A/N So quite a few people asked who were the three children at the end of Chapter 5. Those children are actually from the mange of Akame Ga Kill. I know I've said in every chapter that this is based on the anime and not the manga but thanks to requests I'll be writing this. So this is kinda going to be a special side chapter and probally a short one. The three girls from last chapter are not OCs of mine and have their own debut in Akame Ga Kill chapter 23.5 which is a special chapter in the manga and I think all three of them also have a short cameo in the last episode of the anime. I highly suggest before reading this chapter, you go on google and search Akame Ga Kill chapter 23.5 before reading this...OR, if you don't like spoilers, you could read this first and then read Akame Ga Kill chapter 23.5...wait, actually it's going to spoil the plot no matter which one you read first so you pick.
Chapter may have lots of typing and spelling errors, Please point them out if you see any. Correction type of reviews are always accepted and appreciated.
Anyways, besides that, I hope you enjoy.
"Were almost at he capital. What do you think out master's going to be like Luna?" the girl with pink hair wearing a pink beanie asked nevously.
The bluenette wearing a blue hoodie who sat at in the middle of the carriage replied, "Probably an old man. He may be aiming for our bodies like some beast."
"Hah!" The orange-haired girl who sat on the right side of Luna laughed, "If that happens, we'll just smash his OOO and run!"
The pink haired girl tilted her head and sweatdropped, "OOO...?"
"Listen to me, Air, all right?" The girl continued stretching her fingers, "We, unlike other village girls who've been sold off somewhere, are the best out of them. We've been chosen to apprentice at the capital! We're going to work hard, find a good man and start a dreamy life in the capital!"
Luna wasn't so sure, "I think you're being too positive, Fal..."
"Hey guys! I think we've arrived!" Air said looking out the window.
As Air said this, the carriage stopped and the driver told them to get out.
The three proceeded to get off the carriage.
"Hello there." Said an unfamiliar voice.
Air turned her head and saw a man with short blonde hair wearing a red jacket and tie.
"I'll be your master." the man spoke, "I'm Bach. Now, over here."
As Air and Luna followed him while Fal just stared as one word came to her mind, "YOUNG!"
"FUEEEE...This is the capital." Air admired the sight of the place and drank in it's beautifulness. The capital was large, people walked left to right, right to left and shops were at every corner pretty much selling every item you would need to find in a market, "It's a Metropolis..."
"Our village has an Inn and curio shop after all." Fal said as they walked, "It was pretty traumatic when were asked 'Don't you even have an armory?' by the adventurers."
"Hahaha," Bach laughed as he understood how they felt, "It kind of feel like there's a ton of unusual thing here, doesn't it? Want to look around a bit while we're here? I'll buy some clothes for you all!"
Air wasn't sure if she heard that right, "Is-is it okay?!"
"I'm a kind master after all!" Bach said with a smile.
Air's eyes turn to Luna and whispered, "He...he's easy to talk to and he seems like a good person."
"You can't let your guard down." Luna said pointing her index finger up who was still a bit skeptical of the man, "Have you forgotten that all men are wolves?"
"Y...you're right, wolves are dangerous, right?" Air asked just to confirm.
"Either way, if things turn bad, let's run." Fal said before kicking her leg into the air despite wearing a skirt, "When it comes down to it, rely on me! Wit these martial arts that I defeated one-horned rabbit with I'll...!"
"Fal, you're being immodest!" Air said waving her hands to Fal.
"Um, it seems you're on guard around me." Bach honestly couldn't blame them, they were forcefully sold by their village to be slaves after all thanks to their poverty, "the truth is, the reason I'm buying you all clothes is because if my employers are too rural-looking you know." Bach admitted.
"And so I'll give you guys some spending money, so try buying clothing efficiently." The man finished with a bright smile, "It's training for your work."
Air couldn't help but smile in gratitude, "Y...yes!"
That afternoon, Bach and the girls spent the day going from shop to shop. Bach happily supplied the money to buy new clothes and even bras and underwear for them which Bach politely stayed outside when they tried those on.
"Oh, Luna! How about this one!" Air suggested pointing at a pretty blue skirt.
"Isn't that a bit too short?" Luna asked looking at the size, "there's no way I'm going to try that."
"Hey guys!" Fal called while pointing at a large yellow back, "don't you think that'll look cool on me."
"Fal..." Luna said looking at the jacket, "isn't that for men?"
"EHH?!" Fal exclaimed looking back at the jacket, "How can you tell?"
Air giggled at Fal's expression and looked around.
While Fal and Luna were arguing about the jacket on whether it was for men or women, Air admired the scenery.
Compare to her village, the capital was enormous.
They were only shopping for clothing now but she was excited at the idea that they might get a chance to buy other things.
