Student Exchange Program Gone Weird

by blaszczu2500

When David Miller signed up for the student exchange program, he wasn't expecting to end up in the class that was assigned to assassinate their teacher who happened to be a giant yellow octopus man that is capable of blowing up the Earth.

29. David Time

I don't own anything except for my OC's.

I'm sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.

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This day started off like an ordinary day for Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The students of the said class gathered in their classroom and took their seats, waiting for their class to start until some of the girls arrived at the classroom to inform them about one important matter. The matter in question was Bitch-sensei's birthday being four days ago and her not receiving any gifts from them. Even from Karasuma which seemed to hurt her a bit.

The classroom wasted no time afterwards and began to discuss what to do about this right away. All of them collected money from themselves in order to buy a gift form Bitch-sensei, ending up with at least 5000 yen at their hands and now all of them had to came up what they should actually buy for her. None of the suggestions really caught anyone's attention until David came up with an idea. With all the money they had collected for the gift, he knew it would be enough to buy a nice boquet from and he knew the right person who could help them prepare it.

Everyone agreed with the idea right after David first suggested it, knowing Bitch-sensei loved this kind of stuff. His suggestion was followed by more planning from them and they came up with what they thought was a perfect idea to pull all of this off. The majority of the class would distract Bitch-sensei, having her have some time with them together while the so called the birthday-present-buying squad which consisted of David, Nagisa, Karma, Sugino, Kayano, Okuda and Kanzaki.

"The class pitched in 5,107 yen." Nagisa held up and stared at a brown envelope as he walked further into the city with David leading him, Karma, Sugino, Kayano, Okuda and Kanzaki towards their destination in the form of Florian's flower stand.

"Will that even get us a boquet for a grown woman?" Okuda wondered out loud.

David nodded at him, "From what I know, I think this should be enough for something nice."

"You seem really certain about it." Kayano pointed out to him.

Karma nodded in agreement, "Yeah. I never thought I'll see our favourite foreign skeleton be a flower expert."

David rubbed the back of his head, letting out a sheepish chuckle, "I'm not really an expert. I just managed to overhear the prizes Florian was giving to his customers whenever I visited him at work so I think this should be enough. Unless my ears paid a trick on him and had me overhear the wrong prizes."

Kayano tensed up a bit, "Let's hope it wasn't the case, then."

"Guys. We're here." Sugino remarked, pointing ahead of them and everyone looked in the direction he was pointing towards and saw a flower stand.

"Florian! Hey!" David called out to the familiar flower seller with a smile on his face the moment he laid his eyes on him, waving his hand at him with Nagisa, Karma, Sugino, Kayano, Okuda and Kanzaki staying close behind him.

Florian smiled instantly after seeing David, "Oh! Hello David! You came to see me earlier than usual today."

David rubbed the back of his head with his smile staying on his face, "Yeah, well. You see me and my classmates have a small problem here and I knew you would be the right person to help us."

Florian raised his brow with an intrigued look on his face, "Really? What is it?"

David quickly gave him an explanation a second later, "Our teacher had her birthday a few days ago and we want to buy her a late birthday gift."

"Hmm. I see." Florian hummed, crossing his arms with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Could you make us a nice boquet for 5000 yen if that's possible?" David explained further, "Could you make it look like it didn't came from us and came from a grown man instead as well."

Florian looked at him questioningly, "Why is that?"

"You see. We have this other teacher in our school and she has a crush on him." David explained with his smile becoming a bit sheepish as Karma chuckled at David openly admitting Bitch-sensei's crush on Karasuma in person. He would give up a good portion of their Koro-sensei prize to see her reaction if she would find out about this, "She seemed to be really upset when she didn't get anything from him and we want to fix this a bit."

"I see." Florian replied with a look of understanding on his face. His smile grew a second alter as he told him, "Alright. I'll help you out here."

David smiled back at him, "Really?"

Florian nodded in confirmation, "Yes. I'm always happy to help a friend out."

David raised his brow, "Friend?"

Florian once again nodded in confirmation with his expression and smile growing slightly uncertain, "Yup. We're friends, right? We've been pretty much talking daily since our first meeting whenever you are on the way to your dorm from school."

David looked at him thoughtfully and nodded his head a second later with his smile going back to his face, "Now that you put it like that, I can't argue with you here. I suppose we are friends."

"Great." Florian's smile returned to his face in an instant as he turned away from David and his classmates and looked around himself in search of a good boquet for Bitch-sensei. He found what he was looking for and presented it to the students. The boquet was made of the red roses, "How about a classic boquet of red noses? You said it yourself you want to present it as a teacher who she has a crush on. Their colour, shape, fragrance and their impermanence makes them a perfect match for the human instinct."

"Wow, that's pretty persuasive!" Okuda commented as Karma who was next to her smiled.

"See? I told you he's an expert." David told his friends, happy to see everything was working out.

"You're just being nice here." Florian scratched his head with a gentle smile on his face and winked at him, "So what'll it be? It's flowery fate! I'll even cut you a deal."

David exchanged glances with his classmates and gave Florian his answer, "We'll take it. Just give us a sec to take out the mo..."

"You don't need to pay." Florian cut him off, "It's on the house."

"What?" David raised his brow in suprise at this. His classmates looked suprised by this as well.

Florian nodded in confirmation and held the flowers out to him, "You can consider it a gift from a friend."

"I see." David smiled at Florian gratefully and took the flower from him, "Thanks."

"Anytime." Florian replied as David handed the flowers to Kanzaki, wanting her to hold it as he knew she would be gentler with them than he would. Sugino narrowed his eyes at David slightly. He shook his head a second later cursed himself mentally for this, knowing David didn't mean anything like this.

Karma pocketed his hands, "With us having gotten something for Bitch-sensei, I think we should get going."

"Yeah. Let's don't keep the others waiting." Nagisa nodded in agreement.

Kayano smiled at Florian, "It was nice to meet you!"

"The pleasure was mine." Florian smiled back at her and glanced at David again, "It's just a shame you didn't bring Ritsu with you. I was hoping to met her in person someday."

"Yeah. Someday." David chuckled sheepishly, getting a raised brow out of Ritsu as he turned away from him with a wave, "I'll try to see you later after school Florian."

"I'll be looking forward to it." Florian nodded at him, waving in return as Davidn and his classmates turned away from him and began walking off in the direction of the mountain, intending to make their way back to their school building as quickly as possible.

"You were right." Sugino told Davi a second later once they were out of Florian's hearing range, "This Florian is a solid guy."

"I can see why you befriended him." Kayano agreed with him.

Nagisa nodded in agreement and looked over his shoulder at Florian who was waving at him, "He seemed so genuine and natural. Like a flower."

Sugino stretched his arms. "Hmm...guys like us don't get flowers as presents."

"Would you want flowers?" Kanzaki asked earnestly.

Sugino looked embarrassed, "U-uh, well sure, if you bought them!"

"I know I wouldn't mind getting flowers as a gift." David admitted, "I always found it weird boys aren't normally given flowers as gifts."

Okuda raised her brow at him, "Have you ever received flowers a gift from someone?"

"No. But my friend Brian did." David shook his head as his friends showed interest in this story in one way or another, "Jadis once gave him flowers to see how he will react and she later told us his reaction made her day as he acted as if he had just won a lottery and called her the best girlfriend ever."

Okuda smiled, "I see."

"That sounds really sweet." Kayano commented, smilling herself.

"We can always ask Ritsu to make some flowers for you. I'm sure you wouldn't mind getting some flowers from her." Karma added with tone becoming more teasing with each word he had uttered to his foreign friend. David rolled his eyes, knowing what was Karma suggesting by this and decided not to reply to this.

He had to admit something to himself, though. He wouldn't mind getting flowers from Ritsu. He knew it would be really sweet of her and something she would definitely do. He even imagined a scene of it in his mind as he pictured Ritsu standing in front of him in a human body, holding out a boquet of flowers towards him while blushing and looking all cute as always. The thought of it almost made him smile. He pushed himself out his thoughts a second later, though as he realized what was he thinking about right now.

"...Wait. Why am I thinking that?" He asked himself internally in a mixture of confusion and suprise. He had a small blush on his face as well. Something which thankfully went unnoticed by his friends.

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The students were gathered around Bitch-sensei somewhere in the forest outside the school building, keeping her occupied and keeping her attention on them to make sure she won't return to the school building until the birthday-present-buying squad returned with the gift they had bought for her. Keeping her occupied with all this attention wasn't a hard task to them as all of them knew how much Bitch-sensei loved being in the center of attention.

