Episode 11: tiny fractures

Burning everything I know

Desperate for a change

Crashing down the ancient roads

Past our yesterday

Maybe there is hunger in my blood

Screaming out loud for what I want

Nagisa woke up by the sound of his alarm clock. He silenced it and grabbed his phone to check his text messages. There were two unanswered left. He opened the first one: I'll be home around five in the afternoon. Nagisa quickly responded his mother with a simply ok, and opened the second one. It was from Sugino: Nagisa-kun, you have to tell me everything about the movie! Nagisa put his phone away again. He looked around in his room. Something was different. He noticed the second bag on his desk, and the bunch of clothes lying beside it. He turned around. His heart missed a beat as he stared at a mess of red hair. It took his brain a second before it remembered what happened last night. "Get up, Karma-kun", Nagisa spoke as he carefully pushed his friend. Karma yawned and lifted his head a little before he let it fall into Nagisa's pillow again. Nagisa sighted. He got up and headed to the bathroom before he started to prepare breakfast.

Karma blinked slowly. He saw Nagisa leaving the room. How did he get up? An alarm clock? Karma hadn't heard anything. That was one reason for him being late so often, beside just not wanting to go the school. He took a deep breath. The pillow scented like Nagisa. Karma closed his eyes again. He could have stayed like that forever, but he got disturbed by Nagisa again. That time he did get up and left the bedroom. He was surprised to see Nagisa already dressed, his hair fixed and handing his something to eat. "Did you sleep well?", he got asked. Karma looked at Nagisa with a smile: "Yeah. I can't remember the last time I slept that well." Nagisa blushed a little a he cleaned the kitchen while Karma was in the bathroom. They left the apartment in time.

Once they reached their school building, they got informed about another new student. Kayano immediately grabbed Nagisa to tell him all her theories. Karma stared at her, unsure about his thoughts. He liked Kayano, but she was a little too possessive in his point of view. He joined Nakamura instead to tell her about the movie.

Feeding frenzy is in my brain

I'm hopeful every day

I gotta get it while we are still young enough to break

We're finally not afraid

The new student was a little… special. He seemed to be very sure about himself. As they got informed that their new classmate called Itona was Koro-sensei's brother who challenged him to battle him. The whole class was exited. Karma was standing next to Isogai when the battle started. He felt Nagisa's looks on him, but he continued watching the fight. Everyone was surprised when they found out that Itona had tentacles too. He even managed to harm Koro-sensei partly, but his guardian ended the fight. The class talked to their teacher to find out more about where he came from, but Koro-sensei remained silent. After school they walked up to Karasuma-sensei and asked him if he would teach them more killing techniques. He agreed on giving them extra lessons after school. Most of his classmates stayed, but Nagisa decided to start taking part from the next day on. He preferred going home today since his mother would be returning too. He went home quickly.

His mother hadn't noticed anything about Karma's stay. Nagisa spent the afternoon studying, or at least he tried to. His mother accepted his longer stays in school from now on. Nagisa told her that he would participate in an extra studying group. Nagisa tried to focus on his history book. After ten minutes of staring into a void, he gave up and grabbed his phone to text Karma: Are you home already? He didn't expect him to answer that quickly: Yeah, miss me already? Wanna come over? Nagisa grinned as he got his bag. He went to the kitchen and told his mother that he accidentally packed Sugino's maths book he really needed it to do his homework. His mother believed the lie. Nagisa left the house and started walking over to Karma. As he reached his apartment, he rang the doorbell. After an eternity the door opened, and Okuda welcomed him.

Nagisa was confused to see her. As he entered Karma's room, he spotted Sugino and Nakamura sitting on Karma's green carpet. The redhead himself was sitting between them, and said to Nagisa as he noticed him: "Hey, Nagisa-kun, great timing! What pizza would you like to have? The same as always?" Nagisa just nodded, and turned to Sugino: "What are you all doing here?" "Karma invited us after the training", he got as a response. Nagisa felt a little strange, probably because he thought he'd be spending time with Karma alone. But he decided to not think about it any longer, and spend a nice time with his friends.