EDsassination #4: The ED's Bad Case of Karma
(E-Class: Schoolyard)
Another day for the E-Class, only this time they weren't in the classroom. They were outside this time on the schoolyard, standing in the order that would be their seating order in the classroom. Wearing the school's designated gym uniforms: Blue and light blue sweaters and blue for the boys, and blue shorts with black leggings for the girl. Eddy had his blue sweater unzipped, showing his white shirt underneath. Double D had his completely closed. Edric wrapped his sweater around his waist with his bokuto hanging and wore a black shirt. Ed, however, was only wearing a tank-top and gray underwear.
"One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight!" The class chanted, as they swung their Anti-Sensei knives with each number they shouted, almost in perfect sync with each other. Except for Edric, he swung his Anti-Sensei bokuto he requested from Karasuma, away from the group since his sword may hit them.
"Ah, the sounds of a choreographed exercise regimen echoing across the field on a golden afternoon." Koro Sensei said, wearing an oversized white T-shirt that had a label that said his name on it, and with a red baseball hat on his head. He was twisting and turning a flower between his fingers. "So peaceful. So militant."
Standing next to him was Karasuma, the man from the government and the class's new PE teacher. The two of them were standing in front of the kids, watching them, while the man was instructing them.
"Make your knives sing. Treat every move like a legit kill strike!" He commanded. "No matter how you stand, don't lose your balance!"
Ed stopped for a moment to think, before smiling. He then stood on one foot like a ballerina. However, he proved to be a little top-heavy and fell over. Karasuma sighed in exasperation, still getting used to Big Ed's stupidity. He then turned to Korosensei.
"You're in the way here, pal. Phys Ed—"
"What?" Ed called out from where he was on the ground.
"He wasn't talking to you, Ed." Edric told him.
"PE is my department now." Karasuma finished.
"But…But I'm lonely." Koro Sensei complained.
"Find something else to do then, like, I didn't know." Karasuma pointed his thumb over his shoulder to a sandbox a few feet away behind them. "There's a sandbox. Have a field day."
Korosensei was soon in the sandbox, creating a sand mound while crying.
"You don't have to be so insensitive…" He whined. "The kids liked it better when I was their gym coach, anyhow."
The students all stopped to talk to the yellow teacher.
"Yeah, not so much." Sugaya sighed. "No offense or anything, it's just that when it comes to exercise, you…"
"...Set the bar kind of high." Sugino finished for him.
"Don't forget what happened to Ed yesterday?" Edric questioned, as he rested his Anti-Sensei bokuto on his right shoulder with Double D nodding.
(Flashback)
Yesterday, Koro Sensei was standing in front of three white lines that were drawn on the ground.
"Alright, let's start with a simple jumping side-to-side maneuver. Watch closely and I'll show you how it's done." He said as he used his super-speed to move side to side.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Everyone shouted.
"Once you've got the rhythm." He then had a red string with him and started doing a cat's cradle with it. "Throw some cat's cradle into the mix."
"WOW, HE'S SERIOUSLY GOOD!"
Koro Sensei then stopped and moved away to the side of the white lines. He then gestured to the ground.
"Who wants to go first?"
"I do! I do!" Ed exclaimed as he ran over to the white lines. He then grabbed one of his untied shoelaces and pulled it out of the shoe, destroying said shoe in the process. Getting ready, he then started.
Only he wasn't jumping side-to-side, he was shuffling his feet side-to-side at an unbelievable rate, to the point that his legs were like a blurring fan. Ed laughed as he then attempted to make a cat's cradle, but ended up tying the rope around his head, body, and arms. Then, to everyone's shock, Ed's shuffling ended up digging into the ground. Sending the strong Ed-boy drilling down into the ground.
Everyone stared at the square-like hole in complete and total shock at what had just happened.
"Ed?" Double D asked.
(Flashback ends)
(Back to now)
"And by the time we got him out, most of his clothes were burnt off!" Eddy exclaimed, gesturing to the almost naked Ed.
"Ed may be a freak of nature." Nakamure said with a smirk. "But there's no way we're going to keep up with that."
"We're human beings, y'know." Sugino said. "I, for one, think that our teacher should be one, too."
This, however, only seemed to shock Koro Sensei again, before he was depressed even more.
"Right! Back to work, people!" Karasuma told the students.
"Excuse me, Mr. Karasuma, sir?" Double D spoke up, panting and sweating more than another one else. Why did he have to lack so much physical strength? "I don't understand the reason for this sort of physical application practice. Especially with the fact that we're doing said application in front of the prime target."
"Whether studying or assassinating, it's the same principle." Karasuma told him. "Drill the basics and they'll serve you well."
(4th Wallbreak)
"He's right." Edric said to the readers. "Especially since Ed Edd n Eddy have never held a knife before coming here. Unlike me, who practiced with a sword before coming to Japan."
"Edric, Eddy. Step up." Karasuma called out his and Eddy's names as they did what they were told and stepped forward to stand a few feet in front of him. "I want you to attack with those knives."
"Eh… as a team?" Edric asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Are you sure?" Eddy asked.
"The blades are harmless aside from Edric's bokutos." Karasuma explained as he loosened his tie. "The knives weren't designed to injure human beings. Tell you what: manage to hit me, and you go home for the day."
This instantly got Eddy motivated, and he grinned.
"One hit coming right up!" He exclaimed and thrust his knife at Karasuma's head.
However, the gym teacher dodged it without a struggle. Stepping to the side to let Eddy stumble in his movement. Karasuma was about to say something when he noticed Edric coming at him from the side. He swung his Anti-Sensei bokuto at him, just like the shorter Ed-boy. Karasuma stepped to the side again. But to his almost surprise, Edric's attack changed quickly. The boy had retracted his arm back to his body, at speeds that Karasuma didn't expect for him to perform, and then swung the bokuto at him again.
'He's fast. Then again, he said he'd been practicing with his sword for a long time.' Karasuma thought but was able to push the arm away before the bokuto could get too close.
Backing away to let Eddy try and attack, Edric took a moment to think about what just happened. It wasn't so much that he was fast, but it was almost like when he tried to save Nagisa when he had that grenade. Even when practicing with Lake Kiryu, he'd never felt something like this before now. Once Eddy's slashing attack failed to hit him, he and Edric attacked him altogether. With Eddy first trying to stab him, to which Karasuma just pushed his arm aside. Then Edric has the chance to attack him. And then it happened. The same thing that happened when he tried to save Nagisa.
Time seemed to slow down for him.
It didn't feel like much, but it was slow enough for Eric to take in the moment. That's how he was able to see that toy grenade around Nagisa's neck and for his instincts to make him react fast enough to push him away and cut the string. And now this reaction time was acting up again. Letting him see himself and Karasuma moving a little slower than normal. Letting Edric see that Karasuma was using his hand to backhand his sword away. Time went back to normal and Edric stopped attacking, just like Eddy. While Eddy had time to figure out how he was able to block all of his, Edric was trying to figure out why time was slowing down for him.
It wasn't superpowers, that's for sure.
"See that, kids?" Karasuma said. "Even with the bare minimum know-how, I can practically dodge their attack in my sleep. They've got no technique."
"Dammit." Eddy hissed before he and Edric rushed at Karasuma again with Eddy went for a stab while he raised his sword and pointed it at their teacher.
