192 Spear Of Heaven's Creation, Kinda (1)
Hey, Shun here!
They say that arguments are pretty common between a group of friends, or even couples, and it strengthen their bonds after they managed to get through those fights but, in our case, I think it wasn't an argument but more of a disagreement born from misinformation and misunderstanding.
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(Shun's POV)
I finally understood why those dogs of the world leaders kept on bothering us for months on end. We caught wind of it this day, but it's still all fine and dandy, honestly.
"So they were secretly building this fancily named, not-so-future, technology called [Spear of Heaven], huh…"
"Yes. We were investigating on of the world leaders and their mysterious expenditures when I caught wind of it. It's seems like they're still putting the final touches to it but, according to their plans, they still want to initiate an attack onto Koro-sensei." Ritsu said while looking at the documents on her computer.
"Okay. It's good that we caught wind of this. So this was why the subquest about Anti-matter was still not finished. Thank you, Ritsu."
"Yaa~, that was a close call, wasn't it? Good thing Ritsu found out about it." Mutsuko said while drinking some pineapple juice.
Beside her was Pochi and Tama, as well as Fenny, Tsuka, and Rokuko who's also drinking some fruit juice of their choosing.
"So they were still planning to kill Koro-sensei even after knowing that there's literally a very veeery low chance of him exploding? Isn't that just mean?" Rokuko commented.
""Un! Un! But, our [Quest], right?""
Pochi and Tama who didn't really understand quite well what we were talking about also agreed with her opinion, mostly, as they nodded their head while sipping some juice using a straw we provided them. Their table manners have improved a lot during this time, mainly because Rokuko taught them all about it these past seven months or so.
Rokuko is like the Imperial Princess of the Laverio Empire. Thus, you could say that their education about table manners was top notch.
"Those world leaders, are they stupid?" Rinka-san said.
After being her classmate for months, I could tell that she is a very blunt person who never hold back on her words.
There was that one time when she roasted Okajima to the ground after catching him trying to peek on the girl's skirt with the other boys using Itona-san's remote controlled car. It was quite funny and gross at the same time how Okajima was squirming in joy at the insults he received.
"Koro-sensei… He's not gonna get killed, is he?" Yukiko-san asked, looking extremely worried.
"Don't worry about that. Isn't Shun-san here? We're all here. We'll find a way to save Koro-sensei. Don't you remember? We won that match…" Touka-san said while smiling.
"That match? Oh, right, that match… They lost to that one…"
"Yep, they lost. I was on Shun-san's team as well. Hehe…" At Touka-san's words, Pochi, Tama, Mutsuko, and Ritsu looked a bit bitter.
Oh yeah, I remember that match. It was supposed to be some kind of a competition.
At the time, the final exam just ended and we were just waiting for the school year to end. Of course, we were also searching for the tracks of that [Shinigami] as we went but, as of right now, the only information we had is from Shiro-san.
It's good since we didn't need to go on blindly. We managed to track him a few times but the guy is quite slippery and it's hard to pinpoint where he is since he's really good at blending with numerous people.
Yes, he doesn't go to secluded places to hide himself. If he was, we would've caught him long ago. Instead, he hides under plain sight and even Shiro doesn't have a clear picture of how the guy looks like, which made our search harder.
Anyway, I once again went on a tangent there. As I said, it was a competition of sorts that we won against our fellow classmates, and it took place a week or so after the final exam.
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It all started with a small discussion at a secluded space inside the forest. After the final exam, our group and the class is between what we should do about our teacher.
The quest says that our main objective is our teacher but there's no quest that's specifically pointing towards him. If anything, there's just a kill quest regarding someone called [Shinigami], which is not really something we could go by.
During my search for documents at Shiro's place, however, we did find a clue as to who this [Shinigami] is. Paired with the information that Koro-sensei let out to us after Kayano-san's rampage, this sparked the division of opinions within our group.
On one hand, there's me, Rokuko, Touka-san, and Yukiko-san who thinks that the quest isn't all about killing our teacher, while on the other hand, there's Mutsuko-san, Ritsu, Pochi, and Tama who thinks that our quest here is about assassinating Koro-sensei. As for Rinka-san, she's currently on the fence.
Speaking of Pochi, Tama, Mutsuko, and Rokuko, if there's anything that these four girls share, it's their headstrong personalities. At first, I thought that Pochi and Tama didn't have such a trait but, after some time of living in this dimension, they've developed a lot and has shown that they could act independently without relying on our, the older [Group Chat] members', help.
One thing I noticed about them is that, they wouldn't shy away from the idea of killing someone. It may be their upbringing or just the natural order in the dimension they live in but, even in games where they thought it was real, they really do take killing in stride.
Just like in this quest, Tama and Pochi thinks that since our group chat says that our target is our teacher, they really do think that we needed to assassinate him. In fact, they are the most active amongst us five when it comes to assassination attempts.
As for Mutsuko-sa… No, Mutsuko… I don't know what she's playing at. After interacting with her for some time, I knew full well that she isn't the type to take things too seriously. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that she's probably thinking that life is a fantastical place — in a sense that it's filled with fantasy and supernatural creatures — and she's just living her life to the fullest extent in it.
What do shounen protagonists do in fantasy worlds to have fun? Fight bosses, have rivals, and etc, of course. In terms of being too far deep in being a person with an 8th grader syndrome, she's probably the most chuuni out of all of the members of our [Group Chat].
