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Venti
Time to run hehe~ Venti mentally chuckled to himself as he escaped Diluc's wrath and unpaid tabs. He burst through the door before the red-headed menace could grab him. Though… wasn’t Venti the bigger menace? He has heard Diluc tell him that a few times when he wasn't able to get out quick enough, eh, his problem now.
“Venti you menace get back here!” Diluc calls out to him as he narrowly escapes his wrath. Huh guess i was right, I am the menace, it suite me hehe~
“Nahhh, don't feel like it, a nap sounds better. See ya next time, bartender!” Venti replies over his shoulder as he runs past the tavern towards Mondstad's gates to get to the great oak in Windrise. He waved cheekily to Huffman who just knew Venti was running from Diluc again and just let out a tired sigh.
As Venti was running, or more like frollicking back to the tree he was thinking up some excuses he could use to get out of trouble again, maybe he could use his age and complain about ‘old bones’ or whatever the older people of Mond complained about when they didn't want to do something? Ah but that wouldn't work well as Diluc just witnessed him sprint out of the tavern, eh he’ll figure it out later.
Anyway he went to where he wanted pretty quickly as the God of laziness Freedom teleported every few metres ‘cause he really wanted that nap. As he found his spot he quickly took a look around to see if any Hilichurls were close and so far none, so good on the traveller and Paimon for taking them out, he’d have to thank them later for protecting his napping spot.
Venti plopped himself down onto the soft grass, hoping no monster would disturb him as all he wanted to do was lay down and forget the world as the menace of a bard was tired.
“Guess my old age is catching up to me, huh” He joked to no one but the wind, and the wind responded in kind by tugging on his twin braids to show their annoyance with his jokes. He chuckled at their answer as he let himself fall onto his back from his sitting position.
Venti stared up towards the tree itself looking as if its swallowing the skies, remembering how it was but a little sprout not too long ago, damn, now im really starting to sound old, Venti doesn't think he is that old as Zhongli is older than him so if anyones old its Zhongli, sorry not sorry hehe~.
Ah, my dear esteemed benefactor…
My proud, beautiful flower of evil.
Huh? What was that? He swore he heard someone say something about a flower, and a benefactor? What was going on? He didn't drink that much, only about ten bottles total, that's waaay below his levels before he gets drunk, did Diluc mess with his wine then? If so he is definitely getting revenge.
You are truly the fairest one of all.
O magic mirror, thy wisdom I entreat…
Reveal unto me the visage I seek…
Ok, he must really be losing it ‘cause the wind apparently picked up nothing, no voices, no presence. Nothing. So what in Celestia is going on, he's not asleep yet though so he's probably just losing his mind, thanks a lot Diluc.
You, whose image the Dark Mirror did beckon forth…
If your heart bids it, take the hand of the one reflected in the mirror.
As flame reduces even the stars to ash
Venti gave up, he doesn't want to deal with whatever's going on, now Venti’s just laying there simply ignoring whatever strange things are speaking,
As ice seals away even time itself
As great trees swallow even the sky
Fear not the power of darkness.
Now—demostrate your power.
Wait, why were there horses, is Varka back? Venti was the definition of confused, first there was that strange voice that had no indication of stopping so far and now horses are apparently galloping towards him.
To me. To them. To yourself.
The hour grows long, and time is scarce.
Keep steady your grip, no matter what may come…
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When Venti woke he woke with startle as he quickly deduced he was in a tight space, too tight for his liking. With his hands he felt around the space to know how much room he had in there as it was pitch black, and it was weird because normally he could see perfectly fine in the dark but now he cant see anything except himself so he knew he was trapped within an object, but what kind?
He knew he wanted out of the box, he felt trapped, and he really didn't like the feeling. Venti summoned his anemo energy and used his wind to blow the lid off.
