Crossover Together ~クロスオーバ 一緒に~

While many students at Orora high saw the day as normal, for Karma, this was a new day for him. He took the scenic route on his way towards the E building, where he would basically be stuck in until further notice. Not exactly orthodox for a normal student, but Karma was happy with it all the same. A break from the hustle and bustle of the main building to do his own thing sure felt rather swell for him. That, and anyone with a Mach-20 speed record, and twelve tentacles, must be one hell of a teacher. He had a lone walk to E, through the mountain trail with only his thoughts, and with some tiny notes he had with him, the notes that Nagisa wrote, and what Gakuho lend him upon Karasuma's request. These notes were small, and gave the basics on Korosensei and how to deal with him, which was something he probably needed. To bad he didn't have any personal weapon on him like Nagisa did, otherwise he'd be all set.

"Well, day one of life as an E student. This should be fun," thought Karma.

Pretty soon, he had reached the familiar clearing, and saw the familiar building of E class students. The main difference between his usual visits was that class was actually in session this time over just sitting around, being empty for his group's personal playground. Karma saw a few students already heading inside, so he knew he was at average time. It didn't bug him either way.

"Guess it's show time," Karma commented, just before walking right up to the front door. The interior of the building was just as tacky as the exterior. The walls wooden and worn out as the floor, in the classroom itself, it mirrored that of the main building, only less modern. Desks were lined up the same way, and Windows aimed out to the open field. One thing it did have over the main building was a door leading outside right in the classroom. Karma saw that no other students were in class just yet, so the cheeky red head decided to take a seat for himself. Normally a front row seat is mainly picked, but Karma Akabane decided to try a different spot, more to the back rather than the front. He got himself comfortable in his seat, which was right in the back, as more of the students began to come in. When they saw him, since Karma was a new student anyway, curiosity was risen up rather quickly.

"Karma's here now?" One of the students asked.

"Why him of all kids?" Wondered another.

"Gakuho must've finally got him," figured another.

They've heard of Karma for a while, but they were still surprised to see the devil kid sitting comfortably in the seat. And the more kids come in to take their seats, the more looks were thrown his way. Karma didn't mind it, and kept his cool as they took their seats. Karma had his bag of tricks, but he was saving them for the big score, and he wasn't gonna jump on small fry like this. One thing Karma did see was the multiple weapons just blatantly brought in. In particular, the amount of guns. Sniper rifles and handguns were the common sight this morning, and Karma could already tell how crazy this was gonna be.

"Going all out this morning, huh? They think that Mach-20 demon will stand still for them. Fat chance," Karma thought with a smirk. It clearly showed too. Many of the students, rather than sitting straight away, were actually up in arms as the big demon man himself strolled in. Korosensei took his position at the front, facing the armed students, who all aimed directly at him. Not very sneaky.

"Good morning class. Now, let's see if we're all here shall we?" Korosensei chimed.

...

"FIRE!"

Then the hellfire started. Next thing Karma knew, the entire room was filled with the sound of gunshots, gun smoke, and anti-Korosensei beeds hitting the chalkboard. As for Korosensei, all he did was jump about side to side, at such a speed he looked like a glitch hologram! Not a single beed was touching him, and Karma was feeling glad to be sitting comfy in the back and watching the fireworks. Karma had his own little idea, but rather than bolt in, the kid just laid back and waited it out.

"Nabiku Hazukashi."

"Here."

"Tomohito Sugino."

"Here!"

"Rio Nakamura."

"Here!"

(One roll call later ...)

"Looks like everyone's here, congratulations!"

AND after all that, not a single gun shot was landed on Korosensei's body. Beeds laid in heaps all over the floor, and it left many of the students angry and disappointed. After everything had calmed down, only then did Karma raised his hand.

"Hey teach, you forgot someone," Karma announced, Korosensei realizing his mistake.

"Wha?! Oh, so sorry, so sorry! Oh, uh, everyone, may I introduce our newest member of our E class family," Korosensei said, recovering. Karma got up, and began to casually walk to the front, one of his hands hidden in his pocket. Some of the students looked and saw that Karma looked rather confident with his approach.

"Welcome, Karma Akabane."

