"...Which leads to my next point. Azul, let's make a deal." he offers with a smirk and Azul looks at him with shock,"...Huh?" he voices his confusion,"If I were to give these back, what would I get in return?" Leona asks as he waves the contracts around.

"Wh-whatever you'd like. Test notes, graduation thesis, altering your attendance records, I'll make whatever you want come true!" Azul says, desperation clearly written all over his face,"I see, that's a tempting offer." Leona hums as he pretends to mull the offer over.

"Then you'll..." Azul gives a hopeful smile,"However..." Leona was quick to interrupt him as his smirk turns to an annoyed frown,"I won't be handing these over for something like that." he announces and Azul is baffled by this,"...Eh?"

"Right now I've got her threat hanging over my head. Unless I help her get rid of these she's going to go nuts outside my room every night." Leona explains with a slight growl at the thought,"What...?" Azul raises a brow at this.

"Letting you have Ramshackle Dorm would ruin my sleep. Destroying these will get them out of Savanaclaw." Leona reveals with a smile, thinking that he'll finally have piece once the Ramshackle Duo leaves,"You're doing this for that...!?" Azul screams with an expression of disbelief.

"You've been out villained, Azul." Leona declares as he holds his hand closer to the contracts,"This can't be real... Stop!" Azul quickly sprints towards him in a desperate attempt of saving his contracts,"... Now then, 'Kneel before me!'" Leona finishes his chant as his hand touches the stack of papers,"King's Roar!" immediately, all of the contracts turn into sand and slips through his fingers into a heap on the ground.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!" Azul screams in horror as he watches his leverage be carried away by the wind,"Ah, aahhhh... AAAHHHH...!!!" he screams as he falls to his knees, hunched over what little sand is left,"My... my golden contracts are... all turned to dust...!" he utters as his shook at the horrifying reality that he's been bested by a non-magical human girl.

"Once someone has signed your 'It's a Deal', they can't so much as wrinkle it no matter what." Ruggie revises with hands folded behind his head,"You put on a good show to convince people that the contracts were invincible, but..." Leona crosses his arms as he closes his eyes for a moment.

"There's no such thing as a perfect spell. So she thought that, that means only when your contracts are in the VIP room or your own hand can they actually be invincible..." he then gives Azul a wicked smirk,"I had no problem turning them to sand with my magic so I guess this means her hunch was right on the money. The contracts are nothing more than paper." he states.

"H-How... could..." Azul's body starts to tremble,"Shishishi! Even though you could knock y/n out in one blow if you wanted... I really wanted to know why you kept helping her and I think I finally figured it out." Ruggie claims as he turns to Leona with a knowing smirk.

"Huh?" Leona raises a brow at him,"It was about the deal you made with Azul before. Getting rid of that was your real motive for coming this far." Ruggie explodes with a closed eye grin,"... Hah. Nobody likes a busy-body. I'm just the kind of nice guy that can't overlook those in trouble. Hehheh." Leona says sarcastically.

"Bah ha. You can't even say that with a straight face. All you had to do was figure out which one was yours before turning them to sand." Ruggie says with a playful smile.

"... Ah... Aaahhh..." Azul let's out choked noises which catches the Savanaclaw Duo's attention,"Hm?" Leona raises a brow at him as Azul sits back on his legs,"Ahh, ahhhhh...! AHHHHHH!!! I hate this~!!!" he suddenly shouts as he ruffles his hair in frustration and anger.

This alarmed Ruggie and Leona since this is the first time they've ever seen Azul lose his cool like this before,"It's gone... The collection I worked so hard to build! My omnipotence...!" Azul screams with wide eyes as he allows his arms to hang at his sides.

"... What now?" Leona goes on his guard along with Ruggie,"He's totally different..." Ruggie mutters as his ears go flat a little,"Aahh, it's all dust in the wind!! What the hell have you done!!!" Azul glares at them before looking at his trembling hands.

"Without that, I'm... I'm back to being a stupid, clumsy octopus! I don't wanna... No, no, no!! I don't wanna go back to the old me...!" he yells as he shakes his side to side, his hands covering his face while doing so just as a black aura starts to emit from his being.

"What's happening? There's a black aura..." Leona and Ruggie were quick to take some step back from Azul,"It's cause you got his hopes up only to crush them!" Ruggie scolds Leona before turning to Azul with both of his hands raised up,"Hey, Azul. Le-let's all just calm down, okay?" he says softly, but it was futile.

