After everyone went back to the hotel the only people left were the snipers and Ritsu whose machine had yet to be brought in by Koroensei "Ritsu." Chiba called out to her "were you able to recor everything?"
"Yes" she replied as she pointed to the camera installed on her machine "with the fastest possible high speed photography, I recorded this assassination from beginning to end." There was silence for a moment "you know, I could tell the moment I pulled the trigger. [It's a miss.] That [this bullet won't kill him.]" Chiba said as Ritsu analyzed the video feed and replied "I can't say for certain. The excact amount of time it takes for him to transition into that form is unclear. However, if chiba-kun's shot was just 0.5 seconds faster, or if Hayami-san's shot was just 30cm closer to the target, there was about a 50% chance that it would have killed the target before he realized it." she said as she showed them while pointing out on her screen. Hayami seeing it frowned
"I was confident. Of course, during rehersals, I practiced on even more unstable surfaces, and I still wouldn't miss. But, when the time finally came, my finger went stiff and my field of vision narrowed." Chiba confessed as he looked at his hand which was still shaking, Hayami agreed with Chiba "the pressure of not being able to afford to miss, that precious moment of [this is our only shot!]… yeah. Who knew it would be this different from practice." She said as they both started walking back to the class. Korosenei who was being carried away by Karasuma looked at them in thought, while in the forest the pirates especially Usopp was watching them in deep thought as well.
Back in the restaurant, "man, I'm brat…." Maehara said sighing as he leaned back in his seat "should we just go back to our rooms and rest… I don't have any energy left to do anything else." Mimura said as both of their faces were flushed as they slumped against the table/ chair respectively. "What's wrong with you guys, getting depressed after failing once? We did everything we planned to do so let's just kick back tomorrow." Terasaka said growling at the way they acted
"you're right. Tomorrow, I'm gonna take my time to enjoy watching the girls in their swimsuits. No matter how tired I am, I'll make sure to bleed out my nose with everything I got." Okajima said as he and some of the other students faces were also flushed panting in their seats Nagisa was the first one to notice that something was wrong as he realized that everyone was too tired. As he was about to go and find Luffy and his crew who had yet to come back
"Hey, Nagisa-kun. Can I lean on your shoulder for a bit…?" Nakamura said as she brushed Nagisa's shoulder before collapsing onto the floor "I wanna hurry up to my room and get changed already, but my body won't move at all~…" Nagisa immediately went to support her worried as he heard Okajima and looked up sharply as Okajima started coughing up blood and some of the other students had already collapsed thankfully Luffy and the others had already arrived and they were following Choppers orders of what to do and pushed the table and chairs aside while some of the others were helping to lay out sheets to lay the sick students on it so that Chopper would be able to have a look at them. Karasuma on the other hand went to the hotel's counter and asked [shout at to be honest] for where the islands doctors were terrified the man replied shakily "this is a rather tiny island, so we only have a small clinic, but the doctor on duty returns to another island at night you would have to wait until 10 o'clock tomorrow." He said quickly as Karasuma cursed under his breath receiving a shock when his phone rang to see that it is a restricted number as he picked it up "hey there, teach. Looks like your cute little students are suffering quite a bit," the unknown voice said as Karasuma was frowning and if looks could kill the offender would have already died "who is this?" he asked sounding as calm as possible but his expression gave away how he really felt "are you the one behind this?"
"kukuku. Your intuition's not bad lately teach." The offender said "it's an artificially produced virus. It's not very infectious, but if it does infect you, it's over… the incubation period and development of symptoms can be different for each individual, but after a week, every cell in your body will be stunted and you'll soon be dead." The offender said to which they both sweating at the news of what was infecting the students "Sorry to tell you this, but there's only one cure, and unfortunately, I'm the only one that carries it." the two teachers could see the smirk the offender was wearing through his voice "it would be a pain to go give it to you, so… won't you come here and get it yourself? You see the hotel at the top of the mountain right? As for a present you can being me the bounty in that bag." Hearing that Karasuma looked around finding the source where the enemy was watching them. As Karasuma found the source he enemy continued on the phone "from the looks of things, it seems like half the class has been infected. Fufufu, not bad, not bad." The person said as more of the students started bleeding through their nose, mouth etc as those who were well as well as the pirates rushed to help the student as Chopper was brewing different combinations on medicine for the students to get better as Usopp and some of the other straw hats went back into the forest to find what Chopper needed.
