Hello everyone, TomboyJessie13, sorry it took so long, but I have been working on these all day and all night until wee hours of the morning, not all the time but on days when I do work until dawn, lacking sleep. Anyways I know I have said this is before, but this is actually the BIGGEST Chapter I've written for reals, having more than 10,000 words, and I hope you like it. If not then I understand, besides I will edit some of the chapters when I upload them to Tumblr.

Chapter 21 

A day at Behemo's

In the Heavenly Yard, the rice fields began to sparkle in a brilliant gold as the sun began to rise from the horizon, it is already the next day. The sky that overlooks the Heavenly Yard was colored in both a pale violet and dusty rose color, and in the said sky is a dim image of the planet the humans of the Third Period once lived on, back to its full glory, thanks to Allen who had restored it, in addition to restoring the boundary between both the Heavenly Yard and Hellish Yard. Now back to the rice fields, there stands the old research center where the Modified Black Box sits.

The person who came out of it was the Master of the Hellish Yard herself, keeping her face hidden due to missing her mask. She then deactivated the barrier in the entrance.

"You can access through now." She said stoically, one by one, the Sinners entered the Heavenly Yard wearing crucifixes around their necks.

"Why do we always have to wear these when we're in the Heavenly Yard?" Gallerian asked, holding the crucifix he's wearing.

"Because you are Sinners who are on the path to redemption, also it's the only way to keep you bond to the ground here because if you take them off now you'd be dragged into the ground world like the last time...well it was with the inhabitants of the Heavenly Yard but you get the idea." The Master explained.

"Whatever you say, Rodent-face." Gallerian sneered, only for Kayo to smack him in the back of his head. "OW!"

"Be quiet! You're gonna get us sent back to the Hellish Yard!" She scolded him.

"It's fine, although I'm not pleased by what he said, he is right about the mask I'm wearing so I'll leave him off with a warning for now." The Master said as she reveals herself wearing a bunny hood in place of the mask that got away from her, it had fake pale yellow fur with beady black eyes and floppy ears. " Though I wished that Marie picked a less embarrassing mask than this."

"I think you look adorable, Mistress." Margarita said smiling, that in turn caused the Master to blush, she used her cloak to hide her face.

"Y-your mode of tr-transportation should b-b-be here." She stuttered, it was the first time the Sinners actually saw her getting flustered. Just then, on a dirt road near the research center is a horse-drawn tram driven by Hansel and Gretel, in their Servant forms, and the horses in question are two horses, a brown horse, and a white one whom judging by the Lucifenian emblem around her neck shows that the horse in question is Josephine, Riliane's favorite horse.

"Need a lift?" Gretel asked, wiggling her eyebrows.

"JOSEPHINE!" Riliane ran to her steed, the white horse neighed happily to her owner.

"I never have seen a carriage like this before." Cherubim commented.

"This isn't a carriage, it's a tram, it's way bigger than a carriage because we have to carry you guys." Hansel explained. Just then the tram doors opened, revealing Allen who seemed to be green in the face, he fell into Banica's arms.

"Allen!" Riliane exclaimed.

"Are you ok, boy?" Banica asked, brushing the hair off his face to feel his temperature.

"I've always hated riding on carriages or anything horse-powered." He groaned. "I'll stick to going to Champs-Élysées on foot from now on."

"Here, take this." Hansel tossed him medicine.

"Thanks." He takes it. "Ok everyone." He stands up, "This horsecar will take you to Behemo's house, once there you will receive your punishments...right Gentlemen?" Allen then looked at the men coldly. Both Gallerian and Cherubim slicked down behind Kayo.

"Oh...so you do know." Riliane said.

"Correct, and I didn't like it, you guys are lucky that Michaela healed my mind otherwise I've would have to kick your butts for traumatizing me, now if you excuse me I'm gonna rest, I'll check up on you guys later when I have the chance." Allen went into the old building.

"That reminds me, Riliane, you don't have to go, you did the right thing yesterday." The Master said.

"Yeah well, I kinda lied to Allen about what happened so that would count as a bad thing, that and there's nothing to do in the box so I might as well stave off my boredom."

"Good point, well off you go then." The Master then entered the portal underneath her.

"Ok." Riliane then took out some baby carrots and gave them to Josephine, who happily ate them. The brown horse next to her got jealous so Riliane gave the horse some as well.

"Come oooon, come on, come on, come on, we don't want to keep the Drag Queen waiting." Gretel hurried.

"I'm coming, I'm just feeding the horses." She got to the tram entrance. "Who's the brown horse anyway?"

"Oh, that's Coco." Hansel answered. "Because she's brown like chocolate."

"Ahhhh ok." She entered the tram, the Sinners soon followed as well and took their seats.

"We're entering the Champs-Élysées for the first time." Kayo said after she got settled.

"We won't be there in person though." Nemesis said sadly. "Just in a vehicle."

"Better that then nothing."

"Everybody seated?" Gretel asked.

"YES." They said in unison.

"Alright!" Hansel said. "Kick it, Sis!"

"Giddy up, girls!" Gretel called to the horses as she whips the lead ropes connected to the horses' halters, causing the horses to move with the tram. "Here we go." They continued down the path in the rice fields for a few minutes until finally, they've reached the gardens; the Heavenly Yard's main street: the Champs-Élysées. The entire place was lined with flowers, trees, and pristine buildings, the Sinners were amazed by the sight, so much so that Riliane suddenly began to sing fluently in Lucifenian:

"Je m'baladais sur l'avenue, Le cœur ouvert à l'inconnu
J'avais envie de dire bonjour, À n'importe qui
N'importe qui ce fut toi, Et je t'ai dit n'importe quoi
Il suffisait de te parler, Pour t'apprivoiser
Aux Champs-Élysées, Aux Champs-Élysées..."

"What song is that?" Margarita asked. "It's pretty."

"It's a really old song from a long time ago, My Mother used to sang this before she died of Gula, we don't know where it came from but it's believed to be about this garden in the Heavenly Yard."

"It does have the same name as this place." Kayo said.

"Strange, this place is empty, I thought the place would be more thriving." Gallerian said.

"That's because it's early in the morning, idiot." Gretel snapped. "Seriously you're more stupid than my brother."

"OHHHHHHHH!" Nemesis pointed at her father, causing the Sinners to laugh, even Hansel began laughing from hearing what his sister said, but then he stopped when he realized something wrong.

"Heeeeeeeeeeey."

