The men working under Shiro dropped Itona that was enveloped by a net around his body, next to him was Angel who was captured and tied in a rope.

"Itona-kun, Angel-chan!" Koro-sensei said as he just arrived in this place thanks to his speed of Mach 20, then he was greeted by backstage lights or other words, pressure rays that's slowing Koro-sensei speed down.

Then numbers of anti-sensei bullets rained down on them as Koro-sensei blocked every one of them not letting Angel and Itona get touched by it.

Itona fluttered open his eyes as he watched Koro-sensei dodging all of the attacks that was meant for him, then he saw Angel break free from the ropes as she started breaking his ropes.

'I'm weak that's why everyone abandoned me...even my partner did.'

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It was raining buckets as Itona sat on the cold pavement while his clothes are being damped by the rain, that was Itona and Shiro's first encounter.

"Good eyes, I could see your desire in wanting to win...why don't you help me in my plan? With your help, you can be the strongest person in the whole world."

Itona was dead set on power and dominance in winning that he discarded his life to the point he tried to withstand the mysterious cells.

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"Itona—!"

"Hey, snapped out of it, Itona!"

Itona was back to reality as he was being shaken by Angel, he noticed that the net was gone around him. He also noticed that his classmates came and attacked Shiro's underlings.

"You guys made it!" Koro-sensei said as the lights were out as Angel carried Itona's arm while she helped him stand up on his feet.

"Itona-kun will be coming with us, Shiro-san. You always plan so carefully, but once my student's get involved, those plans are ruined."

"A class consisting of a monster swarmed by tiny flies? How infuriating it can be. Keep him, but he'll only live up to three days."

Studying, integrity—all of it are lies. In the end, it's just what my strength give out.

"As long as Itona-kun is fixated with winning, it will be hard to get off those tentacles attached to him." Koro-sensei stated.

"Can't we get them off somehow?"

"Not until we got rid of his attachment in winning." their teacher said.

"I bet he wouldn't be honest in telling his life story."

"About that...I was curious: why was Itona-kun going after cellphone shops? So I had Ritsu look up some stuffs about him, and it turns out the president of this company had a son named Horibe Itona, their system was going well until they were forced to shut down because of a debt—his president vanished, leaving their son behind."

Everyone started to see why Itona was so lustful for victory, then Angel's tongue clicked.

"That's all it made him into a bad guy? Everyone's worried about something, I'll take him in, look after him, if he dies—that's it." Angel said as she looked down at him who was resting on the ground, tiredly from all what happened.

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"Look Itona, even a tiny factory like ours can compete with big names if we work with integrity."

What a load of crap.

"But why? You know all our techniques! If you leave us..."

Studying and integrity are meaningless, in the face of a superior, overwhelming power.

"I'm sorry, Itona. Go live with your uncle."

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"Yo, your finally awake." Angel greeted him as Itona just woke up from his slumber, he felt slightly groggily.

"We refashioned the anti-tentacle netting into a bandanna."

"Just for a peace of mind."

"But you can't pop out any tentacles, can you?"

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"Why ramen?" Terasaka asked Muramatsu as they were currently at a ramen shop that Muramatsu's family owned.

"He's got to be hungry, right? He'll feel better after he eats."

"Then why is Angel eating as well?"

"I'm hungry too! Karma and the others dragged me from my house when I was eating dinner earlier." Angel said as she starting slurping the noodles while Itona ate as well.

"Isn't our Ramen gross? I keep telling my old man to change the recipe but he doesn't want to." Muramatsu said as Angel chocked, then Terasaka handed her a glass of water while she hurriedly drink it.

"IT'S DISGUSTING!" she shouted.

"I know right? Blame my old pops!" Muramatsu laughed as he didn't took her comment negatively, hence he laughed. Then it was Itona's turn to speak.

"It is gross and stale, the soup uses MSG to cover up the corners cut on chicken bones. The main topping is a swirl of fishcake, placed with pride, this is from 4th generation back, and it's from 1950's ramen."

Muramatsu flinched as he was right, then Itona kept thinking hard about his father's study but his father lost.

