Crossover Together ~クロスオーバ 一緒に~

Nagisa may had survived the midterm hurdle, but now with that done and out of the way, he now faces another challenge that following morning - spying in on the E building. He had never actually did spying before, but he did had a observant kink to his personality, so maybe it wouldn't be as hard as it appeared to be. He had a rough time sleeping through last night because of these thoughts and troubles, and now with the morning sun, he was as ready as he could ever be. As he was packing away his lunch, he skipped the learning books and picked up only the notebook and binoculars as subscribed to him by Gakuho. It wasn't far off to say that Gakuho was another reason why he couldn't sleep well last night. It felt weird for him, packing only a notebook and a lunch rather than his many essentials, but on the bright side he wouldn't have to lug around a heavy load for the whole day. As he just got himself handled, Aladdin peeked around the corner of his door, seeing him readying himself.

"Morning, Nagisa," Aladdin said, walking in. Nagisa got the notebook in his bag before turning to him.

"Oh, hey Aladdin."

"The others told me you were suspended for the day. Is that true?" Aladdin asked curiously. Nagisa nodded.

"Yeah, sucks for me."

"... But, then why're you still packing? Your friend Yugure told me suspension is when you don't go to school."

Now Nagisa felt a bit uneasy. He didn't really tell Aladdin anymore than he told the others about what he was REALLY up to. He rubbed the back of his head.

"Well ... I still have to study," Nagisa then said ...

"Someone's not a good liar."

... The hell? Nagisa and Aladdin looked over to bed, only to find Blair sitting there!

"What're you doing here?!" Aladdin asked.

"And how'd you get in?!" added Nagisa.

"The window," Blair simply said. Nagisa didn't know how she got up to his apartment, since his apartment was a few floors upward. Still, Blair went onto the point she was making.

"Come on, buddy, what's the plan?" Blair asked.

"What plan, I don't have a plan today," Nagisa insisted. Blair knew the exact tricks to this, and she got her hands around his head, and his face was suddenly in her boobs again.

"You better spill it, or I'll smother you," Blair teased.

"How am I supposed to do that - I can't breathe through your enormous ta-tas!" Nagisa yelled. Aladdin was enjoying the view with a smile on his face, drooling slightly. Blair saw this was a rather tough egg to crack, so she resorted to another tactic ...

"Tell me."

"No."

"Tell me."

"No!"

"Tell me."

"NO!"

"Tell me!"

"NO!"

"Come on, Nagi! I can keep this up forever, you know. This how you wanna spend the rest of your life?"

Nagisa was finally broken ...

"... Let go, and I'll tell you."

Soon after being released, Nagisa went on to explain the situation to them both, from the very moment Nagisa stepped into Gakuho's office. He felt rough on just saying this after promising Gakuho he wouldn't say, but it beats getting suffocated in some chick's tits. Besides, whatever's going on at that E building might be worth his while if it did had anything to do with angelic or demonic activity. Still, Aladdin (out of the three), was concern for Nagisa and his wellbeing.

"Gakuho made you his spy now? Damn dude," Blair said.

"Promise you won't say this to the others?"

"Sure. In fact, we'll even help you check things out if you don't mind," Aladdin said, offering his service.

"You will? ... I dunno ..."

"Nagisa, it's alright. I kinda owe you guys for not helping with those Houndour anyway," Aladdin admitted. Since he didn't help there, he might be able to make up for it here. Nagisa easily saw the point in that argument, and maybe they can make it easier to get more notes on whatever's going on.

"I'll join too. Karma's getting too boring to hang with right now," Blair said.

"Wait, but didn't Karma tell you not to go to the school?"

"AH, he said not at the main building! No one said anything about the E building," Blair pointed out. If Karma messed up the message or not was out of the question, as E building was a good mile away from the main building. It was impossible to say that she would get into trouble that far away from Gakuho. Regardless, Nagisa decided that it might not be the worst idea.

"Alright, alright. Just keep this between us, and you can come along," Nagisa finally decided. Aladdin had a better reason to come along than Blair did, that was for sure. He got his gear all set up, and on extent, Blair and Aladdin were ready as well. There was one little problem though that presented itself.

"Now, how do we get there without being seen? They'll know something's up if we just waltz past the main building," Blair wondered, scratching her head. Aladdin though had his solution already, especially when he began to hover off the ground. They got the idea, but Nagisa was NOT thrilled about it. ...

"Aladdin? I-I'm not sure this is such a good idea," Nagisa said.

