Saturday night

"Yeah, you can expect Ram to throw books at me. Basically any times without Mina around us."

"So it will be the beginning of the trip?" "Yep, Ruby. And we already got problems from that day..."

Monday, 5 AM… the first day of the trip…

I look at the sleeping face of my granddaughter, she always has the peaceful look on her face no matter where we are. I look to the lower bed of the bunker, to see Negi still sleeping as well…

"Too excited to sleep, Negi?" "Of course! It's time to go to where I can find researches about my father!" "*Chuckle* If you're awake already, then let me make some breakfast for us before we head to the train. We're going to meet up with the other teachers first." "Okay! But what about Clem?" "She can take care of herself, being a mini me." "*Smile* She does."

Moments later, meeting up with the staff…

"Ah, you two arrived early!" "The same to you, Takamachi." Only a few of the staff are here, and all of them are magic-aware. I give them a 'good morning' before starting our conversation with Takamachi. "I think the Headmaster has filled you about the problems in class 3-A." "He did. I wish you two can finish the mission with success." "We will. Though, we're going to need your help to distract the others who doesn't have big eyes as ours." "Distracting about a hundred people won't be easy, but we will try." "Thanks. And did Shizuna tell you all?" "Only a few things. Not much, but enough for us to know who you are." "And your opinion?" "You are now a teacher, and you fulfill your role, so we have nothing against you." "To you as well. Anyway… it seems class 3-A is as excited as Negi." "*Chuckle* So they are."

Then a book's thrown right at my head, luckily I already knew things like this could happen, so I just have to grab it. "The twin is here. I will see you later." "How did you know?" "I just do."

I return to where group 1 of class 3-A is, as I give the book to Ram. "Fuka, I'm not Neptune." "And that's better, because I don't have to go through the complains!" "*Head shaking* Just trying to aim right, because if it's someone else, it's not going to be fine." "That's why we learnt Ninja skills from Kaeda!" "Right…" I look at Negi, who's dealing with group 3, as Ayaka's trying to get him for herself. "Anyway, has Clem come yet?" "She's with group 6 now. I'm surprised though, Eva and Chachamaru haven't done anything with us before. Or it's because…" "Yeah. We have discussed about it, haven't we?"

Letting Negi check the other groups, I walk to group 6, and Clem's already clinging on Eva, the girl looks a bit discomfort but still welcomes the hug. Chachamaru and Zazie just bow at me politely, with Setsuna asking: "You two didn't bring anything with you?" I just point to my head, as a fedora appears in a second before vanishes. "Pocket dimension." "Magic?" "Still technology. Though, that's in our nature, so you could call it magic."

Zazie suddenly says: "My twin sister has already taken an eye on you, sensei." The rest turns to her and gives her a surprised look. "Reasons?" "Likeable." "Like…what? I mean, never met her before…" "Your display of power." "Ah… right. Damn." *Ting* "?" What's that? I pull my phone out and… it said my account was 100 credits being taken away. Who would take such a small amount… "CLEM! Come back here!" "Swear!" "That doesn't count!" "Counted!"

Yang: "*Snicker* That would be Ruby and Clem teaming up to get your money." "*Holding the wallet protectively*"

Third Person's POV

Group 6 watched as their assistant started chasing his granddaughter around, just because she took a small amount of money out of his pocket. Eva then tapped Zazie's back. "Since when were you so talkative?" The girl only tilted her head, earning a tick on Eva's head. "Back to you again…"

Setsuna asked her: "You have a twin sister?" "*Nodded*" "And she's interested in Kuro?" "*Nodded again*" "Why in power?" She then moved her hands, indicating of the day it happened. "Oh, that power spike…"

"The HIKARI 213 Express will be departing shortly…" "It's time for us to get in the train, master." "Uh-huh…" Eva acknowledged Chachamaru's words, as the group started walking to the train, but not before turning back to see Kuro and Clem still chasing each other. "Shouldn't we call them?"

