Assassins in a Hero's world

Chapter 18: The hunt continues.

Karma was bored. He has been walking for a few minutes around the forest without running into anybody. Just how big was this forest? And then, almost as if his calls were answered, he heard some leaves rustling.

"Todoroki!" Somebody exclaimed, and since Karma didn't see anybody, he guessed that it was Toru. And the flying weapon might have given it away too. "We need your help with a plan! I know that you have your thing to do here, but this will work."

Karma nodded and made a motion for Toru to lead the way.

"Alright, so to give you a rundown of our plan. We will have Koda look around the area with the help of a few birds he has befriended, then, we will lure either one of them into a clearing where squirrels with paint bombs, made by Momo, will wait. This can't fail!"

Karma just nodded, thinking about the whole thing. 'This could only work if the other side knows about your Quirks, otherwise it would be better to send your squirrel army out into battle. But we do know their Quirks-. Nagisa is going to fall for this, and won't think about being killed. He should thank me later for saving him here.'

Karma just stopped walking, pulling out his gun.

'Sorry Toru, but not today.'

He pulled the trigger, and then something hit the ground with a childish whine.

"Why? Why Todoroki?" She asked, probably looking up, into Karma's eyes. He didn't answer, and just walked past her, getting ready to shoot Koda.

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Nagisa has now taken out the wild card, so now it was time for the hunt.

Now who would be the best to take out, on a strategic standpoint? He didn't know to what extent they have trained, and just a few clips don't help. So the best is to overestimate them, and a rather large thorn would be Toru.

She is invisible, and no matter how good somebody might be at finding people, it was still a problem. Furthermore, Nagisa can't use his bloodlust to scare the shit out of somebody, to detect them through their then increasing breathing.

Now with who could Toru be with?

That was something Nagisa wondered, as he jumped through the trees. He stopped in a rather high position, hidden in the leaves. Looking around, he saw a bird, which was rather perceptive? Something just bugged Nagisa about that little bird.

'Alright, I have to make sure the bird doesn't see me. I might be paranoid here, but better be safe than sorry,' Nagisa thought. 'And better keep an eye on it. In the rule book, it was stated that we aren't allowed to hurt animals, wait a minute. Koda's Quirk was- Oh shit.' The bird looked eyes with Nagisa, before flying off.

"Oh fuck, oh fuck-" Nagisa mumbled, dashing after the bird, when he stopped. In front of him was an army of squirrels with mini paint bombs, and Koda was in the middle with the bird on his head.

He pulled out his gun, but to his surprise, Koda was already dead.

Nagisa's head snapped to the direction, from where the bullet came through, and there he saw the disguised Karma, who of course, was grinning. Which looked rather wrong on Todoroki's face.

"Nagi-chan, didn't I tell you to watch out? What would you do without me?" He purred.

"Please stop, that looks wrong. Tease me all you want when you get out of your disguise."

"I'll remember that~" and Karma walked off, without giving Nagisa the chance to reply.

He just sighed at Karma's way of behaving, but that's not something to worry about. Afterall, Nagisa has a few more people to take out, and not for dinner. So he climbed back into the trees, in search of prey, and soon found a lonely bird and an emo.