I am a human being born on Earth. I was preparing to start working. I worked hard in my studies to be able to work at a good company. However, on August 17th, in the early morning, while waiting for public transportation, I noticed a beautiful woman running with a baby in her arms, and two men seemed to be chasing her.
"Help!"
I observed the situation; I didn't know how to react to such a scenario. It was still dark at that time, and there weren't many people around to help that poor woman. When the woman got close enough, I managed to see her face a little better. I could see that she had overwhelming fear on her face, and tears were streaming from her eyes. When she was close enough to me, she grabbed my arm and said:
"Help me! These vagrants want to assault me!"
"What?!"
I turned my head toward the two men who were running toward the woman. I analyzed their physical builds, and they weren't as tall as I was.
"Tch."
My annoyance made me click my tongue. I never thought I would encounter such human trash. After hearing what those bastards wanted to do to that woman, I was filled with rage. I could feel the blood rushing to my head.
"Get as far away from this place as you can."
"What? Aren't you going to help me?" the woman asked, frightened.
"I'm going to buy you time to escape. Hurry and head to a police station. The nearest one is about 5 minutes away."
"Thank you."
The woman started running as fast as she could, and I turned around to face the two men in front of me. When they got close enough, I could see their faces. Seeing those faces only made me angrier.
"Step aside, kid."
One of the men said. That guy had a dirty face, as if he hadn't bathed in months. He tried to walk past me; it seemed like he had no intention of fighting me, but unfortunately for them, I couldn't contain my anger any longer.
Wham!
"Shi-."
I threw a punch with all the weight of my body at the vagrant who was walking past me. My punch landed squarely on his chin. He fell to the ground instantly.
"Where do you think you're going?"
I said to the man I had just knocked down with a punch. It had been a while since I hit someone like that. My hand felt numb from the impact. I quickly turned my head to look at the other guy, but he was gone. The other man had taken advantage of my distraction and ran after the woman. Realizing this, I immediately chased after him at full speed.
"Wait!"
I shouted at the other man who was chasing the woman.
"Hand over the girl, and our boss might spare your life."
"I will never give my daughter to that bastard."
"Then you leave me no choice. We were ordered to make the girl disappear, but we were also told that if you resisted, we could kill you."
Said the vagrant chasing the woman as he pulled out a gun.
'Tch, that son of a bitch isn't just a vagrant. Something doesn't add up.'
The situation had spiraled out of control the moment that man pulled out the gun. If I got too close to him, I would undoubtedly die, but if I didn't, the woman who asked for my help would be killed along with her daughter.
'This is no longer a game. One wrong move, and I'm a dead man,' I thought as I ran at full speed.
When the man aimed at the woman and her daughter, I picked up a rock from the ground and threw it at the supposed vagrant. Fortunately, it hit him in the head, and he fell to the ground. I immediately ran to the man, who was dazed from the blow, and took the gun from him. The woman, seeing that the attackers chasing her had been knocked down, approached me with her daughter in her arms.
"Thank you, I owe you my life," said the woman.
"Thank you? Is that all you have to say to me?"
"I'm sorry, I didn't want to involve anyone in my problem."
The woman looked remorseful. I approached her and took a look at her daughter. She was a beautiful little girl with blue eyes. Those eyes radiated purity; I had never seen such beautiful eyes.
"What's the little one's name?" I asked the woman.
"Her name is Aurora. I would give my life for her," she said with a warm smile.
"By the way, why did you lie about them wanting to assault you?"
"Well, if I hadn't said it that way, you wouldn't have helped me. Hehehe, sorry for that little lie. Hehehe."
"Okay, so you basically tricked me. But more importantly, will you be okay with this kind of people chasing you?"
"Don't worry. Even though it doesn't seem like it, I come from a prestigious family. In short, I'm rich. What happened today won't happen again."
"If that's the case, how did you almost get killed?" I asked.
"Well, I left my security guards at home. I just wanted to go out and see the world without being surrounded every second."
"Okay, I get it. You're a crazy person who exposes her beloved daughter to danger just because you want to see the world," I said in an annoyed tone.
"I'm sorry."
"Forget it, don't mind me. By the way, what's your name? I forgot to ask-"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Hearing gunshots, I quickly turned my head back only to see the man pretending to be a vagrant pointing a gun at me. Realizing the situation, I immediately raised the gun I had taken from the man on the ground, aimed it at the man pointing his gun at me, and pulled the trigger several times while shielding the woman behind me.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The man fell to the ground after one of the bullets hit him in the chest. I turned my head to check on the woman and her daughter. Fortunately, both seemed unharmed.
"Are you okay?" I asked in a frantic tone.
"Yes, but you..."
The woman's voice was filled with sadness as she looked at my chest and abdomen. She started crying again.
"Me what?"
I followed her gaze and realized a bit too late what state I was in. My shirt was soaked in blood. At that moment, I understood everything.
"Tch, I'm screwed."
"I'm sorr-"
"Stop."
She tried to apologize, but I stopped her. I pointed the gun at the unconscious man on the ground and then...
Bang! Bang! Bang!
I used the last bullets on his body. I'm sorry for that guy, but I didn't have the strength to stop him and turn him over to the police, and I didn't intend to risk this woman's life. She seemed to understand why I took the life of an unconscious man. After taking his life, my body couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed, or so it should have. The woman I saved caught me as I fell. However, her thin arms couldn't hold my body, and the three of us fell to the ground.
"Ugh."
As I fell, my wounds started to hurt. It seemed like the adrenaline in my body had been keeping the pain at bay. That pain was insane, it was fucking insane. I had never felt anything like it in my entire life.
"Hold on, I'll get help."
"Hahaha, silly woman, this is the end for me."
I laughed as hard as I could. I knew this was my last chance to laugh anyway.
"Make sure you raise that little one well. Don't expose her to your craziness, woman."
"My name is Vanessa."
"Mine is *****. I wonder where I'll go, heaven or hell? Hahaha."
"Of course to heaven," she said confidently.
"Hahahahahahah-"
Ugh!
The more I laughed, the greater the pain, and that was normal. On the ground, you could see a pool of blood. It was clear that I had lost a lot of blood. My vision was getting blurrier as time passed.
"I never imagined that my actions would cause someone's death," Vanessa said with tears in her eyes.
"Don't worry about that. These things happen," I said, trying to comfort the woman.
My body was at its limit, so I gathered my last bit of strength and said my final words:
"I don't regret saving you and your beautiful daughter. Remember that. Be happy in my place, Vanessa," I said my last words to Vanessa. At that moment, the world around me turned black.