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Guest: Glad you liked the ship between David and Ritsu. When I was looking for a ship for David, I was torn between her and Fuwa, but ultimately settled down on Ritsu as I thought HumanxAI romance would be fun and interesting to write :)
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It was a regular day after school for David. After having his usual classed in the old school building at the mountain, he made his way down the mountain with his classmates and bid his farewell with the for the day before parting ways with them and heading towards his dorm. Before he could leave the zone of his school, however, he felt himself growing thirsty and decided to drink some water before leaving the school zone.
Taking off his backpack, he unzipped it and reached his hand into it in search for a water bottle he knew he had in there. Much to his dismay, he couldn't find it and he cursed himself mentally after a second upon realizing he had drank all of it after another long and tiring P.E class with Karasuma. Not wanting to walk all the way back to the dorm while feeling thirsty, David turned around and walked back into the full school zone in search of a vending machine.
It wasn't long until he found what he was looking for as a vending machine appeared in his gaze a second later. He walked over to it and looked around everything it had to offer before setting his eyes on the water bottle. He smiled a bit, seeing there was only one water bottle left. Looks like Lady Luck decided to smile down upon him today as he was fortunate enough to claim the last water from the vending machine for himself. Not wasting any time, he quickly bought the water for himself and took it out of the vending machine.
"...Who do we have here?" A male voice he was more than familiar with at this point rang through his ears just as he took the water out of the vending machine.
"Goddammit..." David muttered under his breath with irritation evident in his voice, knowing exactly who it was. He turned around to face the source of this voice and saw four familiar figures in front of him. The said familiar figures were Lamar, Keith, Ashley and Lara. The former two stood in front of the latter two, having the same annoying smirks on their faces.
Keith crossed his arms, "What are you doing here?"
"I was buying myself a water like a normal human being?" David replied in a blank tone, showing them just how not interested he was in talking with them. He pushed himself into walk, wanting to walk past them and go back to what he was doing before heading off to buy himself something to drink, "Now if you'll excuse me..."
"Where do you think you're going?" Lamar asked as he grabbed David by his shoulders, stopping him from going further.
David looked at him like it was the obvious question he had heard in a long time, "I don't need to explain myself to you. Now let me go. I'm not interested in talking with you."
Lamar narrowed his eyes at him, "Here we go again with this."
David raised his brow in confusion, "What are you talking about?"
"The same lack of respect." Lamar explained, "When you will finally learn to show any respect to those above you?"
David rolled his eyes at him, "Why should I know you any respect? You're not showing me any so why should I give you any? Respect is not something I give because someone demands me to give this. In fact. It makes me respect you less."
Lamar pushed David a bit by his shoulder, making the scrawny boy stumble backwards a bit by the force of it, "Is that so? Look at him guys. Someone thinks is all special and has a big mouth. Don't you agree."
"Yeah. It's hard to disagree, man." Keith nodded in agreement as David glanced behind Lamar and Keith and saw Lara and Ashley. Lara had a small smile on her face as she watched everything go down in front of her and Ashley looked almost apologetic by what was happening right now and looked like she was wanting to say something. No words came out of her mouth, though.
Lamar crossed his arms, "With you and your big mouth showing us you will never learn to show any respect on your own, then maybe we should give you a quick lesson in it?"
"This is the best idea I've heard from you in a long time." Keith nodded in agreement as he reached out towards David and took the water bottle from him.
David instantly reacted to it, "Hey! Give it back!"
"Why should I?" Keith asked, now holding David's water bottle, "After the lack of respect you've shown us?"
"Not to mention you shouldn't have this in the first place." Lamar pointed out, "It came from the main campus and the main campus is off limits to you and your classmates. You..."
"Really? He shouldn't have it?" Karma's voice cut him off as Lamar and Keith's eyes widened upon hearing this, knowing exactly who it was. Ashley and Lara seemed to tense up at the sound of it as well, having been made aware of who it belonged to and who this person was.
Lamar turned to the source of the voice and saw Karma and Sugino walking towards them, "Y-You again?"
"Yup. Me again." Karma nodded, looking at the four exchange students in front of him coldly as he knew Lamar was referring to the incident between them back during the summer break. Sugino walked right next to him, silently glaring at the exchange students, "You never know how to quit, huh?"
"S-Stay out of this!" Keith stuttered out nervously.
Karma crossed his arms, "Really? Want me to stay out of this? How about you make me, then?"
"T-This doesn't concern you!" Lamar said with nervousness evident in his voice as Lara and Ashley silently stared at Karma with a tense and nervous expressions on their faces. Ashley was especially nervous of him, having witnessed Karma in action back during the summer festival back when he and David saved her from a creep. She sighed a second later, having started to feel guilty once this incident crossed her mind.
"How does this not concern us?" Sugino's glare narrowed, "David's our classmate and a friend. Of course it concerns us."
