Chapter 1: In Kendo, They Teach Us to Fight by Beating Us Up
"Crap, we're going to be late," Asuna shouted at them as they ran towards Mahora Academy. Behind Asuna were Konoka, Negi, and Gene, desperately trying to catch up with her.
"Good morning, Negi-kun, Gene-sensei," Maki called out from beside them.
"Hi Makie," Gene called back, "Did you do the homework."
"Yeah. Thank you for the advice. It helped a lot."
"Glad to have helped."
Konoka looked ahead and cried out in glee, "Good morning, Set-chan."
A girl from their class stood waiting in front of them. She held something long wrapped in a blue, cloth case at her side and had her tail in a jutting ponytail. She would have been considered pretty had she not had such a serious face.
Gene took out the class roster and looked over it a few times. "Good morning, Setsuna Sakurazaki."
"Good morning," she said and bowed.
When they had entered the Academy building, she pulled Gene aside. "So I hear that you are living in the same room as Ojou-sama."
"Who?"
"Konoka Ojou-sama."
"Why 'Ojou-sama'?"
"Listen to me!" she shook him, "If you do anything to Ojou-sama, I will personally hunt you down and kill you."
She then loosened the tie on her case and showed Gene the hilt of what was obviously a blade. Satisfied that her message had been sent, she tightened the knot around her bag and ran to class.
"Great," Gene groaned, "Now I have two death threats on me."
After school, Gene arranged a study session in his room. The first students who came in were the Baka Rangers. Next came a few people whom Gene recognized were from the Library Club. Then, came the class representative and the cheerleaders who immediately began a conversation with Negi.
Soon, it got to the point where the room was stuffed with almost the entire class; Asuna became so tired of the noise that she kicked everyone out, literally.
Gene massage his head and looked at the door Asuna had slammed shut. "Man, where does she get the strength to literally kick us out."
"Umm, excuse me," said a shy girl with her hair covering her face, "You're sitting on someone."
Gene looked down and saw that Asuna really had kicked everyone out, including Konoka. He had landed on top of her…chest. (Damnit, do I really have to say this?)
[Of course you do. It's part of your job description. 'Say everything on the script.' We're really cutting it close with this conversation anyways.]
(But…)
[Shut up and get back to work. This is where it gets hairy.]
"Sorry, sorry," Gene apologized profusely to Konoka.
"Ah, it's alright," she cheerfully replied. However, there was someone who was not alright.
Gene felt a very cold and murderous gaze looking at him, and he felt a shudder go down his spine. "Don't tell me," he thought and looked behind him.
It was Setsuna; she was shaking in anger and had already pulled out her sword. "You," she stammered, "You…WHAT DID I TELL YOU!"
"Shinmeiryu ougi, Raimeiken! " she shouted and swung her sword down.
The electrical explosion knocked everyone away like leaves in the wind, and Gene was sent flying down the hallway. He crashed through the wall at the end and landed on his feet outside of the building.
Setsuna flew out and landed behind him with her sword already out. She then turned around and slashed her blade.
"Zanganken."
Gene jumped up and dodged the attack which instead cut the light pole behind him. It teetered for a few seconds before falling down.
"Zankusho-San!" she shouted and swung her palm. Her hand left a trail from which projectiles shot out.
Gene put up his hand, and the shots hit some barrier and dissipated. When he could see again, she had disappeared.
"Where is she?" he thought and saw, too late, that she was right in front of him. Both of her legs grabbed his neck.
"Crap!" he thought before he was flew up into the air. She lifted him up with her legs and flipped around three times before slamming him into the ground.
"Shinmeiryu ougi, Ukigumo - Sakura Sanka."
After the dust cleared, Setsuna could be seen with her sword in front of a prone Gene's chest. "This is the end," she said and stabbed her sword into him.
Gene's body shuddered and seemed to melt around her blade. A hand shot out of the ground and grabbed onto her wrist. The pressure forced her to let go of her blade, and Gene burst out of the ground.
