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Yaga Masamichi was one incident away from losing his shit.
He taught the first and second years of jujutsu high, and at first It was fine!
The kids got along well, both with each other and with him.
He taught the lessons, did some self defense classes with them, showed them how to harness Jujutsu, supervised assignments, all the things a teacher should.
Otherwise he left them to their own devices so long as they didn't cause mayhem.
That was his ONE RULE
No mayhem. That's it. But nooo.
It started small, Mei Mei accidentally destroyed a wall during weapon training.
A shame sure, but walls can be replaced, and no one was hurt, so not a problem.
Then it escalated.
One day, all the vending machines in the school exploded. (Seriously, how the fuck did that even happen)
Then during an assignment, Satoru destroys a building. (The building apparently was looking at him weird)
After that, Suguru let a cursed spirit tackle Satoru (Satoru got a black eye.)
Then Mei pickpocketed Shoko who then stabbed her with a scalpel.
Then Shoko proceeded to steal the liquor from a house they were supposed to be exorcizing a curse from.
Then Satoru destroys the basketball court cause it “just couldn't handle how amazing he was” (what the actual fuck Satoru)
After that, Haibara broke a hole into a wall (it was on accident but was still triggering)
Mei threw Satoru through a wall when he beat her at cards (he later admitted he cheated and she threw him through another wall)
Suguru then ‘accidently’ let a fly head curse through the school and made Yaga go find it.
It took 3 hours! And why the hell was he the one who had to get it?
Then they all skip class one day just to have been hiding on the roof (how the hell did they get up there?!)
Then Satoru supposedly sleepwalked into Shoko's room, so she threw a knife at his head in ‘self defense’. (He activated Infinity in time, but the moment he lowered it he was hit in the head with a flying book)
After that, the kids (all of them except Nanami) decided they were going on a strike against physical training and learning, made signs in the middle of the night, and spent the next day outside of Yaga’s office window (after throwing a brick through it) yelling about their rights.
He ended up threatening to take away all of their jujutsu privileges and threaten 5 quizzes to get them to knock it off.
He also forced them to pay for the window (Satoru was not pleased)
And apparently the whole time Mei was actually going on strike because she wanted to be paid more for her work, so it took a week to get her to go off strike, given he had to involve the higher ups over a pay raise.
He thought that would be it. It had been a fucking month, but no.
The very next day, they blew up the communal kitchen.
They ‘accidently' got rid of all of Yaga's furniture.
He found all of his cursed dolls were stabbed with a scalpel (Shoko “pleads the fifth” even though they aren't in fucking America)
The weirdest one by far was when Shoko ordered the guys all Maid outfits and convinced them to wear them (under threat of being dissected) and them all doing a dance on the lawn together while Shoko recorded it (except Nanami, who decided he would rather be dissected and made a run for it.)
Shoko did not in fact dissect him, but Yaga was forced to step in.
Then of course Mei decided to start an illegal gambling ring on the steps of jujutsu high, and earned about 39,000 yen before Yaga found out and shut it down. It was active for two days.
He did confiscate her winnings but under the threat of being “sniped by a crow” he let her keep it.
Suguru and Satoru had decided that as a celebration for it being a tuesday (for some reason that was something to celebrate?) They started a wrestling ring in the classroom and promptly disintegrated it (HOW?) so they had to move to a different classroom.
After that they went on strike (AGAIN) demanding a recess.
He was too tired to deal with it that day, so he agreed to a 30 minute recess for them which ended the strike after about an hour.
He was also guilted into buying them a set of swings.
He then receives a complaint that the communal kitchen smelled odd (Haibara placed the complaint) and turns out one of those damn gremlins placed a SULFUR BOMB in the kitchen. (How the hell did they know how to make one? They are ALL FAILING SCIENCE except Nanami, Shoko and Suguru!)
The next day he had to stop Nanami from murdering Satoru and Shoko because apparently Satoru thought Nanami’s room would be the perfect place for a “karaoke challenge” at four in the morning.
He (grudgingly) stopped Nanami from chopping their heads off.
At one point he was just so exhausted he gave them 2 days off, cause he was dying inside.
It just kept getting worse, and worse, and fucking worse, and after two months, Yaga reached his breaking point.
He now sat against his door, breathing heavily, trying to calm down.
He just screamed at the kids.
He already feels awful of course, but today he found that someone tore up all of his cursed dolls (they could be repaired, but still!)
He just snapped, he saw red, yelled at the kids, took away their privileges to free time (and their newly acquired recess time) , and essentially grounded all of them (with Nanami and Haibara being the exceptions)
He just stayed slumped against the door for the rest of the night, regretting everything he did in his life that led him here.
He spent a lot of that time trying to decide how to apologize to the kids, and ended up deciding he would give everyone a day or two off to calm down, as he figured out how to proceed.
They were just kids, hell half of them didn't get to have a proper childhood, it makes sense they would want to have fun and just be actual kids for a while.
Yaga just needed to talk to them about boundaries or something, and let them have some (reasonable) fun.
Yaga stayed in his office both of those two days. Though Nanami did visit him with some food at the end of the first day he was there.
After the second day ended, he awoke to a knock on his door, only to find Satoru, Suguru and Shoko all made him food as a sort of apology for being little shi- for being difficult.
He ate all the food, even though it was a little burnt to show he accepted their apology.
They may be a little flawed, sure, but he still loved to take care of those dummy's.
Ok scratch that, he found out through Haibara that those little shits made a bet on how long it would take him to crack.
Suguru won with his guess of “2 months or more” and apparently it was quite a substantial amount of money they had bet, so because she lost, Mei threw him out of a window.
I deserve a fucking raise for putting up with these kids.