Codex: ...

Ace: What are you doing?

Codex: Contemplating.

Ace: Oh no.

Synthia: *walks up from behind us* What's with him?

Ulysses: Yeah, he's normally not quite.

Ace: "Contemplating" apparently.

Codex: I'm just thinking about something. No reason the readers should listen to me. Enjoy the chapter.

~x2x~ We Have Elevators, Ya Know

"How did you still beat us here?" Kayano said, still slightly out of breathe.

"What do you mean 'beat'? I destroyed you guys. Seriously, I had a full on conversation before I even ran out the gates." I mentioned, pointing back at the school.

"Yeah, yeah. Let's just get to class. Where's Koro Sensei?"

"He's getting information from Karasuma and the other teacher after their done with their meeting with all the teachers."

"Oh."

"By the way," Karasuma said, "How do you know all this stuff? About Koro Sensei, I mean."

"Well, I'll tell you after-"

"After what, students?" A voice suddenly said behind us. Everyone jumped back in surprise, except for me, just standing there.

"Nothing, Koro, it's nothing. C'mon, let's get to class. I'm interested in seeing how your classes are."

I hopped off to the entrance of the building, leaving everyone with a questioned look on their face.

"What was that?" I heard Kayano say.

"I don't know." Karma said.

"Well, let's start class, since it seems someone else is eager to do so."

We all slowly poured back into the classroom, returning back to our regular schedule.

"Now, class, due to that little interruption, we're going to have to skip to our science class. So, get out your books and notes for math."

I reached into my bag and grabbed my notes and books for the upcoming class, along with an extra item that I purposely dropped on the ground, gaining Koro's attention and picking it up immediately.

"And what might this be?" Koro said as he held up what I had dropped out of my bag. In his hands was a box for cigarettes. "You do know these are bad for you, right?"

"Of course I do. That isn't actually cigars, by the way. Here…" I took the box from Koro and showed that there was just a deck of cards inside. "My parents are gamblers, but they won't let me get a hold onto a deck of cards for whatever reason. So, I sneak them out in a pack of their old cigar packets, which they let me 'use' for whenever."

"Then I think I'll need to talk with your parents later."

"Please don't. If you do, then they'll-" I shuddered, "Look, just please don't do anything without my knowledge of it happening involving my parents."

Koro sighed, "Fine. But, I would eventually like to talk to you and your parents about this."

"Okay. But, since they're not here, would it be alright if I show you something?"

"Could it wait?" Koro said, putting a tentacle on, what I assume to be, the bridge if his nose.

"I mean, it can, but I like to just mess around with cards whenever I get stressed."

Koro mentally rolled his eyes. "Well, if it's quick, I don't think it'll be a problem."

I smirked, "Thanks. Now, just like every magician has ever said, pick a card." I pulled out my deck of cards and fanned them out. He was about to touch one, until I pulled the deck away. "Ah, not like that. I'll riffle through the deck and you say stop whenever you feel like it."

This time, I riffled the deck. "Stop" I heard him say when I was about halfway through the deck.

I showed him the card and turned my head away so no one thought I was cheating. 'Got your card memorized?"

Koro nodded, so I put it back in the deck and shuffled the deck a few times so it was thoroughly lost in the deck.

"Now, I want you to think of your card and visualize it in your mind." I peeled the top card of the deck off and put the rest of the deck in my other hand, dropping most of them into my bag. "Now, is this your card?"

"No, I'm sorry. The jack of clubs was not my card."

"What? Shoot, well then, let's try this. I want you to grab the card and mentally turn it into your card."

After saying this, I stood up from my seat and watched as Koro grabbed the card with one of his tentacles. However, as soon as he applied pressure to the card, his tentacle exploded into a yellow goo. "Huh?"

At this, I reeled back my arm with the card Koro touched with the card between my fingers, while I threw the remaining cards in my other hand out of Koro's point of view. As soon as I felt I had reeled back enough, I threw the card directly at Koro. However, he grabbed it out of the air with a piece of cloth before it could touch him.