In the train… Kuro's POV

"All right everyone! The 15th annual school trip is about to begin! Please make the most of these fives and four nights!" "YES!" That's the response from all students to Shizuna and Negi after they make the announcement, as Negi continues: "There will be a lot of free time for the groups, so it will be a fun trip for everyone!" Not to us teachers though. "Please try not to get hurt, lost or cause anyone else any troubles." That would be you breaking it first, Negi. "You should take all responsibilities to yourselves! In particular..." The teacher gets interrupted as 'trolley lady' pushes the trolley right towards him, earning a hearty laugh from every student. I decide not to say anything, at least not now. That would be future's matter.

During the way to Kyoto, students have started doing their own things, as Clem just eats the food she bought and watches everyone playing. Once a while she would join in the game as well. I just decide to pull out a book I just recently borrowed from Blanc and read (not the ones she writes), while putting the earphone on… only for a moment…

"KURO-SENSEI! Come and join us!" The trading card game… You know what, let's try it for once.

"Alright, let's see if my skills got rusty or not…" After hearing the rules, I start playing the game with class 3-A. At first, I was totally being crushed by the girls, but due to the nature of being a gamer, from the second game, I'm the one on top. The only ones who would manage to beat me in a few rounds are Yue, Chao and Chachamaru. 'Though, who am I kidding? Trying to fight an advanced AI is extremely hard. At least it's not like a 3-hour losing in chess against that vampire.'

Haruna is a bit angry as I defeat her all the time, as she starts opening up the chocolate box. "How could you win so many times? And you told us this is your first time!" "Yes. But don't underestimate a gamer's ability to adapt to another games." She just pouts and pulls out… a frog. 'So it begins.'

And from that point, everything turns to chaos as frogs appear from every corner. Everyone gets panicked, with Negi and the calm ones starts collecting the frogs. Clem also follows, then when she reaches to my place, she gives a look. I sigh, and…

"Huh? Where is…" All the frogs suddenly disappear, as the students look around the train, and find out a large bag with something moving inside it, that's placed right next to me, who has returned to the original seat and started reading book again. When they all look at me, I just shrug. Then everyone remembers who I am, as they return to their activities…

"Not even worried about this…" "Already guessed it." Mina whispers to me, as her seat's next to mine. "Kansai's member?" "One. And she will be our main enemy this time. Fate is strong, but he's only helping the girl this time, he won't be much of a trouble until he wants to eliminate me." I then stop time again, as the bird just stop right at my eye level. I grab it and tear it in half, then put it in the same place. Time resumes, as it turns back into its base form, a paper golem, and falls harmlessly to the ground. From the corner of my eyes, I can see that the woman is pissed that her work fails, and I send her a smirk. She recognizes that I recognize her, she immediately falls back.

During the trip, Asakura asks me: "Why didn't you just go back in time and stop it from the beginning?" "Such small things shouldn't be the matter for time-changing. Also, I only return time when the event was too crucial." "This isn't?" "No." She then leaves me alone, not without sending me a pouting glare though.

'Yeah, why didn't you stop this happen?' 'This is a crucial event, Yami.' 'And yet you said you only intervene into crucial events.' 'Welcome to the channel, Eva. But, I leave the last part unspoken: Only intervene if that crucial event could cause deaths.' 'So, you want me in this fight or not?' 'Depends. If we could get it to the right course, then you can enjoy the trip without disturbances.' 'I'm more interested in this kidnap though.' 'I will try to arrange something.' 'So what next, Granddad?'

Reaching Kyoto

"KYOTO! HERE WE ARE!" "Hey, I heard that this is where people jump off!" "Someone try that off!" "NO WAY! AND STOP SUGGESTING THAT!" I would jump off to humor the girls, though, when I look down, there are quite a lot of trees to block my fall, so it wouldn't make it dramatic though.

"This place is the Kiyomizu Main temple's famous Kyoumizu stage, used for dancing and enacting Noh plays in honor of the Buddhist Goddess Kannon-sama. It's listed as a national treasure now. About the phrase 'I'm going to jump off the Kiyomizu Stage', it's because in Edo Period, 234 people were recorded to actually jump off this place, though the survival rate was 86%. High, isn't it?" Ah, here is our walking wiki speaking.

