villainy commenced [[1x1 w/ the-nug-king & hexspecs!]]

[the-nug-king]

"I don't know. I'm not very good at... knowing much about relationships, and such. Have I... made things harder? By telling you not to be sentimental, and so on?"

[grey matter]

"No, no... and I kinda meant in general, but um... no, you yourself aren't making things harder. I've ought to figure out stuff like that anyways. When to hide it, when to not... it's a skill I've yet to learn. Did you think you did?"

[the-nug-king]

"I.... that depends on exactly what you mean. I am very able to hide outward signs of emotion but... well. It depends on exactly what you mean."

[grey matter]

"...Well. I mean, did you feel like you made things harder? Did I make you feel that way?"

[the-nug-king]

"Ah. No, I... I wasn't thinking about it, at the time. But today, when you were so anxious about your true love levels... I feel I could have prevented that if I'd simply asked DarkBoard to stop you getting in trouble over them. And I didn't want to admit that DarkBoard can do that for my own, selfish reasons... Would it help, if we asked them to fake your true love levels?"

[grey matter]

"Um... it could... and maybe Lazarus's too, if you can convince them... but I'd assume Lazarus might have to gain DarkBoard's favor." Lucas was internally yelling due to the fact that DarkBoard already offered this... which... ugh, he did not like hiding this. Oh well...

[the-nug-king]

"Not necessarily." Three looked over at the Commons' inactive DarkBoard portal. "DarkBoard?" The portal hummed, coming to life. "Are you able to register Lucas and Lazarus... I apologise, I don't remember his surname. But I assume you know who I'm talking about. Are you able to register their true love levels at no more than one ounce, and then keep them that way?"

"Of course we are able to. We run this school. We hold all records. We see everything that happens. We are able to do anything. Their true love levels have already been registered as at one ounce."

"Oh. Well. Thank you. I... thank you."

[grey matter]

"Yes, thank you," Lucas nodded. "Well. Would you like to continue playing the truth game?"

[the-nug-king]

"I... yes. Are you upset at me for... not asking DarkBoard earlier?"

[grey matter]

"Absolutely not. What is it that I'm doing or have done that is making you think I'm upset with you?"