Chapter 14: Relevations

Nagisa couldn't decide what to comprehend first. The fact that the girl from his memories was here or the fact that his past experimenter was here.

"Remember all the great times we had Guinea Pigs?" he said in a sarcastic yet happy tone. "Remember, BEFORE YOU ALL INJURED ME AND RAN AWAY?"

Nagisa remembered that he did indeed injure his captor.
'I remember. I used a knife and almost cut off his neck completely,' Nagisa thought.
Karma remembered his attack on his captor and smirked.
'I remember it quite well. First I tackled him and then I taped tied wasabi packets to his nose,' Karma remembered with devil horns appearing behind his head, smiling.
Kayano remembered her rather violent way to escape.
'I remember it, but not that well. I used a pair of gloves I found and burnt him with multiple fireballs.'

"You all thought you were high and mighty when you attacked me didn't you?!" he started yelling. "My nose, face, neck and brain NEVER WAS the SAME AGAIN! You can still see the effects today!" He screamed, pointing at his heavily scarred face.
"That's why I'm going to take revenge," he started saying.

"BY DOING ALL OF YOUR PUNISHMENTS ALL OVER AGAIN!"

-X-

Nagisa felt sore inside as he strapped to a chair and was forced to watch Sugino's, Okuda's and Kanzaki's suffering. They had needles injected into them, were put through multiple... tests, and were cut by knives over and over again, leaving blood stains on the floor as they were forced to move around.
As Sugino, Okuda and Kanzaki were cut again, a familiar silver haired boy came out.
"Itona," Nagisa managed to squeak out.
Itona just looked at them and walked over to Nagisa's friends. Then, tentacles came out of Itona's hair. He used them to slash Sugino, Okuda and Kanzaki over and over again. Then Itona left the room.

"Wheel them off," the brown haired man called to the crazed Takaoka.
Takaoka just nodded crazily and grabbed Sugino, Okuda and Kanzaki and slammed them onto the cart before strapping their arms and legs in. Nagisa almost screamed watching them get hurt. He could see Karma thrashing around in his binds as well.
When Nagisa looked around for Kayano or Akari as the man called her, he found her sitting down depressed.
Nagisa did remember her from his memories but he couldn't tell if Kayano's other name was truly Akari.

The brown haired man turned around after seeing the other trio getting wheeled out.
"Now," the man said as he started walking towards them. "You three all get, special punishments!"
The man walked over to Karma.
"After all, you did attack me," he continued. "I took care of you three when your guardians abandoned you! And what did you repay me with? Pain! Injuries! Serious Romance Problems!"
Nagisa was completely silent. He expected the former two things to be said but Romance Problems?
"Ha," Karma mocked. "So because we ruined your life, you're going to make us feel pain cause you're a sore loser, Yangisawa?"

Yangisawa smiled evilly.
"Oh yes, but because you said that," Yangisawa pointed over to Nagisa and Kayano. "You get to choose which one gets to begin first!"
Karma went silent at that. He couldn't choose. They were both of his friends, technically best friend and semi-friend.
"Hmm?" Yangisawa mocked. "Can't choose? I'll choose for you then!"
Yangisawa walked over to Nagisa and grabbed him by the collar of his clothes. He also grabbed Kayano by the collar.
"Since you can't choose neither, HOW ABOUT I DO THEM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME!"
Karma looked horrified.
"No, I CAN CHOOSE NOW! PICK M..." Karma yelled in a selfless act of desperation.
"Time for FUN Guinea Pigs!" Yangisawa interrupted, taking Nagisa and Kayano at the same time and walking off to a nearby room. For such a thin man, he was quite strong.

-X-

Yangisawa firstly threw Nagisa and Kayano in a dark room. There was complete silence.
"H-how are you d-doing?" Nagisa said nervously in an attempt to break the ice.
"Fine," Kayano replied blankly.
"Is your real name Akari Yukimara?" Nagisa asked with a bit more courage, attempting to get some answers.
There was just complete silence.
"Yes. Please refrain from using it," she replied forcefully, like she never wanted to answer it in the first place.
Nagisa just stayed silent after that.