Air scanned the capital: There were shops that sold cakes and ice-cream, place to buy furniture; she saw bodyguards holding piles of presents and stuff that a rich person was going to buy, kids asking for expensive items, imperial guards casually talking, a woman glaring at her, men in suits laughing about everyday topics and- wait...
Air took a closer look, on the other side of the street, hiding in a dark alley way...was a woman with glowing, blue, circular eyes.
Despite the hundreds of people walking past, there was no doubt that the women was staring directly at her.
Not knowing how to react, Air didn't move and froze as she completely ignored the calls of her friends.
"Air?" Luna called walking next to Air, "What's wrong?"
"Maybe she literally passed out from the scenery while still standing." Far suggested.
Air didn't say anything, she just pointed.
Soon, Fal and Luna saw her as well.
"What's wrong girls?" Bach asked noticing the sudden change in attitude.
"There's someone watching us." Air replied.
Bach looked up and saw her as well. Her face was hidden by the shadows of the alley way but he could clearly see her eyes. Bach's attention instantly went to the girls, "Listen girls, we have to get out of here, it's not safe-"
"OI!" Far practically screamed as she walked towards the dark alley way,
"Fal! What are you doing?!" Fal called.
"You can't just stalk someone like that. I'll have you know, I know martial arts, you don't want to mess with-"
Bach pulled Fal away before she could finish.
"Hey, let go! I need to teach-"
"No, it's too dangerous." Bach said looking at Fal, he looked really concerned and worried, "We shouldn't stay here."
"But why?" Fal asked.
Bach looked left and then looked right as though to check to see if no one was eavesdropping.
He then leaned in closer towards the three girls, "The truth is...the capital isn't as safe as you think."
"W-what do you mean?" Luna asked nervously.
"There are people...evil people who will hurt kids like you...for fun."
Air gasped, "Who would do such a thing."
"Bad people," Bach replied before smiling, "But don't worry, you're safe as long as you're with me."
Air couldn't help but find relief in that statement.
"In fact, I think it's time we head to my place now where no one will be able to hurt you. I'll even get something for you to eat. Come on, you girls must be hungry after all that shopping." Bach suggested.
Right after that, Fal's stomach growled loudly emphasising their hunger.
"Fal, that's rude." Luna pointed out.
"Don't blame me!" Fal defended herself, "It's my stomach that complaining."
"Well I guess we better get going before your stomach complains more," Bach joked as he lead the girls in a direction, "Come on Air, let's go."
"Hai!" Air nodded as she followed Bach and the other girls but without looking back to see if the woman was still stalking them.
She was gone. The woman hiding in the dark alley way was gone and completely out of sight.
Air calmed down as she told herself, "Maybe she mistook us for someone else."
Bach's place was much larger than the girls thought it was going to be although they should've expected considering how rich he was.
By the time their eyes laid on the building, the woman from before was long forgotten and
The place was almost in the shape of a restaurant. As soon as they took seats at one of the tables of six with Bach sitting on one side and the three girl on the other, Bach ordered food enough for each one of them.
"Now eat up." Bach said as the food was now all set out for them.
"Y-yes." Air said politely unlike Fal who went straight into the food.
"Oh! This is good!"
"Fal, that's bad manners..."
"Hahaha," Bach laughed gently with a smile of relief, "I'm very glad you all look like you're having fun."
Not knowing how to show all of her gratitude, Air could just smile happily and say, "Thank you very much!"
All of a sudden, a group of men wearing black suits appeared behind Bach.
"Yeah, then let's move on to the main dish!"
Three men got behind the three girls and grabbed them, restricting their arms.
Air still had to process what just happened, "Hu-huh...?!"
"This is..." Fal looked and saw that Bach was staying completely still...Bach's smile told Fal everything, "BASTARD!"
Since her arms were being restricted, Fal lifted her leg and kicked the man holding her right in the sunglasses.
The man who was holding Fal didn't even flinch and instead just smile, "What's thing," The man punched Fal right in the stomach, "The fighting styles of a country dweller!?"
"GAHAH! COUGH!"
"FAL!" Air called.
"Ahh," Bach said as he noticed something, "Suka, were you the one who accepted this tomboyish girl?"
Said person who standing next to Bach replied, "Yes, it's fun to cut down girl's like these, bit by bit."
Bach smiled and said cheerfully, "Roger that. Now then, break both of her legs."
"Yes."
At the order, the large muscular man holding Fal bent both her legs upwards in a 90 degree angle. The loud snap of Fal's bone was followed by a scream.
"Gh...GYAAAAAAA!"
The scream was extremely loud that everyone failed to notice the noise that was coming from outside.
The man known as Suka listened to her screams like music, "ooohh, wonderful screaming."
The attention was now brought to Luna and Air.
"Now that you can't run anymore. How shall I break you?"