Again, time slowed down for Edric, but it came too late, as the man grabbed their arms when they tried to stab him before he could break free then flipped the boys on their backs, slamming them hard against the ground. Letting go of their arms, he stood over them.
"If you can't land a hit against a guy like me, you ain't got a chance against a target whose speed is Mach 20." He told them, letting them know the harsh reality of things. The man then looked over at where Koro Sensei was. "See, we've been sparing for half a minute and look."
The two boys and the other students turned their heads. They saw that Koro Sensei was now wearing a green kimono with a darker green top over it, sitting on a purple covering with tea and everything to make tea in Japan, with an extremely well-done sandcastle of an Asian palace next to him.
"He's had time to change clothes, make tea, and build a sand model of Osaka Castle."
"That's so irritating!" Maehara complained.
"Oh yeah, he's really angry." Edric said with a deadpan expression. Karasuma then offered him and Eddy each a hand, which they accessed.
"That's why we drill. When the whole class can hit me, then you may have a shot." He said, pulling the two boys up on their feet, then readjusted his tie. "Do as I tell you as often as I tell you to do it, then you'll become assassins. This isn't recess, kids. For now on, gym class will be about the basics. Stabbing, correct use of firearms, everything you need to succeed."
"At least we'll be getting something useful from this." Edric said to himself.
"Alright, that's enough for today." Karasuma tells them.
Everyone then bowed their heads as they dispersed before heading back for the next period. Edric sighed and looked up at the sky. What was that anyway? Those slow moments? At first, when he tried to grab the grenade, he thought that it was an in the moment kind of thing. But here it was again.
"Are you two okay?" Double D asked them as he and Ed went to them.
"Yeah, it wasn't that bad." Eddy said, trying not to have his friends worry about him. Even though his back was killing him.
"Yeah, we're fine." Edric said. "It's just…"
"Just what, Edric?" asked Ed.
"…Nothing. I'll tell you guys later."
Yada, a few feet away from the Eds, joined up with Kurahashi and Rinka Hayami, a girl with green eyes and orange-brown hair that she wore in two low pigtails.
"This is so intense!" Yada said, looking at Karasuma as he stood next to Koro Sensei. "He's kinda scary but cool at the same time."
Koro Sensei and Edric heard this and flinched, before they started to tremble.
"I know." Kurahashi said. "He wants you to hurt him, but he'll pet you on the head if you do it right."
"He's a good coach." Rinka complemented.
Koro Sensei pulled out a handkerchief and bit on it, as he trembled and sweated. Edric glanced at his PE teacher with such jealousy while his friend gave him a weird look.
"I know what this is!" He growled, before looking at Karasuma, who put on his black suit. "You're trying to take my place as their favorite teacher!"
"Really? I'm here by assignment. Like it or not, as part of your contract, and I quote: 'All new hires regarding E-Class are solely the prerogative on Kunugigaoka junior high.'" Karasuma said, with his back facing the tentacle teacher. He quickly turned around and threw an Anti-Sensei knife at Koro Sensei. Koro Sensei quickly used Mach 20 to grab it with the handkerchief. "And, either way, this is not a popularity contest. It's my job. I'm here to help them kill you, pal."
"Could you not call me that, please?" Koro Sensei asked as he took off the hat that went with the kimono and put on his usual hat. "I prefer the name my students gave me. So that's Koro Sensei to you."
As they were talking, the Eds were watching them from afar while Edric was still glaring at Karasuma and grinding his teeth with jealousy.
"Man, this is gonna suck hard." Eddy complained, rubbing his sore back. It was bad enough that they had to kill the fastest thing alive, but now they had a hardcore gym teacher.
"Yeah, tell me about it." The four heard Sugino say, which they turned towards him and saw he and Nagisa approach them. "And what's worse is that we've got a quiz in sixth period."
"Ah, shit. Now I really wished we won against Karasuma." Eddy whined, causing the others to laugh a little.
Edric stopped laughing after a moment, but then he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Prompting him to turn his head to look at what it was.
"Right?" Nagisa said after laughing, "They should let us go home after gym."
"Oi." Edric spoke out, catching everyone's attention, seeing him stare at something. He then pointed at the thing he was looking at. "Who's that?"
They all looked at where he was pointing to. The Eds and Sugino were confused, but when Nagisa saw who it was, he gasped.
Standing on top of the hill that the schoolhouse was placed on and holding a juice box was a teenage boy. The boy's skin was pale, his short hair was red, his body was slender, and his eyes were pale, sharp and colored either mercury or goldish. Unlike the other students, he wore a black blazer.
"Nagisa, 'sup?" The mysterious kid said innocently. "It's been a while."
"Karma?" Nagisa said, attracting the attention of the Eds. "You're back?"
"You know this person?" Double D asked.
"And what do you mean by back?" Edric asked as well, putting his hands in his pockets.
(Cue Tougenkyou Alien by serial TV Drama)
(Instrumental)
(Then scene pans at the city of Tokyo, Japan. Edric walked in facing backwards as he turned around and gave a biggest goofiest smile. The scene changed to Kunugigaoka Junior High as pans away. Eddy and Ed came next as the two did the same thing as Edric. Then changed to the E-Class building in the mountain as it zooms closer. Double D came last as he gave his smile. The scene zooms to the classroom, in which no one was there except Koro Sensei with his arms wiggling about and giving his signature smile as the title appeared.)
Ed Edd Eddy n Edric: The EDsassination Classroom
{Sunda hitomi ga yobisamasu wasurekaketeta seigikan seigikan}
'My dead eyes are woken up by the sense of justice, a sense of justice I had forgotten.
{sui mo amai mo shaburi tsukusu kyou no TĒMA wa kanzen chou aku sa}
'Sour or sweet, I'll gobble them all down. Today's theme is rewarding good and punishing evil.'
(Edric was walking towards the halls of his dorm room, making his way to the bathroom, yawning. He picked his nose as his 13 year old self appeared behind him as did his 7 year old self. The scene changed to him sitting at the table with the other Eds as he drank his cola before throwing it away, hitting Eddy on the head, and ate his red bean paste on rice. Then Edrice was standing on top of the mountain, viewing Kunugigaoka Junior High and Tokyo from afar. The screen panned to the E class building as it gradually moved to the classroom, where Nagisa and Kayano by their desk as they looked up smiling, Karma glanced up and smirked, The Eds sat by their desk while Edric leaned back before looking up and smiled.)
{sanbuntekina kuchiburi de yatara usobuku EIRIAN EIRIAN}
'With a commoners' speak. Randomly cry, "Alien! Alien!"'
{norarikurari to tsumibukaki tougenkyou ni GUDDOBAI shitan naraba}
'Evasive and sinful, if you've said your goodbyes to Shangri-La.'
(Yada, Kanzaki and Nakamura talked as they walked to the building. Nakamura decided to tease them a little as Yada blushed while Kanzaki simply smiled. Transition to Koro Sensei as he wiggled around before he split into nine and posed. Changed to Takebayashi and Okajima chat about the maid cafes with the Okajima gushing about the girls there on their way home. They then turned to see the Eds coming at them in a makeshift go cart with Edric driving, freaking them out, as they passed by them.)
