Episode 14: Can I be close to you?
Shall I write it in a letter?
Shall I try to get it down?
Oh, you fill my head with pieces
Of a song I can't get out
Koro-sensei guided his students through the forest. The weather was warm, and everyone felt like missing school and going to the beach. Sugino walked behind their teacher, side by side with Karma and Nagisa. They stopped at a glade. Koro-sensei stepped aside, making a proud face. The students were amazed: the octopus had created their very own swimming pool in the middle of the woods. Now it made sense that he insisted on bringing their swim suits. Everyone jumped into the pool quickly. Nagisa smiled at his teacher. The idea of a private pool only for E-class students pleased him. He joined his friend who already entered the pool. Nakamura stared at him and tried to look surprised as she told him about her astonishment that he was a boy. Nagisa just grinned. Today wasn't a day for being in a bad mood. His eyes scanned the pool, looking for Karma. The redhead was standing at the edge of the pool, trying to throw Koro-sensei into the pond. It turned out that their teacher didn't want to get into the water because it would influence his power. Nagisa and his classmates still trued to throw water at him.
In the afternoon, the happy mood got interrupted by Terasaka. Karma tried too talk to him, ending up challenging him to kill Koro-sensei if he hated him so much. Terasaka left the class angrily, leaving behind his classmates wondering. Mimura asked since when he has been in such a bad mood, but no one knew the answer. Karma sat down beside Nagisa, Sugino, Kayano and Kanzaki. "What happened to Terasaka-kun?", he asked his friends, "He seems to be more upset than else." Sugino just shrugged his shoulders and continued eating his sandwich. Karma was wondering about what possibly could have provoked Terasaka's behavior. A he had left the class, he informed his class mates to join him later at the pool in order to assassinate Koro-sensei. What did he come up with? The whole class agreed on coming.
Can I take you to a moment?
Where the fields are painted gold
And the trees are filled with memories
Of the feelings never told?
Terasaka instructed the E-class students who decided to join him to divide out the whole pool. Even though all his friends were there, Karma didn't take part. He remained in the background, wondering about what Terasaka wanted to achieve. Finally, Koro-sensei showed up. Terasaka aimed a gun at him. As he pulled the trigger, something unexpected happened. Instead of shooting a bullet, the gun activated something at the barrage that kept the pool together. The barrage opened, and the students got swept away. Karma cringed. Nagisa! He ran along the river trying to find him. Terasaka looked confused, like he didn't know what was going on. Koro-sensei quickly rushed to the barrage in order to save his students from falling down the waterfall. Karma was confused by his own reactions. Of course he was worried about all his classmates, but the first one to come to his mind was Nagisa. He whipped away his thoughts. It made sense that he first thought of Nagisa, he was his best friend. As Karma reached the edge, Koro-sensei was lifting Nagisa up with one of his tentacles, let him fall on the ground and continued saving the class. Karma ran over to the small boy who just spit out some water. Karma let out a relieved "Nagisa!" as he reached the blue-haired boy. He took his face between his hands as he asked him: "Nagisa, are you okay?" Nagisa simply nodded. Karma felt like a load was taken off his mind. He felt Nagisa's hands touching his. Out of surprise he let go of Nagisa's face. Karma looked around. Nearly everyone of his classmates was lying on the ground around him. Kayano got up and walked over to Nagisa to check if he was alright. Karma got up as well. He hadn't even noticed that he has fallen on his knees to comfort Nagisa. He turned to Terasaka and talked to him about what exactly happened. He felt the cogs spinning inside his head. He quickly formed a new plan to get rid of Itona and Shiro. And it worked. They were able to defeat them. Karma was quite proud of himself. He got down the cliff to join the others. Terasaka had figured out by now that Karma's plan could have brought him in dangerous problems. As a revenge he threw Karma into the water and pushed him under the water. Karma shouted for help, but started laughing too. He spotted Nagisa's eyes on him. He blue-haired boy grinned and continued talking to Koro-sensei.
Karma was glad when he finally arrived home. He was happy about wearing dry clothes again. After taking a shower, he went to his room. He checked his phone only to see the new text message. It was from Okajima: thanks to my fabulousness, I decided to share today's memories with you. Karma had no idea what he meant until he discovered the added link to his Cloud profile. Apparently, Okajima got them access to the photos he took over the day. Karma clicked through them. Kanzaki, wearing a swim suit. Nakamura, wearing a swim suit. Kurahashi, wearing a swim suit. He kept clicking. Okajima, you little pervert, he thought. He stopped as he found a picture of himself. Kanzaki and Okuda were in the background. It looked like they were the original reason for Okajima taking the picture. He clicked to look at the next picture. He saw Kayano talking to Nagisa. They seemed very intimate. What could he even see in her, Karma thought as he zoomed in the picture. He had to admit that she did look pretty. He sighted. What am I even doing, he asked himself as he moved the picture detail to look at Nagisa. Karma felt a sting in his chest as he looked at the blue-haired boy closely. He immediately put away his phone and stared into the darkness oh his room instead. After a few seconds he took his phone again. As he unlocked the screen, the picture of Nagisa reappeared. Karma closed his eyes. No, this won't happen again, he told himself. It can't happen again. He closed the picture, and Nagisa's face disappeared- but a second later, his name popped up on the screen. Karma took a deep breath as he opened the text message: Thanks for taking care of me today, Karma-kun. Good night. Karma smiled a little. He answered: Anytime. Sleep well. Karma put away his phone. Nor again, he repeated silently until he was tired enough to fall asleep.