The newest addition to class E was an ever famous name in the underworld, Irina, the hot blooded temptress, a foreigner who earned her living with her unmatched seduction skills.
Gakushuu was in genuine awe of the woman's skills. The thing was, she didn't need to actually sleep with her target more than half the time. She would lure them to an empty location and bam! Dead.
She was just…incredibly young though. She was one of the people who grew up in the underworld, who had never lived a normal life.
The life of a woman in the underworld was never easy, you need incredible luck, skill and a level of renown to make a decent living. Seduction was almost a necessary skill to survive, especially for a woman that beautiful.
However, Gakushuu's heart almost stopped when her icy blue eyes caught one of his hidden cameras that even Karasuma had managed to miss. She narrowed her eyes, hummed under her breath and then ignored it.
She was extremely aware of people watching her. It was almost eerie how she had even managed to find cameras or listening devices even in the thick of the forest.
Instead of Karasuma or even Koro-sensei, Gakushuu had the feeling that he had to be more careful around her. She might easily decide to not care and destroy anything she felt encroached into her personal space.
Irina was a woman who was both intensely exposed, but skillfully hidden even in plain view. Her bright blonde hair and icy blue eyes caught the attention of people around her, and it made it incredibly easy for Gakushuu to find the video evidence of her and Koro-sensei's first meeting.
Koro-sensei wasn't technically a part of the faculty, and him claiming otherwise and bringing up Irina to class E had been caught on camera. Along with his incredible feat of getting rid of people trying to harass Irina.
Unlike Irina, who couldn't even be caught in camera half the time, Koro-sensei was far far too obvious.
Gakushuu had hundreds of sightings of Koro-sensei all over the world. He was too fast to catch on camera when he moved, but he patiently waited in line and paid for all the food he got.
His disguises were also so over the top that it practically looked like a person wearing an odd mascot wear. People shared his image with a laugh, like it wasn't the world ending creature in front of them.
Sometimes Koro-sensei posed for people asking for funny pictures.
Which made Gakushuu feel flabbergasted. It took a completely different kind of person to take being experimented on, and come out the other end, so cheerful.
But it wasn't all like that.
Gakushuu had caught various assassination attempts on camera as well. Some that tried to trap him by making him fly over a specific area which would be covered by a net made to hold the supernatural being, or another where a missile was launched which was filled and covered by the antimatter damaging material.
The assassins from different regions teamed up to fight against Koro-sensei and the man would get through every trap through sheer speed or skill. Mach 20 was an unbelievable speed, specially in the hands of a man who knew what he was doing.
Gakushuu got even more sure that the man was used to dodging assassination attempts, because some were inspired and a certain amount of skill and insight would be needed to escape.
Koro-sensei taught freely, even the assassins who came after him. He would stop to chat with a few assassins, and Gakushuu had no idea what he said, but many of them ended up backing down from further assassination attempts.
Gakushuu had been using the connections of the class to find and research more about the supernatural being, so it was kind of obvious that some of them would catch on.
Kimiko was someone involved with the underworld, had been one of the first to find out about the assassination request for the supernatural being teaching in class E. She had been surprised, but she had mostly shrugged it off.
The second was Ren, who was always following Gakushuu's moods and obsessions. He found out because Gakushuu had been far too obvious with his multitudes of pictures and videos that were taken of Koro-sensei all over the world.
He hadn't known about class E and Gakushuu had explained most of the situation to him. Ren, understandably, got worried, then angry. He ranted at Gakushuu for almost an hour before he could be calmed down.
Anaya knew about the teacher from the pictures on the internet that kept getting taken down, and she did her own subtle research on him before figuring out Gakushuu knew more than her.
Anaya was perhaps the most heavily involved in the research aspect, aside from Gakushuu. Ren had decided to keep his nose out of the whole mess since both Anaya and Gakushuu had decided to get involved, and kept an eye on the Principal and his classmates instead.
Hinata was oblivious, and neither Kimiko, nor any of the others in the know were willing to let her know.
Araki kept his eyes on the students and the internal working of the school instead of rumors of the paranormal creature making rounds of the planet.
So school assembly was a shock for all the students in the main building, let alone class A. When the teachers of class E came out, he could almost see the envy in the eyes of all the students.
Irina was a beauty used to seducing the populace with every gesture, and Karasuma had a strict but proper atmosphere that would be attractive to anyone who liked the type. Let alone the student body, even the teachers were envious of the line up class E was showing.
There was the traditional sneering at class E by the teachers and Gakushuu's own sharp gaze swept over the students following along. Some flinched, and some pretended like they hadn't just been looking down on the class.
Class E was made up of the students with the least amount of marks, but that wasn't the only criteria. They were the people who had been outcasted, who hadn't been able to go along with the groups and expectations of society for some reason or other.
They were all unique people, made so by their failings in proper society. And the class of outcasts were about to become assassins for a superhuman being who was going to teach them.
But, Gakushuu thought as he looked at the smug class E, they were still just students for now.
He was surprised to see Karma among the students. He looked bored out of his mind as his class was publicly humiliated. He caught Gakushuu's eye and sent him a slow mocking wave that many of the students caught and glared at him for.
Gakushuu rolled his eyes before sending him a wave back. Class A sighed, and a few in class E gaped.
Karma grinned, showing off his sharp canines.
A few nearby students took a couple steps back.