"Oh come on you know it's true." Gretel said. "Hiya!" She whips the lead ropes again, which speeds up the horses connected to the tram. While they're going through the garden, the Sinners began wondering what punishment Behemo has in store for them? Cleaning his home? Riding crop? Excruciating exercises military style? Detention at Capriccio Academy? 18 hours in a sacrificial maul pit with Bloodthirsty HERs? Surely Any of these could be a potential punishment. Soon they left the Champs-Élysées, and they arrived at what seems to be a neighborhood filled with trees.

"I didn't know the Heavenly Yard had a forest here." Margarita said.

"No way it's too small to be a forest." Nemesis said.

"ATTENTION, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'VE ARRIVED AT OUR DESTINATION!" Hansel announced. On the horizon, they see a large white Lucifenian-esque mansion with greyish blue roofs, the black and golden gates opened to reveal an elegant driveway and a fountain, it looked just like the Palace of Lucifenia only smaller. The Sinners were so surprised that Behemo would live in a place like that.

"No way...Behemo's rich!?" Cherubim exclaimed in surprise.

"Yep! Apparently, he was from a Wealthy Family in the previous Period." Gretel said as she pulled in through the gate. "A lot of people would kill to be in the same shoes as him, but his cross-dressing scared them away." She turned the tram to the front doorstep.

"That's one way to get rid of potential assassins." Banica said, still baffled.

"*Sighs* That's just what we needed: a Rich Dragon God Fruitcake." Nemesis sneered.

"Whooooo ladies!" Gretel said to the Horses as she pulled the lead rope, stopping the tram. "LAND HOOOOOOOOOOO!" Gretel called out while Hansel dropped an anchor off to the side, that weirded out the Sinners since they're not on an island. Riliane got out first to talk to the horses.

"Thank you, Josephine." She gave her Noble Steed some more baby carrots, she also gave some to Coco as well. "You too, Coco." The Sinners soon got out and began to walk to the front door.

"This place looks so big it would take him forever to get to the front door." Cherubim said. Margarita rung the doorbell, a small speaker appeared from the wall above the doorbell.

"The door's open, I'm still getting ready!" Someone's voice can be heard from it, it sounded like Behemo.

"Nevermind." Cherubim replied. Hansel and Gretel opened the door to a very elegant interior, it's enough to make a miser or an inspiring architect cry. The Sinners awed in wonderment upon seeing the manor from the inside.

"My word, this place is beautiful." Banica said in awe, Hansel and Gretel then left.

"I'm glad you like the place." Another voice said from upstairs, it was Behemo, coming down while fixing his red necktie, he's wearing a Navy blue sailor school uniform with a skirt that reaches to his knees, black tights, and dark brown loafers. "It's a replica of my old place in the First Period."

"What's with the black sailor uniform?" Margarita asked. Gallerian faced palmed when he heard her.

"Is she for real?" Behemo thought to himself as he looked down, he then looked back up. "For starters: It's a navy blue fuku." He answered.

"Sorry." She said sheepishly.

"And secondly, I'm going in a disguise." Behemo takes out a long brown wig and wig cap, "Speaking of which can one of you help me with this wig?"

"Sure." Nemesis takes the wig cap and puts it on his head, sticking his real hair underneath it, Behemo then puts on his wig and Nemesis straightens it, it's in the style of a long brown hime haircut with bangs.

"There we go, now come with me." He motions his hands to the Sinners to follow him.

"So why are we here this early?" Banica asked. "Didn't you reschedule your appointment with your friend for the Afternoon?"

"Well just because I've got an appointment later doesn't mean that I'll let you guys do whatever you want before then, this is an all-day punishment." Behemo answered as they headed upstairs to the bathroom of his manor where he stopped in front of a mirror with makeup and eye color sheet on the counter. "As for me? I will be out all day doing my business, such as the said appointment and shopping in the Capriccio realm."

"Capriccio realm?" Riliane asked.

"The same realm where Capriccio Academy resides." He said as he put on some makeup to make himself look feminine. Both Gallerian and Nemesis squirmed for hearing the name of the Academy, their first day there still hung heavy in their hearts.

"And for what punishment do I have in store? Well since you all are here; I hereby sentence you all to cleaning duty." He then smiled while pointing at them. "You seven will be my maids and servants for today until I return from my shopping and appointment." Some of the Sinners groaned in disappointment, most notably Cherubim, Gallerian, and Nemesis. "Don't whine, you brought this upon yourselves." He then took out a sheet of various eye colors. "Hey Kayo, you're a fashionista, right? What eye color looks great with brown hair?" Kayo looked at the sheet, then the hair.

"Brown." Kayo answered.

"Thanks." His eyes suddenly flashed before returning to normal, the only difference now is that the color of his eyes turned from Blue to Brown, that startled the Sinners. "Artificial eyes, baby."

"Yeeeeeeeeah anyways." Nemesis said, after regaining her composure.

"Yeah yeah yeah, of course, I can't just give you various household chores willy-nilly, I'm giving you guys individual chores based on the severity of your crimes." He applies pale pink lipstick. "So far there are three levels of severity which I labeled by color." He rubbed his lips together. "Green: Easy mode, Yellow: Standard mode, and Red: Hard mode." He then began putting on brown eyebrow pencil on his eyebrows to make them look darker "Riliane."

"Yes?" Riliane asked.

"Because you got help when you're supposed to in addition some minimal mischief, you get the Green chores such as doing the dishes and watering my plants." He put on eyeliner. "The rest of you ladies, you didn't do anything bad, but you could've at least stopped Venomania but instead you became part of his shenanigans, thereby you get the Yellow chores like cleaning out the spoiled food from the fridge, Banica can handle that, separating the clothes by color before doing the laundry, and PLEEEEEASE, DO NOT mix the whites with the colors, I do not want to come home and find my favorite apron turn pink or green."

"Yes, sir." Kayo said.

"And as for the gentlemen, Cherubim the main culprit and Gallerian his accomplice, you get the Red chores such as washing the windows, I expect the windows to be well scrubbed so I can see the ground world in the night sky." Behemo said while putting on blush.

"Understood." Gallerian said in a disillusioned tone.

"Good." Behemo then turned around, he actually looked a lot different than how he normally is, resembling a teenage girl.

"Goodness gracious you look like a completely different person." Cherubim said, slightly baffled.

"That's what I wanna hear." Behemo said as he summoned six pieces of paper. "Anyways, I'll give you a quick rundown, these are maps and list of chores for you to do."

"Why three each?" Margarita asked.

"Your map, for example, has all the Yellow chores dotted in that color, and the list is the chores under that level of difficulty, including the chores I've mentioned earlier." Margarita nodded in understanding. "Alright, now time to get to business." He smirks as he snapped his fingers.

*POOF*

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The Sinner exclaimed in surprise when a colorful puff a smoke engulfed them. When it cleared, Behemo began snickering.

