After Asano became serious about your fight, you were sure about one thing; there was no way for you to beat him. Yes, you could last a lot, a normal person would have probably been dead by then, but it was pretty obvious who the winner would be.

You couldn't afford losing, and Asano seemed determined too. You thought he would help you to achieve your goal, but suddenly he wanted to be the winner. What had happened? What made him change his mind?

He had realised your confusion, and all he did was to whisper during the fight.

"There's a reason..."

A reason he is acting like this?

Asano...

But the fight would keep going for a long time,with each person of the crowd cheering for the one they wanted to win.

You were so tired, and yet you were able to stand on your own two feet. Asano was tired as well, but much less. It was then that he whispered one more word to you...

"Sorry"

The next moment, a punch landed on your stomach, and that made you kneel down from pain. That was the end of the fight; not because you lost- you could actually last a little longer- but because a certain someone made it end.

Karma ran towards you, stopped between you and Asano and punched the purple eyed boy in the face, so hard that he fell on the ground, his hands on his cheek. Karma looked at you, knelt down and hugged you tightly.

"Stupid, are you okay? You promised you would be okay..."  he said while caressing your hair and looking carefully at you to make sure you weren't hurt anywhere else. "I wanted to jump in earlier but Isogai and the others wouldn't let me...saying you wouldnt want this. But he fucking punched you... I knew something was off..."

You smiled weekly and placed your hand on his soft cheek. He was tearing up, his red bangs were covering one of his eyes, he looked looked like a scared little boy.

"It's a fight, of course I would get punched, BAKAbane...  and I'm fine, really"

He slightly smiled when he saw you were able to joke. Principal Asano stepped in front, looking at the teachers and the students with arrogant eyes.

"I think it's obvious that my son is the winner. You can all leave now... teacher Karasuma, I think we have to talk in my office."

Karasuma just nodded. Soon, everyone left the yard, except E class, you and Asano Gakushu, who was still lying down after Karma's punch.

Everyone's eyes were on him, disappointed that he had turned against you. He had fought violently and had hurt you. It felt like backstabbing to them.

"I thought you would help us!" Maehara yelled at the lying boy "I thought you wanted Y/N to come back to E class, but you just punched her and fought as if you wanted to kill her! What's wrong with you, Asano? After so much time you spent together with us, you decided to become our opponent again?!"

Asano had his arm in front of his eyes. No one knew what was going on, how he looked like back then, whether he was feeling regretful or not.

"He said he has a reason he acted like this" you murmured and Karma frowned. He left your side and approached Asano. He stood right above him, furious and yelled.

"What's that reason? What's the goddamn reason you had and punched my girl?!"

Those two were never on good terms. Even after Asano befriended E class, Karma would just avoid him. But  when he yelled at him...

Why did he just sound so hurt? As if having punched me is not the only reason he is mad at him?

Even if Karma had never shown it, he was happy with Asano being his class's friend. But he just would never say it. His eyes and cracking voice would tell on him.

Suddenly, tears flowed from Asano's eyes, running under his arm, watering his cheeks and shirt. Everyone was taken aback, and then he talked for the first time after the" sorry" he had whispered to you.

"My reason is... you. All of you"

No one knew what he meant, but he suddenly got the sympathetic gazes from every person from E class.

"What do you mean?" Maehara silently asked.

"If I lost, I... my father would sent me to study abroad. I would have to leave... to leave you... and I want to stay here. I don't care about studying, I... I wanted to stay with you. I knew Y/N wanted to go back to E class but I... I also wanted you guys in my life."

His sobs were heard and then he hid his face with both of his arms.

That fragile state of him was a side you'd never seen before. Even when you were together, he would never appear like that in front of you, no matter how sad he was.

Karma, I think he sincerely loves all of us. A love that's different from the one he has for me. It's a much stronger one. It's friendship.

And I would gladly stay in A class to keep such a person in our lives.

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A/N: NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE THE LAST!!! -This time it will stay like that-

So, what do you think about Asano? ;) not such an asshole (he received so much hate in the previous chapters xD)