1 The Four Delinquents [Prologue]

||--~ Act 01: Falsum Vitae ~--||

Hearing Lily humming and a few other sounds of metal from the kitchen, I was wondering what she was doing. "Hey, Lily, what are you doing?" The humming stopping for a moment before being replacing it by a girl speaking. "I am preparing food for the guests that are coming over." Guests? It's Saturday and the school is closed, but even then, we weren't expecting any guests? Me, being in the dark and not liking it had to ask. "Guests?"

Poking her head around the corner, only to find me reading a novel on my bed she sighed. "Bernard and Tarya are coming over, did you forget about them?" Hurriedly twisting my head towards her. "Wait! You mean that 'Can we come over' was a request to come over to this... uh, flat?!" Observing me stutter at a few words made Lily laugh. "Yes, it was not 'Can we come over to where you are at the moment'." Reading a novel to make it look like I understand, I was still confused while thinking over what Lily just said.

An hour later, when Lily was finishing and I was still thinking, a ringing sound was coming from the doorbell. Before either Lily or I could react and open the door, the door was instead bursting to open on its own. Looking at the door, the stunning sight of a girl about 16 years old with blue eyes with brown hair reaching her waist and her arms tied up by with the arm of a boy behind them with the same hair and eye color, just shorter hair. "Livy, please help me get my brother off me!"

Sighing as I was coming up to her, I did a karate chop on the arm holding her and then turning around going back to my sofa, lying down and beginning to read again. The girl asking for my help was silent, so was the boy. Suddenly both of them were bursting out the same message. "YOU DID NOTHING!" Turning my head towards them, I was tilting my head. "Hmm? I did a karate chop on your brother, what's up Tarya?"

Tarya and her brother, Bernard were looking at me as if I was a maniac. Please don't watch me like that. "That's a karate chop? You know a karate chop should cut the air and not float with it?" Snorting at their comment I neglected them. Lily, however, was merely in the vicinity of to exit the kitchen only to discover all of us in this quarrel of what a karate chop was. Not perceiving that she went up to us while we were having our discussion, an intense pain suddenly was assaulting me.

Noting that both Tarya and Bernard equally suffered from it, we were all tilting our heads and until seeing Lily standing by the table. """Oh.""" Becoming proud, naturally causing her under-average chest to become a tad bit bigger, she was accepting our glares. "Now that's a karate chop." Turning around and waving triumphantly at us to come she was standing by the kitchen. "Come now, food is ready."

All four of us were sitting around a table in the kitchen where Lily was serving us... Let's state it, even Lily displayed a pale face when she was actually witnessing what she made. So, let's not indulge in what it was looking like either. I was only capable of giving a single comment. "So, this is how the alarm went off at school that day when we had the shared culinary class..." None of us really knew Lily's horrible prowess since we were always ordering takeaways. Tarya was then insulting the chef for some reason.

Watching as Tarya was insulting the chef... who was silently crying in my arms, and Bernard who was constantly trying to reprimand her. I was heaving a sigh, and the entire room instantly grew silent. I, angrily glaring at Tarya who was stopping and apologizing instantly, was smiling as I was looking at Lily with her golden hair and blue eyes lying on my lap.

I thought of something. "Hey Bernard, your family should know this, but what does the faculty call us?" Watching Bernard seeing if he knew anything. "Hmm? Us? They have unanimously given us the nickname of 'The Four Delinquents'." Tilting my head and Bernard was only sighing. "You know, causing an explosion in the chemistry class..." Turning to look at Lily on my lap he continued. "... Being the direct cause of a student becoming hospitalized..." Then looking at his own sister. "... Directly refuting the teacher in almost everything they say. It had been only a matter of time before they started considering us something like Delinquent or perhaps even Mad."

So, it was like that huh. I was only experimenting with what would happen if I superheated oil and dropped a drop of water inside. Though the books did say it would cause an explosion, as usual, me just having to know the truth proceeded anyways. Pouting as I was thinking of this, then noticing a faint fragrance inside the room. It smelt like roses of some kind. A muffled bell was resounding in the room before realizing it was my phone having an alarm. Did I set an alarm for today? Picking it up and inspecting at it my face was turning sour.

The other's noting my ghastly expression and were asking about it. "HE sent me a message." The others, desperately trying to shift the subject, talking about other things like this week's homework. Happily chatting away, I, sensing that the amount of rose fragrance was steadily increasing, began to become suspicious. Did Tarya have an excessive amount of perfume on today? Not noticing before that moment, I was no longer completely awake.

I was about to fall asleep remembering something as the others were equally about to collapse. My last thoughts were 'The drug of roses huh.'

||--~ The Drug of Roses ~--||

Utilizing the olfactory system, resembling a faint fragrance of roses and flowers, a sleep-inducing gas enters and causes temporary sleep. Depending on the amount and persistence of the roses it could last up to forever. Granting it the nickname: 'Sleeping Beauty's Curse'