AHAHAHAHAHAAAA! I hope you guys already know that 'the ending' from before was just a joke - I wanted to see your reaction XD

Of course I wouldn't let Karma die so easily, no way in hell!

I enjoyed your curses and pleas and cries XD It seems I indeed am a sadist.

Anyway, sorry (or not) for the shock! Here, to compensate, I update earlier!

Nakamura's P.O.V.

When me, Nagisa-kun, Kayano-chan and Okuda-san we came back to the hospital, there was a havoc. First of all, the nurses were running around and secondly, the young doctor who was in charge of Karma-kun looked confused, maybe even terrified.

We thought something has happened so we rushed to him, asking what's wrong.

"The boy isn't anywhere to be found!" he reckognized us and hissed, leading us Karma-kun's room. With a loud 'bam', he slammed the doors open to reveal an empty bed and opened window. He couldn't have-

"He ran away," the middle aged man sighed, clutching his head. "Seriously, that kid! As if yesterday wasn't enough already!"

That got my attention: "Yesterday? What did he do?"

"Oh right, you don't know. He sneaked out in midnight. We found him on the roof, looking who knows where. He fainted right then and almost fell down if I haven't caught him in time," the doctor explained, shaking his head in disapproval and annoyance.

On the roof? I knew that Karma liked to spend time alone in a secluded place but a roof didn't sound good to me. For some reason, the conversation from yesterday returned to my head.

"If you had to choose between living in pain and escaping it, what would you choose?"

What was the escape he was talking about? Running away from something or someone? Moving? Or something... else?

"I don't know which one is better. I never knew." Could that have been a confession? Or even a plea for help?

The flashbacks didn't end. And it made cold sweat run down my spine.

"If I had chosen one of the options before long ago, I wouldn't be troubling myself or everyone else." Troubling? Whom - us? No, you aren't a trouble. You are a friend. A precious friend.

"That's why – I will do so now."

No.

'We found him on the roof,' the doctor said. 'Almost fell.'

That couldn't be. He wouldn't. There was no way.

No fucking way.

I sprinted out of room without telling my friends anything - there was no time. I had to help. I needed to find him. Nagisa and Kayano ran after me and called me but I ignored them, taking out a phone and calling Koro-sensei.

Just after one ring, he picked up: "Hello, Nakamura-san? Wha-"

"Sensei! Please find Karma! He ran away from hospital and I am quite sure he wants to do something bad!" and with that, he ended the dial.

I was running towards his house, hoping that I was terribly wrong. Nagisa and Kayano were still behind me and when I stopped before the enormous empty house, we were hardly breathing.

"N-Naka-mura...san, what-" Nagisa tried to get out a question but failed. I understood though.

"Karma... in... danger. We must find him!" I deeply inhaled, regaining strenght and straightening up. We had climbed up a tree to see no one home.

Where could he be then? Wandering aimlessly around? He was still sick, he couldn't get too far, could he?

"Let's try the class," Nagisa suddenly suggested and for some reason, it sounded very logical. Nodding, we ran to the mountain.

Koro-sensei's P.O.V.

I firstly told Irina-sensei and Karasuma-sensei of the situation. The more people searched, the better.

Then I flew around the town, scanning everything of red colour. It took me long five minutes to confirm that the boy wasn't wandering in the centre or anywhere near the buildings. Then where? Where haven't I looked?

The answer striked me immediately - school. The campus. That's the only place I have left out before.

What Nakamura-san said scared me. She was a calm person, maybe rash, but not someone to panic over insignificant things. The very fact that she cut me off in the middle of sentence, that she screamed into the phone while running (I could hear her movement and puffing) and straightforwardly voiced out her suspicion - that was enough of a bad sign.

From having heard about Karma-kun's situation and feelings, I could imagine the worse case scenario and I prayed for it to only stay a scenario.

The school grounds were empty. Not even the teachers seemed to be there anymore.

