"Here I go!" Nagisa took a deep breath and charged towards Koro Sensei.
"Nurufufufu, aren't you being a little bit cocky Nagisa? You really expect to touch Sensei with just 1 Mach?" Koro Sensei laughed and dodged every attack of Nagisa with ease. And yes, Nagisa was able to move with 1 Mach in his usual state now. That was also the reason Nagisa compared fighting Karasuma as fighting against a grade schooler. If Nagisa went all out against Karasuma, Karasuma would be dead within a second.
"Well, might as well try!" Nagisa replied but didn't slow down at all. He was able to catch every single movement from Koro Sensei since he was using his "Hawkeye". This was an ability Nagisa gained from the two years he was training. In this state, Nagisa was able to see everything 10 times slower so catching Koro Sensei's movement wasn't a problem at all.
"Nurufufufu, if you won't use "Overdrive" Sensei could easily dodge your attacks even if I only use half of my speed." Koro Sensei started to brag about himself.
"Isn't that obvious? Unlike you I didn't put all my points into speed after all." Nagisa rolled his eyes. Back in school Koro Sensei told the students, that he was actually really weak since he put all his points in his speed stat. That was why they would've been able to kill Koro Sensei if they grabbed every single tentacle of his.
But Nagisa didn't follow Koro Sensei's footsteps. He had put a few points into every single stat and then focused on eyesight and reaction speed. His regeneration stat was maxed out by itself probably affected by his special talent he had before injecting the cells. And that was also the one advantage he had over Koro Sensei! Koro Sensei didn't have a natural maxed out stat so the only two Koro Sensei maxed out were regeneration and speed.
But at the same time, because Nagisa remained human, his max values were also lower than Koro Sensei's, meaning that even if Nagisa maxed out speed, he wouldn't be able to move at 20 Mach.
"You want to try? Sensei will show you how slow you actually are, nurufufufu." Koro Sensei had the expression on his face when he was looking down on people.
-Got you Koro Sensei. "Overdrive"! –
Just when Koro Sensei suddenly slowed down to mock Nagisa, Nagisa's speed suddenly increased by 10 times! "IEHHHHHH?! That was cheating Nagisa!" Koro Sensei instantly sped up again to gain distance on Nagisa and started to complain.
"Hehe, one down Koro Sensei." Nagisa had an innocent look on his face while holding a twitching tentacle in his hand. "Overdrive", yet another of Nagisa's special abilities, just like "Hawkeye".
Special abilities were abilities that you gained besides from all the stat boost. Just like Koro Sensei's absolute defense mode, his monthly skin shed or his energy beam.
Obviously, Nagisa also gained the absolute defense mode, but "Hawkeye" and "Overdrive" were the two abilities he had developed on his own. While "Hawkeye" boosted his eyesight and reaction speed by 10 times, "Overdrive" boosted all of his stats by 10 times! And the most impressive part was, that Nagisa could use both "Hawkeye" and "Overdrive" at the same time! Which meant that Nagisa's eyesight and reaction time was increased by a 100 times!
The only shortcoming was, it had a time limit. Actually Nagisa had grasped the basics of his ability right from the beginning. The strange feeling he had as if something cracked in his mind and he suddenly became a lot faster and stronger, that was the prototype of his "Overdrive".
Of course Nagisa won't be exhausted just by entering this state for just a second anymore, he expanded the time limit by a lot. There were three stages of aftereffects. If Nagisa stayed in this state for longer than 10 minutes, he wouldn't be able to use any special abilities for the next 12 hours. Longer than 20 minutes, Nagisa will lose all the stat boost he gained from the tentacle cells on top of that, meaning that he will be just a normal human for the next 12 hours. If Nagisa overstepped the limit of 30 minutes that he wouldn't be able to move at all for the next 12 hours!
But ever since Nagisa gained this ability, he never had to cross the limit of 10 minutes per 12 hours. For the most of the time, he actually never got to use it at all!
But if he wanted to win the bet against Koro Sensei now, he might have to cross this limit. He managed to get the first tentacle with a surprise attack. But now that he has done this, Koro Sensei won't leave him any openings anymore.
Even in "Overdrive", Nagisa was only half as fast as Koro Sensei, but for his eyes, Koro Sensei was moving like a snail! Nagisa had to make up for the difference in speed with his eyesight and decision making. He needed to force Koro Sensei into a situation where his speed won't help him anymore. He had to create a situation where he could threaten multiple of Koro Sensei's tentacles at once.
And to be honest, after losing one of his tentacles, Koro Sensei wasn't exactly twice as fast as him anymore. He just had to stick to Koro Sensei and make sure he can't regenerate his tentacle!
10 minutes had past, but Nagisa still wasn't able to get one of Koro Sensei's tentacles, even though Nagisa could make up for the speed differential by predicting Koro Sensei's movements, he still lacked that tiny little bit to actually land a hit on Koro Sensei.
"Nurufufufu, Nagisa-kun, are you really ready to give up using your abilities for the next 12 hours just to win this?" Koro Sensei started to get cocky again and that was a good sign for Nagisa.
