(Revan's AN): I try to keep it realistic, and the first scene went for far too long, but it's whatever because it just means a big chapter, which means I expect some reviews, boys. Nah, not really, but I would like your thoughts on the chapter if it isn't too much to ask.

Full Summary: Tatsumi Seika, the second son of Kaito Seika, was a rebellious child. Unlike his siblings, he didn't care about the duties of a prince, and after being told that he was going to marry some noblewoman, he ran away from home. Now, after five years of being away, Tatsumi has finally returned.

Non-canon, single-pairing, OOC Characters.

"Flashbacks" - Thinking

"Flashbacks" - Talking

[Flashbacks] - Letters or Reports.

Theme Song: This Will Be The Day, by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee Williams.

Main Writer: Revan the Edgelord

Co-Writer: None.

Tatsumi had a frown underneath his mask as he sat perched up on a rooftop. It had been about five days since the raid on Iokal's mansion, and right now he was currently doing his first solo mission.

His target was one of the many Captains in the Imperial Police, Captain Ogre. Night-Raid had planned on assassinating him for a long time now, but because his crimes were very small compared to other corrupt officials, they had never gotten around to it.

However, after hearing that he had stepped up on his criminal offenses, Night-Raid finally decided to take care of him once and for all, and what better way to do that, then to send their newest assassin after him?

As time flew by, Tatsumi released a sigh. He didn't know much about Captain Ogre before being briefed about him, and quite frankly didn't see the man worthy of his attention, but because Night-Raid was a group fighting for the people he decided to accept the mission.

He also accepted it because this had given him a chance to wander the city, and go to places he wanted to go, but couldn't because he was in the presence of Esdeath.

Not long after he had let loose this sigh, did Tatsumi see his target emerge from the building across from him. His objective wasn't alone and was accompanied by several men and women who were wearing the Imperial Police uniform. However, who Tatsumi didn't expect to see with these people was the young woman named Seryu and her Imperial Arm, Koro.

"Well, this is something I didn't expect to see." Tatsumi thought to himself as he stared at the group with a look of interest now in his eyes. "From what I recall, you claim to be a servant of justice, so why are you with that piece of trash, hmm?"

He didn't know a lot about her, but he had spent some time with her, so he did have an idea about her which made him wonder how she was able to converse with a man who takes bribes and kills the innocent. It was a strange sight to behold, and one he was for sure going to remember.

As they all laughed and joked with one another, Tatsumi noticed something. The Imperial Arm, Koro was looking directly up at him.

Seeing the small dog's attention was on him, the assassin stared back at it.

Not long after their eyes met did Koro started to growl and bark at him, which immediately gained Seryu's and everybody else's attention.

"Hey is he alright, Seryu?" One of the male officers with blonde hair asked after watching the dog bark furiously at the building across from them.

"I don't know, I've never seen him do this kind of thing before." Seryu answered with a look of concern as she crouched down beside the dog who had yet to stop barking. "What is it, Koro? Is an evildoer nearby?"

Koro's response to her question was a point of his paw. The direction Koro pointed it at was towards Tatsumi.

Directing her attention upwards, Seryu saw a figure on top of the rooftop in a crouching position. At first, she had mistaken it to be just a statue, but after a second or two of her staring at it, did the figure stand up.

She wasn't the only one who had followed Koro's paw; in fact, practically everyone else had followed his hand, and witnessed the person stand up.

"Captain..." One of the female officers with black hair started as they gazed up at Tatsumi, who in return stared down at them.

"I know, I see him." Captain Ogre declared as he glared at the unknown man.

"Should we do something about him?" A male officer with brown hair questioned as he looked to his Captain. "He's not committing any crimes or anything like that, but him being up there is creeping me out."

As Captain Ogre opened his mouth to respond, Seryu shouted at the top of her lungs. "I am a part of the Jaegers under the command of General Esdeath, and I order you to get down from there, right now!"

Tatsumi was taken back by the sudden yelling from her, and instead of saying something back to her he did what she commanded him to do. He jumped off of the building.

This was something no one expected, and a few of the policemen let out gasps of shock and horror, but to all of their surprises, Tatsumi landed perfectly without any problems whatsoever.

