The bell tolled the start of the class day, the students of Isekai High School Class T2 still waiting for their teacher to arrive.
"If he's not here in fifteen minutes, can we leave," asked a boy in the back, a couple students snorting at the joke while other students sighed.
"I told you, it's all Marinette's fault," snarled a blond girl in the front of the classroom, turning to look at the two girls sitting in the second row on the other side of the room.
"It's called Champions class for a reason Chloe. We need to know how to actually fight monsters if we are going to be heroes in another world," the dark haired girl with a pale complexion, Marinette argued. "You can't exactly cheat an actual battle like you do for the written assignments Professor Nooroo gives us, Chloe."
Some of the classmates Ooed at the response, Chloe scowling.
"It's not cheating, we're supposed to work on the written assignments with our teams."
"Or just copy off their answers."
A boy sitting across from Chloe, whispered something to her, both of them glancing back at Marinette before the boy left the classroom. Chloe gave Marinette one last glare before turning back around in her seat. Marinette harrumphed, crossing her arm, and slumping in her seat as she continued to wait for the teacher.
"Actually, you can cheat a battle."
The students turned to see a new student lounging in the back, with his feet on the desk.
"How," Marinette asked?
"Simple, choose where you have the battle. Dungeons can't really be helped since that's enemy territory, but once you establish your base, you can set the homefield to your advantage."
"Isn't that more like a strategic maneuver?"
The student shrugged, his long dark hair flopping with his shoulders.
The door in the front of the class suddenly slammed open. Their red-haired goddess and professor of New World Economics marched into the classroom, the blond haired boy following behind her until he reached his seat and the teacher stood at the podium.
"Good Morning class," she sang, her voice very perky for the morning, but in a melodious way, like a pleasant alarm clock.
"Good Morning Professor Tikki."
"Your new teacher was supposed to arrive and explain things, but as Adrien informed me, you are currently without a teacher." She looked down to the blond haired boy, Adrien, and smiled. Adrien smiled back before smiling at Chloe, who returned the pleasantry. Marinette scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"What happened to Professor Nooroo," asked an auburn haired girl sitting next to Marinette.
"Unfortunately, your first dungeon test yesterday gave him too much anxiety. We will be opening another block for him to teach Geography and Preparedness. Meanwhile, the school has agreed to host a new teacher as sort of an experiment. As soon as we can find him. For now though I'll supervise your class." Professor Tikki turned to the podium, pulling a clipboard.
"Team A," she called out, Chloe standing up along with Adrien, a girl sitting beside Chloe, and another girl sitting behind Chloe.
"All four members of Team A are accounted for," announced Chloe.
"Team B."
Marinette stood up along with the girl next to her and a boy sitting next to Adrien. Team A sat down, the girl members scoffing at the second team.
"All three members of Team B are here," said Marinette before her group sat back down.
"Team C."
A dark haired boy with a forest green cloak stood up, adjusting his glasses. A girl and two other boys stood up as well.
"All four members of Team C are present and accounted for."
"And Team D."
A blond haired girl dressed in wizard robes made of pink stood up, followed by another female wizard in all black, another girl in colorful attire and a boy with the bare minimum for armor.
"All four members of Team D are present and punctual!"
Professor Tikki nodded, going over the list and looking at the classroom as the final team sat down.
"And you sir in the back, I don't believe you were part of any team?"
The class turned back to the new student, who looked to be trying to take a nap. The boy that had been sitting next to the leader of Team C smacked the student's boots off the desk, startling him awake.
"Present!"
A couple of students snickered, Professor Tikki rolling her eyes.
"Are you sure you're in the right class? I was informed of no new student joining Class T2."
The student looked around him, pulling a paper off the bench beside him.
"It says I'm to be in the class right now," he held up the paper. Professor Tikki marched down the center aisle and took the paper. She scanned over the paper before looking back at the student.
"Is this some kind of joke to you?"
The student shrugged, "No one's laughing yet, so I would probably say no for now."
Professor Tikki huffed, grabbing the student by the tip of his pointed ear and dragging him to the front of the classroom.