"W-Whatever." Lamar replied, not wanting to deal with this right now as he turned towards David again before shooting him one last glance, "You got lucky this time. Your classmates won't be there to bail you out the next time we'll be trying to teach you a lesson."
"If you say so." David replied, remaining not bothered by the fact in order to keep showing his fellow exchange student that he didn't care what they thought about him. Just as his fellow exchange students started to turn away from him, he cleared his throat to gain their attention again. They all looked at him, trying not to show their irritation in front of Karma as David pointed towards his water bottle which was still in Keith's grip,"Give it back."
"Fine. You can it back. I don't care." Keith replied, reluctantly giving David's water bottle back to him as David smiled at him. He turned away from him a second later, scowling as he pushed himself into walk away from him, Karma and Sugino. Lamar wasted no time and followed his example.
"Let's go Ash." Lara said a second later, pushing herself into walk to follow Keith and Lamar and it left Ashley alone with the three students from the E Class.
"Oh. It's you again. It's been a while." Karma said upon eyeing Ashley, having just recognized her as the girl from the summer festival. Ashley bit her lip, looking like she was unsure on what to do here and said as Karma shot her a cold look, "He helped you out with a creep back on the summer festival and this is how you repay him? By still treating him like crap?"
Ashley glanced away from him shamefully, "I..."
Karma's gaze remained cold as he cut her off before she could say anything, "Let me guess. It's better to stick with the group and continue being an ass for one reason?"
Ashley lowered her gaze to the ground, her shameful gaze remaining on her face as she didn't say anything. If she was honest with herself, she had no idea what to say right now.
Karma crossed his arms, "I see. Someone is deciding to stay silent about this. Looks like you realized nothing you will say will make you feel better right?"
"I-I..." Ashley began to stutter in her own words. After once again finding herself unable to say anything, she shot David an apologetic look before turning away and walking off to join Keith, Lamar and Lara in whenever they went right now.
"Bunch of jerks..." Sugino muttered under his breath, shaking his head as he watched the four exchange students walk away. He looked at David with a concerned look on his face a second later, "You alright?"
David nodded at him and Karma gratefully, "Yeah. I'm fine. Thanks for the help with them."
"You know. Maybe we should do something to make them get off your back for good?" Karma suggested. His signature devilish grew on his face as he pulled out some of the equipment which David and Sugino, especially the former, were more than familiar with at this point, "Because I always have some equipment with me and you could expand your experience with using it a bit. It will definitely make them leave you alone for a while. Especially if we'll go with something more spicy than the last time."
"Never change Karma. Never change." David smiled a bit, letting out a short chuckle as Sugino sweatdropped.
A few days had passed after David's incident with his fellow exchange students and fortunely for him he didn't have any other incidents with them since then. Even if he was fortunate enough not to get himself into any trouble with anyone, it didn't mean his classmates were just as fortunate. The unfortunate classmate who got himself into trouble was Isogai. Due to his family poor financial situation, Isogai hired himself as a waiter at the local cafe and it got him into trouble with the Big Five.
Kunugigaoka Junior High School had a strict policy regarding their students having jobs outside of school and having a job and getting caught doing forced you to endure a punishment. The first time it happened to Isogai, he got sent to the E Class and now he got caught for the second. With him having already violated this rule once, there was only punishment left for him and this punishment was getting expelled from the school.
Before Isogai could be reported to Gakuho who would definitely expell Isogai by Gakushu, the son of the principal came up with a solution how Isogai can avoid getting expelled from Kunugigaoka. It was defeating him and the A Class during the upcoming school sports festival in the game of pole-toppling. Their deal was simple. If they win, Isogai will stay in school. If they'll lose, however, Isogai will be expelled.
"...Pole-toppling at the school festival?" David asked, wanting to make sure if he didn't misheard as he sat on his seat in the classroom in a girl-empty classroom
"Yep. If we beat the A Class, they'll let Isogai slide." Maehara nodded in confirmation, standing in front of his male classmates as he had just finished filling everyone on the situation with Isogai.
Terasaka scowled, "Tch. Obviously, they're lookin' to embarrass us."
"So what do we do?" Sugino asked with an uncertain look on his face, "If we say no, Isogai'll be penalized again. Screw this up and he might even be expelled."
Isogai lowered his head, "No...you don't have to. You never know what Asano has up his sleeve." He turned around and smiled at his classmates, "And besides, I made this bed. I'll take responsibility and lie in it. Expel me for all I care! I can still pull off an assassination off school grounds!"
Everyone gasped, looking at him silently before standing up from their seats and voicing what they thought about Isogai's idea, "Wha-What a...What a horrible idea!"
"Huh?!" Isogai exclaimed in suprise, trying to block the various stationary being thrown at him.
"Quit acting so self-satisfied, you cowlicked poor!" Terasaka shouted.
Isogai's eyes widened at this, "'Cowlicked poor'?!"
