BLACK CLOVER: Through the Looking Glass

'Finally, it is over.'

Wilhelm said internally as he crashed into the bed and held his hand out, over which a paper-thin sheet of glass formed and then a semi-translucent image of Asta's grimoire was created over it.

Bringing it close to his eyes, Wilhelm tried to make out what he could of the dusty and torn grimoire. Squinting his eyes, he saw the clover symbol on it.

'A 5-leaf grimoire? Am I seeing it right?

There has never been talk about a 5-leaf grimoire.

4-leaf grimoire? Sure, they are rare but they have been seen and recorded in history, but there is no record of the same for 5-leaf grimoire.

Also, I was not able to sense any magic from him. Why is that?

Not to mention, his magic is able to cut through magic.'

Wilhelm thought as he clenched his fist, shattering the thin sheet of glass. Then he got up from the bed and went to the small table in his stone-floored room and took out a small diary. He flipped open the diary casually, scurrying through pages that had words written in different languages on every page, sometimes jumbled to form a single sentence, until he settled on a single blank page. He then took out a pen from his pocket and began writing in different languages. First in German, followed by Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, etc.

The reasoning behind it was to conceal what he writes from the others.

So, like any other day, he began writing the diary.

'#821 Days since the Incident.

I still remember what happened 821 days ago clearly as if it is a video engraved in my mind. It was a cloudy day like no other. I was going on to my usual life. Going to high school and coming back home from it.

Then one day, it all changed.

That day, it all changed.

One day, when I was in the metro, an explosion occurred. It was as if hell descended upon the world. Everywhere I looked, there was only fire to see. At that instance, either everything was dead, or wished it was dead.

There was the smell of burning skin everywhere. As I registered this sight, I finally noticed something.

My legs.

They were under the rubble caused by the explosion. I tried to free them, but could not because my hands had been blown up in the said explosion.

As my vision tinted red, I managed to see outside from one of the openings in the train that some people were fighting outside, but it was not some mere scuffle or fist fight between people but a fight between the mutants.

Mutants are people who are like gods among humans. Able to wield powers of nature, and things beyond anyone's wildest dreams. At present, the group of mutants who were wearing black and yellow fighting against the mutants who were floating in the air moving debris around him, and near him was another woman who was moving some red fog to fight against the black and yellow.

But it was then. It was then that the girl with a pale blonde who was on the black-yellow side swung her sword glowing in blue hue at the floating guy, who dodged it effortlessly, but the light.

That damned light.

That damned light struck me instead.

Before there was light.

Then there was dark.

Then, the next moment I opened my eyes, I was beneath the canopy of lush green trees. Ater days, I happened to be upon a town. A town that looked more run down than the villages I had seen. I entered that town under the eyes of people who looked as if I was a strange animal.

It took me days to realize and unravel the truth of this world. The world I had been transported into was filled with magic. Everyone in this world is born with magic, no matter their origin but they can tap into their true potential only when they get their own grimoire.

The only known method to get one's grimoire is by getting it from the grimoire tower. So, I went there. I went there when it was time for everyone to get their own grimoire and I waited with my arms wide open. And then it happened.

A grimoire floated into my arms, upon opening which I found…

…nothing.

My entire grimoire, though it was a 4-leaf one, was just a cover. There were no pages inside it. Disgruntled, I made my way to the outside, confused about what to do when it happened. I was followed by people.

Even if my grimoire did not have anything, to other people it did not matter at all.

What mattered to them was that I was the owner of the rare 4-leaf clover grimoire, so they attacked.

I tried to fight back but there was only so much I could do without using magic against people who could. In a matter of minutes, I was beaten, when…it happened.

Suddenly, the sound of glass breaking was heard and the world lost its color. Everything appeared to be in black and a shade of grey. At that moment, I saw that everyone around me had stopped moving. But in that still and dull world, there was a source of waining light that caught my attention. That source was the grimoire of one of the people who was trying to harm me.

Under my watchful and tired gaze, the grimoire of my enemy was dissolved into particles of light that floated towards my grimoire, which snapped open and pages started to form on it. Pages whose background resembled glass, same as those of that man's grimoire. The same scene happened one more time, and again another of my enemies in the party of 17 was a victim. His grimoire, which had a flowery pattern over it, too dissolved into nothing.

