Old Dog, New Tricks: Senior Student [Episode 173057]

by Kaerlos

School. A place considered by adults as a place to teach the next generation vital skills, and generally considered by that same next generation as the latest form of torture. In these halls, the studious were intermingled with lazy slobs with fine disregard for both intellectual capacity and willingness to even be there. Of course, the preceding primarily refers to orderly, "normal" schools where the oddest thing to happen was an edible lunch.

The school relevant to this story, however, was not orderly or normal by any stretch of the imagination: Fights in which the surrounding area received more damage than the combatants were commonplace, the principal had three eyes (though this was NOT common knowledge by any means), and at least one of the students was suspected of being from another planet.

Into this den of insanity a new source of chaos was calmly walking through the front door...

"Let me see if I've got all this," the principal said, watching the newcomer with one eye while the other two closed thoughtfully. "You are an ancient martial arts master here to enroll in the school to... how did you put it... 'expand your boundaries?'"

"Yes, sir. That's correct."

The principal leaned forward, lacing his fingers together in a manner reminiscent of a certain asshole anime megalomaniac who shall not be named, before asking, "You do realize that nobody will believe that you're a student here if I allow you to enroll, right?"

A haze caused the principal to blink all his eyes in surprise, and when he had opened them, the now much-younger-seeming applicant asked, "Is this better?"

The principal studied the applicant for a few seconds before nodding; it was almost impossible to tell that where an individual of indeterminate adult age had been seated a few seconds before now sat a child of an age appropriate to the school. "Yes, no one will question your presence like this... but there's one more thing I'll need before I can officially enroll you."

"Oh really? And what's that?"

"Your name, of course." The principal snickered slightly at this applicant's forgetfulness, but tried not to be too obvious since he didn't want to find out what powdered concrete and sawdust tasted like, and in his experience martial artists tended to be quite touchy about perceived insults.

"I knew I was forgetting something... Anyway, my name is...

Back to episode 172338

View episode chain

Read the comments on this episode

See other episodes by Kaerlos

(Posted Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:57)

Home  •  Recent Episodes  •  Recent Comments

Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de or use the contact form.

らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.