The wind swept the few strands of hair that were dangling right in front of my face, the gorgeous red of the setting sun brought back faint memories of a much different time. A kinder one.

Sighing, I looked down, staring at the three storey drop right in front of me.

"Well, at least it'll all be over soon" I thought as my left foot left the cold hard concrete of the edge of the building and onto open air.

Taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes and jumped. At the time, perhaps the most exhilarating thing I remember was the air rushing past me at whiplash speeds, the colours of the world seemed to almost distort and merge together and my sense of sight seemed to be the most important in this moment.

As I closed my eyes, ready to meet my maker, I had already resigned to my fate. Instead of the sudden life taking shock of the cold ground as I had expected, I collided with what seemed to be a much softer, yet jerking blow. Groaning and open my eyes, I couldn't believe my rotten luck.

"A waste truck … really?" I asked to myself.

Without wasting much time, I leapt out of the truck and onto the ground. Grunting from the pain of what I assumed to be a bruised rib, or perhaps a cracked one?

"Welp, looks like I'm gonna have to go with plan B then …" I cocked my pistol while raising it to my head, ready to pull the trigger. A silent prayer left my lips, as my fingers began to pull back the trigger and …

"HELP ME !" I immediately pointed my gun in the direction of the plea for help.

"Again ? really ?" I had to wonder if fate simply liked to toy with me, but at that moment there was someone out there who might need help. Better a not-so-dead man to help them than a dead one I hoped.

I creeped along the side of the stone building, as the skies darkened overhead.

"Shut the girl up Juan" one of the men said to the other.

As my eyes adjusted to the darker secluded area, I got my first look at the victim, who happened to look much like a very young girl, a pale complexion and blonde hair.

"Javi, do you have any idea how much the Nakiri's would pay up for ransom, at least in the couple of millions right?"

"You've got that right and that too in dollars, HELL YEAH !"

"Nakiri huh?" I wondered where I had heard that name before.

"I'm gonna go take a piss, take care of the girl will yeh?" Javi said as he headed in my direction. I ducked under the few wooded barrels right around the corner of the house.

I noticed that he had gone quite a distance away, and probably wouldn't hear anything in the nearby vicinity. So I took my chance, and went closer to Juan who at this point was looking in the other direction and seemed to have been armed to the teeth. A pretty big automatic rifle, and a few grenades in his belt, along with what I had assumed was a bullet proof vest.

I didn't second guess myself as I pointed my gun at his head and pulled the trigger, with his skull and cranium taking most of the noise from the shot. The girl looked on horrified at what I had done to the man and increased her struggling.

I put the gun in my other hand, as I started to drag the girl with the chair into the woods in the depth of night, pointing in the other direction just to be safe. A good thing that I had familiarised myself with this forest a long time ago, when life was hell of a lot simpler. Looking back at the task at hand, I took her to the cabin hidden a few miles into the forest, dragging the chair all the while. Once I shot open the lock and got in, I closed the door behind me and on the single bulb in the cabin.

Looking at the girl, she seemed to have tuckered out from all the struggling against the rope that bound her to the chair. I gently pried the gag away from her mouth and stood in front of her, as I loosened the knots that kept her restrained.

She immediately got up from the chair and went as far as possible from me as she could and I simply watched as she tried to get as close to the wall as she could, obviously afraid. I sighed and sat on the floor opposite to the wall she was leaning against.

"I won't hurt you, I just want to know why you were there with those men?" I asked.

"They kidnapped me … Oh god … I need to call grandfather" she said before she tried to find a phone in the cabin.

"You mean this?" I asked, showing her my cell.

"Please let me use it for a call, it's an emergency please …" she begged.

"On one condition … take this" I handed my pistol over to her.

"Huh?"

"I want you to shoot me right here" I said pointing to my heart "Once you're done with that call."

"WAIT?! WHAT!" she exclaimed.

"Finish you're call anyway … we'll discuss it after you're done" I sighed.

She quickly dialled in a number, and started to talk rapidly, I wasn't able to listen to more of it as my world started to blur, I looked down to my chest and opened my chest to see blood flush against my skin. At least I know now that it was not a few broken ribs, I should've been worried about.

"Internal bleeding be damned …" I murmured before I collapsed on the ground and the blackness began to overtake me as I saw the girl running towards me.

Before I blacked out I could see the name printed on the inner shirt, as she removed her outer coat.

"Erina … Nakiri …" the last thing I remember saying before the darkness took me.