In this chapter, Akiko is going to learn the truth about her gym teacher. Unfortunately, Kamoshida plans to have her expelled along with three other students at her school, one of which is Ryuji. It looks like they're going have to stop him by invading his palace and taking his treasure.

Chapter 4: Kamoshida Exposed

"So let me get this straight...Kamoshida broke your leg? I thought I heard that while we were in his palace..." answered Akiko.

"Yeah...he got mad at me because he couldn't block my volleyballs and he took it out on me...I was out for the rest of the season..." stated Ryuji.

"That's harsh." remarked the teenage girl. Why was Kamoshida so short-tempered?

That was something she would like to find out.

"That reminds me...today is gym class. We're going to have suck it up to him whether we like it or not..." answered the blonde.

Akiko sighed. That didn't sound like fun.

Suddenly, they heard a purring noise.

"Huh?" asked Akiko.

As it turned out, it was Morgana, who now looked like an actual cat instead of a cartoonish one.

"Hey!" exclaimed Morgana.

"Morgana? Why'd you leave the Metaverse?" inquired Akiko.

"I got tired of Kamoshida's guards trying to capture me...they seem to have become quite aware of my presence after a while. If I lay low for a bit maybe they'll turn down the heat..." suggested Morgana.

Ryuji nodded. That didn't seem like a bad idea. If the guards didn't think that Morgana was inside the castle, they would stop searching for him, right?

"Anyways, I was hoping we could go back to Kamoshida's Palace again sometime. I was hoping to get some of his precious valuables...since he's a king he's loaded. He even has his own treasury and everything...though I think I'll save that for later." answered Morgana.

"Interesting..." noted Akiko.

Perhaps they should head back to Kamoshida's Palace.

But for now, they needed to head back to school. They didn't want to be late again.

Fortunately, they were on time.

"Hey there! Thank goodness you didn't cut my gym class! I'm sure you'll all admire my amazing talent!" exclaimed Kamoshida.

"Right..." answered Akiko. At this point, she was tired of Kamoshida's narcissism. She was pretty sure that he had a mirror on his office that he kissed.

The two of them put on their gym uniforms and got ready for gym class.

Sure enough, Kamoshida was performing quite a show, though it wasn't as one-sided as the game that they had seen in the Metaverse.

Still, Kamoshida won the game, and his fans cheered him on.

Akiko and Ryuji didn't feel like doing so however, for obvious reasons.

"At least Ann seems to enjoy Kamoshida's gym class...she gets straight As here..." noted Ryuji.

"Yeah...I think she's a pretty good volleyball player...she might be as good as Kamoshida himself." answered Akiko.

Well, it looked like it was time to suck up to him. Sure, she didn't feel like showering Kamoshida with praise since he was already full of himself as it was. But it seemed like the best way to get good grades in her class.

She decided to head to Kamoshida's office in order to do just that.

"Hello? Kamoshida?" inquired Akiko.

Curious, she noticed that she could see the inside of his office from a window nearby.

She decided to take a peek to see if Kamoshida was inside.

Sure enough, he was.

However, he was doing something surprising.

As it turned out, he was injecting himself with steroids.

Akiko's eyes widened.

"Ah...nothing like some steroids to make me strong!" exclaimed Kamoshida. He knew a good drug store where he could get some.

"Kamoshida's a drug abuser!" thought Akiko.

He then wolfed down some beer.

"That's the stuff!" shouted the gym teacher.

Kamoshida let out a burp.

"He's also an alcoholic..." noted the girl.

"That feels good...but I feel like the Incredible Hulk! I need to take out my rage on somebody..." stated the alcohol-loving teacher.

Someone knocked on the door of his office.

That person was Yuuki.

"Ah, come in!" exclaimed Suguru.

At that very moment, Yuuki Mishima entered his office.

"Hey professor...my gym uniform has a hole in it...can I have another o-"

"You tore a hole in your uniform? Damn it, Mishima!" exclaimed Kamoshida.

The gym teacher punched Yuuki in the face.

Yuuki fell on the ground.

He picked himself up and ran out of his office, wondering why the heck Kamoshida was so angry.

"Well, now I know why he's aggressive..." thought Akiko to himself.

"I wonder who else is going to enter my office..." pondered the gym teacher. Hopefully it was an attractive girl.

At that very moment, someone else knocked on the door.

It was Shiho Suzui.

Kamoshida smiled and invited Shiho Suzui in. Pretty girls were always welcome in his office.

"Excuse me, I noticed that my friend Ann is part of your team, and I was hoping that I could join...I'd really appreciate it." said Shiho.

"So...you want to be part of my team? Alright, but you're going to have to do something first. Why don't you pose in these outfits for me?" questioned Kamoshida.

Kamoshida reached into his closet and pulled out a variety of outfits...outfits that exposed a lot of skin.

"I don't know, these outfits seem kind of...skimpy." questioned Shiho.

"Don't worry, this is all between you and me." answered the gym teacher.

