Tomori was trudging up the mountain early that day. She groaned as she walked into yet another fucking tree branch. Her earbuds were blasting music as she bobbed her head to the beat. She was wearing pants this time, because her brain finally remembered.

Sugino approached her the previous class, asking her for a favor. He had an assassination attempt that he needed the girl's help with. It had to do with baseball. 

They had both been on the team before they were kicked to E-Class. Even though Tomori was a girl, she could hit, catch, and pitch just as good as any of the boys. Thus, they allowed her on the team.

However, once she spiraled down to E-Class along with Sugino the pair was kicked right off the team. They were laughed at, looked down upon. Sugino weren't the closest but they were friends. Not as close as Rinka and Chiba were to Tomori, but close enough for them to hold a conversation comfortably.

As she reached the top of the mountain, she saw both Nagisa and Sugino talking. In Sugino's hands were baseballs embedded with Anti-Octopus BBs. The plan was for them to throw the balls in sync, hopefully catching the damn octopus off guard. 

Tomori wasn't exactly sure if they would be fast enough, but it was worth a shot. And much better than a suicide bomber attack.

Taking one earbud out, she turned off her music and walked over to the duo of boys. "Tomori!" Sugino exclaimed greeting the girl. He held out his fist for a fist-bump and Tomori obliged. "Thanks so much for coming out here to help me."

Tomori nodded in response. "I had to help out my baseball bro. So where's that fucking octopus? You said you knew where he was?" The girl asked after the two boys flinched at the swear.

Nagisa nodded taking out his notebook. "He always hangs out in the back before first bell. Korosensi is usually reading a newspaper." He read as Tomori nodded, taking one of the baseballs that Sugino had brought.

"Thanks Nagisa." She lightly tossed the ball in the air, setting her bag down by the flowers that the class had planted. Tomori surprisingly loved the flowers and always tended to them after school whenever it wasn't raining.

"No problem. Best of luck you two." Nagisa responded.

Tomori turned to Sugino, "I'll go on the other side of him, hopefully we can pinch him." Sugino nodded as Tomori jogged off into the trees.

They just had to nail the pitch then the bastard died. As she got in position behind a tree, she peeked out and saw Sugino mirroring her. The boy gave her a nod and they both got into a pitching position.

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They both released their balls at the same time, Tomori's curving in an arc.

In a split second, Tomori was standing by the other two boys as she blinked. "Top of the morning to ya!" A cheerful voice exclaimed. "It's usually considered polite to reply."

"Yes sir, sorry sir, good morning sir." Nagisa said as Sugino glanced frantically between their teacher and his chair.

"Damn octopus." Tomori muttered kicking the grass. He couldn't have had that easy of a time catch their balls. From opposite directions as well.

That's when the analysis came in. "Baseballs embedded with government issue Anti-Me BBs. Creative. Points for choosing a method of delivery quieter than a standard air riffle. Unfortunately, once airborne the weapons gave me nothing but time." Tomori glared at the yellow creature. "Ample opportunity in-fact to organize a defensive maneuver. A quick visit to the equipment room and tada I had pardon the pun, a handy solution." In a glove were the two baseballs Sugino and Tomori had thrown.

Sugino looked shocked whereas Tomori just sighed in disappointment, grabbing a baseball from his glove. She saw his face turn green with yellow stripes and heard his voice as she walked away.

"Tik tok children, graduation will be here before you know it. Right then homeroom if you would please." 

From behind her and over the noises of tentacles slithering she heard Sugino mutter dejectedly, "Yes sir."

...

The next day came, and Tomori was still pissed off at that damn octopus.

Everyone was in class and Tomori kept rotating her wrist and playing with a baseball. The failure from Sugino and her's assassination attempt wasn't surprising. But it still really hurt the two of them. 

Baseball was one of the things they prided themselves on. And then then damn octopus squished their dreams within a tentacle. 

