Beast Akira Yukishiro/Bond Story

*Rose petals dance on the wind while the stained glass window sparkles in the moonlight. The hideous Beast looks upon the surrounding beauty and despairs, cursing a foolish past.*

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Bond Level 15 Talk
* Bond Level 30 Talk

The Puppy Stickers

 **Mei Fan:**Just slap this sticker on the chart aaand..done!

 **Michiru:**What are you up to, Mei Fan? Some new kind of fortune-telling?

 **Mei Fan:**Michiru-san! No, no. I was making up a schedule for the student council members!

 **Michiru:**A schedule?

 **Mei Fan:**Given how competent the Edels are, you may never have needed one before, but...

 **Mei Fan:**With everyone's schedules pulled together in one place, it's easy to see who's working on what and how long it'll take them!

 **Mei Fan:**And being able to visually track the other's progress makes it easier to help out when it's needed.

 **Mei Fan:**I figured this was a good way to improve the student council's overall productivity. And this is the prototype!

 **Michiru:**Wow, you've even noted how many days it took to prepare for events last year. This IS convenient. Akira will love this.

 **Mei Fan:**You really think so, Michiru-san!?

 **Michiru:**For sure! Want to go show it to her now?

 **Mei Fan:**Yes, please!

 **Mei Fan:**Look at this, Akira-san!

 **Akira:**A schedule...for the five of us?

 **Michiru:**Mei Fan designed it.

 **Akira:**Did she now? It's certainly very easy to follow.

 **Mei Fan:**Th-Thank you, Akira-san!

 **Akira:**However...

 **Mei Fan:**Is something wrong with it!? I can fix anything you don't like, just let me know!

 **Akira:**It's not that I don't like it, but...

 **Akira:**What are the horse stickers for?

 **Mei Fan:**Apologies for not mentioning that sooner! Those stickers represent Shiori!

 **Mei Fan:** Writing our names in would make things too cramped, so I've used stickers the way a computer would use icons.

 **Akira:**And the hamster stickers?

 **Mei Fan:**Are for Michiru-san. The big sparkling eyes reminded me of her.

 **Michiru:**Stop, you'll make me blush.

 **Akira:**And this?

 **Mei Fan:**A cat for Yachiyo. She's pretty cat-like, both her looks and her personality. And this monkey is for me.

 **Akira:**Which means the lion stickers are...

 **Mei Fan:**You, Akira-san!

 **Mei Fan:**I thought only you were worthy of a sticker depicting the king of the beasts!

 **Akira:**...I see.

 **Mei Fan:**Absolutely!

 **Akira:**If I may make one point clear, Mei Fan.

 **Mei Fan:**O-Of course!

 **Akira:**Those who truly stand at the top don't fuss over animal stickers.

 **Mei Fan:**.....!

 **Akira:**...You could just as well give me the puppy stickers lying unused on the sheet there.

 **Mei Fan:**What!?

 **Mei Fan:**I-I couldn't possibly! A puppy, for YOU, Akira-san!? No, you're something far more imposing, far more inspiring!

 **Mei Fan:**But you are right. I was wrong to force the lion on you! Even a lion is only an animal. It could never hope to be a match for you, Akira-san!

 **Mei Fan:**I'll have stickers of you designed and printed immediately!

 **Akira:**No, I...

 **Michiru:**......

 **Akira:**...What?

 **Michiru:**No, nothing.

The Faces of the Student Council President

 **Yachiyo:**Michiru-senpai! How does this look for next year's club budget allotments?

 **Michiru:**Right-o, let's take a look.

 **Michiru:**Hmmm, this looks just a bit high.

 **Yachiyo:**Goodness, even pared down that far?

 **Michiru:**Let's trim just a bit more fat ♪ And then if anyone complains, raising it to this level should satisfy them.

 **Yachiyo:**Oooh, very clever. Copy that!

 **Michiru:**Then have Shiori make copies and bind them into booklets.

 **Shiori:**Excuse me, where are the balance sheets...?

 **Michiru:**Shiori. Third shelf. They're all in a blue folder. Have a look ♪

 **Shiori:**Oh, right! Thank you!

 **Mei Fan:**I got the chairman's signature!

 **Michiru:**Your timing's perfect, Mei Fan.

 **Michiru:**I was about to draft plans for next year's cultural events. Want to try helping?

 **Mei Fan:**Isn't that the single most time-consuming piece of paperwork?

 **Yachiyo:**I heard last year's took three full days to write up... Going around getting confirmation from everybody was a nightmare, right?

 **Shiori:**Three days!

 **Michiru:**Still, I think it's a worthwhile experience.

 **Mei Fan:**If you say so, then sign me up!

 **Akira:**I'm back.

 **Michiru:**Welcome back ♪

 **Yachiyo:**Where were you, Akira-senpai?

 **Akira:**I did the rounds and confirmed all the details of the cultural events plans.

 **Michiru:**Huh!?

 **Mei Fan:**W-Wait a minute. Isn't that the thing that's supposed to take three days?

 **Akira:**In years past, yes. I made a few changes to the procedure this year.

 **Akira:**I made arrangements with each party to secure the necessary approvals ahead of time, and so on.

 **Akira:**Even a minor adjustment to the process yielded drastic improvements to efficiency.

 **Michiru:**That's our Akira. Edel among Edels!

 **Mei Fan:**I'll follow you anywhere!

 **Akira:**If you have time to state the obvious, get back to work.

 **Mei Fan:**Ngh!? Y-Yes, ma'am!

 **Akira:**Michiru, I'm heading out to resolve another matter. I leave things here to you.

 **Michiru:** On it ♪

 **Shiori:**Yukishiro-senpai really is amazing...

 **Yachiyo:**I'm lucky to have her as a senpai. In that it would be a nightmare trying to play senpai to THAT.

 **Michiru:**Akira's done so much already. We're got to do our share, too.

 **Mei Fan:**Wh-Whoa... Can you all come look at this a second!?

 **Shiori:**Mei Fan-senpai!? What's the matter?

 **Mei Fan:**It;s the cultural events planning document Akira-san made. The whole thing is hand-written!

Huh?

 **Michiru:**Oh, right. Yeah... Akira can put documents together faster by hand.

 **Yachiyo:**How is that event... How superhuman IS she? Though this is a pretty weird direction to evolve in.

 **Shiori:**Still, it's very impressive. Her penmanship is so clean I thought it was typed and printed out at first...

 **Michiru:**The only problem being that we have to submit it digitally, so now someone gets to type all of that in ♪

Whaaat!?

 **Michiru:**Oh, relax! It'll go fast enough if we all pitch in!

 **Yachiyo:**Akira-senpai, come baack...

 **Akira:**\*achoo\*

 **Akira:**(Am I coming down with something? I need to take better care of myself.)

 **Akira:**The tail fur is pretty impressive, no? Yachiyo really outdid herself. ...Care to touch it?

 **Akira:**I've been thinking about the flower at the heart of "Beauty & the Beast." Doesn't it strike you as curious? It could have been a lily or an orchid. Why a rose?

 **Akira:**I believe that just as the phrase "every rose has its thorns" suggests, the author wanted to say that everyone has their faults.

 **Akira:**The Beast has his pride, but he's far from the only thorny rose in the story. I suppose you'll have to wait and see it on stage.