MaruMA:MaHon:SSS11
Yuuri x Wolfram x Conrad x Günter[edit]
Life is a grab bag of luck, Yuu-chan. You don't know what's inside, what colors are inside, or whether it will look good on you until you open it. Lately there are some stores who let you look inside before you buy it, but Mama thinks that's heresy. It's not right for grab bags. Isn't it the not-knowing what's inside that makes grab bags so exciting? Even if a scarf in an unflattering color comes out of it? Even if a dreadful miniskirt comes out? Even if…
"… that's what my mom said. She was acting like she was on the set of Forrest Gump with her 'life's like a box of chocolates,' but in reality she had just lost the New Year's lucky grab bag war and ended up with a bad bag… Hey now, why is there a sign on this room saying 'Lucky Bag Assembly In Progress Do Not Enter'? Mazoku have lucky grab bags too…?"
"We've had them for quite a while, lucky bags. We absolutely can't let uninvolved people see them being made so the process is generally not exposed much," Conrad explained.
"Ah, that's part of the SYSTEM my mother supports about the inside of the bag being a mystery, huh? Well I guess that's true. If you find out what's inside you won't be as interested in buying it."
"What are you talking about, Yuuri? Lucky bags are things you excitedly open and immerse yourself in nostalgia, not something that's bought and sold in a store," Wolfram said.
"Huh? Then where do you get them? In the mail?"
"You don't know how lucky bags are made!? This is why they say box-separating sons without common sense are useless."
"Box separating… what am I, a package getting shipped around?"
"Stop, Wolfram. His Majesty grew up in a different environment than we did. It's not unreasonable for him to not know. Your Majesty, lucky bags in Shin Makoku are containers that you put important things into and secretly bury in the ground in the middle of the night," Günter said.
"If you… bury it does something good happen? Does it sprout up into a flower with majutsu or something?"
"There's no way that a phenomenon that disregarded botany like that would happen. If any kind of flower blooms it would be when everyone gets together a hundred years later to open the lid. They say that a lot, don't they? That flowers grow from memories?"
"Wait, Wolf. That sounds a bit different than a lucky bag…"
"That reminds me, I feel like it's almost the time to open the lucky bag that Gwendal buried when he was a child," Günter said.
"Yeah, I heard that Anissina had already gone and opened it on her own. Josak said she was disappointed because it was filled with dog and cat collars for some reason."
"Hey yeah, that's not a lucky bag…"
"What!? She opened Brother's keepsakes in front of Gurrier!?"
"Um, like I said, isn't that just a normal TIME CAPSULE… Wh-whatever! TIME CAPSULE, lucky bag, whatever! That aside, this room is where you're making lucky bags? What did everyone put in theirs? Let's see, Wolf's is… Huh? It's empty."
"That's because what's important to me is love and friendship. They aren't things you can stuff into a box or a bag."
"Wow, you said something kind of cool. You said something that's only okay because you're an orthodox pretty boy! C-Conrad, what are you going to put in yours? A collection of COLD JOKES to calm down the place?"
"Cold JOKES? Of course not. HOT and COOL conversations filled with WIT aren't something you can leave behind written down. The spur-of-the-moment part is important."
"… Wow. So those jokes were filled with WIT. Oh, but yours is empty too. Are you the TYPE who thinks memories can't be left behind in a physical form, too?"
"In my case, what's most important to me is to be near and watch over growth and to admire."
"Ah, then you can't bury that in the ground. You have to get a potted plant that you can keep in your room."
"A potted plant…"
"What about Günter? What did you put in your lucky bag?"
"Unlike everyone else, I put in a lot of things. So much there was too much to choose from. Look, Your Majesty's small portrait, Your Majesty's personal scrawlings, Your Majesty's drooled upon pillow, and then there's Your Majesty's hair, Your Majesty's hand mirror with fingerprints, Your Majesty's used hand towel and toothbrush. Ah, this is the piece of slate that Your Majesty scraped your knee on and blood happened to get on…"
"It's kind of turning into a bag of evidence from a crime scene…"
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