"...And then what? What magic word slays French guys?" Yada asked excitedly, sitting on her knees next to Bitch-sensei.

"Geez, Toka, you're hanging on my every word today." Bitch-sensei commented, resting her chin on he hand.

"I'm just really curious, that's all!" Yada explained with excitement remaining evident in her voice.

"Bitch-sensei, play piano for us later, like you did before!" Hara asked, holding up a keyboard as Bitch-sensei glanced at her.

"Bitch-sensei, strike one of your killer poses!" Sugaya cut in, brandishing his drawing pad while Okajima had his camera ready next to him as Bitch-sensei shifted her attention from Hara to him.

"No fair!" Okano whined as she sat on the ground, "I was first!"

"W-What? What's with me today? I'm so popular!" Bitch-sensei thought to herself, blushing at the attention she was getting from her students as her students clamoured for her attention. She grinned happily a second later, "Alright, bring it on! I'll deal with every last one of you! Just try not to get turned on, you rotten brats!"

"She's begun to call more of the students by their first names. Now, she's completely like an older sister, or a friend." Koro-sensei thought to himself, watching everything from the distance without anyone knowing as the students cheered while Bitch-sensei played the piano for them, "You've becomes a wonderful teacher, haven't you?"

As soon as those words flew through his mind, he began to wonder whether he should join his students in their little scheme or not before taking off into the air while the birthday-present-buying squad arrived back at their school building and went to Karasuma with the flowers they had bought for Bitch-sensei. They explained their plan to him, letting him know they wanted him to give to Bitch-sensei but their answer was not what they were hoping to hear.

Karasuma looked up at them from his desk, "A bouquet for Irina's birthday. Why me? She'd be happier to get it from you."

"Wow. Is he really that clueless?" Nagisa stared at his teacher blankly while David facepalmed, muttering something under his breath.

"Karasuma-sensei, if you consider that bitch a vital asset." Karma began to say in an attempt of convicing Karasuma to give the flowers to Bitch-sensei, "Wouldn't winning your colleague over be a big part of your job? Oh, and let's not tell her who got the bouquet."

"You do have a point." Karasuma admitted, looking down for a second only to look up again and take the boquet from Nagisa, "Alright, I'll do it. Thank you for your concern."

"Great." Karma smiled in a pleased as he looked over his shoulder and gave David a nod. David nodded back, pulling out his phone and signalling Ritsu to let the others know they did their part of the plan.

Ritsu went to work straight away and wasted no time when it came to informing the others about it. The students who were around Bitch-sensei felt their phones vibrate upon receiving the information of the gift being delivered to Karasuma from Ritsu. All of them checked their phones in an instant after this and exchanged glances and nods, knowing their part of the plan was done and it was time for them leave.

All of them left Bitch-sensei who seemed to be having the time of her life with them a second later, making various excuses. Bitch-sensei stopped playing the piano in an instant, finding herself left alone in an instant and her grin was quickly replaced with a confused frown. She left the forest a second later, leaving the piano behind as she marched towards the staff room as she knew it was where she'll find Karasuma and will express what she thought of their students to him.

She opened the staff room door. "Hey, Karasuma, listen to this! Those brats...!"

Karasuma turned around to face her with the boquet in his hands, "Nice timing, Irina."

Bitch-sensei blinked a few times in suprise, "Karasuma?"

"Happy birthday." Karasuma wished her a happy birthday, presenting the bouquet to her.

Bitch-sensei blushed, staring at the flowers, "From you?"

"Sorry I'm late. Things got busy." Karasuma explained as their students watched them through the window.

"I'm just thrilled. Thank you." Bitch-sensei expressed her gratitude to him as she hugged the bouquet happily, "Well done—for you, I mean. You don't have anything up your sleeve, do you?"

"I do want to mark the occasion." Karasuma explained, "This is probably our first and last birthday celebration."

Bitch-sensei frowned in an instant at this, "Her face fell. "What do you mean, 'our first and last'?"

"It stands to reason. Either our mission ends or the world does. One of the two. Either way, it'll all be over in less than a year."" Karasuma explained what he meant by this as Bitch-sensei's face darkened upon hearing his. The blonde haired young woman marched past him and opened the window. The students flinched right away in an instant.

"Uh-oh..." Nakamura muttered under her breath, sweatdropping nervously.

"You caught us," Yoshida stated, knowing they were screwed.

"I figured it was something like this. No way would that square think to give me flowers for my birthday." Bitch-sensei stated with a cold look on her face. She fired a couple shots at a tree, which Takebayashi and Okuda only narrowly avoided. Koro-sensei fell from the roof with a yelp, wearing a paparazzi outfit, "Did you enjoy yourselves? Stringing along a pro assassin, stacking her get her hopes up?"

Koro-sensei held a sound recorder up, "That's not it, Irina-sensei. The students acted out of pure affection to..."

"Save your lame argument, octorazzi!" Bitch-sensei cut him off. She smiled dryly a second later while looking at the kids outside the window as she left occupied herself with her own thoughts, "I remember now. This is merely a business relationship. I've just been playing school with these brats in their peaceful world." She pushed herself out of her thoughts a second later as she started to leave the staff room, thrusting the bouquet back at Karasuma along the way, "You've opened my eyes. Thanks for the best present ever."

"Karasuma-sensei with all due respect, but what the hell was that?" David asked as Bitch-sensei walked out of the school building. Sugino and Kataoka tried calling out for her, but their cries were ignored.

"Karasuma-sensei, wasn't that a little cold?" Maehara added in a questioning tone.

"Don't tell us you still haven't noticed!" Okano added her own part as well..

"Do I really look that dense to you?" Karasuma asked his students as he turned around to face them.

David grew slightly tense at this, "Sir...Do you really want me to answer that?"

Karasuma decided to ignore his naswer and placed the boquet on the table while giving his students a sharp stern look, ""You may think I'm heartless, but if she can't keep her cool. I'll hire another assassin. She's not qualified to work here if her blade can be blunted by romance. That's all there is to it."

"Karasuma-sensei..." Nagisa replied sadly while his classmates stared at their teacher silently, saddened and disappointed by how things between Karasuma and Bitch-sensei went.

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Three days had passed since since Karasuma and Bitch-sensei's argument happened and Bitch-sensei had now shown up in the school ever since the incident in question happened. All of it made the students worried about their teacher, not knowing what happened to her after Karasuma hurt her with his words. To make everything worse for David, he couldn't get in touch with Florian as well. He went to him after school like usual and his stand was nowhere to be found and it didn't appear again for the next three days. The exchange student didn't have any contact information with him as well so he had no way of contacting him to check if there was something wrong with him.

"Day three, huh?" Chiba muttered with him and his classmates solemnly stood and sit around the quiet classroom.

"Maybe we went too far." Yada commented with a saddened look on her face as Nagisa looked down at his desk thoughtfully.

"Call me if anything happens with Irina-sensei. I've got to get to Brazil to take in a soccer match! Samba-bye!" Koro-sensei told his students, his head a soccer-ball as he opened the window and flew out of the classroom.

"That's right." Maehara cringed a bit as soon as Koro-sensei flew out of the classroom, "He'd had his mind set on attending this game for a while now. He's your typical once-every-four-years sudden fan."

Koro-sensei's weakness number 25: Not quite sure what "our soccer" is' appeared onscreen.

David crossed his arms, "Let's just hope he won't mention anything related to 7-1 in Brazil..."

"I wonder if Bitch-sensei is okay." Kataoka voiced her worry regarding her English teacher as Yada held up her phone.

"No good," Yada said while keeping her eyes on her phone, "I can't get through."

"There's no sign of her on GPS or public surveillance cameras," Ritsu added from her main unit.

"She wouldn't leave over something like this, would she?" Chiba asked in worry.

Florian walked into the room, holding a bouquet. "That's not it. There's still something you need her to do."

"Right?" Okano smiled as she glanced at him,"And besides, it's fun having her around."

"Yes, you've bonded quite nicely, you and her. My preliminary research has already verified that much. All I'll do is exploit that." Florian explained as he made his way to the teacher's podium. He stopped in front of the class and shifted his gaze to David for a moment to give him a smile, "Hello, David."

"Hey, Florian." David greeted him in return. He blinked a second later as he realized who had just greeted him. He instantly asked himself what was this person doing here, "...Wait a minute!? Florian!? What are you doing here?"