"Wait, that's impossible! How was the rate so high?" Haruna asks in surprise. I decide to answer: "I just looked down, and saw a lot of trees. Maybe that's how they survived." "You actually believe that, Sensei?" "Not all of them, Chisame. But, all records always have some truths in them. The rate might not be true, but people have jumped off this platform, that much I'm sure. And Clem, I know you can survive, but don't jump off." "Aw…" Normal conversation. Between us anyway.

"By the way, Sensei. Are you planning to get another girl?" I look at Haruna's devilish face, as I ask back: "Why do you ask that?" "Based on what we think, your wives don't bother with the fact you go around with another girl, right?" "… Yeahhhh? But that doesn't mean…" Then she turns normal as she continues: "I'm just joking! Don't mind about it."

"Though, you can test your luck with the love-life fortune-telling place, not far from here." I… don't need that, thank you very much Yue. I can imagine how my love life is going to.

"LOVE FORTUNE-TELLING?" Ayaka shouts in surprise, and a second later, pushes Negi right to the direction of said place. "Sensei, let's go together!" "I want to go too! / Me, too…" That's Makie and Nodoka's response to the class representative. "Also, there's the famous Otowa waterfall. If you drink from those three streams, you'll stay healthy, do well in school and even get married." And basically the class turns to chaos again as the girls push the young teacher further away.

"Did you get that problem before?" "Yeah, when I have to lead the young CPUs around Gamindustri." Shizuna just giggles behind me, as I look at the scene before me with my arms crossing before my chest. "Can you take care of the rest? I will deal with this group." "Of course. Be careful." "I will. Let's go Clem." "Alright, Dada!"

"We found the place! Negi-sensei, Kuro-sensei! Over here!" Clem has run ahead and joined the others, as Negi and I walk with each other, that I shout back: "Don't hurt yourself, you all!" "We won't!"

I turn to Negi, as he has a smile on his face. "This is a nice place, Chamo, Kuro. The old wood buildings, the legends and the greenness here, they are so amazing!" "They are. And it would be better if we can enjoy all of this without worrying about the blades in the shadow. We might have Setsuna who can warn us about the possible ambushes, but that doesn't mean we can lower our guards." Chamo whispers: "Sadly that's the truth. And even one of the enemies dared to call Kuro out and attacked him right inside of the Academy. We have to be careful."

We then reach to the last step of the stone stair, and we can see two stones being positioned 20 meters away from each other. Yelp, here we go again.

"Alright! As the class president, I will…" "Hey, that's not fair! I'm joining too!" "Me too…" "I'm going in as well!" Clem… *Sigh* "Clem too? Did you have your eyes on someone?" "Yep. Negi-sensei!" *FACEPALMED!* Just one week, Clem, just one week…

Negi, with a shocked face, slowly turns to me and asks: "What… did she just…" "I'm not ruling out any possibilities here. However, I have two scenarios with highest chance to happen: Either she did like you, not love mind you, or she's messing with me." "Oh…" The blush on his face lessens, HOPING it's the later.

I watch as the girls start their race. Nodoka has already turned to the wrong directions, causing Yue and Haruna to point her back to the track. The others are betting for Ayaka, Makie and Clem while Negi looks around a bit. Though, I can feel Ayaka has started using her skill to detect the stone and starts running towards it. Makie also follows quickly, leaving Clem and Nodoka behind… Yep, that's the later, as Clem's not even trying to walk faster than Nodoka, but she's still in the right course. The reason it happens, because due to her own status and her trainings with Marvy, she can imagine the area around her with just frequency waves. And of course, she knows about Nodoka's feelings towards Negi, so she isn't putting her best efforts to it.

Also, that pit just got discovered. Welp, time to pull the poor girls up.

"FINISHED!" Her friends clap their hands in congratulation as Nodoka manages to reach the finish line. I watch the girls talking with each other, and Clem just walks to me, with her tongue slipping out right to my face. Yep, she's just messing with me.

