AnKyouXKHR

Beauty As the Beast

ARC I - Her Arrival in Class E

Target Period 09 Hold Those Heads Up Time

A room is filled with a disgusting smell; the light from the sun cannot properly enter because of black long curtains that blocking it from the inside, clothes were scattered on the floor, drops of white liquids were all over the place.

On a messy bed, a young lad with golden brown spiky hair and a pair of gold amber eyes were laid flat, his chest is facing the white sheet. His naked body is covered by white liquids and breathing heavily as if he just finished some kind of session.

Next to him, sitting on the edge of the bed, a blonde adult is buttoning his upper garment, when finished, he turns to the lad behind him and touches his soft fluffy hair. He leaned in and licked the young lad's neck as if it's some kind of treat.

"Thank you, Ieyasu..."

As the old man leaves the room Ieyasu gripped the bedsheet tightly and gritted his teeth...

*****

Today is the day when the E class will know who the winners for tentacles of Korosensei are, and the wager they have made with A-class.

"Then let's start with English: First in the E class and first in the grade... Nakamura Rio-san!" Korosensei announced at the class happily; a news that brings everyone to joy.

E Class

Rio Nakamura

100 in English

1st in Year 3

"Take that!" Nakamura said with a confident tone as she fans herself using her thin notebook.

A Class

Tomoya Seo

95 in English

4th in Year 3

"Perfect." Korosensei started as Nakamura walking towards him so she can take her paper. "Though your motivation had a whimsical side that worried me." He said as he giving to her the paper.

"Well, there's ten billion yen on the line! Don't forget about that tentacle now, Korosensei." She reminded him about the deal he strikes himself.

"Of course, I won't~" Korosensei answered with his head orange and have O mark on his face. It quickly turns back as he is taking out the other papers and passed them with his Mach 20 speed.

"Nagisa-kun, you put up a good fight, but you haven't kicked your habit of making spelling mistakes when it really counts." Nagisa just chuckles as he looks at his paper.

E Class

Nagisa Shiota

91 in English

6th in Year 3

"SATSUKI-SAN! YOU DID IT AGAIN!" he angrily shouted. With one eye close and tongue sticking out Satsuki is what her answer. "Stop your habit on purpose mistakes!" Korosensei continues ranting as he shows everyone her paper with 'Stupid Elites~ (^o^)' written on it. Sweat drops formed on their heads as they saw her paper.

E Class

Satsuki Kudou

99 in English

2nd in Year 3

Satsuki just chuckles at his ranting "Sorry, sorry~" obviously not sorry.

"Still, top marks in a subject means that's one tentacle down." Korosensei gets back to the front and continued to his announcements. "Let's wait until I've read all the scores to see if we have something to celebrate." He pulls again a paper "Next up is Japanese: First in E class... Yukiko Kanzaki-san! However! First in the grade goes to Gakushu Asano of A class!"

A Class

Gakushu Asano

100 in Japanese

1st in Year 3

"Kanzaki-san, you did an excellent job, and that's enough."

E Class

Yukiko Kanzaki

96 in Japanese

2nd in Year 3

"Asano can really nab those points." Maehara said disappointedly, followed by Mimura "He's crazy tough. Nakamura only beat him in English by a single point."

"Satsuki might be able to go the same spot if she just didn't fool around." Sugino spoke, but Satsuki only let out her tongue, completely not sorry.

"That's the top in the nation for you. No chinks—not in any subject." Isogai added.

"And hates fooling around in tests."

"YOU HEARD THEM SATSUKI-SAN!!!" Korosensei screams his agreement.

Still not sorry.

A Class

Ren Sakakibara

94 in Japanese

3rd in Year 3

"They're collectively known as the Big Five—" Kimura join in

"—but it really comes down to Asano." Mimura added. "You've got to take him down or you'll never get to the top."

"Then let's move on. In social studies, first, in the E class goes to Yuuma Isogai—as for first in the grade? CONGRATULATIONS! You beat out Asano to take the top spot!"

E Class

Yuma Isogai

97 in Social Studies

1st in Year 3

"An excellent job, especially considering—"

A Class

Gakushu Asano

94 in Social Studies

2nd in Year 3

"All the fiendish questions you had to deal with!"

A Class

Teppei Araki

93 in Social Studies

3rd in Year 3

"We're 2 and 1!" Fuwa announced to the class.

