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"Stand!" Takahiro said. The class stood in unison.
"Bow!" He said. Everyone positioned their weapons, aiming it at the yellow octopus at the front of the class together together.
"Lock on." Takahiro commanded. The class pulled down on their triggers. A flurry of bullets reigned down on their teacher, assaulting the blackboard. Sensei just dodged, moving so fast he became a blur, that permanent grin still on his face, despite his students literally trying to kill him.
"Alright then class!" Sensei said, as if he wasn't being fired at by his own pupils. "Time for registration!"
The pellets ran out before Sensei finished the register. The class sat back down in disbelief- they hadn't even manage to scratch him!
"Ah! I love to see such enthusiasm first thing in the morning- but such a simplistic assassination attempt will never come close to assassinating me!" Sensei said, green stripes appearing on his yellow face. "You guys need to get more creative! But no guns during class- it's disruptive."
"Yes sir." The class chorused in unison. It had been a week since Korosensei started teaching, and it was amazing how quick the E class had managed to get used to the set-up. Bringing a pellet gun and a rubber-knife to school had become as second nature to Ryu as bringing his pencil case and lunch. Their Sensei may be some sort of inhuman monster, but undeniably, he was a good teacher. A great teacher, even. Unlike the teachers at the main school, he didn't just power through lessons as quickly as he could, he actually took the time to teach students.
"Hey! No firing guns in class!" Korosensei said, Ryu turned to see Minatozaki brandishing her weapon. "Get to the back of the class, young man!"
"Awh." Minatozaki shrugged, walking to the back.
That afternoon, Korosensei flew off for lunch as he usually did ("I'm going to check out a restaurant in paris, au revior!").
"Nothing we're doing is coming even close to working." Mori said, with a frustrated sigh. Takahiro nodded.
"I thought if we all worked together it would at least phase him a little." Takahiro said, as he pulled out his lunch.
"The only way we can beat him is if we do something unconventional." Satoshi grumbled. Most things came easy to him. He wasn't used to finding things impossible.
"But what..?" Chisato asked. Silence descended upon the class. It was broken suddenly by a shrill shriek and a clatter.
Ryu turned around to see Leiko had thrown her lunch box over Mitsugu.
"Gross! What's wrong with you? Why did you put a cockroach in my lunchbox, you freak!" Leiko hissed. Mitsugu shook rice out of her dark hair.
"You can't prove it was me." Mitsugu shrugged, brushing a prawn off her coat. Leiko rolled her eyes.
"Nobody else is such a creep to put insects in food!" Leiko declared, putting a hand on her hips.
"Actually, Cockroaches aren't insects." Hishiro said bluntly, adjusting her glasses. Her comment went ignored.
"Nobody else is so erratic they'd throw food over a perfectly innocent person." Mitsugu said, faking sweetness. Pierre stood up out of his seat, a wide grin on his face, his cheeks flushed.
"Yes! A sexy cat fight between two girls! Hurry up, Leiko-chan, Mitsugu-chan!" Pierre said, excited. "Get down on the floor, rip each other's clothes off and fight!"
The girls in the class glared at him, looking collectively disgusted.
"Gross." Mitsugu hissed.
"I don't want to even justify that with an answer." Leiko said.
"You see- this is why we can't come close to assassinating him." Koroniki said, her ice blue eyes cold and sharp as she addressed the class, looking at them derisively. "We're too busy getting mad at each other, or pulling stupid pranks, or getting distracted!"
The others fell quiet. Ryu knew she was partially right, but another part of him felt that even if they did all work together, they'd still be no match for their mach 20 teacher.
"Us all being complete fuck-ups is the reason we're in E class, or did you forget?" Leiko said, once again reminding them of their place. However, Takahiro ignored her, and went and stood in front of the board.
"Alright! Now we've got lunch time all together- let's think of some ideas!" He said, a determined look on his face. "Has anyone got anything."
"I have been making a list of his weaknesses." Hishiro offered, still with that deadpan look on her face. Other members of the class grinned.
