""So… Where's the teacher? He's never late."

"Caught in traffic?"

Natsu and Airi conversed in the back of class being the only ones present and somewhat excited to see the new staff but those plans were dashed. A teacher 10 minutes late meant there was no class that day. The rest of the students seemed to get that hint, having been already aware or better yet, they just didn't want to attend class with a new Sensei.

"Welp. No use spending our time where there aren't sweets." Natsu hopped off the desk and made her way to the door. Accidently she bumped into Serina, a rare sight because the stalker never exposed herself openly outside her club. Her eyes darted left to right and that wasn't a good sign from a nurse to a patient.

Natsu stopped her. "What's the emergency?! The teacher is gone…"

"Huh? Oh, yes. He appears to be missing." Serina nodded at Natsu answering her own question.

Airi crossed her arms. "Did you want to see him too? You rarely ever come to class just like me. I'm a bit disappointed he didn't show up."

Serina nodded again and took off disappearing around the corner invisible to the naked eye. If there was a spy club she would be the one leading it.


"Sensei you're too frail!" Arona boxed and punched the air in front of Xavier. The desolate classroom with a gaping hole in the corner where the wall and ceiling met served as their scenery. A cloudy but never raining scenery. He got here through sleeping so it could've been an elaborate dream especially since Arona knew much about him. Maybe he was getting paranoid and facing his inner shadow which would explain the random shadow boxing.

Explanations like that just served as excuses to hide the truth. It was time to tell the truth of the scenario he was put in. Arona was the most trustworthy to tell the truth, if she hadn't already known.

"The general student council president put you up to this didn't she? You have a particular look in your eye just like her's."

More accurately, he did have her eyes. She gave them to him after the short time they had together frolicking in the flowers. "Yeah…" He frowned, missing the romance when they first met after the train got in his way. She needed him more than he needed her, and she needed him to save the world from being abstracted.

Xavier took a seat on the edge of a desk. "She told me to be the Sensei of all Senseis by removing the Senseis brought here. Their interventions may have helped a bit but there's one too many. And they weren't brought over by her."

Arona moved closer to his face so she could see the bright blue eyes his bangs nearly covered. "Do you know the cause of so many Senseis? I was held by one for a long time before I was given to Rio, then you, but none of them knew why there was more than one Sensei."

Xavier averted his eyes. "I don't know either. I'm just as lost. All I know is I must sabotage all their plans and get rid of them. Hopefully just by sending them to jail."

Arona's first point still stood and she went back to shadow boxing. "How are you going to be able to do that when you're so frail? You look even more wimpy dressed like a girl."

"This sucks! This all suuuckks!" Xavier screamed to the azure skies above, moving off the desk to rant. "I was excited at first to live my dream in a game but this isn't a game anymore and I'm inches away from dying again. I can't even make the most of this because there's other Senseis inhabiting the world–"

He fell on his back which was painless in this dream. "Other Senseis that've been here way longer than I and made everything topsy turvy. I don't even know where to begin or why I was picked for this. I'm stuck here forever. I wonder how my body's doing."

Arona knelt beside him, summoning a phone in her hand and swiped to a new screen before showing him. "You're not stuck here forever. Try contacting a student to help you here."

He took the phone and lifted his head bent at an awkward angle to look at the screen before dropping his head. "This is just twitter…"

"Twitter? This is Momosoci–"

"This is just twitter!" Xavier sprung up now invested in the app. Swiping away looking at the new Momotalk. Momosocial it was called, where students just posted about whatever instead of just contacting their Sensei privately. There were still private messages but less used given how many posts and threads existed on the site, and the amount of 'wuvwuv followers' his account had. Though he was still logged into the GSC president's account which went unused for a very long time. Instantly he searched for Rio's account which had similar sparse updates and nothing he could take away. No slight changes in text to determine when that Sensei had replaced her, likewise with Aru who seemed to have her nervous personality since day one.