However, because he was able to jump off of the rooftop of a three-story building both Seryu and Ogre knew that the man before them was someone dangerous. Ordinary people wouldn't be able to do that kind of feat, but if they had an Imperial Arm, or modifications to their body, then it would be possible.

"Thank you for listening, now mind telling me what you were doing up there?" Seryu ordered in a firm tone. While she may have labeled the person dangerous, he had so far done nothing wrong, so until he does do something, she wasn't going to act violently.

"Just admiring the view." Tatsumi answered, his voice sounded familiar to Seryu, and his attire looked familiar as well, but she couldn't remember who it belonged to.

"Is that so?" Captain Ogre questioned in an unconvinced tone. He was positive the masked man before them was a member of Night-Raid, for no normal citizen would act so calm and relaxed in this situation.

"Yes, that is so." Tatsumi affirmed as he turned his head just a little bit to where he was looking straight at Captain Ogre.

"Excuse me, but do you mind taking off your mask?" Seryu requested not very long after this affirmation from Tatsumi. "Your voice kind of sounds familiar so I'd like to see your face."

Tatsumi said nothing upon hearing this and had a displeased expression form underneath his mask. "We didn't even talk much in the past, but she was still able to remember my voice. I'm impressed, but now I know I shouldn't talk at all when around the Jaegers. At least she doesn't know who I am yet."

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't do that." Tatsumi declared after a few seconds of silence as he began to release a killing intent, which made Seryu's brows furrow and Koro to release a small growl.

"And why's that?" Seryu questioned as Captain Ogre slowly reached for his sword. He had also sensed the killing intent radiating off of the masked man and was now one hundred percent sure that the man was an assassin of Night-Raid.

"Because it would just cause me problems, and I don't need any more problems." Tatsumi said in response as he placed both of his hands on the hilts of the two swords strapped to his waist, which had caused the officers to go for their swords and unsheathe them.

"As I suspected, that man is a member of Night-Raid!" Captain Ogre declared as he unsheathed his own weapon. "I knew there was something suspicious about him."

Despite all of the officers having their swords out, Tatsumi kept his blades in their sheaths. The reason why he had yet unsheathed them was because he was waiting for Seryu to make a move. He could sense a large amount of killing intent from her, but because she hadn't moved from her position yet, he wouldn't act.

Seryu and Koro were the ones he had to look out for, and that was because they're the wildcards in this situation. He had never seen the two of them fight before, so he had no plans of underestimating them.

"... Are you a member of Night-Raid?" Seryu asked after a few seconds, her face was darkened, which had made it practically unreadable for Tatsumi.

"Maybe, maybe not." Tatsumi stated as he flexed his fingers on the two hilts he had in his hands.

At this, Seryu released a huff of air. "Well then, under the suspicions of you being a Night-Raid operative I'm taking you in, Koro number 3!"

As soon as she finished shouting this, Koro grew in size and turned to the wielder of him, and bit down on Seryu's left arm, which was something Tatsumi didn't see coming at all, nor anyone else. Two seconds later, Koro pulled away from her and a large blade that was about three meters long had taken the place of where her metal arm once was.

Tatsumi in response to this unsheathed the dual swords and said with a small smirk. "This is going to be very interesting."

With that said, Tatsumi darted towards Seryu who was darting towards him in response. The only difference between the two of them was that she wasn't alone and was being followed by Koro.

As she moved towards him, she yelled to the Imperial Police force. "Stay back, I'll handle this!"

Upon him getting in range of her blade, Seryu swung it in an attempt to cut him in half from the waist down. However, Tatsumi had expected this type of attack due to the blade's size, and he was able to leap over it as if it was nothing, but child's play.

Koro, who was not that far behind Seryu had seen this as the perfect opportunity to capture their target, he stopped moving and increased his size. His goal was to catch and hold Tatsumi in his large mouth.

Unfortunately, Tatsumi figured the size changing dog would try something, and had brought the darker of the two blades back before swinging it at the dog.

As he swung it, he yelled in a powerful voice. "Fluctus Tenebris!"

No one could see it due to it being night time, but a shadowy wave was released from the darker blade of his and cut the top of Koro's head from the mouth up clean off.

After quickly spinning around, Seryu was able to see Tatsumi land behind the large dog, who had begun to wander around aimlessly due to him not being able to see anymore.

