The Luckster And The Gangster's Sister
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Many thanks to those who read and reviewed this fic. I am really happy and this inspired me to bring in the next chapter, and here the story arc continues, as Naegi and Natsumi faced an unprecedent crisis, and some of their friends are unexpectedly got caught in the conflict…
Well, read on and enjoy
Ch. 40: Atarashī heddomasutā
Near the gates of Hope's Peak Academy, you can see that Natsumi was filled with worry after being told of the situation at hand, and for the first time, Fuyuhiko and Peko saw Natsumi's reaction, as they never saw Natsumi looked so worried and concerned, and there they followed her as she ran towards the gate of the main course gate of Hope's Peak, where some of the Class 78 members are demanding to know why Naegi is not allowed to go inside, where the guard stated that Naegi is no longer a student of Hope' Peak, and Naegi stood there in shock, as he could not believe that he was not allowed to go there.
Moreover, the guard told Naegi that he was already expelled and the guard said that he is instructed to tell him that the can no longer enter the academy. Naegi was in a state of shock as he could not believe he was kicked out so easily. There was no notice, he was sure that he did not do anything to violate the rules, and he asks the guard why so suddenly but the guard said he is only ordered to tell him the news and nothing else.
"Sorry…I don't know why."
"But…but…"
"I'm just following orders."
"Being expelled for no reason?"
"Not my problem. You'll just have to talk to the headmaster…"
"Then let me in so I can talk to him…"
"Can't…I'm order not to let you in since you're not a student here anymore…"
"Eh?"
Asahina asked the guard what is going on, and the guard said that the headmaster ordered him to tell Naegi that he is no longer a student at the main course of Hope's Peak Academy and thus, he is no longer allowed to study here, which made Asahina livid and demanded to know why, which the guard said that he is just following orders from the headmaster.
"Don't know. I'm just carrying the order."
"So Naegi-kun was expelled just like that?"
"…"
"What did he do? Why was he expelled without prior notice?"
"Don't know. The headmaster ordered it."
"That's unreasonable!"
"Sorry…just following orders."
"Bullshit!"
Ohgami was equally not pleased that her classmate was expelled without notice and asks the guard what is the basis for Naegi's sudden expulsion, which the guard said that he is just following orders and tells Ohgami and Asahina that they will have to talk to the headmaster about it.
As Natsumi arrived, she asks Naegi what just happened, and he told her the situation, and to everyone's surprises, the guard tells Natsumi that she too is no longer a main course student and that she is once more a reserve course student. Natsumi stared wide-eyed at what she was told, and Fuyuhiko stared in surprise and asks the guard what is the meaning of this, and the guard said the same thing - he is just implementing the headmaster's orders.
The members of class 77 and 78 were taken aback, seeing that both Naegi and Natsumi were expelled without notice and were suddenly out of school. They began to complain about it, yet the guard said that he is only following orders and nothing else.
Kyoko Kirigiri, saw this as well and discreetly went inside, where she is heading straight towards the headmaster's office, as she intend to find out what is going on and why Naegi and Natsumi were suddenly expelled without prior notice, and sensed that something is not right here. She then arrived at the headmaster's office and opened the door, where her eyes narrowed at the sight before her.
Her father, Jin is not there, and someone else is sitting on the headmaster's chair, a man in his mid-30's, muscular, and has the aura of a bully, and there he stared menacingly at her as he seemed to know her and reprimanded her for not knocking the door and chastises her for showing disrespect to the headmaster.
"You."
"…"
"How dare you enter without knocking?"
"…"
"You just showed utter disrespect to the headmaster."
"…."
"For that you will be punished."
"…"
Kirigiri maintained her appearance seeing that her father is not on the headmaster's seat and instead it was someone else, and she kept her cool after the person stood up and glared menacingly at her, as she showed signs of not being intimidated, and as the person ordered her to leave, she remained and demanded to know who he is and where is Jin Kirigiri.
The man revealed himself as the NEW headmaster and that Jin Kirigiri is no longer employed here, and told her that he has showed blatant disrespect at the headmaster, but she went straight to the point and demanded an explanation on why Naegi and Natsumi were expelled without prior notice and what was the basis of their expulsion.
The new headmaster maintain his glaring appearance and said that their assigned talents have been rendered obsolete, and that he has implemented a "one talent per student" rule, stating that Komaeda and Koizumi already has their assigned talents as Luckster and Photographer respectively, thus in the case of Naegi and Natsumi, their talents were deemed as "copycats", thus there is no need for other students to hold the same titles, thus their expulsion from the main course.
Kirigiri argued that he should have summoned the two and explain to them about it instead of expelling them outright, especially that the two are already in a period where they could not transfer to schools since they are academically in the middle of the year and had to wait till February next year to resume their studies, but the new headmaster said that is not his and Hope's Peak Academy's problem, showing how cruel and bully-like the new headmaster is.
