. I was aware you were good at this with your "Pokey Mans"," He gestures to your Pokémon, who are just chilling around the place having watched the whole ordeal, "And yet I remain impressed. Oh yes, you certainly have an animal trainer-y, beast master-ish quality to you. Perhaps that is a requirement to be a "Pokey Man" trainer?"

You shrug a bit, with a polite smile on your face, "I suppose... so- uh- do you mind if I keep Grim here with me?"

Everyone simultaneously gave you wide-eyed looks, like you just said you were gonna steal Crowley's job from him while he slept. Which you're not, as you are no educator. Not even close...

"What? A monster, stay here?" Crowley presses a hand to his chest to show just how shocked he is.

"...You're letting me keep my Pokémon..." You respond with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, they can stay in those tiny little capsules!"

You clasp your hand together, giving Crowley your best pleading look, "Please sir..?"

Crowley thinks for a moment, "Hmmmm... I suppose I cannot deny your plea."

Grim immediately hops to his feet, looking absolutely thrilled as his ear-fire sparks. "Myah!? Really?"

Crowley looks serious with a stern tone, "Let me be clear! Under no circumstances would I admit anyone to Night Raven College who has not been selected by the Dark Mirror- especially not a monster!"

Grim immediately groans at this, his ears pinning down as he looks annoyed.

"And Y/N." Crowley nods slightly at you, "I have managed to procure you a job. Though this will have to pay for whatever supplies you garner, as I am not allowing you to freeload until you can go home. Though, considering the Dark Mirror has brought you here, the school does bear some responsibility for your well-being. So I shall allow you to stay in this dorm free of charge."

He clears his throat slightly and continues, "However, you will need to pay for your own food, clothing, and incidentals."

You pause at this, raising an eyebrow. Guess you shouldn't have hoped he let you stay for free...

"Er... what is the job?" You ask nervously, "And follow up question, can they work?"

You gesture at your Pokémon, who all slowly give you blank looks. Except Bangbang. Bangbang knows what you have in mind for the chaotic Tinkaton... and they adore it.

Also, Terapagos isn't phased. Terapagos doesn't react to much other than happily squeaking and walking up to nuzzle you affectionately.

Or to bite Arven. They seem to oddly like that...

"You needn't be so alarmed," Crowley says, hearing the worry in your tone despite your calm expression, "I'm simply going to ask you and your little "Pokey Man" companions to do odd jobs around campus. From what you've done here, Y/N, I can tell you know your way around a broom. So, what do you say to you, Grim, and the little green one working together as a janitorial team- yes, I do mean you," Crowley says when Ogerpon points at herself, tilting her head as her little orange face looks confused, "If you do that, I will make a special exception to allow you to remain on campus, Grim."

Grim crosses his arms, looking slightly disappointed with the offer.

"I'll also allow you free use of the library so you may study and assist in researching ways to return you home Y/N. How soundlessly charitable I am. Ah, but only when your work is over, of course!"

"Whaaaat?" Grim asks in a flabbergasted tone, "What kinda deal is that!? I wanna put on a uniform and be a student, not sweep up people's junk!"

Crowley gives Grim a slightly annoyed look, "If you're not satisfied with my offer, I can arrange to have you thrown out again."

Grim's eyes widen as he immediately changes his tune, "Myah!? Alright, fine... let's do it."

You smile at the sullen cat, "Heya... You can still learn about magic despite not being a student in the library with me. And you can train with my Pokémon and I in the morning with your magic! That way you can still become a great sorcerer!"

Grim immediately perks up at your offer, "Not that great but... eh, works!"

Crowley smiles and claps his hands once, "Wonderful! Then I beseech you three to work hard as the newest members of Night Raven College's janitorial staff!"

And with that, Crowley turns on his heel to leave.

"Uh- sir!" You ask him, which causes him to pause and turn back around to face you, "Can I have your phone number? So I can communicate in case any emergencies happen?"

Crowley pauses, thinking for a moment.

"Hm... I suppose so! I shall enter my phone number into your cellular device. May I please see it?"

You smile and nod at Toto, who excitedly buzzes over to Crowley.

"Hehe..." They giggle out, looking slightly maniacal, "More buzzing feeling..."

Crowley seems slightly intrigued and concerned, yet enters his phone number into Toto.

"There you go, dear! Aren't I just the kindest?" Crowley smiles as he then leaves.

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You, Grim, and your Pokémon ate the food shortly after the Headmage left, with you absent-mindedly munching on a few apple slices Sweet Apple was kind enough to use Supersweet Syrup on to make a make-shift dessert, as you listen to Grim keep complaining.

You finally break your eyes away from the yowling cat as you smile at Ogerpon, who's sitting next to you and eating syrup-coated apple-slices as well.

"Sorry about making you become a janitor Poni..." You apologize quietly with a shy smile, "I don't want to make you feel forced to do anything."

Poni smiles sweetly and waves one of her nubs as to say, 'I don't mind!'

