Assassination Time
As much as she hated the fact, Azalea was still an assassin, one who started at a young age. Under the careful watch of her guardian, she became a professional killer.
Whenever Azalea is assigned a target, An was just always there. As her guardian and "partner". Though An wouldn't step in her way unless he has to, which rarely happens. He is however the mastermind of Plans B to Y. Plan A was dubbed as Azalea's Plan by An and Plan Z was their last resort.
The success rate of Plan A was 80%. This consists of Azalea spending time observing her target, personally. Meaning infiltration. The remaining 20% is a story for another time.
The key to her assassination was a great number of simulations.
Feigning every possible situation just to see how her target would react. Various situations showed strengths and revealed weaknesses. Of course, she made it all seem like fate was at work.
Little do the targets know, Azalea was plotting the best way to eliminate them.
On Azalea's second day of class, the whole of Class E had arrived earlier than they usually do. The night before Isogai Yuuma, the male class representative contacted everyone for an early meeting.
The agenda was about killing their yellow octopus teacher as they simultaneously attack him. The idea was formulated by none other than the pink haired girl herself, without the knowledge of her classmates.
To the class, their male class representative had such a great idea. As this included the split of 10 billion yen between them all when things go according to plan.
To Isogai, Azalea was new and might have been too shy to take the credit of the plan. At least he thinks that was the case. It was too hard to tell with the girl's poker face and blank tone.
To Azalea, she wanted no involvement in planning the attack. She only wanted to see how the octopus will react and to have a few questions answered. This was a simulation after all.
Everyone agreed, they'll all attack the yellow octopus before the lessons begun. One Shiota Nagisa will call the signal as the student on duty for the day.
'Wow. Just wow.' Azalea thought sarcastically with a deadpan.
The plan couldn't have failed more epically when the blue haired boy shouted "Stand!" and everyone brought out the guns literally. Then, shooting the Mach 20 speeding octopus at Shiota's nervous shout of "Bow!"
Azalea couldn't even try to shoot, she was stunned with what she witnessed. One good thing about this was she wouldn't have to reload the pink pellets on her gun.
If anyone had seen her lowering her right arm, she'd just say she was short and might've hit the blue haired boy if she fired. Her gun points straight towards his back instead of the octopus anyway. She was tempted to.
This poor attempt could've been seen miles away. The octopus didn't even blink he just started to call their names for attendance. Azalea felt her eye twitch in annoyance as she had to loudly speak when her name was called and rarely did she do that.
Finally as the last name was called and the firing guns silenced, everyone except Azalea and the teacher were out of breath. One of the males in the front row, Maehara started voicing his complaints and everyone else just followed.
At least, the poor assassination attempt and a short demonstration answered some of Azalea's questions.
One, the Mach 20 speed was definitely true. Despite not paying attention, Azalea saw a glimpse when he flew to Italy (she found out from Kurahashi earlier in the morning) but to witness it in front of the room creating after images while dodging bullets from twenty five people, proved it.
Two, the pink BB pullets and green jelly knives can hurt the seemingly invincible octopus as the demonstration showed. Seeing the reaction of the class, this was the first time they saw this too. Proving that no one had come close to even hurting the teacher.
Three, the octopus can regenerate his body in a few seconds. Great.
Azalea stored all these information in some part of her brain. This current situation was still vague to her but more time was still needed. For now…
"Let's tidy up the gun barrels and bullets! Before we start the class!" The yellow giant cheerfully declared.
It was annoying how Azalea was cleaning up the fallen pellets she didn't shoot. But more so, when she personally had seen how utterly irksome was that mocking green striped face of the yellow teacher.
By far, her most infuriating target.
Celeste Azalea intrigued one Hayami Rinka.
To say the least, the stoic girl was mysterious. But, had she not witness the other girl in action the day before, Hayami would most likely mind her own business as she had always done before.
First, how did this new student from Europe ended up in the class known to the whole of Kunugigaoka as the End Class.
Second, nothing seems to intimidate the pink haired girl. Not their yellow octopus teacher and definitely not those three high school delinquents.
Third, speaking of those delinquents, how did the other girl even take down two large males? The girl had such a petite and small body. The delinquents had thrice the size of her petite body.
Forth, it could have been the trick of the light, but…
It was already lunch time. Hayami's eyes darted to the back of the classroom where their new classmate was listening to the cheerful Kurahashi.
The bubbly girl was spouting something about how the teacher was so good at teaching despite failing to kill him. She watched the two interact until Isogai and Kataoka approached them.
Green orbs followed the stoic girl before she disappeared out the sliding doors at the back with the two representatives. Vaguely, Hayami remembers that Azalea needed a tour around the rundown building, before she turned to her own lunch.
A few desks away from Hayami, Shiota Nagisa was approached by their own class delinquents.
Azalea let out a quiet sigh before she breathed in the mountain air. After the tour given to her by the two class representatives, they had ended up outside. She opted to remain there taking in the surroundings as the two returned inside the building after a quick goodbye.
She spotted some of her classmates a few feet away from where she stood. Not wanting to interrupt or join them she stayed were she was. Her gaze directed to the forest surrounding the small building.
Azalea could hear the wind blowing through the trees and the grass. Despite the occasional noises from her classmates inside the building and the group near her, she found her tense body relaxing.
Thinking back, Azalea realized that she was wrong. She'd thought that it would take at least a few days before the class cheerful façade disappeared. It took only a day to get them back to a dark depressing aura.
The earlier failure was probably the cause.
Azalea from the corner of her eye saw the group outside with her breaking up, leaving one person.
Their target was literally inhuman. What did they expect?
The sound of something speeding in the air caught her attention back to the present. Directing her eyes back to where she heard that something land, she saw the homeroom teacher carrying a missile speaking with the blue haired boy.
