Can I just clarify, I am careful about how much I give away, how I store my chapters, not having my name in my username....
...I'm just a paranoid idiot. (:
God
A change of scenery can do you good when trying to learn something new, or productively working on an existing skill. That's why the Octopus deemed it necessary for them all to sit outside to study for the midterms. (Is it already that time already?) The thought leaves him with a bitter taste.
"Aww, c'mon Nagisa, don't be so uptight, look at all this nature around us," Kaede says with wonderment, extending her arms and dancing in a circle. Nagisa snorts but smiles fondly. Oh shit, he's supposed to hate her. She threatened his fam- eh, who gives a shit right now?
"Yes, what lovely dirt,"
She rolls her eyes and runs ahead of him, to talk to Hinano. Nagisa stares after her before diverting his attention to the gaps in the trees. "Somewhere else?" Comes a voice from the right, dripping with friendly mocking.
"Shut-up Karma," Nagisa doesn't even turn to look at the redhead, but Karma still wants that attention, so he feels a tap on his shoulder.
"What?" Nagisa snaps, but Karma just gives him the same look one would give a non-threatening Chihuahua. (I Could kill your entire family and still have time for three energy drinks, you sonofabi-)
But Karma looks like stone, standing in place motionless and sporting the same expression of amusement. Nagisa's taken aback, so he turns to stare ahead, only to find a familiar scene with everyone else. Frozen as though someone had paused them. Nagisa hesitantly takes a step forward, the twigs crunching underfoot.
Nothing happens. Another step.
He weaves his way between the statues of his friends, staring at each one intently and confused. None of them seem disturbed in the least.
Suddenly, there's a noise in his ears, a blur in his eyes, and a buzz in his head as everything starts again. Sugino gives him a strange look, and usually he'd threaten to slap it off his face, but he continues looking around.
"Nagisa? When did you get here? Is this another one of your fancy tricks like the fire again?" Sugino rambles, blinking at the shorter. Nagisa shushes him.
"Koro-sensei?" Nagisa says, staring dead on at the Octopus, who looks shaken up, more-so than usual. Paler, too.
"W-what was that?" Octopus asks, and it's then, randomly, that Nagisa remembers something. His daily tutoring with the mother-fucking principal/God. Shit.
An appropriate amount of time earlier
Nagisa speeds down the corridor, feeling absoloutly no need to prolong this inevitable, undesirable experience. The walls are cascaded in a greyscale like theme and shadow where the windows don't reach. Nor the joy or happiness.
The principals door stands in all its glory, mocking him with its unfortunate familiarity. For some unknown reason, it strikes a sense of doom into even him, with it's grey plastic coated wood and ominous size difference to all the other doors.
He opens it without any hesitation, though.
Principal Gakuho smiles at him, and Nagisa smiles back, however half-hearted it may be.
"Ah, nice to see you've come, I wasn't expecting you to climb down the mountain to see little old me," The principal says with a (anime) glint in his eye, that Nagisa can't exactly read very well. (The anime comparisons are awesome and I'll stop when I die.)
"I skipped," Nagisa blurts out, ignoring any alarm signals that go off in his head. Just because of the threatening presence, doesn't mean he'll change his entire personality. In his opinion, you can tell a lot about a person from how much they change in the face of someone more powerful.
He refuses to be the person that changes. Even if it kills him (It probably will), he'll stand by his pride.
"I don't want, nor need to know, the reason behind that... decision,"
Its one thing, for Asano to not kill him where he stands (because heaven knows he can), it's another for him to let someone get away with thinking it's their decision in what they do. He's usually a very controlling person, from what Nagisa has gathered, or maybe Nagisa is the exception.
Maybe Nagisa has read him all wrong, like a misinterpreted book. Maybe Nagisa can't even read. (That's too existential, please stop). Nagisa coughs awkwardly, he thinks he catches Asano doing the same.
"I've called you here to discuss something of great, no, exceptional importance, so I hope you hear me out," Asano intwines his finger and rests his elbows on his desk in a threatening manner. "I am God,"
It's not all surprising, but it's definitely of great impact, leaving Nagisa's eyebrows raised. It's also very interesting, and the cogs whirr in his head, all of the puzzle peices in place. A silence falls over them, an awkwardness about it as Nagisa comprehends the information and Asano waits patiently.
"I suppose you'll tell me to keep this a secret or you'll kill me?" Nagisa says, only half joking. He knows it's illogical to fear death, at least from this man, who, while having the ability to get rid of Nagisa, would probably never waste the effort or have an incentive to. Hopefully, it'll cut through the tension.
"No. You see, when I was your age, both of my parents were killed, father in a war, mother burned at the stake for witchcraft. That's when I heard a beep, and my life changed. I am currently 327 years old." Asano explains, and Nagisa's mouth makes an O shape as he begins to slot the jigsaw peices in place. Asano has a system. He has a system. Asano had tragedy. He had tragedy. Asano is God. Nagisa is well on his way.
"I am God, but I'm getting old. I just want to run my school, maybe do it right this time. Watch my son grow up successfully." He cracks his fingers, then places them on his desk, "I need a new God."
And Nagisa understands. He understands all too well. Tired. Exhaustion is a disease, rotting you away from the inside. He knows.
"Wait, what about your son?" The question comes from nowhere, but he finds himself genuinely curious. Asano acknowledges it with some thought, while he knows the answer, he's thinking of how to explain it.
"Nobody from the direct family can become God, too. It's just they way it is, maybe a cheat. You have to have tragedy, but why would someone who's the son of a God have tragedy if his father can just stop it from happening?"
And in some twisted sort of way, it makes sense. Everything makes sense, but yet it's so far fetched, Nagisa has a hard time believing it. He smirks.
"So what now?"
"Now, I'll teach you how to become a proper God."
*intense breathing* "One chapter at a time" *more intense breathing* "Don't cry, it's just one chapter at a time,"