"Ow, ow, my ear, ow, oW!"
"Professor Tikki…" the pink wizard called after the two, looking concerned.
"Oh stop whining, I know your fake ear doesn't hurt."
The student stopped his complaining, glancing up at professor Tikki with a cocky grin.
"You caught me Teach."
In a black puff of smoke, the student was replaced by a demon, thick dark horns protruding from his hair, his ears long and pointed more outwards than an elvish point. He had four dark wings, but no sign of a tail or any typical demon feature they had studied. He stood several heads taller than Professor Tikki, her angelic wings dwarfed compared to the demon's.
Immediately, every student stood ready, weapons in hand. Professor Tikki sighed, letting go of the demon's ear.
"Students, this is your new Champions Teacher, the former Demon Lord Plagg."
The students watched their new teacher as he stood in the front, watching Professor Tikki as she sat in his former seat.
"Are you going to leave yet," he groaned?
"Based on your performance this morning, I'm a little skeptical about you actually teaching a class."
They stared at each other for a few moments, Plagg the first one to relent.
"Fine! We'll go to the cave."
"Excuse me, but we did our first test of the cave last class. Today we were supposed to write our reflections," announced Chloe.
Plagg looked down at her.
"Does this look like a face that cares?" He circled his face with his hand.
Chloe looked to Adrien and the girl on her right for answers as he continued to stare at her.
"The answer is no. F on that quiz. Let's go everyone!"
Students jumped out of their seats to follow, Professor Tikki bringing up the rear.
"What do you think Alya," Marinette asked her seat partner as they walked together. Their other group member slowed his pace from walking with Adrien to join their group discussion.
"Hard to say. He seems lazy, but he is already starting us in the cave so maybe a bit more hands on."
"Are you running an analysis," asked their boy teammate, the girls nodding.
"Any thoughts Nino," asked Marinette.
"Well, he was giving us advice before we knew he was a teacher, so he definitely has experience."
"Right, so he definitely knows his stuff and may be more into practical application than theoretical like Professor Nooroo," added Alya.
Marinette nodded, crossing her arms, "Personally I would have wanted to learn more about that 'cheat' he mentioned earlier if Adrien hadn't brought Professor Tikki."
The group looked over to Chloe's group, Chloe and the girl that sat behind her, a brunette with olive eyes, hung on Adrien, their group's dutiful orange haired healer following after them.
Marinette gagged, Alya snorting.
"Could a guy be even more of a white knight flirt," asked Alya?
"Don't tempt him, he might try," argued Marinette.
Nino just sighed.
"How do you put up with a roommate like that," asked Marinette?
"Why do you always ask me that?"
"Because I still don't understand."
Nino just shook his head, the class arriving at the cave.
Plagg examined the entrance, around the edges and on the floor, "Ah, angel runes?"
He looked up to Professor Tikki for confirmation, the woman saying nothing.
"Whelp, definitely not demon runes. Alright class, first lesson."
The class gathered around, waiting to hear what wisdom he would impart to them.
"Go in there, and don't die."
The class stared at him blankly. Professor Tikki looked ready to scold him again when Marinette spoke up.
"That's it? No clear one room then return or collect five goblin horns?"
Plagg smacked his face with his hand, dragging it down his face.
"Does it look like I can set that kind of thing up if I'm a demon? I can't change the runes!" He touched the wall, bright white text illuminating quickly before disappearing.
"The rules state to finish the dungeon before parties can be returned, so just finish the dungeon and don't die. I can't enter to help you, and unless your other teacher wants to help…" He rolled his head to look at Professor Tikki, who stood with her arms crossed.
"Which she apparently doesn't, you'll have to take of your teams yourself."
"So beat the boss and we can come back?"
"Essentially. That's what the rune says."
Marinette nudged Alya, a couple other students stepping forwards to read the runes."
"At least one team has to defeat the final boss before everyone can return," said the leader of Team C.
The students looked to their new teacher for further elaboration.
"Yeah, that."
Everyone looked at the runes then back to their groups, debating who would go first. Although there wasn't much debate when Marinette quickly spoke up again.