{risou ni chuujitsu na ooh kibou wa mada sutete wa ikenai sa}
'You must not yet. Ooh, Throw away a hope that is loyal to your standards.'
(Nagisa and Kayano were driving their go cart with Karma with a Anti-Sensei rocket launcher and Sugino hanging on. Terasaka and his entourage were running with Ritsu on wheels, carrying Hara, Kurahash, Hazama and Okuda joining with Takebayashi and Okajima. Yada, Kanzaki and Nakamura were on theirs while Okano used skates. Fuwa pointed forwards as she's with Maehara and Mimura in their go cart. Isogai drove his cart with a nervous laugh while Kataoka sighed. Chiba and Hayami drove theirs with guns in hand. Kimura drove with Sugaya drawn in his sketchbook. Itona drove a makeshift motorcycle. Then Karma fired his launcher as it was going towards the Eds as they screamed in panic as it exploded into them.)
{SHĪSŌ GEMU wa tsudzuiteku sou sou bokura mo yuzurenai}
'The seesaw game is continuing. Yeah, Yeah, and we won't give up.
{shinkenshoubu ni yami tsuki de mou doushitatte yamerarenai ya iya}
'Addicted to full-on fighting, I just don't know what to do, I can't quit now-owow.'
(The scene changed to the forest in the mountains where Edric was running in a military uniform as he wielded his Anti-Sensei bokuto in blue paint as he slashed his opposing students with it in a battle cry. The Eds joined him as they fought off as the scene changed to Takaoka with Smog, Grip and Gastro. Then the screen panned up to see Shiro along with the Reaper as he showed his frightening smile. Karasuma was having a meeting with his superiors before turning around and walking away as the scene flashed into Irina in her casual look, then to Gakuha Asano in his office, then to Aguri Yukimura in her lab coat.)
{unmeiron nante zenzen kankeinai}
'Fatality doesn't matter at all.
{isshokenmei da da da}
'With all you've got, yell 'Da! Da! Da!''
(The Eds emerged from the smoke from earlier and drove as fast as they could while Karma kept firing at them. The mountain was seen as explosions were seen as they gradually went down. The Eds stops at the fence of the school as Edric skidded, leaving tire marks on the ground. Edrice then faces the screen with a 'da' followed by Ed Edd n Eddy then Koro Sensei appearing above the Eds.)
EDsassination #4: The ED's Bad Case of Karma
This Karma person then looked up and noticed Koro Sensei. And then he surprised the four American students starting to walk towards him.
"Oh hey, that must be the notorious Koro Sensei." He said, walking past the Eds, Nagisa, and Sugino, while everyone else stared at him. "Wow. He really does look like an octopus."
(4th Wallbreak)
"Something wasn't right about this Karma character, I couldn't put my finger on it at that moment. However, I was going to get my answer real soon." Edric said to the readers before looking back at Karma, who stopped in front of Koro Sensei.
"Ah, Akabane-san, correct? I understand that your suspension ends today. Welcome back." Koro Sensei said.
"Suspension?" Double D asked.
"That said, tardiness is a no-no." Koro Sensei continued before his head turned purple and an X appeared on it.
"It's kind of tricky getting back into the swing of things. Oh, and feel free to call me by my first name." Karma chuckled for a moment. The redhead then reached out his hand to Koro Sensei, offering a handshake. "Anyway, I've heard some good things, teach. it's nice to meet you."
"Pleasure's all mine. Should be a fun and educational year." Korosensei reached his tentacle out towards his hand and grabbed it.
POP!
But as soon as Karma's fingers gripped the tentacle hand, the thing popped and was destroyed. This shocked Koro Sensei for a brief moment. Karma then suddenly dropped his juice box and an Anti-Sensei blade came out of his left sleeve. He then swiped it at the teacher, but Koro Sensei quickly dodged it and retreated a few feet away.
"Ah. You are fast, aren't you?" Karma laughed, seeming to be impressed and pleased. He then looked at the hand he used to destroy the tentacle with, looking at the multiple green strips pieces that were attached to his paw and the underside of his fingers. "And who'd thought these knives actually work? I just cut one into small strips and tacked 'em on. Pretty elementary stuff, chief. I'm disappointed that that's all it took to catch you by surprise. But good jump, if you don't like coming off like a 'fraidy cat. What, are you scared of me?"
"I don't believe it?" Eddy muttered, as he and every other person on the field stared at them in shock. "He got him. Other than Scar boy, he actually got him."
"And he did it with such ease." Double D said, before Koro Sensei's arm reformed.
"I've heard that they call you 'Koro Sensei' because you're supposed to be unkillable." Karma said, before stopping half a foot in front of him, making the tentacle creature flinch and move back an inch. Karma then leaned forward and turned his head to look up at the teacher, as any and all sense of charm was replaced with a sadistic glee on his face. "Oh come on. There's no way you could be this big of a pushover."
This got Koro Sensei's face to turn red and veins to throb and growled in frustration. Kayano joined up with the Eds and Nagisa.
"Hey, Nagisa." She caught his attention. "What kind of person is this Karma guy?"
"Is he your boyfriend?" Ed asked with a smile, which made Eddy and Edric burst out into laughter if the former wasn't covering his mouth.
Nagisa on the other hand, look annoyed, as the dumb Ed always mixed up his gender. He couldn't blame him that much, but it was now getting old.
"I'm still a boy, Ed. I like girls. And…well. He and I were in the same class our first and second year." He explained. The Eds and Kayano looked back at Koro Sensei and Karma, watching as the new student was now walking away. "He was violent, so violent they finally expelled him and shipped him here. E-Class is where they send you here when they don't know what else to do with you. Thing is, under the circumstances, he may end up a star student other than Edric."
"What do you mean?" asked Eddy, watching as Karma twirled his knife around with his fingers.
"Weapons and blood are his passion." Nagisa told them. "Trust me, if anyone can kill our teacher, it's Karma."
"Oi." Nagisa turned to Edric, who was giving him a deadpan glare with his dead fish eyes making it intense. "Are you saying I can't kill Koro Sensei?"
"Ack!?" Nagisa realizes his mistake and tries to resolve the situation he's in. "Well, it just that, he got his hand while you got the finger so I figured-"
Then he felt his head suddenly gripped as he could see Edric got his hands on his head in a death grip.
"Say that, again. I dare you." Edric spoke in a dangerous tone, making Nagisa a bit nervous. His eyes then became blood shot as he stared at the fem-boy more intensively. "I'll stick you into a nearby rocket and send you to the dark corners of the broken moon!"
"Calm down, Edric!" Nagisa tried to get out of his dead grip, but Edric was holding him with such fervor.
The Eds, Sugino and Kayano watched Edric deliver his divine punishment to their blue-haired friend. Kayano and Sugino sweatdropped while the Eds looked at him in pity, having at the end of Edric's wrath since they met him.
"He's screwed." The Eds said Kayano and Sugio looked at them in shock.
(Sixth period)
PLOP!
PLOP!
PLOP!
Later on, in Class 3-E, the students started taking the quiz that Sugino was talking about. The only sounds in the classroom were squishing sounds repeatedly being made by Koro Sensei's fist, as he faced the wall and softly punched it over and over again.
PLOP!
PLOP!
PLOP!