"Shut up!!! You have no idea how I feel!" Azul glares at him with so much hatred and anger,"Constantly made fun of as a 'stupid clumsy octopus'... You'll never understand!" he shouts before staggering back onto his feet.

"... Hehhehheh. Oh, yeah..." his expression then twists to that of an insane one,"If it's all gone, I just have to take more..." he reasons with himself before looking the Savanaclaw Duo right in the eyes,"Give it to me. Give me that power you're so fond of!" he screams as he reaches out towards them.

It was at that time when y/n's vision goes dark again and her chest starts to squeeze painfully so,"Ahhhhh! No, not now!!!" she screams in pain just as Jade goes for her, but he stops when the girl clutches at her chest. Even Floyd stops to spare her a worried glance,"Y/n!!!" the guys scream in worry as the girl just floats there.

Y/n saw the Ink Room again, but this time... Things were different again. Instead of just a few droplets of ink, a shower of ink paints the room pitch black once more.

"Ahhhh!!" y/n screams as the pain became unbearable,"H-hey..." Jade slowly reaches out to her, but Jack was quick to push him back with a spell as he scoops y/n into his arms,"Hey, y/n. Talk to me!" he calls out as the pain in y/n's chest finally subsides.

"Jack...?" she calls out in a meek tone just as a bright light emits from Grim, Ace and Deuce,"What was that light just now?" Jack perks up as y/n turns her head to look at her friends. She smiles when she notices that their anemones are gone,[Way to go, Leona and Ruggie...] she thought as she pushes herself out of Jack's arms, who was reluctant to do so,"I'm fine Jack, the pain is gone now." she reassures him.

"... Hm? Ah! Deuce, your anemone is gone!" Ace points at Deuce's head, who quickly plops a hand on his own head,"Ggh, you're right!" he exclaims with joy when he feels nothing at all,"Mine and Ace's disappeared too! Hooray! Leona and Ruggie came through!" Grim cheers as he throws his paws in the air.

"... What did you just say?" Jade's eyes widen at their conversation as worry and read slowly builds up in his being,"What d'ya mean by that?" Floyd narrows his eyes at them,"We made a deal with Leona to get him to help us out with this!" Grim reveals to them with a smug grin.

"What? That guy's always lazing about and sleeping all the time like a sea lion. There's no way he'd help you." Floyd says with denial,"As a fellow dorm head he should have wanted to avoid getting involved with Azul. How exactly did you convince him to hel you?" Jade asks with mild interest.

"My minion told him tbag we'd quietly leave Savanaclaw tomorrow if he cooperated with us to get Ramshackle Dorm back. But if he didn't we promised to keep him up every, single night. To really show him our power, we gave him a taste of how loud we can get last night." Grim explains as y/n nods in confirmation at this.

"Thanks to that we stayed up all night shouting our lungs out and didn't sleep at all, y'know." he finishes,"And we enjoyed every second of it." y/n chirps with an ominous smile,"Wow..." the twins sweatdrop at this, having expected a little something more interesting than screaming a whole dorm awake.

"So that's why your throat was rough as sandpaper..." Deuce comments,"Yeah, and it wasn't pleasant." y/n smiles sheepishly,"Isn't that more of a threat than a deal?" Floyd asks and y/n shrugs innocently,"Who knows..." she simply says.

"A coward for a coward, a villain for a villain." Jack quotes,"I can finally get some payback now that I've got my wind magic back." Ace smirks as he cracks his knuckles,"Come forth, cauldron!" Deuce tests out to see if he truly as his magic back. And to his delight, he successfully summons a cauldron,"... Yay, it's back!" he cheers.

"Ffngya! I'm the only one who can't check since we're still underwater!" Grim sulks,"No worries, we're totally good to go without your flimsy fire." Ace teases,"Now is not the time to tease him Ace." y/n scolds.

"We should probably head back, Floyd. Their anemones disappearing can only mean one thing..." Jade says with worry,"Yeah. This doesn't bode well." Floyd frowns as he rolls his shoulder a bit before they start to retreat.

"Whoa, hold on. We're finally back in top form." Deuce glares at them,"Don't say that you're going home, play with us some more, y'know." Ace teases with a smirk,"Annoying fries. This won't last long." Floyd spat at them with a wide eye glare,"Floyd, just leave them be!" Jade scolds, but Floyd proceeds to attack them,"... Ugh, fine." he sighs as he quickly joins his twin.