"Don't worry," Aladdin insisted. Next came his other trick: he unraveled his turban, which grew and elongated into a large sheet, just big enough to fit he, Nagisa, and Blair on it. It hovered just off the ground, and Aladdin sat down comfortably on it.

"Ok, hop on," Aladdin offered.

"The things I have to do," Nagisa thought.

~~

Over at the school, classes had already gone underway, and the students already going through the motions. Since the midterm exams had been and done just yesterday, it had calmed down quite a bit. Good thing too. This downtime gave some students time to give their brains and stress some rest, before things would pick back up again. In one of the classrooms, Twilight and Pinkie both were enjoying an hour of basic study, the subject in question written out on the board, and the teacher catching up on her own work. Some students took this time to engage in some small talk, others time to study up what's written out, and Twilight was doing the latter. Pinkie, who was sitting right next to her, was using this time in her own activities: drawing pictures in her notebook. The left one showed Blair cutely eating a Magikarp fish, and the right one with Blair inside a little box.

"Hey, Yugure? What do you think looks more like Blair? This, or this?" Pinkie asked, showing two different pictures of Blair as her original cat form. both pictures look a bit childish really. When Pinkie was looking though, Twilight seemed preoccupied with her own thoughts. Not something a little poke can't fix.

"Huh? sorry Pinkie? I wasn't listening," Twilight said. Pinkie's response to that was the two pictures being shoved into Twilight's face.

"Which one better captures Blair?" Pinkie asked again. It was hard to see the pictures exactly with them so close to her face. It took her a little bit, but a finger did bring itself to the right picture. Pinkie looked completely excited about the decision, but her look quickly turned serious when looking at the other picture Twilight didn't pick. Glaring at it, she crumbled it in her hand ...

"You're unworthy," Pinkie said, equally serious.

"Geesh, calm down," Twilight managed to say, stunned at the sight of the over-reacted Pinkie Pie. She'd imagine anyone else a little bit freaked out if they were paying any attention to her.

After that little freak out, Twilight got back to her own mind, and looked outside the window. The view from her classroom was aimed off to the back of the school, a good view of the forest and mountains behind the main building. Looking off back there just reminded Twilight about those hellhounds she had faced some time earlier. The crazed barks, and slashing teeth still were clear in her mind, and with Nagisa not at school again, Twilight could only wonder if the kid was off getting attacked by a demon again, or something of the sort.

"Well maybe Nagisa is relaxing for once. He needs it after how much he went through," Twilight thought ...

~~

Farther away, the trio of spies were nearing their directed target. The flight through the skies on Aladdin flying carpet was not only a smooth ride, but one that kept attention off of them. They didn't pass the main building, at risk of unwanted attention from Nagisa's friends, and instead flew around to E from the scenic route. Longer, but less attention was drawn to them that way. Aladdin found a good secluded spot, just close enough to the E building, but not too far away. They place base at a small clearing, at the boarders of the E building property.

"Thank you for flying the Magi carpet," Aladdin said upon landing, as he, Blair, and Nagisa stepped off. Blair and Aladdin were alright, but Nagisa was just glad that he didn't fall off after all that time on a flimsy carpet.

"Thank god that's over," Nagisa thought. Aladdin worked the sheet back into his signature turban, as Blair already started to inspect the area, trying to see what was around ...

"One! Two! Three! Four!"

"What's that?" Aladdin asked.

"One way to find out," Nagisa concluded, moving quietly towards the sound. The three took a little bit to get to the source, but eventually Nagisa, Blair, and Aladdin reached the very edge of the forest, and the E building property. From their location, the building was rather far away to truly get a baring going, but it wasn't normal for a human school. Outside, they saw the E class outside, all lined up side by side to make a square. They all were synchronized in some sort of activity, but it was hard to make out. Nagisa pulled out his binoculars so he could get a better grip on the situation. On closer inspection, the sight left Nagisa speechless.

"Well, Nagisa? What's the deal?" Aladdin asked.

"Knives. They're using knives."

"What? Let me see," Blair insisted, grabbing the binoculars right from Nagisa. Sure enough, the kids were using knives in some sort of practice. Blair gave the binoculars to Nagisa.

"Why are they doing that? None of our classes practice weaponry before," Nagisa commented, troubled on the sight.

"Might explain Kirara's killer look earlier," Blair said, remembering the little event going through her mind.

"But, wait ... What kind of weapons are those? They look familiar ..." Aladdin asked, taking a look through the binoculars again. Blair then got an idea.

