Chương 12: Ed from another mother.
Mr. Karasuma was sitting at his deck getting some work down after the stressful events of yesterday took place that had nothing to do with the Eds and Eric.
What had happened was that Irina's mentor, Lovro came to the school to assassinate Korosensei. The two then had a competition set up by the tentacle teacher to see who could kill Karasuma. In the end, Karasuma let Irina win.
Now he was back at deskwork again as the day was coming to an end. However, the agent was interrupted by a message on his computer.
To: T. Karasuma
Subject: Message from Special Service HQ
Your second transfer student will arrive on 6/15. This is our long-awaited favorite. No need for detailed discussion in advance. Comply with his attendant's wishes.
Their long-awaited favorite. This was the person that the higher-ups believed will finally kill Korosensei. He would have wanted to know what the person is capable of in advance, but he had no power to demand such a thing. So, Karasuma typed his response.
"Understood."
'What he just messaged back to would lead something that no one saw coming. Oh boy'
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Cue Seishun Satsubatsuron by 3-nen E-gumi Utatan)
{Intrumental}
{Seishun... Satsubatsuron!}
(The opening starts with the crescent moon as it gradually change to Korosensei's head. Then Ed, Double D, Eddy and Eric appeared upside down with their names shown as they fall and tried to attack Korosensei as he panicked before dust picks up around them as the title appeared.)
Welcome Back, Mr. ED!
{Kuchi ni dasu no wa jikkō suru toki}
{Sore ga kakkoī koto shitteru sa}
(The scene start with Eric waking up in bed as he gets up and gets ready for school. As he walk out of his room, Eddy and Double D were at the living room while the latter was preparing breakfast. He look around only to see that Ed's not up yet so he went to his room to wake him up, only to find that he was not here and saw his window was open.)
{TARGET, sagashite bokura wa satsubatsu}
{Omoi wa mayou mayoedo susumu}
{Migite to migiashi issho ni de sōda}
(Eric panicked and ran out of his room to tell Eddy and Double D that Ed's gone. Eddy groaned in frustration while Double D worried about him, Eric ran back in to his room and came out with his uniform on and a toothbrush in his mouth. Double D quickly pack small breakfast along with their lunches before they head out to find Ed.)
{Nan nanda iraira no hadō wa}
{Bokura no sonzai no shōmei?}
{Tsuki wo miagetakamaru}
{Sā sā! Satsu satsu sattō START!}
(Scene changes to Eric opens a fridge of their neighbor's house and found Ed sleeping in his underwear and half eaten food. Eddy laughed while Eric took Ed out of the fridge and slaps him back and forth to wake him up. Double D look at the time and finds that they are going to be late for school, Eric and Double D panicked while Eddy groaned as Ed woke up from Eric's slapping before he was pulled by Eric and ran out the door along with Eddy and Double D.)
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai}
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai}
{Genjō daha wo chīsana koe de yagate zekkyō shitaku naru}
(The Eds and Eric, with Ed now in his uniform, rushing to the train station but they missed the train. As Eric and Double D mope in depression, Eddy yelled at Ed before he had an idea as he grabbed Ed the the other two. They're now at a park as they sitting in a box with a tree that is cartoonishly pulled down like rubber below them while Ed was holding the tree down by sinking his teeth in another tree. Double D was calculating their trajectory while Eddy was getting impatient and Eric was starting to regret it. Double D conclude that they would land in the field behind the building but isn't sure about it. Eddy isn't surprised as he signals Ed to let go as they're launch in the air heading to towards school.)
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai (Yareba dekiru sa)}
{Yari kittenaikara yarikirenai (Kitto dekiru sa)}
(Eddy, Double D and Eric screamed while Ed laugh as they flew through the sky. Then Eric saw Korosensei flying by as he pulled out his anti-sensei knife and tries to kill him but no avail as Korosensei sped up ahead of them.)
{Dōse, to iu no wa kantandakedo}
{Ima wa agaite mitainda kimi to hajikete mitainda}
(Meanwhile in E-Class, Yada was sitting by her desk and glance at Eric's desk in front of her as class was about to start. Korosensei arrives through the window and begun roll call, Yada asked him if he seen the Eds and Eric this morning making Rio teased her about it as she blushed in embarrassment. Korosensei answers as the Eds and Eric crashed through the roof and landed in the floor next to Korosensei, surprising the students.)
{Saredo seishun wa mirai he GO!}
{Sā sā sā! Seishun satsubatsuron!}
(Ed recoiled from the floor as he pulled the other three out with him as the class aside from Korosensei look at them with white eyes and jaws dropped. Korosensei tells them to take their seats as Ed lets go of them and went to their designated desk thus begins class.)
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EDventure #10 — "ED from another Mother!"
It was the mouth of June and the rainy season has arrived in Japan. The students of E-Class had only nine months of school left until our deadline to assassinate Korosensei.
On the bright side...there was really no bright side.
The rainy season's been putting a damper on everyone's mood.
But luckily, there was away something the Eds and Eric would be up to that'll always lighten the mood.
Eddy was giggling and rubbing his hands in that scheming way.
"Eddy, are you sure that this is going to work," Yada asked with a worried expression.
Everyone else just watched the four friends doing a crazy and probably stupid idea.
The plan that Eddy had come up with was to tap Eric to the ceiling right above where Korosensei would stand at the beginning of every day. That way, when the teacher arrives, the fractured-eye boy would fall down with an Anti-sensei knife. Right now, Eric was up on the wall and had his ankles, torso, and wrists duct-taped to the ceiling by Double D and Ed, who were both up on ladders getting their friend set.
