Wolf in Sheep's Clothing // Classroom of the Elite x Assassination Classroom

[Ch.4] First Scratch

Following the reveal of the true nature of class and private points, each class was left to its own devices to piece the details together and come up with a solution, should they need one. A perfect ground for someone to take control over each individual class, a leader figure, if you will. But that was beyond Shinzo Masaki's concern. Walking down the halls, towards his friend's class, he pondered again at Ichinose's expression following his refusal to adhere to her proposal. Rather than disappointment, he could read confusion. Indeed, the little rabbit was left perplexed, as she envisioned him to be someone eager to play along. But she miscalculated something, perhaps from her own personal experiences, vastly incompatible with his.

{Just getting along doesn't make 2 people friends, Ichinose. Unless you have very low standards that is.}, he smiled wickedly to himself, thinking how he's behaving a bit like his best friend right now. Not out of maliciousness, but purely due to sticking with his own guns and life principles. {That's right. Friends are meant to be much more than that.}

Class 1-B itself, at least on the surface, got over the situation quickly. But in the back of her mind, Ichinose Honami still felt a bit bitter, as she didn't simply receive a refusal to her plan. She was told to her face they're {far from being friends...}, which only cultivated the question in her mind. {What is a friend to Shinzo Masaki?}, but she had yet to find out and get to know Isogai, to begin guessing at an answer.

Speaking of the boy in question, class 1-D was perhaps the rowdiest one today. And could you really blame them? As once Chabashira Sae left the classroom, all chaos broke loose, primarily from the students now lacking in funds. His teacher played a good one on him, as the requests for borrowing points were flooding in.

"Hey, Isogai. Would you maybe buy this from me? I'm willing to let it half off, for 20k?"

"Then I'll sell for just 10k, please?"

Yamauchi Haruki and Kanji Ike, 2 of the more, let's say, less extraordinary people in class were engaging in a reverse bidding match for Isogai's points, with the latter exhaling exhausted in his palms.

"For the last time, guys. I am not looking to buy anything. I'm sorry.", he got straight to the point. As the former leader of Class E, you can't expect him to be a pushover, even if his overall good boy appearance and demeanor might give that impression.

"You're surprisingly tough on them.", Horikita Suzune, his left desk neighbor was quick to point out, while the boy left to her, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji was keenly observing.

Throughout this month, Yuuma has noticed she was sometimes engaging in conversations with this boy. Or rather, she gave quick and brash remarks each time the boy would try to talk to her. She was a haughty tuxedo cat throughout.

"Horikita-san. I only look like a pushover, you know?"

"Ah, so you're aware?"

"I've been told that before I ever thought to apply to this school. "

"By your friend in 1-B?"

Isogai stopped briefly to raise an eyebrow. As it was another instance where he felt that dissatisfaction from Horikita regarding Masaki. "Well, amongst other people, yes. But you seem awfully irked about what he's up to?"

"Hmph. I don't know what you're talking about.", she vehemently denied it and turned her head to the side, as the echoes of fellow classmates asking friends for points pressed on...until the door slid open.

"Woah! It's a raid!", the aforementioned Kanji Ike was quick to shout, as the sudden entrance of a taller, longer haired foreigner might have jumpscares him. And that only served to fill the class with the stranger's laughter.