I clicked my tongue in irritation. To vent my anger, I stretched my leg and kicked his chest, multiple snaps echoing. His ribs broke and with an agile slash his head slipped from his neck and with a hard wet plop, it fell to the ground. I ignored the large head and collected my sickles, putting them in my weapon strap after wiping most of the blood off in the lush green grass.
Once I finished I walked to the unconscious young girl and squatted beside her. Her forehead creased and her eyebrows furrowed despite being in a comatose state. I reached out pressing my finger over her furrowed eyebrows trying to straighten them. After countless tries, I awkwardly straightened her brows and the wrinkles on her forehead calmly dissipated.
I ran my hand down to touch her short bobbed brown hair. I sighed while staring at her in contemplation before I took a few coins from what was left behind and laid the coins beside her. A part of me wished to take her along with me on my journey but the wish instantly perished, it would never work out for two reasons; one, she would abhor me and I wouldn't be awed if she tried to kill me and I could not live with someone I could not trust constantly having to keep my guard up but that was if she wanted to follow me and two, it was too dangerous I didn't perceive what my future held and I could not spend my time caring for a child. Taking one more glance at the girl, I got up, pulled on my hood and disappeared into the alleys.
'You're kind,' Al stated as if it was a mere fact
"Why do you say that Al?" I scoffed, his words made no sense, how can he call me kind when I was just so cruel
'You left that girl with hope, and a way to get back up,'
"How did I do that when I killed her last family?"
'Barnes would later betray her anyway, you noticed that after he died, she would need the drive to continue so you left her with a deep hatred for you so she has a goal; to kill you.'
"Al, you're possibly the only one who would ever think so," I laughed if anyone heard that killing someone's family was a way to keep their drive going. People would assume he was crazy. He was right on one thing, I tried to help her by giving her a goal in life, it's just she would never learn that and she would forever blame me for taking her cherished ones away without ever knowing the truth, I was okay with that though she can hate me, however, at least she escaped one calamity. Was it a flawed opinion and action? Yes, but I never once said it was perfect. Her survival depended on herself and herself alone.
'Indigo,'
"Yes?"
'It's okay to be kind when you're able to maintain your kindness even when you've gone through hell, that's genuine kindness isn't it, and it's scarce' Al's cold unchanging voice rang in my ears softer than usual
"Isn't that naivety?"
'Only when you throw your kindness around arbitrarily. Indigo don't go thinking you're a terrible person, you're kind, it's only rough around the edges.'
".... Al, stop getting sappy on me," I blushed. How could he call me kind? Isn't he aware of just how cruel I was, taking that girl's hope away and only giving her some money as compensation? Sure, her so-called family was evil, but.... she doesn't know that. My head turned to mush as I constantly denied Al's words, refusing to accept I was kind.