The atmosphere has been cold for Angel as of late. Word of what had happened spread quickly to the other students and none of them wanted to be involved with her. Angel ignores them though. Still, after a week of her new school life, she has begun to live up to her smug remark. To the dismay of Korosensei, Angel has a keen ability to hide any and all killing intent. In fact she is usually surrounded by a welcoming and relaxing atmosphere. She still hasn't landed a hit on him, but Angel has come close. He's learned her preferences revolve around the knife though, and she seems to have a distaste for the guns when she uses them, such as in class coordinated attacks. With this information he keeps a distance between them. This week the class is spending entire days on one subject, giving students to work on large projects and get help. Today is science, and the students are currently working with an array of chemicals.
"Sensei, could you come help please." Taiga says. Koro, who was listening to Hinata talk about her current experiment, excuses himself and makes his way across the room.
"What is it Taiga?" Koro asks as he gets closer. He stops and grabs a bottle that Takuya, who isn't paying attention, but rather is talking with Taiji, knocks it over with his elbow. "Takuya you..." Koro starts. However a burning sensation makes him drop the bottle. The glass shatters on the ground, and Koro jumps back.
"So close." Takuya sighs angrily.
"You covered the glass in anti-sensei material, and its in the liquid too, isn't it?"
"You caught us." Takuya grabs another bottle. "Science isn't really that fun for us. So we thought we'd do an experiment as to how sensitive sensei is to the anti-sensei material." He splashes the liquid at Koro, but he of course dodges to the right. The liquid spills all over the floor.
"Takuya, if you make anymore messes sensei will be very angry with you." Koro warns.
"Fine. You gotta clean it up though. Teachers have to clean up chemical spills." Takuya says with a smirk. Koro sighs.
"Yes. For now, everyone, there is a chemical spill on the floor over here. Do not walk around this area until sensei has cleaned it up." He turns and starts walking to get the mop. He stops though, between Yuma and Angel's lab stations.
"Hello Sensei." Angel says sweetly. Koro starts to back up, but again he stops.
"Wire traps made of anti-sensei material." He glances around. He can see the extremely thin, and extremely sharp wires. Some are tied to things around the room, some are being held by students. They have him surrounded, albeit there are gaps between the strings. They're just tight enough that he can't slip between them though. Suddenly Yuma and Angel both bring out knifes and stab as Korosensei, but exerting the entirety of their killing intent in an attempt to unnerve and freeze sensei in place long enough.
Then Korosensei isn't there anymore.
"What?" Angel is surprised. She looks around, then stops and looks up. Koro is on the ceiling, sighing with relief. "There were strings up there!"
"Sensei's hat protected him. Koro says as he drops from the cieling and lands in a spot clear of strings. Angel sees her string that was directly above Koro is laying on the ground, snapped in two. Suddenly his hat falls off his head, cut into two pieces, and a line appears ontop of Koro's head. "Well, mostly protected him." He runs out of the room with a shout of pain.
"Ah, thats..." Angel sighs. "We were so close. It's so hard making these strings though." She says as she drops into her chair.
"That was still really good." Nagisa says.
"I suppose." Angel flicks her knife. "Still, it's a long ways from perfect..."
After school Angel starts to walk down hill on her own.
"You worked well with the other students." She stops and looks back at Korosensei.
"I told you I can work with them just fine. It's not like we need to be friends to be efficient." She responds.
"Or maybe because you aren't friends you can't make better plans." She glares at Koro.
"What do you mean?"
"Good friends are more willing to shoot each others plans down or find the holes in someone else's plan because they're comfortable that it won't deter the person from continuing to share and be helpful. But your classmates don't have that relationship with you. They're afraid to lose the clearly needed help by criticizing you."
"Then I can talk with them. I told you, it's a joke that you think you can change me." She turns and walks away.
"A joke? That group attack was the first time you seemed to really enjoy class." Koro says, mostly to himself. His plan to improve Angel is coming together more and more.
"Class, I'm assigning a group project. I've already decided the groups, so please work well together."
"Group project?"
"What's it about?"
"Why so suddenly?" Students begin their questioning of the event amongst themselves.
"This is also a contest. The group that does the best will get a special prize from sensei, along with a free 5 seconds where sensei won't move as you attack." At this the class goes silent. This is worth listening to. "Now in this project sensei wants you to work with your classmates to solve a problem. The problem is one you should answer as students with the knowledge you are accumulating, as well as as assassins." This intrigues the class even more. "Sensei will write the assignment on the board as he tells you." He picks up some chalk and begins writing, never having to look away from the students. "An important person to your group has been kidnapped. You have very little information, but you know the location. You go there and find a guard who you force to give you more information. He gives you a basic diagram of the building, whats in each room, and estimates of the people in each room. Your group must rescue your classmate within a three hour time limit. Your assignment is to come up with a cohesive plan that works within the time limit. The rooms are all different, and in your packets you will find information regarding the leaders in each room, and some requirements surrounding them. Any questions?" Nobody raises their hand. They're all looking at the diagram of the building they're trying to invade. It's a system of rooms, like a dungeon, and each has been labeled by a subject. Chemistry, Physics, Arts, English, Japanese, and so on. "Good. I'll announce the groups. The first member in each group please come pick up a packet. As sensei begins the students start their quiet chatter.