"These people here are the so-called 'enthusiasts' of the capital." Bach explained casually as though he was used to this, the same smile that was still on his face was no longer comforting to Air, "Apparently, normal girl's aren't enough for them. Apparently, all of them love to break girls down after seeing their happiest faces. Really, they're disgusting freaks."
A fat and ugly man heard Bach and said, "But it's thank to us freaks that you're making a profit." the man pointed at Luna, "Hey, I want that girl, that girl!"
"Yes, yes, you order is?" Bach asked.
"The eyes would be nice. I'm just in love with licking girls like that." The man replied as he disgustingly licked his lips.
In the tone of a waiter, Bach happily said, "The eyes, he says."
"Yes sir." Another man in a suit and sunglasses, approached Luna holding a sharp syringe.
"N...no way..." Luna knew what was coming and she begged, "Pl...PLEASE STOP!"
The man got closer and Luna's hope grew smaller, "St...no,stop...pl...please stop..."
With a sadistic smile, the man aimed the syringe at Luna's eye.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
"I'll give the last girl as a present to my precious child." Another man spoke, he looked at Bach and ordered, "Hey."
"Yes, yes." Bach sighed as he knew what the man was suggesting, Bach seemed concerned...about the clothes Air was wearing, "Even though I went and bought it, what a waste."
The man holding Air, grabbed the buttons of her shirt and rip it off until she was wearing nothing but underwear.
"!?"
"Here, I'll introduce you." The man said with a smile as he pulled a leash, "This is the one who I love as if it were my child."
A black furred dog stood next to the man with it's tongue hungrily looking for something to lick, "Meet Dog. You see, Dog's currently in heat...oh, I know! How about I have everyone watch it, right now, as celebration!"
The dog spotted Air's nake body and it's hunger grew more and more by the second.
Bach smiled acting like he was relieved, "How nice, you won't have anything broken. Well, other than your diginity as a human."
Air just looked at the ground, her fringe covering her eyes, "Wh...why are you doing such terrible things..."
Bach had a simple answer for that, "Well, that's because it gets me money. And there's always substitute for country dwellers after all."
The dog was released from it's collar and it instantly ran towards Air with it's tongue hanging out of it's mouth.
As the dog ran, everyone laughed at Bach's statement.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-"
A shot was fired and their laughing ceased.
There was silence as everyone stared at the gaping hole in the dog's body. Blood spilled out of the animal as it slowly dropped dead without a single whimper.
Both Air and Bach looked. Bach stared in horror while Air stared in shock as they both recognised her.
The same woman from before who stalked them was standing at the back door of the building holding a cannon in her arm.
"DOOOOG!" The owner of the dog glared at the woman, "HOW DARE YOU! KILL HER!"
One of the guards pulled out a dagger and sprinted at the woman. However he was beheaded before he could even use his weapon.
The headless body fell over to the floor and the woman walked over it.
Bach looked through the opened door that the woman entered through. From the looks of it, every guard who guarding the perimeter of the building was laying on the ground outside...all of them were dead.
The fat ugly man who ordered Luna's eyes took a step back, "W-what are you doing!? I paid for your guns, USE THEM!"
Every guard in the room including the ones holding Fal, Luna and Air pulled out a handgun and opened fired at the woman. One of them even had a crossbow and fired an arrow that successfully impaled the woman's head.
Suka smiled at the sight of the arrow in the woman's forehead and all the bullet holes in her body. However, his smile quickly disappeared when he notice that the woman's body remained standing.
Everyone jumped when Black's eyes opened again. Black raised her hand and pulled the arrow out of her head and the bullet holes in her body regenerated.
A blue flame ignited from Black's eye and she glared at Bach.
"M-MONSTER!" Someone yelled as they ran for the exit, Bach and a couple of others soon followed.
Fal wanted to run but her legs were broken and was still writhing in pain while Air was just completely frozen. However, to both their confusion, Black walked past both of them.
Black raised her cannon and fired killing three men in one shot. She fired again and another and killed four more in the explosion.
Her eyes then laid on the man who was responsible for jabbing Luna's eyes out.
Out of pure panic, the man picked up Luna and threw her at Black yelling, "TAKE HER!"
The man then sprinted to the exit.
Luna had no idea what was happening for she had just lost her sight and wasn't used to just relying in sound. Not to mention she was still suffering in agony, everytime she tried to open her eyes, it felt like she was stabbing a massive wound with a knife.
All she heard was explosions and screaming and someone yelling 'Monster'. She then felt someone pick her up and she felt herself being thrown across the room while someone yelled, "TAKE HER!"
By then Luna had already lost all her hope. Air and Fal were probally broken by now and there was no way anyone would bother catch her. In a way, this might be better for Luna. She might hit her head on the floor and die right there.
She felt a pair of arms catch her.
(FLASHBACK)
Tears flowed out of her eyes, "I'm sorry Luna! There's nothing I can do! The village, they..."
