Sitting down on a chair with a printed schedule in her hands, a girl identified as Celestia Seto sighed as the principal of the school made a completely humiliating speech about Class E. She was behind the curtains waiting for the balding man to finish his speech so the Student Council could quickly set up for an announcement, which included a public execution for Class E. It was not even a surprise, it was simply expected because for whatever odd reason the school had against them it was hilarious. And most certainly satisfying to have small bugs be crushed underneath them.
Celestia Seto was a girl with bright violet hair that was loosely french braided on the side. In her hair were ornamented with dozens of star shaped clips and one large moon clip. Her eyes were even brighter as they were electric blue and very piercing. Contrary to her brilliant eyes and hair, Celestia had quite the dull personality and was a very conserved person. She didn't have any ambitions either and her responses were three simple sentences max. She also did not have the social skills like most of her colleagues and everyone views her as a cold and cool girl. Of course, if you know her better, she's more confused on how to express herself rather than impassive. Take a certain strawberry blonde student council president for example. He is certainly aware of how she feels because he is probably the only other person that she "hangs out" with because she is detached from everyone else.
And today, he is well aware that Celestia is extremely displeased with him, yet he persists to annoy the living hell out of her. Gakushu Asano walked over to the purple haired girl and smiled. "Are you prepared for today's assembly? Ren came up with a clever remark against Class E prepared. It will be rather amusing-" Celestia stood up and her electric blue eyes peered into his greyish purple ones, coldly. "Disgusting." She walked away while Asano narrowed his eyes slightly in thought.
Prior to two weeks ago, the pair was actually in good terms. However after certain events along with the meeting, the girl acted sourly around him and he himself had be obnoxious towards her.
"Hey, Celestia. I assume you've completed the student handouts." The young prodigy leaned over the girl's shoulder, peering at her laptop. The violet haired girl didn't flinch or bother acknowledging his sudden appearance as she curtly replied: yes. The other four Virtuosos, the Academies' prodigies were prancing around, helping others in studying and setting up the assembly.
The President sighed with a small smile as he pulled back and turned, leaning against the table next to her. "As distant as always. This is why you don't have any friends and only earn pity as the closest thing. Look at me, I'm friendly, or at least I act like I am and see, I'm quite well liked. You should be more-"
"Friends or pawns?" Celestia clicked through tabs on her laptop, looking at the emails the student council sent her, which required organization and forwarding to the correct receivers. She then went back to the document she was working on and edited everything once again.
"Whatever do you mean? Of course friends." Gakushu chuckled as he watched the girl work efficiently, quite pleased with her work ethics. Celestia looked up at him, as emotionless as usual as she asked: "Are we printing a copy to Class E?"
Gakushu looked stunned momentarily before he burst out laughing. He twirled a pencil in his finger, obviously not taking the question seriously. "Who knew you held such humour in you, Celestia." He chuckled before noticing that Celestia was staring intently at him, not moving from her prior position. Ah, she was serious. Gakushu froze, his face dropped to a very cold look that even made Celestia feel a chill. He then plastered on an "innocent" smile before stabbing his pencil into the table. "You should know by now, Celestia. We aren't handing out files to those failures."
Celestia stared at the pencil, not the slightest bit intimidated, which was one of the small traits Celestia had to her that piqued Asano's interest. She then sighed, turning away and shutting off her laptop. "Do you all find this amusing?" Celestia looked at everyone before she got up and peered down at the boy she was conversing with. "Like father, like son." Immediately, Gakushu shot up, with narrowed eyes and remained wordless. Halfway out of the door, she gave him a triumphant sidelong glance and shut the door. Standing outside momentarily, she heard the Student Councils mutter among themselves. "Just because she's the second in scoring highest for marks, she is already looking down at all of us." Celestia' she eyebrows furrowed slightly as her cheeks were puffed out by a tiny bit. "Hypocrites...besides, that is hardly true." She then walked away, immediately tucking away the feeling of disappointment rather than sadness that her only "confidante" did not defend her.
The girl placed her pamphlet down on her chair as the previous presentation was over. She pulled out a whiteboard and began to push it onto the stage before she was quickly joined by Ren Sakakibara. He peered over at the girl who didn't even bother nodding in thanks. He sighed, a little bit nervous to talk to the girl. "I don't know what happened between you and Asano...but maybe you two should make up?" After they centred the board, Celestia shrugged and walked away, leaving the boy with no answers.
