Hello there, it's been a while.
You know how it is, stuff happens all and all. So, here we are, new chapter (YEEAH \o/) and I do hope you will enjoy it. We work hard for it. So, read, enjoy and review.
To answer one question : will speak of Luffy and Marine Ford. When and how... you'll see for yourself.
Ace pressed his chin on his hand, writing down the two sentences on the board absently, then listened to the oral version.
-Oh, sexy guy… it's a miracle…
What, really?
"And the translation, Bitch-sensei?" though Hiken throwing a look toward Nagisa who was jabbing him with his pen.
-I'm trying to keep you awake, the blue told him with a smile.
Ace scowled, and almost cry out for a miracle when Irina came to her point:
-The daily talk is really simple. You're all a little like that or you know someone who talk with really cool, or really dark. Here, this maji can be translated by really. Kimura, try to pronounce it.
Kimura tried and…
-Learry…
Tud-dut.
-Hai, dame. You mix the L and the R. Their pronunciation is very bad for the Japaneses. I understand what you mean, but it can be confusing.
-Hai…
-Portgas, try it.
-Really?
-Good, Portgas.
Ace just smiled internally. Even if the kana used to write his otouto's name was the 'Ru', he had quickly learned to moderate it in 'Lu', to not upset the ahou gomu.
-Don't run away from your weaknesses, but learn to master them! I will often question you on your pronunciation from now on. And the next one who mix up the L and the R…
Irina's voice had taken progressively a sensual tone and her eyes clouded at the same rate.
- … Will be punished with a french kiss in public.
Jack shit! The only person Ace shared what was called the French Kiss with, was Marco, and most of all not this bimbo. He threw a glance toward the window, his Haki telling him what he must know, as the ring of the end of class sounded. Ace hesitated, but gave the mater up. Koro-sensei must have already sensed it and Marco had a better Haki than him.
-Raaah! What a pain, these classes! Moaned Irina leaning on her desk in the staff room.
-Yet the students seem to like them, Karasuma pointed out to her, before his computer with some papers.
-And it should please me? I'm an assassin! I'm only stuck here to kill the octopus… and talking about tako…
She pointed her finger toward Koro-sensei who had just shown himself kneeling on her desk while drinking some tea.
-He is ogling my chest while he is calmly seeping his tea!
-Lessons on life based on personal experience, it's a good work! Approved Koro-sensei.
-Oh shut up!
And she made a move to attack the octopus who avoid easily each blow.
-Don't rush, it's the kind of target that he is, pointed Karasuma.
-Shit! Swore Irina standing up.
She threw her weapon above her shoulder and walked out.
-I'm out of here.
She slammed the door behind her.
-Mmmm… she seems angry… commented Koro-sensei, still kneeling on the desk.
-The blame to who?
Irina went to lean against a window in the corridor washed in the sunset. She couldn't allow herself to stay here, stuck like that. What could she do to kill this monster?
Lost in her thoughts, she only noticed the piano wire that was coming down from the roof when it tightened around her neck…
The next day, the day began with a sport class and Karasuma explained the situation.
-Lovro, an ex-assassin and the actual teacher of Irina visit us today. Irina and him have a bet to prove who is the best assassin, and their goal is to kill me with an anti-sensei's knife. That's what it is. Beyond those slight annoyances, nothing will bother your classes of the day. Don't change your habits.
Poor Karasuma-sensei… He has a hard time.
-Must have something more to it, whispered Ace to Nagisa as they prepared themselves to run. Karasuma-sensei wouldn't have accepted if he didn't get anything from it.
-Karasuma-sensei~! Called happily Irina.
She was running toward them with a thermos and a cup full of liquid unidentified, happily smiling.
-Good job, you should have a break! You must be tired and thirsty! I got you a fresh drink!
Everyone looked at her suspiciously. It stinks of a dirty trick.
-Come on, drink this in one go! It's delicious!
There was something in the drink.
She surely had put something in it.
-Probably a muscle relaxant or a sleeping pill. She incapacitate me and then knife me, said Karasuma.
Seeing Irina's expression, Karasuma was right. The man sighed and told her:
-Listen to me. I will not let you approach me enough for you to be able to give it to me.
Irina sighed and tried to keep her smile, she put it on the ground… before tripping miserably.
-It hurt! Lift me, Karasuma! Lift me!