"Thanks a heap, teach. Let's make this one a exciting year, what do ya say?" Karma said, only then removing his hand out of his pocket. They thought he had a concealed weapon, but instead it was bare, and out for a handshake. Korosensei was pleased with this kid.

"Oh, so formal," Korosensei said with a giggle. Karma kept his hand out, and Korosensei's tentacle made contact. And one, single touch was all it took.

Korosensei's hand exploded!

That's right. Not burned away, not disintegrated, but flat out exploded into a yellow gooey mess in Karma's hand. That got everyone's attention, as Korosensei bolted away to get some distance. Karma looked to his hand, and while he didn't expect the octopus to explode in reaction, it still was more progress than the gunslingers a few minutes ago. It was then that Karma revealed his surprise: cut out shreds of the same material from the halo blades in the gym shed, all placed on his hand in such a way that they could barely see it at glance.

"Looks like these blades work better than I thought. Fall for a simple trick like that, and you'll be down in no time, teach," Karma advised. It was then he addressed the rest of the class.

"Here's a tip for the rest of you: when trying to kill a demon, don't make it so obvious," Karma said, as he went straight back to his desk. He could feel a mix of amazement, and a bit of pissy glares thrown the cocky kid's way, as Korosensei slipped passed Karma, and back to the front. Karma sat right back down, whipping off some of the goop on his hand, and taking off the shreds. The same trick won't work twice on this demon, he could tell. Karma looked to the front, seeing Korosensei starting up the lesson, and suddenly regrowing the hand.

"Today's gonna be good."

~~

Life outside of the school was also shifting its gears a bit. With the sun brightly shining down for mid day, it seemed that it was all well. Flying along through the air, a young Starly fluttered on around through the nearby forest, rushing through the trees with expertise. The tiny bird landed down up on a tree branch, cleaning out its feathers for a while. Not much to worry over, and not much other animals around to bother it at first. After another quick clean, it took off again, landing in another nearby branch, by the forest's edge. While it tweeted a little, this tree was currently in use by another figure, and it was trying to chill out under the same tree. The Starly didn't seem to notice the figure just underneath it, and the figure showed no interest either. This figure was the same humanoid that had saw the group earlier, and the one who took away the dead Houndour. It stood right by the tree, leaning against it as it looked on towards the E building. His finger tapped the tree for a while, waiting for something to apparently happen. ...

"Well, only one of those bastards are here now. K, Envy, let's check in on those apes," he thought. After a bit, Envy then noticed the Starly up in the tree, and as the Starly was still cleaning its feathers, a strange, almost electrical sound spooked it away. After a short while, another, identical Starly flew out from the forest, and towards the E building. The little bird peeked into the windows as the lessons went on, none of them paying much attention to the tiny bird as it was looking through. Class had gone well underway by this point, with Korosensei going over the lessons on the board.

"Now class, this question may seem vicious, but don't let its sharp fangs frighten you - I have a sure fire method for taming it. See if you get the gist, as I write it out on the board."

Inside, Karma was still willing to give this assassin's practice a try. He did a decent job earlier this morning, so his own confidence was a bit high on doing him in. What other chance would he have to do such a thing anyway? To take out frustrations on the teacher ala handgun and not get sent off to jail?

"His back's to the rest of the class. If E wants him dead this badly, then this shouldn't take long," Karma thought, as he reached into his coat, and slipped out a loaded firearm. With confidence high, and weapon at the ready, he stood right up, and aimed his gun directly to the back of Korosensei's head. He was just about to pull the trigger when ...

"Karma. It takes an anti-me beed way too long to hit its mark."

All of a sudden, the gun was out of his hand, and now dangling on Korosensei's tentacle. Once more, his fingernails were, for a lack of a better word, colored.

"I had time on my hands. hope you don't mind me purifying yours," Korosensei slyly joked, as more tentacles showed a number of beauty produces, including an assortment of nail polish. Not the best showing, but he still showed a good smile. Good thing for him, he had a plan B up his sleeve in case this didn't work, as he sat back down. Not exactly a pure killer trick, but still one to mess around with him.

"No worries, teach, I already finished my work. I'll just eat this gelato if that's ok," Karma said, this time pulling out a gelato ice cream he had in his other hand, which he wasn't trying to hide very well.