You smile gently at the precious Pokémon, as Grace nudges your neck. You smile and pet the Milotic's head, who closes his eyes and relaxes into the touch.

"MYAHHH! HUMAN! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" Grim growls out as he storms up to you, you peering down over your legs down at the little being.

He's about the size Chile was when he was a Fuecoco...

"Oh... yeah... uh- sorry?" You tilt your head, deep down not really caring all to much, "I'm just kinda tired... long day, y'know?"

You glance over at the Rotom-Phone, whos gliding around and taking all the pictures they can. "Toto, what time is it?"

Toto whirls around, a grin on their little artificial face, "Beep beep! It's 7:32 PM! BTW, I automatically connected to the wifi in this world, and easily bypassed the password! Boop!"

Looks like everyone back home may be realizing you're kinda gone now...

You sigh, "You really need to stop bypassing passwords..."

Toto blinks innocently, "But it's fuuuun, boop!"

You cross your arms, your expression serious. You hate going all serious like this outside of Pokémon battles, but it's needed now.

"..." Toto groans and angrily buzzes, "But, can I figure out what the most popular social media is here in this world? It could make so many buzzing feelings if we re-upload your music videos! Including the ones with the other members of the Eternal Eevelutions! They did do well view-wise, beep beep!"

Grim gives you a wide-eyed look. "Myah!? What's an "Eternal Eve-loo-tions? You make music, human!?"

You shrug and calmly correct the cat, "Eternal Eevelutions. Pretty close in pronunciation though... and it's an idol/music group where 8 champions of various regions who each have a different evolved form of Eevee. For example, I'm called "Umbree" in the group due to me having an Umbreon- Moonstone- and dressing up as one when we preform."

Grim looks slightly impressed, but shakes his head and frowns again.

"Okay, cool I guess, but now pay attention to me!" He shakes your leg a bit, and you sigh and pick him up.

A smile teases your lips. You love that Grim doesn't seem to care at all about your status back home, since you never wanted all that attention. You just love helping your friends, which lead to even becoming an idol-esc thing in the first place.

"Unsure why you suddenly crave attention now, but just sit and be quiet. I'm reading about this world."

Grim grumbles under his breath, sitting on your lap with his little arms crossed as you resume reading.

"...human, slow down with the page turning!" You glance down at the annoyed looking Grim.

"Oh?" You raise an eyebrow, a playful smile on your face, "Sorry, I'll slow down so you can read too."

Grim blushes slightly, embarrassed that you called him out for reading with you.

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You stare at yourself in the mirror in the room you decided to claim as your own, tilting your head as you look at the outfit the ghosts managed to scrounge up for you.

It's definitely meant for men, being slightly too large for you and had to be tied into place on the pants with a spare shoe-string you found in your bag. Black and white vertical stripes cover both shirt and pants. Though it's comfortable and definitely works.

You smile faintly as you look over at Ko, Mi, and Poni who are sitting on the bed, all covering their eyes for when you changed.

"Okay everyone, I'm fully changed now." At your words, all the Pokémon uncover their eyes and wait for you to come to bed. You're all fully ready for bed, and the three Pokémon sleep with you at night since they all have issues with being left alone.

You flomp onto the bed, shaking your H/C hair from your face as you gently take Toto off the worn side-table, and scroll through the sleeping Rotom-Phone.

You sigh internally when you know as much as you want to contact home, you have no way in being able too. Wifi naturally doesn't go between different worlds, sadly. The phone numbers of your friends probably belong to different people...

You raise an eyebrow at two new apps on your phone. One's obviously meant for downloading apps and called, 'Play Store', and the other reminds you immediately of PokéCam and is called, 'Magicam'.

You get a vague memory of what the orange haired boy from orientation said about my 'Magicam'. Perhaps this is it?

You click on and immediately realize Toto hasn't made an account yet- thank Arceus- so you sigh in relief internally and put the Rotom-Phone back down, laying down with your head on Koraidon's back as you pull the threadbare blanket over yourself and Poni.

"Well..." You mumble out, barely feeling any warmer under the blanket as you click the lamp off- you're amazed how within three hours Toto completely managed to repair the dorms electricity. The powers of Rotom are insane- and snuggle into bed, gently closing your eyes...

Several Pokémon have been placed in the boxes or are back in their Pokéballs and sleeping, since it's around 10 PM right now.

Before sitting up as the dorm is slammed open with a loud, "MYAH! HUMAN!!!"

You groan at Grim, who's managed to aquire a little black and white night-cap for himself, as the cat storms in. "Yeah..?"

"I can't find any comfortable beds without those darn ghosts harassin' me and I demand to sleep with you! You got no choice in this! Myah!"

You relent and motion with a hand for the cat to hop in. Grim gets a sly grin on his face as he hops into the bed, cheerfully scurring into bed and nuzzling down between you and Miraidon.

You sigh as you close your eyes again and relax.

Then you hear a faint cracking and perk up.

"..?"

Everyone yelps when the bedframe cracks in half and the mattress cratches to the floor.

"OH COME ON!"