-And what else… Marco-san, can you carry her away?
Marco sitting on the roof, jumped swiftly and easily threw Irina on his shoulder.
-Since she is hurt, I'll give her to Cassandra, yoi, stated the Phoenix.
-NOOOO! Not Cassandra! I'm alright! The youngster struggled.
-Let's be honest, even the students wouldn't have fallen in this sort of trap.
And he dragged her to see Cassandra, under the sympathetic glances of the students. Karasuma went back to his class. He had a class to give.
-Good, let's begin now. Portgas, try to go under the thirty seconds for each round around the field that must be done. I'm timing you, Karasuma told him.
Ace nodded and began to stretch, before readying himself.
-Go.
And the class began to run, easily outran by Ace.
-So, how do you find it? Asked Koro-sensei in ninja style. To be targeted can be interesting, sometime!
-Baka bakashi, muttered Karasuma putting back his jacket. If I avoid them, what do I win?
-And if I gave you a chance? Proposed Koro-sensei taking a thinking posture.
-Chance?
-I'll stay completely still in front of you for one second. You'll be able to kill me as you wish. However, this must stay a secret for the others. If they learned of it and schemed something, it would be a horrible waste.
Karasuma didn't need to think a lot about it, as Koro-sensei was entering into a room, clothed as a professor. (when did he have the time to change clothes, too?)
Sometime later, we could find Irina, Karasuma and Koro-sensei in the staff room. The blond was nervously sitting in front of Karasuma who was typing his report. Koro-sensei was observing everything silently, attentive. The door opened brusquely on Lovro who rushed in a frontal attack on Karasuma.
But he shouldn't underestimate him like that.
Karasuma tried to move his chair backward, but was blocked by a wedge. So, he chose the second best solution. He threw Lovro's arm against the desk, making him release the plastic knife and in a same move, counter-attack with a knee which he stopped at one hair of the temple of the man.
-You may be good, but you don't actually think that it would be that easy for a retired assassin to kill someone who was part of the special forces until recently, Karasuma told him.
He picked the false knife up and pointed it in the direction of Irina behind who Koro-sensei was hiding.
-If you don't kill me today, stated Karasuma… you know what await you.
Irina and Koro-sensei panicked, then the blond pulled herself back together.
-Why do you panic like that? She asked to the octopus.
-Don't lose, Irina-sensei! Cheered Koro-sensei. Gambatte!
And Karasuma left the room saying:
-When I came here, I was able to give five blows with a knife per second. When I took a personal part in Portgas' training, I raised this number to seven. He, himself, can give fifteen blow per second, and that is only because he is convalescent. At the best of his health, Marco gave the number nineteen for his comrade. Fifteen being the one originally from Cassandra. Our fellow teacher, him, it's twenty…
He turned on the entry and smirked Machiavellian.
-I'm really looking forward to it.
And he walked away.
During that time, Lovro had a hurt wrist, with a big black ball under his skin.
It was a defeat for him, today.
It was understood that he would have no luck of killing Karasuma and even less Koro-sensei.
-I understand, but I wish that you watch Irina-sensei until the end, the octopus told him. Experience or not, she always killed her target, whichever mission it was.
-Do as you wish.
And he left the two professors together.
-You really think that I have a chance, asked Irina.
-Of course, assured Koro-sensei coming in front of her. I don't know what you learned with this man, but I know that you made a lot of effort and that you worked hard until now.
And he broke the wise sentence he had just uttered to talk about the underwear that she had ordered the day before.
-Perverted Octopus!
-Show them what you can do. To Karasuma-sensei, to your master, and before all, to your students.
Meanwhile, it was the lunch break.
Karma, at the window, called Nagisa who was eating his bento at his desk.
We could see Karasuma under a tree, eating a sandwich, like he often did.
-And now, a woman is coming near him… pointed Karma with a smile. She really wants to do it, Bitch-sensei…
Indeed, Irina was now in front of Karasuma, standing.
-You have an instant, Karasuma?
-Nanda? Even if it's a false assassination, I won't hold back.
On their side, Lovro and Koro-sensei were observing this.
-She has a knife with her, pointed Koro-sensei.
-She should know that it doesn't work with him, commented Lovro. What an idiot.
- Ne, Karasuma~…
Irina removed with a sensuality her jacket.