"Amazing! They didn't used to call you the ace for nothing!" Mori said. "So what's our sensei's kryptonite?"
"Weakness 1. He cares a lot about the class' opinion. 2. He's tone deaf, 3. He insists on only paying for stuff he can afford on a teacher's wage despite his powers, 4. He wont do anything that would compromise his image as a teacher." Hishiro listed dully. The class' grins melted away into frowns with every word she spoke.
"Have you discovered weakness' that aren't completely useless to us?" Koroniki asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No." Hishiro said.
The class let out a collective disappointed sigh.
"They don't currently call her the broken ace for nothing." Koroniki said, bluntly. Hishiro didn't even react.
"What if we get a rocket, fill it full of anti-Sensei BBs and fire it at him!" Mahiro said, with a wide triumphant grin as if he had solved the whole problem. The class gave him a look that Ryu had come to know as 'Mahiro has said something dumb again' look.
"That's a very... Inventive idea, but I think we need to keep it more.. Realistic to what we're actually capable of." Kazuma said, with soft smile, as Satoshi snickered into his hand.
For the rest of lunch time, everyone put forward their ideas. Kamiya suggested trying the shooting range again, but this time, also distracting him somehow. Minatozaki put forward the idea of tricking him into eating the BB's. Yoruha suggested using swords.
Arisu complimented everyone on every idea they put forward. "That's so clever! That could actually work!"
Mahiro gave increasingly outlandish and impossible ideas.
"We could put him into a cannon and fire him into a wall of anti-sensei material! Or we could get an asteroid to hit him!"
"How do you make an asteroid hit someone?" Satoshi asked, still chuckling slightly.
"Well- we could throw him into the sun!" Mahiro declared, a couple of people where giggling now. "Or we could bomb him! Or Kamikaze him or- whatever!"
Satoshi stopped laughing when Mahiro mentioned the word 'bomb', and suddenly paused, deep in though. Did he have an idea? Ryu wondered. Just then, their sensei burst back into the room, so fast as if he had teleported, in his arms was a missile. Takahiro quickly rubbed their plans off the board.
"Hello boys and girls!" Their teacher said, happily. They all stared at him.
"Sir- what is that?" Minatozaki asked, pointing at the diffused missile in their teachers tentacles.
"This? Oh! The national defence force tried to kill me with it." Sensei grinned. Well, Ryu thought, so much for Mahiro's rocket idea. Class continued as normal- well. As normal as it could be with a monster for a teacher.
The next day, Ryu walked up the hill once again. The class didn't have any solid plans for assassination today, despite yesterday's brainstorm. Everything they thought off seemed doomed to failure.
"You seem so gloomy already for it being the first thing in the morning." A voice said. He turned around to see E class's shortest member, Echo, walking being him.
Ryu gave him a half smile.
"Well. The world is ending soon." Ryu said with a sigh. He remembered Leiko's pessimism, how certain she was they'd fail. He was starting to think she might be right.
"So you've already resigned yourself to failure?" Echo said, his tone neither dismissive or in agreement. He tugged on a strand of his long white hair as he spoke. Celesi was walking besides him.
"I... I don't know." Ryu said. Korosensei's arrival had forced him to face things he didn't want to face.
"I think if the world's ending, I'd like to see a fairy just once, while I still have the chance." Celesi said, her tone serious and her expression unmoving. Ryu blinked- Well that was random. He hadn't spoke to Celesi much, but she was kind of.. weird. He laughed awkwardly.
"It's good to have dreams?" He said, unsure of what else to say- Dragons weren't even real, right? (Although, if they could have a monster as a teacher, maybe anything could be true..."
"What about you?" Echo asked. "Do you have any dreams?"
Ryu paused- dreams? He hadn't thought of that since he was little. If there was something he wanted before the world ended, what would it be?
"I guess it would be nice to show people I'm not completely useless." He said with a sigh.
