Chapter 144

Killers' Time
Japanese Title	分裂の時間 Koroshiya-tachi no jikan
Volume	17
Chapter	144
Pages	22
Chronology
Previous Chapter	Chapter 143 Division Time
Next Chapter	Chapter 145 Claw Time

Killers' Time (過去の時間, Koroshiya-tachi no jikan) is chapter 144 of the Assassination Classroom manga.

Short summary

After the idea of a paintball war was proposed to settle whether the class should save Korosensei or not, the class divided themselves into two teams; the red (kill) team and the blue (save) team.

Blue Team	Red Team
Yuma Isogai	Karma Akabane
Nagisa Shiota	Rio Nakamura
Kaede Kayano	Ryoma Terasaka
Kotaro Takebayashi	Itona Horibe
Megu Kataoka	Kirara Hazama
Manami Okuda	Ryunosuke Chiba
Toka Yada	Rinka Hayami
Hiroto Maehara	Taisei Yoshida
Hinano Kurahashi	Sosuke Sugaya
Yukiko Kanzaki	Masayoshi Kimura
Sumire Hara	Takuya Muramatsu
Tomohito Sugino	Koki Mimura
Yuzuki Fuwa	Hinata Okano
N/A	Taiga Okajima

After seeing Nagisa and Karma turn their backs to each other, Kayano notes that even though they have been friends since the first year of middle school, they still acted as though they were acquaintances, always adding "-kun" to the ends of their names when addressing each other.

As the beginning of the civil war approached, Maehara and Isogai noted that the red team had more boys, and more students with special combat abilities. Isogai, thinking that Nagisa was lacking in such abilities, tells him he should make his moves freely on his own.

Once the war began, in an instant, Takebayashi and Kataoka were sniped and therefore eliminated by Hayami and Chiba. However, once Okajima met up with the latter, Kanzaki ambushed and eliminated them both.

Long Summary

Immediately after the decision to decide Korosensei's fate via paintball war, the students started choosing between the red (kill) faction and blue (save) faction. Ritsu, Irina and Karasuma declared neutrality.

Some of the students' choices and motives are listed below:

• Chiba and Hayami join the red team out of their desire to find the sure-fire hit that would kill Korosensei.
• Kayano joins the blue team because she regrets trying to kill him and therefore wants to spend more time with him.
• Okuda and Takebayashi join the blue team, believing the power of science allowed the possibility of saving their teacher.
• Sugaya, Okajima and Mimura join the red team, desiring to show Korosensei their masterpiece before he runs out of time.
• Kimura joins the red team wishing to become as assassin worthy of his name (justice).
• Kanzaki joins the blue team wanting to forever keep asking Korosensei for advice.
• Hazama joins the red team, not wanting to debate between saving the world or Korosensei.
• Yada joins the blue team, wanting to be honest with her feelings.
• Isogai and Maehara join the blue team merely because they want to save Korosensei.
• Itona joins red team, reasoning that as a result of his desire to kill him, he was able to join and get to know Class 3-E.
• Okano joins the red team also wanting to be honest with her feelings.

Characters in order of appearance

1. Korosensei
2. Ryūnosuke Chiba
3. Rinka Hayami
4. Nagisa Shiota
5. Kaede Kayano
6. Aguri Yukimura (flashback)
7. Manami Okuda
8. Kōtarō Takebayashi
9. Sōsuke Sugaya
10. Kōki Mimura
11. Taiga Okajima
12. Masayoshi Kimura
13. Yukiko Kanzaki
14. Kirara Hazama
15. Tōka Yada
16. Hiroto Maehara
17. Yuma Isogai
18. Itona Horibe
19. Hinata Okano
20. Megu Kataoka
21. Ritsu
22. Karma Akabane
23. Tomohito Sugino
24. Ryōma Terasaka
25. Takuya Muramatsu
26. Taisei Yoshida
27. Rio Nakamura
28. Rinka Hayami
29. Sumire Hara
30. Hinano Kurahashi
31. Tadaomi Karasuma
32. Irina Jelavić