In truth, Kayano/Akari was so nervous about being in a room with just her and Nagisa in it whilst also being infuriated that Yangisawa was still here, she forgot who she was talking to. When she finally realized that, she started panicking even more.

The door opened.

"Come on Guinea Pigs, time for some FUN!"

-X-

The fact that Karma was forced to watch his best friend and semi-friend get tortured and experimented on made Karma curse himself. Why couldn't he choose? He couldn't just sit and watch this!
He attempted to move his tied up hands around to his knife sheaths. It didn't work. Thinking about his past experiences he remembered something that could work. Drawing a flame with his fingers before pushing them forward with his palms, the rope broke and Karma's hands were free.
He grabbed his knives and cut off the rest of his binds and snuck off through the building.

Meanwhile, Nagisa and Kayano weren't having the best of times. Yangisawa laughed as he watched them suffer. They were being injected with so many needles while being slashed from time to time, they had almost lost the will to live. Eventually, after what seemed to be many hours, they were thrown back into the dark room, Yangisawa saying that it was time for the red head's turn.

"Kayano," Nagisa said nervously. "Are you all right? We have to be okay to get out of here!"
'That's Nagisa,' Kayano/Akari thought to herself. 'Always keeping his eye on his target.'
"Kayano?" Nagisa asked, worried that Kayano was still mad at him.
"Hmm yes?" Kayano replied absentmindedly.
"I'm sorry about before," Nagisa said. "I was poking into your life too much."
Kayano snapped back to reality, she remembered what she had done before.
"No, no, no," Kayano/Akari began explaining. "I was thinking about something in the past then. I didn't realize I was talking to you."
"Oh, thank goodness!" Nagisa replied relieved. "I thought you were going to hate me for what I said."

"Hey guys," a familiar voice whispered from above.
"Karma?" Nagisa and Kayano/Akari said in sync.
"Come on! I'll pull you up!" Karma said in a hurried tone.
As Karma pulled up Nagisa, the trio could hear an angry voice from out the door.
"AKABANE!"
They all realised it was Yangisawa and Nagisa got pulled up faster than before. Kayano got pulled up next, there wasn't much vent room in the vent but they managed to pull her up anyway.
"Oi! Guinea Pigs! Because the red Pig escaped, IT'S YOUR TURN INSTEAD AGAIN!"
They just managed to close up the vent cover just as the door slammed open!
The trio lay there, holding their breaths hoping for the best.
"Hmm?" mused Yangisawa. "I guess we're playing some hide and seek then huh?"
Karma began slowly and quietly shuffling through the tight vents. Nagisa and Kayano/Akari followed. The plan somehow went off without a hitch. Karma led them, with luck towards a vent hole that accessed the outside world.

"Are you sure we should be doing this target?"
"Trust me Karasuma, if what Sugino, Okuda and Kanzaki was saying was true, we need to rescue them now!"

Nagisa's eyes lit up in happiness. Karma used his fireballs to burn through the vent in a rush and they fell to the grassy ground. A familiar yellow headed creature saw this and zoomed off to help them.
"Karasuma!" Korosensei called to Karasuma.
Karasuma looked over and was shocked. He too quickly dashed over to them.
"Are you alright?"
"H-he's co-coming," Nagisa managed to stumble out, the things in the needles starting to take hold.
"He's right," Karasuma said sternly. "We should get going in case your captor comes and finds us and takes you back."
"Wha-what about Mr-Mr T-Takaoka?" Kayano/Akari asked shakily, who like Nagisa, was succumbing to the effects of the injections.
"He's being… attended to," Korosensei said, his smile getting bigger. "Fufufufufu."

They began making their way down the mountains. Korosensei bolted off with Nagisa and Kayano/Akari at the highest speed they could handle and Karma, who wasn't experimented at all with, walked down, talking along the way.

"What happened there?"
"Experiments, torture. He made me watch them both suffer,"
"Who is this He anyway?"
"None of your concern,"
"Explain what happened in detail if you can please,"
"I guess I can't avoid answering it can I?"
Karma went on and explained what happened in horrifying detail.
Even Karasuma was quite shaken for such a serious man by Karma's story.