"Not so fast! no eating in class - huh?" Korosensei instructed. However, when he looked at said gelato ...

"HEY! THAT'S THE GELATO I BOUGHT FROM ITALY YESTERDAY!" Korosensei shrieked, as Karma gleefully licked what was once his gelato. Time between classes sure gave him time to look around, and when he saw the treat in the teacher's lounge, he couldn't resist. Korosensei was peeved to see his treat being eaten by this new student, and he knew as well this was just the start of things.

and so did the bird outside.

.......

"Uhuh, looking good everyone."

Upon next hour, culinary as it turned out, everyone was busy cooking things up. Different students working on the same basic item of choice, which in this case was a simple task of cooking up ramen. Korosensei, dressed as a 5-star chef, observed everyones progress as he went through, looking each dish over with anticipation. Eventually, he got to Karma again, who made a suspiciously small dish, looking like vanilla ice cream from scratch.

"Karma, is that all?" Korosensei asked.

"Oh this little thing? just a personal gift to you, teach, to make up for that gelato. Go on, have a bite," Karma insisted, holding the plate to Korosensei. Nearby, a few other students stopped briefly to observe and see what'll happen, as Korosensei happily took the treat, and gobbled it in one bite. ...

"Thank you, Karma, a fine -"

Korosensei took a sniff in the air, smelling smoke.

"Huh? Someone's dish burning? Wait."

He stuck his tongue out, seeing it burning up - literally.

"Oh. It's my tongue. K then. AAAAAHHHH!"

Korosensei started running around in a panic for a few seconds, being Mach-20 making that looking like teleporting, until Korosensei disappeared popped up towards one of the sinks in the room, pouring cool water down his gullet, to the point when water was pouring out the sides of his mouth. Some call it gross, Karma called it hilarious.

"That's it teach. Keep at it. I got a big welcome waiting for you ..." Karma thought with a smile.

and boy, did he have one planned, but that was for later ...

~~

Pretty soon, it was lunch time. The buzz from Karma's games had really spiced things up for Korosensei, and the octopus wasn't anywhere to be found. Karma will have to wait for his little doozy later whenever Korosensei would come back, but for now he had his own pallet to quench. With bento on his lap, Karma found a good spot to sit just outside the E building, looking out to the field. A nice scenic view for a lunch break. The other E students were eating inside, and Karma just stayed outside for his lunch break, even if the others were talking about him (which Karma knew they were after the stunts he pulled).

"Well, Karma, this future sure looks like a blast. If I knew it'd be this enjoyable, I would've transferred to E months ago," Karma thought. As he snack on the fish, rice, and dessert, his mind began to think about his other friends at the main building, and his magic buddies off at home. He hadn't seen them at all today, though he's sure they were chatting up a storm about what he might be up to. As he was sitting there, someone else started to step outside to check Karma out. Fancy enough, this student was a female. Her outfit matched school attire well, and with her blonde hair and blue eyes, had that typical purity appearance.

"Oh, hey there. Nakamura, right?" Karma asked upon seeing her.

"You got it. You sure went all out on teach today," she commented, though more impressed than surprised. Karma stretched, bringing his arms to the back of his head.

"It's fun to make a good impression," Karma joked. Nakamura casually smiled, in a sort of smug way, as she rested her head on her hand.

"Call that a good impression, I wonder what your best impression is all about." Nakamura wondered. Karma couldn't help but smirk at her comment. Only meeting her for a few hours, and he's liking her already. Still, she'll see what THAT'S all about soon enough.

"You know, E class is pretty flashy this year, huh? Don't recall it being this exciting," Karma commented.

"Yeah, it was boring for a while. That is, til Korosensei popped in through our door."

"Oh really?"

"Really. Karasuma went on and got all of us learning assassination right away. There's one person who doesn't waste any time."

"Speaking of which, where is Karasuma? Haven't seen that teach all morning, and Korosensei ditched us too."

