Love Live and Kamen Rider 44

"What on earth are you all talking about? I don't understand a single word!"

Well, Honoka Kosaka still had no clue what Minami Kotori and Umi Sonoda were talking about.

"Teacher..." x n

However, standing at the podium, Senba Gari wiped cold sweat from his forehead as he looked at the group of girls before him, feeling deeply depressed inside.

Wuwuwu, as expected, no matter the circumstances, gossip is just in a girl's nature. But you all gossiping like this is going to be the death of me! Someone save me!!!

Just then, the school bell rang, which to Senba Gari sounded like a divine gospel. He hurriedly spoke to the girls below.

"Alright! That's all for today! We'll officially start our lessons tomorrow! Goodbye!"

"Clatter."

Senba Gari dashed out of the room at top speed. Seeing him bolt, Minami Kotori immediately rushed off in the same direction.

"Hey! Kotori! What's wrong? Umi, let's follow her too!"

Seeing Minami Kotori run off in such a hurry, Honoka Kosaka called out to Umi Sonoda to follow.

"Right!" With that, Umi Sonoda followed Honoka Kosaka as they chased after Minami Kotori.

"Phew~ Are all girls this gossipy nowadays? With so many questions, I could barely keep up!"

After reaching the stairwell, Senba Gari let out a sigh of relief and muttered to himself, when suddenly, an excited voice reached his ears from behind.

"Brother Gari!"

As Senba Gari turned around at the sound, a greyish-brown figure crashed into his arms and hugged him tight.

"Umi, Umi, am I seeing things? Kotori is actually hugging that new teacher!"

"..."

When Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda caught up, they stared at the scene before them in utter disbelief.

History always has a way of repeating itself in shocking ways.

"Thank goodness, Brother Gari, you're finally back! Kotori has missed you so much. Why haven't you come to see me even once in these past ten years?"

Minami Kotori held Senba Gari tightly, her eyes glistening with tears as she looked up at him with a pitiful expression.

"Now, now, Kotori, could you please not look at me like that? You know that when we were kids, your look was the one thing I could never handle."

Looking into Minami Kotori's pitiful eyes, Senba Gari suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of guilt, and he lowered his head to speak to her.

"Also, those two friends of yours are still right behind you. Are you sure you want to keep hugging me like this?"

Hearing Senba Gari's words, Minami Kotori quickly let go, her face flushing red as she turned to look at Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda, who were still standing there dumbfounded. She looked at them with a mix of shyness and unease.

"U-um, Honoka, Umi, why are you here?"

"Ah, well, we saw you run out suddenly after class and got a bit worried, so we followed you. Right, Umi?"

Kotori's question made Honoka panic, and she quickly looked back at Umi for support.

"Ah, ah yes! That's right! But, Kotori, do you know this new teacher?"

Umi responded, feeling just as flustered, and asked the question that was on both her and Honoka's minds.

"This."

"Let me explain. First of all, I've heard about you two from Aunt Minami. Honoka and Umi, right? I hope you don't mind me calling you that. Thank you for taking such good care of Kotori during the years I was away."

Before Kotori could get more than a word out, Senba Gari cut in.

"Ah! Not at all! If anything, it's Kotori and Umi who have always been taking care of me, Honoka!"

Seeing Honoka Kosaka looking nervous, Senba Gari's lips curled upward, and he looked at her with amusement before speaking.

"Oh my, why so serious? I was just being polite. Let me introduce myself again: my name is Senba Gari. As for how I know Kotori, well, I suppose you could call me her childhood friend."

"Eh! A childhood friend? Then why haven't we ever heard Kotori mention you?"

Honoka Kosaka looked at Senba Gari in surprise.

"What?! Kotori never mentioned me to you? Wuwuwu, Kotori, Brother Gari knows I shouldn't have left back then, but to think you'd forget me, sob sob."

Hearing Honoka Kosaka's words, Senba Gari put on an exaggerated performance in front of the three of them, addressing Minami Kotori.