"This isn't the first time we've done something this dangerous," Double D said, finishing on Eric's ankles and torso. He then climbed down the ladder.
Ed grabbed an Anti-sensei knife from his shirt that had a bad smell with flies all around its blade. "And there you go," Ed said with his smile, before turning to Eddy. "This little piggy went to market, Eddy!"
"Alright, boys! We're going to get that octopus and be filthy, stinken rich!" Eddy shouted with excitement. They all then heard the sonic boom of Korosensei arriving outside and Eddy's smile turned to a mischievous grin. "Right on time."
Ed quickly grabbed the ladders, opened the window, and threw them out into the rain. Much to Double D's dismay. The Eds quickly ran back to their seat. "Wait! How do I get down?" Eric asked, before the door slid open.
"Okie-Dokie, boys and girls. Time for homeroom," said Korosensei when he walked into the class. However, much to the shock of the students in the classroom, Korosensei's head was two times bigger than it normally was. And the way he spoke sounded burbled.
"Everyone, please take your seat. You too, Eric."
Eric signed with a sweatdrop on his head. "I would if I could."
Eddy stared at his teacher, before bursting out in hysterical laughter. Meanwhile, Ritsu turned on her screen. "Korosensei, could you please explain why your head is suddenly 33% larger than normal than before."
Suddenly Ed jumped up from his seat and yelled "It's the Balloon for the whales of Planet Mardulo. Chapters 34-89!" shouted Ed with a grin as he pulled out an outer space looking comic with yellow balloons, and...space whales?
Everyone just sweat dropped at how ridiculous the book sounded.
"I swear, Ed. You buy the weirdest books" said Eric in an awkward tone.
"Not exactly, Ed. My head soaks up moisture like a sponge with all the humidity," he said, before squeezing his face as if it was a toil to drain his head.
Korosensei's weakness #14: Prone to dampness
Double D started writing down this newly found weakness. "So his head has an absorption factor," he said with fascination.
However, right after finishing, Double D looked at his teacher in disgust. "That's actually a little gross."
When Korosensei was finished emptying the water in his into a bucket, he then said, "Now then, according to mister Karasuma, we have another transfer student joining us."
"Another transfer like us," Eric asked, referring to him and the Eds. "Or just another assassin?"
"I made a bit more trouble for myself than I barged for underestimating Ritsu," he confessed, before pointing at her with his tentacle. "So, rest assure, I won't be making the same mistake twice." Ritsu giggled as Korosensei rubbed his hands together. "But I encourage all of you to see the new addition to our class is one more potential ally."
Eddy suddenly popped up out of nowhere next to Ritsu. "So, what's the guy's style, huh? How's he gonna bag the octopus?" He asked, looking like he was up to his old tricks.
"He's got a point," said Hara, looking back at the machine. "Since you're both new, figured you transfers got to stick together, right?"
"Actually, I do know a little bit," said Ritsu with a smile. "The original plan was for he and I to start at the same time, but it didn't work out that way. I would handle long attacks; he would focus on close range. Our combined effort would have backed Korosensei into a corner. Except, our masters recalled the order for...well, reasons."
"What kind of reasons," asked Double D in a curious tone.
"For 1, my counterpart needed a few tweaks before being put into the field. Second, it was deemed I lack the capacity to support someone of his skill. Compared to what he's capable of, well, let's just say I don't quite measure up."
The Eds and Eric gulped nervously, and from his point of view, the fractured-eye boy could see Korosensei bowing his head and sweating. For her to say that when everyone just witnessed Ritsu blow off Korosensei's figures painted a different image in everyone's head. Just what was this person going to be like?
"Oh, come on!" Eddy said, looking doubtful as he was back at his table again. "He can't be that scary."
The silence returned to the room when the door of the classroom and everyone turned towards the doorway. What they saw was a man wearing white robes and a mask over his face. Additionally, the back of his torso is adorned with a Bohr model of the hydrogen atom.
Everyone looked at the man with odd looks, as his eyes gleamed red at the class.
"Okay, somebody likes to wear white," said Kataoka.
"He's kind of tall for a student," said Okano.
The man in white pointed in front of him, ominously, before startling everyone when a puff smoke went off in his hand, and then he was suddenly holding a pigeon. Ed, who had jumped on and clung to Kimura after being frightened, looked the bird and smiled. "It's a bird. A pretty bird!" He exclaimed, before he and Kimura fell over onto the floor.
The man in white chuckled. "Sorry everyone, didn't mean to startle you," he said, before putting the pigeon in his sleeve. "I can see that you're confused. I'm not your classmate, just his guardian. But let's not stand on ceremony, call me Shiro, please."
"Doesn't that mean 'White' in Japanese," Double D asked.
"I don't know what's creepier, a guy in all white or a guy in all white doing magic," Kayano said with a weirded-out smile.
"Yeah, and the guy can summon birds," Eddy grumbled in annoyance. "I hate birds."
Nagisa looked at Eddy with a confused expression. "Why?"
"They're so useless."
Eric said, "Well, the only one that isn't afraid is Korosensei—"
He stopped talking when he saw the teacher had turned into his liquid state. On the ceil at the far corner near where Eric still tapped.
"Really!? It scared you that much to use the liquid state!?" He yelled at Korosensei.
Eric again struggled to get loss of his bindings. "And will someone please get me down. I think I'm losing feeling in my limbs!"
