Assassination Class: Deadly Duo

Fingerless Grasp

<Karma>
I'm losing my mind. Each second that I waste on an enemy, is a second lost that could cost Nagisa's life. I've promised him that I would protect him, but it seems like he's always slipping from my grasp. He falls thousands until he's caught, but there's only so many time's he can fall before he-

"Akabane sir!"
I turned around and saw a group of the MD's special forces. They all firmly stood until one proceeded towards me. For a moment their presence gave me relief.

"What's the status?" I questioned.
"As of 10 minutes ago, we were able to secure 75% of the whole facility. Other groups as we speak are confronting the enemies forces." He explained.
"Could be faster." I said without a filter to stop myself. "Sorry." I apologized.
"I would be irritated too if I had a bullet wound in my leg and couldn't find people dear to me." He bowed his head and handed me the weapon he was carrying on his back.

"Let's trade." He insisted. "You have your family to save."
"Don't you have a family to go back to as well" I brought up and they all looked at each other. "Let's go back together, alive and proud." I placed my hand on his shoulder and he nodded his head.

He turned around to the others and shouted,
"Do you understand that men!?"
Their reply back echoed through the metal caves and shatter windows.
At this rate, I couldn't afford to waste anymore time.
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<Nagisa>
I'm cold, dry, and dirty. The horrible feeling forced upon my will that I am too weak and broken to move and fight back. I want to crawl in a hole and just die. Leave me be and get it over with. I can't take this shame with me back home...not like this.

It's all but a blur to me. The moving ceiling, my body jerking, my body was cold. I could feel nothing at this point with the man letting himself on me, his weight crushing me, defiling me.
I want to crush my hands on the cement ground, but I couldn't and I hated myself like this. I'm growing tired and tired...tired.
I can only see that sweating smirk on his face while he ruined me more. The only warmth I felt was my blood running down my leg, but even so...it turned cold.
My hands were tied with blacken rope. So tight that it throbbed dead. There was no pain, just uncomfortable. How many times is he going to use me for his own sexual pleasures. By now she should be tossing me aside like garbage, but he intends to add more trash, more rubbish, more and more. I cannot take it all in...when is he going to stop?

"Did I hurt yeah?" He glared into my eyes and my sight faded away. The cold tears that streamed down my cheeks, staining the ground.
When is it going to end?
••••••••
<Kagi>
Out of steam and out of energy. I sat down to catch my breath before I went off again. I finally came to my senses after awhile of thoughtless killing. I'm human. I have to remember that. This body cannot hold out for too long, I am not immortal.

I rested against a wall and leaned my head back. It was dark all around me as I had shut off my flashlight. Some echoing splashes of boots in water, guns blaring and bodies dripping. Like a symphony for the dead. I could only sit back and listen to how my life is.
It is my life.

Then I reminded myself that it was Seiichi who decided to save a lost cause like me. He didn't have to but he did and if I just carelessly throw it away because of my selfishness, then a soul is forever lost in its finding.
This gave me the strength to get up and think a little. Move because I want to move and not because I have to...I will fight because I want to.

Eventually I got back up and reloaded before taking off again. I need to find mom, I cannot afford to walk out of this place without my dear mother. Someone I've always wanted to be...strong, confident, and proud. Even when my connection with my mom was shaky, I still admire how great he actually is.
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<Karma>
Overly conceited as I was, I didn't even care to take those other men with me. Instead I ordered them to advance and claim ground to fully takeover the facility.

While they followed those commands, I continued to ram down each and every door until I could find Nagisa. He has to be in one of them, plus Irina and Karasuma haven't called back yet...Nagisa is still missing.

This is the last corridor and the last room. I peered around and hoped for the best that this wouldn't shatter my sanity.
With my leg up at a 90 degree angle bent, I thrust my other leg that wasn't wounded with the heel of the boot and crushed the door down.

Without a blink, I laid my eyes on Nagisa on the ground tied up.
"N-Nagisa!-."
My body froze in an instant as I witness his pants slightly down and torn. His bare flesh that was exposed with blood streaming down his thighs.
The white puddle that splat on his shirt, with more gashes and rips that danced across his face and arms.

"Nagisa!"
Anger pent up and I dashed over to him and without realizing the danger I had put myself in, someone had knocked me down with a blunt object to the head. For a moment my eyes went hazy and my body collapsed on its own.

I was so close to Nagisa, but so far away that if I reached out, I wouldn't have touched.

"Finally made it huh?" The man above me stomped his foot in my chest and I choked for air. "Thought I wouldn't have any time to play around, but I had plenty." He licked his bottom lip and put a clown mask on his face and took out a gun.

No!
With a last ditch effort, I grabbed his ankle and with the last strength I had, I pushed at his foot until it was no longer pressing me down. I screamed with all my might and twisted my body over and pulled on his leg for him to lose balance.
BANG
He pulled the trigger but the bullet yield into the concrete ground just inches away from my face.
By now I was able to drag him down and pin him. With my own gun from my leg holster, I drew it and shot more than I needed to.

3...4...5
The rounds went until I had no more ammo left.
I dropped the gun and stared at the hole I made in the man's chest.
My adrenal was rushing which ceased to comply. I was still worked up despite killing the man. My heart feels like it's going to explode any minute.
My told myself to breath properly and steadily, before I moved again.
When I did, I crawled over to Nagisa and gazed into the brink of death exhaustion.

I placed my hands on his shoulder and shook him carefully, while on my knees.

"H-hey...Nagisa?" I called out and he didn't answer. I shook him a little more harder and spoke louder.
"Nagisa, it's me Karma. I'm here." I repeated.

But it seemed as if my words were airless.
Even my own body had its limits. This time I couldn't feel like injured leg nor the thoughts I carried. What am I doing again? Why do I feel so tired? Why can't I...

Every muscle in my body gave and I fell back with my head banging on the ground. I couldn't feel it, but nothing matter at the moment because I was faced like his next to Nagisa.
I reached for his hand once more and they were distastefully cold.
And my hands were colder.

A sudden cloak of blackness blinded me for a few seconds, but my vision came to later on. But this repeated over and over, until it was blackening altogether.
I feel very...tired and...cold-