“NYAAAHHH, what the hell?!” A more pitched voice cried out. As Venti stepped out of the box he finally got adjusted to his surroundings, firstly what he thought was a box resembled more of a coffin, Venti did not like the thought that he was asleep within a coffin. Second he took note of the room he was in, a decently large sized room that was filled with more coffins! Where the hell was he? I really hope a cult didn't kidnap me, that would suck…
And finally he took note of the pitched voice. It was a cat, of course the one animal he was allergic to. Wait… it’s a cat. Then why wasn’t I sneezing? Venti was thoroughly confused. What was going on? He was trying to understand what this creature is if it's not a cat, maybe a raccoon? It does have the eyes of one. Venti crouched down to get on a more similar level to the raccoon cat.
The raccoon cat in question was an average size one, with grey fur covering his main body and white underneath at his chest and stomach. The raccoon cat had big and bright blue eyes which stared at him creepily, this raccoon cat was also weird in a way, it had blue flames coming out of its ears and a pitchforked shaped tail.
“Uhh, hi there?” Venti tried to communicate, emphasis on tried.
“WHY ARE YOU AWAKE HUMAN?!? Ugh i dont have time for this, ok human listen to the great lord Grim and GIMME YOUR ROBES!” The raccoon cat demanded him, Venti started cackling at this, at the irony of it. Him Venti is usually respected by those who know his identity as Barbatos or just respected as a simple bard, OR if it's Diluc or Kaeya, judged, those two loved and made it their mission to annoy him, I swear it's about the only thing they agree on, annoying me.
“Ok um, first of all what are you? And second, what do you mean ‘robes’?” Venti tried asking again and only just then, noticing the new clothes he had on him, and they were robes just like the raccoon cat wanted. They were pretty nice, raven black with royal purple trimming along the edges and gold stitches patterns along it. All in all it was comfy. Venti also noticed he no longer had his tunic on him, all he had was a white t-shirt, thin black pants and his vision. Venti felt really underdressed, he was definitely not giving this raccoon cat his robes, especially since then his vision would show too.
“What do you mean who am I? I am THE GREAT LORD GRIM you human, and I don't want to ask again GIVE ME YOUR ROBES!” The raccoon cat was getting impatient it seemed. The raccoon cat hissed at him as its pitchfork tail slowly swayed side to side.
“Sorry raccoon kitty, i dont have my usual clothes on and i feel really underdressed, I’d rather keep these robes on ehe” He tried to de-escalate this ordeal but again this raccoon cat was impatient.
“WHO ARE YOU CALLING ‘RACCOON KITTY’?! It's the Great Lord Grim to you! And i dont care, gimme your robes or ill roast ya!” Grim Venti guessed his name was, apparently didn't like being called a ‘raccoon kitty’ duly noted for next time.
Venti did not feeling like staying around and dealing with the racco—Grim, he didn't want to injure him because no matter how loud he was, Grim was very cute and probably the closest thing to a cat he’d be able to go near so he weighed his options and decided to bolt for the door instead. Which surprised Grim.
“HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING HUMAN! GET BACK HERE!!” Venti did not stop, and did not get back to Grim. Instead he was running down the corridor and noted the gothic look of this place, the building and walls were made of stone the colour a darker grey to black colour depending on the stones, every few metres he saw a light fixture with bright candles, not knowing how they were all so bright and not going out by the wind that followed him running he ignored it for now.
Venti also managed to get a good look out the few windows within the corridor, he noted the dark looking woods and the eerie feel the outside gave despite being daylight with the sun high up.
He finally decided it was time to duck down into a random door and hope for the best as he tried quickly and quietly opening, entering, and closing the door he entered, and thanks to his anemo energy he made no sound. When he looked around to see where he was he found he was in a library looking place, they must be rich… he noted the two storied and very, very high bookshelves. Before he could get seen he ducked under a table and made himself as small and hidden as possible
This is quite the fun chase, it reminds me of Paimon and how she’d always chase me when I teased her ehe~
Anyway back to the situation at hand Venti looked around the giant library, Lisa would love it here, it would put Monds library to shame I’m sure. Venti saw flying books, flying books! What is this place and how’d he get here even, he's never seen anywhere where they had flying books, minus that one time at Mondstadts library where he got revenge against Lisa when she dragged him out of the tavern and put him to work ‘helping’ at the library. Venti got sick of actively helping instead of drinking his worries away so to have a bit of fun he used the wind and made a lot of the books flying around like birds flapping their covers. Lisa got SO mad, she banned him from the library for a month after that, or was it two? Venti couldn’t remember exactly.