"What!?" Seryu yelled in shock as Tatsumi dashed towards the officers and Koro's regenerating ability kicked in.

Captain Ogre was also taken back by what he saw, but due to him being old and seeing many things, he was able to quickly recover from his shock. He had figured that Seryu had got this and felt like if he and his subordinates did take part in the charge, then they would get in Seryu's way, so he had planned on them sitting this one out.

"All units, attack!" Captain Ogre shouted causing the officers to snap out of their taken back states and see that the Night-Raid operative was only a few yards away from them.

"Arma Lucis!" Tatsumi said to himself in a low tone, which caused his body to have a white glow, and his movement to increase by just a little bit. His speed didn't increase by much, but it was noticeable to those that are experienced in combat.

As he moved towards the closest officer, Tatsumi thought. "First priority is to eliminate the target, and all possible threats. After I do that, I can focus on Seryu and her Imperial Arm."

The black haired male officer was ready for Tatsumi, and was able to deflect the first strike, and the second, but what he didn't expect was the lightning fast third stick.

Because Arma Lucis increased the wielder's agility, Tatsumi purposely swung his first two attacks in a slow manner to goad his enemy into thinking this was his attack speed. After he had done that, he followed them up with an insanely fast uppercut that no one saw coming.

As the officer fell to the ground, another one was already on him. The officer was a female, and she attempted to launch a barrage of attacks.

Unfortunately for her, she was only able to swing her sword three times at him before being impaled by one of the blades.

Seryu, who was charging at Tatsumi from behind couldn't hold back her anger, and shouted at the top of her lungs with all of her heart as Koro finished regenerating his head. "You scum! I'm going to kill you!"

Tatsumi had sensed her coming up behind him due to the murderous intent she was releasing, but her yelling at him made it very easy to tell how far she was from him. She wasn't the only one who was rushing towards him, two officers were coming at him from his left and right, and weren't exactly far from him.

Yanking his blade out of the woman's torso, Tatsumi stood still and focused on his incoming enemies footsteps. They were shouting more things at him, but he didn't care about that, for he had an idea.

As the three of them converged on him at the same time, Tatsumi leapt into the air and avoided Seryu's blade. Unfortunately, she didn't do a sideways slash like he predicted, and instead, did a downwards slash, so neither officers were killed by the long blade.

"That's too bad, I was hoping she could kill a few of them for me." Tatsumi said to himself as he landed on the ground not that far away from them, but out of everyone's reach.

"Filth, how dare you evade justice!" Seryu yelled as she faced Tatsumi who frowned at this declaration.

"Seryu, you need to calm down." One of the officers next to her stated with a look of concern.

"No, what's he done is unforgivable!" Seryu shouted as she looked at the brown haired man with rage in her eyes. "He's killed two of my friends, two servants of justice, and he needs to be dealt with appropriately. Koro, number 1!"

Koro had approached his wielder as she told her comrade this, and saw Seryu lift up her right arm for him.

As the faint white glow disappeared from Tatsumi, he watched as Koro did the same thing he had done before on her right arm, but this time she was equipped with a massive flail.

"I guess she no longer wants to take me alive." Tatsumi thought to himself as he waited for Seryu to make the first move. "It's also sad that she thinks these large weapons will kill me, they're very predictable. They might be great for large groups, but in one on one fight it would be better if she used a sword or something."

Captain Ogre, who had yet to take part in the fight, knew that they couldn't come at the assassin like this. Seryu's weapons were big and powerful, but the person they were fighting were too fast for them, which made them useless. Unfortunately, he couldn't think of a way for them to combat him either. The man was very agile, and he had the ability to cut through Koro as if he was butter, so he wasn't sure what to do. All he knew was that they couldn't go at him like this.

"Koro, this time we'll attack him simultaneously." Seryu stated in a low tone that only reached the people around her. "Everyone else, follow us and when you see an opportunity, take it. The man is too dangerous to be taken alive."

Knowing that he couldn't leave this to his subordinates, Captain Ogre approached the officers that were around Seryu and said aloud. "Never thought I'd be taking orders from one of my students, but there's a first time for everything."

At this, a wicked smirk appeared on Seryu's face. "Don't worry, it won't last long. This time, we'll get him."

As Captain Ogre told Seryu that he's ready whenever she is, Tatsumi finished making up a plan of his own. He knew the words that he needed to say, and now all he had to do was wait for them to come at him.

