"A miraculous healer? Huh"

"Sounds like a monkey business if I be transparent"

The Ramshackle Duo had been concentrated going through the files Tohma handed over containing the details of the open case Frostheim House was assigned to handle; it sounded serious, a couple of children went missing from this neighborhood where they stopped by and some were found dead with missing body parts. However majority of the missing kids came from this orphanage home where this so-called healer lived, the most recent incident also took place inside.

Mary grimaced, these pictures clipped to the folders weren't blurred and it didn't sit right through her stomach seeing how morbid it was. "These children..."

Her raccoon-cat companion was comfortable sitting on her shoulder, "Tell me Mary, when are we going to stop playing Sherlock Holmes and James Watson?" Grim sighed.

"I cannot be ruled in as Holmes nor Watson, Grim" The redhead commented halfheartedly, flipping through the documents to find more. "All I know is trouble follows us everywhere we go"

This neighborhood was simple, quiet and clean; although an early afternoon, there weren't much walking around and unlike the most busy parts of Tokyo, you wouldn't feel any unseen urgency or deadline chasing your rears in this area.

Kaito had been uncharacteristically quiet leaning against a wall near a lamp post, he appeared forlorn and recalling the events at school. He lose control and snapped, it wasn't supposed to be and he gave into his impulse of kissing Mary—not directly on the lips but what the f--

"Kaito," Lucas called, intercepting his unhelpful train of thoughts. "Do not be disheartened, you did what you think is right and if you didn't fight back, our senpai would have continued his bullying" There was something else he wanted to say, no, he wanted to ask about the kiss, however it was evident since the start that his blonde friend took a liking to Mary. But he thought it was only a puppy attraction.

Their female friend never talked about the unexpected amorous gesture, only Grim attempted to chase them with mouthful of threats.

It was hard to breathe easily, a clog stayed within Kaito's chest as he didn't know whether Mary was mad at him or not. "Yeah okay, sorry" Damn it, talk about bringing awkwardness to the power of 10.

Lucas turned his violet eyes back on the redhead, "Were you able to get the details you want, Mary?"

"Yes, we can go now and start" Mary stated but she wasn't so confident about her skills, she handed the folder back to Lucas.

The odd quadrant went to the orphanage home, Grim begrudgingly stayed shut in Mary's arms because he had to be disguised as a grumpy fluffy poofy cat and not shock the people by suddenly talking. Good thing he would be able to spy without looking suspicious.

Good timing had it, a healing session was about to take place in a couple of minutes. People gathered inside and most of them were wealthy; Lucas' elegant upbringing and elite status helped big time in lessening the suspicion level in their group, the adults around regarded them as Darkwick Academy students and nothing more.

"How come they are not surprise hearing we are from Darkwick?" Mary asked Kaito since he was the nearest to her.

Kaito visibly got startled, his face reddening a bit. "Our school is a huge anomaly itself, from the outside it can make itself appear as a normal school for the rich and elite but once you get inside, it's like existing in its own world" He replied in a whisper.

"Wow, sounds cool" Mary nodded to this.

They partook in the events to come, watching this elderly tall man miraculously helped a handicapped grew his limb back. Mary was shocked wondering if magic was involved, even Grim was trying really hard not to comment loudly. By evening they were invited to join dinner.

Grim decided to leave the venue to start his work, walking on all fours felt damn strange but he needed to act like a cat. He sensed a foreboding all over the orphanage home but couldn't pinpoint where and what. 'Damn it, I ain't exactly cut for the whole detective thing either.' Too deep in his mind, he reached a part of the floor they didn't go to yet.

There was a boy, he looked scared standing near the windows, was he trying to escape?

"Hey kitty, are you lost?" The boy was in a wheelchair, he wheeled it to come closer to Grim.

As for Grim, he stayed still and did his best cat acting. "M...Meow...?"

Luckily, the boy bought the act, if Floyd was there, he would have laughed. "You should not be here at night, kitty, it's...it's not safe" The boy frowned sadly. "...when I tried telling my friends, they did not believe me, even my own twin brother said I was crazy..."

Whoa! This must be the kid who encountered something freaky based on the report! Grim stared up at him, mentally urging to continue his narrative.

"There you are!" Mary came, she hurried to Grim and scooped him up in her arms.

The boy stopped talking, looking unsure now at an audience and jumped to a wrong assumption that Mary was like everyone else. Without another word, he left.

Grim deadpanned, shaking his head. "Mary, could you have made your timing any worse?"

"But I thought you were lost! I freaked out"

"Did you forget I mentioned before we went here that I will lurk after dinner to check for anything, the boy was about to get to the juicy part of his narration when you appeared" Grim scowled, his electric blue eyes momentarily swept down at Mary's neck and he saw...tattoos? It was hidden by the collar of her uniform to be noticed. But it was like shaped of keys?

Mary held Grim close to her, "Sorry! We'll regroup and come up with a different plan to get the boy talk to us, also Lucas got some info from talking to the guests inside the venue too"

"What about Kaito?"

"Ah, he got lost and mistaken as a waiter but on the bright side, we got many food takeouts!"

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Loud knocking. An annoying one, like oh my g--

"I'm coming! Ugh!" Mary's body still felt sore and heavy, she gotten too lazy to changed into her pajamas that she ended up sleeping only in a long sleeves white polo that barely reached her thighs.

Who would be coming here this early?! She wanted more sleep before starting the day, they got back to Darkwick Academy late yesterday and hadn't reported anything to the Frostheim Captain and Vice-Captain yet. For a second, Mary checked her phone and heck, Jin already had a message requiring her presence and he made it clear that he didn't care about her schedule, she would adjust it to cater his.

That served to double her annoyance.

HUH?! What was up with this demand so suddenly?!

The knocking outside brought Mary out of musing, with grumble, she pulled it open and was taken aback to see a tall guy with rich dark blue hair and piercing berry-red eyes behind a black rimmed glasses. His uniform color was different from Frostheim. Must be another House.

'Wow, he must be as tall as Sebek or Malleus' Mary barely reached this guy's shoulder.

"You are underdressed" was the only clipped statement from the towering guy.

Another remark, this one sounded more irritated and coming directly behind the skyscraper. "What took you long to answer?! You ungrateful brat! Do you not realized it's a privilege for you to have us come to you directly?!"

Peering behind the tower guy, Mary saw another person—his hairstyle reminder her of Azul but this hair color was like a loud turquoise. "Eh?" She blinked.

"Oh hell no, it's the pair of freak scientists from Mortkranken" The dejected comment came from Grim who just woke up.

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(Back in Twisted Wonderland)

Another busy day at Monstro Lounge, the money kept on coming and everyone found their new services affordable and practical. They even received a review online stating they no longer felt like a scam or something.

The Leech twins are helping in counting the overall earning for the day.

"How long is he going to brood?" Floyd asked, leaning into the bar, yawning in boredom.

Jade smirked in amusement, it was no laughing matter but they knew the reason Azul was not in high spirits for the past five days. "Ah, he will be back to normal once his Precious comes back from her trip outside"

Their dorm leader barely looked alive for the past week, well he knew about Mary and Grim going to this concert thing and initially he didn't like Mary leaving that long—he should have come with them but no one would be left to manage the lounge. What if his Precious already found someone else that wasn't even worthy? And worse, less handsome than him?!

Yes Azul, keep the intrusive thoughts flowing.