Flashback (Kayano/Akari)

"Aguri-chan!" Kayano, now Akari called out to her dying sister.
"FORGET HER CHILD!" a loud voice called to her. "I AM YOUR NEW GUARDIAN!"
Akari managed to break free from the brown hair man's grip and ran over to her dying sister, a sword in her chest, thrown by the brown haired man by 'accident'.
"Don't worry," a voice said from next to her. "I'll help her and take care of her. I promise you'll see her again."
Akari looked at the man. He was pale, had black hair and had multiple 'tentacles' as they were called, coming from him.
"Do you promise?" she said in a small voice.
"I promise," he replied softly before hugging the sobbing girl and disappearing with her sister.
The brown haired man walked up to Akari, growling.
"THAT IS IT!" the brown haired man screamed at her. "I TOOK CARE OF YOUR SISTER AND YOU BUT YOU TREAT ME LIKE THIS? I SAY NOW YOU GET A BIG PUNISHMENT GUINEA PIG!"

The punishments were bad. Needles, slashings, whippings. All by herself or with a blackish, blueish haired girlish boy named Nagisa. They were forced to do 'missions'. Take out people that their captor didn't like, get information. Essentially being forced to be assassins. But then more people came. There was a red head, a girl with black hair with a purple tint to it and a lot more. She managed to see them somewhat but she had escaped a while after the red head did.
On her escape, she saw around 22 other people in a room with lots and lots of beds.

When she got out, she found that the pair of gloves she had worn up to now had made her magic stronger and more powerful physically. She then went off and made herself famous in shows and theatres by being the only woman in the business. Known as Haruna Mase, she performed dazzling stunts, never made a mistake in productions and was just generally famous as the only woman in the business.

Then one day, she received a letter saying that she was eligible to be a part of the educational program called the 'Towns' program. It was like a better version of school. And so Akari entered the test. She passed with flying colours and made her way towards the top 'Town'. She was known there as Kayano Kaede. She couldn't exactly come in as Haruna Mase could she?
One day she received a letter.

'Hopefully this reaches the right person. Hopefully Koro checked out the area thoroughly,'
Akari was wondering who was the sender of this letter but continued on.
'So, how is my little sister doing? Hopefully well! Anyway, Koro says I shouldn't put too much into this letter because someone else might get the letter or someone else could trace us but let me just tell you Akari that I am okay. When Koro promised you apparently, he meant it. But I should leave it at that. Maybe we'll be able to see each other again!
From Aguri.'

Akari was stunned at the short letter. Her sister was still alive! Unfortunately after that, Akari/Kayano began underperforming and soon got dumped into Town E. It was there she met someone named Nagisa, just like that boy from long ago. It was also there she met a yellow tentacle creature. She named him Korosensei because of the name she heard from the letter that her sister called the tentacle man that promised her from long ago. She made up a lame excuse to have support for the name and she could see the creature's slight shock at the name.

Flashback End

"Kayano," Nagisa said to Kayano. "Are you alright?"
"Hmm?" Kayano mumbled, still half-engrossed in her flashback.
"You've been mumbling in your sleep!" Nagisa said in a jokingly tone. "We're back in Town E again."
Kayano woke up in a flash hearing what Nagisa said.
"What did you hear?" she said, hoping that he hadn't heard anything private.
"Well…" Nagisa replied nervously.
"I heard some things about someone named Aguri-chan, a promise, punishments," Nagisa went pale at the punishments part. "I also heard your real name muttered a few times, a letter, my name a couple of times, Haruna Mase, Korosensei and Korosensei's other name that I've heard somewhere, Koro."
Kayano went red when Nagisa mentioned his own name being muttered around a few times and also the fact that he had heard her muttering in the first place.
"Anyway, we need to make leave soon and get our stuff," Nagisa said becoming sadder in his tone. "You need to escape, in case I lose."
"What do you mean lose?" Kayano questioned, getting a tugging feeling in her heart that something bad was going to happen.
"Remember Takaoka?" Nagisa explained. "Karasuma was challenged by him to control Town E and I was chosen to fight against him."
"But why? And what do you mean take control?"
"Since you have been asleep for two days I'll fill you in quickly,"

"The Asanos are no longer in power, Yangisawa is. In the form of Shiro."

"WHAT?"