After glancing at everybody and seeing that they were ready, Seryu looked to Tatsumi, and yelled in a loud and clear voice. "Sick him, Koro!"

Koro didn't need to be told twice and charged at Tatsumi with Seryu by his side. Because the flail was very large she dragged it, but she didn't have any problems dragging it.

Seeing the two of them come at him at the same time, Tatsumi pointed the darker sword at Seryu, and yelled with his alters joining in like they usually do when he activates one of his Imperial Arm's abilities. "Tenebris Trabem!"

None of the officers could see this due to it being dark, but Koro saw the beam of blackness leave shoot forth from the blade's tip. He saw the trajectory it was going, and without any warnings at all leaped in front of Seryu, who had seen the dark beam coming at her at the last second.

Tenebris Trabem wasn't as powerful as Fluctus Tenebris, and required the wielder to be feeling a lot of negative emotions to have the ability to kill, but Tatsumi wasn't aiming to kill Seryu, his goal was to just push her back.

The beam shot at Koro for four seconds, and would have for sure knocked him down had he been in his smaller state, but because he was large and purposely took the attack, it only burned away his stomach's hair.

Seryu had came to a stop upon Koro getting in her way, but after realizing what he was doing, she used this to her advantage.

"Justice will prevail!" She cried out as she swung the flail with an overhand causing her to go over Koro, and towards Tatsumi, who didn't expect her to do this. Knowing that the flail was going to slow her down, Seryu had it released after being lifted up into the air, and was able to cover the five meters between her the two of them.

Even though Tatsumi didn't predict this type of action from her, he was able to avoid the large blade by jumping back.

As she landed with her right knee on the ground, Koro moved past her with his hands clasped above his head.

He had brought them down on Tatsumi, but Tatsumi was faster than him, and able to dodge the attack, while launching his own.

Unfortunately, his blades didn't leave any desirable effects, for this didn't stop Koro at all, who had spun around and attempted to grab Tatsumi.

After quickly getting out of Koro's reach, Tatsumi was attacked by both Seryu and Captain Ogre, which forced him to keep on moving and evading attacks.

While Seryu, Koro, and Captain Ogre were fast, Tatsumi was faster and able to keep dodge and deflect all of their attacks. The officers, on the other hand, weren't nearly as fast as them, which gave him the chance to take them down slowly over time.

Originally, it was eleven vs one, but as time passed, the numbers dwindled and it soon became a five versus one. Seryu had also switched out her weapons throughout the fight, but because they were in the city, and the chances of killing an innocent person due to misfire were high, her arsenal was limited tremendously.

After doing a combat roll, and evading Koro's hand, Tatsumi plunged the sword in his right hand in the officer's left leg before planting his other sword in their chest. He wasted no time with them, and quickly pulled his blades out of their body.

He was starting to feel a little exhausted, but that was mentally, for he was getting tired of planning five steps ahead of his enemies.

Seeing another one of her friends die before her very eyes enraged Seryu, and made her think of one thing.

Koro's trump card.

She didn't want to use it, and believed that she could deal with the assassin with her own abilities, but if things keep going the way they are, then it would only be a matter of time before she'd die or worse, Captain Ogre.

However, after witnessing the last officer besides Captain Ogre be killed, Seryu reached a conclusion, and shouted as loud as she possibly could. "Koro trump card! Kill him! Smash him! Devour him! I don't care just end his life!"

Upon hearing the two words trump card, Tatsumi moved as far as he possibly could away from Koro, who had begun to turn a dark red and increase in size, his eyes also became red. His frame had also changed from a round one to a more muscular one.

Once Koro had finished transforming, he slammed his hands onto the ground causing both dirt and stone tiles to go flying into the air, and released a powerful roar.

Tatsumi was caught off guard by this, and because it was so loud, he covered his ears with his hands to prevent himself from going deaf. He was not the only one to do this, Captain Ogre had also covered his ears as well.

With Tatsumi stunned, Koro covered the distance between the two of them, and before Tatsumi had a chance to act, he swung his left fist at him.

The force behind the punch had caused Tatsumi to go flying into a building's window.

"Good job, Koro." Seryu said in a proud tone as she approached the large dog who was now staring at the building that Tatsumi had been launched into.

