When y/n's vision came to, she found herself in Lilia's arms while a sandstorm whirled around them,"Graaah...!" Ruggie grunts with pain as he shuts his eyes and shields his face with his arms,"Uhwaahh!!" the other Savanaclaw residents scream in pain as well,"What's..." y/n is cut off by Lilia shielding her face against his chest,"Careful!" he warns.

"W-What the hell? My nose is dry... and my eyes hurt!" Grim furiously rubs his eyes,"Everything Leona touches us turning into sand...!?" Jack says with surprise, and true to his words, everything around Leona is turning to sand and whirling around in the wind.

"This is my unique magic... King's Roar. Ironic, isn't it? For a prince of the savannah, that hates droughts above all, to be born with this..." Leona looks down at his hands before looking back at a staggering Ruggie,"Magic that dries out all and turns it into sand!" his eyes were cold and uncaring as he grabs Ruggie's arm.

"Leo... na... I can't...!" Ruggie struggles to get his words out as he clutches his arm starting to crack from Leona's unique magic, trying to pull it away from the lion,"Ruggie...!" y/n gasps with worry as she pulls her head away from Lilia's chest,"Ruggie's arm is starting to crack!" Deuce shouts with terror,"He can do that to people, too!?" Ace's body shook with horror.

"Leona, stop this immediately! Off With Your Head!!!" Riddle tries to cast his unique magic, but Leona easily repels it,"Ffgna!? Riddle's collar was repelled!" Grim's eyes widen at this,"You have talent, but don't underestimate your elders. Unfortunately for you, I have good marks in defensive magic." Leona smirks smugly.

"Keh!" Riddle grimaces at this as Ruggie falls to his knees,"Ruggie! Leona let him go, you're hurting him!" y/n pleads as she fully pulls herself away from Lilia and gets up,"Ha ha! How're ya feeling, Ruggie? I bet it hurts. Your mouth is so parched you can't use that silver tongue of yours?" Leona laughs cruelly.

"Guuh... ahh..." Ruggie chokes as the cracks crawl up his arm,"This is bad, Ruggie is in real trouble at this rate!" Jack goes on the defensive, his eyes narrowed,"At this rate, he's going to kill him!" y/n panics with clenched fists.

"If you have that much power, why do things like this!?" Riddle glares,"Why...? How's knowing the reason going to change anything? Are you going to scold me then comfort me?" Leona questions with a mocking smile before glaring,"In this world there are plenty of times when talent and effort make no difference." he says before tilting his head down to glower at Ruggie.

"Just like Ruggie can't do anything to me right now. So pathetic. Truly pitiful..." he says as he tightens his grip around Ruggie's arm,"Haah... guugghh...!" Ruggie chokes on air as the cracks crawl dangerously close to his neck,"Ruggie!!" y/n screeches with horror.

"Knock it off!! Unleash Beast!" Jack howls as a large amount of smoke engulfs his entire body before revealing a giant white wolf in his place,"That's...!?" Riddle stammers with shock as Jack growls and snarls with pinned backs ears and snarling lips as he gets into a pouncing position.

"He transformed!?" y/n gape in shock,"The hell!? Gah!" Leona's eyes widen with astonishment before yelping when Jack pounced between him and Ruggie, forcing the lion to release Ruggie, who y/n immediately ran to in order to pull him away from Leona.

"I gotcha Ruggie, I gotcha." she cooes softly as she cradles the boy's body gently against her own, careful with his arm,"Leona's guard is down! Off With Your Head!" Riddle quickly casts his signature spell and successfully collars Leona,"Gaaah!!" Leona chokes as he's collared, stumbling back a bit.

The sandstorm around them finally settles down and Ruggie coughs for air,"It's over... Finally." y/n sighs with relief as she rubs Ruggie's back, having sat him up just now. He in return grabbed her other hand with his uninjured one,"Th-thanks..." he coughs,"No problem." y/n gives him a smile.

"Very nice Riddle! You stopped Leona's magic!" Cater cheers,"He let go of Ruggie! Bring him here!" Deuce calls out to y/n, who nods before slinging Ruggie's good arm over her shoulders, lifting themselves up from the ground and slowly made their way over to the group. Ruggie was immediately tended to, even though they were just checking the state of his arm, which was luckily not too badly injured or deeply cracked.