"I'm not going to ask you one more time. Who are you…?" Karasuma asked glaring once again "it doesn't matter who I am. Those kids aren't the only ones who are aiming for the 10 billion bounty I can blow up the antidote with the press of a button. If you don't keep us happy, the infected people won't be saved." He threatened "this plan built on the assumption was that the octopus wouldn't be able to move. Now that he can't move all more the reason for us to do as we please." The enemy threatened "the [fukumajima palace hotel] on the mountaintop, the top floor. Come here with the bounty in hand within an hour." The man threatened "but, you know, teach, you seem pretty skilled, so you might be kinda dangerous, huh? Let's see… among the students that can move, have the shortest boy and girl bring it here." Hearing that Karasuma sweat dropped as he eyes darted to both Kayano and Nagisa who looked at him in confusion. "The front desk already knows of the situation. If you come here obediently, we can trade the bounty and the antidote without a hitch. But, if you contact anyone on the outside… or if you're late by even a second I'll destroy the antidote immediately." Before anything else could be said by the culprit Luffy grabbed the phone from Karasuma "fuck you asshole." He said calmly as everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Luffy as hung up abruptly and destroyed the CCTV's around the students and walked away towards the forest helping the pirates there with finding the ingredients that Chopper could have needed for the medicine while Karasuma banged Korosensei on the table shaking in fury at what had happened to the students
However after a few moments Karasuma had collected himself as he explained the situation when all the pirates had come back from the forest. "That's terrible. Who is this guy that could do such a thing?!" Yada asked as Karasuma kept quiet thinking of a certain person when his colleague called out to him "just as we though, it was no good. Even though I tried to ask about their guest as a government official… they kept repeating something about [privacy]" she reported to him "…I guess it's true." Karasuma said as Korosensei questioned what he was talking about "I heard this from an acquaintance in the police department. This small resort island [fukujima], it's known as [Demon Island]" he started explaining to the nervous students who already felt uncomfortable what was already said "the actual resort hotels are legitimate businesses, but with some help from an area called the solitary island in the southern seas, influential members of domestic and foreign mafias, and people of the financial world who are connected to them, are said to often visit that hotel." He explained "while under strict watch from security consisting of personal guards… it seems they discuss illegal business and throw drug parties night after night. They even have connections to people high p in the government, and the police aren't able to carelessly lay a hand on them."
"H-m there's no way a hotel like that lend us a hand, huh?" Karma said as he buttoned up his shirt ready to go at any moment "what do we do?! A bunch of people are gonna die at this rate!" yoshida screamed scared "we… we didn't come to this island to be killed!"
"No one said that you needed to go and fight you know?" they all turned to see Luffy sitting one side watching them as sat on the chair "I can easily go up there and destroy whoever did this to our nakama you know? I did it before and I would do it again even though it's in a different place. I said before and I say it again now. I don't care about the government here we are pirates and we are free, no one can take that away from us, if they even try we will fight our way out even if it cost our life for we will always be free." Luffy said lightly as his eye was glowing silver as his hair cast a shadow on his face making him look menacing "besides, instead of bitching around shouldn't we be doing something about the current situation first? Chopper how are they?" he asked without turning around as Chopper paused what he was doing to take a breather as he replied "it's not contagious, although I have yet to figure out what it is." Chopper said which made some of the students nervous "thanks, Chopper. Now those that are not infected, shall we go up and let the people there know not to mess with our nakama?" Luffy said which received a whole group of cheers.