"Here we are, the Otawa Waterfall. From the right to left is…" I decide to bring out a 20% wine bottle and drink it directly, causing Asuna gasp in surprise. "That's heavy, Kuro-sensei! Are you sure…" "I don't like it, but there's a reason for me to do so." "That's unhealthy drinking, Kuro." "Unless you want the scold from Nitta delivered to students Negi, then let me do the talking." Then I walk to Nitta's place and offer the bottle. "Hey Nitta, want to try this?" And of course, he immediately denies: "No thanks. And you shouldn't drink that much right at the begin of the trip, should you?" "Just want to try something new." Nitta just shakes his head and walks away. I breath out, and immediately feel the alcohol as I turn back time so that the smell goes away. "Reasons?" "Look behind me Sehuriko." He looks, and sees that the students of class 3-A are lying on the ground, near unconscious. "This is…" "The enemy has put sake on the top of the water fall and made it mixed into the stream. Don't worry, this is just making them fall asleep for the first night. We're still under control." "I'm sorry for not helping you…" "Like I said before, don't worry. Negi and I will deal with this."

To the hotel…

"People would question the way you 'help' them." "Sorry Eva, but there are consequences that I wouldn't dare to look at AND go after." Negi, Asuna, Setsuna, Eva and I have gathered into a place after sending the girls to the rooms they're pointed to. The sake was quite heavy for them. Setsuna asks: "Why did you let this happen?" "Although our enemy is trying to get to Konoka, they wouldn't dare to get the innocents into the harm ways. All the troubles today were them luring the others away, which actually helps us a lot."

Negi: "Our next move?" "For now, just enjoying the day. It's not everyday that class 3-A would be this quiet." I then walk away, preparing myself for the bath waiting for me…

Third Person's POV

Asuna watched the teacher walking away, then she asked Eva: "Did you know something happen to him?" "To put it simple, he knew about our future. He has foreseen this, and he was using these to gain advantages as well."

Setsuna stood up and walked away. "I'm going to prepare some rune papers to repel the Shikigami. See you all later." "The same. I'm returning to my room." Leaving Negi and Asuna behind… "Another incident revolving magic. If you two are not trouble magnets, then I don't know who else." "I'm sorry…"

Chamo: "But Eva said about Kuro knowing the future. Is it possible that he knew about your father in the future? Can we ask him directly where he could be?" "I tried before, but he would just say that we will find him." "*Sigh* Anyway Aniki, it's the time for the teachers' time to get to the bath." "Yeah, it would be a nice one…"

The open-air mixed bath…

"This feels so nice…" Negi and Chamo have dipped themselves into the hot water, feeling the heat washing over their bodies. "If we don't have to deal with the problems Kansai is giving us…"

"Actually there's only one person from Kansai that we have to worry about." The two turned to see… a woman they never met before. Long black hair floating on the surface of the water, with black-frame glasses, her pale skin looked like it's shining under the moonlight. The duo jumped back as Negi pointed her wand to the woman. "Who are you? Are you our enemy?" The woman's response: She raised her left hand up… for Chamo and Negi to see three rings in her hand. The two didn't understand, at first, until: "Dada! Don't just leave me like that!" Clem just swam up and hugged the woman at the neck. Now they recognized the woman: "KURO-SENSEI?" "Who else?" The woman just casually spoke, as the two hung their mouths in shock. "Just enjoy the bath. We will talk during it."

A quiet silence occurred in the bath, then Chamo decided to break it: "So…you're Kuro?" "Yes." "Why?" "Clem just wanted me to do this. The girls are pushovers sometimes." "Back to it, you said there's only one person…" "More like the boss itself. No, not the leader of Kansai Magic Association. The one who's behind this. Her allies are mercs, and they only work with her until her work is completed, or failed." "And after that point?" "They become neutral."

Negi: "About Clem…" "She said she wanted to join with me. I don't mind." The girl just snuggled into the woman's hair, giggling as the hair ran on her face giving her tickling feelings. "Also yes, she's messing with me before."