He then punched Setsuna in the stomach, forcing her to fall unconscious. "Jesus," he thought as he looked at the earthen dummy, "For a moment there, I thought I was about to die. Thankfully, I kept in practice."
When Setsuna woke up, she looked around and saw Konoka looking at her with worry. She then straightened and bowed her head low to her. "Forgive me. I was unable to keep my promise of protecting you from him."
"Ara? When did you make a promise like that?"
"Eh?"
Setsuna seemed to realize something and blushed. She then ran away without saying what she realized.
(It was because you dreamed of making the promise to Konoka and made the other promise to Gene in real life. Are you serious? This entire event was from a mistake between dream and reality?)
[Why not? Everyone needs a wake-up call sometime.]
(But shouldn't we have someone tell them that it was a misunderstanding?)
[…Nope. It's more fun if we have misunderstandings anyways.]
Setsuna looked up and saw Gene looking at her. "Umm, sorry about what happened earlier. Let's start over again, shall we?"
She uneasily looked around before hesitantly nodding. Gene flicked her in the forehead. "That's for damaging school property," he said and laughed. Setsuna's serious face broke for a second, and she smiled too.
[See, told you that they would get over it somehow.]
(Still, it was mean to devote an entire chapter and a fight over some promise made in a dream which no one else but us knows about. If you ask me, that's screwed up.)
[Hey, because of this, there's one more student who accepts him.]
(True, true…Hey! Are you going to end the chapter before I can finish crit-)
Chapter 2: Why Are Ghosts Always Whitish?
"Hi, I'm Sayo Aisaka. Some people complain about not being able to be notice by others, like a certain blue, alien frog," said a girl with a pale complexion, "However, they don't know how often ghosts are ignored."
A view downward showed that her body seemed to become transparent until it completely disappeared. Another giveaway was that her feet were through the floor.
(Seriously? A ghost. Why are you adding a ghost now?)
[Why not?]
(Well, unless the ghost is the main character, it never appears until like chapter 74 of a manga.)
"Well," she said to herself, "It's not like before. Nowadays, there are people who do notice me. Most of the class does know that I exist, but the new teacher doesn't seem to notice me. Like when we voted on whether we should move the test to next week, he didn't notice my vote."
"This year, I'll make sure that everyone notices me," she finally proposed to herself.
The next day was the second day Gene would teach the whole class by himself. Since the trimester-final exams were coming up next month, they were reviewing material which would be on the test.
"Okay, let's have a vote," he said, "Who wants to review trigonometry today?"
He began counting the people who had raised their hands, and Sayo decided to raise her hand. When Gene came to her row, he stopped and took a good look at Sayo.
"Wait a minute," he thought in his head, "Why is one of the students wearing a sailor fuku? That isn't part of the school's dress code, strange. Is she rebelling against the school or something? And why is her body slowly becoming transparent as I'm looking closer at her…"
He then said out loud, "Good lord, you're a ghost!"
Everyone in the class looked at Sayo and back at him. "Of course Sayo is a ghost. Didn't you notice that when you first got here?" said her desk mate.
"Well," he stalled, "There were a lot of events which occurred during my first few days here." Everyone smiled at each other. "And I never noticed she was wearing a sailor fuku before, so I thought she was part of the class."
As if the interruption had not occurred, he continued with the review lesson: "So the values of sine, cosine, and tangent are all ratios of the sides of right triangles. If you put them on a 360o Cartesian axis and assume that the x-axis is the adjacent side of an angle, you can find the trigonometric values of angles greater than 90o…"
After class, Sayo approached Gene who was at the café next to their dorms. She sat down on the chair next to him; her figure bobbed up and down through the chair. After waiting for a few minutes, she asked him, "If you can see ghosts, why didn't you notice me sooner? Like yesterday, you skipped my vote."
"No, I didn't," he replied and laughed at her astonished expression, "My mind just counts so fast that I can count votes by rows instantly. That's why it might have seemed to you that I didn't notice your vote.
"I knew you were here; I just never noticed you were a ghost until today."