"I just thought I'll finally introduce myself formally to you and your friends." Florian explained, smilling at him as he shifted his gaze away from him and looked around David's classmates. All of whom stared at him in shock. His smile grew a bit as he introduced himself to them, "I'm the assassin known as the Reaper and now I have a lesson for you all."

Kimura gasped in shock, "What the...?"

"R-Reaper?" David muttered with a shocked look on his face while his classmates stared at Florian with wary looks on their faces. The exchange student shook his head to himself. For all this time he was hanging out with the Reaper and he didn't know about it? Ritsu noticed his reaction from her main body and looked at him with a slightly worried look on her face, having often been present for those hangouts on David's phone.

"A flower's beauty negates human caution and opens the heart." Florian kept smilling as he held up a flower, "Just like I told you guys, right David?" David clenched his fist with his silent shock remaining evident on his face while Ritsu's screen rang with a notification, "Ritsu, bring up the image I sent you. It's nice to finally met you in person, by the way."

Everyone turned around to look at Ritsu and an image appeared on her main screen a second later. Everyone either gasped or stared n shock upon seeing what the image showed them. It showed Bitch-sensei. Their teacher was half-naked as she laid tied up on the floor, not looking up at the camera due to being unconscious. Everyone instantly realized it must have been why she was gone from school for the last three days...

"Bitch-sensei!" Yada cried out in concern and shock.

"I'll cut to the chase: If you want to keep her alive." Florian began to explain as he drew a silhouette of her body on the board without looking at the board and with his eyes closed, "You must all come to the location I specify and not a word to your teachers. You don't have to if you don't want to. I can send her to you." He drew multiple lines on Bitch-sensei body, "To each of you, equally, in little pieces and my next flower will likely be one of you."

"Florian..." David gasped in shock with a wave of guilt hitting him, having recalled all the times he talked with Florian about his school days with all the assassination parts cut off. Did he use some of this information to plan all of this? Was this his fault?

"Hey, onii-chan." Terasaka called out for Florian's attention as he stepped closer to the desk with Yoshida and Muramatsu by his side, "We have no real obligation to save that bossy bitch. Plus, did you think we wouldn't give you a beatdown right here, you kidnapper?"

"That's wrong, Terasaka. Wrong on all counts. You all like her more than you think." Florian smiled at Terasaka as his statement was confirmed by Yada who had a devasted look on her face, "And a human could never cut down the Reaper. Fear not. The Reaper only cuts people down."

Florian flew the flowers in the air all of a sudden and the petals went everywhere, making the students flinch and cover their eyes. The last thing Florian saw before leaving the classroom was the guilty and betrayed look on his face. It almost made him feel sad and maybe even guilty. Upon collecting themselves after what just happened, the students notice Florian had vanished from the classroom, leaving only a map and flower petals behind.

Isogai picked it up and read a note on the back, "Come as a class to the location on the map before 6:00pm tonight."

"Just like with Takaoka and Shiro," Chiba pointed out, "They must be looking to take us hostage and draw out Koro-sensei."

"Dammit!" Sugino slammed a fist on his desk as Kayano and Nagisa stayed quietly. David stayed silent as well, his body slightly shaking from all the guilt he was feeling right now.

"We usin' these?" Terasaka asked, holding up the new PE uniforms.

Nakamura got up from her seat, "To protect someone, right?"

"Greatest assassin or not, we won't let his plans go off without a hitch!" Terasaka declared. Most of his classmates looked determined now. Most of them because David kept himself silent, with his face hidden behind his hands. Terasaka took notice of this and called out for him, "Oi! Skeleton! What's up with you?"

Nagisa shifted his gaze to David and looked at his foreign friend with a worried look on his face, "He's right. Are you okay?"

David uncovered his face and got up from his seat, "It's all my fault..."

"Wha..." Terasaka began to say.

Nagisa looked at him with a sad understanding on his face, "David. It's not your fault."

"How is it not my fault?" David voiced his guilt to his classmates. Everyone had their eyes on him right now. They were taken aback a bit by his behavior as well. They have never seen him act like this before, "I was hanging out with him daily after school after school festival and was telling him as much as I could about my school days! He could have used this to get closer to us!"

"David. You couldn't have known who he was." Nagisa pointed out to him.

Sugino nodded in agreement, "You thought he was your friend. No one could have known he was Reaper..."

"Does that make it any better? I still helped him in his research regarding our class!" David pointed out as he began to pace around the room with his guilt still evident, "I'm a fucking idiot like Terasaka when he teamed up with Shiro!"

Terasaka looked suprised by David bringing him up. He shook himself out of this a second later and began to narrow his eyes at him, "Now listen here..."

"I'm sorry..." David cut him off with an apology as Terasaka's glare stopped forming in an instant. The foreign student sighed sadly a second later, "I know you want to make me feel better and I appreciate it. It doesn't make me feel any less guilty, though..."

"Even though you think so, it doesn't mean it's just your fault." David turned around to the source of the voice and saw Ritsu staring at him from her main body, "It's not just your fault."

David stepped closer to her with a raised brow, "What do you mean?"

"I'm at fault here as well." Ritsu told him as David stopped directly in front of her main body.

David looked slightly suprised by it, "What do you mean? It's not your fault..."

Ritsu shook her head, "No. That's not true. I never bothered to check who Florian was as I thought he was just someone nice with a love for flowers after our first meeting for him. If I bothered to check who he was, then maybe I would have found something suspicious regarding him and could have prevented this from happening. No matter what you say and how you feel about it, you're not alone here in your guilt..."

"Ritsu. I..." David looked a bit touched by her words as he acted wthout thinking and placed his hand on the screen of her main body. He smiled at her gratefully, "...Thank you."

"Anytime." Ritsu smiled back at him as she placed her hand against his. The two did nothing afterwards. Just silently stared at each other while their classmates watched them from where they stood. If it didn't happen under such grim circumstances, then Karma and Nakamura were certain they would have their phones out by now in order to take material of these two while Fuwa would be making comparisons to her mangas.

The moment between them was cut short by Terasaka who asked, "You calmed down, skeleton?" .

David looked over his shoulder at him and looked at him with determined look on his face, "Yeah. Let's do this, you moron."

"Good." Terasaka smiled at him in a pleased manner. He was willing to let the moron comment slide this once as he knew it meant the David everyone in the classroom knew was back.

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It was night now and the students had arrived at the location given to them by Florian where they were greeted by a concrete building. All of them had their new PE suits right now, having prepared themselves as much as they could for this operation. Itona had brought one of his drones with them as well, using it to survey the area to check if it was safe for them to approach the building while he and his classmates hid in the bushes.

"Is that the way in?" Maehara asked as he and his classmates hid in the bushes.

"I did a loop-around from above." Itona gave him the answer, looking at the video feed of the camera in his drone, "No sign of anyone in the area."

"Pretty ominous." Okuda commented.

"Ritsu." David said to Ritsu who was on his phone, "if we're not back by midnight, tell Koro-sensei what's going on."

Ritsu nodded at him, "I will. Stay safe everyone."

"Let's go!" Isogai ordered and everyone instantly listened to him and moved towards the building. All of them cautiously made their way to the front door to the building and Isogai opened it. He wasted no time and walked into the building and all of his classmates quickly followed him.

Maehara looked around himself shortly after entering the building, "Big space he's got here,"

"That's all of you?" Reaper's voice came through a speaker on the ceiling as David clenched his fist at the sound of his voice. A surveillance camera was next to it, "Okay, then: I'm closing it up."

"Hmm. So you can tell what we're doing. 'Reaper'? More like 'Peeper!" Karma asked, looking up at the speaker while Chiba and Rinka gasped as the handleless door flew closed.

"We kept our end of the bargain. Just give back Bitch-sensei and it'll all be over!" Kataoka said, having set her eyes on the speaker as well. She didn't get the answer to her words, though as the ground underneath her and her classmates started shaking. All of them struggle to keep their balance because of it.

"Wha-What's going on?!" Sugino yelled, doing his best not to trip.

"The whole room... is going down?" Nagisa asked with a confused look on his face.

"What did he do to this place? This feels like I'm watching Saw again!" David asked himself, almost tripping on the floor as Okajima gasped because Florian appeared and they realised they were trapped.

"Trapping complete! Doing it all at once like this keeps the risk to a minimum." Florian smiled at them, keeping his eyes set on mostly David as the students ignored him for a second as they saw Bitch-sensei chained up to a dark wall behind the Reaper.

