"Man...If I can't be in the spelldrive tournament, then what's even the point anymore?" Grim says, kicking the corner of the white fluffy rug made of wolf's fur. He was still in a bad mood after all. Y/n didn't know why, or, so she seemed. She was just pretending, after all, you know why.

"Wow, uh, melodramatic much?" Y/n mumbled, scoffing a little. "You're still not over that?" Yuuna asked, having her attention on her book about different herbs for potion class.

Then, the ghosts appeared, uncle's A-C. "What's wrong, Grimmy? Something got ya down?" uncle A asked. Yuuna flinched in surprise at the sudden appearance of the resident ghosts.

"He's sulking because he can't play in the Spelldrive tournament." Uncle B chuckled, patting Yuuna's head to calm her down.

"If you wanna play Spelldrive that badly, why, we can play with ya! I was the team captain 90 years ago, y'know. The girls in the stands couldn't get enough of me" said Uncle C. Uncle C was more dressed like a gentlemen ghost.

Grim looked up at Uncle C. "Yeah, but wouldn't we need seven people?" the raccoon asked. "It's not a real match, so who cares? Let's just play!" uncle A says, waving their hands in a dismissive manner.

The three ghosts lead Grim to the front yard of the Amaryllis dorm, followed by Yuuna and Y/n. "It's gonna be a little tough to play on the snow..." Yuuna mumbled. "Don't worry about it, after all, it won't be too bad" Y/n chuckled.

"Don't worry too much about the rules. Just take the disc and put it through the goal!" uncle B called out. Yuuna Y/n sat on the pillow-like snow that never felt cold to Yuu with the help of magic.

Grim let out a cheeky grin, moving the floating disk above his head. "I'm gonna leave you all in the dust!" Uncle A laughed, "Better watch out, everyone goes after the guy holding the disk with magic. Hehehehe"

"And, Start!" and with that, they started playing.

"Alright! I just have to take the disk and score some points!" Grim says, running to the goal. A ghost appeared in front of Grim, jump scaring him.

"Gah! W-w-what are you doing?!" Grim shrieks. Y/n laughed, "Getting in the way of your opponent is part of the game, Grim!" she shouts towards the raccoon.

Grim started to complain about how it was;t magic, it was cheating.

"Fnya! Controlling the disc is so hard!" Grim complains more. "Hehehe, at this rate, you'd be out in the first match you play!" uncle A teases. Uncle C let out a satisfied hum, "But you did play well for a first timer" he complimented.

Grim puffed his chest with pride, "I'm a genius, so give me a moment to use it and be the star!" They then continued to play Spelldrive for a bit.

"Good day. Playing some Spelldrive?" Crowley asked, suddenly appearing near Yuuna and Y/n, who were watching.

Grim jumped in surprise at the sudden voice and turned around, only to have a dumbfounded expression. "Aaand here comes the Fun police. There goes my good mood, right down the drain" Grim said in a monotone.

"I'm pleased to see you're all getting along. Quite pleased indeed" Crowley praises, ignoring Grim's complaints.

"Yeah, they just keep comin' back anyway" Grim huffed in annoyance, before jumping in Yuuna's arms as the girls stood up. "Might as well get along, I guess," he grumbled.

"What do you need, Headmaster?" Y/n asked.

"I have a request to make of you all. Why don't we take this inside?" Crowley suggested.

"Alright"

As they went inside, Yuuna grabbed a small blanket from a cabinet, and wrapped herself in a burrito, sitting comfortably on the fluffy couch.

"Seriously? More reguests? I ain't a part of your janitorial staff anymore, y'know!" Grim snapped, about to attack the headmaster, due to the aura he was radiating.

"Oh? You DO recall that I never promised to cover the living expenses you've been racking up, after all, you ARE living in Y/n's palace here, yes?" Crowley says, mostly speaking to Grim. "Hard work can be a beautiful thing, Grim. I'm sure you agree, Y/n and Yuuna?" he asked, turning towards them

Y/n sighed heavily, not happy about all the work that was sent to her from Permafrost. "And I thought I'll finally have a vacation from my imperial duty" Y/n mumbled.

Yuuna sweatdropped before chuckling nervously, "I don't seem to be in a position to disagree..." It was quite obvious that Crowley doesn't really take 'no' for an answer.

Crowley cleared his throat. "I'll get straight to the point. There has been a rash of students being hurt in suspicious incidents on campus lately. I'm here to ask you to investigate the matter."

"Suspicious incidents...?" Grim and Y/n mumbled in unison.

"What do you mean, suspicious incidents?" questioned Yuuna.

Crowley nodded, crossing his arms. "Yes. Students falling down stairs, getting burns from boiling water, and so forth." Crowley began to explain. "The specifics of the incidents differ, but the nurse's office has had a clear spike in patients over the last few days. With yesterday's incident on the stairs, we now have ten wounded students. We're just fortunate that none of the injuries have been life-threatening and a generous stock of phoenix tears to melt from Miss Chione....yet" Crowley frowned.

