AnKyouXKHR
Beauty As the Beast
ARC I - Her Arrival in Class E
Target Period 11 Assassins' Summer Vacation [Part 02]

"No, please! Don't do it!"

"Be quiet, Zetsu-chan~"

"No, please! I beg you!"

"No... please!"

"Shh~"

"Stop it! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! Pull it out! STOP!!!" Satsuki sat up from her bed, has tons of sweat and breathing heavily, she hugs herself, trembling.

After her last deep breath, she looks at the clock expecting the time, 2:00 am… again.

She gets out from her bed and heads towards the bathroom, letting the water run down through her whole being. Refreshing herself from her nightmare—no it wasn't a nightmare, it is a memory that she didn't want to remember, yet no matter how much she tries to forget it, the more it comes to her.

Zetsuna (Zetsubo) or Despair. Iemitsu gave her that name when she came to the mansion, declaring she will bring the whole Vongola to despair.

Despair that he started.

She punches the wall in anger and frustration, a tint of purple color can be seen in her eyes. Iemitsu destroys her whole life, her whole being, her whole persona.

After calming down, the tint vanished, removing the fist from the wall, leaving a crack which was the same size as her fist but she didn't care, turning off the shower and going out.

The moment she went out, her eyes fell once again on her digital clock, 3:00 am, and because she showered to refresh herself, she's now wide awake, then remembers that she hasn’t packed anything for the vacation.

"I'll just do it then."

*****

The whole Class 3-E has arrived safely at the island where they have planned to do their biggest assassination of Korosensei.

But before doing anything else, resting and relaxing is their priority, sitting on the chairs outside the hotel, and receiving a complimentary juice from a waiter, bringing joy to everyone, but Satsuki; feels a series of flicking on her nerves, with knitted eyebrows she glares at the tropical drink.

“What’s up Satsuki?” Karma noticed her and couldn’t help but to ask.

“Is there something wrong with your drink?” Nagisa asked.

They haven’t discussed it with their friend, but they actually knew about the assassination around her; and their concern is rooted into asking this.

Satsuki raises her sight and looks at their drinks, sighing in relief. She shook her head before opening a bottle of water.

“Don’t mind me.”

‘Atleast theirs' are safe. I wonder what’s in it.’

Later, the class has made groups and Korosensei would join each of them just like on their Kyoto trip.

"Who's that supposed to be that cosplay?!"

"Jiro Horikoshi."

"In substance. Maybe. Too hard!"

"Besides, he didn't fly them, he just built them!"

"It's just all wrong!"

Karma, Nagisa, and Satsuki have sweat drops behind their heads as they listen to Maehara and Isogai protesting to Korosensei while they are doing their playful assassination over the glider.

"Group one is doing a good job of throwing him off." Sugino compliments as he also watches the scene.

"They sure are—and with a little assassination in the mix," Karma said as Nagisa helped him prepare his swimming equipment. "While trying not to draw the other groups' attention."

"Yeah." Nagisa nodded in agreement.

Meanwhile Satsuki couldn’t help but feel uneasy; there’s uneasiness coming from faraway, and another just behind her.

"We're up next! Let's do what we have to do and get changed ASAP!" Kayano instructed the whole group.

Everyone jumps in the water to prepare what they need to.

'We make it look like we're having fun, but we're dead serious. We give the place a good once-over to see if we can kill him according to plan. While one group hangs out with Korosensei, the rest work on their preparations. But...'

"Over there!" Kayano yells as she points to the middle of the class circle.

Everyone waited as they are staring at the water in alert.

Satsuki’s eyebrow quirks while everyone’s faces turned into deadpan.

'A handful clear crystal ball with Korosensei's face in the inside... what the fuck is that?!' Satsuki shouts internally.

Silence conquered.

'What the hell is that?!' the words that everyone has in mind.

"Nyurufufufu~ this is my trump card of all trump cards: my perfect defense form!"

'Perfect defense form?!'

Eyes narrow as Satsuki listens to their teacher’s explanation about his “Perfect defense form”.

The exterior is crystallized, high-density condensed energy. The energy remaining after shrinking my body down hardens in a shell around it.

‘Indeed, in that form Korosensei is absolutely invincible, but…' Satsuki frowns in some realization about it, first is: how long will he stay in that form?

Apparently, the energy crystal will break down after 24 hours, and the moment it does, his body will re-inflate, absorbing energy and finally returning to his original form.

Next: would he be able to move? Or just like a crystal ball he won’t even be able to defend himself?

The answer is the latter; according to him, until that crystal decays he cannot move an inch, which could have a risk of him getting grabbed by someone else or worse he’ll be thrown into the trash bin.

This could be a great chance to bring him into space and leave him there ‘till he dies, but… even the Vongola cannot prepare a rocket within 24 hours, much more the Government.

Korosensei smugly claims that he is aware of this.

'This is stupider than Reborn-san's antics...' Satsuki thought as she palmed her face.

'He got us! Another trick up on his sleeve—after all that. He even took all its weak points into account! It was an utter failure.' Nagisa thought.

"Tch invincible, my ass." Terasaka said as he is taking the now crystal-trapped Korosensei. "Somethin' like this has gotta be breakable somehow!" Using a wrench he started hitting the crystal.

"Nyufufufu~ it's no use. Even a nuclear bomb wouldn't leave a scratch."

"Oh, I get it." Karma chimes, standing at a wooden bridge, "No weaknesses mean we're out of options." He continues as Terasaka throws Korosensei to him.

As soon as Karma caught Korosensei he showed Korosensei his phone that made the said teacher overly shocked.

