Stuck In A Fictional Universe

Stuck In A Fictional Universe is the first episode and the season premiere of Season 3.

Shizuka, Kazu and Sunetsugu all get sucked inside a story book and the others have to go inside it to find them, but they end up getting mixed in a feud with royalty, imposters and a traitor.

Plot
A fairy tale is being narrated at the beginning of the episode. It talks about the birth of two children, a prince and a boy from the village being born at the exact same time. The children, though nobody knows it yet, have exactly identical faces and physical features, even though they are from entirely different families. After many years, the prince has grown up and is learning his royal duties while the poor boy from the village has to work at a second hand store in town. The prince and the pauper have never met yet, as their lives are so different, but fate decreed that they would. The story is about to continue, but Sweetie Belle's voice interrupts saying it was already boring.

Shizuka shuts a book immediately, (titled The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain) and points out that Sweetie Belle herself had picked it out. Sweetie Belle is confused but then she says that only the cover had appealed to her, and she didn't actually read what the book was about. -Uh, the cover is just a big black square of nothingness -''Exactly. *shrugs*''