"What? What did you do to us?" Nemesis asked.

"My shoulders feel hot." Banica said.

"Why do I feel a draft?" Cherubim asked next, Behemo, still snickering, pulled up a long mirror and placed it in front of the Sinners, revealing that he replaced the Sinners' normal attire with Behemo's trademark maid's dresses, with their crucifixes attached to their bows.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?"

"DU VERRÜCKTER HURENSOHN! WARUM WÜRDEST DU DAS MIT UNS MACHEN!? [You fruitcake son of a bitch! Why would you do this to us!?]" Nemesis cursed at Behemo in Elphe, Margarita held her back saying in Elphe:

"Es lohnt sich nicht! [It's not worth it!]"

"Sorry, I'm not fluent in Elphegortean." He teased.

"Dummkopf! [Idiot!]" Nemesis cursed again.

"What the bloody hell, you rat!?" Gallerian yelled.

"Why do I have to wear a stupid dress!?" Cherubim exclaimed. "Do you have any idea that I was murdered by a crossdresser!?"

"Like I said: You brought this upon yourselves." Behemo answered, putting on perfume.

"I'd rather be tied up and beaten with a stick than going around weari-ACK!" Behemo sprayed perfume into Cherubim's mouth, causing him to gag, Riliane quickly dragged him to the sink to help him rinse.

"Don't swallow, just rinse and spit." Riliane said.

"That was uncalled for." Kayo said, glaring.

"Yeah well he wouldn't shut up, look, to make you pansies feel better, I'll give you guys an award if you do a good job at keeping the house clean and not cause problems here." Behemo said. "Just name it and I'll make it happen for good behavior."

"An award, hm?" Banica said, rubbing her chin.

"How about a day in the Heavenly Yard?" Riliane asked, wiping Cherubim's mouth with a towel, the Duke nodded vigorously.

"Whoa whoa whoa, too big!" Behemo said. "The Heavenly Yard's for humans who DESERVED it! You guys are still tied to your sins." Riliane snapped her fingers in disappointment, just then Margarita began whispering to the cannibal's ear, Banica motioned the others to huddle up in a circle, the Sinners whispered among themselves about an award.

"BREAK!" They said in unison and broke up, meaning they have made their decision, and their decision was:

"We want to go to Yingmu again!" Margarita said proudly. "We haven't been there for almost a week, and we were told we can visit the Kingdom for good behavior!"

"Oh, right I remember something like that!" Behemo said as he beamed. "Then it's settled, as an award for good behavior and a good job, you will spend a day in Yingmu! I'll notify the Emperor during my outing and tell him about this."

"YES!" Gallerian fist bumped the air, his ear was suddenly pulled by Nemesis. "GAAAHH!"

"Don't you even think about trying to steal his wealth again, asshole." She sneered.

"Alrighty!" Behemo clapped his hand. "Everyone get to work! Be careful not to break anything or go anywhere that's not marked on the map! And I'll see you later in the day!" Everyone nodded and got to work right away, Cherubim tripped on his dress before getting back up. After a few minutes, the Sinners are already at their posts.

In the kitchen

"Alright, you handle the food in the fridge, I'll handle the laundry." Kayo said to Banica.

"Don't mind if I do." Banica said, licking her lips.

"But only the spoiled food, the fresh food is fine."

"I got dish duty!" Riliane said.

"I'll clean the bathroom!" Margarita said.

"What about me?" Nemesis asked.

"You can help me with the bathroom."

"Alright."

After the girls went their separate, Banica went to the fridge and began searching through the fridge for anything that's spoiled. The food doesn't look like it's showing signs of decay, but of course, appearances can be very deceiving so she began the sniff test. She first smelled the eggs, they seem fine until she found an egg that smelled horrible. "Found one." She said as she placed the egg on the counter, she smelled the rest of the eggs and it doesn't seem like it's rotten. She moved on to the milk, she smelled it and it was fine. She moved on to the cheese, at first she thought it was blue cheese, but after sniffing it..."Spoiled cheese, not blue cheese." She put it on the counter. Banica then looked through the fridge more to see if there's more spoiled food, none, they're very clean. "Off to the icebox." She then looked through the freezer and found packaged food in there, she sniffed the burger patties. "The patties are two days near its expiration date, should I take it out?" Banica asked the Princess.

"You might as well, better safe than sorry." Riliane answered as she puts soap on the sponge.

"Ok." She puts them on the counter, Banica then smells the frozen peas, they're clean, she smelled the pork chops, "Spoiled pork, I wonder what pig meat is used?" She placed it on the counter.

"By the way, are you gonna throw away that food?" Riliane asked as she placed a dish on the drying rack.

"Eat it of course." Banica answered, that made Riliane green in the face.

In the laundry room

Kayo was taking the clothes from the dryer and began folding them, putting the clothes in baskets by color, one for the whites, one for the colors, and one for the socks and undergarments. After she was done, she puts in a new batch of clothes in there. She then heard footsteps. "Who's there?" She asked.

"It's me." A male voice said, it was Gallerian. "I'm looking for things to clean the windows."

"It's over there." Kayo said pointing at the shelf.

"Thanks." He takes the blue bucket, sponge, and things to clean the windows with.

"No problem." Gallerian left.

In the Bathroom

"I'm not scrubbing that." Nemesis said, both her and Margarita were standing in front of the toilet.

"We gotta get the job done." Margarita said. "Otherwise Behemo's gonna have our heads."

"Oh my god." Nemesis's face contorted into both horror and disgust, she put on a mask and gloves. "Hand me the scrubber."

"Ok." She gives Nemesis the toilet scrubber and precedes to do business with Behemo's tub, which sits on a two-step platform. Margarita climbed up to the platform when she saw the nobs and buttons in it. She pressed one of the buttons which causes it to automatically turn on the water and its jets. "ECK!"

"Turn that off! You'll get us all in trouble!" Nemesis yelled.

"OK! OK! OK! OK!" She pressed a few random buttons before falling into the tub herself, submerged in water and soap.

"Ugh! Margarita you're hopeless!" The water in the tub suddenly went down the drain, Margarita came out with a cork in hand and completely soaked. Nemesis shook her head as she stood up, she grabbed a blow dryer and began drying up Margarita. "Tell me this, is your brains made out of Green Onion?"

Outside

Gallerian was on a ladder scrubbing the windows with a sponge, the expression on his face shows that he's not enjoying it as the windows are harder to scrub than most and that there are so many windows in the manor. Cherubim was in the courtyard, sleeved rolled up, and cutting the bushes that seem to resemble Behemo himself, talk about arrogance.

"Cripes." Gallerian groaned. "This will take forever to clean these windows."