"Bitch-sensei!" The students cried out in worry and wasted not time as all of them began hammering at the walls.

"It's alright." Florian told them as he glanced at David again. David, however, refused to look at him. It made him feel a bit hurt on the inside, "If he comes quietly, no one gets killed."

Okajima clutched into the bars. "If we go the defiant route... you won't get mad enough to kill?"

Florian shook his head, "Nope. You're a little too scared. Even for a kid."

Okajima grinned. "Actually, I'm a little relieved."

"Here! It sounds hollow here!" Kouki shouted, pointing at one spot in the wall as Takebayashi rushed over to him, strapping a bomb to the wall. It was followed by Okuda throwing something down and a purple smoke erupted a second later, covering the area around her and her classmates.

"Huh!" Florian's eyes w a bit as the students used this moment as their chance to escape the room through the hole in the wall. His smile returned to his face in instant because of this, "Right! Now you're talking!"

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David looked around himself, getting a better understanding of his surroundings as he and his classmates walked through a large dark tunnel together. After leaving the room through the hole in the wall, the students split up into two teams as one team which consisted of Kataoka, Terasaka, Okuda, Kurahashi, Takebayashi, Kanzaki, Okajima, Itona and Nakamura left to free Bitch-sensei while the other students decided to go further into the building and keep the Reaper's attention of them, leading up to them finding themselves in this tunnel now.

"Now for the moment of truth." Isogai muttered, moving through the tunnel with his classmates.

It was when Florian's cheerful voice came through the speaker again. "Can you hear me, E Class? The truth is, I'm very pleased you escaped. It'll be the warm-up before the unknown big game. I expect great things from you."

"It's like... a game." Rinka commented, walking next to Chiba as David sighed. If he wasn't getting Saw vibes earlier, then he was definitely getting the know.

"Let's intercept him here. No matter which way he comes from, we'll have the upper hand if we outnumber him." Isogai explained his plan to his classmates.

David pulled out his phone, "Back us up, Ritsu"

"Don't feel like it. Not like I'm gonna defy the Reaperman." Ritsu replied in uninterested tone, picking her nose with a 'hacked' stamp on her cheek as David's eyes widened in concern. Everyone else gathered around him, looking at the scene with dead expressions as Ritsu She scratched her butt in front of TV in a messy bedroom. "I'd sooner turn off than do any work."

"She's been hacked!" A few of the students cried out as they noticed something else in Ritsu's room. It was a stack of papers of a fanfiction she had written. The fanfiction had a title as well. It said: "His Angel: A Destiel fanfiction by Ritsu"

There was something else in her room everyone failed to notice due to them focusing more on her being hacked by the Reaper. It was a carved heart on the wall with the initals of David and Ritsu inside of it. Everyone failed to notice this because they were suprise. Suprised a self-aware Ai like Ritsu could still be hacked. They felt like it was something they woul have to address with Koro-sensei later on. If they will get out of here alive.

All of them pushed themselves away from their thoughts regarding Ritsu a second later as a lone shadow came towards them. Nagisa noticed this in an instant, "Reaper..."

"Wha..." Isogai gasped as everyone glanced in the direction of the Reaper. They couldn't see him, though. It was like became a impenetrable shadow figure.

"I can't make him out..." Nagisa thought to himself in worry and concern, "This is the skill of an assassin!"

"That jerk!" Muramatsu growled as he pushed himself into run towards Florian.

"He's just waltzin' right up!" Yoshida added as he followed him. They punched forward together but ended up on sprawled on the floor. Their classmates watched what just happened in shock with some of them letting out shocked gasps.

"The first skill I honed upon becoming an assassin was head-on combat." Florian spoke up as he walked past the knocked out boys. He punched Kimura and he slammed into a wall a second later. Meahara and Isogai got themselves into fighting stances as he went further into his words, "It's 99 percent unnecessary for an assassin, but without it, the remaining one percent of targets would get away. If you're looking to be the world's best assassin. It's an indispensable skill."

Before any of them could react, he surged forward towards Kayano and kicked her midsection. Kayano gasped in pain as he remarked on it, "Females are so very fragile. Can't be treating the rest of my hostages so carelessly."

"You..." David began to say with angry and disappointed look on his face as he was about to push himself into walk towards the Reaper.

"Move aside, everyone." Nagisa cut him off, interrupting him from moving towards the Reaper as stepped towards Florian with bloodlust filling his eyes, "I'll take him."

"Nagisa..." Karma muttered under his breath as he and David exchanged glances with each other upon seeing Nagisa like this. It reminded them of the Nagisa they saw back when he faced Takaoka...

Nagisa left himself with his thoughts as he continued to make his way towards the Reaper with a stun gun hidden in his grasp. He knew what to do right now, having prepared himself for this situation. He just had to distract him and used the hand stun technique on him, like he did with Takaoka. He didn't have to worry about the stun gun not working as well, having prepared enough ways to keep his target distracted.

However, his plan did not end up working in the end as two shadowy hands clapped in front of his eyes as soon as he found himself in front of his target. Most of his classmates gasped in shock as Nagisa was paralysed where he stood. Before anyone could react further, Florian moved across the room and knocked them out all the while Nagisa remained stunned.

"The clap stunner. Yours and Lovro's might just startle a cat. But this skill has yet another level." He uttered a second later as he found himself in front of a paralyzed Nagisa again. Human consciousness has a wavelength: the higher the peaks, the more sensitive one is to stimulation. So when your foe's consciousness is at its most sensitive peak. You strike with your most powerful sound wave. That impact won't just temporarily spook your opponent."

"It'll paralyse their nerves, immobilising them for awhile." He went further into his words as Nagisa mouth and eyes quivered, drooling. The blue haired boy fell forward on his knees a second later as Florian looked ahead of him and set his eyes on David's unmoving body. He nodded to hismelf. Good. There was something he wanted to talk about with him in private. It was when he noticed something else. Some of the students were missing, "So that's it, eh? Now, then... I seem to be short some people."

---

Kataoka, Terasaka, Okuda, Kurahashi, Takebayashi, Kanzaki, Okajima, Itona and Nakamura had just arrived at the door leading into the room where Bitch-sensei was being held by the Reaper, not knowing what just happened to the rest of their classmates and all of them worked opening it together with Terasaka doing the heavy work. His work paid off a second later as he managed to open the door.

"Bitch-sensei!" He cried out upon open the door as he laid his eyes on Bitch-sensei who was wearing lingerie and had her arms were tied to the ceiling by a rope.

"She's breathing!" Okuda remarked in relief as she and her group made their way to Bitch-sensei and cut her down.

"Take care of Bitch-sensei," Kataoka told Terasaka.

"Why do I always gotta do the dirty work?" Terasaka complained under her his beath, picking his teacher up.

Kataoka paid no attention to his complaining and turned towards the rest of the group, "Okay, let's rendezvous with the rest and get out of here!"

"Got it!" Kurahashi smiled as she turned away from Katoka with Yada and the two began to walk off together, "Gee, I'm sure glad Bitch-sensei is all right."

"Right?" Yada agreed. Their conversation got cut short a second later as two thuds echoed behind them. They turned towards the source of the voice and saw Bitch-sensei standing above the slumped bodies of Terasaka, Okuda, and Kataoka with a gun. Her eyes widened at the view of it, "...Bitch-sensei?"

Bitch-sensei smiled, "Ah. I've been asleep for almost six months. But now I'm awake - thanks to him."

"Bitch-sensei..." Yada muttered with a betrayed look on her face as she watched her with Kurahashi, Takebayashi, Kanzaki, Okajima, Itona and Nakamura.

"Time for your final lesson, you brats." Bitch-sensei smiled wider as the students backed away from her while she slowly walked towards them. Suddenly, she yelped and grabbed her foot. "Ow! I stepped on a rock barefoot!"

"Sheesh. You okay..." Okajima knelt down. Before he could say more, Bitch-sensei shot darts at all of them.

Kanzaki looked down at her arm, "Huh?"

Okajima was already on the floor as he grumbled out, "N-No fair..."

"Acting like you were hurt... We were worried about you for... a..." Yada shook, trying to hold herself up just a second before she lost control of herself and passed out.

"Such is our experience gap, my little hatchlings. I've been at far more scenes of carnage." Bitch-sensei commented as she got herself into a position and saw Itona and Terasaka being still awake, despite everything.

Florian appeared behind he a second later, "What's this? You beat them all by yourself?"