Maehara walked over to his desk as he raised a knife and slammed it down on the desk, "Don't overthink this, Isogai. We just have to beat those nerds at pole-toppling, right? We've got this in the bag!"
"We sure do," Kouki agreed as he walked over to Maehara and grabbed hold of the knife, "We're practically lucky you got caught working!"
Terasaka got up from his seat and walked over to the knife, taking hold of the knfie as well, "This is our chance to pay 'em back for all their daily spite! Topple 'em, hell—we'll destroy 'em!"
"A chance to mess with those jerks? I'm always in!" David wasted no time and walked over to the knife, placing his hand on it as well. Everyone else began to join in a second later and it was just a matter of seconds before all of the boys from the class grabbed hold of the knife.
Maehara glanced at Isogai after a few seconds, "Right, Big Man?"
"You guys..." Isogai stared at his classmates in shock, not knowing what to say as he stared at the hands gathered around the knife. Seeing all of this, he felt a sudden rush of motivation go through his body as he grew more confident about them defeating the Big Five, "Okay, let's do it!"
"Yeah!" His classmates cheered, raising their fists in the air as all of them were filled with determination to save Isogai by kicking Class A's butts.
The day of the sports festival at Kunugigaoka Junior High School came and all of the students of the said school were participating in it. The participants included the E Class as well. Before their pole-toppling match against the A Class however, all of them had to participate in the competitions which came before it. Having chosen the best students and wished all of them luck, hoping all of them will come out victorious in their own respective competition.
If they were honest with themselves, the results in all of the competitions which had taken place until now were better than they expected. Using the abiltities they had gotten from their assassin training, all of them came out victorious in the competition they had participated in such as bread eating competition which was done masterfully by Hara or a three-legged race which was done by Maehara and Okano, much to the latter's dismay.
Needless to say. All of this victories made Koro-sensei extremely proud of his students and he made sure to show it the best he could.
"Woo!" Koro-sensei sweated, trying to take as many photos as possible as his behavior annoyed his students behind him. He wore his coach outfit with a green blanket as a hood to hide his real identity from everyone, "Awesome, Kimura! Smile even bigger now! That's it, Justice!"
Koro-sensei weakness number 24: Not related, but acts like a proud parent.
"Each student's individuality will be their weapon. It's up to you how best to use that in pole-toppling, Isogai." Koro-sensei pointed out to Isogai was standing next to him, breaking himself out of his proud parent cheering state for a second. Noticing the silence her eceived from his student in return, he turned to look at him and saw Isogai reading a book which was about a pole topping strategy, "What is it?
Isogai closed the book and looked at him, "Koro-sensei, no matter what anyone says, Asano is one amazing guy. I'm definitely no match for him."
Koro-sensei stared at his student silently for a moment before giving him his words of support, "It's true that no matter how talented you are, once you're out in the world, there will always be someone better. Like he is."
"What now?" Isogai asked, voicing his doubts about everything further, "If everyone gets hurt because of me..."
"But the thing is..." Koro-sensei went further into his words as he aimed his camera at Isogai, "Out in the world, one person has only so much power."
"Yeah!" A few of Isogai's male classmates cheered as Okajima, Maehara, Terasaka, Takebayashi, David and Nagisa joined Isogai for the photo.
Koro-sensei took the photo of all of them . "The power to command allies into battle: that's where you've got Asano-kun beat. If you find yourself in a pinch, everyone will fight alongside you." Koro-sensei continued, taking a photo of all of them together before tying a white bandana around Isogai's head. "That's your personal magnetism. And as for me, I'm glad I got to be your teacher instead of Asano's."
Isogai blushed, letting out a sigh, "Alright, guys! Let's go into this guns blazing—like always!"
"Yeah!" The Class-E boys cheered, running forward into the field as all of them were more than ready to win their match against the A Class.
The time for the match between Class E and Class A in pole-toppling had finally come and the two teams made their way into the field, gathering around their poles and getting themselves in the defensive/attacking formations they had talked over and planned together in the days before the sports festival. Upon taking their positions and surrounding the pole, all of the boys took a glance at Gakusho's team and quickly took notice of three members of it which stood out from the rest.
The said three members were Kevin and three other exchange students which David did not know the names of. All he knew about the other two was the fact that they came from from the countries other than America. He was certain one of them came from some Asian country due to his looks, though. What instantly caught his and his classmates attention was how buff all of them were. If the E Class boys were honest with each other, they seriously doubted Kevin and the other two boys were the same age as they.
"Dammit. He's here." David muttered under his breath at the view of Kevin, shaking his head a bit as he knew his and his classmates plan became a bit harder
Sugino looked at him questioningly, "Is he...?"
David nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. He's one of my fellow exchange students."
"How is he in the same grade as we?" Okajima asked, looking at Kevin and his burly built with a suprised look on his face, "He's built like a truck!"