He sipped his drink and spat it out upon realizing that the bitter taste in his mouth was coffee.
He swore, "They always give me coffee when I tell them that I hate coffee."
He looked at Sayo who was convulsing with laughter; he then smiled too.
"So, how can you see ghosts so well that they look like people?" Sayo asked.
"Well, I always had that ability since I was young. Since my vision was so good, I never realized I could see them until people began asking me why I was talking to thin air. Even then, I can rarely tell them apart from real people, so I've always talked with them as if they were real people. Back in the US, there were a few ghosts who always followed me around; they were good company, and we always helped each other."
He then stood up, "So why are you still a ghost?"
Sayo shuffled and looked away, "I forgot why I still wanted to stay here. It's been so long, 60 years in fact."
She was afraid that Gene would laugh at the fact that she had forgotten her reason for staying, but he merely shrugged. "That happens a lot with ghosts. They spend their first few years obsessing about their deaths that they forget details about the rest of their life like why they died or what they had left undone," he explained, "Do you want to move on?"
"No, actually," she replied after thinking about it for a minute, "After the class began to notice me, I've begun to make friends again. If I move on, I'll have to leave them. If I have a choice to move on, I'll pass it for now."
Gene smiled and then stood up to pat Sayo on the head. "Well then, see you tomorrow," he said and walked back to the dorms. Sayo stayed in her seat for a while; she then touched the place where Gene had patted and blushed.
"Where were you?" complained Asuna when Gene came through the door, "We were beginning to worry that something had happened to you."
"Just taking a drink at the café next door," Gene replied and sat down on his bed. He reached into his bag and took out the class roster. After flipping it open, he looked for Sayo's picture. When he found it, he took out a pen and marked next to her picture: a friendly, but shy ghost.
(Well, all's well that ends well, I suppose.)
[Hey, what's with that cliché expression?]
(I doubted that you could introduce the ghost correctly.)
[Hey, that's up to the audience to decide.]
(Why are we even having this discussion at the end of the chapter?)
[Oh, just to see how long of a conversation we can have together. Why?]
(That's it? Then it's time for my revenge. END!)
[Hey, are you going to end this chapter before we can get to the end of the page? Who gave you the power to do this? I never authorized thi-]
Chapter 3: And They Say that the Library of Congress is Big.
That morning, a furious knocking woke up everyone in the room. Negi sleepily climbed down the ladder from his bed on the top bunk and opened the door.
"Hello," he tiredly breathed out before looking at their visitors. Outside were Yue and another girl who had her hair covering her eyes.
"Ah, Nodoka-san, Yue-san. Good morning. What brings you two here?"
"Who is it?" Gene called from his bed, "Are they advertisers? If they are, tell them that I'm not here."
"No, they're students."
"Oh, in that case, tell them that I'm not available until 8am. I can't stand waking up at 4 in the morning. I thought I had left that phase of my life behind after graduating."
Negi set up the table and asked Nodoka and Yue to sit down. "So, why are you here so early?"
Yue answered, "We think we found something which pertains to your father. However, the library closed before we could borrow it; so we decided to come by here and bring you there."
Negi immediately began packing his staff and backpack and was about to walk out the door when Gene said something to them.
"Baka Black," Gene called, "Where are you guys going?"
"To Library Island."
"Oh, I always wondered why they needed an island to devote to having a library. I'll go along with you."
Yue and Nodoka opened the door to the library and led Negi and Gene in. Then came Asuna, because she was worried that something might happen to Negi, and Konoka, because she wanted to go for the heck of it, and Setsuna, because Konoka was going.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to bring so many people here so early in the morning?" Gene discreetly asked Negi after they had all gotten inside.
"It should be alright. They're usually okay when the Library Exploration Club does a few overnight treks in here," Negi replied.
"Why is the club called the Library Exploration Club, and why would they need more than one night to explore the…oh."