Despite the absurdness of one hugging a clearly launched missile, Azalea found herself unsurprised. The sight of the huge yellow octopus isn't normal by itself. Feeling the violet orbs, small eyes spotted her immediately. Its yellow owner most likely saw her already miles away, before it spoke cheerfully.
"Celeste-san! Let us go inside the classroom! Class is about to start." The weird squishy sound of the yellow giant's body clearly heard in the environment.
"Azalea is fine, sensei." Azalea replied. Her eyes briefly looking behind the teacher towards her blue haired classmate who was lost in thought, shoulders slumped forward.
"Well, then, Azalea-san. Ikimashou~"
"Hai, sensei." She called out softly.
Something in Shiota Nagisa's aura caught her attention. She wants to find out what it was.
"Nyururururururu~!"
"Urusai!" Maehara spouted irritated at the exhausting cheerfulness of the yellow creature.
It was a good thing that before she could voice it out. Kayano beat her to it and she was grateful to the green haired female's initiative to cut the annoying noise down and ask one of the things she wants answered.
"Sensei, what do we call you specifically?"
"My name?" The teacher response.
"Now that you mentioned it." One of the males up front comments.
"I don't really have the kind of name that you call people." The teacher hummed. "Go ahead and give me one. But right now, focus on the schoolwork."
"Hai~!" Kayano answers.
Azalea probably wouldn't know what to name him. Other than Tako. Now how to do this school work? She wants to get back home that badly.
It weighed on her mind, what did the teacher's pink face mean though?
Azalea had her answer the next moment as Shiota Nagisa stood, green knife carefully hidden with the paper for the tanka poetry.
Shiota Nagisa had this unnerving talent of observation. Azalea was intrigued. There was definitely something about that boy.
If only the class were able to tamp down that air of anticipation when at least one of them wanted to play assassin. The air reeked of it.
But none of them expected what happened next.
It happened all at once. The picture of Nagisa's body jumping towards their teacher before dust and pellets came flying to their faces.
Shouts resounding all around. Cheers from the class delinquents, anger coming from a few, fright and confusion from the rest.
The sound of explosion echoing in everyone's ears.
For some strange reason, Hayami's eyes turned towards one figure at the back. Her person of interest since yesterday had one clenched hand on top of the desk. Strands of pink falling on the girl's face.
Looking carefully at the other, Hayami froze at the sight of the same eyes that she saw yesterday.
Rage.
It frightened her.
"It's not strong enough to kill a human being," Terasaka's voice answered Kayano who screamed.
At the answer, Azalea's hand clenches even more. The knuckles turning whiter.
"My 10 billion yen will cover hospital bills, no prob-" Terasaka's cheer turned to confusion. His voice cutting off suddenly.
The dust settled. Slowly, Hayami turned her body towards the front. From what she could see, Nagisa was unhurt?
"What is this weird membrane? It's attached to that octopus' corpse"
"As it happens, I shed my skin about once a month. I protected Nagisa-kun there by covering him with my old skin. It's my once a month ace in the hole."
Everyone was totally confused until they heard the usually comical voice of their teacher turn dark. The atmosphere turned suffocating to the three delinquents not long after.
"Terasaka, Yoshida, Muramatsu. You three are responsible. Right?"
Despite the darkening aura surrounding the classroom, Azalea could feel herself return to the present bit by bit. The sound of the explosion and momentary chaos plunged her deeply in the past. The voice of their furious teacher was slowly pulling her back from her trance.
The voice disappeared abruptly and reappeared just as suddenly. She could feel the furious presence of her teacher, the frightened air of her classmates, the idiotic voice of her classmate screaming and then just like that…
"We need an assassination worth smiling about! One to be proud of! You're all capable assassins who have that power within you. Just a few words of advice from your teacher/target."
What
…she was pulled back to the present. The yellow octopus once again annoying cheerful. Her fist unclenching. Violet eyes once again devoid of emotion.
"Let me pose you a question, Nagisa-kun. I have not the slightest intention of being killed. I will enjoy my time with you all until next March, then I will blow up the Earth. If you don't like that idea, what do you do about it?"
Berating herself for her lapse of control, Azalea looked up at the question from the teacher before a now confident Nagisa answered.
"Before you destroy the Earth, I'll kill you."
"Nufufufu~ Then what are you waiting for? Once you kill me, you're free to go home!" The annoying yellow teacher declares. Tentacles dancing in the air.
Why'd I go to school again? Azalea wasn't the only one complaining. Her blank eyes once again merely observing everyone else as the teacher wiped nameplates clean. Nameplates?
"Oh! What about 'Koro-senai-sensei'?" Azalea heard Kayano say.
"Korosensei?" Nagisa turns to the green haired female.
Azalea closed her eyes sighing. Things were once again changing.
The sun shines on the back of my closed eyelids
A/N: Hopefully, Hayami Rinka wasn't out of character?
Ikimashou – iku basically means 'go'. Mashou means 'let's'. Together the phrase Ikimashou means "Let's go!" I really like Korosensei saying this phrase so I just put it there.
Tako – means octopus. Yeah, very original Azalea-san -_-
Extra:
"Finally, we can go home!" Nakamura Rio shouted. Arms in the air for a well-deserved stretch.
"Don't forget your nameplates~!" The now named Korosensei calls out. Reading out the names written on the nameplates before handing it out to its rightful owner.
"Kurahashi-san~!"
"Hai~" The bubbly girl answers.
"Saverio?" The class could hear the wondering voice of their sensei, knowing that there were no Saverio in the class.
"That would be mine." The quiet voice of Azalea was heard through the whispering of the class. Tentacles handing the nameplate out to the stoic female, the whole class were curious.
Violet eyes merely looked at them before its owner merely says, "It's my guardian's last name."
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