"I've been asking myself the same thing since I met him." David admitted. If he was honest with himself, he wouldn't be suprised if Kevin was on steroids or something.
Okajima shook his head, "That's gotta be against the rules..."
"And in the spirit of cultural exchange, this exhibition match will include all our exchange students!" Araki announced from the 'Broadcast Booth'
"That Asano's being way too careful. Is that how badly he wants to win?" Maehara frowned, clencing his fist as he and his classmates surrounded the pole, getting themselves into a defensive position.
Koyama quickly took notice of this and pointed towards the other team's more sparsely defended pole. "Oi—does the End Class even want to win? No one's on offence!"
"What's with the E-Class? They're going all-in on defence!" Araki commentated as Isogai glared at Gakushu with determination evident in his eyes, "Might they be cowed by the skill gap? Let the battle begin!"
Gakushu returned Isogai's glare and voiced his first order a second later, "Offence team, Plan F!"
"Roger." Kevin voiced his understanding of the order before rushing forward towards the E Class' pole. He was followed by his team which consisted of Seo and a few other students.
"Woah! Here they come!" Sugaya rasped, seeing the members of the opposite team getting closer to them with each passing second.
Yoshida, groaned, struggling to hold the pole up before sprinting forward towards Gakushu's team, "Dammit!"
"We're not just gonna roll over and take this!" Muramatsu added, following Yoshida. They collided with Kevin a second later. The exchange student stopped and grabbed them both before shoving his body into them. Muramatsu and Yoshida flew through the air and landed near the stands.
"Two down! They've been flung out to the stands!" Araki announced. The rest of the Class-E and their teachers gasped at the view of this as they watched everything from the sidelines.
"Th-This isn't good, Koro-sensei!" Kayano stated, "A tight defence doesn't matter if they just get picked off one by one!"
"Why don't you fight instead of defending like a bunch of turtles?" Kevin asked in English, having stopped in his charge for a second as Seo stood behind him, "Hmph. But you don't even understand me, do you."
"It's alright, man." Karma said in a bad southern American accent, suprising Kevin, "Why don't you attack instead of chatting away?"
"Yeah. We're growing a beard waiting for you to do anything." David added as Kevin glanced at him. David smirked at him slightly, "What? Did you forgot I'm part of this class?"
"Hmph! Bring it on!" Kevin smirked, pushing himself into charge forward again.
"Okay, guys! Now! Operation: Tentacles!" Isogai commanded. The front row jumped into the air and crashed down on the attackers. The said defensive move consisted of the attackers being held down by arms and Nagisa's body. Itona leaped to the top of the pole and grabbed on, pushing it down to an angle to keep the attackers in place and giving Nagisa something to lounge, "Pin 'em down!"
"The E-Class comes together with the weight of the pole!" Araki commentated, "Now this is intense! They're playing dirty!"
Terasaka grinned, "Ain't no rule against usin' the pole as a weapon!"
"Get off of me!" Kevin grumbled in Enlighs.
David shook his head, sitting down on Kevin to pin him down more, "Nope. You ain't going anywhere Kev."
Gakushu placed his hand on his chin with a thoughtful look on his face, eyeing the defence the E Class had put on and nodded to himself before voicing his next order, "Guerilla teams on both flanks: Plan K!"
"There's a gap right in the middle. If we're going to attack, it has to be now, when their forces are scattered!" Isogai thought to himself at the view of the more members of the Class A charging towards him and his classmates, judging the battlefield in front of him before declaring to his classmates what they will do now after he grew certain about their next move, Come on out! Attack team! Operation: Mucus!"
"Got it!" Maehara, Okajima, Kimura and Sugino all grinned at the sound of their next move and followed Isogai who charged forward with Karma remaining closely behind them.
"Got 'em." Asano stated with a confident smirk growing on his face when he saw Isogai's team charge forward, knowing they were leaving themselves out in the open for him and the rest. Not wasting any time, the Class-A teams turned around and followed Isogai's team.
"Oh!" Araki exclaimed, "They've chased after the E-Class and are back on the defensive!"
"An offensive fake-out?!" Okajima asked as he continued to run forward. Isogai's team stopped what they were doing a second later, finding themselves surrounded on all sides by Gakushu's teams. Knowing they had no time to waste, all of them exchanged glances and nods with each other and put the next part of their plan into action.
Just as the A Class neared them in what would definitely be a defeat, Isogai's team suddenly ran off in the direction no one, no matter if they were Class A or the spectators on the stands was excepting. Isogai leaped over the fence as the spectators scattered, not wanting to get caught in the crossfire between the two classes. The rest of his team jumped after him, except Karma, who leaned on the fence.
He waited until the A-Class was close, staring at them with his usual laid back smile on his face before swinging backwards over the fence to join his classmates on the stands. One of the exchange students rammed into the fence, having missed his opportunity go grab Karma by a second and the students behind him rammed into him. Not wasting any time, three of the exchange students climbed over the fence.