"Eh, Karasuma's probably trying to plan another kill on that octopus. As for Korosensei, he mentioned something about checking out New Zealand for some lunch time surfing," Nakamura figured. Karma could imagine Korosensei hanging ten on a passing wave by that coast, and that's possibly what he's doing. As they were sitting there, Nakamura and Karma began to hear some of the other students inside chatting things up. Karma hadn't had much time to get to know, and Nakamura could be just the gal to help him out with it. He first noticed a number of students hanging out together on a sort of group, made up of three boys and one girl.

"Hey, why not fill me in on some of your classmates. What're they about to start?" Karma asked, looking in through the window. Nakamura decided to answer.

"Those are Terasaka, Kirara, Yoshida, and Takuya. They're the E class's gang. I don't think I call a day when they're not together unless one of them is sick," Nakamura explained. Karma looked over each one of them. They all looked rather average appearance wise; Terasaka being a bit bulky with short, spikey brown hair with blonde sides; Takuya being a basic blonde with dots for pupils; Yoshida with bands of brown hair, but that was about it; and Kirara (while a bit gothic) had simple messy black hair. Far as Karma knew, there was nothing interesting with them for the most part aside from potential joke targets. His eyes looked around a bit more, and soon his eyes sighted another girl nearby - a pink-haired girl eating quietly by herself. As if reading his mind, Nakamura gave him the info on her.

"That's Nabiku. she's one of the Canterlot high students that came in this year. Not really chatty though. In fact, she didn't say a word since stepping into E class," Nakamura informed.

"A bit frail to be an assassin."

"She keeps trying to get out of it when she can."

"I see."

Karma looked to the shy girl for a bit more, before he turned back around, and sat down again. Karma Continued his meal, now with some knowledge about the other kids in the E class. There were others, but he had plenty of time to get to know them later.

"Colorful class," Karma commented.

"Yeah, not many of the main building sees that. Speaking of which, I have to ask: how'd Gakuho finally get you in here?" Nakamura asked, genuinely curious about it.

"One of my friends over at the main building was gonna get kicked out, so I took his place instead," Karma said.

"Wait, you chose to come here?"

"Believe me, Gakuho couldn't dump my ass here on his own terms if he tried. Besides, it won't be long until I get myself back in there anyway," Karma said, confident he'll be back in there by the second semester of school, no problem at all. Nakamura saw his cocky confidence and, while funny to see, made him look a little naïve about it. Nakamura doubted he'd get himself back so soon, but she didn't say it aloud.

"You're the first to do that, you know that right?"

"I know I am. That aside, got the time?" Karma asked. Nakamura glanced inside at the clock.

"You got about fifteen minutes. How come?"

"Good. Let's just say you're going to see my best impression."

And unbeknownst to them both, the tiny bird listened to everything they said ...

.......

Eventually, lunch was over and done. Everything seemed alright and ordinary, with the students all in their desks by the time Korosensei had arrived back. Karma felt ready for that octopus to show up, having a halo blade he grabbed from the shed at the ready. After a bit, Korosensei slipped in to the room. However, when he did, the students all looked a little ... quiet.

"Why the long faces? Is something -"

He was stopped cold the second he turned to the front desk. On it, for everyone to see, was a dead octopus stabbed by a kitchen steak knife! And who spoke up after Korosensei saw that? ...

"Oops, my bad. I stabbed it thinking it was you, so, I suppose I should get rid of it?" Karma asked, his expression unchanged from his cheeky smile. Korosensei picked up the octopus off the desk, removing the knife.

"Yes, you should," Korosensei replied dryly. The demon octopus moved on towards the back of the room, Karma awaiting him to get close with his knife hidden just behind his back, waiting for the right moment. One quick strike during his humbled state, and that'll be that. The others watched the event unfold in silence, waiting to see what'll happen. Soon, Korosensei was about a foot away from the killer strike. Just a little closer. Korosensei though had other plans: his tentacle tips suddenly morphed into drill ends, and the octopus made a quick exit, returning with a large, live air missile!

"Watch and learn, Karma me boy, to the ability of these tentacles, and the power of this missile courtesy of the Japanese Air Force!" Korosensei announced, fire shooting out the end of it. As rare as it sounded, Karma was actually humbled by Korosensei's act. With speed and dexterity, Korosensei chopped, cooked, and prepped the octopus into a delicious looking octopus meal, which Korosensei was happy to feed part of it to Karma. Karma was quick to spit it out though, as Korosensei spoke up again.

