As night fell, Natsu found himself flying over the rooftops, thanks to Happy's help. Sniffing the air, his cat said.

"Yummy! It smells like barbecue! There must be a lot of restaurants down there."

" I can only smell tobacco." Said Natsu, pinching his nose. "There's a crazy number of smokers down there."

"Here, Najenda told us that these neighborhoods were frequented by a good number of gangs and women paying for their services! So, it's normal that a lot of them are addicted to tobacco! They smoke to try to forget their worries."

"Where's Leone?" Wanted to know Natsu, looking for her.

"There." Happy remarked, seeing a cat-like figure jumping from roof to roof, holding Tatsumi in her arms.

"She jumps super-fast." Said Natsu. "You too are a cat! So why can't you jump like her?"

" HEY! I can fly! Isn't that enough for you?" Replied Happy, offended by this comment.

Distinguishing Leone entering a building through a small opening, leading to an attic, Happy let himself go down, before entering the opening. Nevertheless, he couldn't help but go down as low as possible so that Natsu's head would hit a wooden beam.

"OUCH ! BASTARD! "

"Sorry! I'm just a cat who only knows how to fly."

Then letting go, Happy saw Natsu fall to the ground, right in front of Leone's feet.

"Wow, what an entrance." Laughed the woman, while Natsu got up with a beautiful red mark on his face.

"Wait that I catch him." He grunted. " Where is Tatsumi ? "

"AHHHHHH ! I thought I was going to die." Confessed Tatsumi, wanting to vomit. "Leone, you're crazy."

"Shhh! Now we're in ''discretion'' mode."

The young woman then advanced without making the slightest noise, knelt next to a wooden plank and lifted it out without difficulty.

"Here." She whispered, waving to the boys.

Walking up to her, Natsu put his hands on his nose as he felt like crying in pain.

"What's that smell?"

" What are you talking about ? " Tatsumi wondered, leaning over the opening.

Immediately, he began to blush, seeing all the girls, in their little outfits, smoking a strange mixture that seemed to be the source of Natsu's evil.

"What's that again?"

"Surely a place where they trade slaves." Happy assured, landing near him. " Or else they are prostitutes.

At that moment, two men entered the big room. The first, having an eye patch, said.

"Isn't it wonderful, girls? If you keep bringing back a lot of money, I'll agree to bring you more " medicine "!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Medication?" Natsu wondered, as he got closer to the opening. "These products stink like the death."

"They're drugs." Leone told him. "Drugs that kill these girls, bit by bit."

"Drugs?"

Suddenly seeing one of the two men hitting a girl, since she was "broken", Leone said.

"Unforgivable!"

"Let's teach them a lesson." Tatsumi agreed.

"Aye!" Said Happy, while Natsu punched his fists.

"Boss!" Called one of his henchmen to him, while the gang was gathered in a large room to drink sake, accompanied by women. "Isn't it time to widen our focus on selling drugs?"

"Yes, indeed! But I'm sure we'll have to talk to Chibul-sama about it before..."

The door of the great hall exploded at that moment, while all the guards who had to watch t flew through the air, in the middle of the wooden debris.

"I hope I don't spoil your little party." Natsu cried out, while his mask was hiding his face.

"What...? Who are you ? "

Exploding too, the ceiling gave way to Leone and Tatsumi, who said.

"However, the party's over! In a few moments you will go straight to hell."

"Kill them!" Ordered the boss's right-hand man.

Seeing several men running at them, Tatsumi sliced through the guards, Leone crushed the drug dealers, and Natsu burned anyone who wanted to enter the room.

In the end, while the girls in the room were huddled in a corner, only the boss of the gang was left. Trembling with fear, he began to stutter.

"W... Wait! Who are you guys? What do you want? You want money? Drugs? Slaves ? Let's talk calmly and I'm sure we can find a ..."

Strangling him with one hand, Leone broke his neck in a second, before saying.

"I only want your life."