"Brother Gari, stop playing around. I'm not falling for that again."

Watching Senba Gari's over-the-top acting, Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda looked at the new male teacher with dark lines on their faces, while Minami Kotori said helplessly.

"Tsk, you didn't fall for it. I guess it's been too long since I've teased anyone; I'm losing my touch if you can see right through me, Kotori."

Seeing that they hadn't fallen for his act, Senba Gari clicked his tongue, sounding somewhat frustrated.

"Brother Gari~ Please, can you be serious for once?!"

Seeing a mysterious black aura beginning to rise behind Minami Kotori, Senba Gari said, looking a bit scared.

"Ha, haha, well, you see, Kotori, I was just trying to liven up the atmosphere. Otherwise, your friends might still be feeling nervous."

"Uh, Umi, don't you think Kotori has been acting a bit strange ever since we met that new teacher?"

Honoka Kosaka looked at Minami Kotori with a strange expression and whispered to Umi Sonoda.

"Well, it's probably because Kotori hasn't seen a new teacher in a long time, so she might not be sure how to interact with one," Umi Sonoda guessed after hearing Honoka Kosaka's words.

"Alright, alright, enough teasing. Class is about to start, so you girls should head back now."

At this moment, Senba Gari placed his hand on Kotori's head and ruffled her hair a few times before speaking to the three of them.

"Ah! That's right! Class is starting soon! Kotori, Umi, let's go!"

As she said this, Honoka Kosaka grabbed the hands of Umi Sonoda and Kotori Minami, preparing to head back to the classroom, but Kotori Minami looked at Senba Gari with some hesitation.

"But, Gari-nii."

Seeing Kotori Minami's hesitation, Senba Gari spoke to her.

"Don't worry, I won't sneak away again. After all, I'm a teacher now, so hurry along."

After hearing Senba Gari's reply, Kotori Minami happily followed behind Honoka Kosaka and the others as they left.

A few minutes later, Senba Gari stood alone at the entrance of the first-year classroom, his right hand resting on the doorknob with some hesitation.

This time, the same thing as before shouldn't happen, right?

Senba Gari hypnotized himself in his heart, then opened the door to the first-year classroom. When he walked up to the podium, he said, "Hello everyone, I am your new World History teacher, Senba Gari. I look forward to working with you."

Then, a familiar and energetic female voice reached Senba Gari. When he turned his head to look, a short-haired orange girl, Rin Hoshizora, was saying in surprise to the short-haired brown girl with black-rimmed glasses beside her, Hanayo Koizumi. At the same time, he also saw a familiar red-haired figure looking at him in surprise.

"Hanayo-chan! Look! Isn't this the senior who helped us get your bag back last time? He's actually our teacher, nya~"

"Eh! Really! It really is him."

The brown-haired girl with glasses looked at Senba Gari on the podium, looking quite surprised.

"Eh! Rin, is what you just said true?!"

"It is, it is! If you don't believe me, you can go ask that teacher, nya~"

Rin Hoshizora pointed at Senba Gari, who was starting to have a bad premonition on the podium, and said this to the girl who had just asked her.

Back on the podium, cold sweat began to bead on Senba Gari's forehead as he looked at the curious girls below, thinking to himself.

Wait, this familiar scene, could it be?!

"Teacher, teacher, is what Rin said just now true?"

"Ah, yes, that was because..."

"Teacher, teacher, how did you catch up to them?"

"Ah, I..."

"Teacher, teacher, do you know martial arts?"

"Teacher..."

"Teacher..."

"I, I, someone save me!"

Senba Gari looked at the girls who had suddenly rushed up, once again feeling like crying without tears. He had experienced the terrifying nature of girls once more.

Down below, Rin Hoshizora looked at the podium, then looked at Hanayo Koizumi with some confusion and said, "Hanayo-chan, did I... cause trouble?"