"It's okay mum," Luna tried to comfort the woman, "I'm telling you. Fal, Air and I will be fine."
"I know it's just...I might never see you again." The tears didn't stop flowing and instead increased.
"Mum, there's nothing we can do. You said it yourself, we're doing this for the village."
"I know. I know." Luna's mum said slowly calming down. "Luna...listen to me. I've heard the rumors about the capital from adventurers. Whatever, do not place your trust on someone easily okay. Especially men, the men over there are wolves compare to the men in our village."
Luna nodded with a weak smile, "Okay mum."
"The village may have thrown you away but I will always love you Luna...remember that."
The woman hugged her child, placing Luna in her arms.
(FLASHBACK ENDS)
Black caught Luna in her arms before she hit the floor.
From her perspective, Luna didn't know who caught her and she really didn't care at this point. This person could be like Bach or even worst, she just needed...needed...
With tears of blood, Luna threw her arms around the person who caught her.
A bit taken back by this, Black still managed to sense a man running at her from behind with a knife.
"Die you little-"
Laying on the floor, Fal watched how Black delt with the man.
(FLASHBACK)
Luna jumped and swung her leg with all her force at the adult.
"Excellent Fal!" The woman said blocking Fal's kick with her arm, "I've taught you well."
The reckless girl jumped back as she was proud to hear that, "Thank you mum- I mean, Sensei."
The woman's smile then slowly faded, "It's a shame that you'll have to leave."
"Don't worry mum- I mean Sensei, we'll be fine. If our master turns out to be a perverted old man, I'll just punch him in the-"
"Fal." Fal's sensei scolded gently before Fal could say the word.
"Sorry. I'm just saying you don't have to worry, I'll protect Air and Luna and make sure we live happy lives." Fal declared confidently.
The woman smiled, "The three of you were always inseparable."
"Besides, compare to a one-horned rabbit, men are nothing." Fal said showing off her muscles.
"That's my girl."
"Hey, before I go, can please show me that special move." Fal begged.
The woman chuckled, "You're still too young for that. But since you asked so nicely, I guess it can't hurt."
The woman picked up a piece of wood with both her arms before approaching Fal.
With the piece of the wood still in her arms, Fal's mum did a backflip over Fal and-
(FLASHBACK ENDS)
kicked the man right in the head, smashing him onto the ground. Black's force was so great that a crater was formed beneath them and the man's skull was smashed spilling his eyes, teeth and blood everywhere.
Black landed softly on her legs and looked at Luna to see if she was okay. Luna was still shivering and clinging onto Black.
Air looked around with wide eyes. Blood was everywhere as corpses laid everywhere.
This was not Air thought she was going to see. None of this was not what Air had imagine. The capital was suppose to be a metropolis where they would've lived happily ever.
But she was wrong...they were both wrong.
(FLASHBACK)
"Do I have to go?" Air begged, "Why can't I stay?"
Her mum gently patted Air on the head, trying to hold back her tears and tried to act brave, "There's nothing we can do. Believe me, I would've stop them if I could."
"But I don't want to go." Air hugged her mum, "I want to stay here with you, Air and Fal!"
"Me too Air. Me too." The woman said gently hugging Air back.
Both her mum and Air wanted that moment to last forever but it was interrupted when one of the villagers called telling them it was time for Air to leave.
"Air-"
"I don't want to leave."
"Come on Air, look at the bright side. You get to see the capital, a couple of adventurers told me it's a metropolis, a place much bigger than our village. The three of you can start a new life and live happily ever after."
Air looked up at her mum with eyes of hope, "Really?"
"Of course," the woman was smiling but inside she was crying at the fact that she might never see her daughter again, "and I'm sure the master who purchased you will be a kind-hearted and loving man. If he turns out of to be mean well...I'm sure there'll be at least one person out there that you can put your trust on."
Air wipe her tears and looked at her mums eyes searching for assurance, "Will I ever see you again."
It was emotionally painful for the woman to smile, "Of course!"
(FLASHBACK END)
By then the place was completely deserted as Black sat down in the middle of corpses.
Luna couldn't cry because of her lack of eyes but she was certainly crying mentally.
Fal wa speechless despite being in pain.
Air stared at the scene and compared it to her imagination.
It was like looking at two different worlds.
Air looked up and made eye contact with Black's blue circular eyes.
There was no emotion or empathy in her eyes. Black didn't seem to feel sorry for them nor did her face show any sincerity.
In fact her face showed nothing but a stoic look.
Yet...Air couldn't help but trust thoes eyes.
She wanted to slap herself. She thought the exact same thing about Bach and this is where it got her.
Not knowing what to do, not knowing how to deal with this or react, Air cried and ran towards Black and threw her arms around her stomach.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
Black blinked. The warrior never felt with children and therefore never understood them. She looked to the side.