Similarly, another series of pages appeared in my grimoire with a flowery pattern. And then, it just clicked. Imitating the way the person with the glass grimoire hit me, I shot shards of glass at him completely angered.

It all lasted a second for him, but for me, it seemed like an eternity. After killing them and burying their body underneath the ground.

Since that night, something inside me changed.

From then on, initially, I was always down, not upset by my action of protecting my life, but due to the bad taste it left in my mouth.

But slowly and surely, I started to improve, and now, here I am, in the worst Magic Knight Squad for the sole purpose of understanding my magic and replicating what happened then, with Captain Yami's magic, because that day I realized something.

The true nature of my magic has something to do with copying other people's magic, but how I copy magic is something that even after such a long period of time I don't know how to do. So, this is the reason I chose Black Bulls, which ironically despite being the worst knight squad has the most versatile or unique magic-wielding member.

So, today with my fingers crossed, I hope that I can at the least copy Captain Yami's Dark Magic and Asta's…supposed Anti-Magic…?

Writing this, Wilhelm placed the pen back in its place and closed the diary, hiding it. Then he finally made his way to the bed and lay down, drifting off to sleep.

…

Soon, the night was replaced by light of morning. As the ray of morning fell, Wilhelm got up, with his hair looking like a nest instead of his luscious locks.

ZGroggily, he walked up to the boy's bathroom with his own toothbrush. Believe it or not, despite this world having systems such as that of nobility, due to the presence of magic, it is comparatively highly developed.

On his way to the bathroom, he encountered Asta who as usual was full.

Full of energy.

"Wilhelm! Good morning!" 

At Asta's energetic greeting, Wilhelm turned to look at him with a single thought in his mind.

Should I kill him?

He is an orphan so nobody will miss him anyway.

If anything, I would be doing a great service to this world.

Yes, let's do this.

Seeing Wilhelm's tired gaze still on him, Asta felt a shiver travel through his spine. Hurriedly, he said, "You excited for today?"

"(ㆆ_ㆆ)"

"Excited for…breakfast?"

"(ㆆ_ㆆ)"

"Excited…?"

"(ㆆ_ㆆ)"

"I…will take a bath."

Asta said as he was continuously being stared at by Wilhelm until he left him alone.

Finally, it is quie-

"Hey! Rookie! Have you seen Shrimpasta!!?"

But alas, the quiet did not last way too long, as Magma entered the bathroom, and the only thing preventing him from being called nude was the small piece of thong "hiding" his privates.

With the same dead gaze, he pointed to his left.

Grinning from tooth to tooth, Magma went in the direction pointed by him, but not before slapping his back and saying, "Thank you Willy."

At being called Willy, Wilhelm looked at Magma as if he was a dead person, until…he smiled.

Moments later, in the direction where Wilhelm pointed, a shout resounded.

"Oi…How many times do I have to tell you not to disturb a man when he is taking a dump."

*BOOM*

"Call me Willy one more time, I dare thee, oh you fallen waste of space, "

With hair of questionable taste,

You who look like to are a product of haste,

The one, who is cursed eternally to be chaste."

Wilhelm said as he smiled…menacingly.

***

Later that day, Wilhelm along with Asta and Magma stood in front of an empty corridor when Magma began, squinting at Wilhelm who just smiled at him. Seeing it, veins in Magma's head only bulged further when, he took a deep breath to calm himself down and spoke, addressing the pair "Today, I will be taking you to explore our base. Remember to follow me and do everything I say. Go it?"

"Yeah!!" Asta shouted back and Wilhelm merely gave him a thumbs up, with his annoying grin plastered on his face.

Gritting his teeth, Magma began their tour.

First on the list was…

"The common room! Here you will find most of the black bulls spending your time do you underst-Oi! What are you doing?" Magma shouted immediately seeing that Wilhelm was hunching too close to comfort over Vanessa's downed figure. At the shout, Wilhelm turned back with…

"Hair? Wait are putting a beard on Venessa's face?!"