-I really want to stay here… You can understand that, right? Just a little blow and it would be over… it wouldn't be without a little something from me~… I'll give you a present like you never had until now…
Karasuma though that he just had to remove her knife and all would be over.
-Very well, he said. Do it. Touch me where you want.
Bingo!
-I'm happy… the blond told him with a smirk.
-Lovro-san, did you see the teaching method of Irina-sensei? Asked Koro-sensei as Ace walked to them with a used sport bag on his back.
Lovro looked at the octopus.
-She first concentrates on the difficulties of pronunciation. The study of a language is a cycle of defy and mastery. All while mastering ten different languages, she faced the defies of her new position as a teacher to then master them. Do you think that such an expert stayed around, doing nothing, since she came?
-What do you mean by that? Asked Lovro.
-This is Portgas D. Ace, Second Commander of a pirate's crew, and in convalescence. But also, the training partner of Irina-sensei.
Ace held the bag to Lovro who opened it.
-If you see some marks of burn, I'm the culprit, pointed Ace as the man searched through the bag in surprise.
-Kore wa…
Irina put her jacket on Karasuma's foot, hiding the fact that she had just passed a wire around his ankle, then turned around the tree against which he was leaning.
-Then, I'm coming from here~…
And she pulled the wire hidden behind the trunk, effectively suspending Karasuma upside down, to a branch. She immediately released the wire and when the man fell, she threw herself on him to sit on his chest and tried to stab him like that…
-Together, we think of various techniques to use to assassinate Koro-sensei which could finally end him, pointed Ace. And she attacks him as if he was a foreign language.
This would explain why the sportswear in the bag was so worn and dirty.
-Just looking in this bag, you can see the hard work she put in keeping it a secret. In any weather or her own state, she works hard. Very hard.
She had him.
She brought down the knife on her prey, but Karasuma caught her hands.
-It wasn't far… whispered Karasuma, as Irina swore internally.
If it became a duel of strength, she was sure to lose. What to do?
-Karasuma… she breathed.
And she made some puppy eyes, taking without a shame example on Ace, showing a sad and miserable air who made someone want to hug her to comfort her.
-I want to touch you… dame?
-What sort of assassin ask the permission to do his job! Karasuma got riled up, a vein popping on his temple. You better give up!
But Irina didn't intend to give up, so, he conceded.
-Okay, you win.
He released Irina, letting the knife touch his chest.
-I won't waste my day with a bad loser.
Victory of Bitch-sensei by forfeiture of Karasuma !
-She is the sort of person that is capable of put in all her heart to remedy to their shortcomings, continued Kro-sensei to Lovro while in the classroom, the students clapped for the achievement of their professor. And when her students saw her fighting spirit, they develop too their abilities as assassins.
He looked at Lovro while Ace went to help Irina stand up.
-Dakara, if you want to kill me, she need to stay here.
Ace and Irina were walking back toward the school, talking about possible amelioration to the technique to get around a new situation like this when they ran into Lovro.
-Sensei… said Irina.
-What horrible disciple you make… sighed the man. You're much better as a teacher. Be sure to kill him, Irina.
Irina began to show a disappointed face, excepting him to tell her to go pack, before passing to complete joy and to assure him that she would give everything she had to do it.
Irina was indecent, arrogant, but frank. Bitch-sensei was their English teacher after all.
-Oi! Lovro-san! Yelled Ace as Lovro continued on his way.
Lovro turned around to see Ace stuck his tongue and showing his wallet.
-Thanks for the money! Nihi!
-Ano gakki!
He rushed toward Ace who lift himself on the man shoulder to roll on his back, land behind Lovro on his feet, make some acrobatics, to end with taunting the man a little further away, in equilibrium on one hand, still showing off the wallet he had stolen, sticking his tongue.
And that, that was their Pirate classmate.
Marco stayed pondering in front of the more than strange armor that was cluttering the staff room, beside the missile that Koro-sensei had caught a little earlier in the school year.
-What is that? Asked Karasuma entering in the room with Koro-sensei.
-It's an armor, I'd say, unless you give it another name around here, yoi.
-I repeat my question, what is this armor?
-It was in case that this second was to happen! Smiled Koro-sensei.
Marco had an expression very Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Karasuma preferred not to confront.
