"One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight!" The students shouted, swinging their anti-teacher knives back and forth.
"The sounds of exercising reverberating across the field on a sunny afternoon...how peaceful! If the students didn't have weapons, that is," Koro-sensei said. Karasuma and him were standing next to each other, with you in between.
"Wield your knives properly from all eight directions, now," Karasuma informed them. "From now on, I'm in charge of physical education."
"That means I can call you 'Karasuma-sensei' again," you snickered.
Koro-sensei said in a sad voice, "That makes me a little lonely..."
"Didn't I tell you to make yourself scarce during this period? And you have (Y/N) here with you if I don't have to demonstrate anything with the children. Now," Karasuma pointed at the sandbox behind him and said, "go play in the sandbox."
Koro-sensei was sent to the giant sandbox while crying like a child. He told Karasuma that he was cruel, and that the students happened to like his gym classes. Obviously, that wasn't true. Last time, he told the class to jump side-to-side onto three lines on the ground. He then used Mach 20 speed, right off the bat.
"He's just too far out," you heard Rio say.
"I'd like human teachers for gym, thanks." Sugino sighed. Koro-sensei heard it, and began to cry some more.
"Karasuma-sensei is a great teacher. After all, he was the one who taught me," you said. The kids nodded and agreed.
"Alright, let's get back to work," said Karasuma.
"By the way, Karasuma-sensei, is there any point to all this training?" Maehara asked. "Shouldn't we be doing it in front of our target?"
He answered, "It's the same in assassination as in studying: Drill all the basics and they'll serve you well. Isogai-kun, Maehara-kun, step forward."
They stepped forward. Karasuma then slightly pushed you forward, towards the both of them.
"Try hitting (Y/N) with those knives," he ordered them.
"Wait, what?" Isogai was shocked.
"Are you sure?" Maehara asked. The both of them looked at you to make sure it was okay. You nodded your head in approval.
"Those knives won't hurt me. If they give me a scratch, I'd be fine," you told them.
"Uh...well...okay, then."
Isogai started first. He tried to stab you with th knife, but you quickly dodged it. Maehara went next, and did the same thing as Isogai. But you went to his side, and grabbed his arm, pushing him away from you. They tried their best to hit you, but all you did was move out of the way, or you'd either push their arms out of the way. It was easy to read their moves. You saw some of the reactions of the students, and they were surprised.
"As you can see, (Y/N) has enough knowledge to handle the knives of two amateurs," Karasuma informed the class.
Maehara and Isogai were slightly ticked, and they both charged you at the same time. When they stuck their knives out, you grabbed their arms, and judo flipped them both.
"Gomen, Isogai, Maehara," you apologized with a slight snicker. You saw that both of them were embarrassed to be easily beaten by a fellow student, mostly because they were slightly turning red.
"If you can't hit your own fellow classmate, your chance of hitting him at Mach 20 is slim to none," explained Karasuma. "While you three were sparring, he built Osaka Castle in the sandbox, changed clothes, and is brewing up some tea!"
You looked over to Koro-sensei and you spotted a magnificent sand castle. He also wore a green robe and hat. There was a purple blanket underneath him, with a teapot and tea cups. You grabbed Isogai and Maehara's hands, pulling them upwards.
"Once the everyone can hit me, you will have to fight Karasuma-sensei as well..." you told them, sweat dropping.
"If you are also capable of hitting me, your chance of success will increase by leaps and bounds," Karasuma informed them. "During this class, I will be teaching all of you stabbing, shooting--all the assassination basics I taught (Y/N). That is all for today."
"Arigatogozaimashita!" The whole class thanked him, bowing at the same time.
The whole class split up into smaller groups. Some were saying that Karasuma was cool, or either scary, which made Koro-sensei...flinch. He started ranting on how Karasuma was stealing his popularity from the class. You walked with Nagisa and Sugino once the bell rang out. Before you walked up the stairs, you and Nagisa saw a tall boy with red hair standing at the very top step with a juice box in hand.
"Yo, Nagisa-kun, (Y/N)-chan. It's been awhile," he addressed the both of you.
"Karma-kun..." you slowly said his name.
"You're back!" Nagisa greeted him with surprise. The both of you were shocked to see him arrive. He walked down the steps and stopped in front of you.
"Nice new hair style, Nagisa-kun," he told Nagisa, who thanked him. Karma then faced me, ignoring Sugino. He looked at you head-to-toe, then blurted out with a straight face, "(Y/N)-chan, you still look cute."
"Hahaha, thanks...Karma-kun," you thanked him in a low voice, your cheeks slowly growing pink. That caught you off guard. You had forgotten that he was like that.
"So that's the infamous Koro-sensei!" He looked over your shoulder and began to head straight for Koro-sensei. "Sugee, he really does look like and octopus!"
"Akabane Karma-kun...right? I heard your suspension was up today." Koro-sensei turned dark purple, sticking his tentacle up. "But you shouldn't be tardy on your first day back."