"Next up is science... is it Okuda?" Sugaya said expecting something, while the said bespectacled girl is really nervous,

"First in the E class for science is Manami Okuda! And... Marvelous! First in the grade is also Okuda Manami!"

E Class

Okuda Manami

98 in Science

1st in Year 3

Everyone now is celebrating,

"That's 3 and 1!" Fuwa announce once again,

It's obvious now that the E class won the wager against the A class, even without finding who win on the last subject.

A Class

Natsuhiko Koyama

95 in Science

3rd in Year 3

"We don't even have to hear how math turned out—the E class won this!"

"Hooray!"

"Great work, Okuda!"

"That tentacle is yours!"

"So? What we're gonna ask for this little deal!" Kimura said.

"I can't wait!" Kurahashi said.

"So that just leaves math."

4 over 2

E Class

Satsuki Kudou

100 in Math

1st in Year 3

A Class

Gakushu Asano

100 in Math

1st in Year 3

"EH?!! Satsuki tied with Asano?!!" Everyone shouted in shock while Satsuki is scratching behind her head with one eye close, slightly unsure and unsatisfied at the result.

E Class

Karma Akabane

85 in Math

10th in Year 3

Total Score 469

13th in Year 3

Break time, as everyone is preserving their energy for full out celebration, Karma is on the outside of the school building away from his classmates, he crumbles his test papers in hand.

"The A class is mighty indeed. They monopolized the top six ranks in overall scores for five subjects. The best overall scores in the E class were Kataoka-san and Takebayashi-san who tied for 7th place, followed by Satsuki-san who is in 8th place."

Kotaro Takebayashi: 7th in Year 3

Meg Kataoka: 7th in Year 3

Satsuki Kudou: 8th in Year 3

"That's to be expected. Everyone in the A-class studied like mad, too. The tests' difficulty levels had been ramped up. No lazy student could be expected to keep up." Korosensei continued as Karasuma ended his call and Satsuki who standing next to the human teacher focus their attention on them.

Leaning his back to a tree Karma asked with a tone of frustration "What are you trying to say?" not looking at the talking octopus, behind him and the tree Korosensei slowly shows himself,

"You thought, "I'm so cool—I'll ace these exams, no sweat", right? How embarrassing!"

Karma blushed furiously.

"Four students have the right to destroy one of my tentacles: Nakamura-san, Isogai-kun, Okuda-san, and Satsuki-san. You contributed nothing, not to this assassination and not to this wager. Is that clear?" Korosensei's face has green stripes while he rubs Karma's red hair and mocking him at the same time. "Those who couldn't do what they had to when the time came for action will find their presence fading in our classroom. An assassin who neglects to sharpen his blade is no assassin at all." Karma is bright red, but this time is because of irritation and frustration over himself. "He's just a boastful brat swinging around a rusty blade."

Karma slapped his tentacle and started walking away from him, while Karasuma and Satsuki approached the octopus teacher.

"Wasn't that a little much?" Karasuma asked.

"Don't worry. I only cut him down, he'll spring right back up. He's been gifted with so much talent. But one so talented so often lacks experience. There's the danger of training him up without knowing the real competition, just so he can keep on winning without ever really trying. If a great talent knows the frustration of defeat early on, it can become even greater." Satsuki smiled at her octopus teacher.

"Exams are an opportunity to teach correctly the meaning of winning and losing, of strong and weak. Students, soak up heaping helpings of successes and setbacks! Take in now what it means to win, what it means to lose! It's just so important—and yet I didn't realize it until the very end..."

Satsuki walks back to the building and sees a sight, Karma is hugging Nagisa from behind while both are standing in front of the door of their classroom. She hides quickly and takes out her smartphone and took a picture of those two friends of hers.

'My goodness~' she thought as retrains her incoming smile.

[Homeroom class]

"All right, class, you had a fine showing in the finals taking the top spot in four out of five subjects." As Korosensei speaking in front, Nagisa takes a glance at his redhead friend who is sitting in the back.

When Karma walks into the building earlier he met Nagisa in front of their classroom door.

"Yo Nagisa-kun..." Karma greeted though his usual confident tone can't be heard.

"Karma-kun..." Nagisa knows his friend's situation right now and he is worried to him.