"Hmm…" his brows twisted. "Ah! Yuuka and Serina. They'll help me—"

"W-w-w-wait don't message them using the President's account!" Arona pounced on him to stop his hand. "That'll cause a confusing uproar."

His arms fell limb by his side once again remarking how futile this all was on the surface. He made a new account based on his student identity. The profile picture was a selfie of him sobbing next to Arona, poetic. And he made up a bunch of posts to fill the empty account.

'Frolicked in the wind with my gf today. Little does she know I'm still mad about the day I had to take a taxi.'

'Stepped on a landmine omw to Gehenna. The day of retribution is coming.'

Posts with a hint of truth but they wouldn't garner any attention for the foreseeable future. It made him laugh as he had another all according to plan moment. His nerves grew tired so much that he had to lay down. "I think I'm about to wake up…"

"Good morning~! Spill the bean on which Sensei you're gonna capture first." Arona said with a smirk.

Xavier rubbed his eyes. "Probably Rio… since I know for sure… he's a Sen…sei…" Drifting off to sleep only to awake in a cold sweat back in reality. A migrain was killing his head and sitting up so quickly just made it worse. An ice pack fell off his forehead and his eyes noticed a folded note beside his futon obviously written by Serina from the pink penmanship and the little 's' she put in the corner. That girl moved fast. He was freed from his binding thanks to her intuition.

He let out a breath of relief then his nerves were put on ends when a visitor just had to enter his office when he was most vulnerable. Thankfully it wasn't Noa and instead the tall and imposing Mine carrying Serina and Hanae over her shoulders. This was equally bad, or so he thought.

"A bit of a pervert…" Serina would say.

Hanae would add, "I don't think I can work with–"

Mine dropped them both. "Are you the leader of the Sabotage Club?"

Her monotone was scary. Xavier didn't know much about her, but for sure he didn't want to be on the receiving end of a shotgun wielding student. "M-maybe…"

Mine closed her eyes thinking for a moment then nodded slowly. "I will take my team back until you are certain then."

"W-wait! I'm the leader!"

"I see… leader…" Mine eyed him up and down clearly disgusted by his disguise. "Or rather… leading it from within."

"Yeah." He nodded slowly but how did she know about his club?

"I overheard from Serina here. And this." Taking out a flier from her skirt pocket, she showed a poster made with minimum effort, but effort nonetheless. The only other member of the club was Yuuka but she was so distant towards the idea. Her worry came to a boiling point when he left to Gehenna and didn't return until much later. How kind of her to do, as for Noa, the same couldn't be said.

"We are interested in sabotage." Mine said.

"That's…" Xavier cracked a half smirk. "You don't even know what that means."

"I know what it means. Nagisa tells me everything. I think… I think you should meet her." She suggested it randomly. Meet for what exactly? Xavier wanted her to elaborate and she continued. "She is the kind of sick that medicine can't fix. I think instead of giving her medicine, you should sabotage her. I can't bring myself to do it. It goes against what I must do."

Something like this seemed more like Sena's thing if the Remedial Knights couldn't cure it. Mine's idea of sabotage and what Xavier needed to do weren't the same, as he mentioned before, she didn't know what that word entailed. Either way a quest like this gave a good reason for the club to persist and meeting the Tea Party—seeing how they differed in this timeline of too many Senseis would add to his repertoire of knowledge. The aftermath of the Eden Treaty, knowing how Rio acted, they were perhaps exaggerated.

"Alright I'll go!" Happily he walked to the door but Mine stopped him just by poking his chest. She then handed him a wrapped package. "You're going to need this… unfortunately."

"What is this?"

"Open it before you enter the Tea Party terrace. Do not forget." Stressing the last point. She cleared her throat before exclaiming, "Girls!"

"Yes, Madame hospitaller!" Hanae hopped back to her feet like a soldier.

"..." Mine closed her eyes. "Don't make me repeat myself."

"Yes, Madame hospitaller!" Serina rose straighter than an oak tree.

"Serina, escort Sabotage Leader to the Tea Party. Ensure he arrives there safely. Hanae, clean the office so it's suitable and presentable to new members of the club."