In the end the group that was going on the infiltration mission was just the non infected students along with Luffy, Karma, Robin and the whitebeard pirates. Back when they were in the hotel, the straw hat pirates were not exactly happy with them staying behind but quiet when Luffy pulled out the captain's orders card, though it did not stop the whitebeard pirates from coming with him as well as Robin who managed to convince him with a reasonable excuse. Terasaka on the other hand was stopped by Zoro with a sheathed sword against him when he argued Chopper said he was also infected. Hearing that, Terasaka clicked hi tongue at being found out but obeyed nonetheless not before giving the weapons he had to Luffy telling him that he would know when to use it.
"so tall…" some of the students said as they looked at the mountain from the bottom "I hacked into that hotel's computer and obtained a blueprint of the interior. I obtained a map of their security placement as well." Ristu said as she informed them "the main entrance and one of the areas on site is heavily secured. It would be impossible to enter without going through the front desk. However, above this cliff there is one side entrance. Because it seems the landscape doesn't allow for infiltration… there is no security there." The students were silent as they stared at their phone at the information that Ritsu gave them. "If you don't want things to go to the enemy's way. There is only one option. Excluding those infected and the pirates who stayed behing. Most of the students capable of moving infiltrate though here launch a surprise attack on the top floor and seal the antidote!" Koroensei said as the group there marveled at his plan
"It's too dangerous. Looking at the practiced skill in their method of correction, you can clearly tell that the enemies are pros." Karasuma said bringing the immobile Korosensei to his eyelevel as he informed him "yes. And furthermore, I cannot protect everyone's safety. It's possible that it would be a better plan to quietly hand it over. It's all up to everyone… and the commander, Karasuma-sensei, what move to make." He told them plainly as the student s kept quiet as they looked at the height of the mountain and hearing that some of the students just said that it would be difficult "of course, it's obviously impossible!" bitch-sensei shouted at them "first of all, there's this cliff! Other than those pirates and the powers they have the rest of you would fall to your deaths before you even reach the hotel!" she said pointing at it. Karasuma was conflicted and as he thought it would be impossible "Nagisa-kun, Kayano-san, I'm sorry, but…" he started but trailed off when he turned to see that no one was there.
"No, well… it's just a cliff, it's a piece of cake." The students said as they all climbed the mountain at insane speeds leaving the two teachers speechless. "Especially if you compare it to our regular training right?" Karma mused and received collective agreements from the other students Thatch, Robin and the asl trio were already at the top looking down while Marco was in his phoenix form following the students in case they fell by accident as the students stopped when they reach midpoint and looked down at the teachers "Karasuma-sensei it might be difficult, but we need you to firmly direct us." Isogai said "but, we've never had training or experience for fighting an unknown enemy in an unknown hotel, so"
"As you can see, they are no mere students. What you have under your command are fourteen members of a Special Forces unit. Now, you know you're running out of time right?" Korosensei said as he supported Karasuma in his own way. Karasuma then closed his eyes in thought before shouting so that they all would be able to hear what he had to say "Attention! Our objective is the top floor of the mountain top hotel! This mission will entail a covert infiltration and a successive surprise attack! As for hand signals and coordination we will use those from our regular training! The only difference this time is our target! Drill the map into your heads in three minutes! We begin the operation at 1950!" he said receiving a collective shout of "YEAH!" from the students from their position.
As the students continued advancing, Okano was taunting some of the boys with her nimble and flexible body as she advanced the mountain faster than the rest of the students and getting closer to the pirates waiting for them at the top. "Okano sure is nimble" Kimura commented as he saw the way she climbed the mountain "yeah, if we gotta do stuff like this, she's number one in the class." Isogai said as Kimura paused for a moment and turned behind "…our teacher on the other hand, only one of those three can move…." He said as while Karasuma was climbing Irina was clinging on him and demanding that he be more careful. Marco hearing the conversation looked down himself and saw how bitch-sensei was screaming hysterically and swooped down grabbing bitch-sensei with his talons. Bitch-sensei was screming in fright which was deafening to all of their ears as she continuously threatened Marco of what she would do if he dropped her which went in through one ear and out the other.