A new day dawns…
-Ohayou gozaimasu, sensei, you seem happy! Commented Isogai greeting the teacher with a bullet to the head which was avoid with a Match 20 speed. You're doing something after classes?
And he went to sit down after he picked up his bead.
-Yes! I'm going to Hawaii after class to see a film. There is a preview in America and I really look forward to it, said Koro-sensei.
Two girl went to his desk.
-Uso! That's not fair sensei!
Koro-sensei chuckled.
-To move at Mach 20 can be used like that to.
-Sonic Ninja, read the class representative on the magazine between Koro-sensei's tentacles.
-Aah, that film of super-heroes. You'll tell us about it tomorrow, ne?
Maehara him, tried something else.
-Marco-sensei!
Marco raised his eyes from his newspaper and halted in front of the classroom.
-You can go as fast as Koro-sensei, right?! Can you take us there?
-I don't take passenger on such a distance who aren't used to fly with me, yoi. One bad move, and it can end in a serious accident.
And he continued on his way, without a care for the pouting face of the students.
In the back of the class, Karma and Nagisa looked, envious, at Koro-sensei.
This explained why, at the end of the classes, Karma and Nagisa approached their professor who was about to fly away.
-Koro-sensei, onegai! Take us with you!
-Oya, you like it too?!
-I wait for the next one for a long time now! Assured Nagisa.
-I'm surprised that films on super-heroes interest you, Karma-kun.
-I like the producer a lot. It's rare when he makes adaptations for comics, Karma justified himself.
-I want to come too, Nagisa-san! Came the voice of Ritsu from Nagisa's pocket.
He took out his mobile from his pocket to see Ritsu in it showing a board apologizing for intruding.
-Sorry for intruding.
-Ritsu… said Nagisa, jaded. Why are you in my phone?
-To facilitate information sharing between students! I downloaded my data in everyone's phone. Call me "Mobile Ritsu"!
She could do any and every thing too.
Seeing this, Marco was coming out of the building with Ace, mentally noting down to leave his mobile and Ace's on the table of the living room when they went to bed, in the future.
Nagisa turned the phone toward Koro-sensei as Ritsu was saying:
-I always wanted to travel at Mach 20 with Koro-sensei. My camera can help in the assassination plots since it already helps Portgas-Taishou and Marco-Taishou in their training.
-Why not, let's go see this film, said Koro-sensei with the expression of a schemer. Do you join us, you two?
Marco and Ace shared a look at the question and shrugged.
-Cassandra, sorry, we're going for a walk, yoi, apologized Marco giving his bag to the woman who raised an eyebrow.
-I'm not cooking you anything, warned the blond who had just came out.
-We'll manage, assured Ace giving her his own bag.
Karma and Nagisa realized that they were going to see for the first time how Marco passed from human to his animal form.
Ace jumped on Marco's back, hooking his legs around his waist and holding firmly his shoulders. Arms at his sides, Marco bend his knees, the eyes toward the sky and jumped high, very high, too high to be entirely humanly possible. He even left some blue and golden flames behind. High up, we could believe that he had exploded in flames, before becoming a huge bird with moving flaming feathers. Koro-sensei didn't leave them more opportunity to admire the animal more that he put Nagisa and Karma in his teacher robe.
-I will give you a view of my speed! Said Koro-sensei.
Karma and Nagisa suddenly felt a little worried.
-Karma-kun… I asked him on a whim, but maybe I made the biggest mistake of my life.
-Sa ne… we didn't think about all the security matters, approved Karma, even if he hide better his unease.
-Don't worry, I will speed up progressively, like this, nobody will be hurt, reassured Koro-sensei.
And he took off like a plane in the sky to join Marco who was flying on one point, Ace sitting on his back. As if he was sensing something, Hiken leaned to offer the minimum resistance to the wind, and together, the two teachers broke the sound barrier.
-It's fast! Breathed Nagisa amazed while Karma was laughing like an idiot.
-Faster! Cheered Ace.
-No, refused Marco. Not with you on my back, and even less when we fly above water, yoi.
-Killjoy.
-I do know.
-That's amazing! Cackled Karma. We can already see the Pacific Ocean!
-You can talk in this form, sensei? Wondered Nagisa.
-Yes. Even under the feathers of a phoenix, I stay human, yoi.