"I'm going in," Blair suddenly said, going straight out.

"You kidding me, Blair?"

"I'm a witch that can turn into a cat. Who would question a little innocent kitty like me?" Blair pointed out, racing off before the others could stop her. Nagisa and Aladdin, not having any disguise to help them out, had to stay back behind to let Blair scout ahead. Blair didn't need much time to walk right on close to the action, the E students all practicing the same sort of knife movements and techniques in an almost military fashion. Blair tried to get a view, but she couldn't see the marks too well since they were constantly moving. However, what caught her attention as well was who was overseeing them.

One of these did not look human at all. For starters, he stood at nine feet tall, clearly taller than many humans were usually. Instead of regular feet, the thing had eight tentacles that kept him standing tall, two extra long tentacles ending in two odd-looking fingers almost like those of a tree frog. The skin was yellow, smooth like rubber, and a ever slight reflection of the sun off his bald head. The head, speaking of which, was rather simplified: no ears, no nose, beefy eyes, and a VERY wide smile that stretched across his face. His outfit consisted of a black, full school uniform of his own design, including a tie with a crescent moon symbolized on it, red cloth down the middle, and blue stripes on each shoulder. The little hat on his head, which looked like a mini graduation cap, had three tiny horns on it that stuck out in a triangle. Took no genius to see this was no human, and he was not hiding it for the life of him! Blair kept herself quiet, taking on every detail of this strange creature standing casually, playing with a flower in his tentacle fingers.

Another person was standing right next to him, though he looked a LOT more normal. He was in the standard teacher's outfit, his hair a pitch black and spiked back, and his eyes shown a more serious expression on them.

"Ah, the sound of your favorite students at such hard work on such a fine day. It's just music to my ears," commented the creature.

"Listen, pal, I got this covered. There's no need for you to be here," the human teacher said.

"But what am I supposed to do?!"

"There's a sandbox: have a field day," responded the human, rather unchanged in tone. Suddenly the same creature was at the sandbox, already starting to build something in it, but he was not enjoying it at all with tears streaming down his face.

"You don't need to be so cold-hearted. They liked me better as their teacher anyhow," he said.

As for Blair, this could be useful information to slip back to Nagisa and Aladdin. Strange though: E class's teachers were made up of a human AND an entity? If demons were still hiding, this one didn't care to hide in the slightest from these students for some reason. She knew she had a little job to do, but she sat down and had to wait a bit. This was getting interesting.

"No offense teach, but when it comes to exercise, you ..." started one of the students.

"Set the bar kinda high. We're human beings, I think our gym coach should be too," finished another. During this small stop, Blair saw one of the tired students casually drop his blade to the ground. If Blair is to bring info back, now was her chance. She had to play her moves right though if she is to pull it off. As quietly as a cat can do, Blair began to creep over to the fallen blade, step by step, as everyone was seemingly distracted by the teacher up front.

"You're all going to need to work better on your reflexes here. Any chance you have against him are slim as it is. Here you are all training, and look," said the human teacher, referring to the demon nearby.

"He's had time to change clothes, make tea, AND build a sand castle of the Taj Mahal."

Which all that was true: this same creature now had a green outfit on, had some basil tea with him in a cup and small pot, and a VERY accurate representation of the Taj Mahal standing right next to him! Talk about saving time.

"That's it, come to mama," Blair thought, a paw finally getting a grab on the blade. This blade looked very odd, and oddly familiar as well, but she left that for Aladdin and Nagisa to study over. She snatched the blade in her teeth, and she sped away as fast as she could! No one seemed to notice her, which was what she hoped for, as she made her way straight back to the duo with the blade with her. She spat out the blade fast.

"Yuck, tastes gross," Blair complained, as Aladdin picked up the blade. The blade was a sea green, rubbery, and had some kanji symbols written out on it. Nagisa brought his own halo blade to compare it to the other. The results were surprisingly similar. Too similar.

"Another halo blade?!" Aladdin concluded. And indeed it was. The only difference between this blade, and Nagisa's blade was that it didn't have a specific name attached to it.

"You don't think ..." Nagisa trailed off when they all looked to the demon creature standing at the sandbox, sipping his tea. It was honestly the only way this could've got there in the first place. Nagisa was quick to put this down in his notes, along with the entity as a picture amongst them. This is surely good information, but Nagisa needed a bit more than this before returning to Gakuho with the news.

"So that's their teacher this year? No wonder the E class is acting so different. But ... what demon would happily teach human beings like this? ..."