"Easy enough, let's go."
She entered the cave, her group following after her. Plagg smiled, looking over at Tikki who did not look impressed.
"Who wants to go next."
"Why are we going first? We failed the last cave test," whisper screamed Nino as he strummed his mandolin, lighting their path with enchanted notes.
"Because, the only reason we failed was because of the leftovers from Team A. And like Plagg said, we need to set the field to our advantage," answered Marinette, pausing before reaching the first mob.
Alya and Nino looked at each other, then shuffled next to Marinette.
Alya stepped in front casting a screen over the doorway to protect the intruders from seeing them.
"Five average slimes and one goblin. You could probably take him out with a couple arrows and a buff from Nino. Slimes will be tricky if we don't want to waste your arrows."
Marinette frowned, watching the slimes hop around the room while the goblin patrolled. She looked to her hips where her trusty crossbows rested next to her pouches of items she gathered for alchemy class.
"Got anything in there M," asked Nino, strumming the lights closer.
Marinette opened her pouches, searching through small vials and jars until she found a powder.
"Alya, green slimes are plant based, correct?"
Alya nodded, smiling as she saw the content Marinette held.
"Alya distract the goblin until we deal with the slimes. Nino, rage song and a buff if you can manage."
Nino grinned, his tune changing to a familiar buff song. A bright yellowish-orange light encased Marinette as she began applying the power to her arrows.
Alya dropped the screen, sending out the illusion of a female goblin to keep the patrolling one distracted.
"Alya behind Nino. Nino, rage song!"
Her teams moved into position, Nino switching the song as Marinette finished her new arrows.
The slimes immediately rushed towards her, Marinette holding her position until the slimes were closely clustered. She shot the hoard with one of her arrows, the weapon piercing two slimes before exploding the plant based slimes in a fire.
"Alya!"
Alya dropped the illusion as Marinette got into position, firing another arrow through the goblin's armpit. A second arrow to the neck and the monster exploded into sparkles, leaving small bits of loot.
"Pound it!" The team gave each other a fist bump before going to collect their loot. Marinette picked up the coins from the goblin, tossing them to Nino and Alya before going for the goblin claw and horn.
"You know you can take some money too, just because Nino and I don't need the monster parts doesn't mean that should only be your share," insisted Alya as she tried to sneak a couple coins with the slime residue.
"I'll just take from the bosses when we're strong enough then." Marinette grabbed only the slime, adding it to a small jar from her pouch.
"Next room," announced Nino, already heading to the next tunnel while strumming back the lights.
The group moved into the tunnel, only to hear chattering voices coming from behind.
The girls sighed at the familiar whining, following after Nino into the tunnel before Team A caught up.
"I know you're there Marinette! Only a losing team would take so long to beat the first room."
Marinette huffed, saying nothing as their group continued down the tunnel.
"Listen to me when I'm talking to you! Do you just expect us to wait 10 minutes for them to respawn?"
Marinette clenched her hands, looking at her team for approval to sock Chloe in the vocal cords, only for Alya to be mocking Chloe's voice while Nino tried not to laugh. Marinette put a fist to her mouth, the trio continuing to the next room. Five goblins this time.
"Don't think you can get away with ignoring me! I'm not done talking to you yet!"
The noise drew the attention of the goblins, curious ones starting to head for their tunnel. Alya quickly put up a screen, confusing those who got close enough.
The group breathed a sigh of relief as Chloe's group approached them. Marinette stood in the middle of the tunnel, blocking Team A from going further.
"Move aside Marinette and I'll show you how a real hero gets things done."
"A real hero doesn't push aside smaller teams for the spotlight."
"Is that what you think? Real heroes push aside small heroes for their safety."
"Is that what they call it? Because I don't feel safe with you yelling when there are goblins nearby."
"Because you could barely handle one on your own? Since you only have an archer for combat damage?"
Marinette scowled saying nothing. Sure their team wasn't the most optimized, with an illusion mage, a bard, and archer, but they made it work.
"Don't worry, we can handle this," assure Adrien, the two other girls backing him up.
