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Short Translation from Twst the 2nd novel: Meeting Malleus (pt1)

"‘Who's there?’

‘Ah—‘ 

Suddenly, a voice from the darkness. 

Startled, Yuuya tries to stand, but merely falls onto his backside. 

‘Ow…’ Yuuya winces in pain, and he hears the voice again.

‘You do not seem to be a ghost. Are you a child of man?’

Yuuya tries to locate the source of the voice with the aid of the dimly lit gate lamp, but he sees no one.

It seems to be coming from farther down the stairs. 

‘What are you doing here?,’ asks the darkness.

It is a low, deep, beautiful male voice. While the tone is not kind, Yuuya finds it strangely soothing.

Almost unconsciously, Yuuya responds, ‘I couldn't sleep, so I came outside for a bit.’

‘Outside? So you are living here.’ For a moment, the voice falls silent.

‘This building has been in ruins for a long time—or so it should have been. I've been rather fond of it as a place where I can be alone, in peace. I see...someone has arrived.’

The last words he murmurs sound a little lonely. Despite how he can only assume that the owner of the voice cannot see him, Yuuya lowers his head slightly as he speaks. ‘Yes, I live in this dorm now. My name is Kuroki Yuuya.’

‘Yuuya…ah, you must be Yuu, then.’

‘You know who I am?’ In the same moment that Yuuya asks this, he realizes that it is not so unusual. There must be very few people at the school who have not heard of him and Grim by now.

Instead, he asks about the voice. ‘Who are you? A student? Or maybe a teacher?’

No response. Was it a rude thing to ask? 

His surroundings are still dark. Yuuya still cannot see with whom he speaks, which makes him anxious. ‘I’m sorry, it’s just so dark that I can’t see…’

A creaking sound tickles his eardrums. It is the rusty gate being opened.

Yuuya hears the distinct sound of footsteps on the short staircase, and just a few steps ahead of him something seems to move, partially obscuring the dim gate light. 

Yuuya strains his eyes desperately to see, just as a cloud passing before the moon causes the area to brighten, only slightly.

Standing halfway up the staircase is a man. He wears the Night Raven College school uniform.  As Yuuya had suspected, it is indeed a student. 

The jet-black hair that rests against the nape of his neck is all the more noticeable in the dim light, darker than even the night itself.

And there are horns upon his head, just as dark.

Yuuya stares at them. They compliment the man's well-shaped head, forming an elegant curve. And they are surprisingly large. 

Yuuya lowers his gaze to find that the man is looking back at him just as intently."

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Malleus exists btw

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Your order is five hours late and Leonameow delivery cat says it's because the traffic's insane. You check the traffic report and there's no jam at this hour. Will you report him to customer service?

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Actual image of Diasomnia

Damn the height variation is insane. If you place Lilia next to Silver, you'll have a Diasomnia staircase.

I'm shorter than Lilia btw.

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Damn the height variation is insane. If you place Lilia next to Silver, you'll have a Diasomnia staircase.

I'm shorter than Lilia btw.

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Baby dragon 🐉🍼 is in papa's office, lazing about in his little bean bag that he dragged beside the sunlit window.

🐉🍼: *yawn*

🐉: "My, what a big yawn! Are you alright, Mister Drowsy? Is our Lord of Eepers eepy?"

When you spend everyday with your modern spouse, you can't help but pick up a word or two from their vocabulary.

But his baby only side-eyes him for a whole five seconds, unspeaking. Then the boy sighs loudly, buries his snout in the bean bag, and dozes off.

🐉:

He's never felt more judged in his life.

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Did you order a box of meow tarts? Riddlemeow will have it delivered at exactly 5:00 in the afternoon, so make sure to greet him by your door at that exact time, with the exact price amount or it's to jail with you!

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Malmal's tail is out one day and you scratch the skin where it grows from.

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🐉 getting that alarm clock that plays voice recordings as its tone.

🐉: "Beloved, may you say "good morning" for me?"

🌸: "Good morning!"

🌸: "Why? What for?"

🐉, chuckling as he presses stop recording: "My new alarm."

~

🌸: "Kyaa!!"

🌸: "Oh god that was a cockroach. That scared the hell out of me."

🐉, giggling as he replays the newly recorded "kyaa!" alarm tone: "Lovely."

🌸: "What?"

~

🌸: "I love you! Good night."

🐉: *Presses stop recording*

🌸: "How many voice recordings do you plan on getting..."

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🐉🌸, making love one evening

🐉: *Pauses*

🌸: "What's wrong--"

🐉: *Picks up his alarm clock from the bedside table*

🌸: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?!"

He gets mercilessly beaten by a pillow, thrown out of the room, and he spends the night knocking on the door and apologizing for letting his vulgar thoughts win.

🌸 finds out he just wanted to record his name being uttered so lovingly.

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Silver recorded his Clock Town friends' voices as an alarm tone and naturally that also includes Yuu. 😭 This would either make Malleus extremely ANGRY that Yuu is, for some reason, in Silver's room or he steals the alarm clock for himself. Or both in that order.

Then he returns it once the alarm cycles and Grim's voice wakes him up the next day LOL.