He'll have to figure it out as they went along.

~~

Lunch time at the high school, and the gang was at it together this time. Pinkie and Twilight were having lunch together, and Karma himself was heading their way as well. Twilight had relaxed a bit over Nagisa after a while, convinced that he was actually giving himself a break from both demons, and of school. She figured it would be best for him anyway. Pinkie didn't even consider the idea herself, a bit too distracted in her own works of art. Karma was soon heading over to them with his own lunch.

"Hey babes, how's it going?" Karma asked casually.

"Hey K! Say, check this out!" Pinkie beamed, showing him the picture of Blair she showed Twilight earlier that day. Rather casual, Karma picked up the picture and looked it over.

"Not bad, but I can do you one better," Karma said. He too had been a little busy with his study hours, and he ended up with a drawing of his own ... which was a bikini babe Emi Isuzu! Pinkie's eyes boggled at the picture.

"INCREDABLE!" Pinkie exclaimed, though Twilight wished he didn't show that.

"Emi was impressed, I'll tell ya that much," Karma said. He could still, even now, sense Emi Isuzu staring daggers at him from a few tables away. Karma put his picture away, and took his seat.

"Say, I wonder what Gakuho has Nagisa up to," Karma wondered aloud.

"Didn't Nagisa tell us yesterday? He said he got suspended," Twilight replied, Pinkie nodding in agreement.

"You two don't know Gakuho: he's too sadistic to just give out a simple suspension," Karma pointed out. Pinkie and Twilight, being students of Canterlot High before coming here, really weren't sure what he was getting at.

"That sounds pretty bad to me," said Pinkie. Karma smirked.

"Oh really? Well Gakuho treats his own son like nothing more than property than any human being, and I even heard a rumor that he drove three kids to gamble their lives away just for bullying a student of his."

"WHA?! Gamble their lives away?" Twilight gasped, though she was thinking a different kind of gamble. Lucky, Karma corrected himself.

"You know, like slot machines, and card games at casinos. He made them gamble their lives, and they lost what they have."

"Oh ... that's still harsh."

"Yeah, no shit," agreed Karma. If he were to say so himself, he did find that VERY clever, if not sadistic.

"Then what did he give Nagisa, if not a suspension? He still didn't show up today," Twilight wondered.

"Don't worry, I already know where he's at. See you guys later," Karma said. By the time he said this, his lunch was already done anyway, so he got his lunch thrown away.

"OOOO! Where're you going?" Pinkie asked, curious and interested.

"Checking in on our friend," Karma simply said, before walking on out of the cafeteria. This risked his school time, but Karma found it boring around the main building anyway, so if he is to do anything he might as well check in. So, he left, leaving Pinkie and Twilight to watch and wonder what Nagisa was really up to.

~~

The hours ticked by, and back with Nagisa, the spying mission had kinda slowed down. The notes he did managed to make up were a bit arbitrary in details, but he had rather limited options. Blair and her scouting added more information to the task at hand, but again, there was only so much they could get from just spying and eavesdropping. At least the day wasn't all that bad, and the weather was still fair for the task to continue. At this point, though, it seemed that everyone was gone. The students and teachers were no longer much in evidence (outside at least), and the trio hadn't seen any sort of activity from any of E class since training stopped. Nagisa still had the binoculars on and seeing the situation, as Aladdin and Blair were just relaxing nearby.

"Looks like they're gone," Nagisa stated, not seeing anyone around.

"THIS IS SO BORING! How about some playtime?" Blair asked, in her human form, and cradling her boobs. Nagisa tried to ignore her, but Aladdin looked ready to do some groping with a smile on his face. Just before he could though ...

"Wait," Nagisa said. Nagisa was quick to grab Aladdin by the ponytail again, keeping him back, and getting his attention. The three looked out of the bushes again, seeing someone step out of the school building. Turned out, it was the yellow demon teacher, just opening the door. Nagisa watched him step out, turn back to the classroom and ...

Gone.

In the blink of an eye, and a puff of dust cloud, the creature had disappeared instantly! Nagisa and company tried to find out where he raced off to, but they couldn't find hide nor hair of it anywhere.

"W-What the hell?!" Nagisa gasped.

"Where'd he go?" Aladdin added. The only clue they had to this noise was the dust cloud by the door, but that's about it. Nagisa took this moment to write it down in his notes, concerning the creature's speed mainly. Anything that can just disappear like that is worth jotting down.

"Ok. So E class is practicing knife weaponry, and they have two teachers, one of which looks like some yellow octopus. It still doesn't explain how the E class is putting themselves ahead of the main building," Nagisa monologued. All of his notes didn't have any clues on the learning process of these students just yet, which was what Gakuho sent him out to do in the first place. He'll just be put into even more trouble if he came back with half the work done. ...

There was one place that got him interested though, and with the demon teacher up and away, they could actually get this done faster and with less risk.

"Hey, now with Octo-teacher gone, let's get a closer look," Blair suggested. Nagisa's thoughts exactly.

With the yard clear, and everyone inside, Nagisa, Blair, and Aladdin moved out of their post for the first time all day. Blair had it easier compared to the other two because of her cat form, but the trio were mainly in the clear for now. They ran right across the yard, and in little time, found themselves hidden just under the E building window. Here they can actually hear what's going on inside, so long as nobody sees them. Nagisa had his notes at the ready, trying to eavesdrop. Yet, they didn't seem to hear much of anything that would help.

"Blair, you scope it out," Nagisa whispered. Blair nodded, and gently peeked on just inside from the window. It was just enough so she could see, and what she did see was the various E students in the middle of study hour. Many of them chit-chatted with one another though, but she did see GIANT books in front of them on each desk. These had so many pages - which was as tall as she was - they might as well be stacks of paper rather than any dictionary. None of them really noticed her peeking in, but Blair made this scoping quick just in case.

"Well, Blair?"

"Looks like they got some big ass books in there. They're as big as me," informed Blair, not exaggerating on the size. Nagisa jotted it down rather quickly, but as they were, they both began to hear the back door open again!

"Crud. Quick, hide," Nagisa said, hushed and rushed, as the three scrambled away. Looks like someone did spot Blair after all, and it happened to be the other teacher in question. He stood outside for a while more, examining his surroundings, and eventually he just went back inside ...

"... Let's try a different spot," Aladdin quietly suggested. The three needed no argument there, and began to loop around the other way. Sure it was longer, but at least it kept out of sight from any others in class. Soon, they were over around the building, and found themselves over by the school's outside shed.

"That was a close one. We need to be more careful," Nagisa noted. As he said this, Aladdin looked over at the shed, and saw that the door was slightly open ... with a halo blade sitting just inside. A quick nudge from the Magi got the others to see, and see into it. As expected, Nagisa then went on to open up the shed to investigate. Light inside was rather limited, and it looked rather worn away much like the E building itself. They saw the typical items inside for gym class; sport balls, gym outfits, and of the sort. But they were quick to find another box hidden inside: a box full of halo blades! There was no shortage of them either, as Nagisa and Blair went to investigate.

"Damn! These E students are locked and loaded," Blair commented.

"Yes. But how'd they get all these?"

"G-Guys?" Aladdin suddenly said. His eyes were locked in a particular direction, and the group quickly saw just as well what he was seeing. Over off in the corner was another box, a bit bigger than the one of halo blades, but inside the boxes? ...

"What the hell? Guns? Here?" Nagisa wondered.

Yes. Not only did E have knives, but they had guns packed away as well. The types of guns varied, from small hand pistols, to large sniper rifles. As if teaching these E students knife weaponry wasn't scary enough, not they also got archery ala bullets under their belts! Nagisa was the only one who actually walked close to the weapons, actually picking up a sniper rifle. Unlike the blades, these guns didn't look very different from any normal gun. Not that that didn't freak them out anyway. Nagisa checked in and out, and at one point opened the rifle's holder. Then Nagisa found that there wasn't any actually caliber bullets in this thing, but instead these tiny, pink beeds with tiny kanji on them. They felt soft to the touch, smooth, and no resemblance to any bullet in shape.

"What kind of bullets are these?" Nagisa wondered.

"They're Anti-me beeds, boys and girls, customized by yours truly! Though if you're curious over what I do, and what my class learns, all you had to do is asked. There's no harm in asking for permission."

Crud. Nagisa, Aladdin, and Blair turned around, and sure enough someone was right in front of them. More so, it was the demon teacher that was suddenly standing there, holding a little shopping bag from a trip to Vietnam (it seemed so by the writing on the bag). Time seemed to had stopped ...

"AAAAHH!"

All three of them suddenly stumbled back, going right outside, and accidentally hitting the other building, as the demon teacher faced them with the same smile. The loud thud was sure to catch someone else's attention. The teacher moved towards them, but Aladdin was ready for him, and aimed his staff at him.

"Stay back, demon!" Aladdin warned. He wasn't going to slip up this time, and whatever this demon was going to do, it'll have to go through him first. However, suddenly the demon teacher had the staff in his tentacle. In his hand was his golden flute, surprising all three of them. This happened in a literal second.

"Now, now, let's not be to hasty. Not like you have a chance anyway.~" he said, a sort of sing-along tune to his last statement, and his face suddenly having green stripes on his face.

"That's mine, give it back!" Aladdin insisted, trying to get his staff back. Aladdin was quick to grab it out of the octopus's grip, but now they were caught and in the open of whoever else was there.

"W-We gotta head back. Blair, Aladdin, time to go," Nagisa firmly ordered, grabbing Aladdin by the arm and doing the only thing logical left to do: run for it. They got the info they needed, and they had to get themselves moving. However, Nagisa barely got about five feet before he ran into the same demon, his face fully yellow this time. Nagisa turned back, not seeing the demon standing at the shed anymore.

"What the? How'd you do that?!"

"Just a little something called Mach-20. Come in handy in a pinch," the demon said cheekily.

"Mach-20?! So that's how he got that Vietnam bag so fast," Nagisa thought ...

"What's going on out here?" Another voice asked, revealing to be the other teacher. Aladdin and Blair got together with Nagisa, as he stood there, arms crossed.

"Oh, Mr. Karasuma, no trouble out here. I just allowed these three to do some field notes on me, no big deal."

"WHAT? You knew? Why didn't you do anything?" Aladdin asked.

"Why should I stop such good observation? It isn't fun to spy if your target if they know you're watching them, right?"

... They didn't know how to respond to that.

Karasuma though was quick to confront them, seeing Nagisa and his equipment especially. The witch and the Magi was odd to see, but his biggest concern was over what Nagisa had written down. Nagisa took a step back when Karasuma went to him.

"I'll be taking that," Karasuma said sternly, hand out and ready. Aladdin stiff in between him and Nagisa in case of an attack.

"That won't be needed, Aladdin," Nagisa quickly said, not wanting a bigger confrontation than they already got going for them. Blair though had different plans, and nudged Nagisa, winking to him. The smart kid shivered on the implication.

"God damnit, Blair no, please," Nagisa thought. Blair however walked right in between Nagisa and Karasuma. Karasuma and the demon teacher weren't sure what was going to happen, but soon as that purple magic cloud poofed up, Nagisa's worries were confirmed. He and Aladdin moved further away, and when the cloud cleared, Blair was not only in human form, but she made sure her outfit showed the goods: skin tight, leather straps that just cover her private parts, and boobs, Blair herself flaunting the goods.

"EEEHHHH?!?!" The demon teacher screeched, Karasuma himself stunned more than most. The demon teacher's head turned from yellow to pink, blushed up, and eyes locked on Blair's fun bags.

"Come on, boys.~ No need to get in a tizzy over that little guy, right?~" Blair cooed, making sure to flaunt her body as much as she could. While it seemed to work on the demon, as for Karasuma ...

"MOVE."

Suddenly, Karasuma's hand gripped the side of Blair's head, and Blair was pushed aside with one strong shove. Blair wasn't hurt, but still ticked off.

"HEY!" Blair snapped, jumping to her feet fast. Nagisa and Aladdin were left now, but before Karasuma could get to the notes, the demon teacher suddenly was in the way again, blocking Karasuma.

"Now Karasuma, no need to stop the boy's search for knowledge," the demon teacher advised, protecting Nagisa from trouble. Karasuma crossed his arms.

"You do know that you're supposed to be under wraps, right?"

"We can trust these three to not blabber on about anything, right students?"

This felt a bit off for Nagisa and Aladdin. This was a demon they were talking to, but he was acting very friendly and understanding to them.

"Eh ... yeah, alright," Aladdin finally said. Karasuma sighed, and turned away.

"Just get yourself back to class before anyone else sees you," Karasuma finished, walking back to the E building. After he was gone, the demon teacher turned to the other kids.

"So, I hope your day spying on me was fun. Bet you need to head back soon, eh?" he figured.

"I ... guess so. Thanks, uh ..."

"The name's Korosensei: the best and fastest teacher in the human world! See you found your very own little demon-hunting knife yourself," noted the teacher, referring to Nagisa's halo blade. How he saw that was unclear, but Nagisa at least got some identification on this demon.

"You're rather ... friendly, for a demon," said Aladdin, equally confused, but happy about it. Korosensei chuckled his signature laugh, which sounded oddly familiar to Nagisa.

"This little demon king is trying some new things."

"D-DEMON KING?!" they all gasped. They know a demon king, and they would never had guessed that this octopus would be THAT kind of demon.

"Right you are. It got boring down in hell, so ol Korosensei is making tracks, and doing tricks here in your world."

"... Excuse us for a moment," Nagisa said, moving he, Aladdin, and Blair away about a foot or so from Korosensei. The demon octopus was enough of a surprise, but the fact this was a demon KING made the situation even more astonishing.

"Aladdin, what do you think about this? If what he says is true ..." Nagisa whispered.

"I don't know. He isn't acting like a demon king to me, and he seems friendly enough," Aladdin whispered back.

"And yet, he's teaching assassination to the E students. He doesn't seem so dangerous though ... Oh, what should we do? I mean, should we leave him alone, or what?"

"My guess is as good at yours. However, demons can be goddamn tricky," Blair quietly pointed out.

"True. But why is he teaching kids to assassinate with blessed weapons? ..."

This was confusing for them. Nagisa had faced off with a demonic Jizo statue, and a pack of Hellhounds, both of which wanted his head on a silver platter. Both of those didn't have the King status like Korosensei apparently did, and if Korosensei is indeed a king level demon, then they had to figure out how to handle him before anyone could get killed by him.

"You three have lots of fancy questions about me. As a teacher, I'll be more than happy to answer," Korosensei suddenly said, right behind Aladdin, leaning over him.

"You will?" Nagisa asked.

"As a teacher, it is my soul duty to educate and teach the younger generation whatever questions they have in mind. Go on, give it to me!" Korosensei insisted. Nagisa decided to take this opportunity, taking out his notes and readied to listen to this demon king. Whatever info Korosensei had, it's coming home with him.

"Alright, I got plenty of questions. Ready?" Nagisa asked.

"Give it to me, little reporter," Korosensei chimed in, confident as ever.

.......

"So that's the little game Gakuho has you playing, eh Nagisa?"

~~

With time now drawing to the end of school, Nagisa, with his information in hand, started to head off to Gakuho. He just simply hoped that Gakuho would be in a better mood by the time he gets there. Any day long work would stress someone out at some level, and he just hoped it would be too bad. Still, he was glad most of his human friends weren't aware of what he was doing, even with Aladdin and Blair apart of it, and yet he still had questions about Korosensei: what was he? What was he doing? And furthermore, why is he doing this? He got a number of notes from Korosensei himself, about five pages worth, but it still was a bit arbitrary. Gakuho wanted to know what's going on at E class, and be that as it may, Nagisa got it. If Gakuho won't believe him, then he's in big trouble. During his walk to the office, Nagisa felt his nerves go astray, despite his efforts to relax.

"Come on, buck up Nagisa. Just go in, give him the info, and you can go back to your normal life," Nagisa thought in assurance ...

So, almost before he realized it, Nagisa found himself standing at Gakuho's door, and he gave a gentle knock onto it. It took a little bit, but eventually that same man opened the door for him, and invited him inside with a silent nod. He would never guessed he would pop back here so soon, but Gakuho was alright with it.

"Shiota. What had you gathered?" Gakuho asked, more business-like in both tone and expression. Nagisa stayed quiet, as he pulled out the notebook, and gave it to Gakuho, who almost immediately began to look it over. Each second that the silence went on was torture for the student, Gakuho silently looking over each note Nagisa wrote down. He stayed at the assassination parts for a good while, taking in the information for a bit more ...

"... So. This is what you indeed saw. ..."

"Yes, sir," Nagisa simply said, gaze down in submission. Gakuho looked at the information about the types of weapons uncovered, and the training session saw as well. What Nagisa grew more worried over was when Gakuho began to look at the pages regarding Korosensei. Assassination lessons may be out of the ordinary, but at least they were more plausible than a demon king roaming the E building. The silence during that moment was unforgiving. ...

"... I thought I made it clear that this would be between us, Shiota."

"But it is, sir."

"Don't lie to me," Gakuho revealed. Nagisa wondered how he figured that out, until Gakuho turned the notebook over to him. The page was actually blank, apart from one small message that was left by one particular person ...

Cute spy. We should meet again sometime.
K.

"GOD DAMNIT," Nagisa thought. Gakuho stood up, towering over Nagisa. Gakuho felt disappointed in Nagisa, and it showed on his face.