Marinette turned her glare to Adrien, the boy not shrinking back as he leaned against his bo staff. Between that and Chloe's sword, they were effective for close range combat with their healer and shapeshifting wizard as a bonus. Team B was better for long range attacks.
"Fine, be my guest," Marinette stepped aside.
Chloe preened as she stepped forward. They allowed their shapeshifter to enter first as a goblin, distracting the enemy from the tunnel. The other three members of Team A got in position, their healer hiding behind a rock while Chloe and Adrien were ready to charge.
Marinette surveyed the room from their spot, noticing there were two tunnels leading out of the cave. There was one on the right, and one from above, looking like it may have been an entrance to a mine.
Marinette elbowed Alya and Nino, gesturing up to the second entrance. She then gestured to her arrows, spreading them out. Nino and Alya nodded in agreement, not noticing they had caught Adrien's attention to their planning. He looked up to see the entrance Marinette had been staring before.
"CHARGE!" Announced Chloe, rushing into the goblin mob. Adrien stumbled, trying to refocus before following after her.
"Lila!"
Their shapeshifting wizard transformed into her preferred fighting form, a three-tailed fox girl with a wicked punch. She knocked one goblin onto another as Chloe stabbed with her sword from behind.
Adrien whacked one of the goblins with his staff, before hitting another goblin's diaphragm with the butt end. He was about to redirect the goblins to Chloe's sword when he saw movement not of his team's colors overhead. Nino was playing a melody that made note looking platforms for his group to step on, Team B easily reaching the overhead tunnel.
"Adrien!"
Adrien turned to see a goblin heading towards him, only to be shot in the neck by one of Marinette's red feathered arrows. He looked up to thank her, only for Team B to be gone.
"We are going down a secret tunnel, we are going down a secret tunnel, super secret," Nino sang as he led the group down their chosen path. The sounds of battle had dwindled to nothing and Team A didn't seem to be following them. Rather than wait out Team A's battle and the time allotted for the enemy to respawn, Team B ultimately decided to try the higher tunnel.
"Any idea where this leads," asked Alya
After their initial entry, the tunnel seemed to fall apart with rocks and beams partially blocking the path. There had been no rooms with monsters, or any warning if there was trouble ahead. The odd thing was the tunnel was occasionally lit by luminous stones that were often found in mob areas.
"Nope, but that's what makes dungeoning fun."
Marinette was quite excited, no annoying Team A, practical application of dungeoning as learned from their Monster's class.
"Super secret, yeah, oh so secret tunNOLLL!" Nino's voice dropped, Marinette and Alya rushed forward, only to fall in the hole after Nino.
The tunnel dropped down for a bit before it started zigging and zagging all over the place. At one point Marinette was sure she could hear another team's voice nearby, but they were pulled away with the descending tunnel.
The tunnel then dropped down again before rolling up, as if to launch them. Nino had caught the end, blocking himself from launching over the edge. Except two girls rolled after him, pushing the three into the cavern where Team A faced off against the boss, a giant goblin. Luckily they landed in a river right behind his throne.
Marinette barely had any time to recover her breath when she was yanked out of the water by her head fitting in the palm of the monster.
"Now I got your precious teammates," he mocked.
Marinette looked over to see Alya's head in his other fist, her staff not on her person.
Marinette looked down to Chloe, Team A at a standstill.
"Kill him already," Marinette yelled.
"But…" Chloe hesitated, her sword almost ready to strike, but not there. Their team looked tired, their healer trying to heal from her place in the back as they waited for their leader to decide what to do.
Marinette looked around, Nino behind the throne holding his mandolin and two pieces of Alya's staff. His mandolin had been badly damaged from the fall, so a lullaby was out. Marinette couldn't draw more arrows without the goblin noticing. She still had one loaded in her crossbow from their original plan in the previous mob room.
"Fine, you win, just let them go," announced Chloe as she dropped her sword, Adrien following suit with his staff while Lila returned to her human form.
The goblin smirked, "Very good."
He started lowering Alya to the ground.