Throwing a body against the corridor wall, Natsu walked into the corridor, expecting to see other men arrive. However, instead of a group, he saw only one man, not much older than him, shaking with all his body. Seeing Natsu, he grabbed his gun as he stepped back.

"G... G... Go away! If... if you go, I... I'll... I'll spare you."

Despite his words, Natsu just walked towards him, saying.

"You dared to drug countless people! Do you have any idea how many victims you've killed just for money?"

"Ba... Back!" Ordered the guard, falling on his buttocks. "Get back or I'll shoot!"

"Shoot! " Natsu cried out. "Anyway, you have nothing to lose! But know one thing! If you shoot, you'll officially become a murderer in my eyes."

Continuing to aim at him, the soldier couldn't help but shake. He stared at Natsu's gaze, who showed not an ounce of fear. It was as if he was sure he'd make it out alive, no matter what the man did.

Suddenly shouting, the man pretended to shoot. Yet at the last moment, he dropped his gun in front of him, before kneeling down to face Natsu.

"Don't kill me! For pity's sake! I... I'm so sorry for what I did! I beg you, please let me go."

"FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!"

"NOOOO!" The man shouted, as he saw Natsu's fist fly over him.

Striking violently at his target, Natsu's fist created a huge crater in the wall, inches from the man's face. The man stopped moving and looked like he had suffered a heart attack while urine poured out of his pants.

"Go away!" Natsu ordered him, turning around.

Spreading his eyes, the guard heard this and was quick to run away and run for his life. Nevertheless, grabbing him by the collar, Natsu stopped him and warned him.

"If you ever hurt anyone again, be sure I'll be there to kill you! Understand?"

Nodding, trembling with terror, the man then left, as soon as Natsu turned around.

"Seriously, I'm sleepy." Wendy confessed, rubbing her eyes. "It's already past midnight."

"We helped a band of thieves to flee! So, this week, we have to work twice as hard."

"But we haven't eaten anything all day for this! Do you want to die of exhaustion or what?"

Suddenly, Seryu finally stopped.

"We're going home?" Wendy gloated, thinking the soldier had finally listened to her.

However, remaining silent for a few seconds, Seryu finally declared.

"People come over here."

"Huh?"

At that moment, the dark aura reappeared around Seryu as her face wrinkled with a hateful smile. Grabbing Wendy, she jumped towards a branch of a tree and hid herself in the foliage. Grabbing Wendy's leg to be pulled, Koro settled down next to his mistress, while the girl couldn't wipe her ugly smile from her face.

"Enemies are in sight." She suddenly assured.

"Enemies?" Wendy questioned her, seeing two figures in the distance.

Her eyes widened as the girl recognized the two people running not far from them.

"They...?"

"Night Raid!" Seryu mumbled, staring at Sheele and Mine. " Finally !"

And before Wendy could stop her, she made a magnificent jump, accompanied by her teigu, before landing with force in front of Mine and Sheele.

Taking a few steps back, the two girls stared at Seryu in astonishment, before Mine asked her.

"Can we know who you are?"

Ignoring her question, Seryu just stared at Sheele and said.

"Yeah ! I was sure I was right ! You are Sheele, from Night Raid! And judging by the teigu she's holding in her hand, the other girl is a Night Raid member too."

Lengthening her smile, while giggling cruelly, Seryu said.

"I'm so happy to see you! Yes, so happy to be able to kill you with my own hands."

Then pointing at the two girls, she said.

"I'm Seryu, a member of the imperial guard! In the name of justice, I'll make you pay for your crimes right here and now! Come on, Wendy, let's go!"

Startled, hearing the soldier call her, Wendy could see a hint of surprise in Sheele and Mine's eyes, wondering if Seryu was talking about the child they knew. At that moment, Wendy would have given everything to flee this place, to find herself far from here. Yet, having no choice, she ends up leaving her hiding place, before walking towards the trio, her eyes downcast.

"What do I have to do? What do I have to do?"

''Wendy, whatever choice you make, I won't blame you for your actions." Najenda had assured her, before she left the Night Raid base.