Yue had gone to the side and turned on the lights. After their eyes had adjusted to the sudden illumination, they saw a vast maze of bookshelves. Some shelves were formatted to look like steps so one could climb to the top of the shelves, and it seemed like the shelves extended far above them and below into some impossible chasm. There were some platforms where one could walk for a distance before having to move back up.
"The library is divided into many sections. Some are rest areas while most are devoted to bookshelves. Because of the sheer amount of books the library has, the library was renovated to the current design. Other than a few select staff members, no one knows the full extent of the library," explained Yue to Gene.
"That's why the Library Exploration Club is for," added Nodoka, "To make sure that students can guide their fellow students in looking for books that they need. We volunteer some of our time for this and spend the rest of our time exploring the library."
"I see why your club has 'Exploration' in it. Judging from the complex structure of the place, it would take years to fully map the entire library."
Yue went in front of them and pulled out a map; it was detailed with diagrams of bookshelves and labels of the genres of the books in the library. She then folded it and pointed down. "That's where the book is," she said.
"Wait a minute," Gene interrupted, "Why do we need a map to know where the book is when you guys said you were about to check it out?"
"We saw the book in the catalogue, idiot," Yue replied in a monotone and walked down the stairs.
Everyone stared at Gene to see how he would react; he laughed and merely said, "She's good."
Eventually, the descending stairs began to turn from concrete to stone and eventually stopped in front of a chasm. Yue slung off her backpack, checked the map again, and motioned to Nodoka. Nodoka reached in her bag and pulled out a grappling hook and some slings.
"You can't be serious," Asuna exclaimed, "We're really going to climb down."
"Of course," Yue replied, "The book's down there."
"Come on, Asuna. Cheer up. This is just like before," Konoka added.
"Don't remind me." Asuna put her head into her hands.
"We're so close now," Negi begged to her, "I have to see that book."
"Aww, I knew this was a bad idea," complained Asuna. They had climbed down a fair distance and there was no sign that they had reached the bottom. By using the grappling hook, slings, and the books on the cliff wall, which turned out to be a large bookcase, they were scaling down to where Yue said a passage would appear.
"Hey, wait a minute. Where's Gene?" Negi asked.
Everyone looked around, and Asuna screamed and pointed next to them. Gene was standing sideways on the bookshelf as if it were the floor. Strangely, neither his hair nor his clothes were hanging down and instead appeared as they would on solid ground.
"How can you do that?" everyone asked.
"Huh, do what?" Gene replied, genuinely puzzled.
"Stand horizontally like that."
"I thought everyone here could do it."
"Umm," interrupted Yue, "I wouldn't stand on that book if I were you?"
"Why?"
"That book you're standing on top of-"
The book Gene was on top of turned out to be a brick and fell off. Gene suddenly found himself in midair within seconds. "Ara?" he said before falling down.
"is a trap book which will fall off if you touch it," finished Yue.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah," Gene cried out as he fell towards the bottom. After nearly a minute of nonstop screaming and falling, they heard a splashing sound.
"Don't worry," he called back up to them, "I can see where we're supposed to be going."
"How did you survive that drop?" Negi asked.
"Well, I'm guessing that if this were a manga, it would be shounen."
"What do you mean?"
"Never mind, just get down here."
When everyone had arrived at the bottom, Gene had already set up a tea table and was drinking some tea with Sayo. When they noticed that the others had arrived, they waved at them.
Asuna pulled out a harisen out of nowhere and hit Gene on the head with it.
"Idiot!" she shouted at him, "Take this seriously. You nearly fell to your death and here you are, drinking tea as if nothing had happened."
"Why is Sayo here?" asked Nodoka.
"Umm, I was wondering why you were all here so early in the morning," Sayo nervously replied.
"Everyone, the book's this way," Yue shouted, not bothered by the fact that there was one more person in their group, and pointed down a hallway.
"Oh, so Negi-sensei came here to look for a book which might be about his father," Sayo said after Gene had explained why they were at the library.
"And," Gene whispered into her ear, "Don't tell them how I survived the drop. OK."