"Shut up!" Nagisa growled at him as he missed his attack just by a centimeter again! He couldn't lie, it was actually extremely frustrating!
What Koro Sensei didn't realize was, that he was slowly but steadily getting forced into a corner. After another 7 minutes, Koro Sensei was finally almost in the corner. "Nurufufufu, Nagisa, your about to give up your stat boost for the next 12 hours you do realize that right?"
"Not if I can finish it right now! Take that Koro Sensei!" Nagisa suddenly had a smirk on his face as he threw a bunch of rubber pieces straight at Koro Sensei.
"Anti-me material! How do you still have that!" Koro Sensei screamed out of terror! These pieces thrown by Nagisa in this state were way faster than any bullets a gun could ever shoot, even for Koro Sensei it was hard to dodge them all!
"I stole a knife out of Karasuma-sensei's office." Nagisa explained as he took the chance to close in on Koro Sensei. That was the moment when Koro Sensei realized that he couldn't dodge backwards anymore! He was in a corner! And while the rubber pieces blocked his option to go forward or to the right, Nagisa was already waiting for him on the left-front side. "It's over Koro Sensei!"
But then something Nagisa didn't expected at all happened. A strong glow expanded from Koro Sensei and when it was gone, Nagisa was only able to see Koro Sensei's head hidden in a tiny shield.
"… …" Nagisa stared at Koro Sensei in disbelieve while Koro Sensei stared back at him with his grey and blank expression. "WHAT THE HECK KORO SENSEI!" Nagisa snapped after realizing what Koro Sensei just did! "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR TENTACLES IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY!"
Even if Koro Sensei still had his tentacles, there was no way Nagisa could break though the absolute defense mode. "Sensei never said that Sensei won't use his absolute defense mode." Koro Sensei looked to the side and started to whistle.
"… …" Nagisa was so angry that his body was shivering. Koro Sensei was behaving like a child again, what was the point of making this bet, if he never intended to let Nagisa make it. "You asked for it Koro Sensei…"
Nagisa stepped out of his "Overdrive" and suddenly felt extremely weak. This was the first time in about an entire year that he felt like a normal human again, he stepped over the 20-minute mark just by a few seconds. Of course it didn't mean that Nagisa was weak now, even without his stats from the tentacles cells, with two years of training, Nagisa was a total monster already! The only human around who was still stronger than him would probably be Karasuma.
And then Nagisa slowly walked towards Koro Sensei who wasn't able to move anymore. "N-Nagisa? W-What are you doing!" Koro Sensei had an extremely bad feeling about this.
"I haven't played soccer in a while Koro Sensei." Nagisa had his innocent smile back on his face, "you won't oppose letting me have some fun will you?"
"Yes, if you really want to play soccer just go ahead… ehhh wait Nagisa, you don't mean." Koro Sensei suddenly realized something after agreeing.
"Thanks Koro Sensei, you're the best." Nagisa laughed, ran up and kicked Koro Sensei as hard as he could against the wall.
"WOAHHH!" Koro Sensei scream echoed through the entire training hall. And he knew that this wasn't going to end anytime soon.
"STOP! STOP! SENSEI GIVES UP! YOU WIN NAGISA! STOP!" After Nagisa tried all sorts of things with Koro Sensei, he was finally willing to give up.
"But Koro Sensei, I was only able to get one!" Nagisa said still wearing his innocent smile. "I can't take this win just like that you know?"
"No no no no no, it's totally fine, Sensei was cheating so you win by default!" Koro Sensei had sweat running down his head like waterfalls.
"If you say so." Nagisa shrugged his shoulders but was laughing his ass off on the inside.
"Where did the old Nagisa go… you used to be a good child who had a lot of respect for your teacher…" Koro Sensei started complaining.
"Sensei… you're the one who cheated…" Nagisa rolled his eyes as he picked Koro Sensei up.
"This is the second time you forced me to go into my absolute defense mode in one year Nagisa…" Koro Sensei's pride was extremely hurt.
"Last time… yes, and I'm terribly sorry for that." Nagisa scratched the back of his head and let out an awkward laughter. It was that time when Nagisa suddenly had the idea to assassinate Koro Sensei again and underestimated himself. Since Koro Sensei always had this unbeatable figure ingrained in him, Nagisa went all out right from the beginning. And considering Koro Sensei didn't expect this to happen at all, he had to activate his absolute defense mode.
"But today you could've just let me take one of your tentacles! You could've grown it back in a second after the fight!" Nagisa was still upset about it. All the effort he had put into this fight and it ended with Koro Sensei cheating! "and back to the promise… y-you said I get to meet Akari again."
"Yes… but not as Shiota Nagisa though." Koro Sensei became more serious.
"… Well I kinda expected that." Nagisa had a bitter smile on his face.
"Just not yet Nagisa, at least you get to be close to Kayano-san the entire time now." Koro Sensei answered.
