Koro-Sensei was leisurely getting things ready for his class when Ritsu had come online, looking worried. "Excuse me, Koro-Sensei, but there appears to have been a group text sent to the entire E-Class," she notified, reading a piece of paper within her screen with an upset expression. "It says something about the mother of Nagisa Shiota being mentally ill and torturing her son for the past few years; it's from a student with the username RedDevil01."

"That's Karma, and I'm quite aware of that, Ritsu," the teacher sighed. "I know all about it. Odds are, the other children are just as worried about the matter. I'm planning to have Nagisa, Karma, Kayano, and Hazama explain to the class. They were the ones involved in the little secret mission last night. I would've told you then, but I'm sadly not allowed to interfere with your system, as you recall."

"Right. I remember that," the AI agreed grimly. "Hey! If the others aren't convinced with the explanation, I can look for any news article regarding this!"

Koro-Sensei nodded at the monitor. "I appreciate the offer, but the news report has been repeating itself all night since it was first found out. The whole class probably already knows."

The antimatter creature's suspicions were confirmed by the first bell.

All the students were talking to each other with hushed, worried voices. Mr. Karasuma and Irina watched the class with suspicion and hidden worry. The names of the students and the target of the late-night rescue mission were circling around the conversations. Those of their names only stared down at their books with unreadable expressions on their faces. The students who were talking went silent and all looked up when Koro-Sensei went to his desk with the attendance book.

"Alright, everyone," he began, "before we begin, I'm sure you know about what had happened last night, either from the news or from your classmate's group text." Karma twitched at the last part. "I would like to tell you that the students involved in what happened are going to explain what had ensued. Karma Akabane, Kaede Kayano, Kirara Hazama, and Nagisa Shiota; please come forward."

The addressed students all stood up and walked in front of the teacher's desk, turning to face the rest of the class.

"I'll start things off," Nagisa volunteered, "since this is pretty much about me. I never wanted to tell you about it, but you all deserve to know why I look so much like a girl. For starters, Mom's always wanted nothing more than a daughter to live the life she wanted to live. But since she was stuck with me, she decided to make me be that quote-unquote 'daughter.' She made me grow out my hair and made sure I wouldn't cut it, ever. She also had me cross-dress at home; that's one reason why I was so upset when I had to do it on a mission. And whenever I talked back and she wasn't in the mood to hear it, she'd start screaming and punishing me. There was no reasoning with her when she went dark, so my Dad divorced her. At the expense of me staying with Mom. I ended up learning to read people, especially her, so I'd at least have an advantage. That's probably how I became such a good assassin."

"I'm quite impressed you made use of your life like that," Kirara mused. "Anyway, I already knew Nagisa's mother was a psycho just by looking at her. Her eyes had the exact same look as my mother's eyes: a crazed, near-insatiable desperation. The screaming fit when she blew up at Koro-Sensei sure as hell didn't downcast that. When she left, I knew she was planning on doing something seriously bad, since my mother did something similar when I was younger."

"I decided to help Hazama and her little plan since Nagisa's an old friend of mine," Karma spoke up. "I already knew about Mrs. Shiota being really strict. She usually called me a bad influence whenever I was trying to get Nagisa to act like a guy against what his mom wanted. Problem was, back then, I never knew why until last night."

"I also decided to help with their plan," Kayano added, "since Nagisa had become my friend, too. I watched Nagisa as he was talking with his mom at their place through the window, and I knew something was up. And that feeling only got worse when he passed out and she started dragging him away. That was when we took out Nagisa's mother and got him away from there."

Dead silence.

Mr. Karasuma cleared his throat. "I'm sure that now we all understand the meaning behind what had happened last night. Karma, Hazama, and Kayano, I'm proud of you three for taking action against the situation without putting anyone's life at risk. And Nagisa, I'm glad you finally had the courage to tell everyone about the reason you are the way you are."

"Indeed," Koro-Sensei agreed. "You four can sit down now so I can call roll. And get things rolling."

The students in question nodded and returned to their seats.

"Oh, and Professor Bitch," Karma looked at their English teacher, "you might want to take a cue from the Octopus and not leave stuff unattended in the Faculty Lounge; though those tranqs did come in handy during the mission."

"WHAT?!" the blonde woman shrieked. "You were the one who took my tranquilizers?!" She sneered, ready to lunge when Karasuma held her back, pulling her from the room. "Come on, you brick! Let me go! I'm gonna teach that guy a lesson!" The door shut as they left.

"I kinda figured that would happen," Rio snickered as the other teachers left the class and Nagisa sat down. "So, Nagisa, what are you going to do now that your mom's in a nuthouse?"

"Karma will probably let me live with him," the bluenette replied. "My dad lives pretty far away, and might not be able to afford living around here. He only comes once in awhile to catch up."

The blonde girl hummed. "I guess it's good to know why you make us all doubt whether you're a boy."

"Yeah," Nagisa agreed. "But I've always been able to take a ribbing from you and Karma."