"What are you whispering about," Asuna called out to him, "According to Yue, we're almost there. Didn't you hear her?"
Gene and Sayo ran to the end of the hallway. The old stone hall opened up into a grassy expanse with a lake in the middle.
(Are you serious?)
[What is it this time?]
(A lake. In a library. What do you think that will do to the books?)
[Whatever do you mean?]
(The humidity from the lake will cause mold in the books, idiot.)
[Okay. I'm tired of your complaining of how I write the setting, how I do the dialogue, how I do everything. Just shut up. I didn't hire you to do this.]
(*Sigh. Anyways, we'll conclude the library adventure next chapter.)
Chapter 4: Thanks to Dragonball, Everyone Knows What Super Saiyan is
Everyone marveled at the beautiful lake scene. Although it was underneath the library, there was grass and other forms of greenery between columns disguised as realistic trees. Konoka pointed towards the center of the lake and shouted, "Look!"
In the middle of the lake was a small island with a pavilion on top of it. Everyone was looking for a path or bridge to it when Setsuna approached the edge and looked towards the bottom. She touched her hands on the grass and felt around; her hand eventually caught something, and she pulled up.
The water in front of her bubbled, and a boat plopped up. Negi offered to test it first and stepped on it. It seemed pretty stable despite the fact that it had been underwater just minutes ago.
Everyone squeezed into the boat; as if by magic, it began propelling itself to the center of the island. As they neared the pavilion, the details began to become more pronounced. It was built not to a traditional Japanese building but as an ancient Greek or Roman temple. On top were inscriptions and murals of mages and monsters.
The boat came to a stop in front of the island, and everyone got off. Negi, seeing his goal so close at hand, ran into the temple ahead of everyone else.
"Negi," Asuna called out and ran after him. Nodoka and Yue also ran into the building.
When Gene entered the pavilion, he saw that the only thing inside was a glass dome which protected a novel-sized book inside. The covers were pitch-black, and the title was written in gold leaf: "Evangeline's Diary".
"Who's Evangeline?" Gene asked.
"I am," said a voice behind them.
Everyone looked at the doorway and saw a short, blond girl, who looked no older than Negi, looking at them with an evil smirk on her face.
"So," she said, "The boy decides to peek in his master's old diary to find information about his father, eh?"
"Umm, Master," Negi stammered. She didn't even let him finish his sentence. Her first kick hit him in the stomach, and he crumpled to the ground. She put her foot on top of him and began stomping down.
"Or, you thought that you could have found some juicy information about your master. Don't try lying to me. I see how it is!" She shouted at him as she stepped on him.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about her?" Gene asked the other girls and turned around. They were all hiding behind the pillars and hoping not to be seen.
A loud explosion turned their attention outside. "MANLY!" echoed throughout the cavern, and Gene slapped his hand onto his face and groaned, "Oh God, not him."
The wall next to the hallway blew open and revealed Gai-sensei, the gym teacher. He ran forward, over the lake, and crashed into the pavilion. "MANLY!" he shouted again and punched the wall open instead of using the entrance.
"You," he shouted at Gene who was hiding behind the glass case for cover, "We have a score to settle. I'll make sure to go at you with full youth and manliness."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Gene asked.
"That day during the teacher's meeting, you interrupted my match. Therefore, I have to beat you."
"Jeez. You have a weird sense of logic."
"Who cares! Now, face my power at maximum youth!"
Gai then closed his eyes and began concentrating; the air around him seemed to vibrate. Then, a huge burst of energy came pouring out of him, and he began screaming, "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The energy began to gather around his body in a storm, and his hair began to turn yellow. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-ach!" he retched, and the energy around him began changing color from yellow to red.
"GAH!" The energy around him exploded, and the shockwaves shook the entire cavern.
When the dust cleared, the lake water, which had been blown to the sides, began refilling the basin. The island, and the pavilion on top of it, had been completely destroyed, and all that could be seen was Gai's limp body floating on top of the water.
