Chapter 3

Friday morning, the alarm went off, time to get ready for school. Nagisa got out of his bed, got dressed in his uniform fixed his hair into pigtails, and went downstairs to make himself food. On the table there was a note left by his mother and father.

"Nagisa, your father and I are going to be away for two weeks, please take care of the house for us. Love, your mother 3".

"Welp, I guess I'll be alone for a while."

And~ then

"Oh no you're not" a voice said from behind Nagisa startling him. Nagisa jumped to the side to see whoever the intruder was. It was a good friend, his best friend. Karma Akabane.

"Karma? How'd you get in my house?!" Nagisa shouted.

"Your mother gave me a key before they left. Couldn't leave you alone unsupervised."

Nagisa looked back at the paper noticing a small sticky note.

"P.S. your best friend Karma will be coming to check on you once in awhile. Have fun"

Nagisa sighed heavily. Now Karma had full unhindered access to his home, and his room door had no lock. so if at any point Nagisa wasn't home, Karma would be able to have his way. That raised countless danger warnings.

"Hey Nagisa, why'd you get up so early?"

"I wanted some time to look around my school before classes started. Why are you here this early?"

"Wanted to come by and say hi. That, and to surprise you. School doesn't start for a while anyway."

"Mm, so~ what's the high school division like?"

"Pretty much as easy as junior high. Nothing has really changed. Still at the top as well. What about you?" he redirected.

"Oh, well~" Nagisa hesitated to say that he was once again at the bottom of the bottom.

"What? Mess up on the entrance exam?" Karma teased

"No, I did good but... I uh… here" Nagisa lowered his head as he handed the entrance paper to Karma.

"Hm? By decree… class, F… pfffft" Karma covered his mouth with his other hand to keep his laughter in.

"Karma..." Nagisa drawled.

"Nagisa, your luck knows no bounds. Does class F also have the worst possible stuff in the school?"

"Yes"

"Do the higher classes look down on class F?

"...yeah"

"Oh wait wait, tell me that there's a person who looks like a girl."

"..."

" What a step eh?" karma laughed. It took about eight seconds to regain his composure.

"Yeah yeah, it's just like old times." Nagisa said looking down.

"Eh, it shouldn't be a problem though. Now you've been prepared for anything remember?"

"Yeah, that's true… wait a minute." Nagisa stood up and ran to his room to grab something, with Karma following suit. Nagisa located a massive book that looked like it was made of over a thousand different novels. His personalized "Guide to life" book written by Korosensei as his last remnant.

Nagisa read aloud, "let's see, I know this was somewhere here, there it is!"

"What is?" Karma asked

"One of the notes Korosensei left, it says 'if you happen to enter a school that puts you under similar if not the same conditions as Kunugigaoka junior high, just remember what I taught you the past year. I'm confident you can succeed. This time around it will be a lot easier to go venture through your classes and battles' ...he even accounted for this..."

"Are you surprised?"

"No."

"Well, It's about time to go, I'll see you later Nagisa." Karma said walking out of the room.

"...crap!" Nagisa realized he may have missed his train and sprinted out of his house with his bag and school stuff. He ran as fast as his legs would possibly allow. It took about seven minutes before he arrived at the station to find his train just leaving.

"You gotta be kidding me" Nagisa thought. It seemed that it was time to resurrect his months of free running. Unfortunately, the only other time he did so outside of the mountain, a guy got his leg broken and two weeks were spent on hard labor. Luck has certainly not been on his side recently

Ironman began attendance, Nagisa was still sprinting at full speed pushing his body to it's limits. There was a good reason he took a long distance subway train.

"Hey, Yuuji," Yoshii whispered. "Have you seen Nagisa?"

"Nope, probably late." Yuuji replied nonchalant as always

"Akihisa Yoshii!" Ironman called out.

"P-present!" he shouted back.

Nagisa had just made it onto school grounds, about 20 meters away from his classroom horizontally. He was about two stories below. There was no way stairs would cut it. But there was a boy standing against the gate wall to the left. He had gray blue hair, and a camera attached to his pants. Perhaps he was in a photography club.

"Hey," the boy said in a mysterious tone. "You're gonna be late, but I can help you."

"Y-yes please."

"You'll have to help me later on though"

"That's fine as long as it's not anything obscene."

"That can be... considered later. So it's a deal?"

