Is That Me or the Fear Talking?
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With Tragic Eyes and Bloodshot Dreams by SlytherinKilljoy
Fandoms: Assassination Classroom
14 Mar 2021
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Asano Gakushu didn’t know what to expect when he jumped off the bridge. He thought it would all just end. The pain. The sinking feeling of uselessness.
The abuse.
He did not expect to come face to face with the ghost of the same boy who jumped off this very bridge a decade ago.“Hey, Asano Jr. C‘mon, take a seat. I’ve been waiting for you. Let’s have a chat before I send you back.” A bright faced Ikeda chirps.
There’s a pause. He stares. His knees are shaky.
“Wait. Send me back?” He feels a pang of fear run through him, “No. Please. Don’t—I can’t go back there—“
“One year ago. That’s when it all started going downhill, for you, didn’t it? I’m sending you back one year. And maybe you can save more lives than just yours.”
Then another voice speaks up, echoing Gakushu’s thoughts, “Ikeda, I’m perfectly fine being dead. I’ve told you there’s no need—“
Gakushu turns to see a yellow octopus. The Yellow Octopus. He sinks to his knees.
He thought his life was a mess, who knew death was worse?
—Gakushu gets a chance to redo the last year of his life. With one simple decision, it leads him on a completely different path. And just maybe, that’s not entirely a bad thing.
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- Part 1 of Is That Me or the Fear Talking?
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One in three of all abused children go on to become abusers themselves.
Gakuhou knows abuse like the back of his hand.
He’s been emotionally abused by his parents, physically and sexually abused by his wife, but that wasn’t the part that he’s the most ashamed of.
It was the fact that he was just as bad as them, the way he hits his own son.
His mother grabs him by the hair, jerking his head back. Gakuhou’s scalp screams in pain, but he keeps his blank smile plastered on his face, “One day you’ll have kids of your own, and you’ll understand.”
“I don’t want to understand. I’m not like you.” Gakuhou speaks blandly. But the fear pounding through him is real. He won’t end up like them. He won’t hurt people.
“Oh, you are, boy. You’re not a good person, you destroy everything you touch. You ruin everything and everyone.”
“You’re not a good person, you destroy everything you touch.” Gakuhou remembers as he looks in the mirror every morning. He thinks of his son. And agrees.
The tragic story of Gakuhou Asano, the mistakes he made and how he finally gets help and learns to fix them.
Some people don’t deserve a happy ending. But they get it anyway.Series
- Part 2 of Is That Me or the Fear Talking?
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An experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment
“Akabane showed up? I expected he wouldn’t.” Gakushu says.
“He didn’t want to, but I made him,” Nagisa smiles innocently.
—Chapter 11, With Tragic Eyes and Bloodshot Dreams
This is the story of how Nagisa did the impossible.
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- Part 3 of Is That Me or the Fear Talking?