"Well done, Ace. I seem to have greatly underestimated you."

"I think you're also doing it right now too."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Ask the class."

Koro turned to his class who were all looking with their jaws on the floor. "What is it class? Is there something on me?"

"I think it's the fact of what isn't on you." Nagisa mentioned, pointing to Koro's limbs.

Hearing this, he looked down and realized that he was only standing on a few tentacles, while the rest were on the floor, along with about 15 cards that all had the 3 of hearts on it. "Is this your card?" I said while gesturing to the floor.

"Y-Yes, I believe that is?"

"So, what was the time on that Ritsu?"

"That would be 3.5 seconds exactly."

"Damn it. I wanted to get it under 3. Oh well, I still won. Nagisa."

"Yes?" He said, popping his head up from the crowd.

"Here are your earnings," I said, gesturing the the wad of cash I pulled from my pocket. "which is the entire pile, plus the extra hundred. I think I'll hang onto this until the end of the day, since I know that everyone's going to be asking for some. I'll walk home with you at the end of the day and give it to you then."

Nagisa nodded and smiled. "I had a feeling I'd win this."

"Honestly Ace, I'm quite impressed. I would have never thought of anti-me playing cards."

"Yeah, I figured I'd put them to use. And don't worry, I'll keep the anti-you cards in a notifiable package so you know what you can and can't grab. Because, believe it or not, what I did say was true. To an extent." That last part I said under my breathe. "Anyways, I think that you can continue class without anymore interruptions."

I gestured for Koro to head back to his desk and I sat back down, waiting for our next class to begin.

-xXx-

As the classroom began to slowly dissipate of all the children, it soon became only Nagisa, Koro, and me.

"Nice job with the lesson Koro. I expected nothing less of what you gave."

"Thank you, Ace. Honestly, it feels as if you've been here all year and yet it's only been a day."

"Thank you. I'd like to think of myself as perfect in all aspects in the classroom, and whatever else may be required of me."

"Well, that's good. However, I'd like to know why you aren't in the A-Class. I'm sure you'd fit right in."

"Yeah, there's a reason I'm here, but I'd like to tell you when it's just us, if that's fine with you."

"Of course, nothing needs to be rushed."

"Good. So, Nagisa, are you ready to head out yet? Or is there something else you have to pack up?"

"No, I'm good. Thanks for waiting, by the way."

"No problem. See you tomorrow Koro."

"Seeya Koro-Sensei."

We both waved goodbye as we jumped out the window and out onto the path that lead to the street. We walked a bit before the silence became too heavy for Nagisa, so he started up a conversation. "So… have anything to talk about? The silence is getting boring."

"Fair enough. Want to talk about school?"

"Nah, I get enough of that at home. But, that does remind me of something I wanted to ask you."

"Okay, shoot."

"Well, two things. First, I was wondering if you would be willing to help me study every so often. I've asked everyone in class, but they all say that I don't need it or it's just that lesson."

"Of course, I'd be happy to help. What days of the week were you thinking of?"

"Well, we do have that test tomorrow, so I was wondering if you could come over today, and maybe some time in the upcoming week. I get it though if you already have a schedule planned out. This is all short notice after all."

"Here, hold on a second." I reached into my pocket and grabbed a deck of playing cards. I took them out of their packaging and I threw them all out in front of me. However, instead of them falling to the ground, they all went up-right and next to each other to form a sort of grid. When the 'grid' was formed completely, the cards flashed and the faces of the cards turned into screens, showing my schedule for the next few weeks.

"Now, I don't believe I have anything planned, or at least nothing of importance. Nagisa, how long would you be having me, assuming this'd be starting from after school?"

"Uhh," Nagisa hesitated while still being stunned by seeing cards turned into a screen. "M-Maybe 4 hours or so."