These sounds, however, greatly distracted the students, who were taking the quiz.
"Oi, he's been at this for a while now." Edric whispered. "What the hell's he doing?"
"I don't know." Yada whispered to him. "I think he's punching the wall."
"I think our teacher's odd behavior derives from our new companion's success in destroying his tentacle." Double D explained. "In doing so, caused him to hit a nerve in Koro sensei. Explaining why he's hitting the wall, despite not doing anything to it."
Koro Sensei's Weak Point #4: His punches are soft.
Eddy gritted his teeth as he tried to ignore the sounds and work on his test before his anger couldn't be contained anymore.
"WILL YOU KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY?" He shouted, startling Koro Sensei and the other students. "WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE A QUIZ HERE, OCTO-HEAD!"
"S-Sorry! Yes, absolutely." Koro Sensei said.
Meanwhile, in the back of the room, Teraska, Yoshida, and Muramatsu were talking to Karma, who was placed in the back with them. With one other desk in between him and Teraska.
"You sure know what you're getting yourself into, Karma?" Terasaka asked him. "The jellyfish is sincerely pissed off at you."
"You can't pay me enough to be in your shoes." Yoshida said.
"If I was you, I'd stay at home with my head under a pillow." Muramatsu said.
"'Course he's pissed." Karma said, who was unfazed and smiled at them. "Who wouldn't be if someone made an attempt on their life? Unless it was a would-be assassin screwed up and pissed himself in the process."
"I didn't piss myself!" Terasaka exclaimed as he hit his fist on his desk and glared at the redhead. "That attitude's gonna get your ass kicked-!"
"Quiet, please!" Koro Sensei scolded them from the front of the class. "No noise during a quiz!"
"You're one to talk." Edric muttered.
"Tell that to your tentacles." Maehara tells him.
"Continue to talk, and I will assume that you're cheating!" Koro Sensei warned them.
"Sorry, Koro Sensei, my bad. No worries, I've already finished." Karma apologized with fake innocence. He then pulled out a pink gelato from under his desk. "I'm just gonna eat this gelato if that's okay."
"Not so fast! No eating in class!" He then paused for a moment to stare at the gelato for a moment, seeing it was rather familiar to him. Once it hit him, he freaked out. "Hey! That's the gelato I brought back from Italy yesterday!"
'Uh-oh.' Everyone else sighed in exasperation.
"Huh? Sorry. My bad, I just found it chilling in the faculty room." Karma said his excuse before he took a lick of it.
"This won't do, young man!" Koro Sensei exclaimed. "I flew to the coldest layer of the stratosphere to keep that delicious treat from melting!"
"Yeah? So? Whaddya you do?" Karma asked, taking another link of the gelato. "Hit me?"
"Of course not ! I'll just simply have it back and finish what's left of it, thank you very much!" Koro Sensei answered with a red, vein throbbing head and he passed between EDric's and Double D's row, with the former having a hand to his face. All Edric wanted was to take a quiz, but no his teacher was even too stupid enough to walk into an obvious trap.
SPLAT!
And a trap it was, as Koro Sensei felt one of his tentacle feet get destroyed, making him stop and look down. Anti-Sensei BB pellets all over the floor in front of him.
"Anti-Me BBs?!" He gasped before Karma pulled out his M1911 Airsoft pistol and started shooting at him, forcing the teacher to dodge left and right. Karma chuckled for a moment.
"Wow, that's twice in one day, Teach. I'm gonna keep pulling the same old tricks. Class will get interrupted, our grades will slip." He laughful mocked him as he approached the octopus with his gun aimed at him. Karma stopped when the barrel of the gun was touching Korosensei. "Let's be straight up, though. If you want this to stop, you can just kill me or anyone else in this class for that matter."
"You just gotta let go of wanting us to see you as a teacher." He dropped the gelato onto the teacher's tentacles. "Give us a taste of your ugly side. Or you can make peace with all of this, and accept that I'll be the one to kill you."
"Oi! Teme!" Edric exclaimed, looking over his shoulder at the redhead, getting his and Koro Sensei's attention. "Do your sick little games on your own time! Some of us actually want to pass this class!"
"Game? What, you don't like games, or don't want to kill him? You just want to do boring schoolwork?" Karma asked innocently, before walking past Koro Sensei towards him. He stopped at the left side of his and leaned towards him, which didn't scare or make Edric flinch. "My, you're a scary-looking one, aren't you? Those eyes are dead as a fish, but with that scar? Must be pretty bad for you in the normal world, huh? Always getting stares and people being afraid to walk up to you."
Edric only scrowled but didn't say anything and just stared at him, trying to keep his cool with the punk. The Eds, on the other hand, stared at Karma with uncertainty, wondering what they should do.
"So why not tell us." He pointed to his scar, having no real shame in the buttons he's pushing with Edric. "What really happened to get that scar of yours?"
Before he or anyone knew it, Edric drew his Anti-Sensei bokuto quickly and stopped near Karma's neck. Karma was a little surprised by this but kept his cool and smile. He grabbed his sword and tried to pull it away but to his further surprise, he couldn't get it free. He then attempted to do it again but it wouldn't budge, only felt like it was getting closer and closer to his neck. All students around them were watching with worried expressions, especially the Ed's. Yada looked as worried as them, knowing that he was sensitive about his scar. But this is the first time he's done something like this.
"You should mind your own business, konoyaro." Edric told him with a calm tone that was hiding anger. Looking at him with such intensity that he could look like a demon. "Or else you might be in trouble one of these days."
"My bad." Karma said, his smile twitching. "I must have forgotten my manners."
"Mr. Akabane!"
Both Karma and Edric looked towards Double D, who was standing up from his desk and glaring at the red-haired boy.
"I admit your skills as an efficient killer are to be recognized. However, I will not stand for this sort of behavior towards my fellow classmates, thank you." He scolded him.
"Like I said, I forgot my manners." He said with fake innocence as Eric let go of Karma's finger. "However, I thought it wasn't allowed for students to wear hats."
Double D's brave domineer drops into nervousness. "Huh?"
"I'm afraid he's right, Double D." Koro Sensei said. "I'm going to have to ask you to remove your hat."
"I-I-I don't feel comfortable with taking off my hat sir." Double D said fearfully. He instinctively grabbed the edge of his hat and pulled it down a little, trying to keep it from coming off. "I immediately request that you allow me to—"
He was interrupted when Karma grabbed the top of his hat.
"Oh, don't be a big baby." He said, before pulling on it. But Double D used every ounce of his strength to keep it on.
"NO! PLEASE STOP!"
"Uh, Karma..." said Edric, feeling worried for his friend and what would happen if Karma successfully pulled the hat off. "I really think you shouldn't do that."
"KARMA, PLEASE!" Double D yelled as everyone watched as Karma was now stretching the hat beyond any limit they thought it would go. "IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS INSTANT, I'LL—I'LL DO SOMETHING YOU WOULD LIKE!"
POP!
But in the end, his strength was no match for Karma's, and the hat came off with a pop…
A tumbleweed rolled past the schoolhouse outside.
"..."
"..."
"..."
Silence filled the classroom, as everyone except the Eds, Karma, and Koro Sensei, turned completely white with comical white whites and hanging jaws, as they stared in shock and horror at Double D's head.
