Ed briefed Trisha, Maes, and Wu on their first assignment, standing before Edward in the marble floors of the council room with white walls, the brown council desk that the members sat at, and a black carpet on the floor.
"Trisha, Maes, and Wu." Ed announced. "Your first target is a list of targets." Edward said. "They are lieutenants who work for Duke Bristol in his construction site in northern Mignogna. Find them and leave them alive, I want the police to deal with them, but don't kill them. They are worth 250 Alphonian dollars each."
"All right!" Wu said.
"Ok!" Maes said. Trisha sighed.
Trisha, Maes, and Wu were walking by the Bristol construction site, and some construction workers whistled at Trisha.
"Hey lady you got some giant watermelons!" A construction worker with a lavender shirt and pants with an orange vest with the Bristol logo, a purple lion head in a darker purple pentagon remarked, catcalling Trisha.
"Bring them over for a summer party!" Another construction worker wearing the same clothes said.
"I'll show you watermelons!" Trisha shrieked, getting mad at the construction workers.
"Trisha, don't do this!" Maes advised. Trisha summoned a pistol from the ground, held the pistol sideways, and shot the construction workers, killing them.
"Trisha, we have to stick to Ed's advice." Maes told Trisha.
"Ed has been too restrictive with his moral code." Trisha responded. "If the police arrest these criminals they will find a way to break out or they would just get bailed out by the boss, giving them a second chance at a life of crime. If I kill them then they stay down." Maes and Wu went to the first lieutenant and restrained him with alchemy. Trisha began to interfere and killed the guy.
"Dammit Trisha, Ed wanted the man alive!" Maes said, fussing at Trisha. Wu and Maes restrained the second lieutenant, but Trisha killed him. Wu and Maes restrained the third lieutenant, but Trisha still killed him. The fourth and final lieutenants were sitting on a girder together, but Trisha broke the girder and sent them falling into the cement.
"I didn't kill them, but I didn't save them." Trisha said.
"Yea, but you still technically killed them." Maes said. Maes, Trisha, and Wu headed back to City Hall.
City Hall
"Trisha, I told you specifically not to kill the lieutenants and you still managed to kill them?" Ed asked. "You disobeyed my orders, and are not getting one cent from the assignment."
"I am not a child, Daddy!" Trisha said. "I am a grown woman!"
"I am also your boss." Edward said. "So you must not break protocol again or I will terminate your State Alchemist certification."
"I understand, boss." Trisha said, apologizing.
"Good." Edward said. "Your next assignment is an assignment for both you and Maes."
"What is it?" Trisha asked.
"Go to the neighborhood of McFarland, there is a betting shop owned by Bristol that generates a lot of revenue for his enterprise. Catch the guy who Bristol put in charge of the betting shop, leaving him for the police, but do not kill him please."
"We can do that!" Trisha and Maes said in unison.
"Don't fail me." Edward advised.