*Nod Nod*

"That is crazy!"

*Nod Nod*

"Can I do it too?"

*Nod Nod*

And then under the astounded gaze of Asta, Magma, and Wilhelm pasted a beard on Vanessa's face full of hair.

"Wait, where did you get the hair?" Magma asked when it suddenly hit him.

"Don't ask the questions you don't want answers to." Wilhelm replied with a stoned gaze.

Realizing that it would do him harm knowing the origin of hair, Magma did not ask any further questions.

Then they were quick to move from the common room to their next destination.

"Beast's room, this is where Captain Yami's pets are kept." Magma introduced as 3 pairs of large eyes settled over the trio, which caused Wilhelm to back away a little.

Then they moved out of the room to their next destination.

"This is the cafeteria!

What do you think? It's stupidly huge!" Magma asked as he looked at Asta with a taunting grin.

"Yeah! It's really big!" Asta said, only adding to his statement.

…

"This is the bath," Magma said as he led them to bathe.

"It's hot!" Asta commented as he dipped his hand in the water

"This kind of heat is nothing to

a member of the Black Bulls!" Magma said as he looked at Asta with an amount of enthusiasm only matched by Asta himself.

…

"Over there are all the girls' rooms.

If any of us guys go in, you'll be killed by trap magic."

"What?!" Asta said, astounded by Magma's statement.

…

"This is the playroom.

You can have plenty of fun here."

 Magma said as he ran away after introducing the room.

"Huh?!" Wilhelm said confused by the sudden act of Magma running away.

"Come on! Try to keep up!" Magma shouted from the distance.

"Wait up! I'm not gonna lose!" Asta shouted as he ran away, leaving Wilhelm behind who looked tired just by looking at them.

This was then followed by Asta who was running behind Magma and slowly catching up to him, and Wilhelm who just jogged behind them eating a cupcake he got from Charmy. It was all fun and games till…

"Ow!"

…Asta crashed into a girl with twin tails and silver hair.

Turning to her as he rubbed his hair, Asta apologized, "Oh! Sorr-"

"Oi! You are the third recruit that Captain Yami told about." Magma interrupted pointing at the girl. Following his pointing direction, Wilhelm inspected her from top to bottom and immediately formed an initial opinion about her.

Nice skin that looks more cared for than any commoner girl would.

Her way of walking.

Her clothes, and patches of gems and gold.

She is definitely a noble.

Maybe related to Silva family in some way.

Perhaps a descendant of their exiled or lesser-known relative.

Realizing that the girl was his colleague, Asta reached his hand out cordially and with his signature grin said, "Hello. My name is Asta and I am from Hage Village.

Nice to meet you."

But it was all for naught.

"I didn't give you permission to speak to me.

I barely sense any mana from you, you lowly insect."

The girl straight up said it the moment she opened her mouth.

These words of hers were met with a variety of expression.

"Lowly?!" Asta gasped.

"Insect?!" Magma uttered in disbelief.

"She means you." Wilhelm whispered to Asta, in a tone that was way above whisper.

"And you?! Why are you here? Despite being chosen by a 4-leaf grimoire, why are you in this squad of all place?" The girl asked at which Wilhelm turned to her and then at Magma, "Do we also have a maid? Nice."

"Wha-I am not a maid-" Girl shouted indignantly.

"Yeah, I know you are a magical maid. Not that it changes anything." Wilhelm commented off-handedly as he walked pass her.

Seeing him passing by her, the girl could no longer hold in and grabbing his arm sharply commented, "How dare you talk to a Royal like this?

I am Noelle Silva-"

"Oh! You are Noelle Silva! The only one among the whole Silva family that was so weak and useless that could not be admitted into Silver Eagle, a squad whose leader himself is from Silva Family.

Nice to meet you."

"…"

"Pfft"

Silence was all Noelle could muster in response to Wilhelm who gave her brightest of smile, under the gawking looks of Asta and a Magma who was having hard time controlling his laughter, the latter of which was internally saluting Wilhelm.

It took a moment to realize what was said to her and process it until Wilhelm passed by her. Seeing his figure blur past her, Noelle snapped out of her stupor and turning to Wilhelm, grabbed his arm and roared, "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?! HOW DARE YOU! I AM A ROYAL!"