As she sat back down in the chair, she pulled out her pamphlet only to notice that there was an extra one labelled: The Student Handout. The girl opened it and hid a small smile as there was a sticky note attached to it that said "Thank you." She watched as one of the student council member's went to the podium, delivering a public execution for Class E, and entertaining the rest of the school.
"Okay...the printout we just handed out to everyone has the details about the student council's event."
"Excuse me, Class E hasn't gotten theirs yet." A voice could be heard. Celestia could feel the leering from those around her and sighed. Two of them even high fived each other and laughed devishly. It was such an unbearably childish act from students and teacher alike that she couldn't believe her school was considered one of the more prestigious ones.
"Ah, we have our printouts, so please continue." The same voice rang out. The atmosphere around the student council immediately transitioned into surprise and suspicion and most of the negative emotions were directed at Celestia herself.
"You wouldn't have printed extras for them." He gasped in disbelief while Celestia looked around at the mortified expressions as well as annoyance. Of course they would suspect her since she did bring up the subject in their meeting a week ago. Her personality did not exactly create friends around her.
"No, I haven't." Celestia replied, without expanding. The boy then shot back: "'No, I haven't'? That's it? Why don't you explain yourself to make it more believable." The others murmured in agreement while Celestia closed her eyes and ignored him. It made no difference if she did explain because the opinions won't change. Might as well preserve her voice for when she actually needs it.
"Didn't you hear her? She said she didn't. Besides, the printer's printing history and printing amount did not match up." Gakushu approached from behind Celestia and the girl opened her electric blue eyes. The boy immediately shuts up and turns away while the small crowd dispersed, preparing for the next presentation. Gakushu looked down at her, with arched eyebrows. "Not even a thank you?"
"You doubted me too. How else would you know the printing numbers and such." Celestia didn't even look at him. He looked straight ahead, not having a rebuke for it simply because it was true. He was suspicious of her and he did check the printing room. He was also aware of Celestia's background and knows that she doesn't have a printer herself.
The assembly proceeded and Celestia continued to linger far away from her Student Council colleagues. She plans on filing a resignation soon because though she displayed a strong facade, it really gets uncomfortable and plain awkward with the negativity she was receiving lately. As everyone filed out of the gym after the assembly, only the take down crew was left behind. Celestia was the last student to file out as she was helping maintain school traffic but the moment she did step out, she she accidentally bumped into a funny balloon like teacher and another teacher that all the female student council members were gushing about. The girl bowed in apology but the two waved it off.
"No no no, don't worry about it. We would also like to thank and apologize to you." Koro sensei chuckled good naturedly. As Karasuma and Koro sensei bowed, two students from Class E appeared, misunderstanding the situation.
"Sensei?! What are you doing? Why are you bowing to her?" Isogai asked, surprised and staring at her with a wary look. The orang-brown haired boy glared at her as he growled: "What did you do to our teacher….all of you main campus students looking down at us and...huh?" Maehara widened his eyes as he properly looked at the girl up and down. His face became red and his instinctive playboy activated. He slicked back his hair and approached her, with his arm on her shoulder.
"Man...what's a pretty girl like you doing, bullying our teachers? That's not very nice and it would waste your beauty if-" He was stopped by Koro-sensei and Isogai as the two dragged him back, away from Celestia who barely flinched at the sudden change of attitude. Karasuma sighed as he thanked and apologized. The group wandered off as the teachers explained to the two boys what actually happened.
"Sensei...why were you bowing to her? Even if you are from Class E...that doesn't mean a student from the main campus has privilege over a teacher." Isogai glanced back at the violet haired girl in slight confusion. She didn't seem too hostile, rather, she just didn't seem to care about her surroundings.
"It's just a misunderstandment, Isogai. How else do you think I was able to hand write the copies of the printout? Celestia was the one who gave me her own handout and said that I could just make copies of it. " Koro-sensei laughed his usual, odd laugh and the two students looked at each other with slightly embarrassed faces.
"Looks like we've made awful impressions." Isogai laughed. The group were laughing even when reunited and Celestia watched the group walk away cheerily. She opened the pamphlet to look at the sticky note once more, with a warm feeling settling inside as she reread the words: "Thank you." Those words lifted the heavy weight of a small sentence that seemed to constantly bury and suffocate her throughout her life. Those miraculous words seemed to cure and save her from the words she hated most: "I'm sorry."
Drowned in her little thoughts of happiness. Celestia seeme to fidget with the end of the sticky note until a familiar voice shocked her into shutting the pamphlet closed.
