SEQUENCE 3: SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT
*ANIMUS AUDIO TRANSLATION- ON*
Kasumi charged at the training dummy with both her hidden blades extended. One sank into its neck, the other into its stomach. Akihiko gave a slow clap.
"Impressed, sensei?" Kasumi asked.
"Not quite. Now, you learn to hide in plain sight. I shall not be with you for this." Akihiko answered.
Stepping out of the den and into the streets, Kasumi promptly went to the marketplace as per Akihiko's orders. Now, she was training in the ways of the thief and the ninja- the agents of stealth and subterfuge. Approaching a stall selling poultry, Kasumi snuck up behind a bystander and picked his pocket. Grinning, she placed the 50 Mon that her victim had been carrying into her own coinpurse.
"Stop thief!" the man cried.
Kasumi bolted up onto the rooftops and proceeded to free-run her way back to the den. Once she returned, she gave Akihiko the money.
"Kasumi, we shall now discuss the Order's history." Akihiko announced.
Kasumi sighed and took a seat.
"Our Order has had a long history. In the Holy Land during what the Europeans call the Third Crusade, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad saved the Levantine Assassins from one of their own and then controlled it himself. Barely three centuries ago, Ezio Auditore brought down the Templars in Italy and the Ottoman Empire. And scarcely a century prior, Connor Kenway defeated the Templars in the United States and thens sailed here to rebuild our Order." Akihiko lectured.
"Sensei, who are the Templars?" Kasumi asked.
"They are our arch-enemies. Whereas we seek to free men's minds, they seek to control. And here in Ajia (Asia), they have control." Akihiko answered.
"Who is among them?" Kasumi asked.
"Imamura." Akihiko answered.
Kasumi's eyes flashed with righteous fury.
"When shall I kill him?" Kasumi asked.
"At the New Year's Festival." Akihiko answered.
"I shall go there and make him pay for his deeds." Kasumi vowed.
"But he shall be surrounded by guards." Akihiko replied.
"Then how shall I strike?" Kasumi asked.
"You shall be like shadows in the moonlight. Your footsteps like leaves upon the wind. Your blade will be a silver sliver, and Imamura's blood shall flow like a crimson river." Akihiko answered.