-Can I analyze your conditions of flight, Marco-taîshou? Asked Ritsu from Nagisa's phone.
-Do as you wish.
A beep came from Ace's phone who took it from his pocket keeping his arm along his body.
Ritsu had just appeared in it and had put on some glasses as if to examine something.
And it was like that that the group went toward Hawaii.
After a while, Nagisa made the remark that there wasn't too much wind nor noise since the head of their professor was redirecting the majority of the wind.
-We generate enough heat to cut the wind, Ace pointed with a smile. For the noise, you get used to it. It's not noisier than a cannon shot.
-That's a very good observation, Nagisa-kun, said Koro-sensei. The secret lies in my skin.
And from there came an explanation of the how normally, his head was normal, but under high pressure, she hardened, explaining why he could stay intact under the pressure of Mach 20.
All was need to understand how the pirate could do it at this speed was to see the embers.
-You have too something similar in the everyday, explained Koro-sensei.
Marco took an amused air seeing Koro-sensei take out from who know where tools to do a science lesson while flying.
-You're not going to try and kill him, Karma-san? Asked Ritsu. It's your chance.
-Don't be crazy, Ritsu, replied Karma. If I do that, we will all fall in the Pacific at the speed of sound, and as fast as Marco-sensei is, I doubt that he could save us. Koro-sensei has us at his mercy. We don't have any other choice than to stay sagely here, listening to his lesson.
The offended look that the bird threw him meant everything as he was flapping his wings so fast they seemed immobile.
They reached Hawaii, where it was night with the jet lag, to be able to have the end of the lesson on the dilatancy used today in the bullet-proof jackets.
When Koro-sensei easily landed, Marco had to lose a lot of speed to land planning. Ace threw himself on the ground at some meters in the air to land easily on his feet. Marco took back his human form and let the gravity do the rest, to join them and dust himself. The two pirates stared a moment at the sea, then focused on the others to see Koro-sensei put Nagisa and Karma on the ground.
-Beautiful demonstration of flight, we can see the experience, stated Koro-sensei
-For thirty years that I have those wings, necessarily, yoi, muttered Marco moving his shoulders.
-Good, you are all a little smarter and the movie theater is just in front, young ones.
Koro-sensei put on a wig on his head and his false nose in place, before taking a color of skin more natural than yellow. They realized at this moment that they weren't on the ground exactly, but on a roof.
Ace caught his comrades, despite their protests and jumped from the roof without thinking.
-Never do… that ever again… puffed Nagisa, his heart beating wildly when Ace released them.
And Hiken took a blow on the head from the blue.
In the movie hall, Karma found that it was cold.
-The air-con is installed in all the halls in Hawaii, explain Koro-sensei. Minna-san, wrap yourself up.
And he offered blankets to his students, but Ace refused.
-My gift may still be a little unstable for me to be allowed to modify the temperature around without putting fire on anything, but I don't feel any difference between hot and cold, explained Ace giving the blanket back.
Marco didn't comment when he rolled up his own blanket and threw it back to Koro-sensei.
- Portgas-Taishou's body heat is around the forty degrees when he is happy, announced Ritsu. A simple crisis of anger can make it raise in the fifty.
-You don't want to be our heater? Asked Karma with a smirk.
Ace shrugged and exchanged place with Karma, sitting between the two young boys.
-I'm so happy! It's the first time I'm going to a movie! said Ritsu who had taken out a down jacket of Eskimo in Nagisa's mobile.
-Welcome to the club, commented Ace.
-But we are in the US, there won't be Japanese subtitles, pointed Nagisa. I wonder if we will be able to understand…
-Everything will be alright, you have a good level in English the three of you and Irina-sensei made you work hard. I don't speak about you, Marco-sensei as you already learned all the languages that Irina-sensei know without a sweat. And if you put these tentacles in your ear, I will explain to you all the words that you don't understand with this.
He held a little tentacle like an earpiece to the three students who put it in their ear.
-You now just have to do your best and enjoy the show. Here, cola and pop-corn.
-Ace, no sugar for you, yoi, warned Marco.
Ace showed him his puppy eye but his cola was removed.
-A hyperactive Hiken no Ace here? And what else, muttered Marco. I had the misfortune of letting you eat one licorice stick the other time and you were unlivable all morning, yoi.
Koro-sensei offered a thermos of black coffee that Ace accepted pouting under the laughter of his friends.