"yes"

The boy pressed a button causing a ladder to rise from the ground. One wonders how it got there. Or how someone put it there. Nagisa climbed it quickly with the other boy following.

"You're Nagisa Shiota huh?" the boy asked.

"Yes," Nagisa replied climbing higher and higher.

"My name's Kouta, Kouta Tsuchiya."

"Nice to meet you Kouta-kun"

"Nagi-" Ironman began reading off, right before he could finish though, Nagisa jumped through the window of the second story.

"...Nagisa Shiota" Ironman recalled putting his other hand to his forehead.

"Present"

"Present too" Kouta said climbing in after.

"Tomorrow is another day" Ironman thought trying to leave the events as they were and to start class.

-about 7 hours later-

Class was over. Business as usual continued. This time, both Kouta and Hideyoshi were present.

"Hey guys, where were you yesterday?" Minami asked the two boys who were absent.

"I had some stuff to do in drama club." Hideyoshi stated.

"There's a Drama club?" Nagisa asked.

"Yeah, there's a lot of clubs here. You should try joining one."

"maybe."

"Ladder work" was all that Kouta let out. Though it was enough for Nagisa to understand what he meant. He was played.

Amongst the noise in the classroom, Nagisa heard stomping. From the sound of it, two people were walking to the classroom. His senses were correct. The door opened and two girls walked in. one looked just like Hideyoshi but with a girl's uniform. The other had long violet hair with stone cold eyes that seemed to be pointed at Yuuji.

"Oh great, Class A's rep's" one of the class F students muttered, but was silenced by a quick glare from the brunette.

"Sister? What are you doing here?" Hideyoshi asked.

His sister Yuuko did not answer, but just stared at Nagisa.

"Hmph, so you are the new student yes?"

"Y-yeah, nice to meet you." Nagisa replied.

"Good, now, I have a request for you Nagisa."

"What is it?" Nagisa asked curious

"Would you come with us to our classroom for a little while?" she said with what seemed like a forced smile. It wasn't because she was angry, she was holding back a number of questions and a unrelenting suspicion about him.

"S-sure." Nagisa said standing up.

"Hey hold up a second" Yoshii protested. "What exactly are you going to do with them?"

"You don't need to know." she said coldly.

"Of course I do. We're classmates." Yoshii continued.

"It's okay Akihisa" Nagisa said trying to calm him down. "I don't mind going with. I'll be back soon."

"Thank you Nagisa" Yuuko said "now, let's go"

Nagisa followed the two out of the room and down the hallway. Eventually they made it to the class A classroom. Saying it was better was an understatement. It looked more like a four or five star hotel room or a rich person's house. Computers, kitchens, sofas, actual fountains, statues, etc.

"Like what you see Nagisa?" Yuuko asked with one hand against her side.

"This... is a lot for a classroom…" Nagisa said staring at the chandelier above. Ironically, there were numerous light beams above them.

"At this school if you want to have a better life then you have to do better. To the victor go the spoils as they say." she boasted. "Here, it's kinda like survival of the fittest."

Nagisa recalled his memories of Junior high. The worst class there, class 3-E was basically a ghetto while the main building would be a haven in comparison. In the satellite campus, there wasn't A/C, the equipment was just spares and used items, the field was covered in weeds until a tornado took care of that. There wasn't a library to study, nobody in the class was allowed to be apart of clubs, and the students of the class would have to venture down a large mountain to attend every assembly. At said assemblies even the teachers and other faculty would throw brutal insults at the class for the entertainment of classes A through D.

"Now Nagisa, the reason I asked for you to come here is for two things. First was to test you, then to ask a few questions." she explained. "Takahashi-sensei!" she called out.

A woman came up. She had dark red to pink hair in a ponytail, a business suit, and glasses.

"Yes Ms. Kinoshita?" the woman asked.

"Would you please set up a mock battle for him and I?"

"...I understand" Takahashi-sensei seemed to look at Nagisa before responding. "What subject?"

"Math please." Yuuko requested

The room suddenly changed color. A large cube surrounded the three lined in a grid. It seemed like a translucent holodeck from star trek.

"Summon!" Yuuko shouted. Immediately after the word left her mouth, a matrix appeared in front of her. Four white circles outlined in spiked purple marks circling a larger circle of the same design. Each had a large "A" in purple at the center. From the middle appeared a small cartoonish version of the girl who summoned it. A Chibi avatar of Yuuko wearing heavy armor and wielding a lance.

