(AN: I just realized that due to Plush’s Lulling Touch skill he is now a teacher with the ability to put people to sleep, just like real teachers.)

-=Plush POV=-

The math class was over and the recess had begun.

I had actually been wondering how we were going to tell when each of the lessons ended, what with me not having seen a single clock ever since I came to this world, but as it turns out they actually kind of had a solution here.

“Thanks Ollie.” Said Glasses as he left the classroom.

By the way, during the lesson I actually found out that apparently only the people who work here go by their names, all the students go by nicknames so me calling Glasses Glasses instead of his real name, whatever that name may be, actually wasn’t as rude as I first though

But who did he say it to? Well…

“You little! I keep telling you my name’s Ollynd!” Responded the man in question, though judging by the big grin he was desperately trying to hold back he actually like the nickname.

Ollynd, or Ollie as he secretly wanted people to call him, was an Owl-kin.

He looked mostly like you’d expect a humanoid owl to look like, only difference being that he had a normal mouth rather than a beak.

Would’ve been kinda hard to tell he was smiling earlier if he didn’t.

Also something interesting to note about Ollie was that unlike Shiona, despite them both being demi-birds, Ollie’s face was covered in feathers unlike Shiona who only had her hair be made of feathers and the rest of her face and head having normal skin.

Ollie also had both wings and arms while Shiona had only wings and Ollie’s legs weren’t digitigrade like Shiona’s.

But the reason he was here right now was because his specific subspecies of demi-bird had the handy-dandy ability of being able to keep track of time incredibly accurately.

All the students left the classroom, however as Ollie was about to leave he turned to me and asked:

“Hey, wanna come along? Could be a good opportunity to get to know the students better.”

“N-no, I-I’m good for now I think…”

“Alright?” Answered Ollie, probably confused as to why I sounded scared all of a sudden.

Well why was I asked someone might ask, and the answer to that is simple.

As Ollie turned around towards me I happened to see his ear or whatever they’re called on birds.

Now that wouldn’t mean much if it wasn’t for the fact that I could see thE INSIDE OF HIS FUCKING HEAD.

I COULD SEE THE BACK OF HIS EYEBALLS AND THE NERVES THEY WERE CONNECTED BY.

Okay, yeah, I heard somewhere back home that you could see the back of an owls eyes by looking into their ears, but seeing it for real is a whole nother thing, especially when IT’S A SENTIENT CREATURE FOR FUCK SAKE!

YOU IMAGINE WORKING SOMEWHERE NEW AND THEN THE ONLY COWORKER WHO HASN’T PISSED YOU OFF YET SUDDENLY TURNS AROUND AND YOU CAN SEE INSIDE HIS HEAD THROUGH HIS EAR!

Shiona once tried to show me a slasher movie back home, not that I know how she got it since we were both younger than fifteen but she did, and I felt like puking after seeing the bad guy’s first victim.

I’m not good with this stuff okay!

...I’m not proud to admit this but I feel like if I had actually had a stomach I would’ve probably puked now as well.

Really makes me wonder how I was fine with all the zombies a month ago…

According to the schedule we were supposed to be in a big field behind the school for the magic class, all things considered it would be pretty easy to get there since I could see it just by walking up to the window.

Turning around from the windows and looking back at the classroom I saw that two of the students were still there.

It was the white frog-kin, Frog, and the small light brown bear-kin, Bear.

Simple nicknames like these definitely helped me remember who was who at least, though I don’t know the nicknames of the three bee-kin and I’m a bit worried that they’ll just be Bee one, Bee two and Bee three, that would make it way too hard to remember.

Frog was looking down nervously at their desk while Bear seemed to be trying to cheer them up.

“Hey, are you guys okay?” I asked them.

“Sorry, we’ll get out of the classroom soon.” responded Bear apologetically and tried to help Frog get up from their chair.

“No no no,-” I said hurriedly while frantically shaking my arms. “-stay as long as you need, I just wanted to know if you were both alright.”

“We’ll be fine, now please excuse us.” Said Bear before once more trying to help Frog up from the table, this time succeeding, and then exiting the classroom together.

I didn’t try to stop them to get any answers, considering how I’m new here I didn’t feel it right to butt into everyone’s business since for all I know I might just make things worse.

If they ever feel like they need my help and trust me enough to actually want it then they’ll come to me then.

Well, except Beaky, I’ll gladly muck around with his business.

Fuck that guy.

Anyways, after Bear and Frog left the classroom I soon followed and hoped whatever was controlling this building would lead me down to the field.

I mean, it can’t have passed enough time for me to already be late right?

Just a short while of walking around in random directions later and I find myself exiting the building through a large pair of doors and entering the field behind the school.