"The E-Class has begun fleeing to the stands!" Araki commented on what was happening right now as an exchange student ran after Sugino, scattering chairs as he did so. The rest of the exchange students struggled with catching the E Class boys as well. Maehara bounced from chair to chair and an exchange student tried to copy him without a good result and Karma landed on the chair, leaping away from it when the exchange student got himself too close to him.
"The whole place is in a panic!" Araki commented further, seeing all the chaos happening on the stands right now.
Karma stood up straight on another chair, beckoning with a finger as he stared at the exchange studnets with a smile on his face, "There are no rules about boundaries. Come on. The whole school is a battlefield."
"What are you doing?" Ren screamed, standing behind the barrier as he observed everything from where he stood, "Quick, stop them!"
Gakushu observed everything from the top of the pole, thinking of how his classmates could handle this situation and managed to come up with a way a few seconds later, "Akabane! Kimura! Isogai! Keep an eye on those three in particular!"
"Isogai! It's about that time!" Karma declared a few seconds after Gakushu voiced his new order, jumping and avoiding allt he strikes directed his way by the everyone from the opposite team.
Isogai got himself into a full standing position, having just dodged the next strike by moving to the side and looked at Karma with a proud smile on his face, "Yep! So far, it's all according to plan!"
Gakushu's smirk faded away from his face, having overheard what Isogai had just said as it made him realize the E Class had something under their sleeves for all this time. He quickly found out what it was a second later as Muramatsu and Yoshida sprinted towards the A-Class poll, latching themselves onto Gakushu's waist. Gakushu frowned as Muramatsu chuckled while the E-Class spectators gasped.
"What?!" Araki exclaimed in suprsie, "Where did those two E-Class goons come from?!"
Yoshida growled, tightening his grip on Gakushu, "We practiced taking blows 'til we were blue in the face."
"The only hard part was acting out that flight to the stands!" Muramatsu added, tightening his grip on Gakushu as well.
Gakushu looked down at them, snarling, "Are these the ones thrown to the stands in the beginning?!"
"We're done running! Okay, team: Sonic!" Isogai shouted, jumping over the fence.
"Alright!" His team instantly voiced their understanding of his order. All of them grinned and followed him by jumping over the fence, running towards the A-Class pole.
Gakushu gritted his teeth, watching the Isogai's team running towards his pole as he realized what was their plan and realized he and his team had been played by them since the beginning. While everyone would be focused on the scuffle, Yoshida and Muramatsu who would fake their injures would form another unit and would sneak on him and the A Class when the perfect time for it would come.
"Ack! They got right up in our faces!" Araki shouted as Isogai's team lunged at Asano all at once, leaving him handled all over.
"Take that, Asano!" Muramatsu screamed, keeping his grip tight on Gakusho who stayed silent.
"There might be fewer of us, but as long as we can get up here..." Yoshida began. He was interrupted from saying more a second later as Gakusho smirked and threw his helmet off, before taking Yoshida's hand and twisting it around, flipping him onto the ground. He didn't stop with just Yoshida's, though. He used the pole to support his body, swinging it around and kicking Muramatsu off. Everyone from the E Class, no matter if they were participating in the match or were watching it from the stands, gasped as they realized Gakushu must have known martial arts as well.
"You and I are standing on the same stage. Surely you're prepared to get kicked off." Gakushu snarled, crouching down on top of the pole as he stared down at Isogai's team from there. Not wasting any time, he continued kicking the E-Class, bouncing up and down the pole. He even did a flip mid-air as the A-Class left the stands and started to run back home to their pole.
Isogai kept looking up at Gakushu, blocking and dodging all of the kicks he had directed his way while reaching out towards him and trying to get him off the pole to no avail. His luck in dodging everything run out a few seconds later, though as he was pushed into the ground by a hard kick. He landed on the ground with a loud thug, wincing a bit from the feeling of pain he was feeling right now.
Even if Gakushu had just kicked him, he didn't allow this to discourage him or make him stop with his plan, though. He quickly pushed himself up from the ground, staring ahead as he tuned around and kneeled down. It was when Nagisa came into the picture as he ran up along Isogai's back, using him as a ramp to leap himself forward. He was quickly followed by Chiba, Kouki and Sugaya.
"Oh!" Gakushu exclaimed, finding himself shaking from the heavy load as the pole shook as well. He shook his head to himself, feeling how the piole started to come down.
"What?!" Araki cried out in suprise as Nagisa, Chiba, Sugaya and Mimura smiled, all of them pulling on on his shirt. Asano looked down at them and glared, "The E-Class has called in reinforcements!"
"Wait a second! Isn't that their defensive unit?" Ren asked, standing next to Koyama somewhere on the battlefield.