"Hey, let them both go," yelled Adrien.
"Both? I think I'll keep one until you leave as a little insurance policy."
Marinette looked to Alya, who looked completely terrified as she touched the ground. Marinette winked to reassure her as Alya stumbled with her footing. As she ran to Chloe's side, Marinette reached in her bag and pulled out the fire powder and plant jelly from before, breaking their containers so they exploded in the goblin's face.
The goblin king dropped Marinette to fend off the burns. Chloe quickly caught on as she grabbed her sword to stab the giant goblin, Marinette quickly applied something to her arrow as she ran to Nino. He dropped his weapons to get into a crouch position, hands held together. Nino launched his team captain into the air, Marinette turning to face the backside of the goblin giant as she readied her arrow. Chloe slashed the goblin in the gut, the monster rolling back into his seat so his charred and oozing face looked directly at Marinette.
She took her shot, the arrow lodging in the monster's eye before blowing up half its face.
Marinette let herself fall, Alya rushing up to catch Marinette with her body. Alya cradled her teammate, Marinette wincing as her face blistered from her earlier explosion.
Everyone paused, looking to the monster for its reaction. It suddenly combusted into sparkles, leaving behind its treasure and monster drops.
"Since none of you died, you all pass," announced Plagg, the class gathered outside of the dungeon. Some wearier than others. The healers were exhausted, leaving Alya and Nino to support Marinette who had taken the most damage.
"None of them died is a pass?! At least one person in every party is gravely injured," scolded Professor Tikki.
"But they aren't dead, that's what counts in another world. You win ultimate reincarnation if you don't die."
Tikki scowled, but didn't argue.
"Everyone needs to be fully recovered before going into the dungeon again," she said before she marched back to the school.
Plagg scratched the hair between his horn as he watched her leave, "Goddesses, am I right? All about safety and the rules. Well, screw the rules. Rules don't make leaders, they make followers. And heroes aren't followers. Unless you want to be, you do you."
Plagg smiled at the class, everyone dead on their feet. The demon sighed, leaning against the dungeon side.
"Want to know why it's so hard?"
Everyone managed to move their heads to give their attention.
"Doing dungeons? Everyone's their own dungeon. Being a demon, I modeled all my dungeons after me and my weakness to make me stronger. That's what dungeons do, point out your weakness."
He pointed towards his class.
"You got to look at yourselves to find your weakness and overcome it."
"How do we beat our weakness, if we don't even know what it is," asked the leader of Team C, his glasses cracked on one lens.
Plagg looked at the group, his gaze stopping on Team A and B.
"I don't know. Not my problem."
He stood up and walked off.
"Your homework is to learn your weakness before next class, search your memories, you'll figure something."
He waved them off, as the school bell rang, signaling the end of class.
"I can't tell if he's a good teacher or just lazy," grumbled Alya as she and Nino hauled Marinette back to campus, following the class at a slower pace.
"He's a demon, you can't expect him to teach normal or give normal homework," argued Nino.
"Which is why we are going to cheat the homework," said Marinette.
Their group stopped, looking at their leader.
"You heard him, search your memories for your weakness. Except we don't have our memories while we are here."
"Yeah, something about not hindering development and biases from our previous life. The Principal told us on the first day of school," said Nino.
"But as we can see, Plagg doesn't care about rules or cheating for that matter."
"You can't exactly cheat memories," said Alya.
Marinette raised what would have been an eyebrow if it wasn't burned off and smiled, "not exactly memories, but a cheat sheet to them."
Both Alya and Nino groaned. Leave it to their leader to think of something totally illegal to help them with homework.
The dorms of Isekai High School were on a class basis, divided into sides for boys and girls with the common ground being the kitchen and dining area. A head boy and head girl were appointed for each dorm to monitor suspicious night activities. So the girls of Team B shouldn't have been that surprised when Nino showed up to the school late that night with the head boy aka his roommate, Adrien, following.
"Why is he here," hissed Marinette, trying to make sure her voice stayed at a low volume.
"Trespassing on school property at night isn't allowed, your team could get in trouble for this," said Adrien.