Karma laughed, nervously. "It's hard to get back into the swing of things...Feel free to call me 'Karma'. Yoroshiku, sensei!"
"Same to you. Let's make this a fun year," Koro-sensei told him.
Both of them held their hands out for a shake. As Karma took his hand, Koro-sensei's tentacle liquefied. Karma threw his juice box in the air, and a anti-teacher knife came out of his sleeve. He tried to strike him, but Koro-sensei quickly evaded a couple feet away from Karma.
"Eh? You really are fast," Karma said out loud. He looked his hand, which had the anti-teacher material on it.
"These knives really do work on you. I tried cutting them into little pieces but..." Karma had a devious smirk on his face. "To be deceived by a simple trick. On top of that, you jumped back all that way...are you afraid of dying?"
You all watched him walk towards your teacher. He, Akabane Karma, was the first person in this class to ever harm Koro-sensei. Koro-sensei grew his tentacle back, and Karma spoke to him.
"I heard that this class calls you 'Koro-sensei' because you're unkillable." He leaned his face in on Koro-sensei. "But what's this? Are you really just a pushover after all?"
Everyone saw Koro-sensei's face, which turned scarlet red, and had irk marks popping all over his head. Kayano and some others asked you and Nagisa what kind of person Karma was.
"Well...we were all in the same class for our first and second years. But then his behavior earned him a suspension, and those students end up in the E-Class too," Nagisa explained.
"His violent behavior," you corrected him.
"In this class, he might be the star student, other than (Y/N)-chan," Nagisa said.
"Eh? Why am I a star student..?" You asked him, pointing at yourself.
Nagisa answered your question, "Because you know all the assassination basics. But when it comes to deadly weapons and foul play, Karma is the best in this class."
Karma was twirling his knife around in his hand, and you all saw the red head walking away from Koro-sensei. "Don't run away, Koro-sensei...I'll show you what it means to be killed."
Everyone watched him go up the stairs, straight to the school building. The class followed him, and changed into your school uniforms to get ready with a quiz.
When you began, Koro-sensei was sulking in front of the class, "punching" the wall with his soft tentacles. It made a squished popping sound.
"Karma's smack-talking made Koro-sensei mad," you heard Isogai whisper. They said that his tentacles are too soft to do any damage to the walls. Maehara stood up and leaned forward to see for himself.
"AHG! Stop with the squish-squish! I'm trying to take a quiz here!" Okano snapped in irritation. Koro-sensei apologized to her.
"Hey, Karma, are you sure about his? That monster is pissed," Terasaka asked, leaning against his chair.
"You'd be pissed too if someone started to kill you. Not like when a certain someone screwed up and peed themselves," Karma told him. You stifled a giggle, which Karma noticed right away, since you were sitting on his left. Terasaka got mad at him, and began to shout in anger, causing you to giggle just a little more.
"(Y/N)-chan, your laugh still sounds like a kitten?" Karma blurted out, and you immediately stopped giggling, giving him a sharp glare.
"First you piss me off, now you're flirting with (Y/N), ignoring me?!" Terasaka was ticked.
"It's not flirting, it's called complimenting," Karma informed him.
"You there! No loud sounds during a quiz! That could even be considered cheating!" Koro-sensei yelled at the two of them.
"Gomen, gomen, Koro-sensei. I've already finished, and it also seems like (Y/N)-chan is finished too," Karma said. He also took out a pink ice cream cone from under his desk. "I'll be sitting here quietly and eat my gelato. Wanna lick, (Y/N)-chan?"
"Uh...no thanks," you replied, rejecting the sweet treat.
Koro-sensei was scolding him, but then he realized that Karma got his gelato that he bought from Italy the day before. Though, many of the students in class weren't so surprised that it was his. Karma "apologized" with a smile on his face, saying that it was just sitting in the staff room. Koro-sensei began to inform the class that it was a pain to fly through the stratosphere to keep it from melting.
Karma, who was still eat the ice cream, said, "Is that so? What're you gonna do? Hit me?"
"I will not! I'll just have what's left!" Koro-sensei answered. "Come now, and hand it over--"
Koro-sensei was interrupted by a squishing sound. Apparently, Karma laid down a bunch of Koro-sensei BBs on the ground, and Koro-sensei stepped on it. Karma began to shoot him and laugh.
"Gotcha' again! I'll keep using the same old tricks, even if it interferes the class. If you don't like it, kill me or anyone else in here," Karma told him, pointing the gun at his chest. He then took the ice cream and shoved it into his clothing. He said, in a venomous tone, "You, our sensei, will be killed by me."
Everyone was silent, and the day went on like that. Complete silence. Though, you left the school once the bell rang, and stuck around with Nagisa and Sugino, as usual. You made it to the train station, where you seperated with Sugino. But then two idiots came up behind you both.
"Hey, look! It's Nagisa-kun and one of the former Virtuousos!" Idiot number one said. "Right at home, down in the E-Class."