"Th-that, I don't know either," Hanayo Koizumi said timidly.

Meanwhile, Maki Nishikino, who had heard their conversation, looked at Senba Gari on the podium. She twirled her red hair with her right hand and sighed helplessly.

"Why do I have a feeling that my upcoming high school life is going to be very troublesome?"

〖Master! Emergency situation!〗

Just then, the voice of Silver Phantom came through Senba Gari's earpiece.

Bank Robbery

〖Master! Emergency situation!〗

Just then, the voice of Silver Phantom came through Senba Gari's earpiece.

Hearing the voice of Silver Phantom, Senba Gari felt as if he had heard a gospel again, so he quickly said to the girls in front of him, "Um, students! Teacher has an urgent matter to attend to, so please study on your own for now! Bye!"

After saying this, Senba Gari immediately took off running and left the classroom, leaving the group of girls in the classroom staring in confusion.

Running along the Sakura Path, Senba Gari spoke to Silver Phantom on the other end of the earpiece.

"Phantom, help me switch the earpiece communication to Aunt Minami."

〖Understood, Master. Switching now... Done.〗

"Thanks. Hello, Aunt Minami? I have an urgent matter to attend to, so I need to take a leave of absence. Please, I'm counting on you. Click."

After saying this, Senba Gari cut off the communication with Kotori Minami. When he ran to Silver Phantom, he put on his helmet and sat on it. As he started Silver Phantom, Senba Gari said to it, "Phantom, what's the situation now?"

〖Master, the opponent is a monster-type Mlortha currently in a standoff with the police at a bank.〗

At the same time, Silver Phantom projected video footage onto its LCD dashboard, showing a brown eagle Mlortha confronting a group of armed police officers.

--Scene Change--

In front of a bank in Chiyoda City, a brown, humanoid eagle Mlortha with no hands and only a pair of wings stood, its yellow beak clenching a gray bag filled with money just stolen from the bank.

Standing before it was a group of armed police officers in a defensive formation, surrounding the creature, while two or three armed helicopters circled overhead. One of the officers held a megaphone and shouted at the eagle Mlortha a short distance away.

"Monster ahead! You are surrounded! Surrender immediately, or we will be forced to open fire!"

However, the eagle Mlortha said nothing. It simply gave its wings a light flick forward, sending several brown feather arrows flying out. They struck the foreheads of the police officers in front of it, embedding themselves instantly. Blood slowly trickled down from the ends of the arrows as the officers collapsed before the horrified eyes of everyone present.

Then, while everyone was still paralyzed by terror, the eagle Mlortha began flapping its wings downward and took off rapidly into the sky, still clutching the bag full of money.

"BOOM!!!"

The eagle Mlortha hovered in mid-air, flapping its wings rapidly to create a small tornado. The armed helicopters circling above were instantly sucked in, colliding with one another within the vortex until they exploded in unison, at which point the tornado dissipated.

Just as the eagle Mlortha prepared to fly away, a fiery red figure and a silver-white figure blocked its path in mid-air; it was Divine and Silver Phantom.

Divine, with flaming wings on his back, pointed the tip of his Flame Feather Blade at the eagle Mlortha and said.

"Sorry, but if you want to leave, you'll have to leave that bag in your beak behind!"

〖Master, the way you put that, I feel like we're the ones robbing the bank. →_→〗 Silver Phantom, with blue flames jetting from its feet and back, chimed in.

Silver Phantom's remark nearly made Divine choke with rage.

"Can you stop running your mouth! I meant for it to give me the money so we don't end up losing the bank's cash!"

〖Oh~ I get it, so we can keep the money for ourselves later! Right? (⊙o⊙)〗

"Get what, your head! That's still saying we're here to rob the place! I just want to save myself the trouble!"

〖Tsk, so you weren't planning on stealing it after all. ╮(￣⊿￣)╭〗

"You really won't be happy until you've driven me to my grave, will you!"