Gakushuu stifled a laugh.
When the assembly was over, Gakushuu and Karma naturally met up as the classes separated.
"Aren't you busy now, President?" Karma teased.
"Shouldn't a student of class E be on their way already?" Gakushuu glared playfully.
"I'm in class E because you can't get me to actually listen. Keep up with the times, prez." Karma laughed.
"And here I thought it was because you kept picking fights you won't win," he smirked, a slightly smug expression in his face.
"Literally one time, two years ago. It's not going to be the same again. You've been taught for years, I bet I can beat you after six months," Karma taunted.
"I'll give you a year," his smirk turned into a smile. "More than enough time for you to surpass me, right?"
A bet or a test, Karma wondered silently, but accepted it verbally.
"Before the year is over," he accepted. Gakushuu looked satisfied with it.
Then they both turned a corner in time to see Nagisa threaten two other students. Karma's eyes narrowed.
"Huh," Gakushuu blinked in surprise, "Is he secretly a ninja or something?" He asked.
Karma burst with startled laughter.
"Not that I know of," he pretended to cough, when Gakushuu pout-glared at him.
"Then what's with that shift when he heard the word 'kill'?" He asked. "You all might be learning to be assassins, but it's not from an actual…" Gakushuu's words faded as he stared absentmindedly at the space Nagisa had been standing.
He wondered at the change. The abrupt shift from being him to assassin that seemed kind of familiar.
Wasn't that almost exactly like the change in Koro-sensei? The abrupt shift from kind to ruthless, then back again. Not to mention that Nagisa was naturally observant.
Did he pick up on something Gakushuu had missed?
Karma raised a brow. "I mean, we're learning from Bitch-sensei I guess." Then he muttered under his breath, "Though what exactly we're learning is a bit suspect."
Gakushuu side eyed him.
"She's been teaching us practical English," Karma shrugged.
"Well, she's pretty renowned for her seduction skills, so she should be pretty good." Gakushuu said slowly, looking at the other boy. Karma's teeth peeked out mischievously.
"Maybe you'd like the other training she does," Karma leaned in teasingly. His eyes sparkled as he looked at Gakushuu.
Gakushuu roved an uninterested gaze over Karma's face.
"And that is?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
Karma looked closely at Gakushuu, his eyes narrowing in suspicion. Then a moment later-
"Never mind," he pulled away, "Gotta go. See you later, Shuu~" he waved his fingers cheerily as he walked towards the class E hill.
"Yeah," Gakushuu said.
Then he covered his face for a moment and let out a long groan.
He had cameras in the class of course he knew what Karma was talking about!!
He just-
He couldn't believe Karma had just implied-
Gakushuu blushed to his ears.
After the assembly, the students were buzzing with class E trying to push the boundaries yet again.
The last time it had happened, it was in Gakushuu's first year and he had tried to connect with the class E too hastily. This time, it was obvious that it definitely wasn't him leading the charge.
Though, some in class A still thought otherwise and came by to offer their support. Most were already aware that having the Principal for his father wasn't exactly the best place to be, and they were quite willing to use their international connections to get Gakushuu out, if that's what it took.
Unfortunately, Gakushuuu had no intention of leaving his father while he wasn't an adult. Not unless he did something more drastic than taunting him about his failure at life.
Though, Gakushuu had managed to get something new while everyone around his scrambled.
He played with a seemingly rubber knife. He flicked it up, then caught it. It was slightly lighter than a normal rubber knife, so it took some getting used to. But the material was surprisingly hard.
He cut it up and gave it to Miya. Miya was pretty unobtrusive, but his father was the head of a research facility and Miya had inherited the eye for biochemistry.
His mother was a fashion designer though, so he had no idea how the unlikely couple worked, but they did.
Gakushuu wouldn't even have to make up much of an excuse if he got caught. Class E literally had the knives laying around.
Well, in their pockets, that is.
Not to mention, there was so much the government was having to deal with, with news of the super being mostly out to the non-civilians, they probably wouldn't care about one misplaced knife.
Or the multitude of cameras laying around class E, whenever they realized that it wasn't from Gakuhou or an assassin.
Gakushuu almost didn't have enough time to go through the whole thing, so he had had to make a program to point out the deviances from the norm so he could keep an eye on them.
It was almost funny that no one had just outright thrown away his far-too-obvious-trained-people devices because of reasons.
To be honest, though, Koro-sensei and Irina probably just didn't care. And Karasuma frowned but he left them alone.
Though anything the students could notice was obviously a big no as indicated by Koro-sensei threatening him through the one he found in Nagisa's bag.
Gakushuu found that he enjoyed Koro-sensei's lessons too. But-
They were quite familiar.
It felt nostalgic in a way.
Koro-sensei was quite obviously not human. But he taught in a similar way to Gakushuu's father.
Or the way Gakuhou used to teach. Now, he just enjoyed shoving knowledge down people's throats.
Gakushuu hadn't had much opportunity to be taught by his father before Ikeda's death. He was young, and his parents were practically the ideal of a normal, happy family.
So, Gakushuu felt slightly pathetic for clinging to that happy time, but he was also happy to find that Koro-sensei might have been inspired by his father in some way.
It felt good to know.
And if Gakushuu sometimes fell asleep dreaming of the times his father used to encourage his each and every step forward…
That was completely his business.