Fading memories: Without him

Reveal

(This part of the story is told through the perspective of Yasashi)

I can tell she's got better at fighting, that's all i could think at the time. She's already putting up a better fight than Kusuri, he was so helpless. I wait for her to make a move. She tries to grab my tomahawk but she doesn't know i have it, she only know about a gas mask killer with a black hood up. I use this opportunity to kick her away and i start to run. She doesn't know who i am or why i wanted Kusuri dead, justice. All i know is justice after all, justice and death how poetic. She manages to throw a knife at my ankle making me fall to the floor before pulling a pistol to my head. Maybe I underestimated her but there is one thing she has forgotten, that being who i am

Rei: Who are you, and why did you kill Kusuri?

She looks at me dead in the eyes with a serious look on her face. Only thing i could do i chuckle to myself.

Yasashi: who am i? I am someone who admires your fighting skills

Rei: flattery isn't an option.

She cocks the gun back

Rei: i'll ask again, who are you?

Yasashi: who i am might not concern you anymore.

She has a confused look on her face

Rei: what do you mean by that?

The look on her eyes remain the same.

Yasashi: Death doesn't have answers to give.

Rei: then death will be the outcome you'll be given

She kicks me to the floor still aiming the pistol at me

Rei: take the mask off, die who honour and die with dignity.

Yasashi: you and i both know you've been in this position before, about to kill someone who is vulnerable

Rei: what do you mean by that?

Yasashi: a man called Yoshida Yasashi

Rei's eyes widen before glaring down on me

Rei: How do you know who he is?

Yasashi: because

I lift up my gas mask revealing my identity.

Yasashi: I don't think me and him aren't too different from each other.

Rei drops the gun and covers her mouth crying

Rei: Y-Yasashi... why? Why is that what has become of you!? You were once a man who had a life, a man who protected me through war. You are not the Yasashi i knew. Do that mean nothing to you!?

I am taken back by what she says but i smirk not caring

Yasashi: It means nothing to me because you can't change the past. Have fun, my sweet little angel

I teasingly say before turning sinking underground back to the hell where i belong. I left Rei crying to herself on the floor but i am happy that she is just one of my fading memories