Damn. He got distracted yet again. Now how did this even happen? He had no clue. All he saw was the raccoon cat grim wrapped up within a whip or rope like device which was held on the other side by an eclectic looking man bird. Venti was not kidding when he thought he looked like a man bird, this guy had a black crow mask with glowing gold irises, a top hat with a blue ribbon wrapped around and a fancy looking gemstone and black feather on the rim of the tophat.
This man also had a huge cape or coat looking thing, it was made of feathers, feathers, Venti could not believe what he was seeing. This man also donned a skin tight vest decorated with shiny sparkles? Or gems? He could not tell. Around his waist attached to his belt he had a giant accessory, three gems rimmed with gold and hanging off the gems were keys, seven of them in fact. Why would someone have seven keys? Unless he has seven windows each with a different lock, HAH that’d be funny.
Back to the man, he had also a white undershirt and black gloves, on top of the black gloves on each finger he had gold claw-like accessories as well, which reeeaaally adds to his birdman theory. Either way Venti could tell by one look this guy would be a headache for him.
“Now where did this lost little lamb go? I wonder..? Ah there you are young man, please come out from under the table, and do not worry i have your familiar right here, caught with my lash of love!” The birdman proudly states, what the hell is a ‘lash of love anyway? Venti gracefully got out from underneath the desk and walks to stands a few metres away from Birdman.
“Uhhh hi? Who are you and where am I?” Venti quickly asks before this awkward silence continues. He knew he was no longer in Monsdadt, scratch that Teyvat from the feel of this place. He still had access to his anemo energy and his connection to the winds so that's a plus.
“Do not fret young man, as I am ever gracious I shall guide you back to the entrance ceremony. Ah, youth these days, ever impatient, the rest of your peers stayed within the gates and waited for me to invite them out, but you like trouble don't you? That must be why you left. I am ever so smart!” Birdman arrogantly started ranting about his ‘graciousness’ and ‘kindness’ completely ignoring Venti. Birdman started leaving the library and motioning for Venti to follow out towards the hallway. Venti hesitantly followed behind.
“Sooo uh Birdman who actually are you please? And what is this place?” Venti quickly interrupted Birdman's egotistical spiel.
“Hmm? Do you not know? Well i guess this does happen from time to time, the space time distortion must have messed with your head. Anyhow, I am the ever gracious Headmage, Dire Crowley. You are currently at the esteemed institute, Night Raven College, don’t you remember a black carriage arriving to pick you up?” Birdma—Crowley finally answered, Venti mentally compared Crowley to his name, Huh i guess it matches the ‘Crow’ in his name, he does look like one…
“Okaaay then, that makes so much sense, thanks Birdman!” Venti gave him a thumbs up. Ok so Venti is apparently at a college, meaning a school. Great. From what the traveller told them about these institutions from their world Venti knew he’d have a headache, maybe even a migraine at that.
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As they were walking Venti decided on one main thing, he will not call Crowley ‘Crowley’, Venti will call him Birdman. Birdman acts like a bird singing himself praises, and barely listens to anyone unless it helps him with whatever deal he has going on.
Either was as Birdman was leading him away from to library to a ‘mirror chamber’ or whatever he called it, Venti had time to plan on what he was going to do about this, ‘cause on one hand Venti very well knew he could most likely go back to Teyvat as the winds still listened to him here, but on the other hand he could stay and see what’s happening here, it does seem like fun.