Korosensei's Weakness #15: Gullible About Rumors
"Oh...Well...It's because Ritsu made the new student sound so scary," Korosensei said sheepishly, before pouring down from the ceiling. Climbing down and going back into his clothing that was on the floor. "N-Nice to meet you, Mr. Shiro. When might we greet your, uh, ward?"
"It's an honor Korosensei," said Shiro in a mannerly tone. Mr. Karasuma was looking into the class through the window
"Apologies for my 'ward' as you call him being late for class. I beg your patience, he'll be here in due course when the time is right" said Shiro in a calm manner.
Eric looked at Shiro with a raised eyebrow. Wasn't much for straight answers, was he? Shiro then stopped and looked up at Eric on the ceiling. As the American looked at the man, he couldn't help but feel uneased by his red eyes.
"Something wrong," asked Korosensei.
"Not at all," Shiro told him, before handing the teacher red bean jelly candy.
"This seems an interesting group. I'm confident he'll fit in perfectly. But why is there a student taped to the ceiling." He pointed up at Eric.
"Trust me, it was a really dumb idea," said Eric.
"You try coming up with a plan to kill something Sonic the Hedgehog couldn't even stop!"retorted Eddy to Eric.
"That's seriously your analogy" thought Eric in annoyance.
"Very well then," Shiro said, before turning towards the door. The class all glanced in the same direction. "Allow me to introduce him. Now Itona! Come!"
At first, there was nothing.
Suddenly, there was an explosion that came from the back of the room. The back wall was destroyed by a hole. Through the smoke came a short, strong built boy with spiky light blue-tinted white-hair and yellow/amber eyes. Wearing a uniform and a pair of black boots.
The boy walked in and sat down at the desk between Karma and Terasaka. "Victory is mine," declared Itona with a crazed look in his eyes. "I've proven myself stronger than the classroom wall."
"COME ON! USE THE DOOR NEXT TIME!" All the students yelled comically at Itona.
"Ding-dong!" Ed shouted.
"Only strength matters. Everything else is crap," said Itona. Everyone in the class had sweet drops on their heads. This boy was clearly going to be another pain in the ass.
Eric looked at Korosensei and saw he had a ...eck expression! Not even he knew what to make of Itona either. He's not smiling...or looking serious...or...any face that would make logical sense!
"I give to you Itona Horibe! Or if you prefer just Itona," Shiro said to introduce the new kid.
'A guardian in all white, a transfer student impossible to read and with Ed-level strength apparently. We were definitely in for more trouble than before.'
That's when Karma spoke up with his usual charisma. "Hey, new kid. Mind if I ask you a question," he asked as he looked over his shoulder at the hole in the wall. Glancing at the rain.
"You came in from the rain, without an umbrella. It's coming down in buckets down out there, and somehow there's not a drop on you. What's the story of that?"
There was a sudden crash from the front of the room, startling also everyone in the room.
Ed's desk was somehow implanted into the ceiling as if it was launched upwards. Slashing it to pieces. Ed meanwhile was still in his seat but was holding up his shoe, which had its laces tied for the first time in a long time. "I tied my own shoe, guys," he said before the pieces of his desk came crashing down on him.
Eddy laughed at his friend while Double D groaned and cover his eyes. But then they saw Itona get out of his seat and walk over to Ed. The tension in the room raised when he stopped in front of the Ed-boy and stared at him. "You're the strongest one in this class, aren't you? Stronger than most people in the world," he said, placing his left hand on Ed's head with a sneer. "You might be someone I have to kill."
"Hey! Get your ass away from my friend!" Eric shouted at Itona, struggling again to get down from the ceiling. "Your lucky I can't get down from here!"
"I only kill things stronger than me. Your friend's skills are beneath. That means he'll live for now," Itona said, before walking away from a shaking Ed who's eyes were wide and had sweat rolling down his face.
Itona approached Korosensei while he was eating the red bean jelly bar and pointed at the teacher. "You on the other hand Korosensei are my target."
Korosensei swallowed and glanced at Itona. "I believe I'm starting to get a clear picture of your M.O... Well, look no further. I'm stronger than you by a whole order of magnitude."
"Yeah, sure, not so much." Itona pulled out a red bean jelly bar from his uniform and approached Korosensei. Looking up at him as they were inches away. "Truth is you and I are actually brothers."
"HUH!" The whole cause looked at Korosensei and Itona in white-eyed shock and confusion.
"Bro...!"
"Bro...!"
"Bro...!"
"Bro...!"
"Bro...!"
"BROTHERS!"
Itona wasn't fazed by the reaction of the class and bit off a piece of his candy bar with the wrapping in his mouth. "Winner takes all, loser dies, big bro," he told the teacher in a mocking manner. Korosensei was shaken as Itona turned to the door and walked towards it. Shiro was waiting for him in the hallway. "We siblings have to keep it real. No tricks, no bull, just the two of us."
And with that, Itona closed the door behind him.
All was quiet in the classroom. Suddenly, the tape holding Eric peeled off the ceiling, and he fell to the floor.
"JUST WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON, SIR!?" Eric shouted when he shot up and climbed onto Korosensei with a big bump on his head.
Looking at him with wide eyes while grabbing him by the collar of his uniform and putting his feet on him, as most of the class got out of their seats and demanded answers too.
"Why did he say you are brothers!" Yada yelled.
"How came an octopus and a person came from the mom!?" Eddy yelled, pointing at him.
Double D pulled out a calculator and typed away at it desperately while sweating. "It's not! The probabilities of a human female being able to reproduce such a thing are improbable! Unthinkable!" He yelled and threw his hands in the air and waved them around. "UNCONCEIVABLE!"
"Can I be the dad?" Ed asked.
"Calm down, please!" Korosensei said, shaken. He grabbed Eric and pulled him off before placing him down on the ground. "I have no earthly idea! That boy is clearly confused! I was raised an only child! When I asked my parents for siblings, they gave me a talking-to about the birds and the bees."
"Wait, you actually have parents?" Maehara asked.
"That's because babies come from strokes!" Ed declared. "It's a proven fact."
Eric sighed and placed his hand on the Ed-boy's shoulder. "For the last time, Dumbo didn't exist, Ed."
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Lunch had come, and the rain outside hasn't even let up for a minute. Everyone was paying attention to the elephant in the room. Itona was in his seat eating a mountain of candy and treats. The amount of junk food he was consuming could've only matched Korosensei's hunger for it.
The Eds and Eric were together at their own table while staring at Itona. "This doesn't make any sense," said Eric. "None of this makes any sense.'
"It could be a ploy by our classmate to throw off our teacher," Double D told him while eating his lunch. "Creating a ruse to fluster him and throw him off guard."
"But with the way he's scarfing that junk food, he definitely has the octo-head's sweet tooth," Eddy grumbled.
"You think that he'll share?" Ed asked.
"NO!" the other two Eds and Eric jumped on Ed and held him down.
"You can't go near that guy, Ed!" Double D told him and stood up, along with his friends. "There's no telling what that troubled boy will do to you." Ed only stared at him, as a fly entered one ear and exited the other.
Eric turned around and looked at Itona, and saw that he wasn't looking at them like everyone else. He didn't even seem to notice their roughhousing. "Especially since the guy is really hard to read, too," he said, pointing out the similarity Korosensei and Itona had.
As he was eating a bunch of candy, Korosensei heard the Eds and Eric talking. "Wonderful! Itona's comment has the whole class comparing us in every detail. I need a distraction, ah yes!" He blushed when he grabbed something from under his desk.
"I'll take my mind off things by pouring over this girly magazine," he gushed before pulling out and opened a dirty magazine of babes in bathing suits. "Nothing like an adult reading material!"
But then Itona also had the exact same magazine.
Korosensei let out a shocked sound as all of the class looked at the boy in shock and disbelief. "This proves it! They're both boob guys!" shouted Maehara.
That's when Okajima stood up out of his chair. "Okay, the new kid's credibility just shot through the roof!" He exclaimed with a clenched fist.
"That seriously can not be all that it took?" Said Eric in a deadpan tone.
"Hell yeah it does!" Okajima turned to him and pulled out the same magazine that Korosensei and Itona were reading. "We boob men are all brothers!"
Eric just sweatdropped at how stupid this was starting to get. 'Now there's three of them?!'
"Hey, I've got a magazine too!" Ed said, pulling out a pink magazine. "And it has pictures."
Eddy imminently jumped on his friend, pushing his head back into his body and snatched the magazine from him. "Ed, you've been holding out on us!" He shouted and jumped off Ed and looked at the cover. "Chicks Galore, huh?" Okajima came over as Eddy happily flipped it open.
The pictures inside are of baby chickens.
Eddy and Okajima looked at it in disgust. "What the heck is this?" asked the pervert, as some of the other students came over. They too were weirded out by what they were seeing.
When Double D and Eric looked at the pictures, they too were shocked and disgusted. "Ed, I never would have thought you'd be into...this," said Eric, looking at his friend with comically shrank eyes.
"I didn't even know they had magazines like that," Double D said.
"Here's the thing, if they're really related," Kayano said as Fuwa sat next to her. "I mean, don't you think Korosensei would have known about it?"
Fuwa put a finger on her chin and started to think of an answer. "Not necessary..."
Fantasy land story
In the grim darkness of the medieval past, there was only war. Korosensei knights of the royal family fought against the Korosensei knights of another kingdom. The royal family's army was losing this battle.
In the royal family's castle, the king's advisor came into the throne room and kneeled. "Your highness, the enemies upon us, all is lost!"
"So be it," the octopus king said, before turning to his two sons, Korosensei and Itona. "My sons. You alone will survive."
As their home burned to the ground, Korosensei and Itona ran away towards a bridge. Behind them were the enemy soldiers. "Hurry, little brother! We've no time!" Korosensei yelled, pulling his brother with him as they ran across the bridge. He then drew his sword and turned to face the enemy. "Clear the bridge and escape to safety!"
Suddenly he was hit by two arrows and fell into the lake.
"Brother!" Itona cried and chased after him.
"GO! I'm lost! Leave me! You have to live!"
"You have to live!" Yelled Korosensei
End of fantasy land story
"Once grown, each was driven by cruel fate after the battle, the other without knowing their opponent's true identity," Fuwa finished the story while holding a Jump comic.
Ed looked at her with tearful eyes. "Life is so cruel, you guys!" He cried before grabbing Eric and blowing his nose on him, covering him with his snout.
"What!? Again!?" Eric shouted at Ed for covering him in snot, while Yada giggled a little. While she felt sorry for him, she couldn't help but find his reaction a little cute and funny.
"Uh, yeah, that's but there's still something you're forgetting," Double D told Fuwa.
"Yeah, like how Itona's human," said Kayano.
"Easy, he's a mutation," Fuwa said.
"You totally glossed the issue here!" Kayano yelled.
"No offense, but your characterization's kinda cliché and the plots ridiculous," Hara said.
"Not to mention played-out," Eddy said.
"True on that, Eddy, but no one asked for your opinion!" Fuwa argued with the others. Meanwhile, Nagisa and Eric were staring at Itona, who looked at the chattering before looking back at his magazine.