"…Oh my." Koro Sensei whispered.
"Oh shit." Edric said before facepalming himself in annoyance. "There goes our popularity."
Double D hid his head inside his uniform like a turtle, with only his face being seen in the neck of the blazer and dress shirt. He looked fearfully at the other students.
"If any of you say one word to anyone I'll never speak to you all again!"
Eddy, on the other hand, covered his eyes overdramatically.
"Oh, the horror! The inhumanity!"
"You stop that!" Double D glared and pointed at him. But Eddy only giggled.
"Does it hurt, Double D?" Ed asked.
"Oh hush!" He snatched his hat away from Karma, who wasn't as overdramatic as the other and still had his colors, was pretty much petrified with his eyes staring at Double D's head. He sprayed the inside of his hat with disinfectant. "I ask for a normal for once in my life and this is what I get!"
"This is the part where you walk away." Edric whispered to Karma.
"Uh…right." He surprisingly agreed, before throwing his quiz at Koro Sensei, then walking out of the room without saying a word. Still trying to process what he just saw. After watching him leave, Edric turned his head back to the other students, who were still frozen in pale shock.
"OI! WHAT ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT!?" He roared at them, getting the students to break their line of sight from Double D and go back to work.
Letting out a sigh, Edric looked back at the closed door to the room and stared at it for a moment. Yada noticed this from behind him and felt a little worried about him.
"You okay?" She asked.
"I'll be fine." Edric replied and went back to working on the test.
(4th Wallbreak)
"I'm sorry you had to see that, but as you may have guessed, my scar is a touchy subject. Same with Double D and his hat. However, after talking to Nagisa, we found out that's the kind of guy Karma is. He knew my scar wasn't a button I wanted people to push and he did. And he saw it with Double D and his hat." Edric tells the readers before looking at where Karma left. "But I don't think he was prepared to see what was under it. But more importantly, with his incredible quick-wits drew a line Koro Sensei couldn't cross without changing the way we all saw him. He's going to keep using the same cheap tactic against him. Karma was intelligent. He can be manipulative. He's ice-cold. Nagisa even said that he'll see what makes you tick and how to exploit it. If that was the case, our chances of killing Koro Sensei are slim to none."
(With Koro Sensei)
Koro Sensei was now flying through the sky at Mach 20 speed on his way to Italy to buy another gelato to replace what Karma took from him.
"That boy…he's left me with no choice but to buy another gelato." He said, holding the test score with Karma's on the top with a 100% score. "He's sharp. Deviously clever. Mustn't let him bait me. Mustn't give him the satisfaction of losing my temper and killing him. I am the teacher, he is the student. Yes, indeed. I'll have to be exceptionally careful with that one."
He then sped up across the ocean water to reach his destination and dessert.
(After school)
"Time slowed down?" Nagisa asked Edric with astonishment. He and the Eds were walking through the train station to go home. The Eds were almost glad to find out that Nagisa was going on the same train as them.
"Well, not exactly." Edric said. He'd told them about the weird phenomena that happened during his and Eddy's spar with Karasuma. "It wasn't like I was moving faster than him, more like my reaction, brain and instincts were reading his movements faster than he could move. It's also the reason why I was able to push you out and cut the string from that toy grenade that day."
"Talk about rad." Eddy said with a grin.
"I'm also impressed." Double D said before thinking for a moment. "However, I am curious about your unusual ability."
"Oh! Oh! I know! You're a superhero!" Ed exclaimed as he grabbed Edric by the arm and turned him around. He then picked him up with a big happy grin. He then used one arm to hug him close to his left side, while using his other arm to help him narrate "It was then in your desperate effort to save your new friend, you called upon the powers within you to slow time down and cut the grenade! But you were too late for—"
"I don't have superpowers, Ed!" Edric exclaimed as he pushed himself away from Ed, freeing himself from the big Ed's grasp. "I'm sure that there is a reason for it."
"Y-Yeah." Nagisa said, still getting used to how weird they could be with each other. "Anyways, let's get home."
They were about to continue on their way when they heard two voices talking to each other. With one of them mentioning Nagisa's name.
"Are you kidding me? Is that actually Nagisa? And is he hanging out with those trophy wreckers?" The fatter student with short spiky black hair, Nobuta Tanaka, asked. Edric looked at them, seeing that they were looking at them with arrogant expression.
"Oi,you have a problem with me and my friends?" He demanded, as the Eds turned to look at them. Nagisa was a little surprised that the four of them were actually defending him, even against two upperclassmen.
"You better watch your tone with us, American." The one with glasses and kept black hair, Chousuke Takada, said. "You're the ones that destroyed the school's trophy case. We tend to take that personally."
"What part of it was an accident don't you understand, Four-eyes!?" Eddy exclaimed, glaring at them.
"And even with all the apologies, it still wasn't enough to keep you out of where you belong." Tanaka said as he walked up to them with his nose up. He then looked at Edric and smirked. "And I can see why they'd send you to E-Class with that Akabane-nut."
"Ooh! Dude! No kidding? I'd rather be dead than stuck in a classroom with that freak and dead eyes!" Takada said.
CRASH!
The two students freaked with terrified expressions when they heard a glass break nearby followed by a familiar voice. The familiar voice was Karma's, who was standing behind them with a smile on his face with a broken glass bottle in his hand, making those two backed away in terror.
"Seriously? Because I can help you out with that. It'd be messy, but real quick." Karma said, pointing the bottle at the two upperclassmen.
"I'd rather live, thanks! Run away" Tanaka and Takada ran away in panic, before screaming as they ran away. The sight of them running away was enough to make Edric, Eddy and Ed laugh.
"Oh, man!" The short Ed-Boy laughed, wiping a tear from his eye. "Talk about putting them in their place, huh?"
"What can I say? I can be quite the convincer. Like I'd actually do anything, right? I'm not going to risk another suspension with the once in a lifetime deal they're giving me in E-Class." Karma said, shrugging with fake innocence as he threw away the bottle. He then looked at Nagisa and smiled. "Hey Nagisa, is it cool if I pick your brain for a sec?"
"Uh—yeah, sure." Nagisa said. Karma then turned to Edric.
"Hey, sorry about before, but I was also hoping you'd help out here too." Karma said. Edric stared at him suspiciously for a second before he sighs and rubbed his head.
"Alright, fine." He said before pointing at him. "But I don't wanna see any funny business from you."
"Sure, sure." Karma told them before they all continued their walk. "Word is that you four have been keeping notes on the octopus."
"That's Nagisa's department." Double D corrects him. "We on the hand help plan and keep a record of all assassination attempts."
"All to make sure he doesn't…uh…" Ed stopped and thought for a second. "What does he do?"
"Probably what the octopus thinks." Eddy said.
"Does he hate that nickname? Us calling him 'octopus', I mean?" Karma asked.
"I think it's more of the opposite." Nagisa said.
"Indeed." Double D adds. "When he draws himself, it's always an octopus. And it seems as though our teacher uses an octopus avatar for his player character in a video game. Not to mention he makes himself an octopus trap in the sandbox."
"It's almost like a running one-line gag." Edric commented. "His own trademark, even."
"Does he?" Karma said, placing a hand on his chin. "That's good. Oh, this is gonna be friggin' epic."