Before the exam day, Karma helped Nagisa and Satsuki to study Math and the other subjects but as lazy as Karma is he didn't study for himself; he gets warned but did not listen.

E Class

Nagisa Shiota

80 in Math

It was a success to earn a point in math higher than his usual 60 points and it was thanks to Karma, so he wants to tell him but... he didn't know if it's alright to do so...

Nagisa approached him and show his test paper in math, with a smile on his face he started talking to his friend.

"Karma-kun, this is the result of our study session... etto... you see I'm not smart as Satsuki to pull that 100 points but it's obvious that it's thanks to you that I have this score... anno... can we study together again?"

Karma eyes wide opened, yet it was immediately replaced by a faint smile as he replied to him 'of course...' Nagisa's smile widen.

Bell rings interrupting the atmosphere that slowly building up between the two,

"Let's go inside now, homeroom gonna start!" When Nagisa turn around and hold the door open strong arms wrapped around him and he felt a head placed on the top of his head.

"Karma-kun?"

"Let me stay like this for a while Nagisa-kun..."

Nagisa smiles gently as he let their situation stay for a moment, not knowing their brunette friend is taking pictures.

"Shall we get started with the assassination? The top four can choose any tentacle they like." As he held up four of his tentacles that have flags saying, 'To be destroyed', but his face got green stripes as his thoughts run 'I can lose four, no problem. Six? Now... that will be rough.' with a sly smile that matching his round face.

"Whoa there, Octopus!" Terasaka's voice interrupted his thoughts, which resulting to lose his mocking face "We got more than four in the top spot!" Yoshida, Muramatsu, and Kirara were with him.

"Nyu? No, there are four, Terasaka-kun, over English, Social Studies, Math and—"

"Huh? Quit playin' dumb! Five subjects, that's English, Social Studies, Math, Science, and Home Economics!"

"Ho—Home Economics?!" now his face turns grim.

"No one said what subjects to ace!"

Ryoma Terasaka, Taisei Yoshida

Takuya Muramatsu, Kirara Hazama

100 in Home Ec

1st in Year 3

"Nice that we all had a hand in this scheme."

"W—Wait a second!"

While Korosensei is trying to say something, Chiba signs something to Karma.

"Just what? Isn't that a little rude, Korosensei?" Karma started, "Home Economics is the toughest subject of them all." With that provocation coming from the redhead delinquent the class started yelling at Korosensei.

"Yeah! Don't break your promise Korosensei!"

"Four of us scored highest in the most important subject: Home Economics!"

"That's eight tentacles in all!" Kurahashi's bubbly yell start the riot more.

Everyone then started clapping together as they are yelling "Eight Tentacles".

"E—Eight?! Eeek!" Now Korosensei is shaking in fear, well that's a real problem after all.

Korosensei stop shaking as everyone stop when Isogai started talking.

"Oh, and Korosensei, we've been talking that we'll use our prize from the A-Class wager with this assassination."

"What?" in English.

[End of Term Ceremony]

"You don't want to wind up like the E Class..."

'Even his usual E-class insults are bombing. All because the End Class vied for the top spot. Korosensei may not here with us today, but we stood with our heads held high.'—Nagisa

The E Class went back to their classroom after that ceremony only to see Korosensei's SUUUUPER THICKKK book about Summer Vacation Guidebook.

'How are we supposedly to carry this?' Satsuki thought.

"Now then! We're about to head into summer vacation, but you have a certain main event coming up." And the discussion about the prize that they won started.

The Kunigigaoka Junior High Special Summer Course: Three days and two nights at an Okinawa resort!

And their plan will be...

"We'll cash in our tentacle-destroying rights during summer camp." Isogai said.

"Eight tentacles are a big handicap. But don't stop there! Come after me with raw hunger on this island... surrounded on all sides by water—my weakness! Let me be honest: You've become formidable students indeed. I've already given you report cards to show your parents. These are my report cards for you." Then he tossed papers in the air.

Double circle...

'A classroom full of double circles: Our target's highest score for these past three months.'

"In the first term, you made full use of the basics you learned. This summer vacation, it's time for plenty of fun, plenty of studying, and plenty of killings." With Mach 20 speed Korosensei goes to the top of their rusty building as the students walking out with smiles.

"Class 3-E, Kunigigaoka Junior High: The assassination classroom! The first-term full of fundamentals is hereby over!"

*****

"Save me!"