"If you quit your griping then it wouldn't take so long, Gallerian." Cherubim commented as he placed a rose on the bush that resembles Behemo's hair. "You whine too much."

"I'm whining? You're the one who got all of us into this mess, in fact, why the bloody hell am I cleaning the windows?! You should be the one pulling double duty here!" He berated the Duke.

"Blah blah blah, you're just as bad as me since you're an accomplice of mine, Judge."

"I never asked for that!" He threw a sponge at him, Cherubim only groaned.

For the next several hours, the Sinners had spent hours cleaning the Manor while Behemo was out for a meeting with whoever his friend is and shopping. From trimming to scrubbing, from mowing to washing, having to clean an entire manor that's almost as big as the Palace of Lucifenia itself was excruciating and exhausting, fortunately, they were able to get all of it done by 2:45 PM in the afternoon, the Sinners, now stationed at the Kitchen, are all tired and drained from their days work.

"Ugggggh, I'm tried." Gallerian groaned tiredly while laying his chin on the counter. "I'm never cleaning another window again.

"Me too, and I'm hungryyy." Banica said, holding her stomach.

"But you just ate all the spoiled rubbish that's in the fridge." Riliane moaned tiredly. "Which I was forced to witness."

"Oh my god would you guys just shut up?" Nemesis groaned.

"Not my fault that I'm a Sinner of Gluttony." Banica said.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

"I see your point, I can hear your stomach." Kayo said, relaxing by the table.

"That wasn't me."

"Sorry." Margarita said blushing. "I haven't eaten since breakfast."

"Looks like we arrived just on time then." They heard a feminine voice in the manor, they see Allen walking into the kitchen with a tablecloth in hand, followed by Michaela coming into the kitchen with a basket of food. "I knew you guys might be hungry by the end of the day so we made turkey sandwiches."

"Alright!" Banica claps.

"Hello, Allen! Feeling better?" Kayo asked.

"Yes, thank you." He answered setting up the table. "I see you got your work done, everyone."

"Yeah, and we are bloody tired." Gallerian said, rubbing his arms, Allen then looked at everyone from head to toe.

"...Let me guess; Behemo made you dress like that?"

"Yeeeeees." They all said in unison.

"Figures." Allen shook his head.

"Off topic, how did you get here anyway? I thought you swore off using carriages."

"The Demon of Pride flew me, Michaela, and the Zvezdas here."

"The Zvezdas?"

"We got the drinks!" A tiny voice said as they pushed a small basket filled with bottles of water on the counter in between Margarita and Riliane, startling the two nobles.

"EEEEK! WHAT WAS THAT!?" Margarita exclaimed in surprise. A tiny little girl wearing a long pink apprentice gown got up to the counter on her toes, what's surprising that she resembles Margarita, especially because of her green hair tied in pigtails. "What the..?"

"Sorry everyone, I like you to meet Mikulia Zvezda." Michaela said. "She and her sister are staying with me and Clarith."

"Hello." Mikulia said smiling.

"My goodness, she looks like Mikulia Greeonio if she were travel-sized." Cherubim said, baffled by what he sees.

"So cuuuuute!" Both Banica and Kayo said in unison.

"Hey hey hey! Keep your mitts off my little sister, creeps!" Another small voice said, it was another child that resembles Mikulia, only a few inches taller and wearing a turquoise colored apprentice gown.

"Another one?" Nemesis said, surprised.

"That's Platonic Zvezda, the eldest." Michaela said as Platonic went and took her sister out of the room.

"Why do they look like me and Eve?" Margarita asked. "Are they incarnations?"

"Well yes and no, they're incarnations of Eve's other personas, Mikulia Calgaround and Phantom Theif Platonic." Allen explained, "That's why they're named that way."

"Ohhhhhhh." Margarita said, nodding.

"Anyways, eat up." The Sinner began to have their lunch break, they were quiet during the whole meal, as they were too exhausted to say another word, soon enough they were finished, well almost finished.

"What about our clothes?" Banica asked while eating her sandwich.

"Oh right, the maids' clothes."

"Yeah, Behemo made us wear them via magic."

"That's a tough one, maybe I can do something about it." Michaela said. She then snapped her fingers, causing them to be enveloped in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, the Sinners are dressed in their usual attire, but something seems...off. "Oops..."

"What?" Kayo asked, she looked at her arm and realized that she's wearing a red detachable sleeve. "Huh?" She looked down and saw that she's wearing Banica's dress. The others had followed the same suit: Kayo's kimono is worn by Margarita, the Marchioness' dress is being worn by Nemesis, her attire is being worn by her father, Gallerian's suit sans coat is being worn by Banica, and Cherubim and Riliane's clothes had been swapped with each other.

"NOT AGAIN!" Cherubim exclaimed in irritation upon discovering that he's wearing Riliane's dress.

"I am so sorry! I didn't know that it would happen!" Michaela apologized while covering her mouth.

"It's ok, accidents happen." Margarita said, "Besides I never wore a kimono before, it's very pretty."

"I'm glad you like them, maybe I'll make you one." Kayo said smiling.

"Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew." Riliane panicked while pulling on Cherubim's coat. "I'm in a pervert's clothes!"

"Why I never." Cherubim snorted.

"GET ME OUT OF THIS SKANK'S SKIRT!" Gallerian yelled while pulling on Nemesis's shirt.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SKANK!?" Nemesis yelled at her father.

"Break it up you two!" Banica said as she pulled Gallerian back, Allen followed suit by pulling Nemesis, the two started struggling.

"STOP FIGHTING!" Allen yelled at them, Nemesis accidentally elbowed him in the nose. "OW!"

"Oh shit, I'm sorry." Nemesis apologized.

"I-it's fine, ow! You got my nose" Allen backed up. "It doesn't feel like I'm bleedi-AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!" Allen accidentally fell into the garbage shoot when he backed up.

"ALLEEEEN!" Riliane yelled as she tried to grab him.

CRAAAASH

Nemesis looked down from the shoot with a sheepish look on her face. "Uhhh...Sorry?" She said as she looked at Riliane, the Princess, however, was not pleased and grabbed her hair.

"YOU STUPID BITCH WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" Riliane screamed while Michaela was pulling her back, Gallerian only smirked.

"Don't be making that smile you're responsible for this too." Banica scolded. "You better hope and pray that Allen's ok."

"Oi! Allen! Are you alright!?" Cherubim called him into the shoot, he then listened closely.

"Yes! I'm ok! The garbage bags broke my fall!"

"Oh thank heavens." Kayo said, sighing in relief.

