Mistletoe & Magic / Carol of the Valets

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**Mistletoe & Magic** was the 18th story event in Court of Darkness. It started around November 30, 2021. Fenn, Toa, and Rio were available at the start of the event. Guy, Lynt, and Roy were added around December 4, 2021. This was the seventh event to feature two endings. The normal ending could be unlocked with crowns; upon completion, players received the event path prize for that consort. Players could alternatively unlock the the premium ending with gems. The premium ending would grant players a CG and the event path prize for that consort upon completion.

A part two to this event called **Carol of the Valets** (which featured the valets) was released on December 11, 2021. Jasper and Knight were available at the start of the event. Tino and Grayson were added a few days later. Unlike the part with the princes, there is only one ending and no CG. However, players were gifted a diary page (Menu > Album > Change > Jasper/Knight/Tino/Grayson > Letters > Other) for a consort upon completion of their route and a general one upon completion of all routes (Menu > Album > Change > Other > Letters > Other).

## Mistletoe & Magic Prologue

"Abnormalities brought upon by Holy Night test the bonds hoding you two together. Strange happenings start as "abnormalities" but soon change to "miracles." ...It's because I have you. If it weren't for you... This is the story of Holy Night, where magic known as love dances through the air..."

## Carol of the Valets Prologue

"Your first Holy Night in Saligia is filled with abnormal occurrences that only bring you closer to your beloved. When was it that he became a guiding light for you? When did you start wishing for even one more moment together?  What emotion do you harbor for your gallant valet? It can go by no name but "love.""

## Routes

### Toa Qelsum

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MC decides immediatey she wants to spend Holy Night with Toa since he's her paramour. This is immediately obvious to Fenn and he teases the two of them by asking if he can be a third wheel. Knight suddenly bursts in the room. Toa leaves with him and tells MC to stay in the lounge. Worried, she wants to follow, but Roy, Lynt, and Fenn convince her to stay a little longer for tea. Guy leaves, uninterested. Their tea party starts winding down, but Toa hasn't returned yet. Concerned, MC goes to his room. Knight lets her in and she's informed that messanger birds are going missing and otherwise not delivering the mail. It's only happening in Colde, but since Qelsum has total jusisdiction over all the messenger birds, it's Toa's responsibility to sort out. He sends Knight to Qelsum to find out if his father and the senate have decided anything (as he would have to follow their directions if so). Knight heads off and Toa asks MC why she's come. She wants to make plans with him for Holy Night, but doesn't think now's a good time. So, she tells him she wants to help if she can. Toa seems to know she's not telling the complete truth, but before he can call her on it, Nix comes through the window. Nix tells Toa that Lou is calling for him. Toa says he was just about to go to the headmaster's office and tells MC he doesn't want her to be alone while he's gone.

MC bumps into Lynt, who's curled up in a ball against the wall in the hall. He invites her to nap with him. She knows that can tell she's upset and wants to help, she crouches down next to him and asks if she's responsible for the wierd thing happening with the birds. She doesn't want to cause Toa trouble or get him in trouble. Lynt tells her it isn't her fault. When she asks about his experiences with the messenger birds, Lynt tells her that he usually gets a lot of mail and likes to pet and play with the messenger birds after recieving they message they're carrying. However, he's only gotten one letter recently and the bird flew off immediately. The bird also looked sick. With this information, MC decides to go talk to Toa again.

She catches him as he comes out of the headmaster's office. She relays everything Lynt told her. Toa tells her that 70% of the messenger birds are missing, but none have been found dead. He says he's already checked the pen at the academy and was about to look at the pen in town. MC wants to go with him, and Toa agrees. In town, they find nothing out of the ordinary with the pen and no one seems to have seen any messenger birds. They listen to the trouble this is causing the merchants in town. Toa thinks someone may be messing with the birds on purpose to make Qelsum look bad. As they leave town, they keep an eye out for any messenger birds and head into the forest.

The forest looks different due to Holy Night, but it's within the realm of normal. As they look, they find a messenger bird. Toa catches it in an ice cage. It looks sick like Lynt said. It's also carrying a message. Toa opens it and discovers it's from Knight. He says Qelsum is sending a comission of inquiry. MC thinks it would be good to have some more people helping, but Toa doesn't look happy. He tells her they're just going to be looking for an answer (any answer, not necessarily the right one) to send back to the king, so they probably won't actually do any investigating. Given the situation, Toa thinks they'll rule the problem a plague and kill all the remaining messenger birds.

