I R O H A I N U K A I
犬飼 彩葉
student no. 29
season 2 episode 10
I woke up as the room lit up, but as I sat up to get a better view of the room, pain began spreading through out my body.
Fuck, I mentally cursed, noticing how my entire being was sore. Slowly, I started recalling the events of the night before and as I did, I caught sight of that bush of red hair, a wave of relief coming over me.
"Hm...Oh, you're awake now" Bitch-sensei greeted me. "I hear things went pretty crazy last night".
"Yeah..." I mumbled. "So, what's he doing here?" I pointed towards the sadist, who's head was resting on the couch I was sleeping on.
"Well, he, just helped your ass, last night" Karma answered my question, looking up at me. "And you owe him a lot~".
I just shrugged him of with a "mhm", but of course, this was Karma we're talking about.
"To start with, you can start calling me master" he teased me, inching closer as he played with a lock of my hair. I did my best not to turn crimson.
"If you two are thinking of doing those things, you should probably get a room" Bitch-sensei commented with a wink before leaving for her next class.
"Ugh..." I muttered, and then turned to the redhead. "So, Karma! Won't you be a pal and let me off the hook?" I asked him, feigning a smile as I did so.
"Nice try. Really~" he returned the gesture. "Unfortunately, no. No, I will not".
"Well, there must be something I can do" I attempted to persuade him.
"You could admit I'm better than you---".
"No" I shot him down.
"Then..." He trailed off inching even closer, before I caught sight of a pink octopus.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" I jerked back away from the redhead, glaring our teacher who has been watching us while simultaneously snacking.
"This is the staff room, Iroha-chan. Nyurufufu~" he smiled, looking so smitten.
"Since when were you here, then?" I raised a brow.
"Since that time Karma-kun asked you to call him master" our teacher grinned ear to ear, successfully driving me off.
"Ugh. I'm getting back to class" I stood up and began to walk out of the room, with an awful headache.
"Wait, Iroha---" Karma called me, before I started to loose the feeling of my legs. And somehow, it was as if my strength drained off of me.
Fortunately, a pair of strong arms managed to hold me before I fell to the ground.
"Stuuupid~ You haven't regained your strength yet. You practically used up a year worth of everything you built up, and trust me your stamina isn't the best" he mocked me.
"Whatever" I pouted then asked, "Where's Manami and the others?".
"They're in class" Karma answered, and I sighed.
It took a moment of silence before I managed to ask him, "I didn't hurt anyone, did I?".
"Lucky for you, only I took most damage. Terasaka practically recuperated faster than I expected" he said.
"That's good" I let out another sigh, but this time of relief.
"What do you mean that's good" he flicked my forehead teasingly.
"Hehe...Sorry" I giggled.
I didn't know why but somehow, Karma reassured me.
"That's good" I heard him say under his breath.
"Hm?".
"It's good that your back to your usual annoying self again" he told me, flicking my forehead once again.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I retorted, covering my forehead, "besides you should really stop with that habit of yours, spawn of satan".
He smirked at me like the sadist he was, and he assisted me back to the staff room, the octopus now gone (most likely abroad off, to his errands).
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It was but a few minutes after Karma explained everything that happened the day before, my outbreak, how much they learned about me, and our fight.
He wouldn't stop teasing me that he's glad he's got a hold of my weaknesses. Then again, I couldn't help but mentally roll my eyes at him.
"I-Iroha-chan!" Manami and a few others greeted as they slid the door open, cutting our conversation short.
"Ah...hey guys" I smiled sheepishly.
"How are you?"
"Do you feel better?"
"You feel fine now, right?"
Their questions continued to go on and on.
"It's fine now" I told them.
"Right. Well, we aren't letting you off the hook just like that" Sugino smiled at me, as if they had something planned out.
"Oh come on! I already have Karma to deal with" I whined.
"It's nothing too big" Nagisa assured me.
"Like?" I asked.
"We're going to set up a restaurant, with food that's made of whatever we can find in the mountains. On the day itself, you'll be responsible for attracting customers, in other words, you'll be the mascot" Kayano explained.
"Basically, I'm guessing that, they want you to use your popular model-student facade, to grab all those brainwashed students down the mountain~" Karma rephrased their explanation.
"It's not just us, the whole class talked about it. You'll be there with Yada too... So..." Sugino trailed off.
I didn't say anything just yet, I just looked at him.
"Please, Iroha, I really don't want to loose to Class A. Who does?" he begged.
"What do you mean?" I wondered curiously, "I mean, Muramatsu could kick their ass with just his ramen. And there's also Hara who's amazing at Home Ec---".
"You see, Asano-kun actually manage to contract with an actual restaurant" Kanzaki explained, and I finally noticed just how desperate they are when it came to this.
"Okay. I'll do it" I agreed.
"I know you won't agree to it but--- Wait, you'll do it?!" Sugino looked at me as if I just agreed to sell my life.
"Yeah. Why not? As long as it's just that much" I shrugged.
"Heeeeh, I thought you hated people?~" Karma smirked.
"Well, I'd rather do as they say than listen to you" I shrugged nonchalantly.