Despite how the classroom was on the third floor I managed to get to the ground floor without even walking down any stairs.

Leaving the building while pondering the nature of all this I continue walking towards the large field.

It looked very much like some sorts of sports field, the green grass being covered in white lines and markings, though I didn’t see any goals anywhere so I had no idea whether it was just a coincidence or whether it really was for some kind of sport.

This lesson was going to be a joint lesson between my magic engineers class and another teacher’s power improvement class.

While the people of my class focused more on making intricate spells which had varied effects their class focused simply on improving and optimizing the pure strength and effectiveness of their spells.

With all the fairytales from back home about ‘brain over brawn’ you’d expect the engineers to be one step ahead but apparently the pure power of the power improvers made up for their lack of any cards up their sleeves and put both our classes on equal grounds.

“Second teacher, I can’t wait for our other teacher so can’t we start before he arrives!?” I heard the overly eager student asking the other class’s teacher.

‘Doing a real good job at making me want to let you start early in the future kid.’ I thought sarcastically.

“I keep telling you no so fuck off.” the other teacher swiftly rebuked, clearly as fed up with the student as I was.

“Ugh…” Groaned the eager student.

Also should a teacher really be telling a student to just fuck off like that?

‘I mean, no one’s looking at him funny so I guess they’ve gotta be used to it?’

“Teacher!” Shouted one of the other students.

“I said I’m not going to-”

“The engineers’ teacher is here!”

“What? Hang on, let me through-”

The power students started to part and open up a path for their teacher to come meet me.

“You’re the engineers’ new teacher, Plush, ri- OH FUCK!” Shouted the voice as soon as its owner saw me.

Wait, did I say shouting?

I meant squawking.

“Heya fella, how’s the burnt tentacle?”

Did I forget to mention that the other class’s teacher was the school’s local chef and flying bundle of constantly frustrated tentacles Beaky?

Anyways now that I think about it I don’t remember actually seeing Beaky at the entrance ceremony so I suppose it makes sense that he didn’t know I was going to be a new teacher here, for all he knew I was just another student who happened to be good at making schnitzel.

“You little shit! The fuck are you doing here!?”

“The-fuck-are-you-doing-here right back at you! I thought you were just some some shitty chef so stupid he burnt his hand tentacle thing by putting it on the stove for too long!”

“Hand tentacle thing!? And fuck you I’m a teacher!”

“Oh really!? Well tough luck you fuck ‘cause so am I!” I say and show the armband that Bob gave me.

even though everyone at the school had similar armbands to avoid the house playing any tricks on them the teachers’ armbands looked different from the students’.

“Motherfucker! That’s it! I challenge you to a duel to the de-”

“Uhm…” Intervened one of Beaky’s students with sleepy eyes.

“What is it Katie!?”

“The principal told me to warn you that if you go through with anymore death matches with the teacher or students you’ll be fired from the academy.”

“What!? How could you do this to me Katie!?”

“Ha!” I laughed, happy I didn’t have to think of any excuse to not join the match.

“But she didn’t say anything about normal sparring matches.” Responded the girl named Katie with a glint in her eye.

“Fuck yeah! That’s my Katie!”

All the students around us had been quiet and enjoying the show of us arguing like two sailors until now but when Katie said this they slowly started to murmur with each other and soon most of them seemed to make up their minds and started encouraging us.

...Though whether they did this because they saw it as a good learning opportunity or whether they just wanted to not have to do anything while we were sparring I didn't know.

“And y’all better fucking take notes during the spar! We’ll be reviewing it next magic practice lesson!”

,,,Aaaaand instantly a third of the excited murmurs quieted down.

Anyways, while Beaky had taken the lead and started shooing all the kids off to the sidelines and off of the field I felt hesitant to actually join the fight.

Could you really blame me though?

I mean, my track record isn’t really the best when it comes to ending battles and having both sides survive, only exceptions I remember being the necromancer, who took himself out by flying headfirst backwards into a large boulder, and the ex-guard from way back when I first came to Eastern lake city.

You know, the guy that started leading goblins?

Then again I Wouldn't blame you for forgetting him, I never even found out his name I think…

Anyways the way he was taken out was by me accidentally hitting a goblin’s head so hard it flew off of its body and splatted like a rotten tomato on the guys face.

I walked to the center and tried to clear my mind to get ready for a match that I never actually accepted.

We met in the center and started floating/walking a short distance away from it once more before turning around and staring at each other, sparks being sent flying eft and right.

And by that I didn’t mean the “people staring at each other” sparks that Shiona told me about but actual sparks, you see wed already started using magic on each other.