"AAHH!" The four immediately got alerted, as Asuna's shout could be heard clearly. They rushed out of the bath, and met with Setsuna. "What happened? And who's this woman?" "Your friend's in danger." And with that Kuro (Setsuna didn't recognize yet) rushed out, and she found out that the girls (Asuna and Konoka) were being harassed by the monkeys. She just sighed and called out her right katana… and immediately blocked Setsuna's slash. "What do you think I'm doing?" "Don't you dare hurt my Ojou-sama." "Not going to. Also, they're bringing Konoka away." Kuro just took a glance to the direction, Setsuna followed, and immediately rushed out and slashed the monkeys away before holding Konoka in her arms. "Geez, that's too dangerous."

"Setsuna-chan?" She froze up and looked at Konoka. "You saved me. Thank you very much!" "Um…It's nothing…" With a blush, she immediately dropped Konoka into the bath, earning a "Kya!" from the girl, and she ran off.

"What…what was that about?" Asuna asked, before Kuro said: "Not really the matter. Asuna, Negi, bring your friend back to your room. We will talk later." She then walked away, with Clem hopping behind her. Negi sweatdropped at the scene, while Asuna asked to herself: "Who's that woman, and why was she with Clem?"

Later

"Who are you?" After meeting up with Setsuna, who's placing the rune papers around the hotel, Asuna and Negi were sitting with her in the empty sofas. Then the woman from before showed up with Clem sleepily on her back. The woman didn't answer her question yet, as she sat on the sofa and drank her juice. A minute later, Negi decided to speak: "Kuro, can you and Setsuna tell us more about how Kansai Magic Association works?"

… "WHAT?" Asuna and Setsuna shouted at the same time after recognizing who Negi was talking to. And to more obvious, the woman just brought up the rings for them to see. Setsuna then remembered what happened before, as she bowed to her: "I'm sorry Kuro-sensei for attacking you!" "Don't worry, you didn't know." She then turned to Negi. "About our enemy. She's an Onmyou Charm-user from Kansai. The monkeys before were her Shikigami. Though, the way magic works from both sides are the same. While you need a partner to protect you while you're chanting the spells, the Eastern Mages need to call Youkai and even Demons to protect them, or Spirits if those words are a bit hard for you to hear."

Setsuna continues: "Also Kansai has deep connections with the Shinmeiryuu. Our tasks were to protect the capital by destroying demons. They were once powerful fighting forces… Combined with Charm users, most won't stand on their ways." "THAT'S BAD FOR US!" Negi and Asuna loudly exclaimed, making the little girl to snuggle more to the woman before her. Kuro said: "A bit irony that the once peaceful force of Japan has turned rouge, or we could have used their helps in this." "Unfortunately…" "But there's no need to worry. Until we still know that Konoka's still around, then they wouldn't dare to attack us directly. They need to distract the others, and when they succeed, we're already covered Konoka already." "But we still shouldn't be careless about this." "Of course I don't."

Negi then stood up and said: "Then we better start taking patrol now! Chamo and I will check the outside areas. You all protect the inside areas, please!" Despite Asuna's retort, the boy has run off. Setsuna then looked at Kuro from head to toe, before asking: "Why are you still in this form?" That made the assistant turn back to his normal self. "Clem just asked me to do so. Anyway, let's take a look around the students' rooms."

"Aniki." Chamo spoke to Negi, as they reached an empty bridge. "You should know more about the Pactio card you made with Asuna. There are three main functions in each card. First, you can communicate with the partner the card's owned through telepathy. Then you can teleport them to your side, the distance is far but not limitless. And the last one, depends on which kind of partner you made Pactio with, you can use their abilities and tools." "WOW! I didn't know a Pactio card can do that much!" "You can try one now, the first one maybe?" "Okay. *Puts the card in front of the forehead* Telepathia!... Asuna, can you hear me? Hello, hello? Um, Chamo, why isn't it working?" "Let me remember… oh right, the partner has to have the card as well and do the same thing with you." "Oh…Okay. A phone then… *Click* Asuna, I found…" "KONOKA HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED!" "WHAT?"