That day, there was something of a strange atmosphere. Ryu wasn't sure what, exactly, but he was sure some of the other boys in his class where up to something. That morning, before Sensei arrived, Satoshi was talking quietly in the corner to Mahiro, Mori, Kazuma and Takahiro.
"Have you got it?" The taller blond boy asked under his breath. Mahiro nodded, and handed Satoshi a small fist-sized package.
"My brother's going to kill me if he founds out I took this." Mahiro said, blue eyes shifting to the side. Did they have a plan for assassination? Ryu wondered. They where speaking so quietly, Ryu struggled to hear.
"So we'll just fill it with anti-sensei BBs?" Takahiro whispered.
"It can be detonated by a remote, right?" Mori said in a hushed tone. "How exactly should we do this?"
Satoshi whispered something Ryu couldn't make out in reply to Mori, but judging by the other's reactions, it was something shocking.
"But that's so dangerous! We can't expect someone to- " Kazuma started to say, sounding worried before Satoshi cut him off.
"It's the only way." He said, firmly. Before the two could argue further, they where cut off as their Sensei burst into the room.
"Good morning boys and girls!"
Just what are they planning? Ryu wondered.
That lunch time, when Sensei flew away as usual to some far off exotic destination, the boys who where talking earlier, Kazuma, Satoshi, Takahiro and Mahiro snuck out the back reasons he wasn't sure of, Ryu followed them. Normally he stayed out of things like this, but he felt suspicious. The four of them where sat together in a circle, heads close, once again having a whispered discussion so intense that they didn't hear Ryu walk over until he announced his arrival.
"What are you guys up to?" He asked. He tried to sound casual, but his voice broke at the end. Four heads snapped up and looked at him.
"Buzz off- it doesn't matter! We're talking about nothing!" Mahiro said, his blue eyes narrowing.
"As kind and as welcoming as ever, Hiro-chan." Satoshi commented. Kazuma sighed.
"Well- I guess you might as well know, since this concerns the whole world anyway." He said, with a kind smile. He patted the space next to him. "Come sit down and we'll explain."
Ryu did as he was told. "So you guys are.. Planning an assassination attempt, right?" He guessed. The four of them nodded.
"We've filled a grenade full of BBs, and it can be detonated by a remote." Mori explained. Ryu nodded- that sounded like a fairly solid plan.
"The only problem is getting it close enough to make an impact; Sensei is so quick, it's not like we can just throw it at him." Takahiro continued, brows furrowed. "We need it to be as close to him as possible."
"So we- well, Satoshi, worked out that the most 'effective' way to do that would be to have someone who has the grenade on their person to grab sensei and then someone else detonate the bomb." Kazuma said, a conflicted look in his amber eyes.
"It's the best way to get his guard down." Satoshi concluded, a smirk on his face.
"But also incredibly dangerous for the sacrifice! The person with the grenade on them would get caught in the explosion." Kazuma said, wearily.
"Alright, Mum." Satoshi said, rolling his eyes. "I know it's dangerous, but the whole world is at stake here. We have have to take risks."
"So.." Ryu said, swallowing, his mouth suddenly dry. "Who's going to do it.. Y'know.. Who's the sacrifice?"
Silence descended on the group. It appeared nobody wanted to offer themselves or anyone else up.
"We're all willing to do it if we have to but... " Takahiro started.
"It's just deciding who.." Mori said. Ryu didn't blame them for being hesitant- if worst came to worst, the sacrifice could be badly injured, permanently disfigured, or even killed.
"It sounds like you boys have a bit of a conundrum on your hands." A female voice said.
The five of them whipped around to see Koroniki crouched down next to them- when did she get here?
"H-How long have you been here?" Mahiro said, startled, pointing at her, a scowl on his face.
"Long enough to here what's going on." She said, a contemplative look on her face. "There's an easy way to solve this, you know. And decide which of us will be the sacrifice- by picking straws."
"Which of us? Koroniki- I'm not letting you put yourself forwards." Kazuma said firmly. She looked at him questioningly.