"I know that look." Nagisa said. "You're cooking up something really dark."
"If that's the case, then you have to share it with the rest of us." Edric took a step towards him, trying to see if he could reason with the troubled teen. "Like it or not, everyone in E-Class is in this assassination. You probably know about our EDsassination Plan, so it's important that we all contribute to Koro Sensei's death."
"I don't think you truly understand what I'm getting at. I was into this when I thought he was just a monster, but now that I know what his personality is like…" Karma turned to face them. A train zoomed by behind him, as the setting sun shined on one side of his body. This seemed to transform him into someone else. Someone whose eyes and smile showed the evil and disregard for life they truly had in them. "…I finally got to kill an honest-to-goodness teacher! I've been dreaming of this. Ever since my last teacher up and died."
The Eds along with Nagisa looked at him with increased worry and freight. Karma wasn't just a troubled teen. The guy was a loose cannon. Ed divided behind Eddy, looking over his shoulder to talk to his friend.
"Karma's dark side makes my armpits sweat, Eddy." He said, making Eddy push him away with disgust.
"What doesn't?"
(The Next Day)
The next morning came, and school was about to begin. Koro Sensei was making his way down the hallway to his class. His head was hanging low as he looked miserably at a little purse that had yens in it.
"My gelato funds..." He sobs upon his predicament. "...gone. Pinched right out from under my nose. And with payday an eternity away. I guess I'll have to make my own now."
He then continued on to his class. But in the very same classroom, Edric felt his heart pounding. Pounding in anticipation. And the same could be with the students of E-Class. When the door did open, Koro Sensei entered and greeted them
"Good morning, boys and girls."
"..."
No one said a thing. All they did was keep their heads down. Even Ed, who'd greet him with either a hello or some random word, didn't say anything.
"Uh? Why the long faces?" He asked, turning his head to his desk. "Did something—"
He stopped himself right here when he looked at his desk and saw a dead octopus with an ice pick stabbed in between its eyes.
"Oops! That's on me." Karma said from his seat. "Yeah, totally thought it was you. Innocent mistake. I stabbed it so I suppose I should get rid of it?"
"Yes, you should." Koro Sensei sighed in irk, grabbing the octopus before making his way to him.
'Bring it on, Koro Sensei.' Karma thought with an Anti-Sensei knife behind his back. 'No worries, I don't plan on killing you physically, yet. It's more fun to watch your spirit die first.'
Edric, however, knew that that's what Karma wanted him to do. For Koro Sensei to go towards him willingly to try and either stab or shoot him. He had used the same tactic before yesterday, and it was successful. However, there was another reason why they had the EDsassination Plan: Koro Sensei didn't fall for the same tricks. His theory was proven correct when Koro Sensei stopped, raised a few of his tentacles, and surprisingly turned the ends into drills. Catching Karma off guard. Koro Sensei speeded out of the room and came back in. Much to their shock, he held in his arms the same missile the Self-Defense Force shot at him, while also holding up a bag of supplies.
"Observe, if you will, Karma m'boy! The versatility of these tentacles and the firepower of this missile yoinked from the Self Defense Force!" He exclaimed before the thrusters ignited. Karma looked at him a bit stunned.
"If you think I'm gonna let the new kid get away with murder..." He said, as his tentacle went to work cooking, mixing, and cutting food that he got out of the bag and was cooking over the fire coming out of the thruster. "...think again."
Karma then felt something stuffed in his mouth. He quickly spits it out.
"Don't you know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?" Korosensei asked, holding up a small, curved, wooden tray that had more of what he put in the teen's mouth, which was small food balls that were steaming. He picked one of the takoyaki with a drill tentacle and held it out to Karma. "Your complexion tells me that you haven't eaten. So please, help yourself to some of this delicious takoyaki, I insist."
His response from Karma was a soft growl.
"You see...I'm a giver. I take care of a lot of things. Hungry students, would-be assassins, troubled teens." He then opened his mouth, releasing steam and showing that he had the takoyaki in it as steam came out of his mouth. "Every attempt on my life is an opportunity for me to play my part. So by all means, keep at it. By the end of the day, If your body and mind aren't aglow with health and knowledge, I haven't done my job."
"Oi, Cannibal Sensei." Edric raised his hand. "Why do you have to be so cruel to your kind?"
"Gah?!" Koro Sensei screamed from another insulting nickname Edric gave him.
"So, Koro Sensei is a cannibal…" Nagisa muttered, writing another fact down in his notebook. "...eats his own kind."
"I am not a cannibal!" The teacher comedically shouted before he turned to the other students. "Does anyone want this takoyaki?"
"I DO! I DO!" Ed yelled, causing many to stare at him. Koro Sensei extended his arm to give him the takoyaki.
"Here you go, Ed." He said, but Edric quickly looked panicked. Ed was about to grab one before Edric shot up from his seat.
"Matte! Matte! Matte! Matte!" He shouted, surprising everyone for a moment. "Do those takoyaki have any eels?!"
"Ah, no?" Koro Sensei said, questioning more than telling. Edric sighed in relief.
"Oh okay. Go ahead, Ed." He told Ed.
Ed grinned and grabbed the wooden tray from Korosensei and stuffed it in his mouth, shocking everyone. He then pulled out the tray, showing it was clear of the takoyaki but was dripping with his saliva. A moment later and steam was coming out of his ears.
"Tasty." Ed said.
"What happens if he eats eels?" Nakamura asked Eddy.
"You don't wanna know." Eddy tells her.
And so, Karma's attempt continues.
(First Period)
During 1st period: Mathematics, Koro Sensei was writing out…well, mathematics obviously.
"As you can see, whatever we do, this number remains. Now, I know the concept of indivisibility is a beast." He explains to them. "But, if its fangs frighten you, I have a surefire method for taming it."
Curious, Edric looked over his shoulder to look at Karma. He saw that the redhead wasn't taking notes like everyone else was. Leaning back in his chair, Karma stared at Koro Sensei with a smile. He pulled his gun out from his blazer.
"See if you can get the gist as I write out on the board."
Karma pointed the gun at Koro Sensei. However, before he could pull the trigger, Koro Sensei's arm was a blur as it grabbed the weapon out of his hand.
"Karma." Koro Sensei said, looking over his shoulder while holding up the gun he snatched. "It takes an Anti-Me BB far too long to reach its mark."
Karma was surprised to notice he wasn't holding the gun anymore but was even more shocked when he saw his nails had nail art on them of takoyaki and an octopus, much to his chagrin.
"I had time on my hands." Koro Sensei held up the beauty supplies used, as Karma growled. "I hope you don't mind if I prettify yours."
Eddy chuckled at him, while Edric sighed and leaned on his desk.
(Time Skip - Fourth Period)
It was the 4th period now, and the class was now doing Home Economics. Each student was to pair up in a group of two and had to wear an apron and bandana on their heads. At one table, Edric and Yada were working on their soup. Same with Double D and Eddy to their right, and Ed and Fuwa.
"Okay, it looks like we're going to have to add some spice to the soup." Yada said to him, pointing it out to him, as Edric leaned over to look for himself. They both agreed that he'd cook the soup, while she told him the directions from the cookbook.