Shiho couldn't see it, but Akiko noticed that Kamoshida had his fingers crossed behind his back.

"Poor Shiho, she has no idea what she's getting into..." said Akiko.

She could enter Kamoshida's office and warn Shiho about what was happening...but then Kamoshida would realize that she had been spying on him. Wouldn't want the gym teacher to get her suspended from school, especially since she had already gotten kicked out of her old one. What school would accept her after that?

Shiho posed in the skimpy outfits, and Kamoshida took pictures of each one.

Eventually, Kamoshida said she was done.

"There! Now can I have a spot on your team?" inquired Shiho.

"I believe so, yes." answered Kamoshida.

Shiho stepped out of the gym teacher's office.

As she left, Kamoshida pulled out the photos and began to upload them on the Internet.

"Her classmates are going to love this!" exclaimed the corrupt teacher.

"Oh no..." thought Akiko.

"Huh? Is someone there?" asked Kamoshida.

Akiko decided to leave before she was spotted. Fortunately, due to her time at the palace, she was rather good at being stealthy.

She decided to leave and report what she had learned to Ryuji.

"Did you find anything?" asked Ryuji.

"I've got some bad news...Kamoshida's been abusing steroids and he's an alcoholic!" exclaimed Akiko.

"What?!" shouted the teenage boy.

"He hit Yuuki Mishima..." continued the girl.

"He did? Don't tell me he's abusing the students again..." answered Ryuji.

"I'm afraid so! He also had Shiho let him take photos of her in skimpy outfits so that she could join the track team...he said that he wasn't going to show the photos to anyone else but he was lying!" exclaimed Akiko.

"Oh no...what do we do?" asked the blonde.

"I guess we're going to have to confront him sooner or later..." stated the girl.

Ryuji nodded.

The next day at school...

Shiho arrived at school, feeling good about joining the track team.

However, when she arrived at school, she noticed that several students were gossiping.

"Why are you gossiping?" asked Shiho.

"Who do you think you are? We've seen what you've been up to on the internet..." answered one of the students.

"What the-" exclaimed the teenage girl.

She decided to have a look.

Sure enough, the same photos that Kamoshida had taken of her were now on the internet for everyone to see.

Shiho gasped in shock.

"Are you lustful or something?" inquired one of the female students.

Shiho ran to the girl's restroom.

At that very moment, Akiko and Ryuji arrived at school.

"Did you hear about Shiho?" asked a female student.

"Did you hear about the big bruise Yuuki has on his face?" inquired the male student.

"Oh no..." murmured Akiko.

"We have to do something about Kamoshida!" exclaimed Ryuji.

"I'll find Shiho, you find Yuuki!" shouted the bespectacled girl.

Ryuji nodded and went to look for Yuuki.

He found him covering his face with a bag of ice.

"Hey Ryuji..." stated Yuuki.

"Akiko said that Kamoshida hit you..." said Ryuji.

"She knows about that?" questioned the boy in a white shirt.

"Yes, she does. I suggest we confront Kamoshida about it." answered the blonde boy.

Yuuki nodded. He was going to have to do something about this sooner or latef.

Meanwhile, Akiko found Suzui inside the girls' bathroom. She was crying quite a bit.

"Did Kamoshida do this to you?" asked Akiko.

Shiho nodded.

"It's alright. I won't think any less of you. Kamoshida played you like a fool..." noted Akiko.

Shiho sniffled.

"Let's go confront him about this shall we? There's no point in letting him get away with tricking you like that..." said the bespectacled teenager.

"Right, of course." nodded Ann's BFF.

A short while later...

Kamoshida sat in his office. His track team's popularity had soared through the roof, so life was good.

Suddenly, Shiho and Akiko entered his office.

"Hey, Shiho! Are you here about the track team? I'm sorry, but I just remembered, my track team is full! My bad!" exclaimed Kamoshida.

Curious, he noticed that Akiko and Shiho seemed angry about something.

"Huh? Why the hostile glares?" questioned Kamoshida.

At that very moment, two more students entered his office.

Those two students were Ryuji and Yuuki.

"Hey there, Yuuki! I just got you a new uniform! Remember how awesome I am!" exclaimed Kamoshida.

"Don't play dumb with us, Kamoshida! We know what you've been doing!" shouted Ryuji.

"Like...what?" asked the gym coach.

"You've been taking steroids to make sure you win at volleyball!" exclaimed Akiko.

"You're also an alcoholic!" shouted Ryuji.

"You hit me in the face because the steroids and the alcohol made you furious!" bellowed Yuuki.

"You posted pictures of me on the internet while I was scantily-clad even though you promised you wouldn't!" yelled Shiho.

"Oh dear...it seems that I've been found out..." said the gym teacher.

"We're going to tell the school principal so he can fire your hairy butt!" exclaimed Akiko.

