"Yes, I promise.
Still crying and without a word, she hugged me and we fell to the ground.
She was pressing on my wounds and the knife in my shoulder, but I couldn't find the courage to ask her to get off.
We stayed like that for over 20 seconds until she realised she was collapsed on top of me.
"Oh sorry, I had completely forgotten about your injuries, let me fix you up right away."
"Nah, don't worry, it's not that painful."
For only answer, she pressed on the wound on my leg.
And in response to her gesture, a cry of pain came from my mouth and a smile of satisfaction appeared on her face.
We didn't say anything else after that she started to put pressure points on my wounds to make the blood clot and then she put bandages on the places where I was injured to cauterize my wounds as quickly as possible.
"Excuse me, but what are your names?" The lady asked.
"I am Alia and he is Yùichi. She replied with a friendly voice.
"Yùichi, how did you do it?" she asked me.
"How did you do it?"
"To beat him, how did you do it, he was faster and stronger than you. So how is it possible that you defeated Haku! She said with a shout.
"So, his name is Haku... I would say that I defeated him because I was lucky." I replied with a thoughtful look.
Unfortunately my answer was not the one she was hoping I would give.
"So you expect me to believe that he only lost because of bad luck! No, that's impossible, you cheated! Because of you he is dead. Dead because of cheating and bad luck, I will never forgive you!
She took a knife, stood up and ran towards me.
At my wits' end, it was almost impossible to move, so dodging her knife was just a dream. My only reflex was to close my eyes and then I heard a 'Flatch' and the sound of blood falling to the floor. But there was no new pain.
So I opened my eyes again and the first thing I saw was the look in the eyes of this lady whose name I didn't even know.
Her look had become totally inert, it had lost its rage and its will for revenge. The only thing I could see through her eyes was despair.
I understood why she had that look when I looked at the person she had stabbed.
It is impossible for me to explain how Haku, who was lying unconscious a few seconds ago, was standing in front of me protecting me by acting as a shield.
None of them came out of my mouth or any other for that matter, it was so improbable.
It was Haku himself who spoke to us.
"It's okay Sayori, it's over.
Yùichi, is that what you call yourself?" He said with an increasingly weak voice.
"Yes, that's it."
"Well, I don't have much time left, so you should know that absolutely everything you find in this camp belongs to you, so take care of it. Those were his last words.
And as he fell to the ground, dead, Sayori also fell to the ground, also dead.
Strangely enough, even though I had just seen two people die before my eyes, I did not feel the slightest bit of sadness or pity.
I don't know if it was because I had mentally prepared myself for the fact that I had to kill people or if it was the fact that I had already seen death before my eyes twice in the screen, when my brother died and when the man in the bar died. But their deaths did not sadden me at all.
Unlike Alia, who is still crying, kneeling before their inert bodies, bathed in Haku's blood.
Unfortunately, we could not linger in front of this sinister spectacle since I have to hurry up to finish healing myself, because I feel that my forces leave me little by little.
I must nevertheless note that this battle did not have only bad news, it allowed me to understand new specificity of its rules.
The first one is that knife fights are allowed. I think they are only allowed when both people have signed an "agreement".
Secondly, you can hurt someone as much as you want, but as long as you don't kill them, nothing happens.
And finally, although this one I'm not sure about. It seems that you can capture people without risking being killed.
These three specificities will allow me to discover the limits of its rules and to be able to circumvent them to make my life easier, during the six months that remain.
But for the moment this is clearly not the most important thing, because Alia absolutely has to cure me.
So I move towards Alia and join her at the feet of the two corpses.
"Do you think he'd still be alive if we hadn't met them yet? She asked me with tears in her eyes.
"I'm not sure, but I think he might have survived if we hadn't put up that fight. But if I didn't beat him, I would have been in a lot worse shape than this. So instead of feeling sorry for them, I think we should thank fate that we crossed paths, since thanks to them we have extra food and the weapons we were looking for."
"Yes, I know that, but still, I can't help but feel sad for them." She replied, bursting into tears.
I got to her level and hugged her, saying.
"It's normal to be sad when someone dies, even if you don't know them, any human being would be sad to see another human being die. Even more so when that person dies before your eyes. So go ahead, don't hold back and cry your eyes out. Cry enough so that all the future dead people who will arrive will know that someone on Earth has thought of them.
No matter how much I said this speech, to me it sounded meaningless and was just a bunch of clichés you see in old love or romance movies.
But this speech seemed to reassure her because thirty seconds later, she stood up with a big smile and said.
"Thank you Yù, you have really helped me a lot. Since every future soul can now rest in peace, from now on, I vow to you that I will never cry for anyone's death again."
"Hihi, if I can help you, it's with great pleasure." I replied with a big smile in his direction.