I woke up the following morning refreshed but also very hungry. I thought that because no food came in last night and how Yuu was acting, she might've done something to the food like eat it all with Grim. I could hear voices talking downstairs and assumed that this would be when Crowley was telling Yuu and Grim to clean around the school. I snuck downstairs and saw Yuu and grim leaving the gate outside, and Crowley was at the door. I rushed towards him, hoping I could get in a few questions and a task.
"Mr. Crowley, wait!" I yelled as I caught up to him. "Ah, this is what I was forgetting! Ms. Hood, Yuu, and her monster already left to go clean the school. If you leave now you can catch up to them," he said, and I looked away, a little timid, "actually headmaster could I stay here for today and make renovations to the dorm house. If you don't believe I can do it, you can look at what I did last night and decide for yourself if I can. I won't stay here all-day obviously, I'll go outside too."
Mr. Crowley agreed to what I said once we saw my dorm room on the top floor. In fact, he was quite amazed, stating that this was quite high-level magic. The headmaster ended up asking you to present some magic to him, which you happily obliged, transfiguring an old chair into a simple yet elegant oak wood one.
When the headmaster was going to exit the dorm, I called out to him one last time, "Mr. Crowley!" He turned to look at me, "there's actually one last thing I need to say," I said, suddenly finding the floorboards very interesting. "Yes Ms. Hood, what is it?" "Well I know it isn't the same for Yuu and how she got here because even if we came from parallel worlds, our circumstancises are very different," Crowley cocked his head to the side, "how so Ms. Hood," I paused for a moment trying to figure out what to say, "Well...you see Mr.Crowley I'm supposed to be dead...now before you say and thing because you look confused right now, I'll just explain everything that happened to me."
Mr. Crowley sat on one of the cleaner chairs, and I sat on the other, and I started to explain my life and what was happening. For obvious reasons, I excluded the screen, the fictitious world I wanted to go to, and that this was a game in my world. I basically told Crowley the outline of my home life and social status, how hard things were with my mentality, and how I ended up ending my life. By the end of my explanation, Crowley was silent for a few moments then said, "Ms. Hood I am very sorry for what has happened to you in your life. I must have been very hard for you and I don't want you to find my next question rude for I am simply asking but are you sure that you died?"
I gave him a sad smile, "Oh Mr. Crowley, no one has ever survived falling into that river and the next morning, we always find the bodies that have fallen into it. When you fall into the river especially at the height I was at, it's most certainly that I died," I gave a brief pause, "so as you can see headmaster I can't go home because I've already died and this may be bold of me to ask, especially because you said this school became an all-boys college but would you be willing to admit me as a student here," after I said that I got a little flustered and added, "I mean obviously I can work too, like and assistant or something...or if you really don't want me here I can see if they have another academy or place I can go too...and if I-" "Ms. Hood-" Crowley cut me off and gave a big smile, "I think it would be wonderful to have you as a student here. Oviously I need to do the paperwork but from what you just told me, you don't have any place to go to so this is your best option."
I stood up from my chair and gave Crowley a smile and a thumbs-up, "Don't worry Mr. Crowley I won't disappoint you ," the said man chuckled and walked out the door. Now I stood standing in the middle of the living room, looking at what needs to be done. I thought that everything in this dorm house needed to be changed, and I have to just idea that I could transfigure everything to look like a modern classic victorian home.
Before I could change anything, though, I could hear laughter coming closer. 'ah these may be the ghosts that reside here' when the ghosts rounded the corner, I smiled and gave a wave, saying a simple, "hey!"
The ghosts appeared to be shocked that someone else resided in the dorm, "oh my ghosts! We didn't know there was someone else in this dorm," I was still smiling, "it's alright, I went to bed pretty early. I'm actually going to restore this dorm house and make it better for today and then tomorrow I'm going to my classes. If you don't mind could you show me where all the problems in the house are?"
The ghosts seemed surprised that I wasn't scared of them but seeing as I already know the plot and I've watched far scarier things than ghosts, but if they asked, I could say seeing ghosts in my world was normal. The biggest ghost started to laugh, "you're pretty guttsy kid," another one interjected, "why arent you scared of us?"
I then told them that in my world, the occurrence of a ghost was pretty normal and that in my old school, we even had head ghosts for the houses. I chatted with the ghosts a bit as we walked through the house and about my experiences so far in their world and how my world was, and yes, I even included what Yuu said to me, but I told them to treat her still kindly. By midday, we had a renovated dorm house, and I told the ghosts that I would go for a walk and try to find some food.
Leaving the Ramshakle dorm, I started to walk aimlessly, thinking that if I found the headmaster, I could ask him if I could be in a different class than 1A so that I wouldn't collide with Yuu her friends. I had a feeling that I should stray from the plot, because after all, this is set in Yuu's point of view, so this was technically supposed to be her story. Before I went into the school building, I found Mr.S's shop. Before I went in, I configured some money, and I thought about what I wanted. I was thinking of getting grocery's, so I also had that list with me. I came in and had a pleasant conversation with Sam, and I discovered that apparently everyone was talking about how we'll have two new students, which means that it was past midday, and Yuu came back from the mines. I had to make sure that before I went back to the dorm, I talked to the headmaster.
So walking towards the building, it was starting to get darker, and I made sure that no one saw me. When I arrived in the hallway, I stayed to the side and watched as Ace, Deuce, And Yuu left, laughing with each other. When I assured that they were gone, I went up to the headmaster's door and knocked on it. I heard a chipper come in, and when I opened the door, the overwhelming purple in the room kind of override my senses.
"Ah, Ms. Hood! What can I do for you?" He asked as he was at his desk, seemingly organizing paper. "Actually, Headmaster Crowley, I know I've asked a lot of favors form you but if I could ask one more. Could I be in a different class than 1A?"
The said man tilted his head a little while he still had a smile on, "I could, but Ms. Hood why would I do that?" I knew that he would ask that question, and I prepared myself before coming here, "Well, you see Headmaster I want a completely different experience than I can have alone. I know it sounds selfish but Yuu already had friends and I think it may be best for me to branch out and meet new people of my own." He thought about it for a while and then replied, "Yes, yes I see your point I can get into into a different class such as 1B after all I'm so gracious."
We chatted about the dorm a little bit, and then I headed back to my dorm room with my groceries, thinking about what the upcoming days would bring.
dorm rooms in Ramshakle:
living room:
entryway:
Stairs that connect to other dorms rooms:
Outside of Ramshakle: