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And yet it looks like you’ve never killed someone before

Summary:

‘Oh Akabane Karma, you worthless psycho...’

His arm was just as red as his hair, yet nothing could fill this void now.
What had previously been a sure source of adrenaline, was now brought down to nothing but a boring routine...

A piece of shit was what he was, so why couldn’t he just die already?

Chapter 1: Prologue

Notes:

Hello everyone!

I initially wanted to write a typical Akabane Karma/Shiota Nagisa fic, but I eventually decided to write something bigger than that.
It does start with Nagisa’s perspective, but it quickly turns into Karma’s character study, while the relationship is mostly treated as marginal.

I do hope you will not look at it as less since it isn’t BL focused, as I am quite proud of this idea of mine. I am looking forward to your feedback!

Enjoy!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Everyone was crying. Even Karma, despite being the one with the toughest facade. He was the one who held the knife, he was the one to end Koro-sensei... Damn it, he made sure every single one of them would feel bad with this ‘assassination’, if he could still call it that.

He shouldn’t have let it get to him, yet all of them, well, maybe Nagisa in particular, had some sort of connection to Koro-sensei. He couldn’t help but feel this weird emptiness now that it was done. Sensei always lit up the room, he was loud, he liked to gossip, joke around, but he was serious when it really mattered. In the simplest words, Koro-sensei was one of a kind, really.

With him gone, nothing would be the same. The End Class could never go back to what it was with him...

 

~ ☾ ~

 

His mother was yelling at him, and yet he couldn’t hear what she was saying. Frankly speaking – he didn’t care. All he wanted to do then, was to go to bed and cry, or maybe not, his eyes were already sore. But he wouldn’t be able to even do as much with his mother around. He felt a hand on his shoulder.

« He’s staying at my place » was all he could recall Karma say, before he was already on the train to his place. The blue-haired boy wanted to say something, to thank him, but the words got caught in his throat. It was too much, it was all too much...

 

~ ☾ ~

 

He fell lifelessly onto Karma’s bed. He felt like crying, and yet he couldn’t shed a single tear. It was tiring. He could feel the red-haired boy lying down next to him, he could tell he felt the exact same way.

The air was dense, but regretlessly silent. The pain was piercing and crawling, surely it will pass, yet should it? It is supposed to hurt. He shouldn’t move on any time soon, no, it would be terribly wrong of him to. 

Nagisa could hear the other boy shifting on the bed to face the ceiling, still he was quiet. They didn’t interact a single time on the way here. Not a word. Not even a glare. It was just the heavy burden of the things left unsaid... 

Notes:

Oh, apparently I had made up the word ‘regretlessly’ :)

Reminder: This is just the prologue – teaser if you will – the actual chapters will be much longer and a lot angstier.
They will also be from Karma’s perspective!

I hope you enjoyed it enough to consider leaving kudos and looking out for updates!

Thank you!