"You do understand that, for this school to be successful, that E class needs to remain where it is. We can't have them rising up this way, can we? ..." Gakuho cleared to him. The persuasive tone was enough to make the humble Nagisa Shiota nod in agreement. Gakuho kept his notes at his desk, and looked Nagisa right in the eyes.

"Had anyone else so happen to notice you during your investigation?" Gakuho asked, making sure each word sank in to Nagisa without being missed. Nagisa thought back with Blair and Aladdin, not to mention Karasuma. Two of them were even helping him with the investigation, nevermind just knowing about it. He caved into Gakuho already once ...

"... No. No, I don't think so," Nagisa finally said. This wasn't entirely true, but he didn't want any of his friends to take the fall with him. However, Gakuho wasn't too convinced.

"... Are you quite sure about that?" Gakuho asked, leaning in a little bit. Nagisa remained calm, but tension was rough to deal with in this situation.

"Yes, sir."

Gakuho stayed silent for another minute, eyes locked onto Nagisa to see what sort of hint Nagisa would give off. Whenever someone would lie, there was usually ONE reaction from the liar to make that proves they're lying. However, Nagisa's usual quiet behavior made that a little harder to do ...

In the end, much to Nagisa's relief, Gakuho sat down back at his desk, and placed the notes in his desk drawer. After a while, he then pulled out something else to show Nagisa, setting it down on the desk, and pushing it gently over to him. Looking, it was actually the work Nagisa had missed for the day, along with an extra slip, this giving him a sort of warning ...

"I expect you to be a little more careful, next time."

"Next time? ..."

"Perhaps we both are a little curious about things going on over there. And perhaps -"

"Hold it, chief," a voice suddenly cut in. Gakuho and Nagisa both were quick to turn around to the door, and sure enough, there stood their answer. All of a sudden, surprising Nagisa at least, Karma was actually there, leaning against the side of the door, arms crossed as well. Not the person Nagisa would expect to show up in a situation like this.

"Akabane," Gakuho simply said, as Karma invited himself in.

"Karma, what're you doing here?" Nagisa quickly, and quietly asked, as Karma stopped right next to him.

"Deciding to place in for this spying game," Karma straight up said. Yes, he did see what Nagisa, Blair, and Aladdin gotten themselves into earlier, and he decided to do a little something about it after it was over. Gakuho looked sternly at him.

"So someone else did see you, Nagisa."

"N-No. I mean, I didn't know sir, honestly," Nagisa insisted, only for Karma to step forward.

"Yeah, he didn't see me, and neither did that Korosensei demon octopus. So why don't you have me for a while instead of this sweet face," Karma offered, patting Nagisa on the head. Gakuho was, of course, suspicious over this.

"If I wanted you, I'd call you," Gakuho simply said.

"Come on, we both know you've wanted me dumped into dead end E, why miss the chance?" Karma pointed out. Gakuho knew that was true. Karma may be a smart kid, but his rebellious behavior was always something for Gakuho to get ticked about, yet Karma managed to avoid it due to his high grades and good work in the school. Nagisa was surprised to see Karma even doing this.

"Karma ..."

"You're willing to drop your status?"

"What, you'd rather have a rebel like me running around here, than about a mile away?"

Gakuho was quiet, and thought it over for a while. Nagisa thought that he and Karma were going to get into trouble at this point. However, Gakuho then wrote down something on a spare attention slip, and then gave it to Karma, who smirked on seeing it. Nagisa couldn't believe it.

"You'll start there next week. Now, you both can go," Gakuho finished. Karma, feeling like he won (ironic enough), went right on out alongside Nagisa. Gakuho went on back to his own work, both in the school, and looking over Nagisa's notes. It was probably for the best if Karma went there instead of Nagisa, since E saw him in the first place. Aside from that, Karma might fit in better.

"Why'd you do that, Karma?" Nagisa asked, soon as they were down the hall. Karm stretched, putting his hands behind his back.

"First, I've been wanting to catch a break from this damn school. And I wanna check this guy out myself. Sounds like one hell of a teacher to mess around with."

"Did you really have to make that joke?" Nagisa thought.

"Besides," continued Karma, "I just gotta get those test grades up and I'm back to the main building."

Well, Nagisa couldn't really argue with Karma there. Regardless of the case, he was just glad that they weren't in as bad of trouble as he thought they would be. Nagisa didn't have to be the principal's spy now, and as for Karma, he'll be getting some free time during his stay at E class ...

The deal was set, can't change it now.