Chemistry; Tuesday, Period One [ 01/04 ]
Knowing she was on a time frame here, Kūkaku wasn’t going to waste a single minute on her introduction to her class. She kept an eye on the clock, and, once it hit nine, she started in, not caring if any of the students weren’t there yet. They shouldn’t be late, anyway, really.
So nine o’clock hit and the large breasted, scantily clad, one-armed teacher with the two giant twin servants standing like pillars behind her slapped her hand on the desk at the front of the classroom. “Chemistry,” she announced. “Yer gonna learn it, and yer learnin’ it from the best. I’m Kūkaku Shiba; these two behind me are Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko, and they’re going to be handin’ out your textbooks. Yes, textbooks. No, we’re not going to blow them up.”
Yet.
“There’s also a currently handwavey syllabus included, and they’ll include the chapters you’ll read each day for class. Ya want a class that looks good on transcripts, ya gotta do some actual class work. But don’t worry. It’s not gonna be boring, I can promise you that. I don’t do boring. So what’s chemistry? It’s the science of matter and the changes it goes through. An’ the building blocks of matter, protons and neutrons and electrons that make up atoms, are all put together to make up elements. Open up your books to the appendix and you’ll find your common Periodic Table of Elements. These elements come together and make reactions or make matter, or whatever. For example, take two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen ya get....”
She smacked a glass on the table, splashing its contents out. “Water. Equal parts sodium and chloride, ya get...”
Sprinkling something on the table. “Salt. And take phosphorus and oxygen and put them together and you get..."
Kūkaku glanced up at the clock and held out a finger. "Wait for it. ...And..."
The door to the classroom opened; she snapped her fingers and a loud explosion ignited just as Genesis walked through; the glorious, though harmless burst completely overrode whatever she said, at first.
He’d been asked to show at precisely ten after nine. Knowing Kūkaku, and having taken a glance at the course list and arched a brow at what she was teaching-innocuously titled ‘Chemistry’, but he was unfooled considering the personality behind the class-was well prepared for anything.
Which meant, come precisely ten after nine, he flung the door open and entered the room in a sweep of red leather, suitably dramatic, he thought, to amuse her. (Besides, it amused him to put on the show.)
He was… as the explosion went up practically in his face, quite amused. And, because it would irk her (he couldn’t be seen as being too nice) carelessly waved a hand in front of his face to clear the smoke. “Not,” he said very dryly, “your best work.”
Of course, she probably didn’t want to scare the children, too much… Which meant she was nicer than he’d ever been.
It certainly wasn’t going to make anyone faint this time; she was a bit softer this time around since it was a real class and all. “I blame what I had to work with. Kids, this’s Genesis, who can now tell ya first hand that when you put some elements together, they’ll go boom, right, Red?”
“Perhaps,” Genesis allowed, with a tolerantly amused glance at the class. “Unless I feel like saying otherwise.”
Because Genesis was contrary like that. Also, not the best teacher in the world.
“In other words, don’t listen to him, he’s an idiot. Anyway,” Kūkaku was going to get back to class now, figuring Genesis could stay if he wanted and she needed something else to blow up later on in the lecture, or he could leave, she didn’t really care, because she got her fun in. And if he just wanted to kick back and watch the rest of the class, she didn’t mind. At least he wasn’t Holmes. “That’s the basic introduction to chemistry and we’ll get more into it next week. This week, however, we’re gonna introduce ourselves so I can know who I’m teaching. Here’s the drill. I want your name, your interest in takin’ my class, and I want you to pick an element off the periodic table. Pick one that represents you, that you like, or just close your eyes and pick one at random for all I care, but pick one, and, if ya want, explain why.”
There was, of course, going to be a homework assignment based on that, but Kūkaku wasn’t telling them about that until they were all finished.
“Alright, let’s start with....you. Also, Bandages.” She pointed to Jono. “Come see me after class. Introductions, let’s go. Sooner we get this done, the sooner we can get out of here” She waved her hand and waited for whoever wished to commence to do so.