Bitch-sensei looked over her shoulder at him, "It's just like you said: it's worthless to join in with these children."

"Exactly. They're from another world." Florian stated with a wicked grin slowly forming on his face as he moved closer to her, "While these children were breathing clear air, we've lived our lives breathing in bloodmist." He shifted his gaze to Itona a second later, "And what will you do? Come quietly or fight a hopeless battle?"

Terasaka stood up while looking like he was ready to fight him, "Heh. Bring it on. Let's go, Itona. You and me will clobber this joker!"

"I surrender." Itona voiced his answer in a blank tone as Terasaka made a suprised noise at his answer. He raised his hands in a defensive manner, showing he had given up as explained his reply a second later, "He's probably on a whole other level. If we fight him, we'll just lose."

"Itona..." Terasaka muttered under his breath.

"I've learned something. We can lose today." Itona explained.

"Good." Florian nodded in a pleased manner as he shfited his gaze to Bitch-sensei, "Now, let's take all of them except for David to their cage."

Bitch-sensei raised her brow at him, "What's your deal with him?"

"None of your business." Florian replied with his face darkening a bit and become more threatening. Bitch-sensei tensed up a bit, deciding to stay silent.

---

Koro-sensei and Karasuma made their way throughout the hallway with Karasuma running down and Koro-sensei lapping around the area, briefly appearing by his side every few seconds. During his visit in Brazil, Koro-sensei tried to contant his students only to receive radio silence from all of them and it make him grow suspicious whether something happened to them or not.

After coming back to Japan, the octopus came into contact with Karasuma and the two set off to find their missing students with Koro-sensei using his nose to track down their scent. They took care of the matter of making sure Koro-sensei won't be noticed by anyone as well as Koro-sensei dressed up as a dog, much to Karasuma's dismay even of Koro-sensei argued how good his disguise was with him.

After finding the concrete building and Koro-sensei confirming their students were inside, the two wasted no time and entered the place with Karasuma pulling out his pistol to make himself ready for whatever would happen inside. As they went further into the building, they entered a dark room. Karasuma kept his gun raised in ready, but the two flinched as the door slammed shut behind them and the walls started to move.

"Wh-what's this!?" Koro-sensei exclaimed.

"The whole room is going down!" Karasuma explained to him what was going on right now as the wall in front of them opened as they continued downward, revealing Bitch-sensei. Her hands were tied behind her back, her expression unreadable.

A shadow sat beside her, one gun pressed to the back of her head and the other held to the side. Just as Karasuma noticed her, Bitch-sensei formed a barely noticeable smile. Koro-sensei and Karasuma let themselves on guard as the shadow from behind Bitch-sensei moved forward, pushing the blonde haired woman in front of him. Karasuma kept his gun raised as Koro-sensei grimaced uneasily.

"Not you too, Miss Irina..." The octopus uttered in an uneasy tone.

"You're behind all this?" Karasuma demanded to know..

Reaper smiled at him, "Does the name "Reaper" ring a bell?"

"I've heard of it," Karasuma replied as Koro-sensei shifted a bit in a uncomfortable manner, "From Lovro."

"I let him live on purpose." Reaper replied in a cheerful tone, "If I want my competitors to leave the game, I need him to spread the word about me." He paused for a second, "Hey, how about lowering that gun? Or should I shoot your friend here?"

"The way he obscures his presence..." Karasuma thought to himself with a frown on his face, putting down his gun.

Reaper chuckled and slammed his own gun across the back of Bitch-sensei's head, shoving her forward with a pained yell. She fell to the floor and remained still, "I've put explosives on her neck and on the students' necks. I just give the high sign and they'll detonate."

"You think if you threaten your hostages, I'll die quietly?" Koro-sensei cut him off.

"Now, I wonder!" Reaper smiled innocently. His words were followed by three of Koro-sensei's tentacles bursting and Koro-sensei yelped in shock, having not been prepared for this.

The floor beneath the octopus fell away a second later and he looked to the side just in time to see who shot him. Bitch-sensei, pulled up in Karasuma's arms, was holding a black controller in one hand. The cuff on her other wrist was smoking. It didn't take Koro-sensei long to realize what were cuffs were. It had been a hidden gun for all this time.

"But why?" Koro-sensei asked himself internally upon seeing Bitch-sensei working with the Reaper as he fell through the floor.

Two of his tentacles desperately reached for the edge to pull himself back up, but they were shot too. Reaper was standing there, guns raised. All of Koro-sensei's tentacles were shot as soon as they reached upward, making it impossible to climb back up. It wasn't long before he landed on the ground of what happened to be a cell where his students were placed after they were knocked out by Reape and Bitch-sensei.

"Koro-sensei!" His students yelled out in shock with starled expressions on their faces.

"Class..." The octopus slowly stood up as he uttered this students, "Is everyone unhurt?"

Maehara frowned. "I can't believe he captured you too."

Koro-sensei pressed a tentacle against the bars, deep in thought. His tentacle melted immediately. "Bars made of anti-me material, eh? It's tricky stuff, to be sure, but my body has finally overcome it!"

"Really?" Okano asked with he expression brightening. Koro-sensei's other students seemed shocked by this revelation as well.

"Now to reveal to you my secret internal-organ weapon...!" Koro-sensei laughed sinisterly with his eyes glowing red. His students looked at them with interest and intrigue, wonder what was he going to do. However his internal organ weapon turned out to be something far away from what they were expecting as Koro-sensei began licking the bar, getting disturbed looks out of them in the process, "I made this tongue with a coating of digestive juices, Give me half a day and I can lick these bars away."

"TOO SLOW!" His students screamed in unison.

"How are we going to get David back if it will take you half a day?" Sugino asked his teacher.

"Whaa...?" Koro-sensei asked in confusion as he looked around his students and felt his eyes go wide upon seeing one of them was missing. He stopped licking the bar in an instant at this and voiced his worry straight away, "Wait? Where's David?!"

"Relax. He's safe and sound. I had no intention of hurting him. " Koro-sensei and his students shifted their attention to the voice a second later and saw Reaper sitting by the doorway with Karasuma and Bitch-sensei behind him. Karasume had his eyes narrowed at him, "I wouldn't try that if I were you as well. I'll detonate everyone's bombs if you'll try it again."

"What?" Koro-sensei exclaimed in both shock and anger. Anger was caused by Reaper taking one of his students captive and taking him someplace else.

"Now then. better hurry. I'm about to flood this place with water." Reaper ignored the angry part of Koro-sensei voice and voiced his further intentions, getting gasps out of the students. He smiled widely at Koro-sensei, "This is a drainage canal. On my command from the control room up above, two hundred tons of water per second will squeeze you into noodles against these bars."

"Wait!" Karasuma exclaimed as he placed his hand on Reaper's shoulder and gripped it tightly, "You intend to kill the students, too?"

Reaper smiled at him without a care in the world, "Of course. It's too late to wait."

"What about..." Karasuma began to ask.

Reaper narrowed his eyes at him as he pulled his hand away from him, "He's an exception."

Karasuma frowned as he turned towards a frowning Bitch-sensei who had her eyes on the floor, "Irina! You knew as much, and yet..."

"As a pro, I just prioritize results, that's all." Bitch-sensei interrupted him with an annoyed look on her face, "Isn't that what you wanted?"

"Do you think I should let our best chance of saving the world slip away before our eyes?" Reaper added as Karasuma looked down with a conflicted look on his face, finding himself thinking back to the conversation he once had with his supervisor and it made him decide what to do now. He looked up at him a second later, deciding to show him his answer.

"Here's how the government sees it." He told him as he punched Reaper in the face, sending him flying. He stood in front of his students in a protective manner with his fist raised as he used his other hand to loosen his tie, "The lives of 27 people are weightier than the Earth. If you plan on killing them too, then I'll stop you. I'm intending to get back the one student you don't want to kill as well. No matter what you're planning to do with him.

"Karasuma-sensei!" Several of his students cried out in name.

"S-so cool!" Koro-sensei stuttered as Kurahashi had hearts for eyes.

"And I'll tell you this, Irina." Bitch-sensei's eyes widened a bit when Karasuma called out for her while pulling off his jacket and letting it fall on the floor, "Being a pro isn't quite so carefree."

"If it takes too long to kill Karasuma, my plans will come apart. I need to go wake him up and have this conversation now..." Reaper thought to himself, his smile becoming weaker as he ran out of the room in the blink of an eye, leaving everyone stunned.