"You're amazing, Itona! I don't know anything about Ramen...your pretty smart aren't you?" Angel said as she smiled brightly, Itona blushed at her straightforward compliments, as Terasaka sighed happily.

"Angel is aways like that, without shame, she compliments people bashfully."

"What's with that, Ryōma? I'm being honest y'know!"

"Let's hit my place next."

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Itona was riding at the motorcycle while Yoshida was the one driving, Angel was jealous and wanted to ride as well.

"I wanna ride as well!" she stated.

"Stop it, Angel...we came here to calm Itona down not to have fun."

"Hazama's right, give it up!"

"You guys are stingy—" she was cut off when suddenly Itona fell on the grass from the vehicle as they hurriedly tend to his aid, nervous that he might be shocked again and get hurt.

"Itona, stay with us!" Angel yelled as she shook Itona's shoulder violently, then Terasaka smacked her on the head.

"Stop that, Angel! What if he gets hurt in that way?!"

"S-Sorry!"

The other members of the class watched as Angel, Terasaka, Hazama, Muramatsu, and Yoshida were trying to chill Itona down.

"They're just flying by the seats of their pants."

"Yeah, I mean, all of them are idiots. What do you expect from them?" Karma said as he lightly chuckled and started to watch those guys.

"But at least Hazama-san's got some brains..."

Hazama handed Itona a certain scary novel and began to whisper to him.

"You want to get back at Shiro, don't you? Read this famous novel of revenge: The Count of Monte Cristo, 7 volumes, 2,500 lages. He gave up with his revenge in the end so you don't have to read that far."

"That's too long and boring to read Kirara, can't you cheer him up with a smiley bright face?" Angel said while smiling brightly, then Hazama tried to forced a smile as it was dark and creepy.

"I take it back, don't smile. It's scary." Angel stated.

"So what? I was born with this face!" Hazama argued.

Then they noticed Itona's eyes glowing red as they sweat dropped.

"I'm not like you everyone, I'll kill him and the victory will be mine!" Itona stated.

All of them ran away afraid of being hit by Itona's tentacles except Angel who stood and stayed.

"Hey Itona, that octopus life is mine. Don't try and grabbed my target." she stated.

"Shut up! I'll be the one who'll win—" he was cut off.

The pain of his tentacles started to arose as Angel hurriedly embraced him as her warmth reached him.

"It's alright to lose many times, all you gotta do is win...it's not gotta be now—but someday we'll be able to kill that octopus! That's why...calm down."

His tentacles started to rest as it stopped running amok like it did earlier, he melted down on her warmth as his cheeks turns red while his being hugged by Angel.

"I can't stand this...What should I do until I come up with my next vision of victory, Angel?" he asked.

"Act like an idiot, like what were doing now...having fun everyday with your friends, that's what you gotta do, pretty simple isn't it?" Angel said as she backed away and smiled brightly at Itona who was just awestruck by her words, he couldn't helped but admire her.

"What idiot could say that with a straight? Although...sometimes hearing some words from an idiot is what you need to chill down." Karma laughed.

"Pipe it down, Karma! I'm not an idiot y'know!"

"Yeah, yeah, idiot."

"What did you said—"

She felt her shirt being tugged by Itona as her back was facing him, she turned around to see his eyes back to normal once again.

"So I was being...hasty?" he asked her.

"Yeah, that's what I think..." she said as she grabbed the hand that was tugging her shirt and squeezed it with her pair of hands and smiled.

"The tint of attachment is gone from your eyes, Itona-kun. We can remove those painful tentacle cells now. You'll come and kill me tomorrow wouldn't you?" Koro-sensei stated.

"Suit yourself, I'm sick of this power and this whole brothers thing, too." Itona said.

"Yay! We gain another comrade!" Angel said as she tacked Itona on the ground while hugging him, he who was surprised by her actions, blushed furiously.

"I'm glad...welcome to assassination classroom, Horibe Itona!" she smiled at him as he felt that light, warm feeling burned his chest.

"Yeah...It's good to be back in the assassination classroom, Yuuki Angel."

And so they gained another comrade on board in the assassination classroom, now there were 29 students that are after Koro-sensei's life.

'Falling in love is for fools...and I guess I'm one of them.'

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EDITED ON APRIL 26, 2017
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