"Nagisa? Kayano-chan? I'm in!" Karma's voice came through the earpiece into Nagisa's ear, but he wasn't able to reply right now. He was busy dealing with the son of the minister of defense who was trying to hit on Akari.

Three days had passed and the operation has already begun. Nagisa and Akari were in the auction party right now and were planning to check their planned escape route just to make sure nothing would change. Nagisa still couldn't master the ability to wear his bloodlust as an intimidation and not as a weapon. Akari had improved her reaction time for a little bit and Karma trained his ability in getting through small passages.

Nagisa was really frustrated, no matter what he tried, the boy just wouldn't give up. He also didn't want to unleash his bloodlust to stand out of the crowd and cause a fuss. "I already told you! I don't want anything to do with you!" Akari coldly told the boy who was following her and Nagisa the entire time.

"Aww sweetheart, I love you too." The boy smiled at Akari not even looking at Nagisa. Nagisa felt like his veins were about to explode. He definitely didn't enjoy the way he was being ignored.

The boy had dyed his hair blond and to be honest, he wasn't looking half bad. But this kid was so spoiled and arrogant that his messed up personality was completely working against his good looks. Worst part… his parents named him Kamito… with such parents there is no wonder he was so delusional! What parents would call their child God?

"Listen, I don't intent to fight you since it's gonna be one-sided! And Nagisa is my girlfriend! If you're so desperate get yourself a hooker." Nagisa told Kamito slightly leaking his bloodlust.

And yes… Nagisa was Akari's fake name for this mission… and yes it was Karma's idea. Nagisa still remembered when Karma nonchalantly suggested that Nagisa could simply change names with Akari (Kayano Kaede for the class), since Nagisa was fine for a girl and Kaede for a boy. And of course the entire class voted for it and laughed their ass off. Nagisa and Akari had no chance because they had agreed to decide it with a democratic vote.

-Screw democracy! Really! –

"Ohh are you too scared to fight me? Guess everybody would be, since I'm the next minister of defense ahaha urghh..." Kamito was speaking as if he was celebrating his victory over Nagisa.

-Hah… and he's such an airhead too! He's even worse than Terasaka! How is that the son of the minister of defense? –

Nagisa suddenly appeared behind Kamito with his hand formed like a blade and gave him a quick chop on his neck. "Can somebody please take care of him?" Nagisa looked around and asked, "don't worry he'll wake up in a few minutes."

Without even waiting for an answer he took Akari's hand and walked off. Since Kamito was the son of a minister, he was sure that somebody will take care of him even if he didn't ask. And about the consequences… well Nagisa and Akari will most likely never see Kamito again and even if they do, they'll have to worry about it in the future. Right now they have more important things to do.

"You should've done that right from the beginning Nagisa." Karma's typical laugh came through the earpiece.

"Hah… never mind that, where are you right now?" Nagisa let out a long sigh before changing the subject. It was necessary for them to meet up since Karma smuggled in some tools Nagisa and Akari couldn't get through the security check.

"I'm above the toilet in section D, second floor. I'm in a safe zone right now. Tell me when you're getting close so that I can tell Ritsu to temporally shut down the cams. Anything more than a minute will be suspicious so we have to hurry up. I think it'd be ideal if none of us get caught on cam near there at all." Karma replied to Nagisa.

"How do you plan to do that?" It would be perfect if nobody is caught on cam, that would make them a lot less suspicious. But the building is filled with security cams making it almost impossible.

"Just walk like you usually do there is a 50-meter blind spot between the cam in the hallway and the one pointing at the restroom door. We just have to time it perfectly. I'll keep an eye on the security cam, once you leave the zone of the first cam I'll give you the signal to run. We'll meet up in the toilet finish the exchange and you'll have to rush back to Kayano-chan in time. Kayano-chan, all you have to do is walk on in your usual pace so that it seems perfectly natural when Nagisa rejoins you."

The plan was really risky. If either one of Nagisa or Karma was too slow, they are going to get caught on cam in a really awkward situation. The distance between the starting point and the goal was around 200 meters, considering the fact that Nagisa had to return, it would make a 400-meter sprint including an exchange within a minute.

Note that the world record for the 400-meter sprint is around 44 seconds! So if Nagisa was able to run as fast as the world record, they'd have another 15 seconds for the exchange. But also remember that Nagisa was wearing a tuxedo which doesn't make sprinting any easier

"Haha… haven't felt like this in quite a while now. Let's do it Karma!" Nagisa went through the plan again in his head before letting out an excited laughter.

"Hehe, don't slow me down Nagisa." Karma took a deep breath. It wasn't easy for him either. He had to crawl about 50 meters to get out of the windpipe in the toilet, exchange and make it back to the blind spot between the cameras, that are installed in the windpipes.