"I don't think so!" Karasuma shouted as he wasted no time and followed him.

"Karasuma-sensei!" Koro-sensei called as the Reaper disappeared through the entrance, "Turn on your transceiver!"

"Hmph. How rash." Bitch-sensei smiled as she undid her collar and twirled it on her finger, "Karasuma may stand apart from others, but he goes even further. Just look at how he trapped that octopus."

"Bitch-sensei..." Yada muttered under her breath with a hurt look on her face. A beeping sound rang through her ears a second later and she pressed her fingers against her.

"Irina. I need your help." Reaper's voice rang through her ears a second later, "I've set a trap. While Karasuma's fiddling with it, shoot him from behind."

Bitch-sensei gripped a small pistol when she voiced her understanding of the order, "Understood."

Karasuma rang along the hallway as fast as his legs could carry him, knowing he was working on limited time here as he wanted to make his way to Reaper and hopefully find David in the process. Whenever he was right now. He grabbed the handle tightly and froze as soon as his hand touched it. The handle felt a bit different. It didn't took him long to connect the dots and realize it must have been a trap.

He opened the door even if he knew it was a trap, though. He had no time to disarm it. With the handle of the door was pulled downward, the detonation pin was pulled out of the device. Smoke covered the room where the bomb had been set off as the walls were left cracked, and the door, warped from the impact and heat, creaked as it fell to the floor. Karasuma calmly made his way through the damage.

"Tsk. More powerful than I'd expected." He commented to himself as he pushed himself into run again and went through the hallway. Another explosion was set off a second later with a dark smoke shooting through the hall. Despite that however, he kept running and didn't intending to stop running until he'll lay his eyes on either his target or missing student.

He entered into an open area a second later and noticed there was a gap in the floor which was shaped like a half moon. The straight edge had wide pillars that Karasuma quickly hid behind, while the curved edge was lined with railings. It was when he noticed someone standing in the hallway opposite from this. It was Reaper and he was leaning against the wall.

"Your nose for bloodlust is spot on. I admit—I underestimated you." Reaper admitted with his body covered in darkness.

"It's like a trade fair for traps." Karasuma responded to his remark "Well done."

"Once you master the skills to kill a person, it's in an assassin's nature to want to use every last one of them." Reaper giggled, placing his hands on his hips. It was when bullet flew right past Karasuma who wasted no time and ducked to the side just as the bullet was hit the pillar right where his head had been.

"Make sure you hit him, Irina." Reaper called as Karasuma raised his gun and faced Bitch-sensei who was the person who had fired at him.

"Sorry." Bitch-sensei smirked, doing her best to copy Karasuma's pose, "This next one will."

Karasuma paused for a second, but didn't lose lower his guard, "You're going to die, Irina."

"I'm more than prepared for that." Btich-sensei admitted to him in a bitter tone, "You probably can't understand, but he does. You and I are the same,' he said."

"That's right," Reaper voiced his agreement with what Bitch-sensei just said,"Did I ever tell you my backstory? Born in a slum beset by constant terrorist attacks, an uncertain world where life could blink out in an instant. I could trust only in money and my own skills, and that if you kill people, they die. And so Irina understands how I feel."

He smiled upon utterting those words with his smile growing bigger with each passing second as he pulled out a small controller from behind him and clicked it. Another loud explosion happened in the ceiling, causing dust and large debris to fall around Irina and Karasuma. Karasuma raised his arms above his head in a protective manner while Bitch-sensei didn't do anything. She just stared at what just happened with a betrayed look on her face.

"Right, Irina?" he asked sweetly. "Even if I did use you as a sacrifice."

---

When David woke up from his slumber, his vision was a bit blurry for a moment before he regained his full vision. He looked around his surroundings, wanting to get a better understanding of them and grew slightly confused after he was he was in some sort of dark room with some controls in front of him right now. His eyes widened a second later, having just recalled what happened to him before he was knocked out and recalled just in how big of a trouble he was right now.

He tried to stand up from the chair a second later, wanting to leave this room as quickly as he could. However, he had to postpone his plans a second later because he couldn't stand up. His wrists were tightly bound by coarse ropes that dig into his skin, leaving him in a small pain when he tried to stand up. The exchange student exhaled deeply, knowing it would be a problem. He didn't stop with his attempts at freeing himself, though.

He continued to struggle against his restraints for the next moment, his muscles tense and his body slightly leaning forward as if straining to break free. His expression grew more desperate and deterimed with each passing second as he clenched his jaw in order to stop himself from making any noises. His breathing slowly became more shallow and rapid. He looked around himself once more as well, searching for any means of escape or anything he could use to free himself while his fingers worked at the knots.

The foreigner stopped working at freeing himself in an instant a second later as the door to his room was pushed open. He looked towards the door, feeling himself growing more nervous and sweaty and it just intestified from there as he saw Florian if he could even call him Florian anymore enter the room. The assassin closed the door behind him, leaving it locked and set his eyes on upon David.

"You woke up by yourself. Great." Florian smiled upon seeing David was not sleeping anymore. The smile on his face was genuine. A complete constrast of how he was acting after he revealed himself to be the Reaper to him and his classmates. He stepped closer to David with David growing more tense the closer he got to him. The assassin waved his worries off, "Relax. I won't do anything to you. If I had any ill intentions towards you, then I would place you in the cage along with your classmates."

"What do you want from me?" David had no idea whether he should feel reassured or more angry with his words as Florian pulled out a knife, making David close his eyes in fear of the worst due to his mind immediately flying to the worst possible scenario.

"I just want to talk." Florian explained, using his knife to cut David's bounds as he looked at him with a slightly apologetic expression his face, "I'm sorry if I tied you up a bit too tightly. I wanted to make sure you won't get away or free yourself before I'll arrive back here after dealing with your teachers and your classmates."

"What? What did you do to them?" David's eyes widened a bit in concern, rubbing his hands against each other to kil the pain caused by his tight bounds upon being freed from them.

"Relax. They should be fine." Florian lied, not wanting to tell him what he just did to Karasuma and Bitch-sensei.

David didn't buy his answer either, "Why should I believe you? You lied to me for all this time! You used me to gather information on me and my classmates! Should I even call you Florian? It that even your real name!?"

Florian stared at him for a second and gave him his answer, "Yes. Even though it's not my real name because I can't even remember my old name, this name kind of grew on me over the time we spent together."

"I see." David glared at him as Florian sighed. Seeing David looking at him like this hurt him on the inside. It was a complete constrast from all the times he was happy to see him and talk with him whenever they hung out.

Florian sighed, "Listen. I know you're angry at me..."

"You don't say?" David asked with sarcasm evident in his voice.

Florian ignored it and explained himself further, "...and are certain I've been hanging out with you just for the information. It wasn't the case, though even if it was my first intention. I really had a nice time whenever you came to visit me and I truly enjoyed spending time with you. Because of this, I couldn't really bring myself to place you with the rest of your classmates. There's something I would like to ask you about as well."

"What are you getting at?" David wanted him to get straight to the point.

Florian replied to this by holding his knife out towards David, "David. Do you want to be my apprentice?"

David stared at him silently for the next few seconds, allowing his brain to process this offer, "W-What?"

"You heard me right." Florian nodded in confirmation as he kept holding the knife out towards David with his expression and tone becoming more hopeful, "I want you to be my apprentice. From the research I did on you and your classmates, I know what you can do and I can see a potential in you. Even if you're not skilled with knives much, it is something we can work on and you already are a splendin sniper. Your scrawny appearance is an asset as well as you don't look like an assassin at all. You're a diamond in the rough and I want to help you become a full diamond."

---

The entire side of the room where the explosion went off next to Karasuma and Bitch-sensei was covered in rising smoke, chunks of solid cement and stone piled high. The debris began to shift a bit, letting out muffled sounds and Karasuma appeared from the smoke as he shoved it off him, looking battered from what he was just put through. He had a cut on his cheek as well.

He looked over his shoulder a second later and saw Bitch-sensei laying unconscious as she was trapped under several pieces of concrete, "Irina..."

"Karasuma! Are you alright!?" Koro-sensei's concerned voice sounded in his earpiece a second later.

Karasuma placed his hand on the earpiece, "What is it?"

"I finally got through. What was that explosion?" Koro-sensei voiced his worry filled question to him.

"I'm all right, but Irina's trapped under the debris." Karasuma explained, getting shocked gasps out of his students, "I don't have time for that. I'm going after Reaper. If I'll get lucky, I should be able to catch up to him before he'll make his way to whenever he is keeping David locked up. "

"You can't!" Kurahashi yelled, "Why won't you help her, Karasuma-sensei?"