Venti was debating his choices while in the background Birdman was praising himself on whatever topic he decided to blab about. Ultimately Venti decided to stay as he honestly could also not be bothered to figure out the way back and staying here could benefit him in other ways than amusement, he could learn about what these schools are while also being a menace to Birdman and whoever else annoyed him.
“We’re almost there young man!” He heard Birdman call out to him, also what was with this ‘young man’ thing? Venti has been said to look much younger but it was always ‘kid’ or ‘the short guy’ never has he been called young man, it was weird.
By being a god and having the winds he could hear the conversations coming from the room they were about to enter, some of the people sounded bored or annoyed, Who wouldn’t be annoyed at Birdman though… Yet some sounded excited it was a weird mix.
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“Where is that Birdbrain? The ceremony is over. I want to get out of here already” A deeper voice in the group of people who are annoyed said.
“He better be here soon or I'm outta here. I got an event going on.” A more static-y impatient one called out.
“He may have some other business going out, he did seem a bit frantic.” Another one of the impatient ones said.
“Maybe he had a stomach ache?” The only excited and worried sounding one asked.
“I am here my students. And no I did not have a stomach ache, I was out looking for our last student, he got out of the gate earlier and got lost. And I your very gracious headmage kindly found him and brought him back.” Birdman dramatically burst through the doors getting everyone’s attention at his eclectic self.
Venti internally sighed feeling the headache coming back. He slowly walked behind the headmage trying to put as much distance as possible between them, but it didn’t work, Birdman noticed and grabbed his arm to quickly pull him towards the giant mirror. Venti could feel the eyes of everyone in this room on him and the headmage. Luckily his vision was hidden beneath the robes so no one noticed his little trinket.
Venti also saw how the five other people who stood apart from the crowd eyed him, well five people and one floating rectangle. The five all had the same robes and he could only see a portion of their faces, except one who had his hood down, he had lion like ears and long brown messy hair with bright green eyes. Venti looked at that guy weirdly as he couldn’t tell whether the guy fell into the headache, tolerable or fun group, he guessed headache at first but he hadn’t talked to him yet so he couldn't judge him. Much.
“Alright, young man, step forward and approach the Dark Mirror, and say you name so we can get this ceremony over with” Birdman excitedly called out to Venti.
“Nyaaa, I should be up there gettin’ sorted into a dorm..” The raccoon cat grim complained, Venti chuckled at him as it was a funny sight.
He slowly walked up to the giant mirror, or ‘dark mirror’ as birdman called it.
“State Thy Name…” The mirror told him, the voice was weird, it was very low but with a certain pitch to it, kinda reminded him of Diluc on a bad day.
“Uh Venti?” He decided to say, he couldn’t say Barbados as that may draw attention if they have similar gods in this world.
If a mirror could deadpan and side-eye him this is how it would look, he didn’t know how but Venti could just feel the irritation and the side-eye radiating off the mirror, it was like it could tell it wasn’t his name but decided to just go with it.
“Venti…”
“The Shape Of Thy Soul Is…”
Wait… It’s reading my soul? Oh shit…
“…”
“I Cannot Believe This”
The guy who looked bored out of his mind with the green eyes looked interested in this, finally looked awake.
Crowley on the other hand looked frightened “Umm what do you mean? Is it good or bad?”
“The Shape Of Thy Soul Is Its Own, There Is No One Certain Form It Takes. It Is As I Am Reading A Soul Of A Spirit. The Power This One Holds Is Great, Could Rival The Strongest Mages.”
“Place This One Within Diasomnia, This One Could Achieve Great Things There.”
The chamber was silent, pin drop silent at this information, the thought running through everyone’s mind was the same ‘How could this scrawny child rival people like Draconia?’
“Aww thank you! Not even my siblings praise me on my power, probably ‘cause I'm lounging around usually ehe~” Venti decided to relieve the tension by a Venti style comment that no one but him could come up with. He was also relieved that the mirror didn’t reveal his godly secret.
