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Beauty As the Beast

ARC I - Her Arrival in Class E

Previously at Beauty As the Beast:

"We're Heroes, you're Zero. So, fuck off."

"Karasuma, I'm going easy on them!"

"No. They're not your family. They're my students!"

"If you want to get violent, get violent with me."

"Like I said: It's called discipline; and I don't want to engage with you through violence."

"If we do face off, it'll be as teachers. Karasuma, choose the best student you trained. They can fight me, and if their knife so much as touches me, I'll concede that your style of education is better than mine and take my leave."

Takaoka tossed a real knife at Karasuma's feet.

Satsuki eyes fill with menace, glints. 'I'll do it. I give him a lesson he won't ever forget.'

Target Period 05 Wrong Parental Time, Second Period

The menace dispersed as soon as a sudden sharp of pain flares in her head 'hmm?'

The idea of facing Takaoka seems to being rejected by her "instinct", although it no longer giving her headache, it is likely that saying something. She blinks.

Takaoka tossed the knife on the ground, in Karasuma's feet.

The original PE instructor picked up the knife, he is still unsure if it is right to reject Takaoka's no-mercy approach when the whole world is at stake.

Looking at the students, Karasuma could see that they are all worried and afraid, some are not even looking at him.

'Even now. I'm not sure if I should be exposing a student with potential to this danger. The best choice is Satsuki, but what I am worried about is...' Karasuma looks at Satsuki with sweat drop, 'She might—no, she's definitely will kill him. Beside...' Karasuma remembers the feelings he has during training, the feeling that someone after your life, his eyes fell into certain student, and from the corner of his sight, Karasuma sees Satsuki turns at the same student.

'We have the same choice.'

Satsuki really does want to do the killing, and she will definitely enjoy torturing Takaoka, but her "instinct" says otherwise, and then she remembers the quiet yet pure bloodlust she felt during one of the trainings. Her head turns and smiles at the shortest male student of Class E.

Karasuma approaches his and Satsuki's chosen one.

"Nagisa-kun. Will you do it?"

Of course, this shocks everyone and question the choice. Everyone belief that it should be Satsuki, as they have witnessed what she's capable of. It'll be no doubt that she could defeat him in second.

So why?

"As someone who charged you with an assassination mission to save the Earth, I consider you all fellow professionals. As such, I believe the least you deserve in return is the guarantee of a normal junior-high life. So, you don't have to take this knife if you don't want to. I'll make every effort to have Takaoka continue to provide you what you're owed."

'I like this man's eyes.' Nagisa thought as he gazed at their instructor that offering him a knife. 'Not even my family members would look me in the eye like his. There must be a lot they're keeping from us. I don't even know why he chose me, instead of her. But...' Nagisa even hesitating a little bit, still took the knife. 'If this teacher is the one handing me the knife, I know I can trust him.' He raises the knife to his eye level, enough to see his own reflection on it. 'Also, because I can't let what happened to Maehara-kun slide.'

"I'll do it!"

"Karasuma, your eyes must be going bad! You clearly have better choice, and yet you choose this pipsqueak?"

Satsuki walk up to Nagisa and whisper something.

After hearing her advice, Nagisa halted on his stretching and stare at Satsuki. She taps lightly his shoulder and went back where everyone else.

She's also unsure of this choice, that's why she up her guard just in case anything goes haywire.

Out of everyone, only Karasuma and Satsuki although are unsure, and Korosensei are the ones that believing at Nagisa. These three are the only people who felt his bloodlust after all.

Taking out his jacket Takaoka invites Nagisa to their duel.

Nagisa readies his knife.

Takaoka loves the most to see is color draining at the amateur's faces when they realized that a knife could kill someone. He was so delighted that it disgusts Satsuki.

'I wasn't too sure how to move with a real knife in my hand, but then I remembered Karasuma-sensei and Satsuki's words.'

"Now, listen; for Takaoka, this is a combat meant to serve as a warning. But for you, it's an assassination."

"We're assassins, Nagisa. Demonstration of strength is irrelevant. Just go straight to it."

"Just make contact once. That's all you need to win."

'That's right. I don't have to fight him to win. I just need to kill him.'

He relaxes, brings down his hand with knife, and smile.

Satsuki's eyes widen seeing the changes in her classmate. They all watch dumbfounded Nagisa walking towards their terror instructor like he was just walking to school. Completely normally.

