Herd of Teachers
Summary
Does anyone know if Baldi's gonna be our teacher today?
Haruka's school invites Shinichi and Taro as special guest lecturers, who have come in order to teach students about the lives of various people. In the midst of the students asking them questions, Taro decides duel against the Judo and Shogi Club captains. Confused and frustrated, Shinichi and Haruka ask Taro why he constantly attacks the four other Donbrothers who were supposed to be his "companions". Just then, Chikyuu-Ki appears, sucking up people who had broken the rules pasted all over the area. Tsubasa and Tsuyoshi joins the fight, but Chikyuu-Ki turns invisible and vanishes.Tropes
- Call-Back: The reason Taro was a guest lecturer for Haruka's class? All of his coworkers played Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who would go, and he lost.
- Embarrassing Nickname: This episode reveals that all of the other students at Haruka's school now call her "Plagiarist".
- Foreshadowing: At the start of the episode, Haruka notes that the Principal hasn’t turned up recently because of his Plot Allergy. It later transpires that this may also be because his Rules Lawyer tendencies have turned him into a Hitotsuki at some point and attacking random people.
- Imagine Spot: Shinichi has the same Duel to the Death sequence Tsuyoshi had in the last episode, with him losing every single match to Taro.
- Inner Monologue: Haruka's thoughts narrate most of the episode since the main plot takes place at her school, with Shinichi and Taro popping in.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Played for Laughs. Reminded of Taro mocking his carefree attitude back in #5, Shinichi becomes irritated at his presence. Haruka lampshades how shocking it was to see him actually annoyed for once.
- Plot Allergy: The MOTW, the principal of Tsunokaku High School, was introduced at the beginning of the episode to have severe hay fever. Taro uses that against him by dispersing pollen with his fan, causing Chikyuu-Ki to drop his Invisibility.
- The Reveal: Haruka asks why Taro fights the team so much after they defeated the Hitotsu-Ki in previous episodes. He subsequently answers that he's trying to train them, something Shinchi and Haruka are not even remotely surprised by as it was something they speculated on previously.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: When Shinichi thinks about challenging Taro to a Duel to the Death just like Tsuyoshi in the previous episode. He has the same Imagine Spot like him in which they envision a battle in a ring of fire consisting of sumo wrestling, arm wrestling and thumb war, with them losing more and more clothing in the process until they are shirtless and of course Taro crushing them with sheer power.