"Why didn't you do that sooner, Seryu?" Captain Ogre questioned with a frown as he approached the two of them. "You could have saved our comrades lives if you had done it earlier."

"Sorry, Captain Ogre." Seryu apologized with a small bow. "I had assumed he was going to fight us honorably, but instead he just fought like a coward and wouldn't stand his ground."

Captain Ogre said nothing in response, and simply averted his attention to the broken window. While he was saddened about his subordinates being killed, he was also happy that they managed to kill the Night-Raid operative.

"... Well, let's go collect the body." Captain Ogre declared after several seconds of gazing into the building. He was positive that the assassin was dead, and had a good feeling that he was going to be getting a promotion in the nearby future.

Unfortunately, he was wrong, and the assassin had fled amidst the time the two of them exchanged words with one another.

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Tatsumi let loose a groan of pain as he crashed into the stone wall.

He had managed to elude Seryu and the Imperial Police that had finally arrived at the scene of where he battled Seryu and Captain Ogre, but the injuries he had sustained were making it very difficult for him to move.

"Graaaah!" Tatsumi growled as he took off his mask so he could have an easier time breathing, and because he felt like it was getting in his way. "I should have killed Captain Ogre when I had the chance!"

Throughout the entire fight, Tatsumi only had one opportunity to kill Captain Ogre, but in the heat of the moment, Tatsumi did a jump kick and knocked him away. He could have caught the Captain's blade with one of his own, and delivered a possible killing blow with the other, but because he was focusing on keeping himself alive at the time, he saw it better to knock the man away.

After taking a few deep breaths, Tatsumi attached the mask to his waist before pressing his hand against the left side of his abdomen and causing himself to wince.

Pretty much all of his injuries were internal, but he had acquired a few cuts that had made him bleed, and he had also earned himself a ton of bruises as well.

Removing his hand from his abdomen, Tatsumi whispered to himself. "I need to get out of here before a patrol or something worse than that finds me."

He was one percent sure he could take on a patrol if they found him, but because of his injuries, he would prefer if he didn't fight anybody else tonight, for his objective now was to get out of the city.

After deciding his priority, Tatsumi pushed himself off of the wall, and resumed limping down the dark alleyway. As he did this, a thunderous noise came from the heavens, and not that long after the booming sound was heard did small raindrops fall from the sky.

It was merely the beginning of a sudden and long storm.

Akame had a small look of concern written on her face as she stared outside through the wide open front door.

Tatsumi had been given his first solo mission a few days ago, and after a couple of days of following the man around, he claimed that today would be the day he would take Captain Ogre's live.

He had left around late midday to begin his assassination, and had told everybody that he wouldn't do anything stupid, and that it shouldn't take him long. However, it had been almost twelve hours since he had left, and there haven't been any signs of him returning.

Because of the abrupt storm, Najenda believed that Tatsumi is most likely spending a night in an inn, she had declared that if he doesn't return by midday, then they would head into the city, and try to find out what happened last night, but until then everyone was to wait for his return.

As a few raindrops managed to get into the hideout and fall onto the wooden flooring, Akame thought about going out and trying to find the new assassin. She wasn't very close to Tatsumi, but she was close enough to consider him a friend, and she felt like sitting here and doing nothing was a terrible thing to do.

Believing that she couldn't sit here and do nothing, Akame went to grab Murasame, and a cloak for the rain.

However, before she could make it to her room, she ran into Bulat, who had stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder and saying, "Please don't tell me you're going to do what I think you're going to do."

"I won't be gone for long." Akame answered as she shrugged the hand off of her. "I'm just going to check the area, and make sure there's no Danger Beasts around."

"Oh, if that's the case, then I'll go with you." Bulat declared which made Akame's lips curve a little downwards. "I didn't really sweat much during training today, so I still have some energy in me, and I feel what better way to use it, then on a couple of Danger Beasts, you know?"

Akame was silent at first, and had tried to form a quick response that would prevent him from coming, but before she could utter any words, Bulat spoke again. "I'm not an idiot Akame. I know you're going out because you're concerned about Tatsumi."

Seeing that he knew her plan, she replied with. "He's been gone for too long. Something must have happened."

"Even if something did happen, which is a possibility, what are you going to do about it?" Bulat asked with a stern look. "The Capital City is massive, and will take you hours just for you to search a small part of a district."