Luna was still next to her clinging to her arm.
Fal was still staring at her with wide-eyes.
Air was pouring out tears hugging Black tightly.
Black sat there not moving an inch as she observed the three.
"And that's what happen."
There were two reasons why Air was hiding behind Black as she told Jason the story.
The first reason was because she was barely wearing anything and second was she still wasn't sure about Jason.
She didn't want to be rude though, if Black brought them to him then he must mean no harm but her experience with Bach had now made Air skeptical of almost every man she sees.
Jason sighed, "I see."
He walked towards the girls making all of them flinch except for Black.
"Relax." Jason said with a straight face as he bent down and picked up a piece of fabric that Air dropped.
He placed a very tiny objects on the piece of cloth before throwing it at Air allowing the air to carry it.
The piece of fabric landed on Air's shoulders and almost instantly it started glowing and expanding. The piece of fabric expanded and extended around the girl's body transforming into a brand new pink raincoat.
Air and Fal were speechless while Luna still didn't know what was happening. What the pink-haired girl saw was so unbelievable to a point where Air touched the clothes she was now wearing to see if it was real.
It was.
Jason faced Fal making the girl's heart do a front flip.
Thousands of tiny cubes appeared out of thin air and they all combined together to create levitating, blue and white, circular disk. The disk flew to Fal's legs and attached themselves to her legs.
An blue aura appeared around Fav's legs and Jason gently bent it back into it's original place.
Th strangest thing was that Fal didn't feel anything when Jason bent it back into place and was completely astounded to see that her legs felt perfectly normal once Jason was done.
Black let Fal down off her back and Fal stood on her two feet. The child just stared at her feet as she took one wobbly step at a time before she slowly got used to it again.
The dimension traveler then moved to the eyeless girl, "Your name is Luna correct?"
Luna clung tighter to Black's arm before hesitantly nodding. She was confused why Air and Fal hadn't said anything yet.
Unknowing to Luna, Black gave Jason two small wet objects covered in blood.
Fal and Air felt like puking when they saw what the two small wet objects were.
Tiny small cubes appeared and absorbed the two small object inside them and they then flew inside the gap between Luna's eyelids.
"Fal, I need you to do something for me?" Jason suddenly asked.
Anxiety took over Luna's emotion like running river, Luna wasn't sure what the male's voice wanted her to do, "...W-what?"
"Open your eyes."
The words danced inside Luna's mind until she finally processed the meaning of that request. Ever since that moment when she lost her eyes, she never wanted to open them again since she would see nothing and just feel pain.
Why would the boy want Luna to open her eyelids? So she could fell more pain? Luna noticed how Jason said 'eyes' instead of 'eyelids.
A small spark of hope lit inside Luna's heart. Maybe the male had new robotic eyes for something like that. She remembered reading a book about people using mechanical parts to replaced their missing body parts like arms or legs.
Although Luna didn't know how a mechanical eyes was going to bring back her sight.
After a moment of endless self-debating, Luna hesitantly and slowly opened her eyes and looked up at Jason.
Jason was wearing a blue and white coat with a hoodie that covered his entire face except for her mouth-
Luna froze. How could she be seeing this? She was...looking at Jason. But how? Luna couldn't sworn she didn't have eyes a moment ago. She noticed that the pain was complete gone as well.
A mirror appeared in Jason's hand and he gave it to Luna.
Luna looked at the mirror and couldn't believe her eyes...literally, as in she couldn't believe she had eyes.
They looked normal and brand new, "I can see...I CAN SEE! I CAN SEE! My eyes there...there..."
Air's mouth was wide open. Earlier, the two two small wet object covered in blood that Black had given Jason was...the leftovers and remains of Fal's eyes.
Not knowing what to say, Air bowed her head swiftly, "Thank you!"
"W-who are you?" Fal asked looking at Jason, "How did you..."
"Fal, you're being rude." Air said.
"Are you serious?" Fal looked at Air like she had gone insane, "Did you not just see what that guy just did? He literally-"
"Well, well, well...what do we have here?"
Everyone turned and looked. Jason and Black were calm while the three girls almost jumped off the rooftop.
It was Jack and Sing-love.
"Your back." Jason said which told the girls that they knew each other.
"Why wouldn't we? The Jaegers so far are doing completely fine without us." Jack replied before looking at three girls, his grin grew wider, "Oh my, if I'm not mistaken then you girls must be Air, Luna and Fal."
The three girls each had a different reaction to that.
Jason looked at Jack, "You know them?"
"Of course I do! ...they're in the manga." Jack whispered the last bit.
"Really?"
"Here I'll show you." Jack pulled out his phone, placed his arm around Jason's shoulder and showed him the screen of his phone.
Meanwhile, Air just stared at Jack and Jason said things to each other that she didn't understand.