"Then report us already if you're so keen to get us in trouble."
"Marinette," said Nino, putting a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Please hear him out. It's my fault he caught me anyways."
Marinette closed her eyes, taking a deep breath before looking at Adrien to explain. Alya and Nino looked to Adrien as well, Nino trying to give an encouraging smile.
Adrien looked away, rubbing the back of his neck, "Thanks for the save today, with the goblins. And the battle with the goblin giant, I think we were in a bit over our heads with that one."
Marinette raised a growing eyebrow up, "Your welcome, I guess."
Adrien smiled, Marinette slightly understanding why he had his teammates fawning over him if he smiled at them like that. Slightly.
"As thanks, I won't tell the teachers what you're up to."
Marinette looked to Alya, who shrugged. Seemed like a reasonable deal.
"Ok, thanks."
"But I want in."
"What?!"
Nino and Alya hurriedly covered Marinette's mouth, the four waiting for any sign a staff member heard them. When no other noise followed, Alya and Nino dropped their hands.
"What," Marinette whispered.
"I asked Nino and he told me what you're up to. And I want in."
"Why?"
"What we are doing is very against the school rules," added Alya.
"Anything to help my team. Chloe would be very against using underhanded methods like this…"
"Yet she uses her team for help on her papers?"
Adrien shrugged, "The papers are a team effort anyway. Chloe just sometimes has problems with complex things like alchemy formulas and strategies. We don't mind helping her, since she always tries her best for the team."
Team B gaped, trying to process the logic of Team A and why they would pick Chloe if she was so incompetant. Must be the sword.
"Please," added Adrien, trying to look like a pleading child who wanted a pet for Christmas.
Marinette stepped close to Adrien, getting close to his face but not enough to touch him. Adrien's pout turned to a worried look as he leaned back, Marinette leaning closer until he fell on his butt.
"Fine, but no white knighting. Alya and I can handle ourselves."
Marinette snapped back around, gesturing to Alya and the door of the school.
Nino stepped over to Adrien to help him up.
"How do you put up with her," grumbled Adrien, wiping the dirt off his pants.
"The same exact way I put up with you."
"We're in," whispered Alya as she opened the door, the four teens quietly entering the school. Rather than head towards the classrooms, they made their way to the teacher's lounge, the door unlocked. Marinette opened the door to see no one inside, but a second door on their right.
"Alya?"
Their mage nodded, tapping her mended staff to the ground to have a yellow light scan the room, detecting a hidden door in the bookcase.
"I thought you just did illusions," asked Adrien as the group moved to the bookcase.
"A wizard never reveals her secrets," Alya teased with a wink, only to be elbowed by Marinette.
"And no flirting," said Marinette.
Adrien looked to Nino, who shrugged before scanning the took the bookcase beside the one everyone was examining, searching for some sort of clue.
Tossed haphazardly on the upper shelf was a folder with a note "To be graded" with no teacher's name written on the folder or note. Adrien tried to move the folder off to see it. The folder wouldn't budge, so he opened it to see a small lever nested inside the stack of "homework". He moved the lever, the bookcase Team B had been examining swinging open.
Adrien reached for the person closest to him and pulled them out of the way while Nino pulled the other person away. Adrien frowned when he noticed Nino holding Alya, looking down to see he had grabbed Marinette' wrapped up arm.
"Sorry," he hastily apologized before letting go.
"Where'd you find it," she asked, ignoring his save and apology.
"Um, here, this folder wouldn't move." Adrien flapped the folder open and close to illustrate his point. Marinette nodded before gesturing to Nino. He had brought his second instrument, a kalimba, and began to play, notes lighting the stairs the fake bookcase revealed. Nino took the lead, Marinette and Alya following with Adrien bringing up the rear.
The hall of stairs opened to a room filled with shelves of student files, both new and old.
"I'll take first guard, you three go check," said Marinette as she posted herself near the stairs. Adrien looked between Marinette and her team, Alya and Nino continuing on to search for Class T2 files.
"I can stay watch, since this whole thing was your idea," Adrien offered.