"Perhaps there's some things I should mention. If you believe I'm going to let the new kid take my life, then there's no real reason for me to be here. And you see, Karma, I'm a giver. I take care of things: eager students, would-be assassins, troubled teens. Every act is just another moment for me to play my part, so by all means, keep at it."

Is ... is this demon encouraging his killing behavior? That may be a teacher's proper move, but these are attempts to kill him! Karma tried to keep his smile, but he was feeling frustrated about the whole thing. He already killed plenty of Hellhounds so why can't he get this thing? Just outside, the peering Starly took this moment to finally flutter away, as Korosensei stood tall in front of Karma, good and proud.

"If a student isn't satisfied in both body and mind by the end of the day, I have not done my job!"

~~

It had been a rather long day. Class E had gone through the motion for their daily routine, which included about eight total attempts at killing Korosensei - which failed. Karma felt the most frustrated with his endeavors. While the E class as a whole tried about three times, Karma's relentless five time attempts all ended in failure. And all because that Korosensei just couldn't stand still even once. Karma tried trick after trick to get a knife or gunshot into him, every time not even getting close to his skin. Karma wasn't wiling to give up though. Honestly, Korosensei was happy that Karma was hellbent on trying to finish the job, but he was disappointed in that it was the only thing Karma was focusing on. Each hour, and when he wasn't trying to target him, he was just chilling out and working on the paper when presented one. At least the other students tried to follow his learning skills. Karma was seemingly lucky not to fall asleep. Maybe it was Karma's way to be sure he wasn't doing his job.

Soon, school for Orora High was done for the day, and the students were about ready to head off home. Korosensei was glad they had did their work, and stood with a happy face by the door as they all left. As they were, Karma tried one more slip of his blade, just missing Korosensei by inches before Mach-20 kicked in and he bolted off a good foot in a literal blink of an eye.

"Karma, if you want a better shot at me, you're going to have to cooperate with your fellow E class brothers and sisters," Korosensei advised, crossing his tentacle arms.

"Say what you want, teach, I'm just warming up today. I was the only one who actually got to you, remember that," Karma said. He wasn't ready to admit defeat over this cocky bitch of a demon, not even close!

"Dually noted," Korosensei simply said, as Karma started to head off on his way. Karma began to work the gears in his brain as he walked. Just because he didn't kill Korosensei, doesn't mean that he hadn't been getting his act together. Much like how Nagisa did it, Karma had been taking mental notes on the demon, putting a few down on paper. The notes Nagisa had were alright, but they offered him close to nothing. It's always a good idea to study your enemy. Still, the demon teacher was just hoping the kid can get his act together on more than one blade.

"That Karma. He seems so confident in himself, but he's not focusing on anything besides me. I'd have to work on him a bit more if he's to sharpen his second blade," Korosensei thought, observing the newest student as he went on. Korosensei started to work the hears in his own head, but just as he was, his gaze began to shift around the place, seeing the forest further away. ...

"EEP!" Korosensei squeaked, suddenly bolting up to Karma and whatever student was within sight, bringing them all in back to the building.

"What the hell, man?!" Terasaka snapped.

"Quiet, quiet, quiet," Korosensei begged, his voice hushed and quick.

"Let us go, you freak!" Demanded Nakamura. Korosensei kept his grip, a smaller tentacle moving out in front of the student, pointing off in a general direction, namely where they were going. Down the exit road, it was lined with plenty of vegetation, but Korosensei could tell that things aren't as they seem. The kids saw bushes, trees, some telephone poles leading to the school, and the dirt road leading out. It looked hard to make out, but there was something within the foliage, just at the edge, watching the group of humans from afar. Korosensei was nervous, shivering, mainly over the students safety. It took longer, but little by little the students began to see what Korosensei was seeing.

"K, teach, let go," Karma said smugly.

"My job as a teacher is to protect his students," Korosensei insisted.

However, Karma still had his blade, so he managed to cut Korosensei's arm off, freeing him. Korosensei grew his arm back fast, but the students got themselves out as well, making them exposed to whatever was out there.