This is probably the reason why I'm having a hard time calling her in a first name basis and really connect with her in a closer level. The most apt phrase to describe the feeling she gives off is that, "She's living in her own fantasy world setting, and we're all just living in it."
So, to make a long story short, we got divided into two groups and we're now, as a class, going to duke it out in a team deathmatch. Well, no one will really die for real as it's a capture-the-flag paintball game, but you get the point.
Anyway, regarding our team, it was arranged like this…
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Shiota Nagisa(Androgynous Shota)
Isogai Yuuma(Poor Committee Member)
Kayano Kaede(Forever Flat)
Takebayashi Kotaro(Glasses)
Kataoka Megu(Stern Lecturer)
Okuda Manami(Poison Glasses)
Yada Touka(Ponytail and Boobas)
Hayami Rinka(Tsuntsun Sniper)
Maehara Hiroto(Womanizing Bastard)
Kurahashi Hinano(Fluffy Stag Beetle)
Kanzaki Yukiko(Grandmaster Kanzaki)
Hara Sumire(The School's Mom)
Sugino Tomohito(Baseball Geek)
Fuwa Yuzuki(This Manga is AMAZING!)
Labyrinthhart Rokuko(Moe Vichy-sensei Mk. Ⅱ)
Shirakami Shun(Best Husbando Material)
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✽✽[Red Team]✽✽
Akabane Karma(Enlightened Chuunibyō)
Nakamura Rio(Gyaru English)
Terasaka Ryoma(Muscle-headed Takaoka)
Horibe Itona(Rolling Riser)
Hazama Kirara(Dark Witch)
Chiba Ryunosuke(Adult Game Protagonist)
Yoshida Taisei(Home Base)
Sugaya Sosuke(Artsy Beanpole)
Kimura Masayoshi(Justice)
Muramatsu Takuya(Loofah)
Mimura Koki(Director Mushroom)
Okano Hinata(Amazing Monkey)
Okajima Taiga(Terminally Perverted)
Umemiya Ritsu(Moe-droid)
Shirayukineko Sorashi(Fuwa Fuwa Kunoichi)
Sakaki Mutsuko(Chuuni Mad Inventor)
Kuroinu Kanami(Kawaii Greatswordswanwan)
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Along with dividing our class into two teams, we also received our so-called codenames from our own classmates. Although a lot of them leaves a lot more to be desired, mine's pretty okay for the most part.
It's just a secret between us, but I knew who made that nickname for me. It honestly came as a surprise to me as well.
'To think that the usually cold-faced Rinka-san would give me that codename.' I thought at the time.
Speaking of being surprised, I wasn't that surprised when some of the members of our group went to the 'I want to kill Koro-sensei' side. For one, I didn't voice any of my opinion beforehand so as to avoid Pochi and Tama basing theirs on mine, and also, we've been debating on this topic for a while now and, for the most part, majority of us wanted to finish our supposed target, which is Koro-sensei according to the [Quest].
It actually came as a surprise that Rinka-san would change her opinion and join our side.
Whilst I was thinking about those things, a fight broke out between the two people who are on the opposite spectrum when it comes to the color of their hairs. It's Nagisa-san and Karma-san, of course.
Nagisa-san tried to pull off an armbar on Karma-san's arm but Karma-san is physically stronger than him. Pochi and Tama, who was previously near me, and was pouting at me in an extremely adorable manner for not being able to be in the same 'faction' as me, was already off to diffuse the fight between the two.
"No fightiiiing~? Want Tama to fight youuu~?"
"No fighting nanodesu! Pochi will be forced to use her sword if you don't stop nodesuyo?"
Upon hearing the extremely adorable but threatening words that came out of the two's mouth, Karma-san had no choice but to compromise. He and the other boys have seen these two get mad during that time when they were fighting off the zombie-like creatures that Shiro sent to them and it's pretty clear to them that these two are not someone who could be taken lightly.
Heck, they honestly think that they are not to be angered. They could probably singlehandedly raise the entire city overnight, much less deal with them who's not even on the same realm of strength.
As soon as the fight settled down somewhat, Koro-sensei came in, fully dressed in what seems to be some kind of military uniform.
"A junior highschool fight? Very Excellent! However, we are an Assassination Class! SO! Problems should be solved in assassination style!"
While puffing out some clouds of smokes from his pipe, Koro-sensei took out some rather peculiar equipments from out of nowhere and brought it down in front of all of us.
It seems like, since the class is divided about what to do with him, he wanted to finish this fight once and for all using the skills that we all learned from this class? I gotta say, that's a pretty fitting way to deal with arguments between assassination students.
"A fight, huh. Hey, Pochi, Tama, you stay in your group, okay? I want to see how much you girls improved after a few months of practice. Also, use all of your power, okay?"
This was a very nice idea coming from Koro-sensei. With this, not only will we be able to solve our disagreements, I'll also be able to test their progress.
The two, along with Mutsuko, Tsuka, Fenny, Rokuko, Yukiko-san, Rinka-san, and Touka-san has been working hard on training these past few months so I want to see their progress. Also, after this, I think we'll be able to clear things up with Koro-sensei.
'He already admitted that he was known as [Shinigami] to many when he was an assassin to us, after Kayano-san's rampage — which started this diverging opinions between our group in the first place — but, I think we need to clear things up more with Koro-sensei after this…'
Looking at the weapons we were provided, I thought that this will be a pretty wild day…
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※~To be continued~※
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