Her page wasn't filled with notes like they were supposed to be. Instead she merely twirled her baseball in her hand. The girl's purple gel pen rested beside her notebook long forgotten.

In a flash the octopus disappeared from the chalkboard then reappeared holding a notebook. Tomori blinked recongizing it as Sugaya's. 

Tomori let out a low growl, he shouldn't be stealing his student's stuff.

"Sugaya." The teacher demanded in a scary voice. He straightened and his voice became normal. "Not a bad likeness, I'll give you that. But I'm a little hurt by the jawline."

Tomori rolled his eyes and Maehara shouted, "You don't have a jaw."

Seconds later, the bell rang for lunch. Tomori immediately slipped in her earbuds and shuffled a playlist before the octopus blasted out of the building.

Her chair scratched against the floor. Her eyes fell onto the floor as she walked towards the door. Nagisa fell in tandem beside her. After another step she walked into something and stumbled back. 

Her eyes narrowed as she came face to face with Karasuma. She stopped, before brushing past him being sure to knock into his shoulder. 

It didn't seem like much to the class, but the pair shared the message. 'Fuck off you don't own me'

Tomori was sick and tired of being pressured by the government even though they hadn't been involved for long.

Tomori trotted down the stairs and sat down, music blasting. And ate her lunch peacefully enjoying the slight breeze. 

A couple minutes passed and Tomori felt a presence approach her. Her eyes shifted upwards to see Sugino with a metal lunch tin.

She raised an eyebrow but allowed him to sit with her. He stared at his food for a minute. Turning off her music for a moment she turned to the boy. "You pitch pretty damn well." Tomori said before standing to go back inside.

That's when she was face to face with the octopus. She blinked in surprised but quickly reached for the ball in her pocket.

He ignored her, "The may come in handy." He said crouching sitting next to Sugino.

"Thank you Koro-sensi. Wait, what are you eating." He responded in confusion. The fucking octopus was eating a coconut, shell and all. Tomori had to wonder why they hadn't killed the stupid creature yet.

Tomori moved to go back inside but she froze at the octopi's words."Solid throws yesterday by the way."

Sugino scoffed at him, "Yeah right, says the guy who could probably throw a ball faster and farther on accident than I ever could on purpose."

"You knocked us down a peg octopus. I'm not sure if I should be grateful or pissed about that." Tomori said scowling as she turned back to the pair. "I'm thinking it's the latter though."

"Are you on a team?" Came the innocent question. Tomori hissed and Sugino stopped tossing his baseball up and down. Both of their faces shifted into dejected ones.

"We used to be." Tomori murmured softly. It was something that they both missed from the main campus.

The yellow creature kept prodding, "Aaand you're not any longer?"

Sugino continued, "They uh-" He paused a second. "They kicked me off. Tomori as well. Teams are only for D-Class and above. We're here to get our grades back on track, extracurricular stuff like sports isn't allowed."

"Sounds suspiciously like discrimination." Wasn't that what the whole school was based off of.

Tomori snorted, "E-Class is the runt of the litter, of course we will be discriminated you damn-"

Sugino cut off the girl's furious rant. "I'd have gotten booted either way. Come on, you saw my pitch. I'm too slow, never struck anyone out. Wound up bench warming most of the season. I was so depressed and got just as slow hitting the books. That's why I got packed off here to the mountains."

Tomori spoke up, "And I was the lone girl, most of the team already hated me but they couldn't say anything since I was pretty decent. They still talked about me behind my back. I'm sure they were so fucking glad to get rid of me." Tomori paused, "The sole disgrace of the pride and joy of the school's team."

"Say Sugino, may I give you a friendly piece of advice." The octopus wasn't paying any attention to her so Tomori just walked up the stairs, back into the building.

Nagisa was in the hallway as well but he bumped into Tomori rushing outside. Sugino was with the octopus talking about baseball. 

None of their fucking business.

They were just E-Class.

Worthless

Pathetic

Weak

E-Class