"Got it." He grabbed the spice shaker and shook some spice into the pot. Afterward, Edric took a spoon they were using to taste and dipped it into the soup. Bringing it out, he sips it and savors the taste before he smiles. "That'll do."
"You sure know how to cook." She said with a smile.
"Someone had to." Edric said, glancing at Eddy with his eyes half-lidded. "Especially with the number of scams we went through every week."
"Indeed. And whatever scams involved food, we used anything we could get our hands-on." Double D scowled at Eddy, who glared back at him. "Instead of getting actual food supplies."
"Hey, we used real food in some of those scams." Eddy retorted.
"Like when we made the world's biggest pancake!" Ed exclaimed cheerfully.
"Really?" Fuwa asked.
"Ed, for the last time, we never made that pancake." Edric told him as he gave Ed a deadpan.
"Says you." Ed said snobbyly as he shook spice into his and Fuwa's soup. Afterward, he tasted said soup, smacked his lips and went 'Mhmm…Hmm…' then handed the soup to his partner. "It tastes fine to me!"
Fuwa took the spoon and tried it for herself. She then looked puzzled. A second later, Koro Sensei came around to their table, wearing his apron and bandana.
"Let's see now. How'd the two of you do, Fuwa, Ed?" He asked them.
"I'm...not totally sure." She admitted. "It's got a bizarre tangy flavor to it for some reason."
"Maybe you need a mango with it?" Ed suggested, pulling out a mango fruit out of nowhere.
"Let's give it a taste." Koro Sensei tasted the soup with a spoon. Karma then walked to them.
"Probably easier if you just start over from scratch. Why not toss it out?" He said. He suddenly hit his fist on the handle of the pot causing the soup to fly out. Karma used the distraction to swipe his knife at Koro Sensei.
"We wear an apron in Home Ec, Karma." Koro Sensei told him, in the blink of an eye, the soup was flying everywhere, the pot was in Koro Sensei's grasp, and Karma was now wearing a pink apron with hearts and flowers and a red bandana. The troubled teen took a moment to be shocked as to what he was now wearing. "Oh, and don't worry: the soup is fine. I siphoned it out of thin air and put it back in the pot. I also added a dash of sugar."
He then lowered the pot down to Fuwa and Ed's level. Ed and Fuwa both used spoons to try out the soup and were amazed by the taste.
"That's exactly what it needed!" Fuwa exclaimed in joy.
"Heh, cute outfit." Terasake laughed, making fun of Karma's predicament.
Karma growled angrily and ripped off the bandana, while the students around him started to giggle and snicker at him.
"He sure is giving you the special treatment." Eddy mocked him while laughing.
(4th Wallbreak)
"It was useless." Edric tells the readers. "Koro Sensei had plenty of weaknesses. We all do. That's what makes us human. He blunders often, and when confused, his reaction speed falls to ordinary levels. However, no matter how good Karma may be at surprise attacks, without a doubt in my mind, this EDsassination seemed impossible before the octopus' vigilance."
(After School)
The Eds and Nagisa followed Karma as he sat down on a tree that was hanging and stretching off of a high cliff, as the sky had turned gray and the winds picked up. This was one of the only places on the mountain that had this sort of cliff, and the only one to have the tree. As the five boys stared at the troubled teen's back, it didn't take Double D to point out that he was frustrated. Even Ed could see it. They could tell just by the way he was biting his nail.
"Oh get over it you big baby!" Eddy exclaimed harshly. "So you failed, big deal. We fail almost all the time and you think we stress about it."
"If he smelt it, dealt it, Eddy." Ed said.
"I agree with Ed, Eddy. You were stressed about your failures before." Double D pointed out before looking at Karma. "But please don't be impatient about not succeeding, Karma. We'll all follow the EDsassination Plan and kill him together, as a team!"
"Your plan may have worked yesterday, but there's no fooling the octopus twice." Edric told him, crossing his arms.
"They're right, Karma." Nagisa pitched in. "You could have the sneakiest, most foolproof plan in the world ready to go, but if Koro Sensei got his eye on you, forget it. He's not like other teachers."
"Other teachers, huh? No..." Karma whispered, it caught Karma's attention. He remembered a teacher before his suspension. One that knew about his problematic ways, but assured him that he was in good hands with him. "You don't understand, I want to do it on my own. Let me ask you, would it tick you off to die in some random place?"
"Oh Karma?"
The Eds, Nagisa, and Karma turned their heads towards the direction of the voice and saw Koro Sensei slithering towards them.
"I feel like I've taken exceptionally good care of you today." He said before the green strips appeared on his face. "Keep trying to kill me if that tickles your fancy. I certainly don't get tired of spiffing you up."
"Just so that we're on the same page here." Karma said as he smiled, before standing on the trunk of the sideward tree. "You pretty much consider yourself a teacher of all else?"
"That's right." Koro Sensei nodded.
"Cool. And you wouldn't think twice about putting your life on the line to save a student?" Karma asked, raising Edric's suspicion of his intentions.
"What sort of teacher would I be if I did?" Koro Sensei said.
"That's awesome. Good to know. So I can kill you." Karma said before pulling out and pointing his gun at Korosensei. And right after he said that Karma fell backward and off the tree. "Knew there had to be a way."
Nagisa and the Eds were taken by surprise by the sight of their classmate willingly falling to his death.
"Karma!"
"Bakayaro!"
Unbeknownst to them, however, this is what Karma wanted, as he continued to smile and point his gun up as his back faced the approaching ground. He wanted to see what Koro Sensei would do. If he came to save him, then Karma would shoot and kill during the rescue. But if he lets him die without helping, then his existence as a teacher will be destroyed.
As his body continued its deathly fall to the ground, Karma was amazed to know it was true about a person's life flashing before their eyes.
He remembered the time when he helped out an upperclassman who was being bullied by two other students. After beating the two students' unconscious, Karma found out that the reason for the harassment was because the upperclassmen was an E-Class student before any of the current students knew. Karma told the student not to let anyone bring him down, before saying that he was in the right for helping out a classmate and putting a bully in their place.
However, when the bullies told the teacher that promised to help Karma, he turned his back on the boy.
The teacher lashed out at him for injuring one of the bullies, who turned out to be an honor student. Karma was confused and tried to defend himself. The teacher then went on with ridiculing Karma for siding with E-Class and hurting someone 'who has a future' and how this could affect him as a teacher. Karma couldn't believe what he was saying, even after all he said about being on his side.
Karma thought that the guy was dying.
This was brought on because he was certain he was seeing the face the teacher crack and chip away to show his skull, while continuing to talk. Saying that he was willing to turn a blind eye because of his grades. But once his action started damaging his reputation and he was turning on him.
And right then and there, Karma was informed that he was going to be finishing his 3rd year in Class 3-E.
Right then and there, everything went black for Karma as one thing went through his head. He was dead to him. For him to be dead even though he was still alive, Karma understood at that moment. If he had lost all hope in him…to him, it was the same as if he were dead.
And so he walked out of the teacher's offer after wrecking it.
'What are you waiting for, Koro Sensei?! Let's do this!' Karma exclaimed in his head. 'You either die for real or I'll kill your reputation!'
His body continued to plummet to the ground, right before a yellow blur passed him. The blur suddenly turned into a giant spider web-like net below Karma. When he came to it, the net sank down before bouncing back up, with the surprised redhead remaining in it with a scratch on him.