They go their separate ways and MC finds Lynt while looking for more birds. He invites her to join him. He raises a his hand in the air and extends a finger. He tells her when you usually do this, a messenger bird will land on it. Lynt also ammends what he said before; the bird wasn't physically sick, but it was in a really good mood. When MC tells Lynt what will probably happen to the birds, he seems sad. MC decides to keep investiagting.

She bumps into her cat who says she smells as sweet as a bird he had been playing with. When she asks if he can take her to the bird, he says yes. MC first goes to get Toa so they can investigate togther. He's in the music room, however says he can't go with her. The commission will be there soon, and in an effort to save the birds that seem fine, he plans to tell them it is a plague of some kind.

Unsatisfied, MC goes into the forest without him. Her familiar leads her to a tree with a ton of messenger birds. They look to be drinking some kind of sap and appear to be drunk. When she touches the tree, it starts to shake and lets of a bright light.

Nix arrives and tells Toa the commission has arrived. Toa notices the bright light outside and thinks MC's in danger. He asks that they wait a while.

In the forest, MC notices that her touch is making the sap evaporate. She keeps touching it, but the smell starts to makr her feel dizzy. She's about to fall, but Toa arrives and catches her. She tells him everything she discovered and faints in his arms.

When she wakes up, she's in Toa's bed. He tells her that Knight and her familar are already asleep. He called the hadmaster to look at the tree. Lou determined that the birds were addicted to the sap and the sap was dangrous to people; things would've been much worse if she tried to eat it. The comission decided to cut the tree down, but it seems the birds are safe for now. MC is happy. Since this is resolved, they can spend Holy Night together. Toa wonders if her desire to spend Holy Night with him is the reason her magic was able to evaporate the sap despite her wearing the choker. Toa climbs into bed next to her and says he'll be happy to spend holy night with her. They start to kiss, but Toa pulls back. He wants her to rest and recover before he takes things further. The two fall asleep in each others' arms.

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### Guy Avari

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MC goes to her room to talk to her familiar, but he's asleep. He wakes up for a little bit, but can't keep his eyes open. MC opts to let him sleep and goes in search of Guy.

She sees him talking to Jasper in the hallway, but before she can ask Guy about Holy Night, Guy drags her off for a ride on his dragon. He has Ertl fly higher and then nose dive because he thinks seeing her freak out is fun. When they land, she can't move. So, Guy helps her down. MC notes that Guy and Ertl seem to have a good relationship and asks how long they've been together. Guy tells her Ertl's been his familiar since he was a child. Ertl was originally his father's familar. One day Ertl had "incurred his [Guy's father's] displeasure" and Guy was able to inherit him before he could be "taken care of." The conversation moves to Holy Night. MC asks if Guy's busy, but Guy says he'll clear his schedule to be with her; it's not that weird of a thing to do since she is his paramour. She also says she'll a little apprehensive about the abnormalities. Guy tells her if she's worried, she should stay by his side. The two start to kiss. MC is feeling very good about how things are going until Guy says that a person's who's magic could affect the whole world around them was the only person that he would accept as a paramour. MC immediately feels dissapointed because she thinks he's with her for her magic and not out of a sense of affection for her.

The next morning, she tries talking to her familiar, but can't wake him up. Concerned, she takes him to Lou's office thinking she'd schedule something so Lou could take a look at him. She's surprised Lou's actually in his office for once. He determines what's going on with her cat is the effects of Holy Night; her familiar would be fine.

MC bumps into Sherry on her way to class. They were supposed to walk there together since it's a combined lecture. Sherry asks her about her plans for Holy Night and the conversation eventually moves to them needing to grab Rio. Sherry and MC bump into Guy as they look. Guy notices MC looks miserable and asks her about it. Instead of telling him that she was bothered by the thought he only kept her around because of her power, MC tells Guy that she's worried about her cat and fills him in on what's going on with her familiar. He tells her if she's worried, she should stay with him. He then walks off and Sherry is shocked that Guy seemed concered for someone else.

Sherry and MC then continue on their way and find Rio in the vegetable garden with Thoma. They tell Rio it's time for class, and he and Thoma decide to call it day with the gardening. They are suddenly attacked by Ertl. Thoma protects Sherry and Rio jumps on top of MC. The S ranks arrive to deal with the threat and Rio passes out from serious injuries to his face and arm.