"Okay, for this week, I don't see anything that I'd need to move, except for maybe the launch. I think I'd be able to delay it for an hour. Yeah, they'll cover for me until I'm done. Okay, I've got my schedule down." After saying that, I swiped my hand over all the cards and they all returned into my hand. I pocketed the cards and turned my attention back to Nagisa, who finally lifted their jaw off the floor. "Okay, I can come over today, but the only day that could possibly be a problem would be next Thursday, but I think I've got that covered. Now, did you want to ask me something else?"

"Oh yeah, I wanted to ask. Why do you just call him Koro, back at the school? I mean, we all call him Koro Sensei. If you haven't noticed."

"Oh, I've noticed. I can't say just yet why I just call him Koro, but I promise I will… eventually."

"Well, that's somewhat of an answer. " Nagisa said, shrugging in response while turning into a gate and opening it. "This is my house over here, I'll introduce you to my mom." Nagisa guided me into his home, showing me the places he could before we bumped into his mom. "Hey mom, I just got home."

"I see that. And who might this be?" She said while gesturing to me.

"Well, this is Ace, he just transferred to the E-Class today, and I thought it would be a good idea for him to help me study a bit."

"But if he's in the E-Class, doesn't that mean he's just as bad as everyone else?"

"No, he may be in the E-Class, but that's for some personal reason of his, not because of his grades."

"Then it wouldn't be a problem if I quizzed him, would it?"

"Umm, I don't know mom. I mean-"

"No, it's fine. " I said, putting myself in the conversation. "I can see that your mom is just trying to make sure that you have a good tutor. Fire away, Miss Shiota."

"Okay, without using a calculator, give me the square root of 546. I'll go and get a piece of paper for you to-"

"23.36664289109" I said, interrupting her. "Next"

"Umm, 582 times 95 divided by 28 rounded to the-"

"1,974.64286, next."

"Okay, how about this one. 1624 times the quantity of 645 times 48 divided by 64 minus 12 to the third."

"Oh, that's easy. 5,082,561.75. Got anything else?"

Pulling out her phone and punching in the numbers she fired at me, she sighed, "I guess not. I expect my son's grades to skyrocket in a few weeks."

"Noted. We'll be in his room for the next few hours."

"Okay, but if you want to stay for dinner or anything, I wouldn't mind."

"Oh, no. I wouldn't want to barge in on anything family. I'll just help this one study for a few hours, and then I'll take my leave."

"Well, if there's anything you need, just let me know."

"Got it."

Nagisa walked me to his room and I could feel Miss Shiota eyes tighten on me. For some reason, though, I felt that she was sincere about the dinner thing. Weird.

We entered his room and immediately I noticed that it was way too bland, at least for Nagisa. There wasn't anything interesting anywhere.

"So, what subject do you want to start with?"

[A few hours later...]

"Well, thank you so much for all the help, Ace."

"No problem, Miss Shiota. Just trying to advance everything along."

"Well, be that as it may, I still have my eye on you." She said in a stern voice.

"Of course. But, I do think I should be going now."

"Really? Already?" Nagisa said, popping his head from behind his mom.

"Well, it is 10."

"Fair enough."

"Well, thank you for the hospitality, miss Shiota. And the meal too, it was delicious." I exclaimed as I outstretched my hand.

"Thank you, and of course, you're welcome anytime." Miss Shoita said, shaking my extended hand.

"I'll show Ace out." Nagisa said, closing the door behind him as he pulled me through his front yard.

"Well, thank you for the hospitality, Nagisa, but I do believe that I've overstayed my welcome a bit."

"Oh no, don't worry, I think my mom actually really likes you."

"But she was rather harsh, I think."

"Not as harsh as she is with most of my other friends."

"Still, I think I should get home. I've got… things to do."

Nagisa looked down a bit. "O-Okay."

I lifted his chin up. "Hey, don't worry, I'll see you tomorrow. It's not like I'm going anywhere."