In the basement

Allen climbed out of the garbage bin. "Don't worry Allen! We'll get you out!" He heard Margarita call out to him.

"Send Nemesis down, she's the one who got him down there." He heard Riliane next.

"Don't do that! It wasn't her fault! It was mine, I wasn't being careful! I'll find the door down here." Allen said, he then proceeds to look for the exit. "Damn it's dark down there." He thought to himself, he began to feel the walls for a light switch. He then bumped into something solid, Allen felt it around and found that it goes down, it was a fleet of stares. "There they are." Allen said smiling. Carefully, he began climbing up until he felt something solid in front of him, he then began to feel the wall for a light switch or knob. That's when he felt something, he flicked it and the lights went on, it was the light switch. "Bingo." He then started to turn the knob, only to realize that it's locked, he kept jiggling it to no avail so he began knocking.

"Who's there?" He heard a tiny voice from the other side, it was Platonic Zvezda.

"It's me, Allen! Could you go get Michaela? The door's locked." Allen responded.

"Ok! Hang tight!" Her footsteps disappeared, and Allen sat down on the stairs, waiting. While doing so, he looked around the basement and found the place is quite roomy, there's a few open doors to different rooms, a dozen cardboard boxes, a wooden table with tools, and a dumpster. Allen smelled himself to see if he gained some disgusting residue from the garbage, there was none due to the garbage being in bags, he shrugged, he began playing with his tie when suddenly...

...Lig dom amach...Lig dom amach...Lig dom amach...

"Huh?" He heard a voice in the room, it spoke in a language he couldn't understand at all.

Le do thoil...lig dom amach...ní dhéanfaidh mé dochar ort...

Allen stood up from where he stood and headed back on the ground, he looked around until he heard it again.

...Lig dom amach...Lig dom amach...Lig dom amach...

It didn't sound like it was resounding from the walls, it was coming from his own head..."I don't understand what you're saying...do you speak Lucifenian?...Jakokunese?...Maybe English?" Allen asked, his voice sounded shaky.

...Let me out...Let...me out...let me out...Please let me out...I won't hurt you...

The voice spoke to him in Marlon, "Where are you?" Allen asked, now more nervous.

...The room in front of you...let me out...

He looked at an open doorway into the darkness.

Click

"AH!" Allen got startled.

Jiggle Jiggle

"Hey Allen, I'm very sorry but I don't have the key, I hope you don't mind Nemesis picking the lock!" A voice from other side said, it was Michaela.

"I-I-I don't mind at all, take your time!" Allen said quickly, giving him enough time to check out what was in the darkened room, he felt the walls that was inside it until he found a switch, when the lights are on, he found something that left him dumbfounded: A white glass container with a black box, but the box wasn't in a square shape, it was oval shaped.

Somewhere else, a few minutes ago

The walls were white and made of marble and quartz, and on the said walls are large double doors made of grey marble, the said doors slowly started opening, revealing both Alexander and the disguised Behemo, coming out of the room, their meeting had just ended.

"So Sickle and Yggdra will be absent tomorrow, Barisol?" Alexander said.

"Yeah, they gotta be looking all over Levianta and Elphegort for that four-eyed son of a bitch." Behemo said as he was carrying shopping bags filled with food and clothes.

"Ahem." He pulled out a jar with coins inside it.

"Are you serious? You're pulling the "Swear jar junk" on me?"

"We have a sense of formality here in "Crystalis", and that formality is that monarchs and nobility do not tolerate cursing, now put whatever currency you have in the swear jar." Behemo the put a coin in it.

"Just so you know the money we have in my world is worthless in yours."

"I'll keep that in mind."

"Yeeeeah anyways, because those two are gone, I'm gotta have to take charge for while."

"Considering your role in the creation of the Third Period, it would be very fitting, it will also teach you a sense of responsibility, which is what you lack."

"Mmmmmmmm." Behemo puffed his cheeks when he heard that last part. "Anyway, I need to head back to see if the Sinners are done cleaning my house, I promised them I award them for doing a good job, but that's only IF they did a good job."

"Excellent, that's a good start to discipline."

"Yeah, and thanks for keeping my groceries cooled with your magic."

"Anytime." They shook on it.

At Behemo's home, now

Allen walked up to the glass container containing the box, upon a closer expectation he sees that the box is surrounded by a circle of brown soil, and by the looks of it, the soil doesn't seem like it's native to any country from Evillious or Akuna. The box itself is decorated with pink and yellow oriental flowers and secured with a black velcro strap, and laying on top of the box is a peculiar looking medallion with several patterns resembling knots, and a beautiful emerald green gem in its center, the medallion was rusted but he can see tiny bits of silver underneath the decay. He looked up and down and found that the glass container is bolted to the ceiling and floor, meaning that removing the glass by hand is not an option, he looked around to see if there was another way of removing the glass when he saw a red button underneath.

He pressed it.

Crystalis

GASP

Suddenly Behemo, while shaking Alexander's hand, gasped out as he jolted back in horror and dropped his things, his eyes were widened and his face grew pale.

"What's wrong?" Alexander asked in confusion.

"I felt...a disturbance." Behemo said suddenly. "I have to head back right now!" He took his bags and began running in the halls.

"Wait, what is going one!?" Alexander panicked as he began chasing Behemo.

Capriccio Academy - Teacher's Lounge

Gilles dropped his coffee, breaking the mug, he gripped his head with both hands.

"What's with you?" A male teacher with stupid looking glasses asked.

"Something's not right... where are the other demons?"

"In their classes, why?" He was then pushed out of the way, he began hearing Gilles in the halls, yelling:

"MARIE! SALEM! RAHAB!"

Hellish Yard

The Land of the Dead was going out of whack, lava-spewing everywhere as the demons and imps living in its bowls started panicking for no reason, and the Sinners who are suffering in Hells circles are left in confusion. The only person seeing this was Gumillia herself without her mask, witnessing this as the Master of the Hellish Yard, she looked up to what seems to be the heavens with a very worried look on her face instead of her usually stoic demeanor, saying:

"I feel...the doom of a dark omen brewing."

Heavenly Yard - Rice fields

Sickle, who was working in the rice fields, widened his eyes in horror as he dropped his Jakokunese Sickle.

"Held...did you feel it too?" Sickle asked his friend quietly, he was sitting at the table, looking sheepish.

"Yes...but why?" They were silent before they looked at each other look more horrified, exclaiming:

"THE BENTO BOX!"

At Behemo's house

Michaela's pigtails were standing on end for some reason.

"What's with you?" Banica asked.

"The box...ALLEN'S GOING FOR THE BOX!" She screamed.

"Box? What Box?" Gallerian asked.