Air tugged Black's jacket, "What's a manga?"
Black glared at Air with her usual expression but didn't say anything.
"It's like a comic book." Sing-love answered for Black making Air jumped for the hundredth time today.
The three girl looked at Sing-love. They didn't know what a comic book was but something else caught their attention.
They looked at Black. They looked at Sing-love. They looked at Black then at Sing-love.
Fal was the first to react with a gasp, "You're twins!"
Besides the different colour in eyes, clothes and hair. Black and Sing-love shared the same face. Although there was one noticeable difference between the two was Sing-love's smile which almost creeped out Air while Black on the other hand looked like she has never smiled in her entire life.
Sing-love's smile grew wider, "Well actually she's my daughter."
Of course that wasn't really true. While it is true that Stella, who looks exactly like Black, was Sing-love daughter, Black probably isn't even related to Sing-love considering they were from two different worlds. She just liked to joke about it and see the different reactions.
The three girls blink twice before exclaiming, "EHHHHHHHH?!"
"Hahaha, you humans can be so adorable sometime." Sing-love commented before looking at Jack and Jason, "Hey boys. So what are you planning with these girls?"
That was a question the girls were also wondering about.
Jason wasn't actually sure and suggested, "I guess we can just send them back to their village and make sure they don't tell-"
"NO!"
Everyone looked at Luna. Luna covered her mouth with her hands as she was surprised at her own actions, "It's just...our village is probably still in poverty...if you send us back now we might be sold to another,,,,to another..."
Luna's heartbeat increased drastically as she remembered the moment when her eyes were...
Her arms flung to her head as she was at the verge of screaming.
Air instantly went to hug the traumatised girl, "Luna! It's okay. Were safe. No one is going to hurt you."
Meanwhile, Jason was thinking about what to do, He had not expected this nor predicted this event, "she has a point...hmm..."
"They can stay with us." Jack suggested with a grin.
Black and Jason glared at Jack.
"Have you forgotten why were here in the first place?" Jason asked.
"Why not? I'm sure we can babysit them until the new world is born...besides..." Jack said looking at the three girls with a creepy smile, "We actually might need them in the future."
"You do realise we can't just take them without their consent," Jason pointed out, his eyes noticed that the three girls were distancing themselves from Jack and Sing-love...mostly Jack, "and from the looks of it, they don't really trust you."
"Then why don't we earn their trust?" Jack's grin grew wider.
Jason's eyes widened as he knew exactly what Jack was suggesting, "That's Night Raid's job not ours."
"Night Raid will research their clients before taking action." Jack countered, "Now that we've met these girls, they'll eventually connect the lines and the events of this world's history will change drastically. We can't afford to blow our cover more than we already have."
"You're the one whose blown most of our cover." Jason said glaring at Jack.
"HAHAHA! Can't argue with you there." Jack said before getting back on topic, "So what do you say?"
"...fine."
"Excellent!" Jack turned his head and looked at the Air, Luna and Far who were staying awfully close to Black, "Hey girls!"
For the thousandth time today, they girls jumped.
"You know Bach?" Jack said reminding the girls their traumatising experience, "Did you know he was actually a slave when he was young."
They almost couldn't believe what Jack had declared. The girls certainly had not expect a man like Bach to...although now that they thought about it, it make sense in a way.
"Yeah, apparently he and his mother were treated awfully ages ago." Jack continued, "So with that in mind...do you forgive Bach and his friends?"
That was a question Fal and Luna had not expected to answer so soon. The pain they had experience was so traumatising that they never thought about it. Honestly, they didn't think they were going be saved in the first place.
"Is that even a question?"
Everyone looked at Air. The girl was looking down at the floor.
"I understand how he feels, having a past like that can change people. But that look on his face told me they've done the same thing to many others." Air had no idea where all this anger came from, she just suddenly had the urge, "and I had to stand and watch as my friends were torched right in front of me."
She hated it. She was helpless and forced to watch her friends get treated like that. The thought of them doing it to other girls like her just added more coal to her emotions, 'There's no way I can forgive them! There's no way I would! I don't care what you do with us just please...fulfil this grudge that I can't carry out myself!"
Luna and Fal were lost for words. They had never seen Air like this before to a point where they almost couldn't recognised her face. For a moment, the happy and naive Air had disappeared.
Even Air appeared to be a bit confused after yelling and quickly apologised.
Jason narrowed his eyes as he knew what just happened.
What Jack, Sing-love, Black and Jason just saw...was an example of history trying to fix itself.
There was a reason why changing the history of a world was forbidden. Because each world has it's history already written from beginning to end. Every event, every location and even every bit of dialogue is planned out from start to the ending. When something is changed, history will proceed to fix it in the most reasonable way possible as long as the plot gets back on track.