And the hall darkened.
It wasn't good…
It was utter contentment for Nagisa.
A Heroe solitary and troubled who must save the world. The kid of Nagisa and Karma's age always admired this type of characters.
Ace seemed very interested in the fighting techniques and the action scenes, while Marco… if it wasn't for an eyebrow that was raised from times to times, we could have accused him to be asleep with his eyes open.
And for Koro-sensei?
His pink face and the "G, no H" that he was mumbling weren't leaving any doubt that his interest was… solely in the heroine's assets…
The final scene ended with a burning décor, the two heroes facing the evil guy who looked like a demon.
"You say that you will kill me, even if you really know who I am"
The mask fell, showing a human face.
The surprise of the heroine was huge.
"My brother!"
Once the session was over, they silently went back to Japan where it was night.
-This end was super! exclaimed Nagisa. It really makes me want to see what comes next!
-Kedo sa… to know that the last boss is the aniki of the heroine, it's cliché, pointed Karma.
Perfect to cut down Nagisa's joy.
-I can predict the end of the series if I analyze thousands of Hollywood films, announced Ritsu from Nagisa's mobile. Should I do it?
-No, it's alright. You really are kill-joy, both of you.
Marco snickered while looking at Ace.
-What? asked Ace, puzzled.
-Your story with Roger is cliché, too, Ace, commented the blond.
-Damare, k'ssou pineapple! hissed Ace.
-A hidden brother? No, it would be too banal with Ace, supposed Karma. Mmmm…
-Father. His worst enemy is his sire, explained Marco.
Ace crossed his arms pouting.
-That's cliché, true! Smiled Karma. Finally, something normal with you, Ace!
-And if the aforementioned guy died fifteen months before my birth? Inquired Ace.
The two stayed perplex.
-How can you be here? Pointed Nagisa.
-My mother died giving me birth. Extended pregnancy. I was born eleven months late.
-I remove what I said, there really is nothing normal about you, Ace, sighed Karma.
- I renounced searching for something normal in Ace and it's been what… a little more than five years that I know him, yoi. Anyway, besides that, everything that is cliché, it moves someone here.
Indeed, Koro-sensei was crying his eyes out saying that it was such sad reunion between siblings.
-What a horrible fate!
-What is happening to him suddenly? Asked Karma. I thought that he was a big boy.
-He was like that for all the travel back, pointed Ritsu.
-Thank you very much for today, Koro-sensei! Thanked Nagisa.
-Sayonara.
-I'll accompany you back, you, Marco told them.
-See you tomorrow and be careful on your way back. Oh, and make me a report on the film, in English, for tomorrow! Asked Koro-sensei.
The groan from Ace meant everything.
-Eh? You give us more homework to do! Exclaimed Nagisa.
-It's a little price to have gone to Hawaii freely.
-OBJECTION! Said Ace. It's Marco who flew me to Hawaii, back and forth!
Marco shook his head and walked away, followed by a satisfied Ace that had avoid like that the added homework.
-Aaah…
-What is it, Nagisa-kun? Asked Karma.
They were walking calmly to go back to their home, under the eyes of Marco, their way only lightened by the street lamps.
-That's a first, this, to have a class of five hour until Hawaii, see a film and then go home.
-True.
-Plus, pointed Ritsu. Koro-sensei evolved again in his way of taking care of his students by guarding you from all danger. I saw him use his tentacles to reduce the pressure of the wind and this way eliminate all the particles present in the air.
-You saw today things that few favored have the chance of seeing, yoi, Marco told them.
-The more I learn about him, more I notice that his way of living is different from what we know, whispered Nagisa.
Marco pointed a finger toward the sky when something made the trees move above them.
-Koro-sensei just passed. He is going to tutor Minaru-kun in his Math.
-Sasuga Koro-sensei, commented Nagisa.
-Ace, you didn't say anything… pointed Karma.
-I already told you to not let your mind drift, he is too small to be left alone in the world, yoi, commented Marco with a smile.
Ace's classmate snickered, which made Ace blush.
-Urusai. I'm thinking about my brothers, that's all. Be it Luffy, and Sabo, or our brothers and sisters. Our Nakamas.
Marco became serious and nodded.
-And… I have a bad feeling… something will happen, tomorrow, I'm sure of it.