'It was really bizarre to think about, but that's when I realized that if he's going to prove that they're siblings, he'll have to about his past. Nagisa and I knew that this was going to be a chance to find out about Korosensei's past.
The big question was what this Itona Horibe had up his sleeve.
What happened next was something I never thought to have seen.'
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School ended with the bell ringing. The fight between Korosensei and Itona was about to begin. In the classroom, the desks were arranged and formed into a square formation around the room, and the students, Karasuma and Irina were standing on the outside of the makeshift ring.
When the bell stopped, Itona grabbed his coat and threw into the air. Now all he was wearing was a red sleeveless shirt.
"This place looks like an arena?" Irina asked, looking around the room.
"Yeah, fit for an honest deathmatch," Karasuma said, watching Itona and Korosensei face each other. "It's the first time I've seen an assassin take this approach."
"This is rich, Double D!" Eddy exclaimed while standing next to his friends and sat back in a chair. He kicked his feet up on a table and pulled out a bag of popcorn. "That big shot's going to get pulverized! And we've got a front-row center to the greatest show on earth!"
As the four friends watched and waited for the fight to begin, Double D turned his head to him. "Are you gonna share those?"
"I've got hotdogs, too," Eric said, pulling out a hotdog.
"Surely by now you're tired of plunky, over-complicated, cartoonish attempts on your life," Shiro said, while his ward stared at his opponent, "so let's confine us to over one rule; set foot outside the desk-boundary and your life is forfeit. Agree?"
"Oh yeah, sure, Mister-I-make-the-freakin'-rules," Eddy said mockingly, before shoving a handful of popcorn in his mouth.
Sugino agreed with Eddy. "As if the loser's gonna stick to that without any issues."
"He will." To the Eds, Eric, and Sugino's surprise, it was Karma who spoke up. "Korosensei's all about how his students see him, remember? He'll abide by the rules out of a sense of honor cheating would risk throwing shade on his reputation with this.
"It's actually a pretty clever way of handicapping Korosensei if you think about it," Double D said, with his own bag of popcorn.
Korosensei was silent for a moment. Looking down at the floor for a moment before looking up at his opponent. "Very well, sir! I agree to your rule!" He exclaimed. "But let's include another; injuring any spectators also counts as a forfeit."
"Agreed," Shiro acknowledged. He then raised his right hand up into the air and held it there. "Commence on my signal...assassination..."
The class and teachers watched, all waiting for the fight to begin. And then Shiro brought his arm down.
"Begin!"
SLASH!
Something swung and chopped Korosensei's left tentacle arm off.
All of the students and the teachers couldn't believe their eyes. Staring at the fight with wide eyes and jaws hanging. Eddy, with a mouthful of popcorn, dropped the bag he had while the other Eds and Eric were just as shocked as their classroom.
'We all just stood there for what felt like an eternity as our eyes were glued to the same thing. But it wasn't Korosensei's severed limb.'
"...Impossible..." Korosensei stared at Itona with his smiling face, but everyone knew that he was shocked beyond belief.
'Itona's hair was made of...tentacles!
Everyone stared at the boy with looks of disbelief, as the tentacles waved around like crazy like there were water hoses that were shooting out high pressures of water.
"Oh, my," Double D said with a hand to his mouth.
"His hair is made of tentacles?" Eric asked.
"Geez Louise!" Eddy said.
"Cool," Ed said.
Karma kept his head level, as he finally saw how Itona stayed dry when he first showed up. He didn't need an umbrella, because he batted away the raindrops.
"How is this possible?" Korosensei growled. Eric and Nagisa were the first ones to ever hear that tone of voice from the teacher and knew that he was getting really angry. Just like before, Korosensei's body started to turn black, while his teeth sharpened, veins popped out around his face, and his eyes turned glowing red. The atmosphere of the room turned tense as everyone saw him become enraged. "Tell me where those tentacles can form! Why does someone like you have them?!"
"We're neither at liberty nor obligated to tell you, but I hope this serves to convince you," said Shiro, unfazed by the teacher's rage.
"You may have come from different parents and enjoyed different upbringings, but nonetheless you are indeed brothers."
As Korosensei stared at Shiro with his red eyes, the man continued. "What a face you're making, does this encounter stir up unpleasant memories, perhaps?"
"Clearly...you and I need to have a little talk!" Korosensei growled before his left arm regenerated.
"Not possible..." Shiro replied and raised his left arm. "...you'll be dead." Suddenly a violet light shined from inside his sleeve.
Korosensei felt the light shine on him and gasped. "This pressure ray has a useful effect at close range. It triggers the dilatant of your skin cells." Itona then made his move and attacked.
His tentacles kicking up a smokescreen as Korosensei screamed from the attacks. Shiro gave a thumbs down as he continued. "You become as stiff as a board instantaneously. That's right—Itona and I are on intimate terms with your every weakness."
As Itona kept up his assault on Korosensei, everyone watched as all there was on the ground was some kind of beaten mass.
"Wow, did he get him," asked Muramatsu.
"No, look up!" Terasaka exclaimed and pointed up at the ceiling. Korosensei managed to get out of the way by shedding his skin and having Itona attack that, while he escaped up to a high point. He was panting with exhaustion after taking such evasive actions.
Eric was shocked. That was Korosensei's last resort, and Itona made him use it already
"Shedding your skin? Ah yes, we know about that little trick too. You see, Korosensei, there's an aspect even to that which constitutes an Achilles heel," Shiro informed the teacher as Itona walked up to Korosensei and started attacking him again.
