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Bending the gravity of light? Duncan frowned. He may have gone to a country school, but even he knew that took some doing. He lowered his voice to match Zero's quiet quality.

"Do you really want to take that bet? Sounds risky." He smirked just slightly. Zero was careful from what he'd seen. Doing research, manipulating odds, and planning escapes carefully. He took another step forwards, ignoring the way gravity shifted and churned around him.

Duncan sighed, cocking his head to the side.

"I was trying to- Ah, forget it." He pinched the bridge of his nose and brought his hand down his face in an exasperated way. "My window for defeating you was about oh.. Before the fight began. If you're so smart you know that too, huh?"

His only hope with people that could control both his dice and his bullets was to get them before he knew he was there. Duncan had once sat on a rooftop rolling again and again and emptying his chamber each time until he got a six on accuracy and power and shot the villain from a distance, dropping them before they even knew he was there.

That, obviously, had not happened here.

"Would I?" Duncan gave a wolfish grin, still fiddling with his gun to do something with his hands. "Seems to me we're at an impasse."
That made him smirk slightly wider. "Anything you want to do now that you've got me here? You already have my attention."

Duncan only had time to think that could have gone better, when they flicked and for just half a second nothing happened, and then the feeling of everything shifted and he was thrown upwards. His skull cracked into the ceiling, his body following suit as he essentially fell onto the ceiling. The world below his was spinning and Duncan managed a weak cough, but the air had been driven out of his lungs.
"I was.. talking." He managed to wheeze, frustrated at not being able to do anything. He raised his gun firing off his last shots. He didn't care if he hit, he just wanted to get back on the ground-

Well he'd gotten his wish. Unfortunately the ground didn't exactly welcome him back gently. More like he fell like a ton of bricks.
Duncan just layed there for a few seconds, then gave a heavy sigh. With a groan, he raised himself to his knees, cursing quietly under his breath.

Using a rolling chair in the room as a brace, he moved over to the window. He frowned. Duncan figured he should probably call for backup. Some of his stronger hero friends still owed him a few favors. But.. That just felt like cheating. And that ruined the point of the game.

Duncan summoned his dice again, rolling them around in his hand for a moment, thinking. Then he shrugged, gave a muttered 'screw it' and rolled. Tossing the dice in the air, he made his bet. On a nine or higher, Zero would be summoned back into the room, one an eight or lower, Duncan would.. Probably go unconscious. His energy levels weren't the best today. He caught the dice on their way down and glanced at the numbers. He let out a breath of relief, a five and and a four, just enough to win his bet.

Duncan gritted his teeth, still holding onto the office chair. He seemed wobbly, but he narrowed his eye at them anyways.

"Then maybe stop trying to escape."

The hero wasn't quite sure why he was doing this. It would be best to let them escape, save his energy for a future fight and let someone else deal with Zero. Maybe it was pride.

"We were having a conversation."