"You doubt my abilities?" She asked.
"No." He said, looking to the side slightly. "It's just- I don't want to make a girl do something so dangerous. Men are meant to protect women."
"Your sense of manly pride is a little last century, but honestly, I'm not going to bother arguing." Koroniki said with a shrug. She pulled out five straws from her pocket and held them in her hand so you couldn't tell which one was the shortest. "All these straws are the same length- besides one. The one who picks that is the sacrifice. Simple enough?"
The boys stared at the straws in Koroniki's outstretched hand, a tense look on all of their faces.
"This is the fairest way to do it." Takahiro said, although he sounded as if he was trying to convince himself as much as anyone else. Mori looked weary, and Satoshi had a poker-face on that gave away no hint of any emotion.
"There has to be another way! I mean- we don't have to put ourselves in danger- " Kazuma started to say with a calming tone.
"No." Satonishi cut him off. "If we are too afraid to take risks, then the world will end. We need to kill this thing. If any of you are too scared to do this, then nobody is making you take part. Just leave now."
There was a sense of finality in his tone. Part of Ryu wanted to get up and leave- but no. He couldn't keep running away from danger. He had to face it head on.
"I'm not afraid." Mahiro said, sounding like a child. Koroniki thrust the straws forward.
"Are you guys doing this or what? Pick a straw." She said. Like Satoshi, her face gave nothing away. Her ice-blue eyes where hands thrusted forwards and fumbled to grab a straw. Ryu felt tremors run down his , he opened his hand, his heart almost jumping out his chest when he saw... A long straw.
Ryu released a breath he didn't know he was holding in. It wasn't him- he wasn't the sacrifice. Then who was? He looked up, and his sight quickly trained in on Mahiro. He looked stricken, his mouth agape slightly, blue eyes wide.
In his hand was the short straw. Mahiro was the sacrifice. Satoshi let out a shaky laugh.
"You mean we're entrusting the fate of the earth to a guy who struggles to tie his shoe-laces?" The strawberry blond scoffed. His grey eyes narrowed. "Give me a break. Lets try this again."
"No way!" Mahiro snapped, defensively. "This is what we decided, right? I'm just as competent as any of you- I can blow this monster up!"
"Get real, Mahiro, you're not doing this." Satoshi said, then added. "Besides- didn't we say that we're not letting a girl do this? I'm not entirely convinced you're male, Hiro-chan!"
Mahiro went red. "What's that supposed to mean? And don't call me Hiro-Chan!"
"I'm just saying, if you're face gets burnt in the explosion no man in going to want you to be their bride." Satoshi taunted.
"Stop acting as if I'm a girl!" Mahiro shouted.
The other boys sighed, exasperated. Ryu watched them bicker. He couldn't tell if Satoshi really didn't trust Mahiro's ability to carry out the plan, or if he was being protective in his own way. Ryu looked down at his own straw: All these guys- all his classmates where so lively, they had so much to offer, probably had families who cared about them. It made sense. If someone had to sacrifice themselves, it had to be him- the one who didn't matter.
"I'll do it." He whispered. The others didn't hear him over Mahiro and Satoshi's bickering, so Ryu repeated it a little louder.
"I'll do it." He said firmly. They turned to look at him, shocked. Ryu leaned forwards and took the grenade, tying it around his neck. It felt like a tumour against his chest.
"But- the straws- " Mahiro started to say. Ryu shook his head
"It doesn't matter." He said. "I'm doing it."
He turned and walked back to the classroom before the others could argue further. He ignored Kazuma's cry for him to 'get back here and think it through' and just kept going. The other followed him back to the classroom, a solemn atmosphere around them. Ryu knew they didn't want him to do it, but nobody wanted to do it themselves, either.
The classroom was chaos as usual- Tsukiko was trying to diffuse an argument between Mitsugu and Leiko (Leiko was accusing Mitsugu of advertising Leiko's phone number as a 'sex hotline' number in the local newspaper) Pierre was watching, looking excited.