But, with them having their special abilities back, they were being fend off pretty well,"Aaaah, shit! They're a pain!" Floyd whines loudly with a growl after deflecting another cauldron from Deuce,"We should retreat, Floyd. I don't think this is the time to be playing around with them." Jade advises,"Tch... I know. Let's go." Floyd scowls before they both retreat for the mirror portal.

"Look! They're swimming away!" Grim cheers while y/n's stomach starts to churn,"I've got a bad feeling about this..." she mumbles to herself before feeling a hand land on her shoulder,"Let's go back to school too. We've got to shove this photo in Azul's face and celebrate our complete victory!" he encourages her as he hands her the photo.

"Right. Let's go too guys!" she calls out and they all swam back to the mirror portal as well. They were hot on the twins' tails as they ran back to Octavinelle, but... What they saw horrified them. Bodies were lying everywhere and the entire dorm was bathed in a dark aura,[No... No, no, no.] y/n chants in her head as dread blooms inside of her.

"Your lightning magic, and your athleticism, give it all to me!" Azul yells with an insane smile as he steal a Scarabia resident's magic and ability without a second thought, causing him to scream and pain before falling to the ground unconscious.

"What exactly is Azul absorbing from everyone!? People are collapsing one after another!" Ruggie exclaims with wide eyes as he and Leona took cover behind some corals,"It looks like he can take everything from someone with his Unique Magic if there's no contract in place. My guess is that the contract acts like a check and balance for his magic." Leona theorizes.

"Eeeh!? That's freaking terrifying!" Ruggie jumps in alarm at this as his ears are pinned down against his head,"Yeah. That forbidden class of magic is gonna build up an excessive amount of blot in an instant." Leona says as he narrows his eyes at this fact.

"Azul! Just what are you doing!?" Jade shouts as he and Floyd stop a bit away from Azul,"Uhwah, what the hell is happening?" Floyd questions as he looks at his changes surrounding.

"This is bad! Really bad!" y/n says as she tugs the photo away in her jacket,"Things are crazy right now!" Ace exclaims with wide eyes,"Is Azul... on a rampage!?" Deuce utters with a flabbergasted expression,"He's absorbing abilities from students left and right." Jack notes as he checks the pulse of a fellow student, relieved to find a steady one.

"Eek... Leona! This is because you picked on him, isn't it!?" Grim immediately accuses,"This is my fault? You're the ones who told me to turn his contracts into sand." Leona spat at him,"Yes, we did! But we didn't say tease him about it! Just what exactly did you say to him!?" y/n shouts at him with a glare.

"Jade, Floyd, aaah, you've finally come back to me." Azul says with a pleased tone, but it's clear that the male has lost his sanity,"Those bastards went and destroyed all of my precious contracts. So please, give me your strengths, too. Give it to me!" he demands with desperation.

"Stop this instant. You know that you can't control your Unique Magic properly without a contract in place, it's too strong." Jade reminds him with a calm expression,"If you keep on like this you know what will happen!" he warns him.

"It's all gone, you know, everything... Ah ha ha ha... AH HA HA HA!" Azul laughs insanely,"I don't wanna go back to the way I before!" he says with a somber tone,"Azul...?" y/n furrows her brows at his words, wondering what happened to him the past to make him turn out this way.

"Uumm, y'know, you're way lamer right now that you ever were before." Floyd says with a disappointed frown,"Ah... Is that so? You're aware I am a stupid, clumsy octopus that can't do anything by himself." Azul degrades himself and y/n's eyes widen as she pieces the puzzles together. Her own memories then comes back to haunt her.

*Hey, Mommy's Puppet! Did you do my homework yet?*

*You stupid child! Why can't you do anything right!? You're just so useless!*

*Psh, hey look.*

*What? Look at what?*

*Don't you see her? That's the girl who punched her bully the other day.*

*Who? Y/n? No way. She's way too cowardly to do something like that.*

*It's true! She punched her bully's entire front teeth down her throat!*

*Wah! Scary!*

*What a Monster.*

*She just ruined someone's life.*

*What a freak.*

*Weirdo.*

*Loser.*

*Outsider.*

*You don't belong here, Mommy's Puppet.*

[I get it now. Azul, you've been bullied by those who saw you as different, haven't you?] y/n thought with sympathy,[But...] she clenches her fist and grits her teeth,[You can't let them get to you like that! What are you trying to prove here!?]