At this, Akame was speechless. She realized what he was saying was true, and the odds of finding Tatsumi would be practically impossible, but she couldn't just sit here when one of her teammate's life could be in jeopardy.

"Not to mention, you'd get a cold." Bulat pointed out to reinforce his statement. "It's pouring heavily out there, so if you went out there for a long time, then you'd for sure catch a cold."

Akame began to pout after hearing this from him. She knew he was also right about this, and knew it was better to wait until tomorrow, but the idea of something going wrong kept popping in her mind.

Releasing a sigh, Bulat said to Akame. "Look, I want to go out there and look for him too, but we can't. Right now all we can do is wait and assume that he's safe and sound, okay?"

"Okay..." Akame begrudgingly complied. She didn't like the idea, but a small part of her felt like she should have some faith in Tatsumi.

Happy that he was able to stop Akame from doing anything reckless, Bulat said, "Atta girl."

Jaecar let a sigh escape his lips as he finished writing the things they need from the market tomorrow.

He was a man in his late twenties, and had a black loose-sleeved shirt on, which was a little too big for him. On top of his shoulders and around his neck was a gray fur collar. He had brown hair, a small mustache, and had a patch of facial hair underneath his lip that matched his mustache. He also wore a black skullcap, and gray cargo pants. His eyes were brown.

Sitting in a rocking chair not far from, rocking back and forth, in a simple white and pink dress was his childhood friend and eight-month pregnant wife, Sara. She had long brown braided hair that was slightly darker than his, and dark purple eyes.

"Is there anything else you can think of, Sara?" Jaecar requested as he looked up at his wife, he had a somewhat concerned expression written on his face.

"No, at least not at the moment, dear." She answered with a content look as she continued rocking back and forth while gently rubbing her swollen belly.

"Hmph, alright." Was his response before getting up and out of his chair and placing the notepad on the kitchen table. He couldn't think of anything else they needed either, but the list was a little too small in his opinion, which made him wonder if they were forgetting something.

Not too long after he had set the notepad down did he and his wife hear a massive booming noise come from the heavens. It came swiftly and suddenly without any warning whatsoever. In fact, because it was so sudden and loud, Sara had jumped a little.

"Damn, that was something, am I right?" Jaecar declared with a bit of laughter. He was also startled by the sudden thunder and had tensed up, but his reaction wasn't as big as Sara's reaction.

"It sure was." Sara said with a tiny trace of amusement as she relaxed her muscles and allowed her body to sink back into the rocking chair.

Deciding to see how bad it was, Jaecar approached one of the windows by the front door. He wasn't a huge fan of thunderstorms, but sometimes he couldn't stop himself from admiring them.

Moving the curtains aside so he could see what's going on, Jaecar stared out into the night. He couldn't exactly see anything due to it being pitched black, but after a little while, thunder came again, which was followed by a flash of lightning.

Upon the flash coming and going, Jaecar took a step back and said aloud. "Something's coming."

His wife didn't exactly hear him well due to her being lost in thought, so her response to this information was. "What?"

Not bothering to repeat himself, Jaecar moved away from the window and grabbed his rifle that he had left earlier on the kitchen counter.

"Stay here, I'll be right back." He ordered as he glanced at his wife who was looking at him with a worried expression.

"Okay, be careful, dear." She said with concern in her voice that made him smile a bit.

"I will be." He affirmed before averting his attention to the door, and flipping the switch that turned on the outdoor lights.

Once he had done this, he opened the door with his rifle ready to fire at whatever he had seen approaching their house. He wasn't sure what he had seen, but it looked humanoid, so it could be one of his neighbors.

However, that wasn't going to stop him from bringing his gun with him. His wife was pregnant with his child, and his priorities were to keep them safe, and until he knew what was approaching his house, he was going to err on the side of caution as if his life depended on it.

As the rain continued to pour down on the roof above him, and his front yard, Jaecar shouted out into the night. "Who's out there?"

A few seconds later, a lightning flash appeared and disappeared, which was followed by some thunder. He had tensed up a bit upon this happening, but he had seen the thing that was approaching his home, and had sawed that it wasn't that far from entering the range of the outdoor lights.