"Hm, if your number ended up in the local paper how is that my fault- anyone could of sent that advertisement in." Mitsugu shrugged, with a not-so-innocent smile.
"You're the only one here who has a vendetta against me for some reason." Leiko said, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms. Her phone rang. "I swear to God!"
Shion, Chisato, Yoruha and Kamiya where sat together, somehow managing to stay out of the mayhem and have a normal conversation about cake decorating or something. Hitoshi listened in, looking hungry as he heard them talk about cake. Echo and Celesi where sat together making a daisy-chain of all things, working silently side-by-side as they threaded flowers together. Yep. Ryu had never been in a class like this before- and if this assassination works, this could be his last day here too.
Suddenly, their sensei flew in through the window, so fast that paper flew up into the air.
"I'm back!" He declared, sounding triumphant for some reason. The class took their usual seats. Ryu sat down, his heart beating. Satoshi had the detonator, but it was up to Ryu to decide when to make his move. Sensei was talking about their english assignment.
"Any questions?" He asked, in that cheery tone. To Ryu's surprise, Shion raised her hand.
"Yes- I was wondering.. What's your name. It's awkward just calling you 'Sensei'." The small pink-haired girl said. Sensei startled.
"My name.. Well uh- my name isn't exactly something I can just tell you." He said, shiftily. "I know- why don't you all think of a name for me?"
"Pervy-Sensei." Echo said bluntly, straight away.
"Tentacle-porn-sensei?" Satoshi suggested. A few members of the class suppressed a snicker. Their teacher turned a pale shade of red.
"Hey! No insulting names!" He fumed. "Until you can think of something better just focus on your English assignment."
This is it. Ryu realised. Sensei always got a little slower for lunch, plus Shion's question and the class' insults had thrown him off. Ryu rose from his desk.
"Ah- Ryu. Done already?" Sensei asked as Ryu walked to the front of the class and stopped dead in front of him. But instead of pulling out an English assignment, Ryu unsheathed a green knife and brandished it at his teacher. Before Ryu had even a hope of hitting his target, Sensei had already removed the knife off him with a white handkerchief.
"As I said before, Ryu, such simplistic attacks wont wor- " Sensei started to say, but was cut off when Ryu leaned forwards and wrapped his arms around Sensei's yellow neck and leaned forwards so they both fell towards the ground.
This was it-
The assassination.
My chance to prove I'm not completely useless.
Ryu didn't even notice he was smiling.
"Now!" Satoshi shouted, as he stood up out of his chair and presses the detonator. There was a flash of brilliant white light as the grenade around Ryu's neck exploded. The class shielded themselves as BBs flew in every direction, bouncing of the walls. The next second there was a stunned silence, as the stench of gunpowder filled the room.
"Did it work?" Mahiro asked, Kazuma rushed forwards to check if Ryu was okay.
"What did you guys do!?" Shion shouted, standing up out of her desk, glaring at Satoshi. Kazuma leant down to inspect the damage- the desk was scorched, and the smoke hid what they could see
"Ryu?" He questioned, wafting the smoke away. Mahiro, Takahiro and Mori walked up behind him.
"What the hell? He's under some kind of... Membrane?" Mahiro said, as their vision cleared and Ryu became visible. He had some kind of clear sheet over him.
"He doesn't look hurt." Kazuma said, sounding relieved. Ryu sat up looking dazed, breaking the sheet he was under.
"That isn't a membrane, boys, that's my skin. I shed it once a month. I wrapped it around your classmate to protect him from the blast." A voice said. The class looked up to see their teacher clinging to the ceiling, his usually yellow face was pitch black, and his usual smile had transformed into a horrifyingly wide mouth barring fangs. Pitch black- that face must mean rage Ryu thought. A shiver ran down everyone's spine.