As Venti looked around the room he saw that everyone was still stunned in silence looking at him in wide eyes of disbelief, the five people and one rectangle were whispering at each other, quite harshly if venti was being honest sort of like Diluc and Kaeya when there trying to annoy each other.
Finally the raccoon cat broke the tension after Venti had by setting the room on fire. Venti wished he was joking, this looked a bit like Diluc when he was much younger, when he found out that Kaeya will become his adopted brother, the little fire ball threw a flaming tantrum saying that he didn’t want that ‘eye patch kid’ living in the same house as him. The memory made Venti show a wistful smile.
“WHY ARE YOU LETTING THIS SHORT KID IN?!? THE GREAT GRIM IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL AND A BETTER CHOICE FOR THIS SCHOOL!” The ‘Great Grim’ as he called himself screamed at probably everyone? Venti couldn’t tell and the entire room was basically filled with teal blue flames, like the ones coming from his ears
“MYAHAHAHA Feel the power of the Great Grim!!” Raccoon cat kept shooting fire at the place, it was quite the comical sight to say the least.
“AAHHHHH Help meeeeeee, someone pleaseee!!” One of the five guys was running around like a headless chicken, quite the comical sight indeed hehe~. Said guy that was running around probably did need help as his behind was caught on fire
As Veti right now was feeling generous, NOT like Birdman. He ripped off a large chunk of his robe, just enough that it still covers his vision, and told the guy running around to still still then used the ripped robe to hit the spot that was on fire a few times until it went out.
“Thank you so much!!” The guy said sweetly. Actually now Venti can actually see the guy he saved from the scorched fate because his hood fell off from that running.The guy he saved has short snow white hair, ruby coloured eyes and more tanned skin, quite pretty if you ask Venti.
“No worries! Who are ya anyway?” Venti asks quickly before he gets inevitably dragged away somewhere by someone else or Birdman.
“Oh me? I’m Kalim Al-Asim! Nice ta meet ya! What’s your name, strange saviour?” ‘Kalim asked sweetly, Damn, is this guy the human form of the sun or something? Venti has already decided that Kalim will be in the fun list of people here.
“The names Venti! Nice to meet ya too! Wh-“
“Oh Headmage, if you will, would you allow me to capture this raccoon? I believe we both may benefit from this ordeal in a way~” Another strange guy rudely interrupted his conversation with Kalim. Again Venti could see his face more and his hood was down.
The rude guy has short light gray hair parted more to one side so some hair falls into one of his eyes, he also has thin framed silver glasses and a beauty mark below the left side of his lips. Venti can already tell this guy makes it on the headache list.
“Wheeheehee Azul is the GOAT man. Racking up those credits, just like a guild leader taxing everyone for resources” The floating rectangle commented at the rude guy.
“So uhh Kalim, who’s the glasses guy and the rectangle anyway?” Venti whispered to Kalim as he had no clue on what was going on.
“OH! The glasses guy as you said is Azul Ahengrotto, he’s the house warden of Octavinelle, he’s quite smart! He runs an entire lounge here at school! And the other one, the uh ‘Floating Rectangle’ as you called him is Idia Shroud, he’s speaking through his tablet, Idia is quite shy and doesn’t like coming to these sorta events in person so he uses his tablet to speak and go to places.” Kalim happily answered him, but seriously he is the embodiment of the sun I swear.
“And why are you not catching that raccoon oh great hunter?” A blonde guy asked the lion guy in a very pointed tone, venti feels like the blonde guy will be on his tolerable list. The said blond guy has shoulder length hair that starts blonde then fades to purple with a small bit of his hair braided crowning his head. He also had pristine skin, probably used a lot of makeup for that though, his eyes were a pretty shade of light lilac.
“Nah, don’t feel like it. You all can have fun. Ruggie! Wake me when it's over.” The lion guy answered the blonde guy then called out to another guy. Damn, Venti should really learn these people's names.
