💎Apple Juice: Part 18💎

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3rd POV
"It should be fine. After a certain number of bar lessons, even a scarecrow can learn to move like a person." Vil said to Deuce. "Then, let's call it a day here."

"Oui. Everyone, let's make our way back to Ramshackle Dorm to enjoy supper." Rook said, turning to everyone.

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Walking along the stone bricks path of Main Street, everyone sluggishly drag their feet to Ramshackle.

"Ugghhh, I'm beat." Ace sighed. "I can't believe Vil is the kind of demon that would make us crawl on all fours with a rag to clean the ballroom after an entire day if practice."

"He made me clean the windows like my arms were giant wipers. My arms and back are killing me." Deuce mumbled as he rotate his shoulders a bit.

"Cleaning is pretty hard work when you have to take it to seriously." Kalim added.

"I'm so hungry." Epel muttered, his hand over his stomach as it made a small growling sound.

"Me too, y'know." Grim huffed.

"Good job today, everyone." Y/n said to the boys.

"Hah hah hah! There was a point to making everyone clean like that." Rook laughed lightly. "Cleaning windows or the floor with a cloth works to beautifully train your back muscles. It's a very Vil-like regime to help keep the practice area and your bodies beautiful."

"Rook, you have a very good understanding of how Vil thinks." Jamil mumbled out.

"I don't know if I'd ca it an understanding. Feels more like he just validates everything Vil does." Ace muttered out.

"Beautiful people and things make me a wealthy man just with their very existance." Rook said to the two. "Beauty has this power to it. Sometimes seeing it can save you. Other times, it will drive you made. But at the same time, it is fleeting and fragile. You lose it the moment you look away. That is why, to the best if my ability I try to protect the nurture that beauty."

"You're talking about Vil like he is a flower or work of art." Jamil said to the hunter. "Sure, he's an attractive guy. But.... I can't say I think if him as someone who is so fleeting or fragile that he's in need of protection."

"Me too. To me, Vil is like a diamond, tough and unbreakable." Kalim added.

"You're correct. Vil has no need for my protection." Rook nodded. "If I was to reach out my hand to assist him, he's take those thirteen centimeter heels of his and kick my head right up into the ceiling."

"Holy Hades..." Y/n blinked.

"So when I'm trying to protect isn't Vil himself, but rather the "Beauty" that he possesses." Rook said smiling.

"Oh man. He's totally lost me." Ace mumbled.

"Pomefiore residents really are strange." Deuce added.

"I may be in Pomefiore too but even I don't get it... I guess?" Epel muttered out.

"Then there's nothing else we can do, but throw in the towel, y'know." Grim huffed out, wanting this day to end already.

"The day will come when you understand." Rook chuckled softly. "There will be a time when dazzling beauty illuminates your life. Then you will understand."

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Back at Ramshackle, everyone was finished eating dinner. But some of them are unsatisfied with it.

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