By the time the last of the monsters had died Mai'lo sat heavily on the ground, his pristine sword laying on the grass next to him. For some reason it felt wrong that there should be no evidence of the battle they just went through. No blood stained his clothes or his blade. No bodies remained on the ground. 

Even Matsuta. Crazy as he might have been, had left no sign that he ever existed. 

"You know what the difference is between humans and animals?" He asked of no one in particular. "WE BURY OUR DEAD!" He suddenly screamed at the empty digital sky above. "It's this what happens when we die in here? We just vanish? Vanish, with nothing left behind to show that we were even here to begin with?"

"If we're alone when we die that's it. No one will ever know. There won't be a body to discover. Our friends could think we just abandoned them. Took off and left them. They could hate us. And there would be nothing to tell them otherwise."

The more he thought about it the more it bothered him. He swiped open the menu and selected several items from his inventory. Some rope and an animal hide and a jar with a dye in it. 

He quickly fashioned a rough sign, wiring on the hide with the dye. 

[i]On this spot we lost a friend. Matsuta was the only name we knew him by. We will not forget. [/i]

Grabbing his sword he stood and slammed it point first into the ground burying a good foot of the blade, then he hung the sign from the pommel. 

"It won't last for long, but nothing lasts forever. That's better than nothing."

Without another word Mai'lo turned and continued walking down the road, scabbard empty on his broad back.