Thoma tends to Rio's injuries and he wakes up in the infirmary feeling fine. The S ranks and MC are there. Guy pushes to the front and asks how Rio is. Toa's adament that Guy compensate Rio, but Rio keeps saying that's not necessary. When any creature harms a human, they have to be put down. However, Rio doesn't want any harm to come to Ertl. He blames the weirdness of Holy Night, not Ertl. Guy walks off without anyone trying to stop him; they know how much he loves Ertl and how badly this is hurting him. Lou arrives and tells MC that Ertl won't lose control again if she gives him some of her power. To do this, she'll have to touch him. This would be very dangerous, which is why Guy didn't suggest it.  Wanting to help, MC runs after Guy.

MC finds Guy in Ertl's den. Ertl's being restrained by magical chains, but is fighting against them. MC tells Guy she's going to use her magic to turn Ertl back to normal. Guy tells her that this is the second time Ertl lost sight of his master (implying the reason his father tried to have him killed was due to attacking a human.) Guy tries to stop her, but fails. As she approaches the dragon, she gets distracted long enough to get a bad scratch on her arm. When she reaches out and touches Ertl, her magic flows into him and it cancels out the Holy Night abnormality. Ertl calms down and looks to Guy for pets/affection. Guy and MC start making out, but stop when the other S ranks show up. They're surprised to see that Ertl is back to normal and that MC is injured. Fenn asks MC and Guy if they've interrupted something. Another notes that MC shoud get her arm treated. Guy says he'll carry her. He does and takes her back to his room.

Jasper brings Guy a healing salve and some bandages. He's about to tend to MC, but Guy dismisses Jasper, opting to tend to her himself. He tells her to take off her clothes (so he can get to her injury easier), which she hesitatnly does. After failing several times to express himself, Guy tells MC to take better care of herself. He also says that all of her, not just her magic, belongs to him, and even if she lost her magic, he'd still keep her by his side. MC's really surprised by this and Guy suggests he's being affected by Holy Night. After he finishes bandaging her, the two rest and snuggle on his bed.

MC wakes up before Guy and tries to sneak out. Jasper stops her and offers to make her some coffee. She tries to get past Jasper until she hears Guy saying it was cold of his paramour to leave him without saying anything. He hugs her from behind. She sees her reflection in a mirror, and notices a hicky on her neck. Guy merely says that she belongs to him.

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### Roy Invidia

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MC goes to Roy's room where he makes her some tea. She's about to ask him to spend Holy Night with her, but he beats her to it. They decide to go on a date that day, pick up some Holy Night exclusive tea, and spend the evening relaxing and drinking it. They seal their promise with a kiss. Things get heated, but Roy pulls back saying the headmaster will get mad if they go any further.

The next day, they're walking together and notice a commotion outside. They go check it out. Some pink flowers had grown where they shouldn't have and Roy uses a cycle out of light to cut the flowers down. Fenn's present and Roy gets him to help. Suddenly, pollen scatters everywhere. It causes MC to see Roy and Fenn with cat ears. Fenn, however, sees MC in a revealing outfit. Roy doesn't see either of thoses things, but pulls MC behind him. He explains the flower pollen was responsible for the illusions they were seeing. When the pollen wears off, MC and Roy go back inside. Roy tells MC that the flora phantasmus potentially makes one's desires materialize in the form of an illusion. He asks her if she wanted to see him with cat ears. She tells Roy he was cute, and that makes him blush. He tells her there will probably be other abnormalities, but he'll keep her safe.

Later, MC's telling Sherry and Rio about what happened outside. Roy walks in. As he's ready to begin class, the room starts to shake as if there's an earthquake. Roy uses his magic to prevent books falling on students. MC tells everyone to stay away from the bookshelves and windows, and to get under their desks. When the earthquake is over, nobody's hurt. Rio and Sherry were impressed by MC's ability to stay calm and tell everyone what to do. They had only experience something similar once when they were little. This makes MC think earthquakes aren't common in Saigia and might have been the results of her magic interfering with Holy Night. Roy thanks MC for her quick thinking.

Later, MC and Roy are sent into the forest/mountains to check for abnormalities. As they walk, it starts to snow. When the reach the summit, they see the snow is thick on the ground. MC asks Roy to make a snowman with her. He agress after she tells him what a snowman is and that he shouldn't use magic. Roy has fun and tells MC that he's never played in the snow before. He makes it snow before they start heading back. On their way, the snow starts falling more heavily and there's an avalanche. Roy takes MC into the sky. When the danger's passed, he lands and suggests they wait out the snowstorm in a nearby cave. Roy lights a fire and tells her the headmaster will send a search party when they don't return. He asks if she's cold as he puts an arm around her. MC remembers in one of her classes she learned that the root of magic is desire and wonders. She falls asleep wondering if her wanting to be with Roy caused the avalanche.