"So. I'm going to keep taking until I'm the best version of myself I can possibly be. A beautiful singing voice, powerful magic, everything belongs to me! Give it all to me!" Azul screams as a black aura oozes off of his being whilst he absorbs more of students magics and abilities.

"The hell is that? Black mud is coming from Azul. That's not ink... right?" Floyd questions with a weirded out expression,"He's using his magic too much. He's accumulating blot beyond safe levels! At this rate... He's going to overblot!" Jade warns everyone.

"Aaaahaha! Aaaahahaha!" Azul laughs as the black aura covers his entire being and y/n's vision goes completely black along with fresh chest pains hitting her harder than before,"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!" she screams as she her body goes numb.

Her vision reveals a Magical Pen with a beautiful lavender colored gem embedded into it. Like all the others, black ink bathes the entire room in black before dripping away to reveal a now black gem.

By the time she had gained her bearing, Floyd was the one to shake her awake,"Hey! Lil' Shrimp! You having a heart attack or something!?" he asks with worry as he holds her up in his arms. Y/n groans as she blinks her eyes rapidly at a poor attempt to clear her vision.

"Azul... What happened to Azul?!" she immediately asks, desperately trying to ignore the lingering pain in her chest,"Uh... He's..." Floyd turns his gaze in front of him and y/n follows it.

To say the least, she's in awe at Azul's overblot form. Unlike the previous overblots, his entire appearance has completely changed to that of an octopus merman and his incantation is that of a fat octopus mermaid wearing a cape collar, sporting a crown and held a trident for a weapon.

"No way..." she whispers and quickly scurried out of Floyd's arms, but said merman immediately grabs her arm,"Let me go Floyd! I gotta help him!" y/n says as she attempts to pulls his hand off of her.

"No way! You might have just had an attack or something and you can't risk going into battle like that. Stay here or else I'll squeeze you until you're unconscious." Floyd threatens her before he joins the others. But y/n ignores him in favor of sneaking off to some cluster of corals.

"Ffgna! He's an octopus where his legs should be!" Grim yelps in fright,"That's what Azul looks like underwater." Jade tells them as they all pull out their magical pens,"What's behind him? I can't squeeze something that big!" Floyd exclaims.

"Our priority is bringing Azul back to his senses." Leona states,"Or we're all gonna become anemones!" Ruggie shouts as they start to attack Azul at once, but this battle proved to be tougher than they thought.

Meanwhile y/n was busy breaking off a relatively sharp coral with a stray rubble she found on the ground, cause she didn't have her gun with her. Once she successfully broke off the coral, she hides it in her jacket and quickly climbs on the corals and sneakily made her way towards Azul.

"Let's make a deal. Come on, make a deal with me..." Azul tries to coax the guys into doing so, but they obviously didn't give in,"Normally I'd be cool with making a deal, but right now, not a chance." Floyd says with a wicked grin,"I agree." Jade nods just as y/n reaches the tallest point of the coral and makes a jump for the incantation.

What she didn't expect was for Azul to snatch her right in mid-air with one of his tentacles wrapped around her middle, arms pinned to her side,"And just what do you think you're doing?" he scowls at her as y/n struggles in his hold, only to whimper when he tightens it.

"Y/n!!!" the others call out to her in worry, wondering what in earth was she thinking,"It's your fault all this happened! If only you didn't get in my way, none of this would've happened!" Azul shouts at her and y/n glares up at him.

"Oh hell am I taking the blame for all of this! Yeah, I got in your way but I didn't cause all of this mess!" she shouts fiercely,"This is all of your doing Azul! Not mine! You're the one who made the mistake of making a deal with me!" she claims before biting down on the tentacle that held her captive.

"Argh!!" Azul was quick to drop her in favor of holding his injured tentacle and y/n wasted no time in climbing up the corals again,"Keep his attention off of her! Give the Herbivore time to do what she needs to!" Leona orders and everyone starts to attack Azul once more, successfully distracting him long enough for y/n to reach the top and jump towards the incantation.

She managed to grab hold of the thing's cap and climb her way to the side of its bottle head,"Oh, and Azul!" she calls down to the merman, who turns to glare up at her. Y/n takes out the sharp coral in her jacket with a little toss before holding it tightly in her grasp.