"Which means..." Koyama muttered, looking to the right and setting his eyes on the E Class Pole. He saw David, Terasaka and Takebayashi were the only ones who remained there. Takebayashi was using his long body to hold up the pole at an angle as Terasaka put his weight on the other side while David kept sitting on Kevin, "The E-Class only has three men on defence?!"
"How are they keeping them down?!" Ren sputtered.
"Leverage." Takebayashi replied, pushing his glasses up. His answer seemed to satisfy everyone who was curious about it.
Terasaka smiled at Takebayashi, "Nice one, man."
"Yeah." David nodded in agreement, "They seem perfectly happy with that answer."
"It's a stall, of course. Us three can't really hold them all back." Takebayashi stated, looking down at Kevin who was on top of the pile of the students trapped underneath the pole and smiled at him. He spoke up to him a second later, switching to English to make sure he understood everything, "But you guys can't do anything without orders, can you? Maybe he still has an ace up his sleeve.I guess it's better to wait for his orders before you make any moves."
Kevin glared at him, "Damn four-eyes!"
"Asano!" Seo called out for his leader, "Your orders!"
"I can't give any orders!" Asano grunted, struggling to keep himself on the pole and struggling to keep the pole standing.
"Sucks to be you right now." David said to Kevin, keeping himself seated on him as he crossed his arms, "Right, Kev?"
Kevin shifted his glare to him, "Shut up!"
"You know something, Kev?" David asked, ignoring Kevin telling him to shut up as he had something he wanted to say to him and he intended to do it right now as it was a perfect opportunity to do so, "Despite all the times you and the others mistreated me, I don't hate you for it."
Kevin blinked at him, looking genuinely suprised by it, "You don't?"
David nodded in confirmation, "No. Not your fault your behavior towards me did a complete 180 after I was placed in the E Class. This school affected you and the way you behave. In fact. I thought you were cool before your behavior towards me changed."
Kevin raised his brow in interest, "Really?"
David once again nodded in confirmation, "Yup. Back when we were on good terms, I kind of respected how strong you are despite being the same age as well. Especially when you compare my scrawny built to yours. A teenager as buff as you is not something you see everday and it deserves respect. To be honest we could have been good friends if it wasn't for your change in behavior and I had fun hanging out with you and the others on either the airport or our first day in the dorms before we came to this school. Who knows. Maybe I would even be willing to start things over with you guys if you changed your behavior."
"I see..." Kevin replied, his tone becoming regretful as he gazed on the ground, leaving himself with his thoughts. David really didn't hate him and the others? Even after the way they've been treating him ever since he got placed in the E Class?
"Now the A-Class has assumed a defensive posture, too!" Araki commented on what was happening right now as .s everal A-Class students tried to pull the E-Class off while a few others were blocking Yoshida and Muramatsu from reaching the pole again, "If they can hold out here, the E-Class will be out of options!"
"Now!" Isogai exclaimed. "Come on, Itona!"
"Yep." Itona nodded, pushing himself into run forward as he stepped into Isogai's hands and was tossed high into the air by him. Itona kicked the top of the pole, bringing it down before leaping himself up into the air. The pole afterwards started to fall down as Gakushu's eyes widened, realizing they were losing.
Itona came back down a second later, ready to strike as he latched himself onto the pole and pushed it down. As the pole started to go down, everyone who was attached to it braced themselves from the impact of it landing on the ground. Karma was the only exception among them as he kept his usual smile on his face. The pole landed on the ground a second later, resulting in a stunned silence from everyone.
"The E-Class..." Isogai broke the silence between everyone, raising his fist with a grin on his face, "...wins!"
"Yeah!" The E-Class cheered.
"How cool is that?! My kids are the coolest! Look this way, please!" Koro-sensei had his camera out again in an instant, taking countless photos of his students as Karasuma sweatdropped, standing next to him.
Once the sports festival at the school came to en end, the time to tidy everything up had come. Not wasting any time, the students from the E Class began taking the chairs from the stands and folding them before taking them back to the assembly hall. As they continued to do their part of tidying everything up, all of them couldn't help but notice how different the atmosphere at the main campus was right now. Some of the students seemed to treat them differently as well.
"Isogai!" A girl called out for Isogai, looking at him with her friend, "You were so awesome!"
"Oh, thanks!" Isogai replied, getting squels out of the girls as Sugaya and Kimura carried folded chairs together, "Just don't try that at home."
"Damn that man-among-men!" Kimura and Sugaya growled, watching him walk away.
"It's like the whole mood's changed around here." David commented, looking around himself as he stood in the entrance to the assembly with Nagisa, Yoshida and Muramatsu, "Especially with how the lower grades see the E-Class now."
"Well, sure, with our team's huge upset!" Muramatsu stated, leaning against the assembly entrance.
"You know we might be even more amazing than Asano and his gang." Okajima stated, letting out a giggle as Fuwa and Hazama stood behind him. Fuwa nodded in agreement as Hazama silently stared at him.