[[ please wait for the OCD is up! And many thanks to red_rhapsodos for the cameo ]]
So nine o’clock hit and the large breasted, scantily clad, one-armed teacher with the two giant twin servants standing like pillars behind her slapped her hand on the desk at the front of the classroom. “Chemistry,” she announced. “Yer gonna learn it, and yer learnin’ it from the best. I’m Kūkaku Shiba; these two behind me are Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko, and they’re going to be handin’ out your textbooks. Yes, textbooks. No, we’re not going to blow them up.”
Yet.
“There’s also a currently handwavey syllabus included, and they’ll include the chapters you’ll read each day for class. Ya want a class that looks good on transcripts, ya gotta do some actual class work. But don’t worry. It’s not gonna be boring, I can promise you that. I don’t do boring. So what’s chemistry? It’s the science of matter and the changes it goes through. An’ the building blocks of matter, protons and neutrons and electrons that make up atoms, are all put together to make up elements. Open up your books to the appendix and you’ll find your common Periodic Table of Elements. These elements come together and make reactions or make matter, or whatever. For example, take two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen ya get....”
She smacked a glass on the table, splashing its contents out. “Water. Equal parts sodium and chloride, ya get...”
Sprinkling something on the table. “Salt. And take phosphorus and oxygen and put them together and you get..."
Kūkaku glanced up at the clock and held out a finger. "Wait for it. ...And..."
The door to the classroom opened; she snapped her fingers and a loud explosion ignited just as Genesis walked through; the glorious, though harmless burst completely overrode whatever she said, at first.
He’d been asked to show at precisely ten after nine. Knowing Kūkaku, and having taken a glance at the course list and arched a brow at what she was teaching-innocuously titled ‘Chemistry’, but he was unfooled considering the personality behind the class-was well prepared for anything.
Which meant, come precisely ten after nine, he flung the door open and entered the room in a sweep of red leather, suitably dramatic, he thought, to amuse her. (Besides, it amused him to put on the show.)
He was… as the explosion went up practically in his face, quite amused. And, because it would irk her (he couldn’t be seen as being too nice) carelessly waved a hand in front of his face to clear the smoke. “Not,” he said very dryly, “your best work.”
Of course, she probably didn’t want to scare the children, too much… Which meant she was nicer than he’d ever been.
It certainly wasn’t going to make anyone faint this time; she was a bit softer this time around since it was a real class and all. “I blame what I had to work with. Kids, this’s Genesis, who can now tell ya first hand that when you put some elements together, they’ll go boom, right, Red?”
“Perhaps,” Genesis allowed, with a tolerantly amused glance at the class. “Unless I feel like saying otherwise.”
Because Genesis was contrary like that. Also, not the best teacher in the world.
“In other words, don’t listen to him, he’s an idiot. Anyway,” Kūkaku was going to get back to class now, figuring Genesis could stay if he wanted and she needed something else to blow up later on in the lecture, or he could leave, she didn’t really care, because she got her fun in. And if he just wanted to kick back and watch the rest of the class, she didn’t mind. At least he wasn’t Holmes. “That’s the basic introduction to chemistry and we’ll get more into it next week. This week, however, we’re gonna introduce ourselves so I can know who I’m teaching. Here’s the drill. I want your name, your interest in takin’ my class, and I want you to pick an element off the periodic table. Pick one that represents you, that you like, or just close your eyes and pick one at random for all I care, but pick one, and, if ya want, explain why.”
There was, of course, going to be a homework assignment based on that, but Kūkaku wasn’t telling them about that until they were all finished.
“Alright, let’s start with....you. Also, Bandages.” She pointed to Jono. “Come see me after class. Introductions, let’s go. Sooner we get this done, the sooner we can get out of here” She waved her hand and waited for whoever wished to commence to do so.
[[ please wait for the OCD is up! And many thanks to red_rhapsodos for the cameo ]]