As for what this strange figure actually was, it was a little hard to make out in the bushes, but it began to eye out at least one of the students before it started to reveal itself. Korosensei was the most worried over his students, jumping up in between them and the figure, tentacles spread out. It was here when the figure began to move, and became more visible. It looked fairly big, but not really too much compared to Korosensei, only just above three feet tall. Its skin was dark grey, looking like worn out fabric rather than normal skin. Its arms, torso, and mouth opened away to pinkish skin, the rims resembling that of a zipper. On each hand held three, large, pink claws, each as large as large kitchen knives. It was clear that this was another demon who came out to play, though this one seemed a little ballsy to show up in front of a large crowd like this, demon king included. As far as targets, the students were all in a group, and this demon plush toy was signaling out any loners. Karma needed some satisfaction after what he went through, and this newcomer could give him just that. He had the blade in hand, and seeing it done on Korosensei, this should be easy to do. With a smirk, Karma whistled to catch the demon's attention.

"Ready to play? I'll put you back in hell where you belong," Karma said. The demon had found its target, but Karma was already running at it with the blade, ready to stab the demon.

"Just one stab at this monster, and it's good as dead," Karma thought, his blade straight forward. The demon raised its arms, but hesitated when it saw the blade aimed for it. Karma went fast, and didn't even remotely waste any time to get the blade landing on the demon's head! ...

AND it bended like rubber.

"... Crud."

The demon, now seeing it wasn't the same thing, whacked the blade out of Karma's hand, and Korosensei grabbed him and pulled him back before it could slice him to ribbons. Suddenly, it charged at the other students, arms and claws flailing like wheels to get one of them. The students raced aside, Nabiku and Kirara being missed by inches.

"The hell is that thing?" Terasuka asked.

"A Banette mega-demon, that's what!" answered Korosensei. The Banette saw another target nearby; Nabiku. She tried to dodge, but ended up isolating herself, right in the sight of the Banette. Panicked, Korosensei shoved the other students back in the school and out of danger, just enough time to jump in between Nabiku and the Banette. The launching Banette slammed its claws into Korosensei's chest, digging into the demon king's torso, tearing through fabric and skin. Korosensei cringed a bit, but grabbed the mega-demon, and threw it aside, leaving Korosensei with a hole of yellow goo. The Banette shook off the yellow stuff, Nakamura, Karma, and Terasuka's gang looked on. On one hand, it would kill their target, but on the other it would kill them if it'd finish.

"K-Korosensei," Nabiku gasped, covering her mouth in horror. Despite the horrific injury, it was actually a minor one for Korosensei. The Banette was ready for its own action again, but by the time it was, its targets had already moved into the building. Korosensei made every measure to make sure that Banette couldn't get in, taking boards and barricading the doors and windows.

"Phew. We should be safe now, kids," Korosensei said, tentacle whipping away sweat off his forehead.

"... T-Thank you," Nabiku quietly said. Nakamura and Karma peeked outside from the boards, but they couldn't see the creature anywhere.

"Where'd it go? It was just outside," Nakamura wondered. It was clear it moved, but where's it end up was what troubled them. ...

"AH!"

Found it! Next thing they knew, the Banette was inside the building, despite the barricade, having one of the students trapped in its grip! Panicking, Korosensei pulled him free, but the Banette and its sharp claws already did some horrid damage, to which the demon king had to fix up fast. The mega-demon saw an opportunity in this approach: the demon king busy, and two scrumptious morsels isolating themselves. Nakamura became its first try, and launched forward with mouth open, and claws spread.

"Incoming!" Nakamura said. She and Karma ducked, both claws missing them both.

"Ok, step aside," Karma quickly said, shoving Nakamura away. And just in time: the Banette swung both claws forward, and while they missed Nakamura, Karma was severely struck. Both claws dug into his torso, and while the cuts themselves weren't too deep, the force was strong enough to launch him through the barricaded window, and landing outside! Karma could feel blood seeping out of his three puncture wounds, as the Banette jumped outside with him. Still, Karma is a more durable kid, and got up fairly fast in time to confront the mega-demon.

"K-KARMA!" Korosensei screamed, biting on his tentacle tips like one would chew their fingernails.