"Yeah, I know. It's just… nevermind."

I let go of Nagisa's chin and opened the gate behind me. Without looking back, I said, "See you tomorrow." And I walked down the street. I could feel Nagisa stare at me until I was about 2 blocks down. At which point, I ran back to my house, running at a solid 15 m/h.

After running for about fifteen minutes, I stopped myself in front of the Central Tower, the heart of the main city. I turned the nearest corner into an alleyway. I took my school uniform and flipped it inside-out, turning it into a red suit with a black button-down, black pants, and a white tie.

I walked into the building, noticing as it was rather packed. I walked up to the front desk.

"What business does someone like you have here?" The man at the desk questioned. He was rather tall, but did have some outlines of muscle showing through his shirt.

I rolled my eyes, "New worker I'm assuming then?"

The man got up from the desk and walked around I to me. "What does it matter to a child?" He grabbed my shoulder and walked me back to the front door.

"It concerns a child when that child has a higher status than you."

"Look, I don't know how you got past security, but you're leaving. No kid should be in here, this building holds sensitive material."

I rolled my eyes and grabbed the man by the neck and threw him over my shoulder, hurling him to the ground. "Okay, I now have two reasons I should fire you here and now. One, you disrespect your boss, but that's understandable since you've never seen me in person." I grabbed the man, now on the floor, by his throats above me. "But two, you reveal that this place holds some sensitive information. What if I were someone looking to see if this building is hold information?" I kicked the guy in the stomach, making slide into the wall. At this point, everyone in the main hall was just watching me beat up the front desk person. "Rocco, Larce," I whispered into the ears of the security guards, "Take him to the fitting room, I think there's someone who will be teaching today."

The two security guards nodded and hauled the man into one of the elevators in the back. I took a deep breath through my nose and fixed my suit. "Sorry, everyone, for the disturbance. Please continue what you were doing. I'll make sure that everyone in the living areas gets something complimentary from me."

Everyone just kind of shrugged and slowly looped back into what they were doing. I walked past the main desk and headed into one of the elevators. I pushed the top floor button, #86.

Once there, I started for one of the rooms on the far end of the hallway. Reaching it, I scanned the door with my card, unlocking the mechanism holding the door. Now in the "regular" looking room, seeing as it was a master suit, I headed over to one of the closets. Opening it, I pushed a key into a hole in the roof of it, allowing me to push the back of the closet open. Opening it revealed a set of stairs and windows to the right of them, giving a secret view of the city in all it's glory.

At the top, I used the same key to open the closet to unlock the door, revealing an almost duplicate of the room below it. However, the only difference being that it was fitted to my needs, with there also being an extra few rooms for working and such.

"Ah, home sweet home."

In a few seconds, a man clad in black came walking into the room. "You know, you don't have to come up that way, we have an elevator connected to the house."

"I know, I just like to know how to use it."

"Well, getting to dinner in a second, were you at school today? I haven't seen you around the house or the building anytime today."

"Yep, I was over at the high school."

"Interesting. Koro-Sensei's class, correct?"

"Yep. It's nice to see master again. It's been so long."

Synthia: Done contemplating yet?

Codex: *cracks neck* Yep, I'm good.

Ulysses: What was with that, anyways?

Ace: Yeah, got any deep, dark secrets we *wink* won't *wink* tell anyone else.

Codex: *rolls eyes* Just contemplating on how I want to kill your classmates.

Ace: *deadpans* What?

Ulysses: Okay, seriously Codex?

Synthia: *chuckles* It was kind of funny.

Ace: *shakes head* Well, I can save them. I'm too fast to not be able to.

Codex: Who said anything about your speed being permanent?

Ace: *eyes widen and stops moving*

Synthia: *bursts out laughing on the floor*

Ulysses: *smirks* And I think that's where we leave everyone off.

Synthia: *pant* Yeah, sure.

Codex: Later everyone.