"Why ask a question you already know the answer to... Yamada",
My eyes widened with pure shock, quickly I try to move my limbs but it proves to be a futile action. After all I have been spent like the load of the entire world hung over my shoulder weighing me down. I fall again.
In my situation severe blood loss seem imminent with every passing second. Something or rather someone rolls me over onto my back, it was then that I saw the peeson that called out. He is young...younger than me even, I can tell by just examining his features alone.
His eyes look weak as though the light in them has faded a very long time ago. He crouchs down next to me then released a sigh. For someone like me it did not take for me to realize three facts about him.
The first is the way he carries himself, very cool and though of. The second is that he seem morr aware of his environment even with his back turned and lastly, if I was to fight this kid earlier I would lose. I can't seem to find any openings from his crouched state.
"You seem too young to be here",
I force my words out trying something to let him drop his guard even if it is just for a split second.
"Ooh you have some life left in you,"
A slight smile forms on my lips, even though i just met him it feels like we have known each other for a very long time. However his features doesn't match with that of those inhabit the land he is on though, he looks foreign more like an African than an Asian.
"Keep breathing while I make you in my arms",
He said.
"Like a princess carry?",
I asked.
"So it has a name",
His expression formed a smile as he raised me up in his arms (this guy is physically strong too) his arms feel weirdly muscular enough to hold me in place.
"Be careful not to stare too much",
Said I.
"As if I have never carried a girl within these arms",
He said harshly his smile even fading into a blank expression. I can tell that I had touched a raw nerve.
"Sorry ",
I said yet there was no reply.
"Why did you save me?",
I asked after a moment of an unbearable silent treatment. He shrugged as if it wasn't anything. Something connects us though but I couldn't quite put my finger on what. Maybe it is the hidden scent of blood around him, a scent that no amount of water and soap can hide.
"Truthfully speaking I don't really care about you...but...",
He paused midway through his words, the words he said previously seems to betray his entire self. He cares for a reason I couldn't understand, but one thing puzzled me more than anything about him.
"Just tell me then, who are you?",
I asked the reason being quite simple itself, he has the scent of a cold heartless killer but at the same time he wasn't. Neither a killer nor a person to be claimed innocent.
His expression remains blank even though with one look you could see the cracks on his expressionless mask, his emotions seem to always show the real him every time.
"Before he died he gave me a role that I swore to fulfill, a role that seems to be about protecting your carless ass every step on the way",
He said flatly but my instincts tell me not to trust him completely.
"Like a knight in shining armour in those children fairy tales?",
I asked even though it was in itself rhetorical I had a feeling that he had a need to answer it.
"Yes like a knight in shining armour",
His face cracked into a small smile then went back to poker.
He walks for sometime the conversation between as died in just seconds not that I don't want to talk to him but I had to stop to hang onto to dear life and also for him to concentrate.
If only I could secure some few minutes with him then maybe...just maybe I would be able to obtain dome answers to THIS. I bit my lip and look behind us to check whether any bloodthirsty human is on our trail.
"Why do you protect me?",
I asked him still searching vainly behind him. For a moment I felt his eyes piercing through my body and my soul...truth be told I knew from that moment the gab between us is not just a big one.
The pace he is walking is neither fast nor slow but just enough to give you time to think about everything that is going on. A black sky for more than 24 hours, was it just Japan or is the entire world experiencing this.
" I will tell you everything when you are in a better condition",
The way he said it is somehow apologetic. Just how many people have lost their lives in just the last four days when the dark sky began?
"Is that a promise?",
I asked this time while looking at him through the corner of my eye, his blank expression breaks slightly. This time there is no smile, no anger but just the face of a lonely boy who doesn't know how to break something terrible to an injured girl
"Just how dark is the truth?",