When Roy and MC return to the academy, they're greeted by Sherry and Grayson. Both are relieved MC and Roy are okay and Sherry hugs them. Roy gives the headmaster a report of what happened. MC asks Lou if the avalanche was her fault. He isn't sure.

Roy greets MC the next morning, but she makes a quick exit telling him that she had agreed to meet with Sherry. While at breakfast with Rio, Thoma, and Sherry, MC's thinking she needs to stay away from Roy to prevent more bad things from happening. The others notice something's wrong, but she won't tell them. Even Fenn tries to get on the bandwagon. Roy arrives, grabs her by the arm, and takes her into town.

His reasoning is that they promised to buy special Holy Night tea together. Roy seems upset. MC asks if he's angery, and says that he is cross with himself. There's another earthquake, but it doesn't last long. However, the people around them continue to panic. Roy uses his magic to create soft soil buffers to prevent people from getting crushed, but both worry it won't be enough. MC asks for his help. She tells him everything she's feeling and together they make pink flower petals fall from the sky. At first MC worries that they're the flowers that make people halluniciate, but Roy tells her they aren't. After a while, the flower petals become snow.

When they arrive back at the academy, they go to Roy's room. MC's knees get a little weak, so Roy puts her in the bed. He tells her he knows she's been exerting herself for a while and to relax as he holds her. He asks if he can tell her everything he's feeling too. Roy says he loves her and wants to smother her in love an affection. He also says he's looking forward to spending Holy Night with her. MC was feeling embarassed while he was talking, but turns to him and accepts everything he said, which makes him blush.

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### Jasper Lane

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When Fenn suggests Holy Night should be spent with someone special, MC thinks he means someone like her familiar. He's dissapointed by her answer. MC asks how the others spend Holy Night. All of the princes (Roy answers for himself, Sherry, and Grayson) except Fenn say they go home and spend it with their families. Fenn says he spends it like any other day since it's not special to him. Roy quickly changes the subject.

MC is headed to the refectory when she bumps into Jasper. He tells her he's on his way to the dining hall for a short break and invites her to join him. Jasper serves her tea and cookies. She wonders how he knew she was hungry, but Jasper says she asked him if he was headed to the refectory; he made a guess from that. He asks MC what Holy Night is like in the human realm. As she describes it, she starts feeling sad and nostalgic. Jasper suggests they recreate Christmas and spend it together. MC asks if he's interested in holidays from the human world, and Jasper says he is. MC's a little dissapointed by that, but is glad she asked; it would be easier to avoid embarassing herself this way. Still, she tells Jasper she'd be happy to spend Holy Night/Christmas with him.

MC's fantasizing about what Holy Night will be like with Jasper while eating in the refactory. One student suddenly clutches his chest and falls over. Toa arrives and tells the students nearby to get the fallen student to the infirmary and has everyone else abandon their meals and leave.

She comes across Toa and Nix later and asks about what happend earlier. Toa thinks there was something in the food. The refactory will be closed until they figure things out.

MC, Sherry, and Grayson are in the common room thinking about the incident. They traced the issues to a beef stew, but still couldn't figure out why it only affected one student. One of them suggestst that it could be because of Holy Night, but this doesn't make Sherry feel better since they can't be sure Holy Night is the real cause. Thoma and Rio walk in. Rio's deflated since the refactory is closed. Thoma sways between hopeful and depressed.

The next day MC wonders if the refectory is open yet. She tells her familiar if it is, they'll get him some milk. He's excited by this until Jasper walks by and tells them the refectory is still closed. MC starts asking qustions, but Jasper quickly excuses himself.

Later, MC runs into Tino. She asks if Jasper seems more busy than usual. Tino thinks so. He suggestst that Jasper may be helping with the incident in the refectory. MC realizes if Jasper may have run off earlier because he didn't have the answers to her questions. She mentions the gingerbread cookies to Tino, who is excited at the idea of human world cookies. He tells her he was on his way to the kitchen to make some bread for Lynt and offers to help her make the cookes.

They go into the kitchen and MC does her best to remember the recipe. Jasper stops by while they're making the cookies. MC's heart is pounding out of control by the time he leaves. Tino guesses correctly that the cookies are a gift for Jasper. When the cookies are done, she offers one to Tino. Tino tries one, and falls over like the student in the refactory.