Nagisa and Akari kept walking toward their meeting spot in a casual pace until Karma's sent the signal for Nagisa to prepare himself. "Alright, I'll see you in a while Akari." Nagisa gave Akari's hand a light squeeze with an excited grin on his face.

"Mhm, I'll see you in a minute, don't be late though, you know what happens when you let a girl wait for you." Akari smiled at Nagisa before giving him a quick peck on his cheek.

"GOOO!" Nagisa and Akari's hands separated the second Karma's starting signal came through and Nagisa instantly dashed around the corner sprinting towards the toilet.

-Another 100 meters to the toilet! 50 seconds to go! So far so good-

But Nagisa was gradually slowing down after 150 meters, keep sprinting for so long was really wearing his stamina down.

-I'm in! Where is Karma!? Damn it! What is he doing!?-

Nagisa finally got into the toilet and they still had 35 seconds until Nagisa had to return to Akari.

Luckily, Karma jumped out of the windpipe just 2 seconds after Nagisa got there and handed Nagisa two weird looking buttons and a device that looked like a detonator!

-Damn it Nagisa! Not the time to think about that now! –

Nagisa gave Karma a nod before rushing out of the restroom again! Things didn't look too good for them. Nagisa still had 200 meters to go but only 15 seconds left.

Nagisa could feel how his legs were getting heavier and how his pace was slowing down.

-Shit! I'm not going to make it! Huh? Akari?!-

Nagisa was just running around the corner, according to Akari's pace from before, he would have to run another 50 meters with only one second left! That was without doubt impossible!

But when Nagisa turned around the corner, Akari was right in front of him, sitting on the ground and holding her right ankle.

"Heehee, figured you'll be late and will probably need a little break before continue walking.". Nagisa could scream out of relief. Somehow Akari had feared that Nagisa will be too late so she decided to spare him some distance by "spraining her ankle".

"Haha…ha…ha I love you Akari." Nagisa kneed down next to Akari and helped her to get up again before walking to the wall so that they can rest there.

"Karma?" Thanks to Akari, Nagisa was able to get back on time, but he was worried about Karma. Karma was already slower than him on his way to the toilet.

"Ha…ha…ha…somehow managed, I…went for the next blind spot, it was a little bit bigger than my last one, how about you?" Karma sounded really worn out, but Nagisa expected nothing less.

"Just made it in time… so yeah, we'll see you later." Knowing that everything worked perfectly, Nagisa turned off the earpiece, the next parts of the operation didn't need him to communicate with Karma. In fact, the less they did the better.

"Soo, how is my ankle doing?" Akari asked Nagisa with a sweet but also slightly teasing smile on her face.

"Heh, just another minute and you should be fine." Nagisa couldn't help but to laugh hearing Akari's question, she always knew how to make him loosen up.

"So ready to go?" After a minute resting against the wall, Akari asked while Nagisa still pretended to be treating her sprained ankle.

"I am, but you're not." Akari was slightly confused by Nagisa's answer but soon the confusion turned in a shook. Nagisa put his one arm around her and lifted her legs with his other arm and suddenly he was carrying her like a princess.

"W-What are you?" Akari was completely flustered by Nagisa's sudden action but didn't dare to resist since they were still under the security camera.

"We have to keep up the act you know?" Nagisa answered with a bright grin on his face. "By the way, I wasn't the one who started the teasing you know?"

"Comon Nagisa! This is embarrassing!" Akari was still overwhelmed by the sudden change.

"It's not the first time I'm carrying you like this anyways, I don't see where the problem is." Nagisa just kept on teasing Akari while walking towards section A where the auction is going to be.

"Huh? When was the last time you carried me like this?" Akari was even more confused by this statement. She didn't remember this had happened before.

The second she finished her sentence, Nagisa suddenly froze in place with a blank and slightly painful expression on his face. "Nagisa? What's wrong?"

"When you died…"

"Huh? What?"

"The last time I carried you like this was when you died…"

"…"

Both of them went silent after that, Akari also stopped requesting Nagisa to put her down and just cuddled herself more into Nagisa's arms.

Even though Nagisa had carried Akari like this before, this time it was different. This time her body wasn't cold and loose. He could feel the warmth of her body, he could feel her heart beating in sync with his. He was given another chance by Koro Sensei and he will make sure that he will never have to hold her cold body ever again.

Hey guys :) Really really sorry that I hadn't updated for so long. Had some problems with my studies recently so I kind of had to give up on updating for a while. Well, here is another chapter after a month of nothing ;) hope that all of you who have been waiting for an update will forgive me. So yeah, now that I almost got everything fixed, I'll start updating again, but I probably won't do it as frequently as I did before the break so that I won't fall behind again. I'll try to keep updating one chapter per week.

Hope you will still support me even after me ditching you guys for a month without saying anything. ;)