"It's me who's asked Najenda to let me have this job, instead of Gajeel! But, if it was him who would have been here, he would have... he would have played his part to the end."

Clenching her teeth, she finally makes up her mind. Looking up, she joined Seryu before create wind around her hands.

"In the name of justice, I arrest you, members of Night Raid." She cried.

Seeing that she had decided to keep her cover, Mine started smiling while laughing.

"Haha! The army must really be in a pitiful state to recruit little girls! Unless Night Raid scares you so much that you'd train anyone to hope to match our power."

"Shut up!" Seryu ordered her. "No matter who you are, Wendy and I will make justice prevail! Yes, you'll pay, you who dared to attack my master! You'll never get justice's forgiveness."

"Well, then..." Began Mine.

Pointing Pumpkin towards Seryu, she started shooting while saying.

"The first attack will always have the advantage."

"Koro !" Seryu called him, with folded arms.

He immediately placed himself in front of Seryu to defend her, and the mass of his body increased tenfold as he was hit hard by Mine's attack. Seeing him standing, Mine growled.

"What is that thing?"

" Teigu. " Sheele replied to her, coming out Esctasy.

" Here my tonfa guns!" Seryu suddenly shouted, trying to attack them with her guns.

Seeing the two girls dodge her attacks, before pretending to attack her from the sides, Seryu ordered.

"Wendy, take care of the girl with pink hair! Koro and me, we'll take care of the woman with the scissors."

"All right!" Wendy assured, turning to Mine.

Staring at her then, Mine seemed to ask her, with her look ''Are you sure of what you are doing?''

Having no other choice, Wendy ran to her and shouted.

"VERNIER!"

Creating balls of wind at her feet, Wendy let herself race straight towards Mine, before pretending to hit her.

"SKY DRAGON'S..."

Shooting, pretending to aim her, Mine forced her to jump to the side to avoid her shots. Then running around her, Wendy tried to grab her and waved her fist in front of her.

"SKY DRAGON'S FIST!"

Using Pumpkin as a shield, Mine let Wendy hit her gun. Continuing to fight, the two girls brought their faces closer together, before Wendy asked.

"What are you doing? Hurry and run!"

"Impossible." Mine retorted. "She saw my face! She is now a risk for us."

Suddenly frightened, Mine ejected Wendy to the side before firing her gun. Firing straight at Koro, the projectile pierced his belly as the teigu was about to attack Sheele. Retreating, Sheele said.

"It's regenerating far too fast for me to have time to attack the soldier! I must find it's vital core."

Whistling then, Seryu used a whistle to call for reinforcements.

"What ...?"

"It's over." Seryu assured. "Your life ends tonight."

Suddenly standing in front of her, Koro blocked another Mine's blast that was meant for her.

"Dirt!" Grumbled Mine. "Now we're really in trouble."

"Koro, devour her."

It didn't take much more than that for her teigu to rush towards Mine, already imagining herself as a snack. Simply pointing her weapon at him, Mine waited a few seconds, until the presence of the teigu became really dangerous. Then, when he was about to attack her, she released a powerful shot, which stopped Koro cleanly and partially destroyed him.

"Koro?" Seryu wondered.

Suddenly hearing footsteps, she turned her head to see Sheele right in front of her.

"What...?"

"To stop this monster, I just have to kill you! Forgive me for this."

Shooting her with her weapons, Seryu was horrified when she saw Sheele brandishing her scissors in front of her to block the bullets before opening them and pretending to close them on her. Then jumping backwards, Seryu protected her face with her arms.

The next second one was awful for Wendy. Watching the fight from afar, she finally saw Sheele close her weapon and cut Seryu's arms off with it. Screaming in pain, Seryu fell to the ground and blood spurted out of her arms.

" AHHHHHHHH " !

"It's over." Sheele assured, attacking her again.

"She's going to kill her." Wendy horrified herself.

''That's why I took you as my assistant, Wendy! I can read the justice in you! I'm so glad you're with me.'' Seryu had confessed to her.

