Marionette

Oceans, Chapter Twenty Three - Itazura [いたずら]

During the expanse of a single hour, a lot had taken place for the students of Class E.

The students that were concerned about whatever it could be that Amaya and Karma were up to had the events circulating around Irina Jelavic to contend with, while the childhood friends got up to mischief preparations.

On Karma and Amaya's side of the past hour, they had ended up going down into the city, where unlike normal supply runs where Karma would lead the way to grab whatever he needed, he was more than content in following her around and watching what she was doing.

It was peculiar, but not enough to stand out to Amaya as something concerning. He'd done this before, the last time she'd volunteered to get up to mischief in her own way. It was something that she did ask him about, however.

To which he gave her a simple, matter of fact response that was not only surprising, but a little intriguing as well.

'It's fun to watch when you're like this, Amay.' He responded without hesitation or even a pause to think on his words, startling Amaya out of her wits. 'You always come up with something different, every time.'

Amaya had thought about that for a few seconds, before she took his words at face-value.

She probably gave him ideas for his own pranks if he watched her impulsive moments like this.

Though he was probably going to love this prank out of everything she'd ever done before now; Humiliation was something she never intended to do, but this prank was designed especially to humiliate Irina and take her down a few pegs.

So after a short half-hour wandering through wherever her impulses dragged her, the two of them wandered back towards the Class E Campus.

Amongst the supplies bought was an excessively large supply of industrial strength instant-dry super glue for both Irina's high-heel shoes and Karma's supply bag, drawing pins, a small jar of glass sand, a large square of wood-print cotton material and finally, a single custard-cream filled mochi she'd grabbed from one of the street-vendors.

Throwing jabs and jokes between one another all the way back to the Class E Mountain was about the most that went on for Karma and the pseudo-purple girl.

For everyone else, things were quite a bit different.

Koro-sensei had returned from Vietnam with the Chai that Irina had asked of him just to get him out of the way for a short while, during the time in which Karasuma was talking with the blond woman outside. Karma and Amaya hadn't even gotten half-way down the mountain before they heard Koro-sensei land in the field with a sudden 'bang'.

Of course, all the students still in the classroom would have seen him return, as well. And probably had to sit through more of Irina's fake-swooning over Koro-sensei.

Needless to say, Irina's assassination attempt had completely and utterly failed.

Karasuma had decided to take the present students outside for some more PE since Irina had decided to ask for Koro-sensei's presence in the storage shed during fifth period. Presumably the three smelly cohorts of Irina's were hidden away somewhere inside the shed, however if Amaya could smell them from three meters away back on the open field, then there was no way that Koro-sensei could miss them in an enclosed shed like that - She had heard from Nagisa just how sharp that Teacher's nose really was.

Hilariously enough, as soon as the situation had panned out with Koro-sensei reemerging from the shed with a greatly patched up version of his own teaching robes on, Maehara had decided to call Amaya to inform her rather enthusiastically of Hella-Bitch's great failure.