Then something fell right next to the duo, as they turned to see a giant monkey. However, it spoke: "Ara, I just ran into you. The cute little mage…" Then Negi noticed someone more important, as he pulled his wand out: "Konoka! Stop right there, kidnapper! Ras tel…" That's all he could say before the smaller monkeys interrupted him, with their master jumped away with a "Goodbye!". Soon Asuna and Setsuna swatted the Shikigami away and the three started running after the one who's holding Konoka.

Far away…

"Nice to meet you, Tertium. Should we drop the formal conversation and start the fight?"

Back to the train station

"Why are there no one here?" "The Charms of Warding! Human with no awareness of magic can't get into the areas covered by them!" The trio, plus Chamo, has chased the 'monkey girl' to one of the wagons of a train. However, the kidnapper turned back and used a charm that caused the whole wagon to drown in water, and escaped and closed the door of the wagon before she herself got into troubles.

Due to the force of water, Setsuna couldn't swing her sword. 'Damn it! This situation again! I can't swing my sword! No… I can't protect her again…' Then the memories when she failed to get the child Konoka off the river flooded back into her mind. 'No. That's my past. With my power now, I will protect her by all means!' "Zankuusen!" With all her might, she swung the sword and cut the door open, causing the water to flood out, also drowned the 'monkey girl' in water as well.

Regaining her breath, the Shinmeiryuu spoke: "Give up and give Ojou-sama back to us now, or you will face our punishment!" The woman just smirked at that sentence. "Such big words from you, but I'm not giving up Konoka Ojou-sama when I already had her in my hands." "Heh?" Then the woman ran again when they're confused, causing the chase to happen again. "Okay, Setsuna! I know that they need to kidnap Konoka, but why are they so desperately to do so?" "Konoka actually has a lot of magic potentials in her, so they want to use her power to take control of the whole Kansai Magic Association! But neither I nor the Headmaster would think they would make such a forceful operation to get her…"

"This is as far as you can go, young children." The woman has taken off the monkey suit to reveal her identity. "Better take care of this first, kids. Charm-san *x2*, facilitate my escape!" An enormous character fire appeared, stopping the teacher and his students in track. "This is the goodbye. Say your farewell to…"

"Flans Saltatio Pulverea!" With quick reaction, Negi casted the Wind spell and cleared out the fire. During the woman's shock, Negi pulled out the Pactio card he got with Asuna. "We won't let you get away! Konoka is my student, and an important friend of us all! Activating the contract for 180 seconds for the Ministra Magi of Magister Negi, Kagurazaka Asuna!" A powerful Aura emitted on Asuna, as Setsuna watched in awe. Then Negi continued: "Asuna, I'm calling out your weapon, Hamanotsurugi! Take it! Activate ability for Kagurazaka Asuna!" Sorry, until I somehow manage to shorten the spells (event skips or such), I'm going to write them in normal English. I'm not confident to write Latin like in the manga. The girl's hand started shining, as she looked in excitement. Though…

"WHAT THE HELL? THIS IS JUST A NORMAL FAN!" 'Disappointed' was an understatement, as she shouted back in confusion and rage. "Screw it! We use what we can use! Take this!" The girl jumped high in the air, as Setsuna followed and both of them slammed their weapons down, only to be stopped by the bigger Shikigami monkeys of the woman. The woman just laughed as she brought Konoka on her shoulder. "Enki and Yuuki are strong, you know! You two can't be defeated…" Only to be silenced as Asuna hit it again, this time exterminated it instantly. "Okay… I don't know what happened, but… Setsuna, leave that monkey to me! Go and get Konoka!" After returning from the 'amazing…' state, Setsuna ran directly to the 'boss', and attempted to push her out of Konoka, but noticed something flying towards her and used her sword to deflect the thing, only for that 'thing' to counter her with 'its' own sword. After a *clash*, both flew off, with Setsuna regaining her stance first and looking at where that 'thing' just flew off… to see a girl flushing the dirt away from her clothes. 'Oh no, don't tell me…'

"Nice to meet you, Setsuna-nee." The girl smiled 'innocently' at her. "You… you must be the one attacked Kuro-sensei three days ago!" COMPLETELY not on purpose here! "That's right! My name is Tsukuyomi. I want to fight Nee-san and Nii-san, but it seems Nii is not here right now." Upon hearing that, Setsuna got confused at first, but then realized that they temporarily forgot the last person: "Where's Kuro-sensei?"

