Chapter 20

"I told you guys are crossing the line," Y/N sighed, "Making it look like Professor Karasuma was giving the flowers to her was a really bad idea."

"We just wanted to give her the present she's been wanting for so long. Didn't know it was gonna blow up like that right up on our faces," Rio said.

"Apart from the fact that you guys were dumb enough to completely forget the fact that she has had a tough life, and you were just giving her some false hope about something, I also got a full experience of how that feels. I just don't understand how ya'll didn't think of that."

"We just thought you are really different from her and she would take it light-"

"But matters of heart work the same way," Y/N chuckled.

"Yeah...It has been three days since she has been here," Rio said, "It's worrying."

After sometime, an assassin in disguise of a flower shop man entered their class casually and informed them about the situation their teacher was in. Irina was held hostage by the man who called himself The Reaper. He left a location marked on a paper and demanded the students to arrive there without informing the teachers at 6pm. The Reaper leaves in a flash, without giving them time to even come near to him.

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"Pfft- turns out we all got overconfident," Y/N laughed, "It was a bit weird how there were no obstacles placed on our way to rescue Prof. Bitch."

"Why are you laughing?! We are stuck down here for god's sake!" Terasaka shouted.

"No offence Isogai, but we kinda have no other option than wait for our teachers to rescue us. So I prefer to laugh rather than feel stressed out. You really think we students having a few months of experience can go against professional assassins? Everything we can think of has already gone through their minds." Y/N furrowed her eyebrows and said, "I'm a useless fuck in missions but I sure as hell know what someone is capable of doing. All of you are pissed off that your ideas are of no use now that we are stuck here, so keep your emotions in check and think about it rationally."

She dropped down on the ground and rested her head on the wall, eyes fixed on Irina on the other side of the cell who just betrayed them and trapped all of them in a room. "Think like our beloved professor," she said.

"Listen buddy, I don't know what your big plan is but I wouldn't count on it running so smoothly," Karma said to the reaper, using his usual teasing tone. He looked at Y/N who had her eyes closed, almost like she was in a meditative state.

He knew it was a bad idea to talk to her again after their little fight but he was desperate. Everything he said seemed to go in a completely wrong direction. Earlier it used to be easy to talk to her, she used to understand instantly what he tried to say. But now it felt like she was purposefully avoiding to understand his words.

Deciding to take a leap of faith, Karma dropped down next to her. Y/N opened her eyes and looked at him momentarily. She was in no mood to have a meaningless fight in the middle of all of this. She was about to get up when she felt his hand over hers, and he was gripping her tight. In some other moment, she would walk away instantly. But Gakushu did tell her to give him a second chance. She wasn't even sure if she can do that and accept him like nothing happened again.

What's the point in giving someone a second chance when she was being the one that's fake this time?

She moved her hands away from his grip and asked, "What do you want this time?"

"I..." Karma looked at her face. She was still looking away at the opposite wall. More important than that, he was at a loss of words. Y/N was finally talking to him, wanting to hear him out but he didn't know what to say. He licked his lips and said cautiously, "I...didn't know it would affect you."

Y/N chuckled. She couldn't believe that she finally agreed to listen to him and instead of apologizing, he was saying nonsensical things again. "I can't believe I actually thought-" she sighed, having a small disappointed smile on her face.

"Just.." he said, his voice sounded hesitant and forced, "..hear me out okay? I just made a joke about it. I didn't know it was going to hurt you. I-" He slowly slid his hand near to her hand and moved his pinky finger to touch her lightly. Y/N looked at all those little details. She felt a bit...relieved to know that he was atleast trying to make things better between them.

"I didn't understand how insensitive I was being until...I saw your face. It didn't feel nice," he gulped and looked down, trying to find the right words to say. He didn't want to blurt it all out at once in this situation but if he was trying, he wanted to put a bit of an effort. Looking back up at her, he realized that after a long time, Y/N was finally looking at him.

Looking at him with some emotion other than hatred. It was a progress, right? She was trying too. Trying her best to understand him again.

"It didn't feel nice...to be away from you...so long. It was irritating and I can't bear it..anymore," he said, a little red tint covering his cheeks.

Y/N contemplated if she should ask him the reason, but decided to give it a rest. He did try a bit now. So as a result, she decided to put the same amount of effort from her side. For now, she decided to look and talk to him casually now and then. "You know its not so easy to forgive and forget right?" she said, "I need time. I would try though."

Karma felt his heart speed up - in a good way. He smiled and looked at her, going back to rest by closing her eyes. His eyes went down at her hand again, and he wanted to hold her hand again. But...he knew she would probably move her hand away again. Just his pinky finger touching her was enough for now.

Things were looking a bit better than before. Although Koro got stuck with the students inside the cell, Karasuma was doing okay and other than that the students didn't have much information about Irina. The students were all wearing a neck-collar bomb, which Itona helped in removing in time. The next plan was for them to camouflage themselves into the walls using their PE uniforms, as they used a blind spot from the camera to further hide.

Y/N was about to sit on Terasaka's shoulder when she heard Karma's voice, "W-Wait." She looked back at him, but he wasn't saying anything. He was just glancing at her legs and then at Terasaka. She looked away, hiding her little blush and cleared her throat, "Okay."

Karma was asking for her consent just now, right? Earlier...he just used to state his opinion out in the open and didn't wait for her answer. Well, he knew what her answer would've been. But she never imagined, him to actually wait for her response when nowadays he just stopped himself from asking her anything. Yes, she did notice it all.

They were all facing the wall,. Y/N was glad that her no one was able to see her blush. She was aware of Karma, trying his best to hold her up properly, afraid of gripping too tight on her legs.

"Uh.." Karma said hesitantly, "Can I still call you cherry?"

"Not yet."

Later, when Karasuma successfully took down the reaper, Irina decided to leave. The students ofcourse, wouldn't let her and conviced her to come back to their school as a teacher again.

"Okay just to be clear, I was just about to kill you all," Irina said.

"I don't see the problem," Kotaro said, "A fair amount of treacheries expected. We learned about it in class too."

"So just come back okay?" Kayano said.

Y/N smiled looking at the scene. After the little conversation, Karasuma just gave Irina a red rose by himself. Things were looking good on their side.

She felt someone holding her hands softly, only their fingers lightly placed on her hand. She looked down, blushing lightly hearing the voice.

"Yeah," Karma said, who was looking at her intently, "Just....come back."