Fulfil this grudge that I can't carry out myself: According to the manga, those were the exact same words that Air was suppose to say to Leone.
Jack grin grew and despite his hood covering his face, he looked like an actual maniac, "That's all I needed to hear."
"YOU FOOL!" The man punched Bach in the face, "You lead her right to us didn't you!?"
"We lost half our guards because of her...do you have any idea how expensive those were!"
Bach and the rest of the 'enthusiasts' were in a different rented building with a set of new guards...a lot more guards. The group had no problem affording all of it but being the cheap they were.
The fat man pulled back his fist and aimed it at Bach-
"WAIT!"
Everyone stopped as Bach picked himself up and wiped the blood from his mouth.
"I've...I've...set the date of next term's special."
This caught everyone's attention, "Were listening."
Bach laughed nervously, "The menu has been decided and believe me...I'll bring some lively ones again to make up for the three that we lost."
Everyone relaxed.
Suka glared at Bach, "They better be."
"Oh but they are," Bach gave them three pictures.
The pictures had three new girls on them each wearing a fresh happy smile.
Suka and the fat man looked at the pictures with instant hunger and licked their lips, "HAHA! Bach my boy, you might've just outdone yourselves. How did you find them?" They asked as they passed the photos around.
Bach smiled, "Despite them being lowly country dwellers, they sure can bake up a few lovely ones can't they."
Everyone bursted into laughter, "HAHAHAHA! Can't argue with you there!"
"If you like I can move the due date so we can have them sooner." Bach suggested and the everyone's faces told him that was exactly what they wanted, "so please look forward to it!"
"Bach, what are you doing on the floor?" The fat man said pretending like it wasn't his fault, "Come sit with us. Let's forget about the past and have a toast to our friend and his excellent... menus."
"FUHIHI! A TOAST!"
All of a sudden, everyone heard someone humming.
"Hmm~Hmm~Hmm."
"Who's there!"
The humming was heard through the entire building.
"Hmm~Hmm~Hmm."
"A song?"
No one could tell where the humming was coming from.
"Hmm~Hmm~Hmm."
"Who's singing?"
The humming was getting louder and it was now clear that it was a woman singing.
"Hmm~Hmm~Hmm."
"What a beautiful voice."
"Aww why thank you." Sing-love said with a smile who was now sitting in the middle of the table, "your reviews will be appreciated..."
Bach and the 'enthusiasts' stared at Sing-love, their bodies frozen with fear. She looked exactly like the woman from that night but instead there was a smile on her face. The most noticeable thing however was the deadly-looking, white scythe that was leaning on her neck.
Every guard in the room suddenly dropped dead, their bodies were in pieces.
"If you survive that is."
With only the unarmed ones left alive, everyone in the room stood up and ran in different directions for their lives.
The majority of people headed for the exit. But someone was already waiting for them outside.
"Oh hallo..." Jack stood in the middle of the corpses of the guards who were scouting the perimeter of the building, 15 red and black rifles were floating right above Jack and they were all aimed at the remaining 'enthusiasts', "and goodbye."
He opened fire and each man got shot in the chest before they dropped to the floor.
"Oops, looks like three of them got away." Sing-love said looking at the ground.
"Leave them, there's already someone down there waiting for them." Jack said before bringing his attention to a man on the floor who was playing dead.
"Kuh...I don't know what happened but I'll get through this by playing dead..." Suka thought unaware that Jack was standing right in front of him, "Thank God I had a watch over my chest!"
"Hey Sing-love, should I behead this guy or stab him to death?" Jack asked stepping Suka's head.
"You know its times like these that I think you're more sick than I am." Sing-love replied who was now casually pouring herself a glass of expensive wine that the 'enthusiasts' brought.
"As the main antagonist, I take that as a compliment." Jack said before looking back at Suka's face, "Hey, aren't you the man who ordered to have Fav's legs broken."
"?!" Suka's eyes widened in fear.
Jack grinned evilly as he knew he had just hit a the spot, "Oh I see. You're the type who's into physical torture."
Jack clicked his fingers and a variety of floating red and black, torture tools appeared right above Suka.
"Don't worry," Jack grabbed a dagger, "I totally understand your hobby."
Three men, including Bach, ran through the escape tunnel.
"HMPH!" Bach smiled triumphantly. Ever since that incident with the woman, he always made sure there was an escape at every corner, "just in case something like this happened, I've already got an escape route planned..."
The three stopped running as someone stood in their way.
Bach's eyes widened as he recognised Black from before. No...Bach had seen her before that...
The two men from who were with Bach grabbed out a knife and charged at Black thinking two against one would win.
Black sprinted past them, slicing them into pieces as she went past.
"That's right...she's from the wanted posters." Bach thought as Black slowly walked towards him.
As Bach remembered his last encounter with Black, panic drastically increased, Bach could only think of one way out of this, "L-listen to what I have to say! There's a reason I turned out like this!"