"That's a problem...whatever shall I do...I know! You're that girl whose currently on probation, right? I'll tell the principal that you threw a volleyball in my face, put itching powder in my jock strap, and you've been spying on Sakamoto while he's in the gym shower!" exclaimed Kamoshida.

"You'vd been spying me in the shower?!" shouted Ryuji, whose cheeks were now red.

"No, of course not! Though I have been tempted a couple times..." answered Akiko, whose cheeks were just as red as Ryuji's.

"As for you Sakamato, I'll tell you that you said the head cheerleader was so fat, she would be better off as a sumo wrestler than cheering!" exclaimed Kamoshida.

Ryuji gulped. That would not look good on his permanent record.

"Miss Suzui, I'll tell the principal that you couldn't handle Mishima's sexiness and that you ripped his shirt off!" shouted the gym teacher.

Shiho and Yuuki both blushed.

"And as for you, Mishima, I'll tell you that you insulted my grandmother, who by the way, can throw a volleyball harder than you!" shouted Kamoshida.

Yuuki gasped.

"Enjoy your next two weeks at this school, because they're going to be your last! Just wait until May 2nd! That'll be the day of the school board meeting!" exclaimed the malevolent gym teacher.

"Oh no..." thought Akiko. It looked like her days at Shujin Academy were numbered.

Kamoshida laughed and began to type a false report to get the four of them expelled.

"What are we going to do? We can't let him get away with this!" exclaimed Ryuji.

"I guess we'll just have to ask Morgana..." stated Akiko.

Together, the four of them left Kamoshida's office. Shiho and Yuuki could not believe they were going to get expelled. Kamoshida sure knew how to make a pack of lies.

Akiko and Ryuji went to talk to Morgana.

"Hey Morgana! We need your help with something!" exclaimed Akiko.

"Yes? What is it?" asked Morgana.

"Kamoshida is going to have us expelled!" shouted Ryuji.

"That doesn't sound good..." answered the cat.

"How do we stop him?" inquired the bespectacled girl.

"Well, if we venture into his palace and steal his treasure, we can get him to change his ways." explained Morgana.

"We can do that?" questioned Ryuji.

"We certainly can! If we manage to pull it off, he'll confess to everything!" shouted the cat.

"Sounds good...but how do we steal his treasure?" asked Akiko.

"First of all, we need to make our way to his treasure room. I'll explain more once we get there...however, the castle is bound to be heavily guarded, so I suggest we do this as stealthily as possible." explained the feline.

Akiko and Ryuji nodded. They didn't want to get thrown into the dungeon again.

"By the way, since we're the Phantom Thieves, why don't we give ourselves nicknames? That way we can have secret identities and people won't have to know we're the Phantom Thieves... Akiko, you can be Jester." stated Morgana.

"Is it because I'm goofy?" inquired Akiko.

"Well, you do seem to like cracking jokes at other people's expense. Ryuji, you wear a skull mask so you can be Skull. As for myself, you can call me Mona." stated Morgana.

"Sure." nodded the girl.

After deciding who was going to be called who, Joker and Skull decided to pull out their phones so that they could head to the Metaverse.

Meanwhile, Ann was calling Shiho, who had some bad news for her.

"What? You're going to get expelled? Because Kamoshida's going to lie to his fellow teachers? That's horrible!" exclaimed Ann.

"I know...that's why I wanted to call you." answered Shiho.

"This is so unfair!" shouted the girl.

"What am I to do? It's not like I can go into an alternate dimension and make Kamoshida change his ways..." answered Ann's BFF.

"Yeah, I wish I could do that..." stated Ann.

Suddenly, she noticed that Ryuji and Akiko were doing something strange.

"Hold the phone, I'm going to check something out..." answered the girl.

Curious, she noticed that they seemed to be disappearing.

She wondered what was happening, and decided to approach them.

As before, Akiko and Ryuji arrived in the Metaverse.

"Alright, time to look for Kamoshida's treasure..." said Akiko.

The two of them entered Kamoshida's Palace and began to look around.

However, it wasn't long until one of the guards spotted them.

And this time, it was one of the guard captains.

"King Kamoshida knew you would come here again, so he sent me to deal with you." answered the guard captain.

The guard captain transformed into an Eligor.

"Let's send him and his horse to the glue factory, shall we?" asked Akiko.

Meanwhile, Ann was wondering where she was. For some strange reason, she now had a bizarre app on her phome that was shaped like an eye.

She had witnessed Akiko and Ryuji entering some sort of castle.

She decided to enter as well.

However, she was spotted by one of the many guards.

"Ann? You seem less skimpily dressed than usual..." questioned one of the guards.

"Huh?" questioned Ann.

"King Kamoshida wants your company." said the guard.

The guard picked up Ann and began to take her to Kamoshida.

"What did I get myself into?" questioned Ann.

It seems that the sooner Akiko and Ryuji steal Kamoshida's heart, the better. Also, it seems Ann had found out about their little secret. Akiko and Ryuji better rescue her and fast!