Karma steps towards the man, smirking. Normally, I'd try to stop him, but I doubt he'd do anything stupid, so I just watch with the others.

"You seem fairly average for a pro, if you ask me," Karma remarks. "Is breaking glass supposed to be intimidating? I can do that. I wouldn't call reinforcements as an opening move, though. After all, I don't feel especially threatened by a bunch of amateurs."

"Put your money where your mouth is," the blonde retorts as he clenches his fists.

"If you insist," Karma grins, snickering. He then throws a punch at the guy, but he easily blocks. "Nice try, kid." Karma retreats before the guy could hit back.

"I guess this is gonna get interesting!"

The blonde attempts to get ahold of Karma and hit him, but the redhead is too fast for him. Dodging left and right, Karma avoided the attacks without a sweat. As he blocked, however, I noticed something.

"Those are your defense moves, are they not, Mister Kurasuma?" Korosensei asks as the two fight. I grinned. "So I wasn't the only one who noticed." I take a gander at Professor Kurasuma. "Don't tell me you've been giving him special training, teach'."

He shakes his head. "Defense moves don't usually come into play, so I didn't teach any of you. However, he must've learned from me when I block your attacks in P.E."

After a few more hits, the blonde stops. "What's the deal? Evasive maneuvers aren't gonna do anything."

"I could just be buying time. After all, my buddies are trying to sneak by," Karma responds, cracking his knuckles. Noticing the tension in the air, he continues. "Relax, I'm pretty underhanded. However, this is a fight that I wanna win fair and square."

Karma gets into a fighting stance. "No tricks, no cheating, and no holding out. Just you and me, fair and square, like men."

Hearing this, the blonde, snickers. "Be my guest, hun. This is what I've been talking about anyways! Man vs. man. A real battle to the death."

Immediately, Karma strikes at the blonde, who strategically blocks and adjusts his stance. The redhead aims for his head and hips, but his opponent dodges swiftly. Finally, Karma gets a blow at the man's stomach area. The guy turns around in pain, and Karma realizes that this is his chance. As he goes in for the kill, I notice a canister. My eyes widened as I realize what was going to happen.

"Karma, it's a trap!"

Unfortunately, I was too late. The man sprayed Karma in the face with the same toxic fumes that Kurasuma inhaled earlier. "Say g'night, ya little punk," the guy mutters as he drops the canister and catches Karma before he falls.

I clench my teeth, aggravated. "You little shit, I swear I'll-!" Professor Kurasuma grabs my arm, preventing me from going genocidal on that guy. "He wanted to fight you like a man," one of my classmates speaks up.

"This isn't the place for that," the blonde grunts. He stands up, still clutching Karma. "Don't get caught up in the ethics. I'm an assassin, and folks don't get paid by playing by the rules. If ya got a canister of gas use it. If he had one, he'd have done the sa-"

The blonde gets interrupted by toxic fumes sprayed in his face by Karma. As he collapsed to the floor, Karma laughs. "I guess great minds think alike!" Irritated, the guy attempts to cut Karma, but the baka easily pins him to the ground.

"What are you guys waiting for? I'm gonna need a lot of duck tape and every free hand to hold this crazy bastard down!"

On cue, we all piled on top of the blonde, preventing him from escaping.

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After Karma unexpectedly tortured the poor guy, we headed upstairs. I linked my arms with his and Nagisa to ensure none of them did anything stupid.

I exhale as the girls started talking about going into the club. The door that we need to go through has a manual lock, so all the girls would have to go into the club. Of course, Nagisa had replaced me since Korosensei insisted that I should just go in if anything went wrong, so I was luckily staying with the guys.

I snickered as I watched the group exit the hall. Nagisa had changed into a cute outfit to fit in, and he looked so cute!

We waited quietly for a few moments. My arm is still linked to Karma's, and the silence only multiplied the amount of butterflies in my chest. I hadn't realized it earlier, but the only time I've been this close to him besides now was on the boat... Why am I so anxious all of a sudden? Akabaka wasn't teasing me about this, so why is it so big of a deal?

Luckily, the girls opened the door, as well as Nagisa, who'd changed out of the dress. I sigh, feeling comfort when they arrived. Linking my arms with Nagisa's once more, we headed down the hall.

    There were a few guards, so we distracted them so Terasuka could knock them out. He pulled out a taser and shocked the two men, then went through their pockets. Unsurprisingly, they had two guns with live ammo.

    "Chiba and Hayami, I'll let you two carry the firearms," Korosensei says. "That being said, I will not allow you to kill, that I will not."

    I groan, cringing. "Did you just make a Rurouni Kenshin reference?" I ask, although aware of the answer. Our teacher laughs mischievously. "Perhaps~!"

    Ignoring our comments, Professor Kurasuma asks what's down the hall. Ritsu mentions a theater room, and, knowing that more people would come after us, we snuck into the room and hid behind the chairs. We could head some footsteps, so we kept quiet, waiting to take action.