Turning to her with a look of genuine surprise, Wilhelm said, "You…don't…say…goodbye." Saying this, Wilhelm shrugged his shoulder and started to walk away with a pep in his step, when Noelle ran in front of Wilhelm, effectively stopping his path.

"Stop!" Noelle shouted…again.

Immediately Wilhelm spoke to her in a salesman tone, "Hello Noelle. My name is Wilhelm." and then he shook her hand, walked away yet again.

HOW…DARE..HE.MAKE FUN OF ME!!

"HOW DARE HE FUN OF A ROYAL!!!" Noelle shouted in anger and she floated her grimoire, and cast a spell aiming at Wilhelm. This caused a ball of water to conjure and fly forward, ending up to crash into Wilhelm.

"It hit!" Asta shouted.

"It hit!" Noelle said in surprise.

"It hit~" Wilhelm said in a sing-song tone when…

*CRACK*

*SHATTER*

"What?!"

…the environment around her shattered, and when petals of flower fell from around her, leaving behind a Noelle…who was wet.

What-

"-happened? You must be thinking, right?"

"Eeep!"

Wilhelm whispered to Noelle, which caused her to shriek in response. She then snapped her head back at him, with her wet hair and clothes sticking to her body.

"How…did you…" Noelle asked as her words trailed off in the end when she saw that the world around her started to appear big. Very big.

Instead of replying to her, Wilhelm bent down and reached her hand out with a wicked grin plastered on his face as she struggled and screamed, "PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME DOWN!"

"MWAHAHAHAHAH!! I THIINK I WILL HAVE A ROYAL FOR TODAY'S LUNCH!!!" He bolstered in a loud tone as he bought her tiny struggling figure close to his mouth while Noelle's face paled when…

*BREAK*

*SHATTER*

…the world around her broke once again. The world appeared normal to her once again. Everything was soon reverted to its original size, but even still, the sight of pure malice and hunger on Wilhelm's face was etched into her mind. She felt and instinctual fear so much so that she could even bring herself to look at Wilhelm's face who was standing right in front of him and had to do something she never thought she would have to do before.

She looked down.

She looked down at her feet and could not meet someone from eye to eye for the first time who was not her siblings.

But then again…

*BREAK*

*SHATTER*

…Wilhelm was not even there and Noelle was bowing in front of a wall.

…

"What did you do to her?" Asta asked matching the pace of Wilhelm who was walking calmly along with Magma who had a grim look on his face as he walked.

"No~thing~" Wilhelm said as they moved through the hallway until they left Asta in the room when Magma confronted him.

As they reached an empty corner, Magma said in a firm tone, "What did you do?"

"I did what? Please be specific." Wilhelm asked in the same cheery tone, by Magma without having any change in expression said, "Cut the crap. I asked Luck what you did when you fought. I don't have any problem with it because you both fought knowing what you were getting into, but what you did to that girl was not right."

"She deserved it." Wilhelm retorted.

This statement only served to piss Magma off, following which he grabbed Wilhelm by his collar and looking into his eye said, "Shut ya' trap! I don't care if you pull prank over your team mates or not, but remember, even if they are annoying as hell and makes you want to punch them, you never go too far.

And they way that girl was shivering in fear, you went too far. Ya'r magic is not like ours. You cause scars. Scars that are not on body. So be careful from now, 'Kay?!"

"…" At his words, Wilhelm just looked at him wide-eyed in surprise.

"What are you looking at me like that for?" Magma asked with an inquisitive look.

"I…did not know you could speak a single coherent sentence." Wilhelm said, which took the wind out of Magma's sails. He then looked at Wilhelm with a deadpan expression and was about to say something when…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I HAVE A BEARD!!!!" Vanessa shirked from the common room which resounded in the whole Black Bulls headquarters.

"Pfft." Magma and Wilhelm both chuckled briefly.

But then Vanessa turned a page of paper that was beside her on which something was written, reading which she snapped and shouted, "MMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

"Hahahahaha!" Wilhelm chuckled…not briefly.

 ***