" Seryu crossed Ogre's path! It's because of him that Seryu's soul is now corrupt! He's always making speeches about his own justice, only cheating her." Mory had explained to her.

"Whenever Night Raid comes across a powerful enemy, you must eliminate it! That way, we will be able to continue to fight and still have a chance to reach our goal." Najenda had told her.

Squeezing her fists, Wendy gave a shout, before racing straight towards Sheele and Seryu.

"SKY DRAGON'S WINGS!"

Surprised by her sudden arrival, Sheele took the attack head-on and and was pushed back. Crashing to the ground, she rolled about ten times, before finally finding herself lying on the ground.

"SHEELE!" Cried Mine, before finally staring at Wendy with a hateful look.

She herself, flabbergasted by what she had just done, Wendy didn't even understand the reason why she had just done that, when Sheele's attack could have ended the fight and allowed the two girls to run away.

Next to her, Seryu cried out in pain and then stood up and said.

"Thank you ! Now, let me take my revenge."

Looking at her, Wendy stepped back when she saw Seryu's condition. Can't find anything dumber to do, Seryu had stuck the ends of her guns into her stumps, replacing her arms. With blood all over her, she stared at her enemies with a rage like no other, while she mumbled.

"Evil...! I will exterminate you! I will...! I will...! I will slaughter you! KORO, BERSECK, now."

Doubling in size again, Koro turned into a monster even scarier than his old silhouette. Roaring then, he forced everyone, except Seryu, to cover their ears, so their eardrums wouldn't be destroyed.

Bothered by this, Mine was surprised, when the monster captured her in his hand.

"What...?"

"Go ahead, Koro! Crush her! Kill her! Give her a taste of hell!"

Feeling Koro's grip tightening on her body, Mine started to scream in pain, while the bones of her arms started to crack.

"AHHHHH!" she shouted.

As Seryu began to giggle, Wendy could only shake with fear as the situation was getting more and more out of hand.

"What should I do? I don't want her to die! Natsu, help me!"

Suddenly, thinking back to her friend, Wendy searched her pockets and pulled out one of the magic cards that Cana had given her.

"I gave the other one to Gajeel! So..."

Suddenly activating the card, with her magic, Wendy began to pray that Gajeel was near here.

"KORO!" Seryu suddenly shouted.

At that moment, cut in half, the teigu released Mine, while a figure now facing Seryu.

"Never underestimate Night Raid." Sheele advised her.

"You?" Seryu roared. "Are you still alive?"

"I won't die, until I've exterminated all the evil in this city." Sheele shouted, running towards her.

"Die!" Seryu shouted, before opening her mouth wide and pulling out a mouthpiece.

Shooting then with all her weapons, Seryu forced Sheele to stop, the time to place her weapon in front of her, before continuing her race, while deflecting the bullets.

"It's useless, you'll never get me with that kind of attack."

"Maybe, but Koro will be able to finish you." Seryu assured, with her inseparable demonic smile.

Running behind Sheele as he finished regenerating, the teigu went after her, with his jaws already wide open. Still, despite this, Sheele continued on her way to Seryu while deflecting the bullets without a problem.

Soon, running out of ammunition, Seryu began to retreat, while Sheele's silhouette was right in front of her.

"Check ..." Began Sheele, opening her scissors to close them at Seryu's throat.

"... mate!" Seryu finished, while Koro's mouth was already starting to close on Sheele.

Time then froze for Wendy, while a double murder was about to take place. Either one or the other, both girls were going to be killed by her opponent's teigu, at the same time. And that, Wendy refused to let happen.

Immediately she ran towards the girls before positioning between them. Seeing her silhouette in front of Seryu, Sheele couldn't hide her surprise when she saw Wendy's cheeks swelling.

"SKY'S DRAGON ROAR!"

Immediately propelled backwards, while dropping her weapon, Sheele's body was found above Koro, who closed his jaws in the void.