Was he further? That must have been it - but this mountain was way too vast. I needed to find him instantly and to investigate every part of this forest would take at least five minutes. I tried to recall any place where he could be hiding.

The first thing that came to my mind was the dangerous place he tried to assassinate me with that crazy plan. And I rushed there as quick as I could because now, the only thing that occupied my mind was the picture of my redheaded student falling down with a smile on his lips.

Please, let this be just a stupid joke.

And it wasn't. From very afar, I spotted a familiar figure with black blazer sitting on the edge of the tree branch, nowhere near safe. I already wanted to cry tears of relief when Karma-kun's body suddenly relaxed and broke the touch with tree. This sight - it scared me the same way as the first time. Or even worse.

He was falling. And there was a good chance I wouldn't make it.

Three seconds. It would take three seconds for me to get there. The question however was - did I have them?

Panicking, I tried to get faster. To be honest, I might have evolved into Mach 25, considering just how fast I got to him.

As soon as I was near enough to be able to grab him, I slowed down a little in order not to harm him. Without any hesitance, I reached out my tentacles and caught the boy, pulling him closer into a hug.

He noticed the change - from cold, chilling air to a warmness of another being, from the painful loneliness to having someone near - and he shot his eyes open: "What are you doing?!"

I was mad. I was confused, scared, sad.

"What am I doing?! What are you doing, Karma-kun?! What were you thinking!" I hissed, feeling my face change from yellow to red. No, black. No, blue. I didn't know anymore.

We got back to the land but I still haven't let go of my student. He fought me, urged me to let go of him.

"LET ME BE! JUST FUCKING LET ME END THIS ALL!" he screamed while kicking and shaking, his voice going all hoarse. I didn't. If I let go, he would either jump again or break down right there and then.

I was still mad. But the sight of my little beloved student made me hurt to that.

"Karma-ku-"

"WHY DID YOU CATCH ME?! WHY CAN'T YOU LET ME BE FREE?!"

"Wha-"

"I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS LIFE! I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS PAIN! WHY DO I HAVE TO ACCEPT IT ALL?!"

"You aren-"

"JUST KILL ME ALREADY! I WANT TO DIE! I WANT TO-"

"KARMA-KUN!" I shouted to get his attention. We were both sitting on the ground now, but my tentacles were still keeping him together. I promised that these tentacles would never let go of the children. And that promise I intended to keep.

He wept.

"I don't want to live anymore..." the boy whispered while sniffing and crying his eyes out. Gently, I caressed his head and hugged him tigher.

"It hurts, sensei. It hurts so bad." I could see that. His breathing. His pulse. His tone. All of them were so wrong. I no longer had any idea of what to think or say - my dear student just tried to take his own life. Never have I even dreamed of that.

"It hurts so bad I want to die." he muffled a cry by my attire. I had burried his face into my chest and started radiating heat to warm him up - the boy was freezing. And indeed, the trembling from before started dying out.

"Karma-kun... you aren't meant to bear your pain alone." I started carefully. "Even if you were made to believe that nothing like friendship and love exists - let me assure you, it does."

He shook his head violently as if not wanting to have any of it.

"Do you feel this warmth? The comfort of having another person here? Affection?" I asked. "Don't you think that's how love would feel?"

The boy squeezed his fists and started weakly hitting my chest with his face still burried into me.

"Sensei is here to catch you when you fall. Sensei is here to guide you through your worst times. Remember the time on school trip? Do you recall the happy times with your classmates? That couldn't have been a lie. It wasn't a lie, Karma-kun."

It felt like the boy started crying even harder.

"We are here for you, Karma-kun, just as you have always been here for us. If it wasn't for you, who would help Terasaka-kun realize his mistakes and make up for them? Who would become the hope of class E when exams are nearing? Who would defeat Grip and save the whole class?

Don't give up yet. Stay with us.

We need you."

The redhead stopped hitting me and instead dropped his hands, now wrapping then around me.

And I realized that maybe,

maybe those three words "We need you"

were all that he ever wanted to hear.