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🐉: "Lilia, as per your advice, I've been trying to rekindle my relationship with the man who contributed his sperm to Mother."

🐉: "Just recently I've been pulling a prank on him."

🦇: "Contributed his-- at least call him by his name. My goodness. What happened in the past was not his fault."

🦇: "So? What kind of prank?"

🐉: "I have been hiding things that are important to him these past few days. Just so he could feel a fraction of what Mother felt when he disappeared without warning."

🦇: "Oooh that's a good one! You should try hiding yourself too just to amp it up!"

🐉: "Lilia, you do not understand. It has to be something he would look for."

🦇: "Oh that's... That's... Sigh."

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I love how Malleus is misunderstood in the truest of sense not because he's a typical kuudere who likes animals but just happened to always pick the most offensive language known to mankind every time he wants to praise the mc, but because people are literally making up shit about him that he's never done before.

"He'll kill you on sight," "He eats babies for breakfast," but when you meet him he's a genuinely happy person. Like, not even because you accidentally triggered his gap moe and you see the golden heart he's purposely hidden from the world because of trauma or some edgy crap. Literally just someone who smiles the entire time he's talking to you and guffaws at your jokes and gets excited at the thought of going to places with you.

Like, that's not a kuudere, that's a normal person.

And it's not even that he doesn't have trauma. My guy accidentally got cursed by his own mom. It's just that he thinks the prospect of a precious present moment weighs so much more to him than a past he has no control over.

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Normal Malleus: 😐

Malleus within one second of seeing Yuu from 2 miles away: 😳

Malleus when he teleports at an accidental distance of 1 cm away from Yuu:

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Is your name Yuu? If yes, proceed to the next question.

Do you live in Ramshackle Dorm? If yes, proceed to the next question.

Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? If no, good. If yes, that's fine too. It's easy to remove someone out of the equation

If you're looking for a husband then simply go to your lawn at 1AM in the morning. If you're not looking for a husband, it's OK-- he will look for you instead. It's a canon event. You can't avoid him.

You'll be a married person in a year tops.

~ Random thought after seeing how genuine and piercing-the-heavens level of HUGE Malleus' grin was in the new Octavinelle chapter while talking to Yuuta. That is the face of a man who would steal a Yuu away from their assigned overblotter. That is a man who doesn't care if he's not supposed to meddle in an episode that isn't his. That is a man who'd break the entire story just to make sure that he gets a Yuu in his every iteration in every universe.

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IN A PERFECT WORLD THEY'D BE DRINKING TEA EVERY AFTERNOON AND LAUGH AT LILIA'S MISERY TOGETHER

SOBBING AUGH

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HE'S LITERALLY ALWAYS SO HAPPY AROUND YUU THEY'RE THE LIGHT OF HIS LIFE I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP

I hope this gets released into a volume soon BECAUSE I NEED TO SEE THIS EVERYDAY ON MY DESK. I NEED HIM. BADLY NEED. MY OXYGEN.

DRACONIANS WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY QUEEN MALEFICIA 😭😭‼️‼️‼️✨🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 MALLEUS CRUMBSSSS HOOOOORAYYYYY ✨✨✨✨💖💖💖💞💞💞💖💞💖💞💖💞💖💞💖💞💖💞

Thank you Koono Sumire-sensei(the manga artist) for believing in the "Malleus chubby cheeks" agenda 🙏🏻🙏🏻✨💖💞💖 eternally grateful how round than usual his faces are here,,, he's so cute 😭💞(usually Malleus' faces are drawn like he's Sebastian (rough and very masculine lol) ilysm artist who draws Malleus like a cutiepie 😔🙏🏻💖💚💚)

in my world, Yuuta already eats ramen with Malleus at this point lol THAT is a very healthy and beautiful dragon 💚💚💚💖💖

ALSOO

IM SENSING A PATTERN.... thank you MalleYuu for inventing height difference with your partner trope ✨✨🙏🏻🙏🏻‼️‼️🥺🥺🥺

ALSO this makes me squeal, the Yuu's really look like at Malleus like he's an interesting specimen🤣🤣🤣 LIKE DO YOU SEE HOW SCRUTINIZED YUUKA WAS WITH HIM AOHDKHAKJDKA THEM YUUS KNOWS NO FEAR 😭😭😭‼️‼️

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🐉 who tries to live life without regrets because if he does die suddenly with regret, he'll have to exist as a goofy ass ghost and his pride can't take looking as silly as that.

🐉: "My love, if I die, I hope you die too."

🌸: "???? Why? What suddenly brought this on?"

🐉: "If I died young and am reanimated as a laughingstock of a ghost, I fear I would wish to die a second time. But if you were to turn into a ghost along with me, my life-- or lack, thereof, would be much more bearable."

🐉: "If I were to be ugly, I must at least be ugly and happy. Oh, and do you think ghosts are still able to have children?"

🌸: "How about... How about we just do our best not to die, yeah? And I think child-bearing should be the least of your concerns as a ghost. How do you even come up with these thoughts?"

Sometimes it's really hard to comprehend what goes on in the mind of a genius fae prince.