In a cottage situated in the woods nearby Mahora Academy, a magical circle appeared on the ground, and Evangeline and the others appeared on top of it.
"Whew, thought I was about to die there for a second," Gene breathed out.
"Eva-chan," Asuna complained, "Don't you think we shouldn't be showing that to him?"
"Why not?" she replied, "It's obvious that he is somewhat related to this. And anyways, the boy over there has done worse than I have in this matter."
"Do you think Gai-sensei is going to be alright?" Nodoka asked Eva.
"I wouldn't worry about that idiot. He's survived exploding himself before."
"Now, boya," Evangeline said and returned her attention to Negi, "We've got a little over an hour before school starts, just enough time to punish you."
"You can't mean-," Negi said, very worried about Evangeline's evil grin.
She grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him downstairs.
"Are they lovers or something?" Gene asked.
"Hey, you all get down here too," Eva called out.
"Umm, I think I'll go," Sayo said nervously and flew away. Only Gene was puzzled about why she had left.
"Hey, Eva," Gene asked, "Why do you live separate from everyone else?"
"Because, I hate idiots," she replied and pulled off the cover of a pedestal in her basement, revealing a series of glass globes underneath a magic circle, "Come."
The circle glowed, and everyone disappeared.
Chapter 5, It Must Have Been a Pain For Akamatsu to Introduce about 40 Characters at Once
Gene opened his eyes and saw that they were in the middle of a beachside villa. He looked around and ran to the edge of the platform they had appeared in. Below them was the cresting foam of the ocean.
"Wow, where is this place?" Gene asked.
"This is my villa. One day here equals an hour outside, so don't worry about being late for school," Eva explained, "And now for the boya's punishment. Chachamaru! Chachazero!"
A teenage girl and a wooden doll appeared, and Eva threw Negi up into the air. She then jumped up and smashed Negi off into the main courtyard of the villa.
"Let's go train the boy," Eva instructed her assistants, and they all flew off to where Negi had landed.
"Ooookay, that was random," Gene finally said, "Who were they?"
The girls looked at each other and then pointed at Asuna. "You explain it to him."
Asuna sighed and slapped her forehead with her palm. "Alright, I'll do it. Negi-sensei's a mage."
Gene looked at them with a blank look and replied, "No, duh. I knew that from day 1. What else do you need to explain to me?"
"Eh?" all the girls exclaimed, "You knew?"
Gene shrugged, "Of course. Don't you think I wouldn't notice that barrier he keeps around himself all the time? It was as clear as day to me."
Yue held up her hand and asked Gene, "So are you a mage?"
"Nope, I'm an inter-dimensional traveler whose travelling across these worlds to record and map the mechanics of each world," Gene said with a deadpan expression.
Everyone stared at him until he began shuffling. "Well, I guess this is pretty far-fetched, but our class is about as weird as me, in my opinion. We have quite the varied cast of weirdoes in our class, including you guys," Gene stammered out.
"So if you are what you say you are, how do you get around? Do you have some white, meatbun, chibi-rabbit which takes you across dimensions?" Asuna asked.
"No, but I can guess where you got that one from. How I get around is a S-E-C-R-E-T. Eventually, you'll catch on. Anyways, tell me about yourselves; from what I've gathered about mages here, if any human witnesses a mage at work, the said mage gets turned into an ermine."
Yue nodded at the other girls; they rustled through their pockets, and each girl took out a card. "It's because we've formed a Pactio with Negi."
Gene nearly burst out into laughter, "That lucky brat. You mean he's kissed all of you. Oh god, what anyone else would give to be in his situation. Ha."
Yue then asked him, "I've been wondering. How do you know so much about magic and its mechanics? I don't think you could have studied as much as you have done and still have enough time to study magic. In fact, I can't see how you could have been introduced to magic in the first place."
Gene smiled and held out a finger; a flame sparked to life on the tip of it. "I've travelled to many worlds," he said, "And many had some form of magic, and I learned it from each world. In some places, what the people call magic is completely different from what you would call magic. As for your question, I think I've visited here before."