A massive crack appeared in thin air, as everyone stopped momentarily to look at it. Then, it exploded, as two figures flew away from two sides of it, one hitting the stair and creating a small earthquake due to the impact, as the other one flying to behind Negi but managing to stab the swords on the ground to not fly further. The first figure slowly sat up and then coughed off blood from the mouth. Turned out it's a boy with white hair and grey eyes, with black blades scattered around him. The second figure… was the person members of class 3-A were waiting for, with a big purple odachi in his right hand and a black-white broadsword in the other.

"Time for us to go to the main point of the events, Fate." Kuro casually stood up and pocketed his weapons, and then pulled out a green spear from his back. "Although, I advise you all to drop Konoka now and leave us for good. No guarantee we will give you mercy the next time we meet."

The woman looked at the boy, and disappointedly said: "And you said you can…" "That person's stronger than Thousand Master. No, even his whole team wouldn't even scratch his face." That sent a shock through the woman's body, as the maniac swordswoman giggled. "I told you, Fate-sama, he's a very funny guy." "Not funny in your sense, Tsukuyomi. Chigusa, you got the girl, go now. I will stall them as long as possible."

It's a shock to the rest as the boy said so. They knew that Kuro is strong, but to hear someone admitting his power to that level… Then the woman said: "O…Okay, if you think…" Then the boy turned back and thrusted a stone sword right at Chigusa, or rather, someone behind her. Turned out Kuro already teleported behind the woman and planned to grab Konoka, but he had to point the tip of the spear to block it, and the collapse caused another explosion, throwing the 'boss' away, making her drop Konoka in the process.

Seeing the opportunity, Setsuna rushed to her Ojou-sama, but then stopped and blocked an attack from the other Shinmeiryuu. They locked eyes for a second, then pushed each other out as they felt something flying towards them. And their instincts saved them big time, as Fate just got flown pass them with Kuro shortly. Recovered from the hit, Fate summoned out his blades and slammed 5 of them to his opponent's head, only to be shattered easily by a powerful axe swing. Letting the left hand be free, Kuro pulled out a massive cannon and pointed it towards Fate and fired, and if Fate didn't dodge in time, he would have been gulped by a huge green laser that destroyed a part of the station's rooftop. Pocketing the two weapons again, Kuro pulled out two staffs, one pink and one blue, crossed them before him and casted a ton of Ice spells towards Fate, forcing him to dodge left and right. Then, a pillar appeared and stopped right on Fate's dodging way, making him stop in track and getting hit by a barrage of icicles. When Fate had the signs of fatigue, Kuro stopped his advances and dropped all spells down, making the boy fall face-first to the ground, barely moving.

"Looks like he's down for now." Then he casually walked to Konoka and picked her up. "Now excuse me, we need to return before the princess here wakes up. In a few minutes you three would be able to escape here, so don't worry." And then Chigusa realized that they just lost the hostage, as she ordered the other girl to get the objective… only for them to suddenly disappear without a trace, with the fallen boy being nowhere to be seen as well.

Silenced occurred… Then Kuro just casually walked down the stairs. "We're done here. Let's return and call it a day." That snapped the ones around out of their frozen states as Setsuna asked: "Where were you? We could have stopped the kidnapping from the beginning." "That boy, Fate, is the real problem. Maybe not now, but in the future. Also, the 'kidnapping' was an event I don't want to stop since it could cause unwanted changes in the future."