Fuwa shifted her gaze away from Okajima a second later and glanced to the side. Someone instantly caught her attention, "Hey. Check it out."
"What is it?" David asked as he looked in the direction she had looked towards and saw the Big Five standing around a cart. His classmates followed his example, setting their eyes on them as well.
Sugaya crossed his arms, "Speak of the devil."
"Hey, Asano!" Maehara called out for him a second after setting his eyes on him in order to gain his attention. Gakushu turned towards him and saw all of Class E facing him right now, "You meant it, right? About keeping that secret?"
"I never lie. I don't resort to underhanded tactics, unlike you. But next time will be different. I'll chase you all into oblivion." Asano replied as he turned away from the E Class and walked away.
Terasaka chuckled, seeign them walk away, "Heh. Sore loser,"
"Hey, big words from a big loser fall on deaf ears!" Nakamura shouted, trying to mess with Gakushu and the rest of the Big Five for a bit.
Maehara placed his hand on Isogai's shoulder, "Don't sweat it. He can't understand your struggle."
"No. It's not like I've gone through any more than he has." Isogai shook his head, disagreement with it. He smiled at his classmates when he uttered the next words and his classmates smiled back at him, "Today, with all of you helping me out, I was actually glad to be poor."
"...Hey." A male voice with an American Accent rang through everyone's ears a second later. All of them looked in the direction of it and saw Kevin walking towards them. He wasn't alone, though. He was accompanied by the rest of the exchange students from America. Keith, Lamar, Ashley, Lara and Matt were all there with him. What caught everyone's attention was the fact that all of them had apologetic looks on their faces.
Nakamura narrowed her eyes at them, "What do you want?"
"We just want to talk with David." Kevin explained.
Sugino raised his brow, remaining suspicious of their intentions, "Talk with him? About what?"
Kevin swallowed his saliva and explained further, "We just want to apologize?"
"What?" Sugino asked with a suprised look on his face.
Karma crossed his arms, "Interesting."
"What?" David asked with a suprised look on his face, having not been expecting this as he stepped closer to his fellow exchange students. He didn't worry about them doing anything to him right now due to all of his classmates being with him right now, "You want to apologize to me?"
Keith nodded in confirmation, looking regretful for once, "Yes."
"The conversation both of us had during our match left me with a lot of thinking." Kevin explained, "The way how we treated you was not fair. Even if you ended up in the E Class, you were still the same guy we were on friendly terms with during the start of our stay in this country and we shouldn't have changed our behavior regarding you the way we did."
Lara nodded in agreement, "We allowed ourselves to get too tangled up in everything this school is selling us regarding the E Class and we got too much into it. We shouldn't have let this happen to us. Despite you being in the E Class, you were still the same guy you were back when we were introduced to each other in this program. I can't imagine how left out you must have felt at times or how alone you would feel in a foreign country if it wasn't for your classmates."
"The fact that you don't hold any resentment towards us for the way we treated you made us realize how terrible we were for treating you like this as well. Especially when Kevin told us how you wouldn't mind having us a friends if we started over." Lamar added, keeping his head lowered.
"This is why we want to tell you this..." Keith added his own part as well.
"We're sorry for everything..." Kevin, Keith, Lamar, Matt, Ashley and Lara all bowed to him in a regretful and apologetic manner.
David looked at his fellow exchange students with a suprised look on his face, feeling slightly overhelmed by the group apology before smilling at them, "Alright."
Kevin looked up at him, "Alright?"
"Apology accepted." David explained what he meant a second later.
Lamar looked suprised by how quickly David accepted their apology, "Really?" Just like that?"
David nodded in confirmation, "Yup. I can see you all are regretting it. That's more than enough for me to forgive you."
"I see." Kevin smiled slightly at him as he held his hand out towards him with an uncertain look on his face, "So. Are we friends now?"
"Yeah. We are." David smiled at him as he grabbed his hand into his and shook it. Kevin smile's grew wider at this. The rest of the exchange students from America smiled as well. David's classmates smiled at the scene, happy for their classmate as all of them could sense the good terms their foreign classmate had just gotten himself on with his fellow exchange students.
David had a smile on his face, making his way towards his dorm. The exchange student couldn't stop smilling after everything that happened today to him and his classmates. Who could blame him for it? Today was a good day. Not only they got the Big Five off Isogai's back but he got himself on the better terms with his fellow exchange students. It was definitely one of the better days he's had since coming to Japan.
The exchange student had his phone in front of him, having one of his usual conversations with Ritsu as both of them intended to have one of their usual hangouts of watching Supernatural together in David's dorm. With the day going so well for them for now and nothing looking like it will be ruined, both of them knew ending it by watching what they considered to be their TV show was a perfect way of ending it.