"AH!" Nemesis cried out in pain as she dropped her lock picking tools, she gripped her head.

"Nemesis! Nemesis, are you ok!?" Kayo asked while holding her.

"We're gonna die, we're gonna die-" Nemesis was in a state of panic, repeating the same phrase over and over. "We're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die,we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die."

"What's going on? Snap out of it, Nemesis!" Riliane was shaking her.

"We're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"CALM DOWN, NEMESIS!" Margarita yelled at her.

In the Basement

The glass around the box disappeared, from the moment it did Allen can immediately feel a strong sense of wrongness coming from the box, it was that same feeling that made him extremely sick to his stomach and throat, it's as if he wants to throw up. Nervously, he removed the medallion and placed it on the platform before picking the box.

...Let me out...Let me out...Let me out...

He heard those words again, he found the opening to the velcro, he then touched it.

"DON'T OPEN THAT! YOU'LL DOOM ALL OF HUMANITY IF YOU OPEN THAT BOX!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Allen screamed in surprise when he heard Behemo, Sickle, Held, and the Demons of sin screaming at the top of their lungs in unison, as he dropped the box, the velcro became undone as darkness begins to seep out of the box and started surrounding Allen. Just then he felt something grabbing hold of his ankle, it was a pale arm with every sharp black nails, "GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"

...Freedom!...Freedom at last!...

A deep voice cried out.

"HEY, GET OFF MY BROTHER!" Riliane yelled as she was about to bolt down there, but was held back by Michaela, Platonic, and Mikulia. "LET ME GO!"

"Let me get him!" Banica said as she ran down the stairs.

"NO CONCHITA, DON'T BE A HERO!" Marie yelled. Banica stomped on its arm, but it wasn't letting go without a fight, she can hear it laughing evilly.

"The medallion! USE THE MEDALLION!" Allen told her, Banica saw the medallion on the stand and grabbed it, she placed it on the creature's arm and it hissed, pulling back. Banica carried Allen bridal style out of the basement.

"Alright, boys, do your business!" She said.

"Right." Sickle replied. "Held keep the Sinners back before they'll get cursed!"

Held nods as he follows Banica close behind up the stairs, "Everyone stand back!" He told the Sinners as he pushed the Sinners, Michaela, and the Sisters.

"What's going on!?" Cherubim asked.

"We'll explain it later."

"Behemo, get the Irish soil!" Sickle told him, Behemo quickly began searching for the said soil.

"Rahab, get the Celtic stones!" He told the Demon of Envy, she went into an old box and took out seven handheld stones with swirly patterns.

"May I help?" Alexander asked calmly.

"Yeah, try pushing "him" back into the box with a spell." Sickle said. Alexander then walked to the box with his staff, he knelt in front of the jumping box and held it down with his hand saying:

"In the name of Crystalis and all its stones that breath on native ground: Seal the evil that dwells within."

The box closed, and the velcro was fastened again, the gravitational push from the spell blew Alexander's hood from his head, revealing that he had caucasian white skin, a black diamond on his forehead, short white slicked backed hair with bits of hair over his face, and dark grey eyes. His left eye seemed to be a blank, with white flames coming out, and the gem on his forehead was glowing in that same color too.

LET ME OUT YOU GOBSHITES, I'LL KILL ALL YOUR FAMILIES AND CUT OFF YOUR D*CKS!

"What disgusting language." Alexander said to himself as he placed the box back on the stand. "Barisols?" He motioned Behemo and Rahab, Behemo then sprinkled a fresher batch of Irish soil around the box, even putting some on top of the box for good measure, Rahab surrounded the box with Celtic stones and placed the medallion on top of it. The banging continued on and on until suddenly, it stopped.

"...He passed out." Sickle breathed out, everyone relaxed and let out sighs of relief. Sickle then pressed the red button under the glass container, closing it.

Meanwhile upstairs

Held damped a washcloth in holy water before placing it on Allen's ankle, Michaela was refining tree sap from her Millenium tree form. Allen winced in pain.

"What the heck was all that about? And what were you panicking about?" Kayo asked, still bewildered by the incident. Held was very silent, he ignored the tailor's question.

"...It's a really long story." Michaela said sadly. "I don't know why...but I feel like I've felt that kind of evil before, Allen."

"Yes?" Allen perked up.

"You have been tricked into opening that box, fortunately, you made it out unviolated, but because you were exposed to its aura, you'll be suffering the after-effects."

"By after effects, you mean...?"

"..."He" will be haunting you...Driving you to the brink of insanity." Held then answered stoically, Allen gulps.

"Whose "he" exactly?" Cherubim asked.

"...He was someone...an old friend from the Second Period...like Six of our colleagues turned Demons, he too is a Demon...the very first Demon of Sin...the Demon of Discord."

"Is he that dangerous?" Margarita asked.

"Yes...so please, under any circumstances...DO. NOT. OPEN IT!"

"What's gonna happen to me now?" Allen asked.

"You'll have to stay overnight so we can purify you." Michaela said, applying tree sap on his ankle. "Otherwise, he will haunt you for two weeks, and you do not want him following you for that long." Allen gagged, as if he wants to vomit, even more so than when he felt the box's dark aura, Riliane hugged him tightly. The gods, demons, and Alexander came back up.

"How did it go?" Nemesis asked timidly.

"We're able to seal the box tight finally, you can relax." Sickle said. Nemesis sighed in relief as she slumped down on the couch. "Thanks to Alexander, we're able to make sure the seal is strong, and in 15 minutes to, last time he tried getting out it took us a week to seal him back."

"This isn't the first time?" Riliane asked.

"Yeah, the Irish soil dried up and expired, thus weakening the barrier, we'ed eventually were able to hold him down using a Celtic Medallion, but apparently the Demon ain't that stupid, he can easily manipulate people mentally, like he did to Allen."

"I felt a disgusting aura from that box and its Demon, it's as if it wants to violate me." Allen said in a shaky tone.

"Well there's no need to worry now, we locked the door to the room and put a tight seal on it, hopefully, he won't escape again." Behemo said.

"That's good to hear." Banica sighed in relief.

"It was my fault that Allen was down there." Nemesis said, feeling sorry. "I lost my temper and pushed him."

"Its fine it wasn't really your fault anyway, it was an accident." Allen said.

"...Well now if will everyone excuse me I'm gonna go home and throw up, I'm too tired and traumatized to continue working in the rice fields." Sickle sais as he left for the entrance sluggishly.

"See ya later, Sinners!" Marie said to them as she gives them the victory signs, the remaining Demons of Sins followed suit. But then Rahab stopped to look at the male Sinners. "By the way, gentlemen, that's a great look for you." She said smiling impishly.

