Changed the number of students from class 3-5 from 28 to 15. 28 is the original number of students in the original 3-E but I felt that 15 is much more manageable to write.

Much like Kunugigaoka Junior High, Paradise High doesn't discriminate. The apathetic principal doesn't care if the students put in their best effort, he doesn't care if the students have extenuating circumstances; All that matters to him are the students' grades. Because of this, the education system in Paradise High and Kunugigaoka Junior High have many parallels.

Among them, one of the said parallels is class 3-5/3-E. A class filled with the lowest of the low, where the unwanted are thrown to. Nagisa was painfully aware of this, seeing his old classmates in the students of 3-5. All of them have boundless and limitless potential. However, due to a wrong turn or questionable decision, they were treated as rubbish and had no choice but to live the next few years of their lives rotting away.

3-E was once the same way, with students unable to lift their heads to look at others, unable to feel accomplishment or self-confidence due to the constant beratement by others on all fronts. Look at where all of them are now; one is a rising baseball star, some became researchers, and another became a politician. None of them became the worthless trash society saw them as, none of them wasted their lives away as unemployed, wastages of space.

They may have become great people who will one day do great things, but things weren't always that way. The dull students of 3-E could only be where they are today due to toilsome effort their great teacher put in. Korosensei sharpened their minds, unlocked their potential and most of all, set them free of the chains 3-E put on them.

"You're useless!"

"I should have never given to you!"

Korosensei freed them of this mindset where the students had no semblance of self-confidence. Whether they realised it or not, all of the students from 3-E had this way of thinking. However, by showing them their talents and individual prospects, Korosensei acted as a torch to ward away all doubt and self-decrepitation in the minds of his students. And he did it splendidly and shone spectacularly, such that none of the students doubted themselves once they graduated.

Once again, Nagisa was aware of the condition of the current 3-5. The shadow of doubt still lingered over their minds, making it so that they could not see themselves as anything but rubbish. The immeasurable potential remained untapped and the question now is whether or not Nagisa had the ability to tap said potential, whether or not he was able to ignite the flame of self-confidence in each and every one of the students.

Nagisa knew what he had to do, and he knew how he was going to go about doing it. He doesn't know if it'll succeed, but he had to start somewhere. In a class where all the students don't know what to do with themselves, Nagisa chose to start with Kurosaki Gin.

'Not too shy but also not too outspoken. Hopefully, he'll be easy to teach. I noticed that he doesn't really have a problem attitude wise, he's willing, but perhaps unable to study properly? Regardless I think he's the easiest to tutor at the moment, with all the hostility aimed at me flying around.' Nagisa let out a long sigh and looked up at the two boys standing in front of him. 'They really are too tall, I'm straining my neck just to look at those two properly.

Kurosaki Gin has always been docile. Unlike the other hooligans, he didn't participate in fights nor does he actively get himself involved in gang activities. Despite all that, he was placed in 3-5 due to his horrendous grades. Gin was never a precocious child, much less a genius. All the equations and formulas taught in class flew right over his head, in spite of his clear efforts to salvage his studies.

It didn't help the fact that he couldn't stand up for himself at all. Even if the girls were throwing piles of dirt at him, he wordlessly endured. Faced with the constant bullying from the gang of gyarus, his already terrible grades deteriorated further. Every day, they never failed to extort money from him, leaving hardly any money for him to even take lunch. Despite all this, Gin never retaliated, be it over docility, or extreme apathy, he never raised his hand nor his voice at the perpetrators.

This led most to believe that Gin was a good kid, a little dull at times and slightly weird, but a nice and pure highschooler nonetheless. And he knew this, so why in the world was he called up by the teacher with someone like Takeda Ryu? Why would someone as docile as him be bunched together with Ryu? Gin boggled his mind but could only fear the worst when we walked up to the teacher's table.

Nagisa wasted no time and started talking the moment the Gin and Ryu sat down in front of him.

" Alright the two of you, this is not anything serious but I'd just like to have a word or two with you, is that fine?" Anyone could see the pure disinterest in Ryu's face as he was sitting in front of the table. As the numerous other students started to wander out of the classroom, it was clear that the two of them wanted to leave to. " Haha, it's quite obvious to me that you want to leave so I'll make this brief. Let us start with Takeda-kun. Would you like to hit me?" The look of utter confusion and disbelief made the smirk on Nagisa's face grow wider.

Chuckling, he continued. "Now I don't mean you get to relentlessly pound on me, but" Nagisa leaned in and whispered in a lower tone, "I was thinking of a more hands-on approach for PE lesson tomorrow, would you like to try your hand at hitting me?"

"Shut up. You're just a shorty." Ryu smiled deviously, though it was born out of a hatred rather than simple mischievousness " I'll look forward to wiping that damned smirk off your face tomorrow. At least this way I won't get detention." With that Ryu slung the tattered bag on his shoulders and slammed the door on the way out of the classroom.

"Well, at least he's looking forward to it." Nagisa sighed and turned his head to look at the other problem child.

"Kurosaki Gin, right?"

"Uhm, yeah? You're the one who called me up?"

"Right right, don't worry if you think you're getting in trouble, it's nothing like that. I'm just wondering how much of the lesson you understood." Gin's face visibly paled. "Or rather how much you didn't understand."

"No worries, no worries. I'm not here to blame you, that's not what teachers do. I'm here to teach you." Nagisa shuffled some papers on his desk and set them aside. "Would like to join me for some tutoring?"

"...I...what?" Gin was speechless, not a single word could escape his mouth.

"Well I noticed that you do spend some time studying, maybe you're just going about it the wrong way." A lopsided smile made its way onto Nagisa's face, " I have a sneaking suspicion that you spend a lot of time studying and are completely baffled by your grades right? If you're willing to put in just a bit more time studying with me I'm confident I can bring most of your studies to an A standard."

The emotions and thoughts in Kurosaki Gin's were a total mess. Class 3-5 had 5 teachers before Nagisa, all of whom have confronted him about his horrendous grades.

But none of them had tried to help him like this. Some told him to study harder, some told him to 'buck his shit up', but none of them even considered the notion to help him out.

It must have been a full minute before Gin came back to his senses and tried to reply his teacher. Looking at his warm smile, Gin felt an odd mixture of admiration and gratefulness towards the teacher in front of him.

" O-Okay, you're right I had no idea why my grades never improved despite how much I studied. Please treat me well." Gin playfully bashfully rubbed the back of his head.

'To even consider helping me out with studies, the other teachers had never done that before. He'll be able to help me out, I'm sure of it. Even looking at his calm and warm smile put me at ease. With the way he handled Takeda just now, it seems like he's in control of every situation. I'll leave myself in his capable hands.'

"Alright then, let's start, shall we?" Nagisa calmly nodded and opened the textbook to start explaining some of the basic concepts to Ryu.

AN: I guess the pacing is a little slow, but I'll try to pick it up next chapter

The chapter was supposed to come out last Saturday but I wasn't able to upload the document to for some reason so it was delayed a few days. If nothing changes, the chapters will most likely come out on a Saturday