Korosensei quickly speeded away to avoid the attack, and as Shiro continued talking, the octopus-like teacher continued to dodge every swing and swipe directed at him. "Molting cost you dearly in terms of energy."
Korosensei's Weakness #16: Vulnerable after molting
Double D gasped and had Nagisa hand over the list of weaknesses he's been writing down. Sure enough, it was written down.
"That prodigious speed plummets while you recover," Shiro said as Itona attacked Korosensei as he struggled to stay alive.
"Oh, and look, you grow back that arm Itona lopped off in his initial attacks, that's even more energy you've lost" said Shiro, nonchalantly.
Korosensei's Weakness #17: Vulnerable after regeneration
"By my calculations, at the moment, this makes two of you a fairly even match for one another. Using one's tentacles effectively calls for a great deal of mental stamina, too."
'Hearing that reminded us of another one of Korosensei's weaknesses.'
Korosensei's Weakness #2: Loses his composure rather easily
"And it appears Itona's dirty little secret pulled the rug out from under your state of mind, which of course was the idea. Not to boast, but it's obvious Itona has the upper hand. Oh, and also, he has the help of his devoted guardian," Shiro said and lifted his left arm up again.
Korosensei's Weakness #18: Hardens upon exposure to a special beam.
That special beam was fired again by Shiro, which made Korosensei's body hardened. Itona jumped up and spiraled towards Korosensei. The teacher dodged it but was too slow, and it cost him two of his legs. The Eds, Eric, Nagisa, Kayano, and the other students of the class gasped when they saw the lobbed off limbs fall to the ground.
Weakened by the onslaught of attacks, Korosensei buckled and fell to his knees. Panting in exhaustion as Shiro chuckled. "Uh-oh, you'll have to grow those pesky legs back now too! That's an even bigger energy deficit."
Itona walked up to him. "That was easier than I thought," he taunted Korosensei. "Not so tough now, huh?"
"Eddy, I'm not sure how they did, but they were able to get all of his weak points and are able to hit them with precision and great succession," Double D said with the weakness notepad still in his hand.
"He could actually do it," Eddy whispered. "The octopus is backed into a corner!"
"Does that mean they'll save the world, Eddy?" Ed asked. "What do we do then?"
"...How should I know?"
Eric grabbed his Anti-knife and looked at it with a frown on his face. For some reason, they all felt kind of disappointed. Here was some stranger that appeared out of nowhere, exposing weaknesses they didn't even know about. Weaknesses that they—his students—should have discovered. They were all hoping to pull off the Master Plan that would kill Korosensei.
E-Class should be the ones to kill him!
Korosensei's legs grew back, as Shiro walked a little to the right to see them. "I see that your legs regenerated. Feeling ready for the next onslaught, are we?"
After taking a few breaths, Korosensei grumbled, "No one's ever run me this ragged before." He stood straight and cracked his knuckles. "And here I thought I was signing up for a garden-variety face-off. There's quite a bit more strategy afoot than I expected."
The two opponents started circling each other. Stepping to the left while facing each other. "I have so many questions about the pair of you. Of course, if I lose, there won't be any opportunity to pick your brain."
"You still think you can win? Your confidence doesn't strike you as misguided," Shiro mocked him.
"Mr. Shiro, for all your planning, there's one thing you don't seem to have taken into account," Korosensei said, pointing at him. Eric was behind him, still holding his knife.
"Not likely. No detail is overlooked, no angle is unconsidered," the man in white said, before turning his head to his ward. "Finish him."
Itona jumped high into the air and used all of his tentacles in one final attack on Korosensei. Going right for his body.
Bit of mucus flying in the air as the students looked in shock. But strangely, the mucus wasn't yellow. In fact, it was white. And Itona saw it was his tentacles that were damaged.
Korosensei disappeared and reappeared in a front of Kayano with a tissue in his hand. "What do we have here? Hmm?" He asked mockingly while waving the tissue at the boy. "I seemed to be standing on some you've dropped."
His expression turned grey as the other students looked down to see that there were Anti-knives lying on the floor. Bits of mucus covering them. Eric and Nagisa gasped and the fractured-eye boy looked at his hand as saw that his knife wasn't in his hand.
That meant that Korosensei planted them on the floor and covered them with tissue paper. So, when Itona's tentacles were in range, he uncovered the knives and let the tentacles do their work in destroying the ends of the limbs.
Eric grinned and sweated a little. "You sneak."
Shock by what happened, Itona backed up before Korosensei's husk fell down and landed on him. Using his speed, the teacher was able to tie up the white-haired boy in the husk. "An Anti-Me blade works just as well on your tentacles as they do mine!" said Korosensei, picking up the boy in the husk like it was a bag.
"And regeneration takes just as much a toll." He then reeled back his arm and looked to the window. "You may be exceptionally strong. But I'm exceptionally clover!"
With a giggle, Korosensei sent Itona crashing through the window. The husk protected him from the glass, as he landed on the ground as the rain stopped.
"Don't worry children, he's fine. My old skin kept him perfectly safe" said Korosensei as he looked out of the window with a smug look on his face.
"Technically, Itona, you're outside the boundary," he pointed out as Itona pushed the skin off his body. Korosensei then had his face have the green stripes and began to be a sore winner.
"In yo face! I win! Nani-Nani boo-boo! Et cetera Et cetera! No more trying to kill me with your guardian's help" mocked Korosensei.
This, however, pissed off Itona who gritted his teeth and glared hatefully at the teacher.
"If, however, you'd like to stay, perhaps learn a thing or two along with the rest of the class will welcome you with open arms," Korosensei suggested to Itona wisely.