Bach ripped his shirt open revealing some sort of tattoo on his chest, "Here! This is the proof of a slave! My mother-"
The man didn't finish as Black charged forward impaling her black sword through Bach's chest.
A blue flame ignited from Black's eye. This time Bach could see it clearly unlike last time.
"Wh...what an incredible eye she has..."
Black pulled her sword out of Bach's chest and he slowly fell towards his death.
"She disposed of me as easily as she would've thrown a piece of trash away...her eye...it's real...she's clearly...the strongest killer in the capital..."
The next thing Bach saw...
was the colour black.
"So what do you want girls?" Sing-love asked casually.
"Umm...ah, my mum always tells me to eat my vegetables whenever I can." Air said looking the variety of foods.
Sing-love, Jack, Air, Fal and Luna were in the slum area where even people with their faces on wanted posters could roam freely.
Jack didn't say anything as he was too amused at the fact that the three girls were being polite to them yet they made sure to keep a distance.
Sing-love, who was well aware of the girls' uncomfortableness, appeared in front of Air and gave her a big hug, "Aww, aren't you just adorable?! Feel free to call me mama."
Air let out a cute gasp and reached for her friends, "Fal, help me."
For the first time in Fal's life, she backed away from the fight, "Sorry Air, you're on your own."
"EHH?! ...Luna?" Air said turning her head to the blue haired girl.
Luna responded by pretending to read a book that Sing-love had brought her with the money that they 'borrowed' from a certain group.
From a distance, Jason and Black spectated each not saying a word.
The more they got into this, the more Jason wondered why he brought Jack with him. Is not like he didn't enjoy the girl's company, he was more worried about what Jack had planned for them.
(FLASHBACK)
"Besides...We actually might need them in the future."
(FLASHBACK ENDS)
This brought Jason to another topic that he was wondering about.
The boy turned his head and looked at Black, "Why did you save them?"
Black turned her head and glared at Jason but didn't utter a word.
"I'm not saying what you did was a bad thing..." Jason quickly clarified, "I'm just curious...I know you, you're usually not the type to care about anyone besides..."
Jason stopped as the answer was given to him.
"I see..." Jason looked back at the girls, "Air's naivety, Fal's tomboyish nature and Luna..."
Jason looked at Luna's blue eyes.
"All three of them remind you of Mato...don't they?"
Black didn't say anything giving Jason his answer.
Instead, Black looked up at the sky and stared at the sun setting.
Despite being separated by thousands of worlds, despite having an actual objective...Ever since she arrived in this world...
The only person Black ever thought about was her.
Dear Mum,
How are things going in the village? Are you okay? Fal, Luna and I are doing great.
I'm writing this letter to you because the people taking care of us have kindly allowed me to do so. I'm happy to say that all three of us have arrived in the capital safely. The capital is a Metropolis and much bigger than our village just like you said. But you were wrong about one thing, the capital isn't filled with nice people, in fact it's the complete opposite. Don't worry though, we were lucky enough to find kind people that we could trust and now were living in a small apartment not in the capital. The people who are taking care of us are not allowed in the capital and I can't tell you why yet. All you need to know is that were in good hands.
Fal is hyper as usual. She's still trying to learn that special move that her mom showed her. There was a time where she tried to use Luna and I as the guinea pigs but Jason, one of our masters, was highly against it.
Also, can you please tell Luna's mum that she's doing fine. I know Luna's mum must be worried sick about her and Luna just wanted to let her know that she's having a great time over here.
I can't come to the village right now for certain reasons but our masters say we'll definitely see you again. Maybe you'll meet them one day.
Speaking about our masters, they're certainly...unique. There's four of them and well...they're not actually our masters, we just like to call them that from time to time. They're not the masters that Fal, Luna and I dreamed about but they're really cool. I can't tell you what they do for a living but they're mostly out doing work so Fal, Luna and I mostly take care of ourselves when they're gone. Although there are times where one or two of them will be at home to hang around with us.
Overall, life is good over here. I do hope our village settles it's poverty problems soon. I don't want the village to sell more girls after all. I do hope your okay. I'm not sure when but I will be back.
I miss you Mum and I hope you again soon.
From your loving daughter, Air.
A/N End of chapter! I hope you enjoyed that chapter and I didn't do anything that makes you angry or disappointed. For those who wanted Night Raid to kill Bach and his friends, I'm really sorry. I tried to write it so that Night Raid would do it but the dialogue just seemed too forced and awkward...but then again, everything I write is forced and awkward.
Anyways, not much to say other than thank you to the ones who reviewed, favorited and followed this story. IF you have any problems with this chapter, please tell me and I'll try make it right. Thank you for reading up to this point and I hope you enjoyed.
So yeah...Bye!
This chapter was finished on 22/10/2017