Satsuki swam towards the redhead curious what that thing was in Karma's phone screen and stopped at the wooden bridge. Since Karma seated at the wooden bridge and put down both Korosensei and his phone Satsuki who stays in the water got a view of Korosensei reading a porn magazine dressed up in a firefly costume and overall pink.

This cause of fits of pleading screams from their now handful teacher. Sweat drop form behind Satsuki's head as Karma continued bullying the now defendless teacher. "No! Stop! I can't cover my face without any hands!"

With narrow eyes, ‘You could have just close your eyes Korosensei…’ Satsuki then shifted her attention to those who are still at the water. ‘Talk about lighting the atmosphere.’

"Sorry, sorry~ then for a while..." Karma then signed to Satsuki something "I'll just stick this sea slug on you!" sticking the sea slug on the crystal just in front of Korosensei's face causing his screams to go louder. Karma then stood up and "Someone go and find me a filthy old guy so I can jam this thing down his shorts!"

"Karma you are really gifted at time like this." Satsuki said as more bits of sweat drops appeared to her head as their teacher continued screaming for help, sighs.

"In some ways, we can do whatever we want with him." Kayano commented

"Yea..." Nagisa said.

Karma bullying stopped when Karasuma took Korosensei and put him in clear plastic. "The top and I will discuss how to deal with this one."

"Nyurufufufu~ going to throw me in a pool full of anti-me material? It won't work. A portion of my energy would explode; like before, the blast would send everything nearby flying." Korosensei's explanation makes the military man click his tongue.

"But you should be proud." This time Korosensei is talking to his students/assassins. "Even the armies of the world couldn't get this far with me. In the end, it all comes down to the magnificence of your plan."

Chiba, Hayami, and everyone else has their heads down as defeat was plastered to their faces.

'Words are not enough to gain back their spirits, everyone falls in despair once again.' Satsuki thought of Karma helping her to get out of the water.

'Korosensei praised our assassination like he always does, but it was our biggest disappointment yet. With the shock of our all-in full-throttle attack missing the mark, coupled with an unusual sense of fatigue, we made our way back to the hotel.' Nagisa.

Everyone rests their bodies and mind in silence due to the fatigue, all of them, except to Satsuki and Korosensei. The brunette is enjoying herself by tossing Korosensei in the air then caught and tossing him again, while the said teacher is screaming for some help and pleading for her to stop.

"I don't want to Korosensei~ it's fun!" Satsuki stated as she continued tossing her strange teacher.

"Satsuki~ let me join in!" Karma, who is next to the brunette, said with his mischievous smile. Nagisa who is sitting next to the brunette has a sweat drop behind his head while watching the three.

"Okay~" Satsuki chimes as she tosses the crystal to Karma who caught it with ease, then the redhead tosses their teacher back to Satsuki and this continues on and on, causing Korosensei's screams to increase, while the two bullies enjoy themselves.

Due to the three voices, no one has heard the two snipers in their class talking with Ritsu.

"I knew the second I fired that I'd missed—that my bullet cannot kill him," Chiba stated.

"I can't say for sure. The exact time it took him to move into that form is unclear. However, if your shot had been 0.5 seconds faster, or if Hayami-san's had been 30 centimeters closer, you would have had a 50 percent chance of killing him before he noticed." Ritsu explained.

"I was so confident. I mean, in rehearsal, we practiced firing from an even less stable spot—and I didn't miss. We even took all Kudou’s advice into the account. But when the time came, my fingers stiffened, and my vision narrowed."

"Same here."

"The pressure of absolutely-not-being-allowed-to-miss. That crucial now-or-never moment..."

"To think it'd be this different from the practice."

All are deafened by Korosensei’s screams coupled with Satsuki and Karma’s laughs, but a certain Italian brunette and the yellow crystalized octopus who clearly hear this despairing conversation.

"But man, I'm so tired!" Maehara with a red face, whines; both he and Mimura who are sharing a table with each other are sweating a lot.

"Let's head back to our room and rest. I don't feel like doing anything." Mimura (The class' director) suggests.

Right then, after hearing the two fellow classmates Satsuki stops playing which brings confusion from Karma and relief from Korosensei. Her crimson eyes stares at her classmates who looks really (over) exhausted and sweating way too much.

"What's wrong with you? One lousy miss and you lose all your oomph?" Terasaka sharing a table with Yoshida turns his head to the two whining classmates. "We did what we were supposed to do, so tomorrow we can just enjoy ourselves!"

"Ooh, yeah! Tomorrow, I get to take in some swim-suited beauties for sure! No matter how tired I may be, I'm not too tired for a nosebleed!"

'Okajima... that's what you're really thinking all this time?' Satsuki has a deadpan face as she is staring at their pervert classmate.

"Man, I just don't have the energy." Maehara exhaustedly stated.

Nagisa noticed the unusual exhaustion of their classmates as well.

'That's half of us...' Satsuki counted, 'But why? Even over fatigue is not enough to cause this much. Unless—'

Satsuki's thoughts cut off when she heard a thump sound that is like something fell on the floor, her guess confirmed when she heard Nagisa called Nakamura in worry, quickly both teens went on her side.

"I want to get back to the room and change, but my body can't seem to move at all." Nakamura told them.

Nagisa learns that Nakamura is burning hot, then Okajima really has his nose bleed, then from there half of them show the same condition as their blonde classmate. Hearing the commotion coming where the E class is, Karasuma quickly arrived at the scene.

"I—is this..."

"Karasuma-sensei! Everyone has gotten poisoned!" Satsuki informed her teacher as he arrived while holding Korosensei.

"Poisoned?!"