" Wendy ? " Seryu wondered, suddenly realizing that she had just come close to death.

"She saved Sheele and that girl." Tought Mine.

"I did it." Wendy rejoices. "I'm glad no one died."

However, nothing happened as planned afterwards. Thinking that Wendy had done that only to protect her, Seryu suddenly jumped on Koro's body before using it as a springboard. Performing a splendid double jump, the soldier found herself above Sheele who started to fall back to the ground. Deprived of her weapon, the young woman saw Seryu raise her "arms" in the air while affirming.

"I may be out of ammunition, but I can still kill you."

Then she lowered her weapons with all her might and hit Sheele's head, and the force of the impact was enough to knock Shelle over and crash into the ground.

"SHEELE!" Cried Mine, in fright.

"Seryu!" Shouted Wendy, dumbfounded by the young woman's gesture.

Rising to her feet, Seryu began to stare at her with a sweet smile, while her weapons had blood stains on them.

"Did you see, Wendy? Thanks to our teamwork, we were able to kill one of these murderers."

Lying on the floor, Sheele now had a large wound on her forehead, while the pupils of her eyes were gone. In any case, dead or not, the young woman lay on the ground, completely inert.

Trembling at the sight of this, Wendy was suddenly nauseated, and put her hands in front of her mouth so as not to vomit.

"Why? Why did she do this?"

"Hahaha!" Seryu giggled. "I did it! I defeated evil."

"BASTARD!" Roars Mine.

At that moment, footsteps and the voices of soldiers were heard. But this, Mine didn't care. Grabbing her gun to begin firing, Mine felt her wounded arms give her martyrdom. But this, she paid no attention to it. Turning towards her, Koro already positioned himself in front of Seryu to protect her. But this, Mine still didn't care.

Yes, she didn't care about all those details, while she just stared at Seryu.

"I'll kill you." She assured.

Suddenly smelling the air, Wendy opened her eyes.

"He's here!"

"Get that in your face." Mine shouted, pulling.

"SKY DRAGON'S...!"

"Huh?" Mine wondered.

"ROAR!"

Throwing a tornado of wind towards Mine's shot, Wendy let her attack hit it before creating a violent explosion, throwing everyone backwards.

Trapped in a cloud of smoke, Mine appeared distraught as she dropped her weapon, unable to hold it any longer.

"WHY, Wendy ? WHYYYYYYYYY ?"

At that moment, Sheele's body appeared before her as she floated through the air, still unconscious.

"What ...?"

Appearing in turn, Wendy was the one who carried Sheele like this, thanks to a powerful draft.

"You?"

"Go away!" Wendy ordered her. "Quickly."

"No way! That girl... I'll kill her! I'll slaughter her! I'll..."

Mine suddenly fell silent when she felt Wendy's arms hug her, while the child began to sob.

"Go away, I beg you."

"Wendy?"

"I don't want anyone to die." Taught her the child. "I beg you, go away!"

"Wendy!" Suddenly shouted a voice coming from the sky.

Using his sense of smell, Gajeel landed in the middle of the smoke and managed to find the girls.

"What's going on here?" Wanted to know Lily, seeing Sheele's body in such bad shape.

"You contacted me with your card and I came as quickly as I could! It's a good thing we and Bulat were out here on a mission."

"Gajeel! Lily! Take Sheele's body and go away, with Mine." Wendy ordered them.

"Huh? What the...?"

"Night Raid!" Seryu suddenly shouted, and began to look for Mine through the smoke. "Show yourself!"

Taking the knife that every soldier should carry, Wendy ordered.

"Go away! We're enemies, don't forget it."

"But she..." Began Mine.

Suddenly putting his mask in front of his face, Gajeel finally grabs Mine while Lily turns into a warrior before taking over Sheele's body.

"We're going." He said, running through the smoke.

And as soon as the guards saw them, Gajeel pushed them aside with a "DRAGON'S ROAR" before fleeing with Lily at his side.