"Sebek, let's get any injured out of here." the silver haired boy order as he goes to assist one of the Savanaclaw students,"Don't assume to give me orders, Silver!" the green haired boy, Sebek, shouts despite having already been assisting another Savanaclaw student.

"Dammit...! A collar, and on a lion like me...!?" Leona growls with disbelief as he glares at the collar around his neck before directing his gaze to Jack,"Jack! Where the hell did you get your hands on a banned transformation potion?" he asks with a sharp tone.

"Unleash Beast... My unique magic let's me shapeshift into a wolf!" Jack reveals after having turned back to his original form,"Huh... You can use magic to become an actual dog? That's certainly unique!" Leona says with a growling sarcastic tone.

"Leona... I... I...! I wanted to get into this school because I looked up to you! Where has the Leona I admired gone to!?" Jack yells as he clenches his fists while y/n stood up from her kneeling position next to Ruggie,"Don't just shove your dreams onto me... So annoying..." Leona spat with venom.

"I may not have the right to say anything, but I can't stand to look at you right now." Riddle admits with closed eyes and crossed arms,"Confine yourself to your room and cool your head for a bit!" he advises.

"... What do any of you know? Preaching on and on just like my brother..." Leona scoffs with distaste as he crosses his arms,"Hmph. Men like you are much more suited for that collar than a crown." Lilia suddenly comments.

"Listening to a royal lion of the savannah talk like this is appalling." he rubs salt on Leona's wounded pride,"... Huh!?" Leona turns his hostile gaze at him now, much to Lilia's amusement,"You appear to be lamenting how you'll never be king due to natural skills and order of birth, but..." he smirks smugly.

"You live slothfully if you aren't rewarded, if things don't go according to your expectations you become petty and find fault in your retainers." he continues to feed fuel to the fire as his eyes and smile become ominous,"To become a king as you are... The thought of you becoming a competitor to our Lord Malleus makes me laugh." he claims with arms outstretched.

"Even if you are able to defeat him, as long as you hold that rotten grudge in your heart... You will never become a true king!" he declares and y/n looks at him with wide eyes,"Lilia..." she whispers.

"Ha, ha ha..." Leona suddenly chuckles as he grins bitterly,"Ah, you're right. You are precisely right. It's like you said... Hahahaha!" he laughs before snarling at him with a glare that screams hatred,"I can never become king... No matter how hard I work...!" he yells as the air suddenly becomes heavy and the earth beneath their feet began to shake.

"What's going on!? All my fur is standing on end!" Grim yelps as he stumbles on his hind legs while waving his front legs in circles in order to try and keep his balance,"Leona's magic is increasing rapidly... Grr, I can't, keep the seal on...!!!" Riddle grunts as he struggles to keep his seal on Leona.

"No. This isn't magic at all. This amount of evil, negative energy... He can't be!" Lilia's eyes widen with horror as y/n looks at Leona with worry,[This is bad!] she thought with an anxious expression,"Everyone, get back!" Cater shouts and everyone goes on the defense just as a strong magical force bursts from Leona's for, successfully blowing off Riddle's collar and pushing some of the group members back.

The sky turns dark as dust float around everyone like a layer of mist,"He blew off Riddle's magic sealing collar!?" Cater shouts with disbelief,"I've been loathed since I was born, no place to belong and no future in sight." Leona starts as a familiar dark inky aura surrounds his being.

"That will never change, even if I try. This agony, this despair... How could any of you possibly understand!" he screams before releasing a loud roar,"Leona-Ah!" y/n tries to call out to him, but then howls with pain. She falls to her knees and bends forward, clutching her chest as her forehead rests against the earth as her vision goes dark and back to the ink room.

Before her is a magical pen embedded with a bright yellow gem. But that soon vanishes as splatters of ink covers it before dripping away to reveal a pitch black gem stone.

A loud roar snaps y/n out of her pained state as she shakingly looks up and sees Leona has overblotted. Behind him was an incantation of a giant lion with a glass ink bottle for a head and is wearing a crown. Leona's overblot form was also something to both marvel and fear about.

"Wh-what the hell!? A giant shadow just came out of Leona's body!" Jack tenses at the sight of the incantation up as he held y/n tighter, having snatched her up after witnessing her kneeling over and screaming with pain.