All the S ranks and their valets gather in the infirmary where Tino is sleeping. MC explains what happened. No one suspects her of doing anything weird to the cookies. They also doubt Tino would poison himself. Suspicion moves to Jasper as the only other person who was in the kitchen, albeit briefly. Knight denies this, but Toa points out that Jasper is the only person missing. He asks Guy where Jasper is, but Guy won't say. They decide to hold off on investigating until Tino wakes up.

MC goes back to her room, and her cat is very worried about Tino. The next day, Knight goes to MC's room. He had the feeling she thought Jasper was innocent too. He tells her Tino's awake and he wants her with him while they talk about what happened.

Tino apologizes when he sees them for any trouble he's caused. He tells them Lynt was with him up until a little while ago. He also refutes the idea that Jasper was responsible for what happened to him. Knight mentions have seen Jasper earlier in town and thinks that's where they'd find him. MC and Knight leave Tino to find Jasper.

MC finds Jasper first and follows him into an alley way. Jasper grabs her in a way that would prevent her from using magic. He lets her go when he realizes it's MC. Her legs get shaky, so he holds her up. She tells him what's been going on at the academy since he left. She wants him to go back and tell them he's innocent. Jasper jokingly asks what she would do if he was responsbile for what happened to Tino. MC says says she would still drag him back to explain himself. Just then Jasper sees someone. He grabs MC and chases after the man.

When he catches up he asks the man to show him what's in the bag he's carrying. It's Lucentuber, an orange potato. There was an abundant harvest of them this year and Holy Night is causing 1 in 10 to have a bad effect on people. Jasper buys the bag, and he and MC return to the academy.

Knight is waiting for them. He's already gathered everyone in the S rank lounge. Jasper explains what he's found and tells Lynt Tino will be fine in a few days. Lynt is relieved and Rio asks if Guy asked Jasper to look into this. Jasper confirms this and Rio congratulates Guy on a job well done. Guy looks away. Toa is a little annoyed that Jasper didn't go about things in a less suspicious, but isn't mad since it's in the past now. They all slowly filter out of the room. Jaser asks MC to join him in the S rank dining hall.

Once there, he slowly cornors her against a wall and asks what she was about to say before he went running after the guy with the Lucentuber sack. MC was going to say she loved him, but is too shy to do it now. Instead, she tells him she wanted him to come back to the academy so they could spend Christmas together. Jasper pulls away and seems a little dissapointed. However, MC has the feeling he knew that she was trying to avoid confessing how she felt.

Later, Guy and Jasper are in Guy's room. Jasper asks Guy if he found a way to keep the others out of the dining hall while he was in there with MC. Guy ignores Jasper's question.

Jasper and MC go into town to look at all the shops. MC's admiring how good Jasper looks in his causal clothes. Jasper says he knows how to dress for a date properly. This causes MC to freak out a little because she didn't realize this was a date. She really happy about it though. He asks what she wants to do and she suggests dinner and then relaxing at a tavern. Jassper agress, sounding like a valet. MC teases him, saying he doesn't have to act like that. While at the tavern, Jasper holds MC's and says Holy Night had never been special to him, but he doesn't think that's true anymore. MC thinks to herself that Jasper isn't her paramour, but she's really enjoying her time with him.

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### Knight

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MC finds Knight talking to her familiar in the hallway. Knight tries not to make a big deal of it and says it was just because he had some time. MC sees the way he's pouting and thinks it's cute. They start talking about Holy Night. MC apologizes since Knight's won't be able to go home. Knight says that isn't anyone's fault. He says he'll be spending Holy Night with Toa, being his valet and all. Then he asks MC what she'll be doing. SHe thinks for a minute and says she'll be spending it with her familiar.

Toa arrives and asks Knight why he isn't on patrol. MC's confused, so they explain since they're expecing more abnormalities this Holy Night, all of the valets are on patrol. Knight's been assigned the dock. MC's cat wants to go with him and MC asks Knight if it would be okay if both of them went to the dock with him. Knight's happy to agree, but pretends it'll be a bother.