"That is not my problem…and not Hope's Peak Academy's problem."
"How so."
"That is how life work here."
"You cannot just expel them outright for no justifiable…"
"I do what I feel like doing as long as it is in the best interest of this academy."
"And by expelling Naegi-kun and Kuzuryuu-san for no reason…that is how you see as best interest of this academy?"
"Yes."
"…"
Kirigiri clenched her fists, as the new headmaster's words are unjustifiable, and there she demanded that he give Naegi and Natsumi due consideration, stating that it is now in the middle of July and they could not transfer schools at a time like this, but the new headmaster ended the discussion by saying that she is hereby suspended until further notice and pressed a button, where two guards came, and he told the guards to escort Kirigiri out of the academy and tells them she is suspended until further notice, which the guards obediently obeyed.
"Escort this girl out of the academy. She is hereby suspended until further notice. Make sure she does not try to force her way in this academy."
"Yes sir."
"Yes sir."
"If she persists, you may use force as you deem fit."
"Yes sir."
"Yes sir."
"Do it now."
"Yes sir."
Kirigiri was quite taken by surprise as the guards grabbed her by her arms and dragged her out of the building, where you can see Naegi and Natsumi are pleading their cases when they saw two additional guards dragging Kirigiri by her arms and threw her out of the building, where she landed on her side, which surprised both class 77 and 78 students, as the guards closes the gate and locked it.
As Asahina and Ohgami helped her they saw the left elbow portion of her jacket was torn off, and saw a deep wound on her elbow, which was quite deep, and dripping with blood. Ohwada was pissed and began to shake the gate violently as he hurled explicit words at the guards, but Kirigiri urged him to calm down, saying that something SINISTER is at work, and tells him and the others that the expulsion of Naegi and Natsumi were done behind the scenes.
Ohwada stopped his tirade and helps Kirigiri up, asking her what she meant, and as Mikan applied first aid on Kirigiri by cleaning and bandaging her wounded elbow, Kirigiri told them that her father, Jin was deposed, and replaced with someone else; it was sudden that there was no announcement about the change of leadership at the academy, and she suspected that everything was POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, and informed them that she was suspended until further notice on the basis of not knocking on the headmaster's door when she entered the office.
Togami asks why there is a new headmaster, as well as to why was she suspended for something quite trivial, and there she stated that this may be due to her being the daughter of Jin; another theory she came up with is probably due to her being the SHSL Detective, which means that someone wanted to keep her from finding out the reason for Naegi and Natsumi's sudden and unjustified expulsion from the academy.
Togami adjusted his eyeglasses as he finds it really strange, and he glanced at Naegi, who is at loss for words on how he would tell his family about what happened, and then at Natsumi, who is trembling, both in shock and anger at what she was made to do.
Fuyuhiko whispered to Peko and gave her instructions on what to do, which she asks if he is sure, which he nodded, as he wanted to know who is behind all this and why was Natsumi unjustly expelled without explanation or why was she not summoned at the headmaster's office to explain why the expulsion. He sensed that something is definitely not right here and he won't stand by watching his younger sister getting depressed over something like this.
"Are you sure, master?"
"Yes."
"What are you going to do for now, master?"
"I'll use my contacts. Peko, find out the name of this new headmaster and let me know. That way I might run a background check on this guy."
"Yes, master."
"Just make sure you won't get caught and try to avoid confronting him head on. if he sees you, just act like a normal student."
"Yes master."
"Good."
Fujisaki then noticed that the guards are no longer there, and that the gates were padlocked and chained, thus Class 77 and 78 could not enter, and the two sections decided to ditch classes for today to see what they can do to help, unwilling to stand by and let Naegi and Natsumi leave without a fight, and as they left, they were surprised to see Jin and Kizakura at a corner.
Jin then became alarmed at seeing his daughter's bandaged elbow, and after being told of what happened, the now-deposed headmaster was angered and is about to head to the academy when Kizakura stopped him, reminding him that they are now POWERLESS to stood to them now that they were fired, and Kyoko asks her dad what just happened here and why is there a new headmaster at Hope's Peak, as well as demanding to know why Naegi and Natsumi were expelled unjustly.
Kizakura adjusted his hat and told them the reason why.
Kyoko twitched her eyes upon hearing that her dad was fired because of his refusal to adhere to the Steering Committee's resolution to expel the two students because of the so-called "copycat talents", and even fired Kizakura for his supposed "oversight" in scouting potential talents.
"That is their reason, Kizakura-san?"
"Yes, Kyoko. Sounds overly-trivial, don't you think?"
"Then my suspicion is right…not only is it politically motivated…it also border on bullying…"
"So sorry to hear that you got suspended…"
"…"
"Well, that's life."
"Are you really that easy-going, Kizakura-san…?"