Their conversation got cut short a second later as Ritsu stopped in her words for a second and glanced at something next to her and David. Her human friend took notice of her silence and asked her about it, "Ritsu? Is there something wrong? You dozed off for a moment."
Ritsu quickly pushed herself out of her silent state by the sound of his voice, "Oh! I'm sorry for making you worried with my silence, David! Something just caught my attention and I lost myself while staring at it?"
David looked at her with an interested look on his face, "Really? What caught your attention?"
"The flower stand on our right." Ritsu explained as David looked in the direction Ritsu had just brought up to him and saw a flower stand with a young man with silver hair and amber eyes. He wore a cap as well.
The seller took notice of David and Ritsu staring at him and set his attention on them. He smiled at them in a warm friendly manner, "Hi there! I see I caught you two attention. Is there anything I can do to help?"
David blinked a few times at the attention from the flower seller and provided him an answer a second later, "No. Thanks for the offer but we're just suprised to see your stand here. Me and my friend are walking this way for months now and we haven't seen you until today."
"You see. I moved here because recently I got a new job opportunity." The seller explained as David stepped closer to his flower stand. His eyes quickly caught the sight of Ritsu. He narrowed his eyes slightly at the Ai in David's phone.
David noticed the way the seller gazed at Ritsu and explained to him why she was on his phone, using the story he had came up with for whenever someone outside of his school would question him about Ritsu, "My friend lives on the opposite of the city. Whenever she walks home and whenever I walk back to my dorms, we stay in contact through our phones and talk to give each other company."
"Exactly." Ritsu confirmed it, adding her own part to David's explanation afterwards, "This way we're giving each other company as none of our classmates really live in the areas our living headquarters are located."
The seller nodded in understanding, looking the two students with the same warm smile from before, "I see. I gotta say. It was pretty clever of you two to came up with it. At least this way you two won't feel so lonely on the way back to your homes."
"Thank you." David smiled at him, internally happy and relieved this man bought his and Ritsu's story. Wanting to shift the topic of their conversation to something else, he shifted his attention to the stand in front of him a second later and eyed the flowers this man was selling. It was when various flowers of many types and colors appeared in his view. The exchange student couldn't really name them due to his lack of knowledge on flowers, "Wow. You really are selling lots of types of flowers here. If I had any knowledge on flowers, then I'm sure I would have trouble naming and counting them."
"Of course. Everyone has a different taste when it comes to flowers and I'm intending to always have something which will please my customers." The seller nodded in confirmation as David and Ritsu exchanged glances with each other, sensing the passion this man had for his job. Their thoughts were confirmed a second later as the seller added, "You see. Every petal tells a story, and every bloom whispers secrets of nature's artistry. As a flower seller, I strive to curate arrangements that not only captivate the eye but also stir the soul, allowing each stem to weave its unique narrative into the lives of those who behold them."
David looked at the seller with an impressed look on his, "Hmm. I never looked at this this way. You really know a lot about this stuff, huh?"
"It's really admirable of you to have such interest in your profession, sir." Ritsu smiled at the seller, looking impressed by what he had just said to her and David as well. Even though she was an AI, it was always interesting for her to see the various views humans have on various topics
The seller looked taken aback by his compliment a bit and rubbed the back of his head, glancing away from David and Ritsu, "Come on. You don't need to act so impressed by it. Any flower seller like myself knows about this and has pretty much the same view on this matter."
David's smile grew a bit when he pointed out to him, "It still doesn't make this any less impressive to me or to my friends."
Ritsu nodded in agreement, 'Exactly."
The seller remained taken aback by it, looking like he wasn't used to compliments like this. He pushed himself out this state a second later, offering both David and Ritsu a genuine smile in return, "I see. Thank you. Glad to see some people are taking notice of my view on flowers and are appreciative of it."
"You're welcome. It's always nice to see people who are passionate about their job." David replied. The way this man seemed passionate about his job really reminded him how Koro-sensei was passionate about his job of a teacher.
David kept his conversation with the flower seller for some time after this, both of them exchanging more words with each other as the flower seller told him as much as he could regarding his interest in flowers. The exchange student listened to everything in interest, even if he wasn't too interest in flowers or plants in general. The interest he showed and the way he listened to everything without missing anything or showing boredom seemed to make the seller really happy.
As the minutes passed, David knew he had to end the conversation as he still had his plans with Ritsu to attend to once they will make their way to his dorm. The seller showed his understanding of it, even if he looked slightly disappointed about their conversation getting cut short and bid David his farewell. The exchange student exchanged glances and smiles with the flower seller for one last time, telling him he'll try to talk with him the next time they will stumble across each other before walking off with Ritsu.
What he failed to notice was the small smile on the seller face and the way he glanced in his way in an interested manner...
Here we go with a chapter after over a year. Watched "Bye Bye Yesterday" on YT a few days ago and just got the need of writing this chapter which wouldn't go away.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.