Memories of the Past

Chapter 15: Searching Time

"Alright See you guys!" The blue haired teacher waved at a few of his friends. "So it's just us now huh?" Sugino commented. "Guess so." Nagisa answered while walking over to a certain redhead. Of all the people who were there, only Nagisa, Karma, Sugino, Kanzaki, Okano, and Chiba were left. Even Nakamura had left due to a meeting she had with the ministry of foreign affairs. "How will you fare after she's gone?" Nagisa asked his best friend. "Meh, I won't say it'd be lonely, but things just won't be as fun without her." Nagisa chuckled. "Where's she going now?" He asked. "I suppose she's going back out to the UK, not entirely sure. But don't worry, she'll be here for a few more days and we still have a few things we need to do." Karma replied while reaching down (and slightly bending over) to rub Nagisa's hair. "Yea, yea, I know." the teacher replied, understanding the gesture. Well, half of it at least, there was still one thing that the two tricksters needed to sort out with him that he was obviously oblivious to. "Well, now that that's settled we should probably meet up with the rest." Nagisa nodded and the two started making their trek down the mountain.

While making there way down, Karma made a rushed call with Mr. Kurasuma to see if he could make time to meet with them. Unfortunately, the call was deemed in vain, as both Kurasuma and Irina were unavailable to meet due to their constantly loaded schedules. "Sorry Karma, but I'm afraid we have our hands full today." "No, it's fine, figured you wouldn't have much time in the first place, blueberry over here decided it'd be a good idea to try and go over to you guys at the last second." After hearing that Kurasuma got curious. "What did you need to meet up for anyways?" Karma put a skeptical look on, but decided to continue nonetheless. "I assume you'd already know this, but recently there'd been tentacle users like Korosensei on the loose, or something like that y'know?" After that Karma could hear the obnoxious clicking of keys coming from the other side of the call. A few moments later, it returned to silence. For a few seconds that is. "Hm, that's certainly concerning. I've actually never heard of any tentacle users roaming the streets of Japan. None of the ministry's records hold any indication of one either." "Really? That's quite odd." Karma took a bit of time to think. 'Actually that's really concerning. But, if that's the case, it means we should probably have more than enough time to figure this out before they detonate.' A sudden tap at his arm and he noticed Nagisa making a head gesture to get moving. He nodded back. "Alright, well I won't keep ya hanging. I know you apparently have a lot to do." "Okay, good luck to you guys, I'll try to find as much as I can when I'm available." With that the call ended.

"Who was that?" A blond agent asked from the other side of the room. At the moment, she was struggling to get a feisty young girl to eat her meal. The sounds of her pointless cries and words echoed throughout the room, and one of a plastic plate being slammed on the floor followed right after. A prominent vein started swelling on Irina's face. "You little brat why-!?" She stopped. She took a breath and sternly stared at the child. "Tell you what, we'll make a deal. You eat your entire meal and you get food for the next two days. If you don't, then you're eating leftovers." Inori shrugged. Another tick mark appeared on Irina's head. The two ended up bickering louder than Inori was crying before, all while Tadaomi was watching. He looked down at his desk, not intending to have any involvement whatsoever with the transpiring events. Before long, he was lost in his own train of thought with the background noise being the primary topic. 'I suppose we still have a long way to go as parents.' Tadaomi knew that the way he and Irina were parenting was far beyond that of the norm. Not to mention their child was somewhat of an outstanding brat as well, a trait she so obviously inherited from her mother. It wasn't until Irina came back with a huff that he lost his train of thought. He looked over to see Inori calmly eating her meal, despite having a pouty face and tears in her eyes. "What did you do this time?" Tadaomi asked. Irina shrugged. "I just told her if she didn't eat she'd be grounded." She took a look in a mirror adjacent to her on a wall and started dusting off her outfit. Tadaomi resumed his work and re-looked through his schedule for the day. A marker assigned for later afternoon piqued his interest. It was a meeting for his subordinate. Specifically, he was tasked with assisting Manami Okuda in a search for a rather large shipment of Rh Slither Blood. Though it didn't show much, it was noted to be at a time where he and Irina were on an off time. Though it was a small window, half an hour to be exact, it was enough. "Ok Karma, you may be in luck."