Gadget's POV ⚙️

-Earlier-

I smiled as I sighed, finished with the cooking.

Everything that I cooked, before putting in a tray, was cooled down and ready to eat.

Sure, I'm not a cook who's a perfection at every recipe and meal, but I hope Zero will like it.

After washing my hands again before taking the apron off, I picked the tray up and headed upstairs to give Zero the food I cooked for him.

However, as I made it to the door, I heard something being shuffled around before everything went quiet.

"Zero? Is everything alright in there?" I asked concernedly.

I didn't hear a response for a few seconds until I heard Zero say, "I'm okay. You shouldn't worry about me."

-Now-

Judging by the sound and the tone in his voice, I know he's lying and wasn't okay.

"Zero, I know you're lying. I'm gonna come in there anyways." I said before holding the tray with one hand as I grabbed the doorknob and turned it to open the door.

As I stepped in the room and setted the tray down on my desk, I looked up and noticed that Zero was out of bed, standing, as he had his sword in his hand.

At first, I thought he was just looking at it and was gonna put the sword back where I had it, until I noticed something felt really wrong.

I was hearing him saying "kill" repeatedly, like a mindless slave.

The look in his eyes were empty and lifeless, showing that he's completely lost his sanity, as he didn't put the sword down.

And the way he was looking at the sword wasn't a good sign either until he placed both of his hands on the handle and lifted the sword up a bit, pointing the blade at his throat.

I immediately realized what was going on and about to happen.

Zero's about to turn the sword on himself and commit suicide.

"Zero! What are you doing?! STOP!" I said with a panicked tone in my voice as I quickly took one of my hardcover books off from the bookshelf before hurrying over, grabbing Zero by the wrist, and slamming the book on his head resulting in him getting knocked out.

After doing that, Zero dropped the blade before he collapsed to the floor and went unconscious.

I panted a bit before sitting down on the bed, relieved that I was able to stop Zero before he could try ending his life.

I looked at the sword for a minute and quickly took it away from him before hiding it in the closet.

Then I picked Zero up and had him against the bookshelf before I putted the book down on the floor, a few inches away from his feet, making it look like he tripped over it.

To shorten this, I'm basically making it look like Zero tripped over something and fell backwards before crashing into the bookshelf and getting knocked out by one of the books that was slightly heavy.

After doing that, I headed downstairs and grabbed an ice pack before returning upstairs, putting it on Zero's head to numb the pain.

I looked over at his unconscious figure, with sorrow filled in my eyes.

"Zero...Why? Why did you try to kill yourself for? You know I trust you..." I thought to myself before tears began appearing in my eyes and running down to my cheeks.

I pulled Zero into a hug as I was crying silently.

The thought of him committing suicide right in front of me scared me so bad.

I was lucky I reacted pretty quickly.

After I stopped crying, I sniffed a little before I reached over and started stroking Zero's cheek lightly with my thumb, feeling my heart pounding like crazy inside my chest.