"Kurahashi..." Karasuma sighed, "Irina partnered with Reaper to get results in her own way. A real pro accepts her own responsibility."

"What's being a pro have to do with it?" Kurahashi cried. "I know this is coming from a 15-year-old... but Bitch-sensei is only 21! Growing up in an environment with no peace of mind, she probably forgot to pick up some of the pieces along the way that would make her a grown-up. So please... rescue her, Karasuma-sensei. Just like you forgive us students when we make mistakes."

As all of this happened, Bitch-sensei found herself fading away and found herself thinking of how he first became an assassin and met Lovro. She thought back of how her home village was wiped out by the militia and how she was the sole survivor of it, having only survived by killing an militia member and escaping before anyone else could reach her.

The blonde haired young woman couldn't help but chuckle bitterly when this memory flew through her mind. If she could chuckle right now. The debris was preventing her from doing anything right now. To think she would end up dying betrayed by the person she betrayed someone for. She was just glad all of it would end before she'd remember the warmth of a place in the sun...

She was pushed out of her thoughts a second later as the debris creaked. She opened her eyes and saw Karasuma straining against the weight of it. Bitch-sensei's eyes widened at the view of Karasuma saving her, despite everything she did as her fellow teacher removed all the debris keeping her pinned down to the floor and removed his shirt.

"Your left arm may be broken."Does it hurt anywhere else?" He asked, being completely shirtless in front of her right now as he grabbed her arm and began to make a splint out of a rod from the debris and his shirt. Bitch-sensei took a look at his shirtless form and got a massive nosebleed just a second later. Karasuma immediately became concerned, "Hey, you're bleeding!"

Bitch-sensei looked away with her face becoming pink and a nosebleed being seconds away from happening, "No, your super hot body just got me excited."

"I thought you might have brain damage, but that's perfectly normal for you." Karasuma's brow twitched in anger. He composed himself a second later and got himself back into a standing position, "Irina, this may be different from the world you grew up in, but the world that the students and I live in... it needs you."

With that being said, Karasuma took off in the Reaper's direction with hopes of reaching him and David before it will be too late to do anything and left a shocked Bitch-sensei behind...

---

David stared at Florian's knife with suprise remaining evident on his face, having not been expecting this to happen as his brain still had a hard time processing the offer the Reaper had just made him. He couldn't believe the direction their conversation had taken. Florian's words sounded like some sick joke to him.. An apprentice? Of his? After kidnapping his classmates, lying to him for as long as he knew him, and breaking every ounce of trust David had?

The exchange student's heart pounded heavily in his chest, and his hands still stung from the ropes, serving as a sharp reminder of just how dangerous this situation really was. Was the situation even dangerous to him? Florian showed him he had no interest in hurting him. Even the foreigner still kept himself on guard and who could blame him for it. Florian was the Reaper. The most dangerous assassin in the world and yet, here he was, extending a hand toward him like he was offering some gift.

He looked up at Florian, seeing just how hopeful the Reaper was about him accepting his offer. If David was honest with himself, the Reaper seemed almost desperate for a positive answer. It made David ask himself. What did Florian really want? Why him? Did he really made this offer to him just because of their conversation or was there something else behind. More importantly,dDid he seriously think that David would just agree? After all of this?

David swallowed, struggling to keep his expression from giving away too much as he looked directly into Florian's eyes when he gave him his answer. His tone was firm. Even if his heart was still pounding like crazy, "No. I won't do it."

Florian's hope faded away from his eyes in an instant after this, "What do you mean, David? This is an opportunity. Just think about it. We can kill the octopus together and you'd get a chance to master your abilities to become the next Reaper. Just give it more thought and don't do anything you might regret later..."

"Why would I regret it?" David cut him off with his arms crossed, "You think I'd ever want to work for you after everything you've done? ou think I'd ever want to work for you after everything you've lied to me for as long as I knew you? After what you did to my friends?! No matter what you say, I'm not going to be your apprentice. Even if I agreed, how can I know you won't lie or betray me again? Why should I trust you?"

Florian's smile was completely gone by this point, his expression turning cold and unreadable upon listening to David's answer. For a moment, he just stood there and did nothing else. He kept his eyes on David the knife still outstretched, his gaze sharp and piercing. The silence between them lasted a few more moments with Florian looking like he was trying to come up with a good answer to whatever David had just said to him.

He lowered the knife a second later, glancing down at it and sighed in a saddened and disappointed manner. His tone sounded more hurt than angry when he broke the silence between him and David as he turned away from him and stepped closer to the controls behind him, "I see. I should have expected this would happen. You know, I was hoping you'd be different. Different from him..."

David raised his brow at Florian's choice of wors as he got up from his seat and stepped a bit closer to him, "Florian. What do you mean I would be different from him?Why do you want me to be your apprentice in the first place?"

"Because I want to keep you around myself." Florian replied to him as he turned around to face the exchange student again. David saw his tone was genuine.

David kept his brow raised, "What? Why?"

"Because you were the first ever person to notice me or appreciate me in some way." Florian wasted no time and explained it to him, "My old master never appreciated me in any way. I just wanted to be like him and he never appreciated it or anything I can do. He never looked at me or treated me like a person. I can count only one situation when he praised me for the flowers I placed at the table and I doubt he even meant it as a praise back then..."

David stared at Florian silently, shocked by his sudden outburst as Florian went further into his words, "You were everything he wasn't for me. You actually noticed me as a person and showed interest in me. You always paid attention whenever I talked about flowers with you even if I could tell you weren't into them as much I was. Neverthless you listened and paid attention to it because you knew it would make be happy."

David proceeded to remain silent, having a hard time believing the most dangerous assassin in the world was breaking down like this in front of him as Florian wasted no time and continued, "You were the first person I could call a friend in my life. I felt human for the first time in my life. You made me feel like I mattered. That's why I can't just let you go, David. This is why I didn't want to hurt you. I want to keep you around myself because I don't want to feel alone and empty again. I want to be around someone who treat me like a person and notices me..."

"...Florian." David looked at Florian with a concerned look on his face. All the anger he had towards the man in front of him faded away and was replaced with concern. Florian's expression softened at David's concern. After everything he had done, David was still concerned for him. David spoke to him a second later, "...Have you ever thought about quiting being an assassin?"

Florian looked a bit suprised by the suggestion, "What?"

David nodded in confirmation, "You heard me right. I can tell you're not happy with this job as you were more happy whenever you were working under your cover as the flower seller. You should continue with your job of a flower seller. When we used to hang out, you'd spend hours talking about flowers—every detail, every species. The way you lit up when you worked at the shop… you seemed alive then. More alive than you do now."

Florian sighed, "Even you think so, you know it was just a cover."

"Even if it was just a cover, it doesn't mean you weren't good at it." David retorted, "I never suspected you of anything because your cover didn't felt like a felt real. You felt real like a normal person. Even if you're the most dangerous assassin in the world, you can still name every species in a bouquet by memory. You still talked about them with so much passion that I could feel it in your voice."

He placed his hand on his shoulder and added, "I'm not the only one who noticed your passion. You talked about me being the only person to notice and appreciate you. That's not true. What about all the customers you had whenever we hung out. Do you think they didn't appreciate your passion? You think they didn't notice you? Because if you think so, then you're wrong. Your customers were always extremely appreciative of each boquet you put together for them and each time you offered them advice. You can keep doing this and making people notice and appreciate your passion for flowers. If you just walk away and stop with the life which clearly makes you unhappy."

Florian sighed, "Walk away? From everything? And then what?"

David gave him a small sincere smile. "Then, you could start over. Be who you want to be. And that's when you suggest the flower shop. It's not going to be easy, but I think it'll be worth it. I think it will make you more happy than whatever you're doing right now."

"What about your teacher?" Florian seemed reluctant about it, "Who else could kill him, if not me?"

David smiled at him and gave him a friendly pat on his shoulder, "Our classroom has all the skills we need. You'll see. Before the end of the school year, you'll find us about us killing him and our planet not being danger of being blown up anymore."

Florian stared at him silently, letting out a sigh as he made his choice, "Alright. You're right. I should just stop with all this assassination related stuff and do something else."

"Alright. You'll see. You'll be happier than before if you'll go with this." David smiled at him as Florian turned away from him and stepped closer to the monitors behind him.

