Lesson Learned

You've learned so much

Her boots skidded against the mud, kicking the gun into the bushes and out of sight.

Hojou flinched when the hover drone up above shot a dart into his neck.

That was the only flinch they needed before Nagisa made in move with a single powerful clap in the face.

Nagisa moved down the tree and grabbed Hojou by the face. "KARMA!"

The red-headed sadist jumped out from the bushes and delivered a swift powerful kick to the mercenary's jaw.

Everyone else moved back as the mercenary fell to the ground, with Nagisa and Karma landing beside him.

Mitsuko let out a sigh when the woods grew quiet for a wonderful second.

"Nice!" Nagisa and Karma both smiled when they stepped away from the body and high fived.

Mitsuko smiled in amusement, but her smile faded in horror when she heard Hojou stir. "Uh!"

"WAIT!! HE'S STILL MOVING!!" Kayano yelled, pointing at Hojou in alarm.

"AH!!" Mitsuko panicked and started tazering him repeatedly in the shoulder along with the others. "HOW STRONG IS THIS GUY!?"

"QUICK! KEEP HITTING HIM!" Kayano yelled, beating him with a large stick.

"AH!!" Hojou spasmed as he was attacked by half a dozen students.

"Make sure to shoot his chest!" Hayami and Chiba shot him repeatedly with tranquillizers.

"Go down, damn it!" Terasaka was tazering him and angrily looked over at Nagisa and Karma who were sheepish. "PREMATURE CELEBRATION, SHIT-FOR-BRAINS!" He lectured while tazering Hojou in the thigh. "NEXT TIME STROKE EACHOTHER'S EGOS AFTER THE MISSION IS ACTUALLY COMPLETE!"

"EXACTLY!" Mitsuko agreed, holding her tazer down hard on Hojou's chest. "You think you're in a damn action movie or something!"

"Uh..." Nagisa slumped.

Karma pursed his lips and looked away, embarrassed.

Mitsuko looked annoyed. "Well don't just stand there! Help tie him up!!"

***

Ten years ago...

Mitsuko hesitantly, poked her head around the corner of her dad's office, being careful not to spill the tray she was carrying.

The office was empty which was strange since her mom had told her that their father had been in there all day.

She shrugged it off and apprehensively walked over to the desk, looking around with a frown when she saw that all the drawings she and Gakushuu had done were no longer in the office...

Mitsuko tried to put the tray on the desk but she was still too short to react properly. "Ugh!"

She scowled and moved over to the chair where his computer was.

Carefully she placed the tray on the large chair and then climbed onto it, using it has a booster to put the tray on the desk.

Mitsuko grinned at how brilliant of an idea she thought that had been!

She smiled and made sure the tea was far enough from the electronics.

Her gaze stopped on the photo resting face down near the keyboard. Mitsuko picked it up and looked, recognising vaguely the three Cram school students who had always played with her and snuck her sweets.

Her mom had said the reason that dad was so sad was because one of the students had passed away, but she wasn't really sure what she meant by that.It was something she had heard people mention a few times but no one really explained it properly.