"Kazuma! Mahiro! Takahiro- and Satoshi! I assume you boys are responsible for this?" The night-coloured monster hissed out. Sensei was terrifying. Once again, Ryu remembered the power this beast had. If he was pissed at their assassination attempt, he could kill them all easily. The other boys seemed to realise the same thing, too. Kazuma looked horrified, Mori and Takahiro where stood close together wide-eyed, Mahiro was practically shaking and even Satoshi looked disturbed.
"B-But Ryu- he said he'd do it!" Mahiro said, raising his arms up, as if that would be any defence against their super being beast of a teacher.
Sensei's eyes practically glowed red, and with that, he blasted off out the room. Before anyone had the chance to say another word, their teacher blasted back into the room. Wrapped in his black robes he had small slabs of wood-
Name signs from outside people's houses.
'Kaminari'
'Oishi'
'Satoshi'
'Mori'
'Takahiro'
All of them piled up on each other like tiny gravestones.
"My agreement with your Government prevented me from hurting you! That means I can target friends, family. The whole world if I feel like it!.. Except for you if you dare do anything so irresponsible again!" Sensei growled. Ryu was once again hit with the magnitude of the situation, the impossibility of it.
"D- don't you dare target my family!" Kazuma stuttered, eyes widening when he saw the 'Oishi' name plate- as if there was anything he could do to stop it.
"Y- You can't blame us for trying to assassinate you." Mori said, Takahiro nodded.
"If t-the world's in danger of course we're gonna try save it!" He said with shaky resolve.
"Yeah! And what gives you the right to blow up the moon!" Mahiro shouted, sounding a lot less terrified than he actually was.
"Of course we're going to defend ourselves!" Satoshi exclaimed, looking uncharacteristically inflamed.
"Well of course!" Korosensei said, his night-black face returning to it's usual yellow in an instant. "I wasn't reprimanding you for trying to assassinate me- but the attempt you used showed no regard for Ryu's safety. Not even by Ryu himself."
Ryu looked to the side, embarrassed, the others also looked sheepish, as the teacher patted him gently on the head. It was comforting, somehow. His heart felt somehow lighter. This teacher was crazy- he might be some kind of abomination of science, but unlike all the other teachers, he somehow seemed to actually care.
"By the way, Ryu, your form and timing for that assassination was excellent!" Sensei said, with that impossibly wide grin.
"Oh!" Shion said suddenly, her pink pigtails bouncing as she stood up. "I've thought of a name for you, Sensei!"
The teacher looked at her eagerly.
"'Korosensei' it's a play on 'Sensei' and the Japanese word for unkillable!" Shion said, her golden eyes bright. The teacher snickered.
"Nryufufu- Korosensei!- I like it!" 'Korosensei' said, looking pleased. Ryu smiled despite himself.
"I still think pervy-sensei is more fitting." Echo whispered to Celesi.
This classroom sure was strange, and frustrating at times, and even scary, but Ryu wanted to actually do well in this assassination classroom. He felt a sudden resolve- he and his classmates would become assassins!
This chapter was hard to write, because I wanted to do the 'grenade scene' but I wanted it to be different from the original. In the original, Nagisa sort of get bullied into it because Terasaka and the gang want to money, but in this chapter, Ryu elects himself to do it, because the gang feel desperate to save the world.
Hope you like it!
Can't remember which reviews I replied to, so I'll reply to them all from the last chapter here;
HillariPanri91- Sorry for spelling the character's name wrong! I'm okay, Dyslexia isn't that serious (at least not for me) it just means it's hard to spell and read spellings right!
jenny77739- Thanks for the review!
Echo Shiona's creator- Thanks for all the reviews, I'm glad your so interested, I hope you like Echo in this chapter.
Blue-Black-Flames; Glad you liked the chapter! I think Pierre will make it interesting too, probably. Hope you liked this chapter too.
Squee the magical bunny- Thank you! I tried to add even more detail this chapter!
PrincessFairytale5- Thanks for the review! And yes, we have a lot of sadists and intense characters, but I guess that keeps it interesting
Meiko- Glad you liked the characterisation of your characters!