"What do you mean?" Nagisa was surprised, so he was allowed to stay by her side? There was more to it than just simply being able to see her again?
"Kayano-san got too much attention on herself lately… and you know yourself that the terrorist organization is starting to show its face to the public." Koro Sensei explained.
"Akari is being targeted?!" Nagisa got nervous, and Koro Sensei could sense how Nagisa's bloodlust started to get out of control.
"Most likely yes… unit 284, you're getting a new mission!" Koro Sensei suddenly started to talk like a superior. "you're assigned to be Yukimura Akari aka. Mase Haruna personal bodyguard for the next three weaks, Akabane Karma will introduce you to her."
"Bodyguard…" Nagisa started to smile, "Akari… I get to see you again…" Nagisa was so focused on the fact of seeing Akari again that he completely ignored the name Koro Sensei mentioned afterwards. "Wait did you just say!"
"Yes, Akabane Karma."
"Does he know?"
"No, he only knows you as the ace of our department." Koro Sensei replied.
"Understood, what happens after the three weeks?" Nagisa asked.
"After the three weeks, unit 284 will stop existing."
"Huh?"
"Become Shiota Nagisa again, Nagisa." Koro Sensei smiled at Nagisa like a parent would smile at his child seeing him growing up.
"… thank you, Koro Sensei." Nagisa turned his head to hide the tears that were gathering in his eyes.
"Now go to Karasuma, he will explain the details of the mission to you." Koro Sensei said, "Just put me back into my room if you would please."
"Got it Koro Sensei." Nagisa smiled back at him as he walked towards Koro Sensei's room.
"Karasuma-sensei." Nagisa knocked at Karasuma's door and busted in without waiting for an answer.
"Easy Nagisa, these few seconds won't matter will they? You already waited for almost two years." Karasuma had a faint smile on his face.
"How is she?" Nagisa needed to know. In these two years Nagisa wasn't even allowed to get any information about Akari, all he knew is that she was still alive.
"Here you go." Karasuma handed him a folder, "read through the documents, it should give you a brief idea how Kayano-san had been for the last two years."
"Thank you Karasuma-sensei." Nagisa grabbed the folder with both hands. It was incredibly thick and Nagisa could tell that Karasuma made it as detailed as possible.
"Don't waste more time, go prepare yourself." Karasuma gave him a slightly push on his back and send him out of the room before closing the door behind him.
"… Akari." It felt hard to breath after reading through the first few pages of the folder Karasuma gave him.
-She must have felt awful… -
But Nagisa wanted to know so he kept on reading. He got to the part where it said that Akari went back to acting still using the name Mase Haruna but with a small exception. She refused to let people call her Yukimura Akari. And as a result, a lot of people only knew her as Mase Haruna not having ever heard of her real name.
-It's not worth it Akari… it really isn't –
Nagisa felt his heart breaking, he still remembered the request he made "Can I be the only one who calls you by the name Akari.". But thinking about that now… it was so selfish doing that… especially since he left her just a few days later.
Nagisa continued reading. After going back to acting, Akari instantly gained a lot of attention. She still had quite a descend fan base from the old days, so after hearing that she was acting again, she got famous really fast. Especially since she had polished her acting skills in these few years she had gone missing from the stage.
But the next line made Nagisa's hands tremble. It said that Akari only took roles where her character would die at the end of the story. And the only genres she played in were tragedies. Nagisa grit his teeth and pulled himself on his hair. Even though he knew that him leaving and disappearing was the right decision, he couldn't convince himself after reading what Akari had been through.
He kept reading and soon got to the last page. Where there was a quote from a newspaper in there this was also the reason why Akari was being targeted.
Mase Haruna had announced that she was going to get married on her 18th birthday which is going to be in three weeks!
Nagisa heart started to hurt.
-Akari…is getting married… -
Nagisa wasn't able to take the news… he knew that he had no right to be mad about it, but sadness just suddenly overwhelmed him. He didn't want to keep reading anymore and as a fact, he was thinking about rejecting this mission. There was no need for him to appear in front of her anymore.
Well, what do you think about Nagisa's new abilities? Is it fine this way? Or is it way too overpowered? I tried to balance it by giving it a time restriction. And just to explain, Nagisa is nowhere close to Koro Sensei in raw stats.
First of all, Koro Sensei's max stats are way higher than Nagisa's, for example if Koro Sensei could enhance his speed stat to 200, Nagisa would only be able to reach 50 since he kept his human form. Second, Koro Sensei had way more tentacles cells in his body, which also gives him way more points. While Nagisa only had on doze of tentacle cells (he won't get more because if the percentage of tentacle cells overtake the human cells, Nagisa will turn into a monster just like Koro Sensei.) So you could see it like this, while Koro Sensei is level 100, Nagisa is probably only 20 or 30.
But if Nagisa was so much weaker than Koro Sensei, the entire story will turn into Koro Sensei solving everything again. So I decided to give Nagisa the power to match Koro Sensei for a certain amount of time.
Tell me what you think about it! And as always, thank you for your support and I'll see you in the next chapter.