#banthus

“Banthus is a teacher?!?” Elsword exclaims, nearly knocking over his bowl of cereal. The amount of shock and confusion on his face is probably equivalent to that of a puppy when you fake-throw their ball. He quietly sits back down, pondering what to do next as Aisha huffs a breath beside him. “Ya! I wouldn’t know why, but he’s apparently a teacher now,” She says. Rena is also interested, coming out of her room after hearing all the yelling from Elsword. “Banthus? Why that’s wonderful!”

Elsword slowly..ever so slowly turns to face Rena. “How in any case is this WONDERFUL!?!” He demands, standing up and walking over to her. Rena only smiles. “It’s much better than being a bandit, is it not?”

“She has a point there,” Raven agrees. He’s been standing in a shadowy corner this entire time. Does anyone know why? No, not really. “If Banthus quits being a bandit and became a teacher instead, he’ll be less of a nuisance later on,” Raven explains. He then goes back to being quiet.

“I don’t like it either way,” Eve butts in, narrowing her eyes at Raven. “Banthus should not even bother going close to civilians.” She almost threateningly steps towards Raven, but doesn’t do so since it might start up an unneeded argument. Chung sighs. “I mean we can probably pay a visit to see how he’s doing and whether or not the civilians support it,” He suggest, standing up and stretching. He’s been sitting at the breakfast table with Elsword until the redhead walked off to Rena.

Ara is curious. She wants to go. “C-Can we all go see Banthus? Please? I reaally want to see how he’s doing as a teacher!” She even squirms around slightly, excitement in her veins. Elesis smiles. “Let’s go, then. I’ll take you there,” She offers, lifting her claymore off of the ground and heading for the door. She has a good handful of pranks she knows she can pull off in a classroom setting. Ara, being completely unaware, follows her.

Add cackles loudly. “Banthus? A teacher? Don’t be ridiculous. That’s like saying Chung is a female,” He snorts, laughing again. Chung, however, gives him a solid glare. Add doesn’t even notice it. “Oh man that’s hilarious,” He chokes, wheezing for air. “You guys can do whatever the hell you want. I’m out of here.” With a flick of his fingers, he calls his dynamos to his side before stalking away back to his lab. He has better things to do than to listen to more ‘Teacher Banthus’ bullcrap.

Lu is already running off to Banthus’ classroom. She plans to crash in through the ceiling or something. Ciel chases after her to stop her.

Banthus stares at his Longsword gloomily. “Why did I even become a bandit? All I ever get is my ass being beat by those fucking kids…” He sighs longly as he stores his sword away into the Weapons Room. “And we only get a few ED every now and then.” Banthus stares around his slightly collapsing home and he began to pace around until a light bulb went off.

“Why don’t I become an Teacher instead?”

“Hey you! Quit sleeping!” Banthus shouts and the Phoru shoots up from his desk, looking around frantically. He turns around to write the problem on the board, but when his students falls asleep, Banthus yells at them to stay awake. 

((Haha,,, we were going to, and then we realized we didn’t have queue for the day, so…))

William Phoru sends you to the forest near Elder Village to go look for the melons found in the bat caves along with spices from Bethma and a rare egg from Feita.  You suspect that you are being sent out to run pesky errands, but little did you know that to obtain those ingredients involved fighting overpowered monsters.  Just as you finish off what you thought was the last monster, something was blocking their path.

“Bwahahaha!” Banthus chuckled to himself with his back turned to you with the rare egg in his hand.  “At last, I can bring this back to create the perfect cake for the school bake sale!”You approach Banthus with their arms crossed.  A school bake sale?  When did Banthus care about school?  None of that made sense, but you could care less and jumped at the man with their weapon in the air.  You smacked the man in the head and jabbed him on the belly with the end of their weapon when Banthus threw his sword at you.

“What are you doing here in Altera?”  You asked.

“Didn’t you hear my monologue?”  Banthus laughed, “It’s for the perfect cake and you’re not getting it!”

“Stealing a precious rare egg to take credit of a bake sale!”  You dramatically pose with their arms crossed into an x.  Hey, why was that phoru in the corner laughing?  There was nothing funny about your cool pose!  “I’ll never forgive you for that!”

It didn’t made any sense, but you figured why not.  That sounded like something Banthus would do.  Afterall, school was the last place Banthus would be in unless it involved stealing something for his own benefit, right?

“Huh?”  Banthus got up with a confused expression at the statement, but failed to complete his sentence when he received another blow to the stomach and fell over.

You grabbed the egg that somehow managed to stay intact and grinned, “Quest completed!”

(I have written some weird things in my life, but this takes the cake.  Just had to say that.)

“I didn’t hear you come up-!”

Banthus snorted, looking down atLowe.  “You never do,” he teased good-naturedly.  “I couldsteal your sword out from your hand without you noticing.”

“You couldn’t,” Lowe started tosay, but Banthus held up a familiar sword with a grin and stoppedLowe mid-sentence.  Lowe sighed and took his sword back.

“Is there a reason you’re here?”he grumbled, turning away.  “You know we’re not supposed to be seentogether.  I wouldn’t want the El Search Party trainees to think I’mdating a bandit.”

“Ouch,” Banthus yawned, andbefore Lowe could say anything, he found Banthus draped over him. “Actually, that’s why I came after they left.  I wanted to havesome alone time with you.”

Lowe, despite himself, shivered. “Oh yeah?”

“Yeah,” Banthus murmured, andthen his wicked fingers were on Lowe’s sides, tickling him.  Lowesquirmed away.

Going easy on us, huh? 

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