Karasuma feeling the missing weight and the increase in the noise from Irina looked to see the phoenix staring at him with his lazy eyes, Karasuma gave a silent thank you as Marco just gave a shrill in return and flew up to the top and dropped Irina unceremoniously on the ground to which she screamed at him as he stared at her with half lidded eyes as he scoffed at her before flying back down
"My everyone had an amazing sense of balance." Korosensei commented watching the students while Karasuma was able to advance even faster without bitchsensei hanging off him as they all ignored the screaming that bitch-sensei was doing while at the top of the mountain "I've had them practice climbing on the mountain behind the school. In order for them to be able to carry out an assassination no matter the location… good physical strength and balance strength is an essential foundation." He explained "I see. So that's how they were able to control the fly boards with such ease." Korosensei said impressed as bitch-sensei was still shouting hysterically at Marco who was effectively ignoring her while Robin was able to tune her out Thatch and the brothers were going deaf from her voice
"…actually, why are you coming along in the first place, bitch-sensei." Chiba asked as they continued climbing up "she said she didn't want to just sit back and be left out." Kataoka replied as bitch-sensei didn't look as beautiful as she usually was "it would be nice if you didn't hold us back." Ace mumbled as he huffed irritated from her voice. Once they had all reached the top of the cliff "I can override this electronic lock to open the door." Ritsu said as she clicked her fingers and the lock was opened "also I can control the security cameras so that they don't capture our images. However, the hotel's maintenance system is separated into multiple systems, it would be impossible for me to take hold of all the equipment by myself." She said as she showed them the areas she was able to take control of, seeing the grid of what Ritsu sent to their phones "…as expected security is pretty tight. Ritsu, make final confirmation for the infiltration route." Karasuma told her as she displayed the interior map to the mobile devices "we are unable to use the elevators. This is because we would need the private IC keys from the front desk. And so out only option is to climb the stairs, but… the placement of the stairs are all scattered… we must walk a long distance before reaching the top floor." Ritsu explained to the group as the students marveled at it while Karasuma opened the unlocked door and sneaked in with the rest of the students following behind
However, past the door the area where they had to go through was filled with security guards "this place is set up so that you can't move without passing through this lobby. Obviously, the security check is much stricter. The emergency stairwell is right there, but… there's more security than we anticipated. For now, it would be impossible for all the students to get through without being spotted." Karausuma thought as he was trying to come up with a plan for the students to be able to go through and was interrupted when "what's the problem? Just walk through casually." Bitch-sensei said as twirled a wine glass in her hands.
The students hearing what she had said were hysterical wondering whether not she realized how dangerous the current situation was bitch-sensei on the other hand ignored them and looked around the hall and walked out telling them to look casually. As she walked out the students were in chock while Korosensei, and some of the pirates that knew what she was up to chuckled. As she neared the guards she wobbled as she walked. The sound from her heels alerted the guards and as they turned around they fell in love with the sight of bitch-sensei. as she walked towards one of the guard she bumped into one of the men "excuse me. I'm a little drunk from the alcohol in my room." She said as winking at him face flushed.
"Ah, p-please don't worry yourself, ma'am." The guard that bitch-sensei bumped into said blushing at how cute she looked "I'm supposed to be playing that piano next week." She lied walking towards the piano as the two men were distracted "while I try to sober up, I want to check if the piano's in tune." She said as she sat down on the chair at the piano quietly smirking at the men who fell for her act "would it be alright if I played for just a bit?" she said asking drunk again. The man who was most likely the pianist said "u…m then, let me confirm with the front and,"
"Come on. I want you guys to listen too. And critique me." She said pulling on her puppy eyes as the men entranced by her questioned what she meant when she said 'critique' "yes, I want you to critique me carefully, and scold me if I do anything bad." She said sounding slightly dirty as she stated playing the piano so gracefully that anyone watching would not be able to look away. The students listening were in amazement at how good she was, while Thatch whistled in amazement
"It's a 'phantasmic impromptu piece', isn't it?" Korosensei thought to himself as he became relaxed just by listening to bitch-sensei "on top of possessing such skill, the way she enchants you is truly amazing. An assassin who has mastered the art of seduction… she elegantly uses her entire body to produce these sounds. It truly is 'audio seduction'. It draws in anyone's gaze."