Behind him, the class looked at their teacher with wide eyes. "Bear in mind, what you learn here can't necessarily be quantified. You are a gifted young man, but I'm richer in experience. I became a teacher so as to translate that experience into something which can enrich others. The way to assassinate me isn't homing in on my weaknesses..." he then tapped his finger on his head. "...but by absorbing my lessons."
Itona growled with his eyes closed. "Are you saying that I'm never gonna be strong enough to beat you?!" He opened his eyes and showed them to have a turned red with black and white energy going crazy in them. "YOU THINK THAT I'M WEAK?!"
"Oh no, Itona's not a big fan of being lectured to." Shiro sighed. "If Korosensei continues to lord his knowledge over him..."
As everyone saw Itona's tentacles growing back, they were then shocked to see that they'd turned black. Itona let out a furious roar as the tentacle swung around wildly.
"Good lord! Now, what's going on!" Double D yelled as he backed away.
"Black tentacles!? Rio gasped.
"I think the dude's about to go postal!" Maehara exclaimed.
"We are not long for this world!" Ed shouted and started running around in fear, before crashing into a wall.
"I'M STRONG! THESE TENTACLES WILL ASSURE MY VICTORY OVER EVERYONE! EVERYONE!" Itona screamed with a grunt. He then ran towards the class and leaped through the broken window. Itona then roared as he jumped at Korosensei.
But then he was suddenly shot in the neck by something, before falling down on the floor. Everyone, including the teachers, stared at the knocked-out student with dumbfounded looks. "Uh...what the hell happened?" asked Eric.
"Pardon us, Korosensei." When the Eds and Eric looked towards Shiro, they saw that it was him that shot Itona with a gun of some kind under his arm in his sleeve. They could tell because the barrel was smoking.
"My hot-headed ward isn't exactly 'prime classroom' material at the best of time. It's not lost on me that this is his first day, but a mandatory vacation is clearly in order," he said while walking over to Itona. The students, including Ed after getting out of the wall looked at him with surprised expressions as Shiro picked up Itona.
"Excuse me! I can't let you walk out of here with him. He's my student!" Korosensei firmly told him. "Until graduation, his well-being falls on me. And frankly, I also have a lot of questions to ask you, Mr. Shiro."
"Sorry, we're leaving," Shiro replied and walked past Korosensei, but then stopped. "Unless you care to use force," Korosensei growled and attempted to grab his shoulder, but on contact, his tentacles exploded. He gasped as Shiro wiped off the goo.
"Anti-sensei fibers. I have no intention of being restrained by you. Not to worry, my conscientious friend, he'll be back before you know it," he said and looked to Korosensei. "In the meantime, I'll take responsibility for his well-being, thank you."
And with that, Shiro left with Itona. No one stopped them as they exited through the hole in the wall.
It was clear that Itona was still maturing. There was no need to rush him. As he walked away from the school, Shiro stopped and looked back to see Korosensei staring at him through the broken window. "Such a personality. It's unlikely that he would from that class anyway before the end of the world comes. And those children. Especially the four cartoonish ones..."
Shiro turned back to the road and continued on his way, as the rain came again.
"Heh, very promising. What an unpredictable classroom, like this weather we're having today."
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When the class started to put the desks back together where they were, Korosensei was at his desk covering his face with his hands, murmuring how embarrassed he was.
"What's with him all of a sudden," asked Kataoka.
"Dunno," said Okano. "He's been this way for a while now."
"A grim turn of events has brought out my serious side and I'm ashamed," Korosensei whimpered in his hands. "You children are supposed to think of me as comic-relief."
"Hey! That's our job!" Ed said, pointing to his chest.
"Shut up, Ed!" Eric yelled.
"Besides, you were so serious about it," said Hazama, before giving a serious and overdramatic voice to copy Korosensei's tone. "Tell me where those tentacles can form! Why does someone like you have them?!"
Korosensei screamed with a bit of a pink blush. "Don't repeat that! Just hearing those words again makes me want to bury my head in the sand!" He yelped before covering his face with his hands again. "I've been a cultivating a mysterious, naturally amusing persona. Revealing a serious side shatter my image!"
Double D sighed. "I can't believe you're so calculating about your image."
Korosensei's weakness #19: Gets embarrassed in the aftermath of a serious scene.
"What a day, huh?" asked Irina, with her arms crossed while staring at the yellow being. Korosensei and the rest of the classed looked to her. "Was anyone else caught off guard by the tentacles growing out of that boy's?"
Eddy dashed over to the teacher's desk and pointed at Korosensei with one eye open. "Yeah! Level with us, calamary. What was all that about?"
"I too would like to know," Double D said, looking firmly at Korosensei with a frown. "It's all very suspicious that you would react like that after seeing our new mysterious classmate's powers, and not to mention the vast knowledge that Mr. Shiro has on you and your weaknesses. I do believe it's time to stop sidestepping the issue and tell us the truth! As your students, we have to know if you can be trusted."
Korosensei was silent for a moment, before standing up from his chair. "You're right, Double D. It's high time I tell you children the truth," he said. Everyone listened carefully. "I'm reality...your teacher...IS A BIOLOGICALLY ENGINEERED LIFEFORM!"
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"...Neat," Ed said, being a simpleton, as everyone looked at him with beady little eyes.
"Huh?! That's all I get!? Pardon me if I expected more of a reaction!"
"You're an octopus that flies through the air at Mach 20," Okajima said.
"But you said you're not from another planet, so that rules out alien," said Hara.