"Freeing your classmates." Florian responded as he pressed the button in front of him and the cage keeping Koro-sensei and David's classmates locked up was opened, "I have no further reason of keeping them locked up here if I'm quiting everything."

"What about Ritsu?" David brought up the matter of Ritsu to him as Florian turned around to look at him again after freeing his classmates, "She is still hacked."

"You really care about her. Don't you?" Florian smiled a bit at the question.

David nodded without hesitation, "Yeah. She's a good friend."

"I see." Florian's smile grew a bit, "Don't worry about her. She'll be back to normal the next time you'll see her."

David smiled back at him, "Great."

Florian stared at David with a reluctant look on his face for a moment, "David. Can I do something before we part ways?"

"What is it?" David asked as Florian moved towards him and wrapped his arms around him, pulling him into a hug. David's eyes widened a bit, acting a bit suprised by this before slowly hugging him back.

Florian pulled away from him a second later, "Thank you for everything. I don't know if my words will mean something to you after today, but I won't bother you and your friends anymore and you can do whatever you want with the octopus."

"Alright." David smiled at him, making a mental note out of it as he knew he'll have to say this to his teachers and his classmates. Even if Florian lied to him before, he believed him now as he could tell Florian meant every word of it.

"One more thing. I'll be going out of contact with you until I'll get my together." Florian added as David looked at him with a raised her brow, "But once I'll get everything in my life together and will contact you again, would you be okay with us staying in a permanent contact with each other once that happens?"

"No. I wouldn't mind that one bit." David gave him a nod with a smile on his face as Florian smiled back at him.

It was when David heard someone slamming themselves against the locked doors. The exchange student turned around with a raised brow upon hearing this, quickly realizing it must be someone from his class. Just as he turned towards Florian again, he noticed the now retired assassin was nowhere to be seen. He must have used this as his chance to leave without him seeing where he was going. The exchange student sighed a bit, wishing him luck in whatever he was going to do now.

The room bursted open a second later and Karasuma rushed into the room, "David! There you are!"

David shifted his gaze to Karasuma in an instant, "Karasuma-sensei?!"

"David! Are you okay?" His teacher asked as he placed his hands on his shoulders with concern evident on his face, "Did he do anything to you?!"

David shook his head, "No. He didn't. He didn't want to to anything to me. He just wanted to talk with me."

"To talk?" Karasuma seemed confused by this answer as he glanced behind David to look at the monitor and saw his students and Koro-sensei had been freed from the cage. He shifted his attention back to David a second later, "You freed your classmates?"

"No. Florian released them himself, before leaving." David once again shook his head, "He told me he'll leave us alone from now on as well so I think I can say we won't have to worry about him attacking us like this again..."

"He released them by himself and we won't have to worry about him anymore?" Karasuma looked like he didn't know what to make of this as he found himself growing more confused, "David. What happened here?"

David rubbed the back of his head as he knew he was in for a long explanation, "How to explain all of this.."

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David and Karasuma made their way back the rest shortly after with David using the road to them as a way of explaining to Karasuma what happend between him and Florian before Karasuma bursted into the room. Needless to say. Karasuma was left completely stunned by his student managing to talk the Reaper out of all people to stop and quit everything. He couldn't really understand how it happened as well. He knew the only way of properly understanding

He had to admit something else to himself as well. It made him feel proud of his foreign student. Even if he didn't express it in an open way.

Upon meeting up with everyone else, David was immediately greeted by many relieved words and hugs from his classmates and friends. Koro-sensei hugged him as well, leaving the foreign student out of breath until Karasuma separated them from each other. Everything was followed by his classmates asking him what happened and David wasted no time and explained everything to them, giving them the story he gave to Karasuma.

"...So, this is pretty much what happened before Karasuma-sensei found me." David finished off this explanation to Koro-sensei and his classmates, leaving everyone staring at him in complete shock as everyone process what they've been just told by him.

Fuwa gasped, "You mean to tell me you pulled off a talk no juutsu irl?!"

David rubbed the back of his head in a sheepish manner as he gave her a shrug of his shoulders in reply, "...When you put like it that, I suppose that's a good description of what happened..."

"..." Everyone stared at him silently, not knowing what to do or what to say.

Fuwa broke the silence as she ran up to him and placed her hands on his shoulders, "How did you do that?"

"Honestly?" David asked, looked slightly taken aback by this reaction.

His classmates exchanged glances with each other and gave him nods, "Yeah."

"I have no idea..." David gave them an honest answer.

"Can you teach me your ways?" Fuwa asked him.

David looked taken aback by this. "W-What?"

"Show me how to pull off a talk no juutsu irl!" Fuwa explained to him.

David grew more taken aback by this, "W-Wait! I just told you I have no idea how I did that...!"

Kayano smiled a bit, "Fuwa is not going to let him live this one down, huh?"

"Yup." Nagisa nodded in agreement.

"It's still a shame he allowed the Reaper to walk away without doing the mustard trick on him." Karma commented with a smirk on his face.

Nagisa sweatdropped a bit as he turned to Karma, "I think him managing to talk him out of everything is impressing enough."

"It's definitely something amazing. Right, Miss Irina?" Koro-sensei asked as everyone turned to face Bitch-sensei, who had been attempting to escape down the hall. Maehara and Okano sweatdropped just looking at her as she turned back around, trying to skip down the hall without saying a word.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!" The majority students screame at the same time, chasing after her angrily. Bitch-sensei shrieked in terror, knowing she was screwed as her students caught her just a second later and placed her on her knees with Muramatsu and Yoshida holding her by each arm.

"Ugh! Just do whatever you want!" The blonde haired woman shouted as the students sweatdropped at her antics, "The boys with their usual pent-up animal lust, the girls with their usual envy of my beauty—just let it all out in an explosion of sexual violence!"

"Are you even listening to yourself?" Kimura asked with an uncomfortable look on his face as Bitch-sensei growled like a rabid dog.

"Look, just come to school as always," Terasaka said, taking Bitch-sensei by suprise, "No more shirkin' your duties for days on end."

Yada winked at her, "I'm dying to know more about that story—swindling Arabian loyalty until you were on the brink of war!"

"If you don't come back." Kataoka added, "I'll just keep that french Boys Over Flowers manga you lent me!"

Takebayashi pushed his glasses further up his nose, "Is that a problem? Backstabbing, treachery... isn't that what makes you a bitch?"

"And if we can't even enjoy school with a bitch," Nakamura added while smilling at the blonde haired woman, "What are we doing being junior-high assassins, anyway?"

Bitch-sensei stared at them in awe, "You brats..."

"That's right." Karasuma added to what his studets just said as he got ihmself in front of her and held out Florian's rose to her. Koro-sensei and the students gasped at the sight, "This flower wasn't borrowed from our students. I came by it intentionally, by defeating the enemy. Is that good enough for your birthday?"

Bitch-sensei took the flower from him, leaving herself with her thoughts for a second before smilling up at him with her eyes showing pure happiness while blushing, "Yes."

"Ooh, we have potential!" Koro-sensei declared, bouncing around the room in his paparazzi outfit while his students smile and laughed.

"No fair I already called dibs on him..." Kurahashi despaired over what she was seeing right now as Yada and Kataoka comforted her.

"There there!" Yada said, patting her head.

David smiled at the scene, feeling amused by what he was seeing right now and happy because the ship of Karasuma and Bitch-sensei was finally going the right away for once. He knew Nakamura and Karma felt the same about it. He shifted his attention away from it a second later as he felt a familiar tentacle being placed on his shoulder. He looked up at the owner of it and saw Koro-sensei standing next to hm, looking down at him with a red circle on his face.

"Full marks for today, David! You did wonderfully today! Wonderfully!" Koro-sensei told him. The foreign student could tell his teacher was proud of him,

"Thank you sir." David smiled gratefully, feeling happy on the inside for making his teacher proud of him and finally happy because he finally managed to help out his classmates in some way. The foreign student glanced to the side a second later and smiled when something flew through his mind, "So long Florian. I hope one day you will find someone who will notice you..."

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Here we go with the Reaper stuff. You guys have no idea how much I've been waiting to get this part of this story out as I knew it would be David's moment in the classroom for a long time now. It took me this long to get out as I've been busy with life and my other stories. Struggled with the dialogue between David and Reaper in their scene as well.

The next two chapters will be pretty Nagisa centric for all the obvious reasons. However, the chapter which will come after them will be something original and will be something I'm certain many of you will like :)

Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.