Seeing them fleeing away, Wendy couldn't help smiling, before brandishing her knife at her. Now all that remained was to stop Seryu from pursuing them.

"Someone must never find out that I'm a member of Night Raid." She assured. "I'm not allowed to show hesitation anymore! I have to be strong! Yes, from now on, I myself will climb the ladder and reach a high position in the imperial army!"

Making a large gash across her entire abdomen, Wendy screamed in pain. Yet, having enough strength, she threw her knife away, as she watched the silhouettes of her friends disappear before her.

"I would show the soldiers of this town how to deal with corruption and help people in need! I would become a model of peace and I would get rid of the garbage of this city myself! After all,..."

Collapsing on her back, she saw the smoke disappear around her, while she whispered.

"I'm a member of Fairy Tail!"

"They ran away!" Shouted a guard.

"Quick, catch them!"

"Look at those scissors, it's a teigu."

" Somebody get it and get it to the barracks. "

Hearing all this, Seryu clenched her teeth so tightly that they began to crack.

"How is this possible? How is that possible? How could they run away? Justice was on my side! Koro was on my side! Wendy was on my side."

Suddenly thinking about her, Seryu started looking for her and found her lying on the ground.

"Wendy!" She shouted, running towards her.

Seeing her wounded, the young woman crouched down beside her, asking.

"Are you all right?"

"Night Raid?" Simply questioned the child.

"They ran away!" Seryu confessed. "Nevertheless, I'm going to catch up with them right now."

Yet, as she was about to run, she felt Wendy's hand grab her foot, while asking.

"Will you stay with me?"

"But I..."

"As your superior, you have to take care of me."

Sighing then, Seryu fought the urge to pursue her sworn enemies. Then, finally, sitting in a suit, she said, in an annoyed tone.

"Whenever you want, it's convenient for you that I'm your superior! But I'm not going to let you suffer here alone! Don't worry, a doctor will come soon, I assure you."

Staring up at the sky, Wendy said.

"The one who suffers the most here is you."

"Hmm?"

"You lost your father, and that's when you alienated everyone! You look at people with contempt, thinking they all want to hurt you! Seryu, you have to understand something! People can change."

"What do you mean by that?!"

"You don't like murderers because they kill people, right?"

"Yes, of course!"

"And what do you do to murderers?"

"I execute them."

"That makes you a murderer, doesn't it?"

"Not at all! I execute evil, so justice always forgives what I do! Anyway, those monsters killed Master Ogre."

"Let's face it! If a Night Raid member killed someone because that person killed a family member, would that still be wrong?"

"Stop with your questions." Seryu ordered her, seeing that their discussion was the same as before.

"Seryu! Answer me, please! Do you know the difference between right and wrong?"

"I... I..." Seryu began, before putting her hands on her head. "What's the use of my answering you? Even if it's to avenge a family member, murder isn't right."

"I'm not trying to say murder is okay, Seryu! I'm just trying to make you understand that sometimes it's better to hear a murderer's actions in a court of law! Just now your face really scared me and I thought I saw a monster instead of you."

Taking the hand of the young girl Wendy cried out.

"Seryu, I don't want to see you like that anymore."

"Huh?"

Suddenly seeing Wendy crying, she heard her confess.

"I don't like to see you like that! You're an ally of justice, not a murderer! Please! Stop killing people! Stop trying to follow a path that will lead you to your doom."

Unable to hold on, Wendy grimaced in pain. She, who had hurt herself on purpose to prevent Seryu from following Mine and the others, began to feel weaker and weaker as time went on. Seeing her breathing with more difficulty, Seryu cried out.

"Wendy, hang on!"

Seeing her suffer more, Seryu cried.

"Night Raid! I'll never forgive them! I... I...!"

Wendy's hand then landed on her head, as she smiled at her.

"Seryu! You don't have to be angry about it!"

"Is anyone hurt?" Asked someone, accompanied by a group of nurses.

"Yes, here!" Seryu cried at once.

"Sheele!" Wendy thought, closing her eyes. "I beg you, don't die!"