AN: Hey everyone!!! I am terribly sorry about not updating for more than a year!! The thing is that I am going to moving in the summer of 2019, but our house is already in a contract to be sold. I wanted to try out for a magnet school in my new location, but the problem is that my current state is really behind in education, so I have been managing two curriculums at once; you cannot emagine how tiring that is. Even so, that is no excuse, and I deeply apologize. Updates will be coming faster, although they might be a bit shorter. Thank you all for your constant support! I love you all!

Small pebbles descended down the steep mountain even as the shadowy figure took a step upwards to the sky. Completely disregarding the steps that were climbing right next to him, he pushed on, even as his feet were reduced to bleeding scraps of flesh. He spat on the ground, exhausted beyond belief. Good house, good cars. What will truly bring me happiness? Dark thoughts began to race his head, even as he began to push through the agony once again. He began to tear away his uniform, beginning to feel suffocated in its collar. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. A life for a life. He had everything taken away from him. His life. His happiness. His family. His purpose. Now all that was left was to repay the favor to the one who caused it. A thin line set in his mouth and his eyes were hard amethyst stones. He was done being the puppet. It was time to say no. Let's get ready to roll.

AC

Karma was idly staring into space. Someone...please. There was an incurable itch lodged deep in his bones, and it was starting to irritate him. Fear was beginning to creep into his mind, even as his fists curled at his sides, digging half crescents into his palms. Sweat was pouring down his face, and his face sunk into a hard grimace. He narrowed his eyes, and his body lunged forward. Punting a roundhouse kick in one direction, he twisted his body in mid-air, right before his feet touched the ground. Landing right behind his oppnent, he placed his sliver knife against her throat.

"Really? You're gonna pull this crap on me again? Even if you know the fact that I can easily slice your throat open?" The nurse's mouth was wide open, gapping like a fish.

At last, she stuttered, "I-I am so-so sor-sorry s-sir. I-I me-meant no ha-harm, ho-honest."

"Seriously? So you're telling me that my IV meds were not poisoned to give me an overdose of drugs? Don't play games with me. Who put you up to it?"

"Relax, Akabane. It was an honest mistake on her part. Just let her go." Scoffing, Karma turned around to face the third party.

"Oh, I see Asano. You put her up to it? I would never have guessed that you would use such underhanded tricks to beat me in a simple game. What's the deal?"

Gakushuu shot Karma a sharp look, then switched it to the nurse.

"Get out now, if you don't want to be injured further." Not even paying attention to her timid nod or waiting for her to leave, he turned to Karma. "There is much that we have to talk about. Your class and your teacher being some of them."

Karma's eyes widened, and in less than a second, he was in front of Gakushuu, his hands wrapped around the latter's throat.

"Spill it, Asano." He snarled. "How did you find out?"

Gakushuu narrowed his eyes, and yanked the grip on his throat off his neck. Launching his body forward, he used his body force to push Karma down to the tiled floor, pining the boy's legs with his own, and holding his wrists in one hand over the red hair. The wrists struggled, but quickly stilled and drooped when an elbow was placed across the prisoner's neck, digging into the pale column of skin.

"How-How did you..." Karma choked out. Getting fed up, he twisted his body up, throwing Gakushuu off. Backflipping into the wall, he pulled out a gun. Coughing out blood, he levelled the gun directly at Gakushuu's heart.

Gakushuu sneered. Running towards Karma, he flipped backwards at the last second, consequently kicking the gun out of Karma's hand. Immediately dropping to the floor, he dodged Karma's leg, which swept down as soon as the gun had left his hand. He was unable to dodge the axe kick thar swung out from above his head. A loud crack was heard throughout the room when Karma's leg made contact with Gakushuu's back. Grinning, Karma jumped on Gakushuu and straddled his back.

"Wow! Look at this! Here I thought that you were smart, but you go and do something stupid. Now you answer my questions." Narrowing his eyes, Karma snarled, "What was that assassin doing in here? Don't play me a fool. I recognized her from the way her hands were callused on her trigger finger, and the way she didn't flinch or wince when my knife pressed her throat. It was almost as if she knew what to do; just like an assassin. She would not have been able to hold that nerve if she hadn't been in that situation before. You better answer me, Asano. Otherwise, I'll strike you down right where you stand."

Gakushuu coughed, spraying out spit and bits of blood. Wincing, he managed to twist his upper back to meet Karma's eyes. Karma's eyes were hard stones of amber, not a shred of sympathy. Gakushuu felt as if that were his eyes when he took down an enemy. He shivered, fear creaping up his spine. He was a monster. But too late now. There was nothing he could do except wade in the blood pool that he bathed in.

Under Karma's hard eyes, he groaned out, "I knew that you would be launched at this hospital and treated here. I had orders to end you, and the reward was handsom. So I hired the girl, whom I deemed a professional, to end you. I did not expect you to be fully mobile after that surgery you just went through."

Karma smirked. Take aim. "How did you figure out about the incident? You couldn't have figured it out unless...unless you actually knew about the shot." Pull the trigger. "You knew it because either you or someone who is your associate pulled the event on us! That also explains how you knew which hospital I was in, which room I occupied, and the staff looking after me. After all, no one outside of E-Class and the hospital knows about my condition. There's also the fact that you attacked me when you assumed that the medicine had failed to enter my body." Karma's smirk exploded across his face. "Not to mention the fact that you know about Koro-Sensei and he task of E-Class. Now that all the facts are on the table, answer me this." Karma leaned dangerously, his hot breath swarming against Gakushuu's face. "Are you, by chance, related to the Hunters?"