Rendezvous: Forest (IV).

Dabi shot a violent ball of blue flame straight at Rui. Rui sidestepped the flame but Toga was waiting for him already.

'Impeccable teamwork! Though that is not enough for me.'

Toga slashed and sliced at his face but missed narrowly each time. Every time she missed a cut, she grew more and more frustrated. In the end, she attempted to stab him but he managed to elude it by taking a step back.

Spinner, who had gotten the gist of the situation, teamed up with Toga and tried to take him down as well. Rui kicked Spinner in the chin and slapped Toga out of the way.

They were temporarily out of the game but Stain quickly came in. He was much more proficient with the knife than Toga and gave Rui a bit of trouble. Stain managed to take a nick of Rui's blood. As he was about to lick it, Rui said "nope!" and kicked the knife and sent it flying away.

Stain was shocked by the knife flying that he did not realize Rui had his fist in his face. Rui gave a flurry of combos aimed at his abdomen and he dropped to his knees, coughing blood.

Another ball of blue flame came at him, and out of that flame was Muscular. He was in the sky and tried to crash down on Rui. Rui rolled away from the incoming impact and the subsequent flurry of punches.

Rui managed to give some back but he sensed a knife coming from his left side. Toga had gotten back up and continued with her assault. But Muscular pushed her away.

"This guy is mine!"

Rui started to parry his punches instead of evading them, finding them too fast to do so.

Rui wanted to waste no more energy and decided to end this quickly, or this could end badly for all of them. All of a sudden, all of them except of for Muscular put on gas masks. Muscular was still boiling with rage to listen to his intercom.

Purple gas appeared around him, and he started getting sleepy. His found it hard to keep his eyes open and his concentration waned.

'This gas! Must be one of them but who?!'

He looked around desperately to see who was controlling the gas quirk but in the thick fog, it was hard to even see his hands.

"Watch out!"

To his right, he saw a muscular fist aimed straight for his face. Now, he could not dodge or parry it, he was too sleepy to function. The fist managed to connect with his face, and Rui was knock backed a few meters.

Muscular had calmed down and put on the gas mask before it was too late. He remembered how acting on his feelings worked out the last time, so he calmed down and acted accordingly.

Rui this time was in a very vulnerable state. There was not much he can do right now; he was outnumbered, was very sleepy, and injured. He racked his brain for things he could do.

He swam through the sea of possible ways to overcome his demise. Only when the feet of Muscular neared his face did he finally come across a solution.

It was an art of fighting without breathing. That way, he could fight without breathing in the toxic gas and keep a clear mind.

If he recalled correctly, the name of it was Breathless Serpent. It was based off a mythical serpent that could spend days in water without taking a breath, and yet function normally. Rui spent years mastering this craft only to not ever use it because he hadn't found a reason to. It was only now did he have a use for it.

Applying the memories into real life, he completely stopped breathing. There was a set of moves that followed it after that resembled slithering movements used for fighting. Confident that it was the right move, he narrowly avoided Muscular's feet.

Rui went around Muscular avoiding his strikes and striking himself at random intervals. The strikes were sharp and powerful and aimed at mainly the solar plexus and other sensitive spots. Muscular was soon rendered immobilized in the spots Rui striked, and could not move his arms anymore.

Rui heard a gunshot from behind and reflexively parried the gunshot. He turned behind and saw a man holding the gun that shot him. He blasted off the ground at landed a punch at him. Fortunately, once he punched him, the mist started to dissipate.

"So you must be the one huh?"

Rui lodged his hand into the chest and ripped out his heart. Such a troublesome opponent was annoying to deal with, and he figured if this man was with the League of Villains, he found no reason not to kill him. He'll reduce the power of the League and purge off villains. In his eyes, he saw it as a win-win.

Now that the mist had dissipated, his vision became clearer and could spot the members again.

A man in a restricted bodysuit had his teeth protruded out of his body (Moonfish) and aimed at Rui. Rui chopped and sliced the hardened teeth to the surprise of Moonfish. His teeth was as hard as steel and Rui casually slices them like butter.

Rui became conscious of the fact that he could use this teeth to his advantage. Rui looked around for the most vulnerable person, and switched positions with them.

He appeared right next to Dabi, and looked at where he used to be. Toga was impaled by multiple teeth. Realizing what he had done, Moonfish stopped extending his teeth but it was too late.

Toga dropped down to the ground, with blood gushing out of many places.

Rui elbowed a distressed Dabi in the face and broke his nose. Dabi was then sent crashing into tree where he laid.

Unbeknownst to him, Mr. Compress had already called for Kurogiri to come and pick them up. Moments later, he appeared and picked up Dabi, Mr. Compress, Moonfish, Magne, Twice, Spinner, and Stain.

Kurogiri quickly apparated out of the area leaving Rui with two dead bodies.

Kurogiri apparated back to the bar, where the members exited out panting. Their spiked adrenaline had worn off and they were starting to feel the effects of it. They crashed the couch, glad they got away safely.

Despite being villains, they were still humans at heart. The loss of Toga, the cheerful girl who brighten up their moods without fail, and Mustard, the boy who was easy to tease about his petty resentment towards school kids hit them very hard in their hearts. (changed desc again.)

They were completely distraught, thought they didn't bawl their eyes out.

Dabi did a head count, and realized they were missing one person. They lost two people, so they should have eight people here.

The, he realized who was missing. The biggest person in the squad, Muscular.

Muscular was alone with Rui.