When they arrive at the dock, they hear a kitten meow. When MC's cat tries to approch, the kitten responds by being standoffish. Knight say they have to act with more care. He slowly approaches the kitten, offering his hand. The kitten comes out, lets Knight pet him, and lets Knight pick him up. MC asks if she can pet the kitten too. Knight says yes. When MC pets the kitten, her hand bumps against Knight's. His face gets red and MC asks if he's okay. He says he's fine and dodges her hand when she tries to feel his forehead. Jasper arrives, surprised to see MC. Jasper has his own area to patrol, but he's also in charge of managing all the valets. They explain the situation and Jasper feels Knight's neck. He tells Knight he should go back and get some rest; he'll cause trouble for Toa if he overdoes things when he's not feeling well. Jasper tells Knight that he'll take over Knight's patrol; MC and her familiar could assist. MC offers to walk with Knight until he finds a carriage, but Knight turns her down and runs off.

As Jaspers walks around the pier with MC, he explains what's done on the patrols. She doesn't hear any of it though. She's too worried about Knight. Jasper takes note of this and asks if she has special feelings for Knight. She says since Knight is friends with her familiar, he feels like a brother to her. Jasper looks like he's feeling bad for Knight and says Knight would have complicated feelings if he heard that.

When they return to the academy, MC asks if she can take over the harbor protrol if Knight isn't feeling better. Jasper agrees, but says he'll likely send someone with her anyway since it wouldn't be safe for her to go alone; there are a lot more abnormalities this year compared to others. Knight shows up, starts approaching MC, but then tries to get away from her when she spots him. Jasper gets him to stop and asks if he needed something. Knight says he has business with MC's familiar, grabs the cat, and scurries off. MC's familiar isn't happy about this development, and MC wonders if she should go after them. Jasper insists her cat will be fine since Knight is kind to animals. He then asks MC to join her for tea so they could talk more about the patrol.

Later, MC goes to Toa's room looking for Knight. Toa answers and lets her in. He tells Knight's resting in his room. MC asks how sick he is and Toa responds that a healer had been by to see him, but doesn't know what's wrong. It could be a Holy Night abnormality. His only symptom is a fevor, but it's pretty high. MC goes into Knight's room to check on him. Her familiar is with Knight and is worried about him. MC rearranges his blankets. She tries not to disturb him, but it wakes him up. She asks if he needs anything and he says no. MC goes to leave, but Knight grabs her wrist and asks her to stay. She thinks it's the fevor making him act weird. MC agrees to stay until Knight falls asleep. Her cat curls up next to Knight and falls asleep too.

The next day, MC goes on patrol at the pier. She sees the kitten from the day before being pecked at by a crow. MC shoos the crow away. The kitten runs away from her and onto a boat. MC follows the kitten. As she's trying to coax it out from under some furniture, a giant kraken attacks the boat.

Knight wakes up in a much larger body than he's used to. He runs into Toa's room in a panic. At first Toa doesn't belive that's Knight. Knight convinces him by telling him a bunch of private stories that only he would know. Once Toa belives him, the prince tells him to make himself decent (Knight had run out of his room without a shirt). Toa had to magically tailor a shirt for Knight to wear. Knight wants to switch back to his original body because he's uncomfortable. Toa takes this to mean something's wrong and starts asking a bunch of questions about his symptoms. When Knight learns MC went to the pier in his place, he rushes out of the room wanting to talk to her. As he leaves the academy, he overhears of the kraken attack at the pier. After confirming that was where MC was patrolling, he rushes to the pier.

MC realizes the ship is tilted, which means it might be sinking. Knowing her options are to try to get out or possibly drown, she tries to open the door. It won't budge because the frame is bent. She calls for help as Knight arrives. He tells her to get away from the door and then breaks it down. MC thinks she recognizes his voice, but can't place it. He doesn't look familiar to her or her cat. Her familiar demands to know who he is. However, Knight scoops up MC's familar. MC sees the kitten crawl up Knight and perch on his shoulder. He then picks MC up, throws her over his shoulder, and gets all of them to safety. MC still doesn't recognize Knight and asks if he's Knight's brother. He asks if she really doesn't know who he is. She guesses Knight, and he confirms that's who he is. They see Jasper and Hawke arrive to take care of the kraken. Knight moves MC from over his shoulder into his arms and carries her back to the academy. She tries to get him to put her down several times, but he refuses.

Once back at the academy, he puts MC down. He apologizes for being cold to her before; he understands now she was being nice to him the whole time. He's surprised to hear that MC isn't angry. She explains hearing his apology was a relief because she thought she had offended him. Knight asks if she has any plans for Holy Night. She says no and then agrees to not plan anything. Knight is excited by this and is looking forward to spending the holiday with MC.

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