Pausing, bitch-sensei turned around "hey, don't watch from so far away." She said to the guards that were further away blocking the path "come listen a little closer." She said beckoning them over as they went without a thought. While they were walking towards her, bitch-sensei secretly signaled them that she would buy them twenty minutes.
Even as the students left after bitch-sensei gave them a chance it was difficult to stop watching her and without knowing they were all also captivated by their teacher
The last person to leave the lobby was Kayano. She breathed a sigh of relief as she reached the stairs "bitch-sensei's amazing." Sugaya said as he looked back to where they came from the music from the piano still audible "yeah. She never mentioned a thing about being able to play the piano." Isogai said as they all looked back to where they came from "you shouldn't underestimate her by looking at her everyday self." Karasuma said as they advanced "she's as capable as any other outstanding hit men out there. If you reach her class… you have any skill that would be useful in an infiltration assassination mastered. The person teaching you guys about the art of communication is arguably the best honey trap in the world." He said as the students were silenced by the information of their usual bitchy teacher
"Nurufufuf. I suppose there's no need for me to worry, even if I can't move." Korosensei said as the students realized that they were once again reminded of the power of pro assassin's techniques and that even though Korosensei is unable to move the group of teachers and pirates of class E were totally reliable.
In the concert hall, "Hey [smog]. Go patrol the staircase route to see if there aren't any intruders. There's nothing unusual on camera, but just in case." A man standing on the stage with a gun in his mouth said "kill on sight if you find anyone, says the boss." The man he was talking to was shadowed as he stood up and walked out of the concert hall saying "aye aye, sir."
Back in the hotel, "s-sorry about this Chopper." Sugino said as he held the ice pack in place. "Don't say that! It's my job as a doctor to treat injured and sick people!" he said as he finished with a potential cure and told the straw hats around to feed it to the students the two well students who stayed back to help Chopper and the rest of the pirates were putting ice packs on the students heads to cool down their body temperature and to avoid any brain damage from the fever while feeding their peers the medicine at the same time
"Now, there's a reason I had you guys come dressed as you are. As long as we could get past the strict check point… we could act as if we were regular guest." Karasuma informed them
"Guest? Isn't this a hotel where bad guys stay?" as Sugaya questioned "would a bunch of middle school kids be here?" sighing Karausma explained "from what I hear, they're quite a few. The sheltered children of performers and the wealthy these kids who were raised as if they were kings… they stain their hand in immoral deeds while keeping an innocent face." hearing it the pirates [exception of Karma] frowned as they were too familiar with those type of people for they too have met people who thought higher of themselves, namely the stuck up nobles and the celestial dragons "that's right. So you will all pretend to be one of those children…let us all walk as if the whole world were beneath us." Korosensei said as the students paused for a moment before making smug faces as they walked through
Seeing those faces, Robin chuckled as the pirates themselves only emitted strength "yes, yes, that's the way!" Korosensei encouraged as he himself put on his smug stripped face "that's the way… huh? And we don't need you to join them." Karasuma said as he stood behind them with the pirates as he sweat dropped at the faces they were making "however… we still do not know who our enemy is. There's a chance that our enemy may also act as a guest to attack us. Let us be on high alert as we proceed." Korosensei warned them as they advanced
"I guess we couldn't get the entire hotel to cooperate after all. Because I can't mention that we're after ten billion yen." A man with a crazed expression said "you're fully prepared to take care of any unwanted surprises right? [Gastro]?" he asked the man who was previously in the music hall who had a gun in his mouth "no problem, boss." 'Gastro' said as he opened a packet of plum jam "in order to comply with the trade… they need to come through that elevator. At that time, the front desk will contact us. Even if they snuck in without using the elevator, it's a long path to this room. 'Smog' went out on patrol, so he'll find them." 'Gastro informed now poring the plum jam on his gun "we're getting more money from you than from the Japanese government. As pros, we'll be sure to do our jobs properly."