"And there's the fact that Itona claimed to be your brother, so we figured you were some kind of biologically created lifeform," said Double D.
Korosensei gave them a look that mimicked shock and pride. "You're catching on so quickly! You're geniuses!"
"Sir focus on today," Nagisa said. "Why were you mad? When you saw those tentacles, you were more upset that we've ever seen you."
Eric then stepped up and said "All of us are just wondering...why are you here? Why were you created? Why come to this class?" Eric held up his arms a little. "Why all of this?"
All was silent for a brief moment.
"That's one of life's greatest mysteries, isn't it? Too bad they will not matter," Korosensei said in a dark tone. "Not after I vaporize this planet..."
The students took a cautious step back from him.
"On the other hand, if you save the world, you'll have all the time you need to find out the truth afterward. Do you understand? If you want to figure out why you are all here, trying to kill me, you only have one option. You have to kill me. Assassin and target...that is the bond that binds us together in this classroom. You can have your answers when you pry them from my cold, dead tentacles." The students all looked at him with wide eyes and then he turned to the door. "Now then, if you don't have any more questions, I'd like to call it a day. See you tomorrow!"
And as he opened the door, he was right back to being so embarrassed. But Eric still stared at his teacher with a serious expression. Deep down, he knew that Korosensei was right.
'We were assassins, whether we liked it or not. Searching for answers with guns and knives. Our target was our teacher and killing him will be the only way to gaining our answers. That meant that we were going to have to step up our game.'
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"Right, no student was hurt in any way," Karasuma said on the phone outside the schoolhouse. "Make arrangements for repairs."
"Mr. Karasuma!" the government agent heard the voice of Isogai and when he turned towards his direction, he was a little surprised. All the students of E-Class had come out and were now standing there.
"What can I do for you," he asked, putting away the phone. "Or rather...for all of you?"
"Um...could you please teach us more about assassination techniques," the well-mannered Ed boy asked. "We want to sharpen our skills."
Karasuma looked a little surprised. "Even more than what I've already taunted you?"
"Here's the deal, sir. We used to think that someone else would kill him even if we don't manage to pull it off," said Yada.
"But after watching Itona today, we realized something," said Maehara.
"If anyone's gonna bag that squid, it's going to be us!" Eddy said with a confident smirk and crossed his arms.
"We all came here for different reasons, but we're all wanting to do it. Why would we be here if some professional gets to kill him," Double D asked. "That's why we all want to work hard and with the little time we have, assassination our teacher. Good Lord, if mother heard me..."
"We want to kill him ourselves," Eric said, stepping forward. "That's how'll we'll know the answers!"
{Play music: "Contact"—Red vs Blue soundtrack}
Karasuma couldn't help but let a smile grow on his lips when he saw their outlook change.
'What a positive shift in attitude. Nice.' He thought to himself after seeing the gleam in their eyes.
"Alright then, students interested in beefing up their assassination skills can stay after class. Be ready to work hard."
"YES, SIR!"
"Aye-aye, Captain!" Ed said with a salute. Far off in a tree, Korosensei watched the students while drinking a soda and reading a book. Feeling prouder of his students than before.
'We were Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High. The assassination classroom. The rain has stopped, and the school bell will ring again tomorrow.'
"Let's start by climbing this 20-meter rope that's ready to be broken in," Karasuma said with an evil smile. Pointing up at the tree behind him that had three ropes climb just waiting.
"Aw man!" Eddy complained.
Ed said, "Aaaannnd BREAK!" As he ran up the rope and hit his head in the branch and fell to the ground, making everyone around him laugh, while Korosensei just sat in a nearby tree and read as he listened to his students worked.
'Today was definitely something we never saw coming. A piece of the giant puzzle that is Korosensei's life. He's an octopus with the speed of Mach 20, weird personality, and the best teacher we could ask for. But we still needed answers. And the only way we could find them was working hard to become assassins.'
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{Playing Welcome Back by John Sebastian}
[Instrumentals] The opening of the ending fades into showing the old school building in the afternoon, as the sun was starting to go down.
[Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out] The scene then cuts to show the kids of E-Class packing their bags and leaving. Eddy was asking Double D if he had today's notes, which Double D responded with a smile. Ed was packing his things, before pulling out an old piece of food from his bag and eating it.
[Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about] The scene cuts to show Eric exiting out of the room, only to stop when Yada ran up to him. She asked him something, to which Eric smiled and gestured for her to follow.
[Well the names have all changed since you hung around] The Eds and Eric, Yada, Nagisa, Karma, Kayano, and other students are then shown walking down the street to the train station.
[But those dreams have remained and they've turned around] The scene then cuts to show the doors of a train opening, and the kids walking out of it. They waved goodbye to one another as they went their separate ways
[Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)] The view is then taken to the inside of the Eds and Eric's dorm. The front door opens and Ed runs into the dorm, followed by Eddy walking and tried, then Double D chipped, and then Eric, who closed the door behind him.
[Back here where we need ya (Back here where we need ya)] They are then shown eating dinner in the living room. Wide Eric, Eddy, and Double D ate their noodles normally, Ed slurped up all that was in the one go. This caused the others to laugh.
[Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot] The Eds and Eric are then shown working on homework.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] Just like in the intro, Eric is shown brushing his teeth in the bathroom. After a moment, he took the toothbrush out of his mouth and drank a glass of water. After swishing the water in his mouth, Eric spits it out and walked out of the bathroom, heading for his bedroom.
[Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back] Eric quickly came back in and turned off the lights, ending the outro.
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Next time: EDventure #12 "A League of Their ED"
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