Welcome To Demon School! Ryūko-chan & Iruma-kun [Volume I]

Chapter XXII [Sparkling Shock]

Episode Release Date: 29th February 2020

  Kuromu-chan, the dem-dol who's all the rage in the Netherworld right now, is actually Crocell Keroli from the Misfit Class. However...

  She suddenly collapsed and sustained a high fever. Ryūko went out of the dressing room of Makubari Dome to seek help, whereas Iruma supervised Keroli by her side. Ryūko eventually returned to the room with Keroli's manager, Mal, along with a staff member. "Iruma, I have returned with Kuromu-sama's manager and a staff member!" Said Ryūko, who slammed open the door for the following adults to the enter the room. Mal placed her hand on Keroli's forehead to check her temperature. "Kuromu! Wake up! What an awful fever." Said Mal, "Get some cold water and ice, quickly!" "Yes, ma'am!" Replied the staff member before he went to get the requested items. Mal then turned over to Iruma and asked while poking his chest: "You... You didn't do anything to her, did you?" "No! She suddenly collasped while we're talking..." Said Iruma. "Did you do anything to excite her? She can't handle heat." Said Mal, "If she gets too exhausted or emotional, or uses too much ice magic..."

  Ryūko remembered the amount of ice Keroli conjured earlier, plus, she becoming an emotional wreak. "We've been so careful." Continued Mal. "Pardon. This might have been our fault, though I might not have said much." Intervined Ryūko touching her black cherry blossom earcuff. "Just stay put!" Instructed Mal, "I'll listen to what you have to say la-" Then, another staff member entered the room. "Mal-san! Kuromu-chan collapsed?!" Asked that particular staff member. "Yes. You can see for yourself." Said Mal. He asked Mal in regards of the concert, but she said that it won't be a possibility. "No way! We're at Makubari Dome! All of her fans are already lined up outside, and there are a ton of sponsers here, too." Interjected the staff member, "This is a huge chance for her! What about a doctor? If we get her checked right now-" "That's not possible! She has a unique condition. Certain steps are required to cool down her body. The only ones capable of doing that would be a highly skilled doctor or her family." Said Mal, "But even if we call her family now, we won't make it in time for the show's opening. They live too far away." "Wait, you're saying that her family are not making an arrival to her show?" Asked Ryūko. Mal pushed her glasses up and replied: "They are not. That's the kind of family they are." Ryūko clenched her fists and her sharp blue and red eyes became slant and sharper than ever, almost to a handsome guy's eye shape. But the fact that her family didn't show up for Keroli's performance made her much angrier.

Mal: "So we'll just have to cancel this-"

Crocell Keroli: "No."

Mal: "Kuromu!"

  In spite of her fever, Keroli managed to lift her upper body and she said: "I'm... going to become the top dem-dol. I can't... stop now. I'm going to get back at my family." "I know why is she persistant." Said Ryūko, "She comes from the Crocell family, whose bloodline ability is "Ice Facade". They have the power to control the temperature of water. The family is well know for their ice powers but their iciness isn't the only thing in the Crocell family that makes them distinctive. They are also known for wearing their masks of icy expressions. No cheerful or joyous face was made in her family, so smiling was never a thing for her back from childhood." How did she know about the Crocell family? Aside from academic studying, Ryūko has also studied about all the high-ranking demon families and even the Thirteen Crowns; a group of the Netherworld's greatest heroes. "She's right. But one day, Grammy secretly showed me a form of Netherworld entertainment. She showed me dem-dols." Added Keroli, "It was a sparkling shock. I never knew demons could look like this. So this was "smiling". That what I wanted to become. That way, I could get back at my family. Becoming the top dem-dol is my destiny. Because I'm... super cute." Keroli collapsed again, Ryūko was alarmed as Mal as they advised her to not talk so much and to calm down. Iruma asked if there was anything he and Ryūko can do, but Mal slapped his hand away and told him to not touch her, that he and his sister were in the way and there was nothing they can do. Ryūko's new eye forms returned to their normal state, only this time, filled with rage from hearing this. "No. There has to be a way, and we will find it, no matter how much you say that we can't." Objected Ryūko with a serious and blazing aura emitted with determination, anger and the red aura gave a gradient of admiral blue from the bottom with coldness. "She's... She's right. We'll try to help her as best as we can." Agreed Iruma, also emitting some of Ryūko's aura. "That's who we are. We are Suzuki Ryūko and Iruma; the honor students of the demon school Babyls and grandchildren of Chair-Demon, Lord Sullivan." Said Ryūko to her brother while holding his hand firmly, "We shall... prove her wrong about us being in the way. And we shall assist dem-dol, Kuromu-sama, no matter what the cost we need to pay for all the damage we have caused." Now with their twin aura growing stronger, Iruma nodded at his sister, full of the cold determination of her heart to be helping Keroli, without turning back on the decision.