“Sure thing boss! Shyehehehe” The ‘Ruggie’ guy answered his boss? Why would school kids be bosses of other school kids? This place is weird
Ok so far this school has: a blonde and purple-haired guy, a rude guild leader, a lazy lion, a sunshine human, and a talking rectangle… Yeah, this could actually be fun, I’m glad I’m staying, ehe~
“If all of you will not catch this beast, I will.” A commanding tone rang out from the chaos of blue fire. This guy now has crimson coloured hair, in his hair two strands are creating almost a heart on the front of his head, dusty grey eyes and a younger child-like face, he’s quite cute too and pretty much the same height as Venti himself.
“MYAAHH, see how strong I am humans?! I belong here!” The raccoon cat shot out another fireball, maybe two, he couldn’t tell as Birdman is in the way again.
Venti stepped a little to the left closer to Kalim so he could see better as the raccoon cat shot out the biggest fireball yet and it combusted on impact in one of the corners in the room, Wow the raccoon cat has terrible aim. Venti also decided that until it becomes less of a headache he will refer to it as ‘the raccoon cat’.
“So… is spontaneous combustion part of the curriculum here, or is this just a special welcome just for me?” Venti quickly whispered to Kalim as this show was comedy gold.
“N-no, it *snrk* is not, hah, part of t-the curric-curiculum” Kalim could barely hold in his laughter as he spoke.
“Hmm so just for me then? Well I am positively amused hehe~” Venti quipped back, just in time for the standoff of the century.
The raccoon cat was on one end of the room closer to the grumpy mirror and crimson hair was in the aisle between where the students were standing. Huh, now that Venti looks the students were all huddled on the furthest end of the room near the door, trying to get out, they look a lot like Kaeya and Diluc when they were teens trynna race each other through the doorways ehe~.
Anyway the raccoon cat was swishing their tail side to side looking as menacing as a ball of fluff could, and Crimson Hair was in the centre aisle holding the raccoon cat's eye contact whilst slowly walking forward with a fancy pen in hand, the pen had a really pretty crimson rock on it.
Crimson Hair said each line in time with his steps…
“I’ll hand down my sentence.
The verdict comes afterwards.
Are you ready?
Off With Your Head!”
BAM!
A heart shaped collar appeared around the raccoon cat's neck from red sparkles that shot out of the pretty pen Crimson Hair has. While yes the scene was really cool and dramatic, the collar snapping around his neck sent shivers down Venti’s spine as he quickly reached up to his own throat to check if- No, nope, flying books… flying books everything ok, it's not there.
“NYAAH, I’ll show you! The Great Grim will burn you to a crisp for putting this necklace around him! MYAAaah eurgh! Huh!? Where’s my fire gone??” The raccoon cat tried and failed to spit out fire and instead just blew out smoke.
*Clap*
*Clap*
*Clap*
“Well done Mr Rosehearts! Such a beautiful use of your signature spell! ‘Off With Your Head’, a signature that puts a heart shaped collar on a victim and seals off their magic, perfect demonstration of the power that can be excelled here at Night Raven!” Birdman praised Crimson Hair, or Rosehearts was his name? And praised his own school, Venti shot Birdman the most deadpan look he could muster, which in turn made Birdman step back and nervously chuckle a bit.
Score one for me hehe. Anyway Venti still had no idea what was going on and probably missed a lot of key moments but eh who cares, he gained a friend in this strange land.
“So uh Venti was it? Here is your familiar, please do not let this happen again” Birdman shyly walked up to him holding raccoon-cat by the scruff on his neck.
“OK Birdman, I think I may have told you this but if not let me tell you. Raccoon cat is not my familiar, maybe if you stopped your self-praising you’d pay attention” Venti again deadpanned towards Birdman, Did I say that to Birdman already or did it slip my mind? Eh anyways~
“Oh, did you? Well if this isn’t yours then we’ll take him off campus. See how kind and gracious I am? I’m even sparing you from being dinner, oh hoho my kindness truly knows no bounds” Birdman AGAIN self praised himself.