"Hey Celestia, you seem happy." Gakushu stared at the girl, who was not smiling and seemed as cold as stone. Gakushu knew her enough to see the small blush on her cheeks even though she wasn't smiling and knew that she was happy.
Celestia touched the corners of her mouth and tilted her head as she clutched the pamphlet. "I'm not smiling."
"You have flowers in the atmosphere around you, your cheeks seem to puff out more and they're pink." Gakushu arched an eyebrow at the student handout she was hugging so tightly that it seemed crushed. "Does it have something to do with the assembly? Or more specifically...the mishap with Class E?"
Celestia ignored him as the announcements came on, requesting her name. Gakushu glared at the speakers while Celestia glanced at him as they both recognized the voice. "What could Father want with you?" He muttered only to find out that the girl was gone Celestia obediently headed to the chairman's office. The boy stopped following her as soon as she entered the office and was denied further access by his father.
"Hello, Chairman." She bowed as she walked directly up to his desk.
"Likewise Celestia." The chairman motioned the girl to sit down in the seat across from him and she did.
"Now then Celestia, allow me to get straight to the point. Would you rather continue your studying and academics here, while I still send you a monthly allowance or would you rather assassinate a monster and earn a large amount of money that is more than enough for your lifetime?" Gakuho propped his head up and Celestia narrowed her eyes.
"Pardon me?"
"Are you willing to assassinate-"
"I heard you the first time, sir. But I want to know the downsides of both choices." Celestia interrupted, preventing Gakushu's father to repeat. THe man smiled in amusement and replied. "If you choose the latter, you are given a year as a deadline to kill a monster with super speed and power and you are transferred to the failure of the school: Class E. If you choose to continue your usual lifestyle, it's a slow process on earning money."
"Not really anything to lose if I stay, huh?" Celestia asked as she considered the choices. The chairman grinned and leaned back with a smile. "Take your time to decide. If you want to, I can give you a week to-"
"Chairman. I know what to choose."
"Oh~ Let's hear it."
"Money is everything. It makes the world round, it's what motivates people and it's my answer." Celestia replied confidently. Her electric blue eyes met Gakuho's unamused purple ones. "I choose to be a failure of school and seize this opportunity to take that prize. I will drop to Class E."
"That's not an intellectual move. Frankly...I'm disappointed that one of our school's top student is choosing a reckless and risky move."
"Sir. I would do anything for money. And you know that."
"So...we have a transfer student today. Or more accurately, she's dropped down her marks and is being punished to join us." Karasuma said enthusiastically as Koro Sensei fidgeted on the side in excitement and Irene next to him, twirling her hair in disinterest.
Celestia stepped in and did a polite bow as Isogai and Maehara widened their eyes in surprise and recognition. The girl picked up a chalk and began writing her name with her left hand as she spoke.
"Nice to meet you, please take care of me. " Celestia said in a soft voice, with no further explanation and emotion. She then looked around the class before asking: "If I could, may I ask who we are assassinating?"
"Um…" The class looked at each other awkwardly. How were they supposed to just say to an unsuspecting newcomer: "Hey! Welcome to our class! We have three awesome teachers except you have to kill the most awesome one! Haha no biggie, we've been trying to kill him for weeks now."
Celestia shook hands with Karasuma, then Irene who was muttering something about a useless brat, and then Koro-sensei. But when she shook his hand, it went "flop" a moment later. The class stared blankly while Karma grinned in amusement. Now this was exciting. Koro-sensei looked baffled and confused and Celestia immediately went for another slice except Koro sensei leaned back, out of slight horror and Celestia immediately dealt with a kick as her shoe has an Anti-Sensei knive taped underneath and it got another one of his tentacles. Koro-sensei's face was purple from panic as Celestia reached for his face but then he disappeared behind her. His face was returned to yellow as he sighed in relief. He had used a handkerchief to remove the dagger from Celestia's hand and was safe.
Celestia she bent down, ripping the knives off of her shoes and giving them back to Karasuma, who was next to a very surprised Irene. The class clapped in awe as Koro-Sensei handed back her dagger and she placed it in her pocket.
Karasuma walked up to her and coughed, facing forward. "Reintroducing our new classmate, her name is Celestia Seto, a trained assassin who will assist us."
"EHHHH?!" THe whole class shouted including the two teacher
"Huh?" Celestia blinked. "How did you know?"