Marinette scowled, "Forgive me for not trusting the head boy to stand guard and possibly rat us out at the first sign of a teacher."
Adrien sighed, "I did find the door. Shouldn't that be enough?"
"We would have found it eventually without your help. My trust isn't so easily earned."
"Maybe that's your weakness then. Looks like you don't need your school record to tell you that."
"And yours is people-pleasing. I don't need a doormat like your little girlfriends do."
"I'm not a doormat."
"Right, because clearly you can think without approval from Chloe or support from Nino."
"Guys, we found our files!"
Marinette and Adrien snapped their attention to Alya and Nino before looking at each other. A little too close to comfort from their arguing, Adrien stepped back. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Maybe we both go over then," offered Adrien.
Marinette sighed, but followed Adrien over to Alya and Nino, who were reading their files.
"Yours is there," Alya pointed to their row on the bottom of the shelf, most likely for the most recent Class T2.
Marinette pulled out her folder, Adrien following.
"This doesn't make any sense, why does it sound like I come from a fantasy world," asked Nino?
Marinette glanced up at her friend before opening her folder. She seemed to come from a fantasy world as well named Miracula. She flipped through the pages, coming across another page similar to the first one.
"My name was Marinette Dupain-Cheng," she murmured, not noticing the others stopped reading to watch her.
"I was summoned, after saving a cat, to," she flipped between the first page and the page she found.
"Miracula." She read further down the list.
"I died, in Miracula."
Everyone read their own papers, flipping between a middle page and the first page.
"I died in my world too, on the final boss, I was summoned to a video game world," said Nino.
"Hit by a car in the first world on the way to an internship interview, died on the final boss. Looks like I was also an illusion mage hero, but here they call it mesmer," said Alya.
Marinette closed her folder, noticing the sticker that identified their class, T2. It had been sloppily put on another sticker underneath. She peeled it up to see underneath S1, the name of a different class at their school.
"So we've been here before, and because we died at the final boss, we had to come back," Marinette asked the group.
"Looks like it. Huh, looks like I chose bard class in the previous world."
Marinette opened back up her file, reading she was a hero, weapons-woman and healer.
"What's a weapons woman," asked Nino, reading over her shoulder.
"Maybe I learned multiple weapons? I guess it wouldn't hurt to learn another one to go with my crossbows."
"Oh, found weakness. Apparently I'm quick to jump to adventure and decisions, figures this was from my past life," announced Alya.
Nino looked at his own file as Marinette read hers. Like Adrien said, she was slow to trust people, which looked like it transferred from her previous life. And she was a self-sacrificing hero. At least then she probably died protecting her teammates."
"What's your weakness Adrien," asked Nino?
The group looked at their fourth person, who was staring very intently at his file.
"Marinette, you said you were a hero for Miracula?"
Marinette looked back at her file to confirm, " yeah, the hero and the world was Miracula."
"I was the prince of Miracula, and Hero's support. Looks like my family and I were both reborn in Miracula."
Nino and Alya looked between Adrien and Marinette as they stared at each other, then burst out laughing.
"Oh, this is great, all this time you two…" snorted Nino. "You two use to be teammates."
"Maybe even romantic partners," giggled Alya.
Adrien hid his face in his file, neither confirming or denying Alya's statement. Marinette scanned her file, the page not mentioning any of her allies. The only mention of her allies was how she died. She read over the line she had expected, but stumbled on the last bit of information she didn't quite expect.
"Adrien, does your file say how you died?"
"Um," the boy peaked over his file, before looking at it. He read it over, squinting his eyes as he read over the final line.
Nino and Alya stopped laughing, watching as their friends puzzle over their deaths.
"What's up, does it go into detail," asked Alya before checking her own file.
Adrien and Marinette gulped, looking at each other before reading their death sentence.
"Killed in the final battle against the Demon Lord Plagg."
"So let me get this straight. Both of you were hero and hero support in the same world," quizzed Alya? The group had taken to sitting down near the files, Alya posting an illusion at the bookcase that gave her a secondary vision if someone were to approach.