“Please remove this cat as it breaks rule number 23, ‘One Must Never Bring A Cat To A Formal Affair’” Venti heard Crimson Hair say in a very disgusted tone of voice.
“I ain’t a cat! Now let me go! I gotta attend this school!” Raccoon Cat complained as Birdman handed the raccoon cat to a student and the student walked out.
“Now that that’s sorted, can we finally finish this ceremony? I got better places to be” The lazy lion guy groaned in complaint as well.
“Yes, yes. Mr. Venti, would you please move to your dorm mates? Alright now house wardens please lead your freshmen back to your dorms!” Birdman shooed him off to where his ‘dorm mates’ are.
“Wait… Where’s Housewarden Draconia?” Kalim asked Birdman, and Birdman physically sweat dropped, making Venti laugh.
“W-well he was meant to be here. Did no one invite him again?” Birdman quickly deflected the question onto the others before his ‘kind and gracious’ self could be blamed.
“Can you fault us? The lizards a recluse” The lion guy answered.
“Who’s turn was it to invite him this time? Wasn’t it you Kalim?” Crimson hair turned the question back on Kalim.
“Oh heck it was! It totally slipped my mind! I feel so bad now.” Kalim started freaking out now, it made Venti feel sad that Kalim, the embodiment of the sun, was sad. At this moment Venti decided that he will do anything in his power to protect the cinnamon roll as the traveller put it, calling Paimon that a few times when she was sad.
And what did they mean by again? How many times have they forgotten to invite this ‘Draconia’anyways? Venti wondered until his thoughts got interrupted
“Hmm, I thought this may be the case. I wasn’t able to find Malleus anywhere so I thought to check if he was here and alas he’s not. I fear he will sulk about this…” A much deeper voice said out of nowhere.
The guy with the deep voice made everyone jump in surprise within the vicinity of where he appeared except for Venti himself as Venti could sense his arrival through the winds before he appeared. The deep voice guy seemed confused on why Venti didn’t get scared.
Said guy looked pretty young for his voice. He had roughly bob cut length black hair with magenta streaks and two tufts of hair on either side of his head looking like bat ears. The guy also had pointed ears and raspberry red coloured slitted eyes, with a much paler face than most. All in all this guy was cute, and pretty an—NOPE Venti was not going to let his thoughts continue again.
Until this guy revealed a name he dubbed him the cute guy as it described him well.
Anyway, back to the ceremony, Venti definitely missed a bunch when he was stuck into thoughts as most students were gone and the cute guy was saying something about following him somewhere, I’d follow him any—Again NO.
Now finally breaking from his thoughts and back into real life, the cute guy was currently walking up to Venti, with a smug look on his face.
“My, my… if you’re going to keep staring like that, I may have to start charging by the minute” The cute guy said to Venti in a very teasing tone.
“And what’s the rate? I’d hate to accidentally go bankrupt.” Venti quickly quipped back, copying his smug expression.
“Teehee~ You're a fun one aren’t you? Anyway! Which dorm are you in young one?” Venti tried to hold back a laugh, I am the young one? Oh what fun this place is!
“Oh? I’m the ‘young one’ you say? Such a kind compliment! Thank you! And I am in Diasomnia, names Venti, pleasure to make your acquaintance~” He replied trying to get the guy's name.
“Hmm interesting… OH! Diasmonia you say? Why I am the vice housewarden, I’ll lead you and your peers to the dorm. I’m Lilia Vanrouge, and the pleasures all mine~” Lilia as his name was, seemed to think about Venti's response to ‘young one’ for a bit. Ooo Lilia’s the vice? This is gonna be extra fun I bet!
“Well then Vice Vanrouge, lead the way!” Venti joked towards Lilia.
“Oh please, call me Lilia, and yes right this way” Lilia said as he led him and the rest of the cohort towards a green themed mirror.