Kenway - Hornigold Assassination

My men had started to use mortars on the fleeing crew of the Benjamin, though, and I found myself placed in danger as they began raining on to the sand around me. Until one exploded near Benjamin and the next thing I knew he was disappearing out of sight over the other side of the sandbank in a spray of blood and sand.
I scrambled over the top made hasty by my desire to see his fate, and paid for it with a sword swipe across my arm, opening a cut that bled. In a single movement I span, engaged the blade and met his next attack, our steel sparking as it met. The force of his attack was enough to send me tumbling down the bank and he came after me, launching himself from the slope with his cutlass swinging. I caught him on my boots and kicked him away, his sword point parting the air before my nose. Rolling I pulled myself to my feet and scrambled after him, and again our blades met. For some moments we traded blows, and he was good, but he was hurt and I was the younger man, and I was lit by vengeful fire and so, I cut his arm, his elbow, his shoulder –
until he could hardly stand or raise his sword and I finished him.
‘You could have been a man who stood for something true,’ he said as he died. His lips worked over the words carefully.
His teeth were bloodstained. ‘But you’ve a killer’s heart now.’
‘Well, it’s a damn sight better than what you have, Ben,’ I told him. ‘The heart of a traitor, who thinks himself better than his mates.’
‘Aye, and proven true. What have you done since Nassau fell? Nothing but murder and mayhem.’
I lost my temper, rounded on him. ‘You threw in with the very kind we once hated!’ I shouted.
‘No,’ he said. He reached to grab at me and make his point, but I angrily batted his hands away. ‘These Templars are different. I wish you could see that. But if you continue on your present course, you’ll find you’re the only one left walking it.
With the gallows at the end.’
‘That may be,’ I said, ‘but now the world has one less snake in it. And that’s enough for me.’
But he didn’t hear me. He was already dead.

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, Chapter 53