"This is totally weird."
"Is this gonna be like a video game? You have to solve a riddle in the rooms relative to the subject to go past?"
"I don't know!"
"It doesn't sound like that."
"Next group. Nagisa, Karma, Angel." Nagisa stands and goes up front to grab a packet. Angel and Karma look at each other. Out of all the students here, Karma is the one that Angel hasn't been able to work peaceably with yet. Then again he isn't around much for her to worry about it. Today though he showed up for some reason. When Koro finishes he looks around the room. "Well then, please meet with your groups and begin your discussions. You have one week to come up with a plan worthy of the prize." With that the students stand and rearrange themselves. Angel and Nagisa move to sit next to Karma.
"So, I say we hurry to the chemistry room and make some poison to through at all the bad guys. That'll get us through quickly."
"Oh, sensei forgot something." Everyone stops and looks at Koro. "There is to be no killing in this. You can knock them out, injure them, but you are not to kill anyone." The class goes quiet. This closes the door that Karma had tried to open, that everyone was about to open.
"That ruins it." Karma sighs angrily.
"I'm sure we can still use your plan, but we'll have to come up with someone to knock them out or cause paralysis. Things like that can be very useful." Angel says. "We don't even know what's available in the chemistry room though. And the physics room may have weapons we can bring with. But we can't forget that each room may have someone immune to obvious choices brought about by the room before them."
"I think we should go somewhere and read this over, then we can come up with more ideas." Nagisa suggests. He stands and looks at Koro. "Korosensei, can we go work outside?"
"Of course."
"Come on." Nagisa says as he looks at his two partners. Angel and Karma both stand and the three of them head outside. Others like that idea and follow them. The groups spread out. Nagisa's group goes around back and sits together under the shade from the building.
"Alright. Open up the packet and lets read over the rooms." Angel says. Nagisa does, and the group goes over the information. There nine rooms, all but the last one having a subject from school as its theme. Each room has different equipment, different numbers of guards, and one or two 'admins' who are in charge of the room and can communicate with other rooms for reinforcements and such. Angel was also right that the admins of each room are essentially immune to the specialties that could be created from the room right before their own. The chemicals in the chemistry room are limited, and most of the initial ideas for poisons that come to mind for the group are either too deadly or would take too long to make and would leave too little time to get through the rooms. Dimensions are also given. These are big rooms. On top of this there is an extra note at the end of the assignment papers.
"All students, including the kidnapped student, must safely make it out of the building. Once the student has been found, even if the time limit is reached, an extra 15 minutes is added to the time." Nagisa reads out loud.
"So we actually have to get in and out both in that time. And with an extra person one way. Someone we can't necessarily count on to be sneaky." Karma sighs angrily. "This is a stupid project. How are we supposed to do this?"
"This booklet is a character profile." Angel says as she grabs a small book. "If we use this we might understand out opponents better and it might talk about the person we're saving." She opens the book and flips through the pages for all three to see. There are images with each profile.
"Its a variety." Nagisa says. "Adults, kids, it's a mix."
"This isn't just a basement somewhere probably. He was likely imagining this to be like a school." Angel says. "If we look at it like that then we understand he wants us to truly tackle the rooms problems in a timely manner. If we can defeat each room completely then escaping, even if we only have 15 minutes, won't be a problem. We can just run back through them. Unlike if we have to sneak back through and take out time."
"This is gonna be hard to figure out. I say we each take three rooms and look them over in details. Try to make a basic plan for each room, and then tomorrow we'll put everything we have together and find a way to make it work smoothly." Nagisa says.
"Fine. I was chemistry, physics, and home ec." Karma says.
"I'd like Japanese, history, and math." Nagisa says.
"That leaves me with english, art, and the holding room." Angel says.
"Are we all good with this?" Nagisa asks.
"Sure." Angel stands and stretches. "I think that'll work. For now I'll take my rooms and study them." She grabs the papers about her rooms and looks them over. "I'll talk to you tomorrow. She walks away. Karma grabs his papers.
"This is annoying. I don't want to work with her."
"I'm sorry. But she works well with others. If you..."
"No. Why should I work with someone like her? She thinks she can do everything on her own and doesn't need us, so why should I need her?" Karma says with his papers and leaves as well. Nagisa sighs.
"This isn't going to end well, is it?" He gathers the rest of the papers and heads back into class...