Negi: "You're letting them go? Just like that?" "I teleported them into the parallel dimension, where there's only them now. A few more minutes and they will return here. So we need to get out of here first." The rest thought about it, then followed the assistant to the exit.

Moments later

The boy woke up after the knock-out, and saw Chigusa walking around while messing her hair in frustration. Then he saw Tsukuyomi sitting next to him with a concerned face. "What happened?" "We're locked here, that's what!" Chigusa shouted to him. "We're in some kind of invisible barriers, that not even your swordswoman of yours can't slash it down." He slowly sat up, he's been regenerated while being unconscious. He then looked around… "He sent us to a parallel dimension. Did he say when we can escape?" "Um…about a few minutes?" And immediately the world around them broke… and nothing. "Hm… he let us go. Let's go." "WAIT! Just that?" "We have to think of another way to get to the girl. Forget about the rest, that man is the real obstacle in our plans."

In Asuna's room

"So you're fighting that boy while we're trying to get Konoka back?" "The reason we didn't know that, is because both of you were fighting in the parallel dimension?" "And from what he said, you're stronger than even Negi-bouzu's father?" The others were asking questions towards Kuro after they returned back. And Kuro answered: "Yes, all of them. Negi, you remembered after I fought Eva, I showed you a world, and then I made it disappear by grabbing it, right?" "Yes…Oh." "Yep. My power lets me do so with no problems." He then stood up. "I will leave you all now. Rest now, we have a long day waiting for us."

He then met up with Shizuna who's taking the night patrol. "What happened?" "Kansai attacking us, but don't worry, everything is under control." "I hope so. What will happen tomorrow?" "Nothing, if I remember right. Although, it will be a wild day." "*Snicker* Class 3-A is going to make tomorrow worth. They all got knock-outed today." "Yeah, and we have a quiet night for ourselves."

"Not to me. You two were meanies." The two turned to see a groggily Clem, holding her pillow in her left hand while rubbing her eye with the other. Kuro immediately hugged the girl to comfort her. "Sorry girl, forgot that you're sensitive to the parallel dimension." Shizuna kneeled down and asked: "What do you mean by 'parallel dimension'?" "I fought a person in there, in order to go all out without causing casualties. And Clem is a little sensitive to them, and our fight probably woke her up." The man then carried the sleepy girl up, and hummed a song that only Shizuna and Clem can hear, and started walking back to his room. The teacher looked at the couple before heading to the reception part of the place. There, she met Eva and Chachamaru sitting in one of the sofa.

"Shouldn't you two be in bed now?" "You know the answer, Sensei. Besides, what's the song just now?" "Hm? You can… right, his blood is in you. That's Paradise Song. Other than being a nice song, it can be used to heal almost any types of wounds, except the instant-death kills. And only Gamindustrians can hear them." "I see, no wonder Chachamaru can't hear it." Shizuna then sat next to Eva. "Did you know what happened just a moment ago?" "Yeah, the girls' mouths are pretty loud. But they managed to take the girl back, right?" "Seems so. If not, I wouldn't think Kuro would be that relaxed." "A normal day, I take it?" "Yes, it is. Though, did Clem ask you that?" "What?" "You being her Auntie?" That caused the poor girl to spit her drink out. "What the? Why would she want to ask me that?" "Clem's a little girl. Also, being influenced by Kuro caused that troubles. And currently all CPUs are her Aunties, so…" The Vampire turned away from the teacher in embarrassment. "I… don't mind, but…" "*Giggle* You don't have to answer immediately. Though, Clem would insist for a while." "I… will think about it…"

Weiss: "In the end, you would still win." "Yep. You expected something else?" "Not really. But since you tricked us before..."

Nora: "So that Eva girl, did she take the offer?" "Yes. And she's quite happy about it, but only after a few months later."

Ozpin: "You seemed to only focus on that Fate boy." Glynda follows: "Was he like Chaos or Death?" "No, Tertium is his real name, but he's nearly as strong as Thousand Master. But he's no match for the legend."

Blake: "So the next day was peaceful?" "Normally, yes. But no, when it comes to class 3-A: total chaos."