"YOOOOOU!" Cherubim was about to tackle the Demon of Envy before being pulled back by his ponytail by Kayo, Rahab went away laughing.

"Strange, where have I seen the blond one before?" Kayo asked.

"Rahab? That's "my" mom." Behemo said.

"That's not it...oh well, It must've been one of those "every 3rd person with the same face" thing." Behemo narrowed his brows, he then shrugged.

"Anyways, while they were dealing with the Demon, I had checked through all the rooms that you were told to clean through the monitors and I can see no flaws whatsoever."

"Ok." Gallerian said, nodding.

"Because you guys did a great job at keeping my place clean, and saved Allen's butt, you've served your punishment, and you'll be awarded as promised." Behemo smiled. The Sinners became ecstatic from the news.

"ALRIGHT!" Banica cheered.

"YAHOOOOO!" Margarita exclaimed happily.

"YINGMU HERE WE COME!" Gallerian said with fiendish greed in his eyes.

"Barisol, have you forgotten your trip there?" Alexander asked Behemo, he then widened his eyes when he realized something.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh." Behemo groaned in embaressment.

"Is there something wrong?" Cherubim asked.

"Unfortunately yeah, you see when I got to Yingmu the entire city was under shut down."

"Huh?" Riliane sounded out, the Sinners got confused.

"Alexander?" The sorcerer summoned a mahogany red gem. "Sinners, this is my old student Alexander, Alexander, these are the Sinners."

"Hello everyone." Alexander replied, the Sinners waved as the white-haired man flicked the gem, causing it to activate, they see a tiny screen with Jun on it.

"Is it recording?" Jun inside the gem asked, he looked like he'd been kicked in the face for his glasses had been busted.

"Yeah, it is." A voice said in there, it was Behemo.

"Ok, Hi Sinners, it's me Jun and as you can see I just got into an awful scuffle with my ministers and a monarch from "Móguǐ", a rival Kingdom nearby Yingmu. Apparently, the old hag thinks that the idea of my Kingdom being ruled by a quote-unquote "child" is completely "barbaric" and that it could cause a disaster for my Kingdom. That is obviously not true but she refuses to listen to reason and has threatened to declare war on my Kingdom unless I pass on the throne to someone older than me, the thing is I'm immortal and full of maturity, and I have no heirs to speak of. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that until I take care of the situation before it gets any worse, I'm closing off the borders to my world until further notice sooooooo...no visitors."

"EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" The Sinners were surprised and disappointed by the news.

"I knoooooooow it's disappointing, I'm very sorry, I wanted you guys to come to visit too, but things are really getting dangerous now because of the witch's stubbornness that I had to close off the borders, nothing personal, it's just a safety precaution so that people from other worlds don't get hurt or killed, I can't risk you guys getting involved only to be mutilated in potential warfare. I'll tell you guys what, when all this is over, I'll let you guys visit, maybe even spend the night at the palace all expenses paid, I don't know when but hopefully Yingmu still stands by then, in the meantime, do something else, maybe go to another world or whatever, again I am so sorry, and Margarita, I love you so much, Bài Bài." The Gem disappeared.

"All that hard work for nothing." Gallerian said in a disappointed tone, then he thought to himself: "And now I can't get more and jewels."

"NO FAAAAAAAIR!" Banica whined.

"Yeah yeah I know that sucks." Behemo said. "It wasn't my fault, it was nobody's fault, no one had planned on this happening but we can't just butt into his affairs unless there's no other choice and Jun needed aid so there's we can do about it, thereby we have to think of something else."

"But we busted our a-" Nemesis was about to say something before Held cut her off.

"There are children here and our guest has a swear jar." Held said to her, he pointed at Alexander who gave her a stern look and holding a jar, which means he means business. Nemesis then continued on with her rant, but this time in a cleaner light.

"...But we busted our butts cleaning this extravagant rat hole, humiliating ourselves wearing your maids' dresses, and almost ended the world again with a gosh darn "Jack in a box" from...the Hellish yard. Punishment or not, you owe us big time, you son of a biscuit!" The Sinners, though disappointed, they couldn't help but laugh at Nemesis' censored rant, her face turned red from frustration and embarrassment. Behemo then held up a small yellow basket.

"Uhhh, gift baskets with decorative soaps?" Everyone had a blank expression on their faces, are they confused or dissatisfied? What even is decorative soaps? Behemo then held out a blue ball-shaped item with tiny white stars on them."...They come with bath bombs...with little prizes inside." There was more awkward silence between them, just then Riliane got on her knees and laid face down on the ground. "Uhhhhhhhh..."

"Oh dear god." Gallerian exclaimed.

"Wait, is she doing it?" Nemesis asked.

"She's doing it." Kayo said.

"Nooooo." Cherubim said shaking his head.

"Oh yeah." Banica said next.

"The royal tantrum." Margarita said next.

"Riliane, please don't." Allen said next. "Just be grateful that you got something out it." He then smelled a minty green bath bomb, making a weird look. "What even is a bath bomb anyway?"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Riliane let out a muffled scream on the ground before flaying her legs up and down.

"Is she serious?" Behemo said, making an awkward expression.

"It looks like it, Mr. Barisol." Platonic said.

"Riliane please stop, you know better than that!" Michaela said, Alexander was speechless from the event.

"The Princess lacks discipline." He said while looking down at her. "Do something about it."

"OK OK OK I'll think of something." Behemo said while rubbing his temples, he was humming to drown out her screaming. "Mmmmmmmm...I got a substitute."

"Hm?" Alexander perked up, the Sinners paid close attention, and Riliane stopped throwing a tantrum.

On the road to Champs-Élysées

The Sinners, now wearing their own clothes again, are inside the tram once more, bound for their home to the in the Modified Black Box, the sun is already setting on the horizon as the ground world is becoming more visible in the sky, acting as if its the moon to the Heavenly Yard, ironically the Heavenly Yard itself is on the moon.

"Behemo's got to be kidding right?" Gallerian snapped suddenly. "There's no way we're heading back to the Capriccio realm."

"For once, I agree." Nemesis sneered. "That place has been nothing but trouble since day 1."

"That's the only place Behemo can think of since he was there shopping." Cherubim said. "Besides it won't even be at the academy so be glad for it."

"It's still gonna suck."

"Yeah yeah yeah, we understand that you two are disappointed on your first day, we get it, we're sorry your lover and your Mom is an HER, but it's been almost a week you two so please, by all means, get the hell over it and grow some balls, you babies!" Pollo berated from the coachman's seat, he sounded quite irritated.

"Oh snap." Banica said!

"I was gonna say that." Arte said.