"Kukuku. That's all I ask." The perpetrator grinned as his expression became more crazed expression
Walking past one of the guest that had a body guard with him, Chiba commented "it really does feel like we're one of the guest. Actually, they're trying to avoid looking in our direction. I guess they want to stay away from trouble too." He said quietly not wanting to be heard "or more like it's because of the power radiating off Luffy and his brothers." Kimura said as they all sweat dropped "I thought everyone inside the hotel would be our enemy, but at this rate, we can probably just walk on up to the top floor, huh." Kayano commented as they advanced to the third floor center hall "but just in case, if there are any problems… Karasuma-sensei and Luffy would fight it for us as our vanguard."
Just then Luffy picked up the pace walking past Karasuma towards the guest. As soon as the man's face was visible, Fuwa recognized the face and told Luffy to look out. Luffy continued on as if he didn't hear her. Karasuma taking note of her warning saw the presumed guest take out a spray like device as he pulled up a mask aiming the device right in Luffy's face as he was in the air about to kick the daylights out of man just then Karasuma grabbed Luffy's collar and pulled him back taking in the blast of gas in Luffy's stead. As Karasuma breathed in a handful of the gas Karasuma kicked the device out of the gas user's hands and retreating "How did you know? Without giving off any bloodlust, I kill as i pass by. This is supposed to be my specialty, little Miss Kappa, straw hat boy."
"Mister. You were the one that gave us those complimentary drinks when we first got to the hotel." She said as the other students recalled who he was "that's not much to go on to make a decision. Even if it wasn't in the drinks… there were plenty of other chances to serve the virus?" just as he said that Smog found himself pinned on the floor by Luffy "don't you dare say anything about Thatchy or Sanji's cooking. They would never poison their food, besides the only food they ate that was not from their cooking was the drink that you served us in the morning. Besides you smell of poison, so it was pretty obvious of whom you were" Luffy told him as the pirates were all emitting dangerous auras.
"Kukuku." Smog laughed as Luffy got confused as to why he was laughing until he heard a thud from the back. Turning around he saw Karasuma collapsed on the ground getting off the assassin to help Karasuma up "a poison user… and one that is extremely skilled at practical application." Korosensei said "it's my own special anesthesia for indoor use." Smog started explaining as he got up "breathing it in for a single moment could bring down even an elephant as soon as it's exposed to the air, it breaks down and there's no sign of it."
"Are you the one who spread the virus?" Korosensei asked for a confirmation "you should know that I will never be affected by them. So it's useless to use it to exchange." Smirking he replied "who knows… well… seems that you don't really want to exchange anyway. So this negotiation was a failure, I'm going to go back to tell the boss now." Turning around to be met with a sword in his face as the other pirates and the students were blocking the exit "now, now we can't let you go back now can we? Especially not after you insulted my cooking" Thatch said as he pointed one of his swords to the assassin's neck "so fast!" Smog thought in shock dumbfounded "when did they get to the exit…?!"
"In the instance we come across an enemy immediately close off their escape route, and cut off their line of contact. They've fulfilled all their orders." Karasuma said as he tried to stand up while in his weakened state "you… the moment you saw us, you should've gone back to report it instead of attacking." He said smirking at him "hmph, I'm surprised you can still talk." Smog said as he turned around facing Karasuma who was on the verge of unconsciousness putting his mask back on he said "but, it's ust a bunch of brats. If you die there won't be any orders to follow and they'll probably just run away." He said as the two of them were standing in front of each other not moving
The moment Smog brought out another one of his gas devices he was kneed in the head by Karasuma knocking him out. "He's strong." Smog thought to himself as he fell "that's ot the speed of a human being…" he then smirked "but, you know, mr scary teacher, you're… command… ends, here…" he thought as he saw Karasuma fall before he himself lost consciousness.
Hihi! Sorry for not updating earlier… I went overseas and I have not been feeling well recently. But happy new year everyone! School is going to start soon for me so I may not be able to update regularly but I will do my best so please continue supporting me! I apologise if the second half of the chapter didn't make sense but it was done today when I was not at my best so please forgive me…