A loud explosion interrupted their conversation and turned their attention to Eva's villa. Negi flew out from another explosion and landed onto Asuna. They both fell over; Negi was on top of Asuna in a very weird way.
Asuna looked at Negi in surprise and then reddened when she realized that Negi's face was in her chest. "Wha-? Negi! You pervert!" she shouted and punched Negi back up into the air.
Eva flew over and grabbed Negi by the wrist. "We still haven't finished with your training," she said with an evil grin and threw Negi back to the ground, "Chachamaru!"
The teenage girl came over. On closer look, she had robotic bars sticking out of her ear areas, and when she talked, her voice was a monotone. "Sorry, senesi," she said and punched Negi off the balcony and into the water below.
Negi's scream could be heard for a few seconds before he splashed into the water. Evangeline floated down to the ground and looked at Gene.
"Well," she said arrogantly, "What are you staring at? Have you never seen a vampire before?"
"You're a vampire?" Gene asked. Eva sighed and pulled the corner of her mouth, revealing vampire teeth.
Gene peered at them closely. After inspecting them for a few seconds, he asked, "Are you sure that you and that girl over there are not cosplaying or something."
A vein popped in Eva's head, and she snapped her fingers. Icicles popped out of the ground and trapped Gene inside of them.
"Whoa, don't do that so suddenly," Gene said from above them. He was upside down and standing in midair as if it was natural to him.
Eva looked up at him and opened her mouth to say something when Negi climbed back up from the sea. Gene looked at him in surprise and remarked, "You must have a really good double-jump and up-B move."
Negi panted hard and suddenly, felt his nose itch. He breathed in and out as if almost sneezing but stopped. When it seemed everything was fine, his face contorted again, and he sneezed.
Everyone nearest to him, Asuna, Konoka, Nodoka, and Yue, had their skirts blown up, revealing more than what needed to be seen.
Asuna blushed and shook in fury. She stomped over to where Negi was still struggling to get back on the platform and kicked his hands off. He struggled for a few seconds before falling down again.
Negi's scream could be heard for a few more seconds before he splashed into the water, again. Gene stared at Asuna with half-closed eyes. "That was mean," he chastised her, "It's not like bear panties are that embarrassing."
Asuna held her head down in remorse and then realized what Gene had said. She shook in anger and pulled out her harisen and smacked Gene on the face. He spun over dramatically before falling on the ground, right below Setsuna. Gene shook his head and looked up.
"Those are the same underpants you wore when you attacked me that other day. Are you sure that you change them everyday?" he noted.
Setsuna also became red with anger and looked at Asuna. They both nodded in silent agreement, and Setsuna pulled out her nodachi while Asuna pulled out her harisen again.
"Shinreimyu ougi, Hyakka Ryoran," Setsuna cried out and slashed her sword at Gene. Although he dodged the blade, the wave of ki petals knocked him over near the edge of the platform. Asuna followed up with a hit from her fan, which pushed Gene off the edge.
"Fall down and join that perverted Negi!" Asuna shouted down at him.
However, there was no splashing sound this time. Instead, a voice rose up to them. "I swear that statement could have been interpreted as a pun," Gene called from below them. Everyone went over and peered down to see what had happened to him.
"If you hang onto the edge, even a Final Smash can't hit you for a few seconds. Also, I have a first-class view of your skirts."
Everyone squealed and pulled down their skirts, and Gene appeared behind them with Negi, laughing his head off. This time, all the girls looked at him with pure hatred.
"Oh God, I don't think five seconds of immunity will save us-" Gene began to say before-.
(The next five minutes consists of unpublishable violence and profanity. Therefore, we'll end this chapter and volume here and now.)
[Hey, who gave you the right to end the chapter; I've been wondering about that since Chapter 2.]
(That's my secret.)
[*sigh. Anyways that's it for this chapter. Next time, we'll be back outside of Evangeline's dome and in Mahora School. Also, expect more character introductions. We might even be able to see Negi do magic.]
