The Longsword Of The Renmant Flame

While almost everyone was busy, Najenda called Lubbock and Leone for a meeting.

Najenda: The newest target we've been requested to eliminate is Tonto, who runs a curio shop.

Leone: He's supposedly a reputable, popular shop master who even donates his money.

Lubbock: Another guy with a hidden face?

Najenda: ...He arrived at the capital about a year ago, and his business is doing well, but his startup fund came from robberies across the country. A survivor from one of his robberies tenaciously searched for who was behind it, and made a request.

Lubbock: So it's another case of a seemingly honest man with a dark past?

Leone: Okay. I'll investigate and find proof of his offenses.

Najenda: Great.

Meanwhile, at the hot spring, Sheele and Nea were taking a bath under the black sky.

Nea: Fwaaah. This feels great!

Sheele: I love taking baths too.

Nea: I'm sorry you've had to be with me the entire time, Miss Sheele.

Sheele: No, no, it's nothing.

Nea: I wish I could move around more easily, but I've been blind for two years.

Sheele: ...Are your eyes… Because of… a disease?

Nea shook her head and started to remember her past.

Nea: Oh, no. After my father left to earn money… Someone robbed our house. My mother resisted and was killed. I was also gravely injured… And lost my eyesight. That's why my father is the only family I have left… And I wanted to tell him what happened to mother, so that's why I wanted to see him.

But… I was almost sold off, and I had a really hard time getting to the capital.

Sheele was getting worried so she c.a.r.e.s.sed Nea's head.

Sheele: Nea…

After finishing to bath, Sheele took Nea to her bedroom and fixed the bed for both of them.

Nea: Umm… Are you really alright with sharing even your bed with me?

Sheele: Of course. Please don't worry about anything, and get a good night's rest.

Nea: ...Thank you, miss Sheele.

Sheele: You can just call me Sheele.

Meanwhile, the rest were at the table to chat with each other.

Mine: What? Sheele let that girl sleep with her in her own bed?

Billy: Yep. She is really caring with Nea, isn't she?

Mine: ...Really. She's a little too kind for an assassin.

Billy noticed her slightly jealous face on her and snickered.

Billy: Are you jealous because someone stole Sheele from you?

Mine punched his face, which Billy caught and chuckled.

Mine: You are really hateful!

Then she walked away, Billy calmed down and relaxed on his seat.

Bulat: You really do say stuff that earns you a punch in the face from time to time…

Billy: Yeah, but the best part is that I don't get punched.

Bulat: Don't be so confident, one day it might really happen. Well, even though it is not a romantic love, Sheele is like a partner to Mine, so start to learn how to be tactful. Well, I wouldn't judge anyone who does have a romantic love between the same gender!

Billy looked at Bulat who was gazing at him while he said that, and turned away.

Billy: I'm going to sleep…

[1 week later]

Lubbock opened Sheele's door, where Nea was sitting around.

Lubbock: Nea! Good news! We found your father!!

Nea: Ah!? Wh-What is he doing? Is he doing well!?

Lubbock: He's working happily under a carpenter. I can take you there this afternoon!

Nea: I… I found my father…

Sheele: That's great, Nea!

Then Nea hugged Sheele in happiness.

Nea: Yes! Thank you so much!

Lubbock: Hey, I'm the one who wanted a hug!

And then, from the kitchen…

Billy: LOLICON!!!

Lubbock: SHUT UP BILLY!!

Nea: Um… Sheele.

Sheele: Yes?

Nea fidgeted a bit before she asked.

Nea: Um… Well… Even after I start living with my father, will you come visit me? I want to introduce you to my father!

However, Sheele sighed before she smiled bitterly.

Sheele: Um… I… I'm sorry. I can't do that.

Nea: Oh…

Bulat passed beside the door and said.

Bulat: We're hunters. When the seasons change, we'll leave to go hunt other prey.

Nea: I… I see.

In the entire time, Akame spied on her. There was nothing suspicious about her, they just needed to have one of their disguised spies take her to her father, and that will be the end… Or so they thought…

At the capital, Nea was holding her hand with an a.d.u.l.t, who was her father.

Father: Daddy's house is a bit small, but you'll just have to deal with it, okay?

Nea: It's okay! If I'm with you, daddy, I don't care where we live!

Father: Yeah. We'll always be together. I'll do my best to give you your share of happiness that you should have gotten from your mother… nea.

Nea: Okay!

However, they passed beside an extremely special person, the robber who killed Nea's mother, Night Raid's target, Tonto, and the man easily recognized the kid.

Tonto: '...That was…! There's no mistaking it! It's that little girl from that house I robbed in Enn… Damn it… She was alive…!? Why is she in the capital? Could she be…!?'

He clicked his tongue and left them, he will need to make some plans…

[Night]

The father and Nea were in the small house, on the kitchen, the father was a bit guilty about the food and said.

Father: I'm sorry. I said we'd celebrate, but this was the best I could do…

Nea: No, it's okay! It's really good, father! I'll help you cook next time!

But they didn't noticed three drunk people nearing their houses.

Man 1: Alright, just as requested, we'll kill the father and daughter.

Man 2: But it's alright if we have a little fun before we do it, right?

Man 3: Heh, let's do the girl right in front of her daddy!

Man 2: Alright, let's go!

Then the man in the middle went to the door to open it, but suddenly his arm was bent and broken before he could open it. A transformed Leone came from the room, surprising the three people, and threw a vicious kick to all three, flinging all three of them away in 1 attack.

Man 2: Who-Who are you!?

Leone: I'm a garbage collector. I heard there were three pieces of degradable trash here, so I came to pick them up.

The people's eyes widened in shock and all of them screamed some words at her.

Man 1: F.U.C.K YOU! 

Man 3: DIE, BITCH!

They tried to attack her with daggers, which she easily dodged.

Leone: I actually… Don't hate people like you.

Then he headbutted the first person that attacked her and yelled as she rushed against the other two.

Leone: Because I can pummel you without holding back!

[3 minutes later]

They were beaten down and bounded together, then left in front of the imperial station, where a young woman with auburn hair and amber eyes looked down on them. She wore her hair in a long ponytail that almost reached the ground. And she was wearing a military uniform.

On her arms, she held a strange dog.

?: Who are these suspicious guys? This requires a thorough investigation in the name of justice. We'll leave no stone unturned. If you are indeed evil…

Suddenly, both her and the dog let out a scary-looking grin, the three people were covered in a giant shadow before they disappeared without even letting out a scream.

?: But… Who caught these suspicious people and left them here…? They must be people with hearts filled with justice, the polar opposite of violent criminals.