"That's a... blot incarnation!" Deuce tells him with eyes filled with fear,"He's going 'evil berserker mode' just like Riddle did!?" Grim yelps, having a paw on y/n's hand that's resting on her stomach,"Leona..." y/n rasps as she sits up,"Y/n, stay down." Jack says with worry, but y/n shakes her head,"I have to help Leona too." she says with a stubborn tone as she stumbles back to her feet, ignoring the numbing pain in her heart.

"Grr... Retreat on your own if you can stand! Ace, Deuce, carry the injured outside." Riddle orders before turning to Lilia,"Lilia, please go get the teachers for assistance!" he says as y/n took note that pieces of the earth is rising up into the sky.

"Yes!" the Uno Braincell Duo nod before running off to help the injured get out of harms way,"Understood. Hang in there until I return." Lilia nods before disappearing in a flash of little lights

Leona let's out another roar as the incantation behind him starts to swat at everything around them,"Wuuehh. Why do we always get involved in scary things? I'm not made for this kind of stuff!" Cater cries out.

"I won't mind if you run away in fear." Riddle tells him with honesty,"Trey would have my head if I left you here all alone. I've got your back, Dorm Head." Cater smirks with a wink and a thumbs up,"Same! I'll do whatever I can to help you and bring Leona back to his senses." y/n says as she and Jack move towards them.

"I don't really get what's going on, but we just have to knock Leona back to his senses, right?" Jack says with determined eyes,"I... I'll help too..." Ruggie coughs as he got up and wobbles over to them, to which y/n quickly allows him to lean on her as she supports his body upright,"I can't just lay here after all he said..." he says as he glares at Leona.

"A lowly hyena is going to defy me? Hahahaha... What a dumb joke." Leona laughs sarcastically before snarling at them,"None of you will see the morning sun!" he roars viciously,"If we catch him, we're gonna be in the magical shift tournament! No holding back!" Grim flares up as his blue flaming ears burn brighter,"Everyone, let's go! Take him out!" y/n let's out a battle cry.

"If I can't overturn the world, I'll turn it all into sand! All this is meaningless... Everything!" Leona roars as he starts to attack the group, who return them ten fold,"Have you been thinking that this whole time...? You never said..." Ruggie frowns as his ears droop.

"Ruggie. Don't hold back and let's bring him back to his senses!" Jack shouts at him as they aim for both Leona and the incantation while y/n looks at her surrounding. Some of the rubble floating up into the air are quite big.

Big enough for her to climb on.

"I've got another bad idea... Let's do this." y/n shakes her body lose before taking a running start at Leona,"Y/n, what're you doing!?" Ruggie screams with terror,"I'm helping! What else!?" y/n shouts back as she jumps and clings on to a piece of rubble.

She climbs onto it and steadily balances on it before jumping onto another one. This continues on until she reaches the crown of the incantation,"Okay, time to-Wah!" she was about to pull out her gun to use and smash the glass head of the incantation, but due to a very strong swipe from it, y/n loses her balance and falls off the crown.

"Ahh!" her scream fell short as she catches herself by grabbing onto the incantation's mane, but her gun unfortunately fell from her hand,"Damn it!" she curses,"Y/n!" everyone scream with worry as the girl hang helplessly from the incantation's mane.

Y/n's breathing picks up a bit before an idea comes to her head. She makes a grab for a stray rock and then uses it to repeatedly hit the glass head,"What're you doing!? You damn herbivore! You're a nuisance!" Leona roars at her, but y/n glares into his eyes, her grip tightening around the rock.

Leona was about to attack her, but the others quickly averted is attention back to themselves,"Keep him distracted! Don't let him anywhere near y/n!" Riddle shouts as he casts a strong spell at Leona.

"Hey, Leona!" y/n suddenly calls out and Leona snarls at her,"LONG LIVE THE KING!!" she screams as she takes a strong swing at the glass head, successfully breaking it and causing it to bursts into pieces,"No..." Leona stares up at this with wide eyes, full of disbelief and horror.

"King... I'll... be..." he mutters with a broken voice as he turns around to face the others with dead eyes,"Leona!!!" he gasps when he feels a body collide with his own and arms wrap around his neck from behind,"What...?" he whispers as ink fell around them and bathe their world in black.