After quickly checking his rifle to make sure it was still loaded, Jaecar raised it slightly, and waited for what he had believed to be a person enter his visible range. Not long after he did this, did the person enter the light.

He didn't know the man, so Jaecar aimed his gun at him and said in a serious tone. "I think that's far-"

"Please help me." The man pleaded before collapsing and falling into the mud. This was something Jaecar didn't see coming at all, so he had been completely taken back by what he had just witnessed.

It didn't take him long to snap out of his stunned state of mind, and for him to rush off of the porch to help the man.

"You know you almost got yourself shot, right?" Jaecar barked as he lifted the man's right arm and put it over his shoulders.

"... I'm sorry." The black haired male apologized in a tired voice as he was helped up.

Jaecar didn't say anything. He would have asked the man what was he doing out there in the storm, but after seeing the man's face, he could tell that he was barely keeping himself conscious.

"My wife is going to freak out about this." Jaecar said to himself in a not so quiet voice as the two began to approach the house.

"... I'm sorry." The man apologized before falling to the ground again, which had brought Jaecar down with him.

"Ah, it's whatever, but you're definitely not making this easy for me." Jaecar replied as he helped him up for a second time. "I'm going to need you to get up, and I'm going to need you to lend me your strength if we're going to make it to the house, can you do that for me?"

"... I'll try..." The man said in between gasps for breath. "But I don't think... I... Can do that..."

"You can." Jaecar affirmed after a second or two. "You just gotta believe in yourself."

The man didn't bother replying, and instead gave his strength to Jaecar. They had stumbled at the porch, but eventually, they were able to enter Jaecar and his wife's home.

Upon entering the home, Jaecar's wife said aloud in shock. "Oh my God! What happened?"

"I don't know, he collapsed on me before I could ask him anything." Jaecar answered as he practically dragged the man to the kitchen table. He didn't plan on taking him to one of the bedrooms, at least not yet, but that was because the bedrooms were on the second floor, and that was twelve stairs he would have to climb with a barely awake man, so for now, he was going to be put on the table.

As Sara got out of her chair, Jaecar set his gun on one of the kitchen chairs, so that he would have an easier time putting the man on the table.

Once the man had been put on the table, Jaecar took a step back and began to actually examine who he had just brought into his home.

The man's eyes were closed, but his chest was still slowly rising up and then going down, so he was still breathing, which was good. The majority of his bottom clothes were covered in dirt, but what had caught his eye was the black and gold mask attached to his waist that had some mud on it.

"Do you know who he is?" Sara questioned after moving to her husband's side with a concerned look written all over her face.

"No, I've never seen him in the village before." Jaecar answered as he quickly glanced at her before averting his attention back to the muddy and drenched male on top of the table they eat on.

"Should we go get the village chief?" Sara asked as she stared at the stranger for a while before looking at her husband, her expression she had on her face when she looked at him was a troubled one.

"I'll get him tomorrow, for now, I think we should get this man a pair of warm clothes." He assured as he flashed her a smile. "God knows how cold he is right now."

With that said, Jaecar headed upstairs to go get the man a pair of clothes, and left his wife alone with the unknown man.

"Don't worry. You're going to be alright, sir." Sara declared after moving closer to the table and gently grabbing ahold of the man's muddy right glove.

The man said nothing for a while, but feeling someone hold his pinky and ring finger made him say in a voice that was barely above a whisper in a delirious tone. "Farah..."

Esdeath had a smile written on her face as she took the final sip of her wine. It was still raining badly, but she didn't care about that. In fact, she had found it to be beautiful in a way, for the rain represented her and what was to come to the Night-Raid and all those who support them.

Nonstop hell.

"I hope you are ready Night-Raid because the calming before the storm has officially ended." Esdeath declared as she set the empty glass down and walked off.

(Revan's AN): So first scene was a little difficult. By that I mean it was hard, specifically Seryu. I mean, I had thought about killing her off, but I didn't because I feel she would have activated her trump card the moment her friends were getting killed. And if I had Tatsumi come out on top even though she activated her trump card, I feel you all would have gone on about how Tatsumi was insanely OP, or something like that, so I tried to find a middle ground, and this is what we got. Anyways, this is going to be a possible three-part you know chapter. Idk, it depends on how much more I write, but I'd say it was a good one. Anyways, I'm going to go now, see ya.

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