"Yep." "Yes."
"And in that world you were killed by the Demon Lord who is currently our Champions teacher?"
"Well, it doesn't give a picture so it's hard to say," argued Adrien, not really believing it himself.
"Oh come on, do you really think Plagg is a common Demon name? It has to be the same demon," exclaimed Marinette.
"But what do we even do with that information? He already killed us once before and despite his warning today, I don't think he really cares if we die again," asked Adrien.
"Oh my gosh, he probably totally knows you two! He knows he killed you! Maybe he killed us all once already and has to teach us to be better heroes as his punishment," said Alya.
"Nope, I died due to potion poisoning, I accidentally took a poison instead of healing potion during the final boss," said Nino.
"How do you mistake the two," asked Marinette.
Nino shrugged, "it doesn't say. Just for further details access then angel ruins."
"So the page is locked in case students do find this," said Adrien, flipping through the blank pages between their first and middle page. "There might be more to the story then?"
"Like if Adrien and Marinette were heroic lovers," teased Alya.
Marinette scowled while Adrien hid his face in his folder.
"Anyway, like Adrien said, we need to figure out what to do with this information. Aside from our personal weakness, Adrien and I are also weak to whatever powers Plagg has, which isn't listed here."
"So we experiment, try to get him to reveal more about himself," asked Adrien, slightly muffled by his folder.
"But he's too lazy for that. And remember, he said he made a dungeon based on his weakness. You both had to overcome those but yet he still beat you so it's probably a hidden power he's learned to overcome those weaknesses."
"He has another weakness though he hasn't prepared for," hummed Marinette, closing her folder as she crossed her arms. She tapped her foot as she thought, the others waiting for her response as they closed their own folders.
"He doesn't know that we know he killed us."
Adrien furrowed his eyebrows, resting his elbow on his knee as he placed his chin on his fist, "we could learn his weaknesses before he knows this."
"And if we kill our final boss, we could be reincarnated instead of living another world again," summarized Marinette.
"How would that even work? He already beat you once, you don't get do overs while he's here," said Alya.
"Do we though," asked Adrien?
"He's still a demon lord, so technically he counts as a boss," said Marinette.
"And because he was the former boss of our world, it would make sense we could continue our original quest in this fantasy world as well," finished Adrien.
"They are freaking me out the way they are finishing each other's sentences," whispered Nino.
"Probably a lovers thing."
"We aren't lovers, the pages don't say who my romantic interests are."
"Because they might be locked with the angel ruins," teased Alya.
"I propose an alliance," interrupted Adrien.
The group looked at him.
"Marinette, would you let me join you again to defeat the Demon Lord Plagg so we can be reincarnated?"
Adrien extended his hand for a shake.
Marinette looked between Adrien's hand and his face, trying to discern an ill content.
A sound of papers being dropped startled the teens, everyone looking to Alya for confirmation of an intruder.
The girl shrugged but quickly stood up, " we should probably leave, we got what we came for."
The others nodded, stuffing their files back into the shelf before scrambling up the stairs. Adrien quickly reset the door before following the others outside of the school and running back to the dorms. They finally stopped when they reached the front steps, pausing to catch their breath.
"Ma-marinette," huffed Adrien, holding out his hand. "Wanna beat up the demon lord?"
Marinette slowly nodded, accepting his hand.
"Let's win this time."
Hullo, welcome to High School of the Isekai-ed. Essentially this story takes place in the brief moment between a person being summoned/killed and brought into the new world. Upon entering the school, they are stripped of their previous memories so everyone starts at a basic level. Upon graduation, they are given back their old world memories, but the memories of their time at the high school is taken away, leaving them with foundational knowledge of living in another world stored in their brain. Essentially, the students of the T classes have been isekai-ed before but died during their journey, so the high school prepares them better for their second chance.
I want to continue with this story, but we'll see where the ideas lead. I have a couple ideas, so we'll see.
Definitely not my usual fluff I write but I've always liked fantasy. It'll be fun to give it a whirl.
Sorry if the characters seem a little OOC.
Thanks for reading!