Just as quickly he rose, he would drop back down with the same speed. "This is frightening!"
"Did you catch how many students there were?" Serina tried peeking herself but dropped after a line of bullets flew overhead.
"Five I think." He pressed his uzi against his forehead taking a deep breath before coming up with an idea. "Okay okay. On three we'll start shooting together."
Serina nodded and steadied herself for the cue. Little did she know it would come sooner than expected.
"Three!" Xavier jumped to the side out of cover.
"Right now?!" Serina poked her rifle out and with him acting as a distraction for a brief moment, she was able to gun down all five with a single magazine.
"I got them!" She raised her arm then looked over at Xavier who layed on the ground in a puddle of nervous sweat. He jumped up and instantly patted himself down checking for injuries then gave a thumbs up, but Serina did her own inspections just to make sure, her nursing instincts taking control briefly.
As for their opponents, they were passed out. Xavier didn't fully understand the divide between life and death of this world. Thankfully he had nothing to worry about knowing that the students of Kivotos were resilient enough to resist dying from a single bullet. As for himself, he needed to be extremely careful as the student in disguise with the lowest hp.
Remembering last time, he raised his uzi scanning around for any more students waiting in ambush then motioned for Serina to follow. "Let's hurry before more find us."
Sprinting down the rest of the path and finally entering safe campus ground, and the school.
Getting in was the easy part as deadly as their travel was but navigating the hallways was an entirely separate challenge and test of patience. What two Trinity students were doing in their school many were left to wonder. Many scoffed and snickered as they walked past. Some students purposely bumped into Xavier, or moreso rammed into him, others faked tripping as an excuse to push Serina around–Baiting both into losing their cool. It was always like this when a Trinity student visited, and likewise for Gehenna when they stepped onto Trinity campus.
A particularly pink haired student with glasses that genuinely bumped into him broke his stoic gaze. "E-excuse me! So sorry! Sorry!" She bowed swiftly.
"Excuse me..?" He said, flabbergasted that Aru had changed into something not resembling the way he knew her. Not hard boiled and putting up a ruthless front to exemplify evil, this Aru was way too timid.
A student with a bag over her head and a uniform he'd never seen before grabbed her hand. "You're excused." She replied to Xavier. "And we'll be on our way."
They quickly moved past.
Xavier leaned closer to Serina whispering, "Do you know her?" Pointing out the bagged girl.
"Not at all. She just appeared one day." Serina pulled Xavier's arm. "Let's keep moving."
Together they entered the cafeteria Xavier recognized as the school lunch club's primary spot, and where most of their food hijinks occurred. Looking around, it was empty for the most part. "Why'd you bring me here?"
"You came for a very important meeting. I thought you wanted to meet them over there." She pointed towards the back of the cafeteria.
Xavier walked further in and found the Pandemonium Society sitting in the back in what looked like an improv meeting, but what was even weirder was Seminar's leader, Rio, present with them. His heart skipped a beat. He didn't know what he was going to say.
"Hey, is that a frickin' trinitard? Come 'ere come 'ere! And listen to my story!" The woman with flowing white hair and tall horns waved over to him awkwardly standing.
His heart skipped two beats.
"She's getting pale. She a fan or something?" The fluffy red haired bookworm grinned.
Xavier collected himself and cleared his throat but that didn't clear the stuttered and cracking in his voice. "H-hello!"
"I think she's having a stroke." The red head returned her gaze towards her book.
"Maybe she saw a ghost in the school." The smaller blonde child beside the red haired added.
The white haired leader of the group smirked. "It's clearly my magnificence that leaves students quaking."
The red head sneered. "I don't think quaking is the word I'd use in that instance. Unless you're talking about that one time you made a Trinity visitor pee herself."
Rio eyed him up and down then slid out of her seat, gesturing her hand. "Come with me."
And he followed her to the pearly clean bathroom.
"What was that?" Her voice tightened as stern.
"I lost my cooー"
A loud clap echoed off the bathroom walls. His cheek was left with a red hand mark from where he was slapped. "Your makeup doesn't even look good either." She then back handed him.
"Urgh..!" Xavier spat out his mouth and straightened back up.
"Look at this." Rio dug her fingers in her hair and pulled it all off revealing,
Xavier gasped. "Oh my god you're bald?"
"What? No." Taking off the bald cap too, revealing frizzle short black hair, obviously the kind of hairdo only a boy could have. And he revealed. "I'm Sensei."
The slap left his ear ringing too much for the sudden twist to leave a deep impression on him. Rio probably slapped him hard enough so it could have that effect. So, he was Sensei. Then what was Xavier? This confirmed there certainly being inconsistencies in the world but what did this one mean for him? Certain death if there could only be one, but Rio never drew his gun or moved to harm Xavier.
"So you're Sensei…" Xavier squinted his eyes towards him.
"Yes I'm Sensei." Rio walked down the row of urinals. "The Sensei that saved the Eden Treaty, the Sensei shot by Saori, the Sensei who didn't give up on my students and in turn, my students didn't give up on themselves. But I'm not the Sensei Wakamo loves."
"Ah…" neither was Xavier.
A stark silence grew between them at a large distance away from each other and soon the sound of water dropping on water awkwardly filled the sound. Xavier kept his head turned not wanting to look at him peeing.
"Walk up to me and ask if I wanna play cards."
"What?"
"Just do it."
Doing as he said, walking up to him passing every urinal and every step echoing off the walls, with the question; wanna play cards?
No
-[No]-
He didn't even get a choice.
Rio pulled back up her pantyhose and panties then handed Xavier a thin phone. It was wet too. "I think you'll need this."
"What is this?" Xavier held it cautiously with two fingers.
"Arona. I stopped talking to her since I no longer have a use for her. She's useless to me now. Once I find Alice I'll finally be able to rest in this world." Rio patted his shoulder and left him to ponder in the bathroom with a wet phone. There were negative consequences to having this phone if not even Sensei wanted to have it. Or maybe he'd grown fed up of being the Sensei with Arona, or maybe it was a trinket passed down from Sensei to Sensei. It needed to be charged and having retrieved the key quest item he figured this adventure to Gehenna was a success and nothing more needed to be done for the meantime.
He returned to the cafeteria finding it empty of both the Pandemonium Society and Serina, both taking off to unknown whereabouts but if the setting sun was any indication, it was time to go home.
His home and bed being a futon blanket on the floor in his office as he did not have a house. Work was his house and the wicked never rested; his work was endless like the goals of the Sabotage Club.
The next morning he'd face the ultimate sabotage of his morning tied up all too well confined to his futon with rope. His BDSM conspirator was the most unlikeliest of foes but in actuality this predicament was added to a list of outcomes when Rio revealed that he too was also Sensei.
"Sorry~!" Said Noa, her words oozing poison while looking down on Xavier entangled in her masterpiece. "So, so, sorry Sensei."
But how could she tell through his disguise?
"Did you think a girly disguise like that would fool me? Don't be silly. I know everything and everyone that gets near Yuuka."
Certainly Rio set this up for his demise to dissuade him from being Sensei but being wrapped up so neatly in his blanket and futon was so comfortable that he fell asleep during Noa's speech and he woke up an hour later all alone in his office having fragments of memories of what happened earlier in the morning and no recollections of anything Noa said.
He squirmed around like a worm for a minute and gave up entirely trying to free himself.
(4/16/23) update: slight editing to grammar and formatting