"I have to agree with him." Kayo said. "It's all in the past, and whatever happens, happens." The two were silent but they continue to pout as they turn away from Kayo, she just sighs saying: "Why do I bother? You two are so stubborn." Soon they made into the Champs-Élysées, it was now more lively than this morning, the streets were filled with spirits from every era.

"Hey, Pollo." Arte said.

"Yeah?" Pollo asked.

"I got an idea to lift their mood so they'll shut up for the evening."

"Alright, shoot."

"Alright, hey Princess, don't look now but I see your Mother and Father right now." Arte pointed out to Riliane, in their line of vision they see Arth and Anne chatting by the rode. Riliane immediately beamed up.

"OIIIII! MOTHER! FATHER!" Riliane called out, waving her arms out to them, they took notice of their Daugther's voice and began to vigorously wave back at her, happy to see her again.

"Hey, it's them!" One of the Spirits called out, soon enough a lot of the Spirits began to swarm the walkways to see the Sinners, most of them being loved ones or supporters while those who had despised them went away, minding their business, the Sinners waved back at the Spirits.

"MASTER BANICA!" Banica heard a booming voice and saw two more of her servants who were calling to her; Lich Arklow and Eater Sabella, a pair of Death gods, Banica gave them the "V" sign and they do the same back at her.

On the other side, Margarita was looking out to the spirits of the Heavenly Yard until she saw a familiar face, Kaspar Blankenheim, her ex-husband. Surprisingly Kasper waved to her while holding a bouquet of roses, he seemed to be attempting to make amends with her despite the fact that he cheated on her and made her snap. Margarita, however, wasn't moved by this, she was expressionless as she knew that he betrayed her trust, so in turn, she gave him a "V" sign like Banica's, only backward. In a few parts of Evillious, mostly Marlon, the backward "V" sign is similar to "the Bird", in short: She's telling him to screw off. And to add insult to injury, she used the hand that has Jun's engagement ring, telling him that she found a new man. Kasper was left dumbfounded by that.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Pollo was laughing his head off from what he saw. "You got him good, Margy, you got him good!"

"I don't wish to be pushed around anymore." Margarita said sternly.

"Kayo? Kayo is that you?" Kayo heard a man's voice from afar. She looked until she saw a man wearing a monk's outfit and holding a blond baby, despite looking different, she knew who that man is: It was her husband Gakuga and their baby boy Ren.

"GAKUGA!" Kayo waved to him, he ran up to her and jumped on the tram, hugged her, and kissed her.

"I"m so sorry, Kayo." Gakuga said sadly. "I was never been able to recognize you back then, from when you were-."

"It's ok, I'm just happy to see you and Ren again." Kayo then picked up her child and hugged him, she heard Ren giggled. Her eyes were tearing up, she had lost both her husband and child during a fire, in addition to being injured, all done for the sake of xenophobic terrorism, but seeing them doing so well in the Heavenly Yard makes her heart light up.

"Hey! Pretty boy! Off the tram!" Arte yelled at the monk, and he got off, they waved goodbye.

Cherubim took notice of some of the women from his harem waving at him and holding signs like: "You can do it!", "GO VENOMANIA!", and "Good Luck!". Cherubim stood from the entrance and blew a kiss at them, causing them to swoon.

"Get your ass back inside!" Nemesis said pulling the Duke back, just after doing that she saw a familiar face smiling at her, it was her lover: Nyoze Octo. Nemesis began to instantly beam in happiness as she waved for him. "SHAKUSAAAN!" She cried out.

"You hypocrite." Cherubim grumbled, he then noticed her about to fall off the tram, "Wait! Wait! Wait!" He then took hold of her ankles.

Nyoze quickly ran to her and was able to give her a quick hug. "I missed you so much.", Nemesis said happily.

"I missed you too." He said back, hugging her tightly while walking along the Champs-Élysées.

"Ok-ok-ok-that's-enough-lover-boy-she's-still-in-purgatory-let-go." Pollo said as he was trying to break them apart with a long wooden stick, and he succeeded. "Gah! There."

"Good luck, Nemesis! I love you!" Nyoze called to her before stopping at his tracks.

"I love you too!" Nemesis called back, blowing kisses at him, when she returned to her seat, she saw Gallerian looking out the window, "What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for Michelle." He answered, Nemesis just rolled her eyes, he kept on looking on until he saw a familiar face, but it wasn't his firstborn daughter, it was his butler; Bruno Zero. "BRUNO!" His butler took notice.

"Master Marlon!" He called out as he ran to the Tram, he gave his Master a quick hug. "It's good to see you again!"

"I see you're doing well yourself."

"Where are you guys doing"

"Cleaning Behemo's house, we did something stupid yesterday and we got punished for it."

"I see."

"Where's Michelle? I want to see her!" Bruno was silent, and it looked like his face paled despite having very dark skin. "Bruno?"

"Hm?"

"Where is Michelle?"

"...She is...somewhere else." He answered, Gallerian's smile faded away. "She's busy helping out Mira right now so she doesn't know your here."

"...I see." Gallerian answered quietly.

"I'm sorry sir."

"It's fine, as long as she's doing fine then I'm ok with it." Gallerian made a small smile. "Goodbye."

"Goodbye, and good luck." Bruno then let go of the tram, the spirits saw the Sinners out of Champs-Élysées waving goodbye as they headed back to the old research center. Soon everyone left the streets, minding their business again, the only one left was Bruno, who looked on with a sad look on his face.

"Y-y-you didn't tell him?" He heard another voice behind him, it was an old friend of his: Shiro Netsuma. She was a member of an organization alongside Bruno and Gallerian.

"I wanted to...but the idea of Michelle's disappearance would break his heart." Bruno said, looking down in shame.

END CHAPTER

*The mask that the Master of the Hellish Yard was wearing is based off the Bunny Hood from the Legend of Zelda series, most notabily Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.

**The song Riliane sang is "Les Champs-Élysées" by Joe Dassin, I thought it be fitting since the garden in the Heavenly Yard is named after the actual street in Paris, France.

***The Zvezda Sisters, the Platonic and Mikulia look-alikes, are based off the Chibi and Petit versions of Hatsune Miku, they're best known in their MMD Miniseries "Chibi and Petit", I don't own the miniseries but I own their EC personas.

****The "Demon of Discord" mentioned here is a character inspired by the Cthulhu of Lovecraft lore, the Banshee of Celtic origin, and to some minor extent; the Hachishakusama/8-Feet-tall from Japanese horror and urban legends. "He" belongs to my friend Cameron112367, more information will be disclosed soon.

*****The enemy nation of Yingmu, Móguǐ, translates to "Devil" in Chinese(Traditional).