"Well…"
Class 78 was quite incensed at hearing this, seeing that it was very unfair that the Steering Committee expelled Naegi just because he has the same talent as Komaeda, and that the action is indeed unjustified, and they made it clear that they will head to the academy tomorrow and confront the new headmaster, but Kizakura advised them not to, stressing that the Class 78 members might end up risking suspension if the new headmaster gets provoked.
Ohwada verbally blasted back, saying that the new boss is just using his position to silence anyone who questions the sudden expulsion of Naegi, which Kizakura said that it already happened after what happened to Kyoko, and he urged Ohwada to keep his cool, saying that he will talk to someone who might help them in getting Naegi and Natsumi back to Hope's Peak.
"So better sit back and relax for now, Ohwada-kun."
"Huh? Just like that?"
"Yes."
"But…"
"For now we can't act like we usually do…we will be needing some help."
"So what about Naegi and his girlfriend?"
"We'll get to that…so for now, relax and calm down."
"Seriously…?"
Kyoko gently urged Ohwada to listen, saying that right now they need to consider their options and wait for the right moment to strike, and the SHSL Outlaw Biker relented and stayed silent, slowly seeing the logic and had to temper his actions.
Kizakura then talked to Naegi and Natsumi, telling them to be patient and promised that the Steering Committee will pay for their corrupt actions and that they will be reinstated as students soon, which Natsumi quietly nodded, but Naegi did not looked so optimistic as he is worried on how to tell his parents about what happened, fearing that if they find out it might result in a public scandal of sorts.
Kizakura adjusted his hat, realizing that this would be a problem, as getting Hope's Peak Academy under a bad press publicity would cause complication and Jin promised to do whatever he could to help solve this matter. Jin then offered to accompany Naegi at his house to speak to his student's parents and explain the situation, which he appeared hesitant but Jin assured that this is for the best
"Naegi-kun."
"Yes?"
"I will accompany you to your home."
"Eh?"
"I will explain to your parents and let them know what you're going through."
"Um…won't that…?"
"Leave it to me."
"O-okay…"
As Class 78 is watching Jin and Naegi talking, Class 77 was cheering Natsumi up, but then noticed that Fuyuhiko and Peko are nowhere in sight, which Saionji suggested that Fuyuhiko must have went off somewhere to puke, but the others berated her for making such a comment, but Mioda noted that Peko is also gone and she suspected that the SHSL Swordswoman and Fuyuhiko went somewhere to make out.
Hanamura drooled as he commented that he wanted to see that in plain view but Natsumi smacked the SHSL Cook on the head, berating him for being a lecher, and she assumed that Fuyuhiko has no qualms about it, but Sonia assured to Natsumi that maybe Fuyuhiko and Peko are looking for someone to help in this case to bring her and Naegi back to being students at Hope's Peak.
"Natsumi-san…don't think like that."
"Huh?"
"I believe your brother and Pekoyama-san are finding some way to get you reinstated as a student."
"Really…?"
"Yes. I saw him clenching his fists upon hearing that you were expelled unjustly."
"So you're saying…?"
"Yes…your brother must be using his resources to find out about this new headmaster and why he expelled you and Naegi-san for no reason."
"…"
Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko and Peko contacted their house, where he talked to the gang's second in command, informing him to be ready, as he lets him know about the current situation about Natsumi, and the second in command assured that he will have his informants ready once Fuyuhiko give the command. Fuyuhiko nodded and all is set.
After that, he tells Peko to sneak back inside the academy and find out who the new headmaster is and try to get as much information as possible, sensing that this is no ordinary situation as he finds it strange that Natsumi is being singled out and that it was over a month since she was transferred to the main course, and if she is deemed not eligible they should have told her so and hold dialogues with her instead of pulling her out so suddenly.
Peko nodded and was told to be careful.
"Are you sure, master?"
"Yes. Head back to Hope's Peak and sneak your way in."
"What are you going to do for now, master?"
"I'll use my contacts to help me out. Peko, find out the name of this new headmaster and let me know. That way I might run a background check on this guy."
"Yes, master."
"Just make sure you won't get caught and try to avoid confronting him head on. if he sees you, just act like a normal student."
"Yes master."
"Good."
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked this chapter, and while there is not much action showed here, the sudden drama and tension took place as Kyoko Kirigiri was suddenly suspended from the main course of Hope's Peak Academy
While Natsumi is given a respite by being sent back to the reserve course, Naegi is automatically out, and both class 77 and class 78 are not pleased with this and are doing whatever they could to help their classmate…
Preview:
The next chapter shows that the Steering Committee has a firm grip on the situation, as Naegi and Natsumi are being prevented from being reinstated at Hope's peak Academy's main courseand class 77 and 78 are in a deadlock on what to do
Jin Kirigiri enlists the aid of someone who previously has ties to Hopes Peak
Trouble brew as the Naegi parents discovered that their son was unjustly expelled
Peko goes into spy mode
See you in October…
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