"Su-Summon" Nagisa followed up with. A similar pattern appeared, but the color scheme was red and white instead of purple and white. From the center formed another avatar. A small version of Nagisa wearing dark blue near black cloth with a snake skin pattern. Blue eyes with vertical slits instead of pupils. His avatar held a midnight blue combat knife.

Above the two avatars, two numbers hovered. The number above Yuuko read "486" while the number above Nagisa was "470"

"That is one heck of a high score." Nagisa noted.

"My math score is the reason I'm in class A, it's natural that it'd be this high. I am a genius after all" Yuuko boasted.

The two chibi's attacked one another, each time one of the avatars attacked the other and made contact, the score lowered by between 40-90. Nagisa's summoned avatar took more damage per attack but also dealt equally proportionate amount of damage. Yuuko's avatar was slow but strong. Little by little both scores were whittled down until the scores were 13 for Nagisa and 20 for Yuuko. Both avatars seemed tired. Class A rarely used their avatars so they would be less experienced, hence the reason the battle took a long time. On the other hand, while they occasionally used their avatars, Nagisa had never used one before. Thankfully, controlling the avatar felt like remote control via the mind. All Nagisa had to do was think about what he wanted it to do and it would react accordingly. Nevertheless, the next attack was the last.

"Oi Nagisa" Yuuko said staring into his eyes.

"What is it?" he replied

"Behind you" Yuuko pointed at whatever was behind Nagisa. When Nagisa turned around, there was nothing. It was a distraction. Sadly, Nagisa didn't have enough time to realize that before his avatar was struck and his points dropped to zero.

"Too bad, you should keep your eyes on your opponent next time" Yuuko scolded.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Nagisa modestly apologized

The grid closed and Ms. Takahashi walked away after a readjustment of her glasses.

"Now Nagisa, I have an offer."

"An, offer?" Nagisa repeated confused

"How would you like to join class A? With your scores and class A's influence, we can convince the headmaster to change her mind"

What an offer. A chance to start up higher. But in reality. Everyone knows the answer, so does Nagisa.

"That's a very generous offer Kinoshita-san, but I'm inclined to decline."

"Oh? Why would that be?" she asked intrigued, but also a little irritated.

"Because that would be going back on what I was taught. What the system here does is that it leaves the lower classes in shambles while it promotes those above. That's what my teacher fought against."

"Oh? Interesting way to think of it, although it is only partially correct. The system exists so lower classes will be more inclined to study and work harder to obtain better results."

"But that doesn't work. I know because I've experienced it first hand before." Nagisa declared.

"And what will you do about it? Are you going to petition or something? Riot?"

"No, I'm going to raise the F class. I'm going to bring them to the top alongside and above the best." he decided. His declaration made the girl in front of him giggle, then laugh.

"Hahahaha, that's quite a claim there boy. Let me tell you this," she recomposed herself and crossed her arms. "I'll give you two months, then there will be war. We will see just how resolved you really are."

And then

"Thanks, that's plenty" Yuuji said leaning against the wall to the side of Yuuko and Nagisa.

"What are you doing here?!" the two said in unison.

"Just getting the lowdown for the future. Let's go Nagisa, you have some work to do." Yuuji took Nagisa's arm and pulled him out of the room.

"See ya in a month" he said waving to Yuuko.

Once they were out of the room, Yuuji took a deep breath.

"Nagisa, you just messed up hard."

"Hey, we can do it."

"No we can't, not in two months. I had an entire plan set up. You just proposed we go in without any reinforcement or any more time than two months to study and practice. We have three tests before the battle begins. How are we supposed to win?"

"I am going to teach everyone."

"You're dreaming Nagisa, Class F is a bunch of morons, me included. Himeji is the only person with decent grades but class A has numerous high leveled people."

"Then I have one month to prepare everyone."

"This is suicide Nagisa."

"I know how we can succeed, if we win we get all of the resources of class A right?"

"Of course. So?"

"Then we have a bounty, now I just need to direct everyone to want it." Nagisa thought. "I have3 an idea, but I'll need your help. You are smarter than you appear Yuuji-kun. You, Minami-san, Himeji-san and I are enough."

Yuuji sighed. Then smiled.

"Alright Nagisa, I'm gonna entrust the fate of class F to you. Lead the way buddy."

END

What a great opportunity for Nagisa to start his practice as a teacher.