"Well done!" Koro Sensei said from under him. "A splendidly premeditated assassination attempt! Full marks!"
Upon the cliff, the Eds and Nagisa were using binoculars to look down at where they were.
"Unbelievable..." Eddy gasped.
"Here comes the Spider-Squid!" Ed exclaimed with a goofy grin.
"You mean the Octo-Spider, Ed." Edric corrected him, still wanting to play his little pun (if it was a pun, because, well, he's Ed).
As it turned out, Koro Sensei used his tentacle to create a spider web-like net to catch Karma before he could have hit the ground.
"Neat, huh? I knew your body couldn't take being plucked out of freefall at the speed of sound, and had I moved any slower, you would have shot me." He explained as he then moved his head in between his tentacles to look down at the boy. "What a tangled and sticky web we weaved, eh?"
"What the hell?!" Karma exclaimed before trying to move his limbs and body. However, he soon discovered that he was unable to move and that he was stuck to the tentacles. "Is there anything these tentacles aren't capable of?!"
"Can't shoot me now, can you? Nufufufufufu." Koro Sensei teased him with a chuckle as he popped in and out between his tentacles left and right. "Oh, and for future reference: Students do not die on my watch, ever. Take that to heart for the next time you jump."
As he said that, the clouds overhead parted and allowed sunlight to shine on them. Karma wasn't sure if it was the sun or the truthful words said to him, but he was really starting to see Koro Sensei in a whole new light. He felt a sensation that he hadn't felt for a teacher for a long time. Trust and being cared for. Karma sighed with a small grin and closed his eyes.
'I got nothin'. Un-friggin'-believable. He won't die, the teacher in him especially.'
"Have you completely lost your mind?!" Double D shouted at Karma as he was sitting down on the ground after Korosensei brought him back and the Eds and Nagisa went to him. "How could you just throw away your life so recklessly and be so calm about it?!"
"Meh, no big." Karma said as he stood up. He then faced Edric with a serious face.
"Hey, look. I just want to give you a proper apology for calling you out on your scar." The apology caught the Eds off guard for a moment. "And for pulling off your hat, Double D. I was out of line and didn't think about how it made you two feel. So, how about it? Are we cool?"
Edric was quiet for a moment before smiling.
"Yeah, we're cool." He said before the two shook hands.
"Apology most accepted, Karma." Double D said, also shaking hands with Karma.
"So what now?" Eddy asked.
"Sorry, guys. That last one was my best bet." Karma told him. "Nothing else I can come up with even touches it."
"Aw, run out of ideas already?" Koro Sensei teased him, before bringing out various beauty supplies. "But I have an entire beauty regimen lined up just for you! C'mon, no way you can be this big of a pushover!"
Karma had a ticked off mark on his head because of the remark, feeling his desire to kill him kick in again. But somehow it felt different from earlier. Karma stood up and made a neck-slicing gesture with his fingers.
"No worries, teach, you're still dead meat." He told him.
"That's the spirit! Never give up!" Koro Sensei said as his face formed the approving orange circle. "Seems my tender loving care has paid off."
"Welp. Let's head back, guys." Karma walked past the Eds and Nagisa, tossing up a familiar yen purse. "We can grab some food on the way."
However, as Koro Sensei stared at the purse, he was startled to realize that it was his purse.
"Excuse me! That's my purse!" Koro Sensei yelled.
"Come on, teach. You've gotta stop leaving your stuff unattended in the faculty room." Karma said.
"GIVE IT BACK!" Koro Sensei demanded.
"Here you go." Karma threw the purse to Koro Sensei, who quickly grabbed it and opened it. However, when he looked inside of it, he was confused to see that it was empty.
"Uh, hey, uh, this is, uh, empty!" He pointed out.
"There wasn't much there to begin with. Call it a donation." Karma said with an innocent smile.
"WWWWWWWHHHHHAAAAA?!" Koro Sensei screamed, fuming. As he then processed to yelling at the delinquent, the Eds and Nagisa smiled at the scene. "A donation? A donation?!"
(4th Wallbreak)
"There you have it, the redhead delinquent hitman who came to assassinate Koro Sensei ended up being polished for the better by said target. That's how things are in these new 'EDventures' of ours, in our EDsassination classroom. And I can't wait to see how we'll try and kill him next time." Edric said to the readers as he concluded the day going home with his friends.
(Cue Silver by RIZE)
{Instrument}
(The scene showed the crescent moon as it zoomed out before it glitched showing Koro Sensei's face in its place. Lake Kiryu was showed as it panned up, Anti-Sensei rifle panning to the left, Anti-Sensei gun spun across the screen, and the EDsasssination Plan Journal panned downward. Back to the moon as glitched again, revealing the E-Class building.)
{Sora o koe yama o koe minato e touhon seisou asa kara ban made}
'Past the sky, over the mountains, city-bound on the go from morning until the night.'
{Toki o kakenukeru ima na o nokose miraieigou sekai no hate made}
'Running through time, leaving our names in this moment.'
(Edric was in a red black-lined shirt and a black yukata with red flames on the bottom holding Lake Kiryu while Yada stood next to him, wearing a blue yukata with floral design. Then Edric is shown in white silhouette, practicing with his sword by the E-Class building while the sun rises and sets. Eddy wore a white millionaire suit counting his money with Nakamura in an elegant dress having a drink. The Eds in whote silhouette were walking home passing by Kunugigaoka Junior High.)
{Wasshoi wasshoi wasshoi wasshoi Tataka waneba soko de owaru}
'Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! If we don't fight, it all ends right here!'
{Wasshoi wasshoi wasshoi wasshoi Mamoru yatsu ga iru hana ga chiru toki hana wa mau}
'Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! There's something we have to protect, the flowers dance while they fall.'
(The scene split horizontally as Edric appeared on top, then Eddy, Double D, finally Ed. Double D and Okuda are in lab coats as they work with some chemicals. The scene split vertically as Ed appeared, then Double D, Eddy, and Edric. Ed was in his monster costume as he rampaged on a city set while Fuwa recorded it on her phone. Changes to night as the moonlight shows a daisy sprouting from the ground.)
{Ah daiji na mono ga aru Ah Ah kawaranai mono ga aru}
'Ah, I have something important. Ah ah, I have something that doesn't change.'
Yeah! Yeah!
{kimi to ikiru koto kimi o mamoru yo}
I'll live on with you, I'll protect you.
I'm here to fight for you…Today!
(Nagisa was in a dress, much to his chagrin, while Kayano was trying out girly accessories on him as the scene zoomed out. E-Class does their regular shooting on Koro Sensei as he dodges them on Mach 20. Koro Sensei flew across the ocean before he sped up close to the screen as he gave his signature laughter.)
{Bakurai sairai kendo juurai}
'The bombs going off again, let's try twice as hard again'
{Bakurai sairai kendo juurai}
'The bombs going off again, let's try twice as hard again'
(The scene goes back to Lake Kiryu panning down as the Anti-Sensei rifle appeared and intersecting it. The spinning Anti-Sensei Gun and the Edsassination Journal appeared as they intersect the two. Then they stopped at each corner as the title appeared in the middle.)
Next Time: EDsassination #5 - The EDs is Bitchin'