"Phoenix tears are hard to get, after all, it's not a lot where I cry and give away my tears" Y/n says. On the day she had her meltdown during the end of the unbirthday party, she managed to collect her phoenix tears, which were tiny ice crystals. Have you heard about that person irl who can cry diamonds?

Y/n's case is the same. But when it drops from her skin, it turns into ice. Phoenix tears in their crystal form are highly toxic, so you gonna have to turn them into their liquid state and permission from the phoenix for the tears to be harmless.

"Ya sure it ain't just kids bein' clumsy?" Grim asked. Yuuna seemed agreed as well

"I'm sure many of our students are too distracted by the upcoming tournament and play against Camelius to even focus properly" Crowley.

"Nya? Who is Camelius?" Grim asked. Yuuna also nodded, wanting to know who Camelies is.

"Oh? Camelius, from what I heard, was a legendary figure in the subject of spelldrive. He comes to NRC every 3 years to play against the champion to see if they are worthy of being the winner. A god on the field, he never lose a match, nor has any dorm be able to win or come close to winning against him." Y/n explained.

"Wow! He sounds so cool!" Grim shouts, having stars in his eyes.

"Does that mean, Camelius is coming this year?" Yuuna asked.

"Indeed. But this year...this is far more accidents than we've had in the past. Furthermore, all of the wounded students were considered contenders to make their dorms' teams" Crowley says.

"Why just the teammates though...?" Y/n asked herself. "Ooh, NOW this is gettin' interesting." Grim smirked, crossing his paws.

"You came to us because you don't think they were accidents, right?" Yuuna asked.

"All excellent deduction, Yuuna. However, we have no evidence of foul play." Crowley sighed heavily. 'well that just sucks' Y/n thought.

"All of the accidents happened in public spaces, and all of the witnesses said the same thing: 'it looked like he was just being careless'" Crowley quoted.

"Sounds like they were just bein' careless, them. Case closed! Glad we could sort that out. Bye!" Grim said, hopped off of Yuuna's lap only to be scooped up by Y/n. "Grim dear, that's not how investigations work." she poked his nose while setting him back down on Yuuna's lap. He only huffed in annoyance.

"But this has got nothin' to do with me! I can't even participate in your dumb tournament!" Grim huffs, disappointed about not being able to play

"I'm sorry to hear that- especially after I'd prepared such a magnificent reward for you..." Crowley says, sighing in disappointment. Y/n knew that he was just acting to convince Grim...

"Ha! I ain't falling for that line again! I wouldn't do it even for a hundred cans of tuna!" Grim crosses his arms, turning away from the headmaster.

"But what if I allowed you to participate in the Spelldrive tournament?"

"PARMONNE-MOI?!" Grim looked up at Crowley, a little shocked as Crowley took to the liberty to continue.

"Should you solve the case, I'll generously permit Amaryllis dorm to enter the Spelltrive tournament. What do you say to that? Surely you're dazzled bu my altruism?" Crowley offers, priasing himself as well.

"Myah....Myahaha!" Grim was even more shocked.

"As a participant, the whole world will lay eyes upon the Great Grim. Just imagine the cheers echoing from the sold-out stadium seats!" Crowley says, as Grim starts to form a smile.

'oh boy...he is getting filled with Pride..' Y/n sweatdropped as Yuuna made a nervous chuckle.

"'this's years's most promising rookie, the mighty Grim, has taken the field! Hurrah!' and so on." Crowley says, continuing to convince Grim. "Oh, man. It's like I can already taste it..." Grim mumbled.

"Ah, but of course, you have refused my offer. How unfortunate. Let's forget this ever happened" Crowley says, turning away to leave, smirking a little.

'The Headmaster must have planned this...after all, he's making that same smirk [nickname] as when she's plotting something...' Yuuna thought, sweatdropping a bit at the memory..

"No, wait!" Grim called out. "WAIT!" Grim jumps off the couch and grabbed the ends of Crowley's cape, pulling on him to stop. "I'm in! I'll do it!"

Crowley turned to face down at Grim. "What's that? You'll do it, you say?"

"If you'll let me into the tournament, you bet! Right, Yuuna, Y/n?" Grim says, turning to face the two females.

"Let's catch the culprit and enter the tourney...!" Yuuna says, a little nervous but hyped up at the thought of getting to play.

"Wait a second, don't we need seven players for a team?" Y/n says, intruppting their happy mood. Grim grumbled, glaring towards the ice queen, "You had to ruin the mood.."

Y/n chuckled nervously, straching the back of her neck, being careful of her mermaid scales that were behind her neck as well. After all, she IS a Levia-fae phoenix.

"As the school headmage, I will simply perform a magical miracle to fill out the other four members somehow." Crowl says, lighting up the mood again.

"We can work out the details later! C'mon, Yuuna and Y/n! We got a crime to solve!" Grim exclaims, running out of the ice palace dormitory. "Wait! Grim!" Yuuna runs after the excited raccoon.

"I am counting on you guys" Crowley smiled.

Y/n sighed a bit. "You must be spoiling them too much"

"Hahaha"