"Hey God. I know Nagisa got his blessed weapon from that fleet of yours, but if I can get one too, that would be great," Karma thought. Those other blades just weren't working. The Banette readied itself for another try, licking the blood off its fabric claws. ...

*thump* *thump*

That's when something struck the roof, and flew off the building towards the Banette. The mega-demon turned around, and jumped out of the way before it could hit it, only to stop moving at Karma's feet. The item didn't looked the same as Nagisa's green halo blade. It was a bit bigger, more like a large sword than a knife. The blade had a wider tip, but still ended sharp. the color of the blade looked a dazzling silver, with streaks of yellow lines running along its length. The holder was wrapped with a orange cloth that almost glistened as much as the blade did. Karma lifted the blade off the ground, but he barely had time to actually comprehend anything, as the Banette was rushing for him again.

Without another thought, Karma swung the sword, good and strong, and it sliced the mega-demon's head clean off! A mix of blood and black wool was released, as the now dead demon collapsed onto the ground. A quick, and clean kill.

"Thanks," Karma said, looking up to the sky.

"OHMYGOSH OHMYGOSH OHMYGOSH!!!" Korosensei said, amazed as ever. The other students went on outside as well, the Banette no longer a threat. Karma picked up the fabric from the Banette corpse, taking the other blade off the ground. Odd how the first green blade did nothing, and yet this sword sliced it like it was nothing.

"Karma, you ok? That demon did quite a number on ya," Kirara asked. Karma looked down to the blood on his clothes, which there was a strangely small amount from the hit he took. Odder too, he didn't feel as much stinging as he did a few seconds ago. Karma felt the spot where the blood was, but he didn't feel puncture wounds, cuts, or anything. At first Karma was confused, but he was quick to connect the dots.

"Well sweet; a healing sword," Karma commented.

"That's correct! Class, you've all just witness the sheer power of the blessed Miracle Sword!"

"Miracle Sword huh? So that's what this thing is," Karma said, looking at the sword. If this is how humans get their blessed weapons, then this Miracle Sword belongs to him. Not only that, but after a whole day of fails after fails, he finally got some proper satisfaction thanks to this victory.

~~

Time ticked on, and long after school had finished, one particular looking character was moving fast through the Japan landscape. The figure, Envy, had a long and rather uneventful time with this eavesdropping game of his, but this was something he had to report in. It was late on in the night, completely isolated from the rest of the world as far as he was. All Envy could see was the trees and the sky above him, so he should be good to go in theory. Once he could confirm it, Envy started to work out a symbol of his own into the surrounding dirt. No, it wasn't the Ouroboros symbol, but instead this symbol looked a bit more standard for a demon: a large symbol depicting a circle, with a six sided star at the center. Envy worked in some kanji writing as well, written at the center of the star. When he was done, he had a symbol just as big as he was, and the symbol began to activate as Envy was standing there, his own sort of power giving it power. As the symbol glowed a prominent purple, Envy moved off and the magic began to make out a portal-like image. This image, after fully completing, looked very dark, with another humanoid figure standing there. Since the picture was so dark, the figure was hard to make out, but Envy knew it was there, and he made a quick bow after being shown.

"Envy. Your report?" The figure asked, nice and slow.

"Yes, my lord. I'm starting to think these human worms are wising up," reported Envy.

"Wising up? ... Explain that."

"They got their grubby mitts on some blessed weapons. One has a Halo Blade, one has some alchemy book, and just today they got hold of a Miracle Sword and killed a mega-demon Banette. You ask me, I think we found our trouble makers," Envy explained. The figure was quiet and in thought. They both were aware of the deaths of demons over the last couple of months, and now that the figure heard this, he finally knew why.

"indeed. ..."

"Hey, can't I just go in and kill them all now? It's been too long since I heard those pathetic creatures grovel," Envy asked, devilish smirk growing on his face. However, the figure thought differently.

"NO. If they did kill that Jizo, pack of Houndour, AND Banette mega-demon, then we have to change our strategy. Our existence can't be known until the time is right, do you understand?"

Envy needed a sec before nodding his head.

"... Now go. Don't let these humans out of your sight."

And just like that, Envy left. The projection from the symbol started to fade away, and soon all that remained was the star left in the dirt. ...