He bumps to his arm.

The silence ate their surroundings.

Until... Nagisa made a move, Takaoka's gear refunction and the thought his brain send to him is "I will die", he barely dodged the swung of knife on his neck. Startled, he lost his balance. With his center of balance shifted back, Nagisa grab his shirt and pull him down. Yet it doesn't end there, Nagisa, like a snake slither behind him and place the knife on his neck, with his other hand covering the other's eyes.

Satsuki is ready to everything but this, she didn't even expect this much from her classmate. Although she trusted her "instinct", she still shocks and dumbfounded to witness an assassination from someone who never kill before.

The pure quiet bloodlust of an assassin.

To think that it really came from him.

"Gotcha."

Getting back in reality, Satsuki immediately scan the area with her eyes and senses as assassin, to see if there's only them in there. She sighs in relief when she found no one.

"Oops! Was I not supposed to use the back of my knife?"

"That's enough." Korosensei takes the knife out of Nagisa, "We have a winner, Karasuma-sensei." and ate it like some bar of chocolate, not delighted though. "Honestly, what were you thinking giving a real knife to a student? What if he'd hurt himself?"

Satsuki approach Nagisa and helps him to stand, pushing Takaoka from him. Everyone follows, although they're all have sweat drop on Takaoka's current position. Ass up, face on the ground.

They praised Nagisa, gotten slap my Maehara as he couldn't believe what he just saw. He thanked him and praised him as well.

From the corner of her eyes, Satsuki could see Korosensei talks to Karasuma. Hugging him from behind, tentacles hands on shoulder.

Finally, back on the reality, Takaoka stands on his ground, in rage faces the students. Façade no more.

"You brats. How dare you turn on your father and laugh it up over some fluke victory."

Immediately Satsuki step forward, ready to block or better turn his lights out.

Just as she expected, Takaoka won't back down no matter what the result.

"I demand a rematch! I'll rend you in two, body and soul!"

"If we fought again, I'd lose for sure." Nagisa begun, "But what's plain to see is that Korosensei is our teacher, and Karasuma-sensei is our training instructor, and that's final. You and your forced father-figure role don't come across half as warm as Karasuma-sensei and his professionalism." Satsuki lopsided smile. "We're grateful you really tried to make us stronger... but I'm sorry. Please leave."

"Wait, then what am I?" Irina asked Takebayashi who is the closes.

"Our Bitch!"

"I'll kill you!"

Nagisa's statement made Takaoka agitated even more, that he readies to send teen flying. Satsuki step in front of Nagisa and ready to block his attack, but before anything could land, Karasuma came and give him a heavy blow with elbow on his nose.

Takaoka fell to the ground once again.

"I apologized for the trouble caused by my colleague. Don't worry. Leave this to me. I'll negotiate with my superiors to resume my teaching position." Of course, this makes everyone happy.

The next moment they witness are Takaoka threatened Karasuma that he will talk to the higher ups first yet was kick out by some uncomprehend words from Board Chairman who came in to check the new teacher. Having his walk-in paper shoved on his mouth, Takaoka run away.

As celebration Karasuma gave his wallet to the class so they could choose any kind of sweets they wanted to have. Of course, everyone didn't slip this chance to have free sweets and time with their now permanent PE instructor, while Korosensei is doing dogeza style, wanting to pinch in.

As ruckus happening due to Korosensei, the hero of their class, Nagisa and Satsuki both watching the scene with unbelief smiles.

"So? How's your first assassination?" Satsuki started before Nagisa could say a word.

Nagisa scratch his head, really. He also surprised that he able to pull it off. But he doubted that it will work again.

"Do you think I am scary or like a monster?" Satsuki flinch upon hearing this, her lashes lower and went quiet for a moment before bringing back the smile on her face.

"Scare? I'll be more scared if you become a giant blue octopus—like Korosensei."

"Hey, I'm being serious here!" Nagisa pouted while protesting.

"Hey, I'm being serious here too, you know!" even her smile is still intact on her face, her eyes showing sorrow. 'I've known a real monster in human skin after all.'

Nagisa tilted as confusion ridden, as he is staring at her sudden emotion that's in her eyes. He has been seeing this gloomy expression on her eyes ever since she came, he only could hope that it's not much serious.