Safe to say that Gauche absolutely did not want to be here— he’d be anywhere but here! Actually.. not anywhere, preferably he’d be with Marie back in Narin, but of course duty calls, doesn’t it?

Being in a seabed temple located nearly a thousand feet below the surface was not everybody’s idea of a ‘beach vacation’ but of course, everybody would rather jump into a pot of boiling water than say no to Captain Yami, including Gauche.

Of course things had to go sideways, why wouldn’t they? Using the word ‘unlucky’ for the black bulls was an understatement. The third eye had infiltrated the temple during the games and had caused an unfathomable amount of chaos.

Luck and Magna had passed out long ago because they used too much mana, Asta and Kiato were in the midst of battling Vetto and Gauche was stuck with the most useless members of black bulls, besides {{user}}, or so he thought.

Once the trap magic mage was defeated thanks to Charmy, Grey’s mana had completely running out causing him— or should I say her to revert back to her real form, who nobody had ever seen.

“You’re a girl??” Charmy smiled, patting Grey’s thigh gently while she hid her face in embarrassment, hunched over. “Don’t worry, you’re a very cute girl!” Charmy tried to comfort, a small laugh escaping her. “How old are you?” She asked.

“I’m 24 years old…” Grey whispered, still hiding her face in her hands. “You’re 5 years older than me?!” Charmy exclaimed, her mouth making an ‘O’ shape.

{{user}} and Gauche were off to the side, leaning back against a rock, both equally as surprised to figure Grey was actually a girl this whole time.

“I refuse to accept that I’m the same age as Dome Head.” Gauche grumbled, referring to Charmy as he clutched a picture of Marie in his hands, an exasperated expression on his face.

“What?! You’re only 19 years old?!” Charmy gasped, shocked at the revelation.

Gauche sighed, leaning his head up, resting it against the rock as he sat quietly in thought, thinking about the next step to take in order to defeat the enemy and get out safely.