Idiot number two added, "Hah. They'll never make it back to our class like that."
They went on with the insults, and you noticed that Nagisa looked down. His eyes looked glassy, and he looked as though he was shivering. You gave a slight pat on his back to calm him down. "Nagisa-kun, don't listen to them."
One of them cried out, "Hah! I'd rather die than join them!"
You heard a bottle smash and shatter, along with a mischievous voice. "Really? You'd rather die? Like...now?"
"A-Akabane!" You heard the two idiots yell in fear. You and Nagisa turned around to see Karma standing there with a half broken bottle in his hand.
"Like I'd actually do it! With great toys to play with, who would want another suspension?" He muttered.
"Karma-kun..."
Karma started, "There's something I want to ask you two."
All three of you walked through the train station together. He asked you questions, like if Koro-sensei got mad if you call him octopus. To be honest, he usually portrays himself as one. If he's doing stuff like that, it's pretty much his trademark.
"That gives me a little idea," Karma told you with a small laugh.
"What are you going to do now, Karma-kun?" You asked him.
"I'm just happy, that's all. But I was wondering what I'd do if he was just some monster, instead of a teacher. I get to kill an actual teacher...I mean, since the last one up and died on me..." Karma had a wicked look on his face. He looked sort of terrifying, and murderous.
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The next day, Karma nailed an octopus to the wooden pedestal. The whole class was quiet when Koro-sensei noticed it.
"Ah, gomen! I mistook it for you and killed it instead," said Karma. Koro-sensei began to bring the octopus to him, and you noticed a green knife behind his back. Koro-sensei used his tentacles as drills, and sped off to get a missile...along with food ingredients.
"Allow me to show you, Karma-kun, the might of these drill tentacles and the firepower of this missile I got from the Self-Defense Force!" exclaimed Koro-sensei.
Koro-sensei began to use the missile's flame to cook up some food with the ingredients he had gotten. When he was finished, he popped an octopus ball in Karma's mouth, who immediately spat it out. What Koro-sensei does is tend things. Koro-sensei told him, "Keep killing me in earnest all day! By the end, your body and mind will be polished to sparkling."
That's what they did.
In math class, Karma took out a gun in class and tried to shoot him with the BBs. Koro-sensei had enough time to give Karma octopus ball nail art. While you were cooking in home economics class, Karma used one of the student's cooked goods a distraction to hit him with a knife. But Koro-sensei put a pink apron on him, which made him look less cool, and more adorable. He was also able to get the food back. In Japanese class, Karma tried to use a knife on him, but Koro-sensei stopped him, and began to fix his hair into a more feminine style.
By the end of the day, Karma was sitting on the edge of a cliff off the mountainside, biting his nails. You and Nagisa followed him, mostly because you were worried.
"Karma-kun, don't worry about it. We'll do it together," you started.
"Once Koro-sensei has his eye on you, you can't kill him by yourself, no matter the method. He isn't like other teachers," Nagisa explained to him.
Karma stopped biting his nails. "Yeah...no. I want to do it. Nothin' would piss me off more than him dying in some random place."
"Karma-kun!" The three of you heard Koro-sensei calling out. "I've certainly taken good care of you today, haven't I?"
He smiled, and asked, "Just to be sure, you are a teacher, right?"
Koro-sensei nodded his head. "Hai."
"And you would risk your life to protect your students?"
"Hai. I am a teacher, after all."
"Oh, okay. Then I can kill you." Karma pointed his gun at Koro-sensei, and fell backwards towards the cliff side. You and Nagisa ran over to the edge and held your breath. But then Koro-sensei used his tentacles and made a net at the bottom of the cliff. You both exhaled in relief that he was safe. Soon, he was brought back up to the top.
"Karma-kun, for being so reckless, you were pretty calm," Nagisa said.
"Don't scare us like that again!" You scolded him.
"I'm fine, don't worry about it, Nagisa-kun, (Y/N)-chan. But it's no big deal. As far as I can tell, that would've been my best chance at killing him," Karma said.
Koro-sensei asked, showing off a bunch of supplies, "Out of ideas already? I have a bunch of grooming tools to use in retaliation. You really are a pushover, are you?"
"Oh, I'll kill you, alright. Maybe even tomorrow," Karma answered. He held up a wallet and added, "Let's head back, Nagisa-kun, (Y/N)-chan. We can eat on the way."
Koro-sensei was shocked. That was his purse that held his money in it. Karma threw it back at him, but there was no money inside.
"You hypocritical delinquent!" Koro-sensei said.
"Don't worry, you'll get your pay check soon enough," Karma told him with a smile. "Saa, ikimashou, (Y/N)-chan, Nagisa-kun."
"Matte! I don't get paid until next week! Give me back my money! I will double your homework! Do you hear me?!" Koro-sensei was fussing over his money.
"Mata ashita, Koro-sensei!" You told him, waving your arms. You followed Karma and Nagisa, and walked away from Koro-sensei, out of the school.
-To be Continued-