When y/n's eyes snaps open, she's met with a familiar black and white world once more. Next to her was Leona with crossed arms and furrowed eyes "Since I was born, it felt like there's an immovable stone atop my head." he spoke up from beside her just as their environment changes around them.

Before them stood the vast savannah with a beautiful sunset in the distance, despite it being black and white. Though, y/n did notice that they're also standing in an open hallway of sorts near a corner.

Y/n also spots a small black body with ears and a thin tail hiding behind the corner while three bigger silhouettes huddled together on the other side,"Huuh... His highness Falena is so bright and cheerful, but... Why is his younger brother so hard to please..." Servant A gossips.

"On top of that, he can use magic that can change anything to sand. So terrifying..." Servant B says with an anxious tone, a hand in front of her mouth,"Could the two of you keep your mouths shut? What if someone heard you?" Servant C whispers harshly to the other two.

Y/n took note of how the smaller silhouette clenches their hands before turning around and walking away silently. She can only guess that it was a young Leona,[People can be so cruel. Even to innocent children.] she thought.

"Had I been born first, I'm sure they'd sing a different tune. 'His Highness Leona is so thoughtful and an extremely formidable wizard'. 'Completely different from his carefree brother'." Leona says with a wishful look and y/n furrows her brows,"But because I was born second instead everything I do gets nitpicked, they extol the first born at the expense of the second. No matter what I do, I'll never be first." he frowns heavily,"Oh, don't I know it." y/n rolls her eyes and Leona huffs at her words.

Their surroundings then changes into a luxurious room. Y/n took note of a familiar silhouette lazing on a couch with tail swaying,"Leona!" a loud voice booms as a larger figure bursts into the room and stomps towards Leona.

[That must be his brother.] y/n thought as he eyes trail after the huge figure.

"Why were you not present at the ceremony today?" Falena asks with hands on his hips,"Ceremony? Aah, that doting-parent-party you threw to show off your son to the people?" Leona says with sarcasm as he gets up from his lazy position,"My apologies. It seems I fell back to sleep." he says falsely as he ruffles the back of his head.

"It's an important day to show the people the face of their future king." Falena reminds him,"It truly is an auspicious day. It's the day the loathed second prince forever lost his claim to the throne." Leona exaggerates as he gets up from his sitting position and steps past his brother.

"Stop talking like that!" Falena shouts at him as he whips around to face him,"The first born really has it easy. Even if all you do is laze about sleeping or singing all day, you can become king." Leona says with a bitter tone.

"Leona..." Falena sighs as he places a gentle hand on his younger brother's shoulder,"You are intelligent. Certainly there are things you can do for this country even though you can't become king." he says,"If becoming king was something achieved with intelligence, I would have no shortage of motivation." Leona says as he coldly brushes his brother's hand off before walking away,"Leona. Stop right there, Leona!" Falena calls out, but to no avail.

The world becomes dark, leaving just y/n and Leona by themselves,"Why is that just because I was born a few years later I have to go through all of this?" Leona spoke as he digs his nails into his arms, face scrunched up in frustration and anger.

"I can study everything, learn all the magic there is in this world... From the moment I was born until the day I die, I will never be seen as greater than my brother and I will never be king." he says before gripping the side of his head.

"Why was I born as the second prince? Why will I forever be barred from being number one? Why? Why? Why!? Life is unfair." he cries out and y/n gives him a look of sympathy and understanding.

She takes in a breath before cupping the lion's cheeks, causing him to look her in the eyes with his own wide ones,"I know the feeling. Being forcefully pushed down to second place instead of earning your rightful spot on the top podium. I get how you feel Leona." she says softly.

"But, just because you feel like you're always in second place doesn't make it true. Especially to others! Look at Ruggie, Jack, all of your fellow Savanaclaw members! They see you as number one, they see you as someone they can look up to and rely on! They see you as their personal king, Leona! Don't you see that?"

"Your hard work is paying off, Leona. You just gotta acknowledge that and not be so lazy about it all the time. Earn it and keep it!" Leona chuckles lightly at that,"You really have a way with words, huh Herbivore?" he says lowly as he places a hand over one of y/n's own.