I look at my bloody hand that tried to stop the bleeding.

Everything feels hot and I'm slowly losing my consciousness.

Why did I have to do that? Just why?

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As Fall arrives, many leaves of green turn into an orange. I walk the path to go to where I dwell yet I found myself mesmerized at the color of the leaves.

But as I wandered, I heard a cry for help. I ran as fast as I could, to where the sound of the cry was.

"Somebody, help!" The frightened student.

"Shut it, kid." Another student, who seems to be from the same school as mine, grabs the student's collar and threw him to the wall.

"Just give us what we want, kid, and we'll get out," The bully's friend tells the victim.

"I-I don't have any money on me, okay!" The bullied student said as his body shivered in fear.

"Hey, you!" I said as I try to barge in.

"Who are you? Stop trying to barge in someone else's business!" The bully snapped at me.

"You can't just take money from people, you do know that you lowly animals" I scoffed.

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"You!" The bully's friend said as he rushes towards me.

I dodge his attack.

"Why you little!" The bully's friend scowled as he again rushes towards me.

Again, I dodge the attack with ease.

The bully pulls out a sharp knife. "Maybe I should just kill you" He cackled.

Now I had to deal with two people.

The bully's friend kept dashing towards me but I kept on dodging until...

I felt a sharp pain in my back, and I realized.

"I got you now!" The bully said as he takes the knife off my back.

'Shit!' I said as I kept bleeding.

"Let's leave this place, Kousuke, the police may find this," the bully's friend said and they both left the alley.

The bullied student is unconscious due to shock from seeing me bleed.

As I bleed, I just look at the orange sky, as the sunsets.

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Until now, I'm still bleeding, and my consciousness is fading slowly.

'Do you still want to live?'

I don't know where but I heard a voice.

'Kaede! Answer me, do you still want to live?'

The voice grew louder this time.

"Y-yes," I said with all the ounces of energy I have left.

Light falls from the sky and appears right above me.

"Hello, Kaede" The light talked

"You are worthy of my power, your strong will to live proved so."

"Take this" The light being said and a purple orb appeared on the light being's hand.

The purple orb slowly glides over to my right hand.

"Grasp it, Kaede"

I slowly clenched my hand into a fist and I felt power rushing into my veins. I screamed due to the pain it also brought.

"Good. Now then, you shall live again" The light being said.

Even though he said that I will live again, I didn't feel anything. My consciousness grows weaker and weaker. As the light being vanished, I let out my last breathe and lost my consiousness.