Hanae furrowed her brow and a frown joined it. "By myself?"

Her tone lowered. "That doesn't sound like appreciation."

Xavier interjected nervously. "You don't have to…"

But Serina pulled him by the arm out of the room since the day was soon closing and the fact that arguing with Mine when she was in work mode was not smart.


He was taken to the main cathedral which was the biggest building on Trinity's campus. Serina didn't give him a chance to revel in awe of the wide halls and pristine white architecture, dragging him by the arm to a hallway fit for a giant. She stopped at a tall door at the end of the hall, a door at least five meters tall. Serina wished him good luck before departing to leave him to decide whether or not he was going to follow Mine's instructions. And if he was not then he wouldn't have come out of the Tea Party's terrace alive. Serina's rumors made the Tea Party out to be threats so lethal that a single glance from them would have a student's brain explode.

Xavier chuckled at the thought and tore open the package. "It can't be that bad… oh no…"


The setting sun upon the horizon of Trinity campus was a sight photos could never capture. The elegance of neighboring churches and a yard of mortar cannons pointing towards the heavens; serving no particular use other than to send God a message by shooting a rolled up letter in a bottle, but that was pirate-like and undignified for an elegant woman to do, and furthermore very rude to leave messages in heaven at random without praying to forewarn God.

The radio on the table of assorted snacks and treats played rap music softly with hints of static mixed in with the lyrics. The tea she sipped sucked even though Mine brought her an expensive brand. Tea wasn't her passion, music was. Music being the only other thing keeping her sane in an insane world foreign to people like her dragged into a scenario she never asked for. She was too cowardly to act in it. She lost time and time again.

She sipped her tea then left her mouth open so the bitter unsweet and sour liquid could leak from the edge of her mouth. "The world is so cruel. One of these days I'm gonna go crazy." Monologuing a manifesto in her thoughts when,

"Good morning! Good morning! Good morning!" She hadn't even heard the creak and slam of the door. Nagisa's eyelids rose and her bright eyes lit up, "Oh my gosh! Hifumi!"

Xavier, wearing a cardboard cutout drawing of Hifumi's face on his head, entered her view and he sat across the table of snacks. Mustering the highest pitch girly tone higher than the one he was putting on before so he could match with Hifumi's tone of voice which stressed his vocal chords painfully, he had put on a fake enthusiasm. "How are you Nagisa!"

Nagisa placed down her tea to flip the edges of her short hair. "I am well. I am excited. I wasn't expecting you to visit but it makes my day all the same."

"Really? That makes me–" Xavier choked "S-so… so glad..!"

Nagisa's eye started to twitch. Xavier could tell this was also a Sensei by the halo made of barbed wire and pink glow sticks. It was well crafted but exposed by looking at it from certain angles. There was no point keeping up this illusion forever. At most, Xavier dropped the voice so his throat didn't squirm up and die.

"Nagisa, how come you are here by yourself? Where is the rest of the Tea Party?" He added a head tilt for cutesy effect.

Nagisa averted her eyes, ashamed. "I'm the president of a club with no members. They're GONE!" her grip tightened around the teacup so hard that it shattered and left glass in her bleeding hand. "I was too scared to show my face when the crowds came for Mika, Seia left because she couldn't take my cowardice."

Xavier flinched unexpecting a rant to drop on him just by showing up. "What kind of Sensei are you?" he tried to say as kindly as possible.

"Have you come to kill me?" Nagisa crossed her legs. Not so much a 'her' anymore when he revealed. "I'm a coward Sensei. The Sensei who did nothing, the sensei Wakamo loves but I love Hifumi more. But Hifumi is gone…"

"I'm right here Sensei– I mean Nagisa!" What should he even call him at this point?

"Right. You are." Nagisa forced a smile. "The girl who left couldn't have been Hifumi. Hifumi wouldn't abandon our bond."

"Then who left?"

"A student who became Faustian Bargain."


(4/16/23) update: slight editing to grammar and formatting