scary monsters ~endless halloween night~ 3-18 "we're in deep water"

[mandytl]

 

 

Ghosts: Ugh… This is… absurd… *Slump*.

Floyd: Aww, man. These guys are just like the last ones. Boooring.

Ace: Wheeze, wheeze… I can’t believe we’re seriously fighting armies of ghosts…

No way can I handle Floyd-senpai just doing whatever he feels like. If he keeps this up, we’ll all go down together! 

Floyd: Talk about mind-numbing. Maybe if I shout loud enough whoever’s left will bust in for a fight. Now that sounds like fun.

Leona: Even I’m gonna get it if we let him go berserk in this cramped room.

I’d love to make dried eel out of him, but—

… Hm? This is…

Ace: What’re you staring at on the table, Leona-senpai?

… What’s up with this little box? It’s ticking like a clock.

Floyd: Wonder what kinda contraption it is. There’re triangle and square buttons lined up on the front…

Leona: Wait! Don’t touch that!

Floyd & Ace: Huh?

Leona: We’re in deep water now.

That box is a mighty magic tool that’ll turn every living creature in a 1 km radius to stone!

Floyd & Ace: A magic tool?!

Leona: Shit. It’s activating. We’re five minutes from becoming statues if we can’t disable it with the right button!

Ace: I’d love to say he’s joking, but… I’ve NEVER seen Leona-senpai this upset before.

Are you being for real right now… ?!

Leona: Beyond real. First time I saw one was during a Halloween party onboard a ship for some family affair.

Some passenger was wearing a necklace with a legendary sapphire known as the “Ocean’s Tear”...

And someone rigged one of those tools inside the orchestra’s piano.

Ace: A… party on the water, and a sapphire? All I’m saying is this celebrity lifestyle’s hard to believe.

Floyd: So humans do stuff at sea besides just celebrating weddings and birthdays, huh. 

Why do you guys like partyin’ it up on boats so much, anyway? You’re so dead if it capsizes when the seas are rough.

Ace: Leave it to the merman to swerve the conversation.

Leona: I freed the captain, stole the enemy escape vessel, and then set loose the 5,000 people onboard.

At which point I had to face this device. Think I was about… seven back then.

Ace: Seven?! That’s, like, midget-sized! Elementary-school-brat-sized, even!

Defending an entire ship alone at that age had to be impossible! Even for the Great and Mighty Leona Kingscholar-sama.

Leona: Are you callin’ me a filthy liar?

Ace: Uhh. N-No, of course not!

A-Anyway, isn’t that kind of scenario big in movies nowadays? Where the kid agents face off against evil with some clever moves!

Uhm, so, a commoner like me had no idea, but… princes undertake all kinds of special training, huh?

Leona: We do. Not that I was sure which button to press ‘til the very last second, but… now I know.

The square button’s the dud. Press it and we’re stone. The right one to deactivate it’s triangle-shaped!

Floyd: Hmm…

… ‘Kay. Square button it is, then.

Ace: Whoa, hold it, Floyd-senpai!

Leona: What?! Wait, stop! Don’t do it!

Boop.

Ace & Leona: AUUUUGH!

Ace: … Huh? I’m not a statue…?

Leona: ……Pffh.

Heheh, hahahah! Idiots. I got you hook, line, and sinker.

Ace: Y-You’re laughing… ? Don’t tell me that whole thing was just a joke!

Floyd: Tch… Great. Now this is boring.

Leona: Says the guy I sweet-talked into pushing a square button. You’ll never outsmart me, kid.

Floyd: That laidback attitude totally pisses me off, but… 

Whatever. It was kinda thrilling, and waaay more fun than fightin’ those ghosts.

Ace: You’ve got to be kidding. You gave me a heart attack over here! That acting was way too real!

Ugh. I lost years of my life thanks to this stupid box.

Leona: Hey. Stare at that box all you want, but don’t touch it.

Next time it activates, there’s no stoppin’ it.

Ace: … Huh?

Leona: The perfect tale to satisfy that unstable moray, am I right?

Not that that twisted bastard’s hard to predict. I knew he’d do the opposite of what I said.

Ace: Uh… huh? You mean it’s the real deal?! When we were just goofing off about which button to push… 

The party on the ship and that magic tool that turns people to stone…

I can’t tell where the truth ends and the lies begin!

Leona: Search me. I’ll let your imagination do the work.

Floyd: Ah. We’ve got a ghost.

Leona: There’s a door in the back, yeah? Let’s mosey and get to snatching those shards.

Ace: Time out! I’m waaay more interested in hearing the truth!