Please, could I ask you to pay some kind of subscription?

-If each of you can be kind enough to pay me one euro per month, I promise to publish one chapter per day.

-If someone pays me 3 euros, he has the right to choose the next chapter that I have to write.

If you can grant me this act of kindness, please go to ( gbrazibi gmail .com )

"What?" Akame wondered.

Having recently returned to the base, Natsu had told her about his meeting with Kurome and the discussion he had had with her.

"Your sister's in town and she's one of the Jaegers! And what's worse, she wants to kill you."

Listening to him, without saying anything, Akame finally declared.

"Strangely, coming from her, that doesn't surprise me at all ! She must have been dreaming of killing me for years. "

"Do you hate each other or what?" Wanted to know Happy, while eating a fish.

"Me, I don't want to hate her! But she... she must have taken my departure as a betrayal."

"Why didn't she come with you?" Natsu asked her. "When we spoke, she said you were more important than anything to her ... until you decide to join the revolutionary army. "

"She was afraid." Akame told him. "For her, the empire was the side of the winners! The scum manipulated her so much that she saw the army as invincible deep inside her! She was afraid that our desertion would backfire! That's why I left alone."

"And now?" Natsu asked her. "What are you going to do?"

"Huh?"

"Now, it's obvious that one day or another, you'll meet each other! What are you going to do when the time comes?"

"When the time comes?"

Reflecting for a few seconds, Akame finally lowered her head and said.

"I don't want to kill her! But, if she prevents me from completing my mission, I...!"

Tapping his head, as he had done with Kurome, Natsu said.

"Damn, you're both as stupid as each other."

"What?"

"If Kurome joined the Jaegers, I'm sure it's to find you! She's still mad at you, however, chances are your relationship will go back to the way it was before! That you'll be two sisters again! With family, fights always end at some point."

"That's right." Said Happy. "Natsu and Grey may fight all the time, but they are great friends."

"It's just an ally." Natsu replied, scratching his cheek, embarrassed.

Staring at Akame again, he cried out, with a smile.

"Don't use your teigus to settle your differences! Use words and fists instead! I'm sure she'll listen to you in the end."

Reflecting on this, Akame was about to say something, when Leone and Lubbock suddenly entered the room.

"It's a disaster! We've got a big problem. "

"What is happening ? "

"It's Tatsumi! He's been kidnapped by Esdeath!"

"WHAT?"

Having their heads cut off, several men fell at the feet of Wendy, who could only tremble with fear when she saw Kurome kill them.

"Wha... Wha...?"

Running for their lives, others were caught by the flames of Bols, who took malicious pleasure in killing them all. Hearing a new cry of pain, Wendy tried to cover her ears, just when a man crawled up to her, while trying to hold her hand.

"Help me!"

The man's skull was pierced and he fell to the ground, dead, while Run was right behind him.

"Run? Wh... why?"

A chuckle could be heard behind Wendy, as an arm passed around her shoulders.

"Why?" Seryu asked her, while she had teeth like Koro's. "But because it's our job Wendy."

"We're made to kill everyone." Said Stylish, before turning into a demon.

"We're annihilating evil." Laughed Wave, imitating him.

Seeing everyone turning into bloodthirsty monsters, Wendy took her legs and ran away. Nevertheless, unable to stop hearing the others giggling behind her back, she started sobbing, while shouting.

"Natsu! Gajeel! Carla! Come and help me, for pity's sake."

Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of her. Yet instead of smiling, Wendy froze in terror as she saw Esdeath in front of many blocks of ice containing the bodies of her friends.

"Wha...?"

"You are one of us." Said Esdeath, walking towards her. "From now on, you will become a murderer."

Seeing her turn into a real devil, and jumping on her, Wendy finally got up out of bed, while shouting a cry of fear. Having just had a nightmare, Wendy discovered that she was in her new room, at the palace, and that minuti had long since passed.

Breathing heavily, the child began to look inside her room, feeling drops of sweat covering her whole body. Wendy was afraid. She was afraid to understand that she was really a Jaeger. That she was in the presence of murderers without a shred of mercy.

Suddenly, feeling her cheeks swelling, Wendy left her bed, and rushed to the bathroom in her room. When she did, she began to vomit.

Ten minutes later, with her pale face, Wendy was sitting against the toilet door, while her face showed how her day had upset her. First her fight with Seryu, then the surprise arrival of Tatsumi, and finally the massacre of the Jaegers.

"I'm scared! I don't want to see any more people die like this."

Someone knocked on her door at that moment.

"Who... who's there?"

"It's me, Bols."

Getting up then, Wendy walked slowly towards her room door, and opened it. Behind him was the masked man, holding a bottle of water in his hand and a box of medicine.

"Are you all right?" He wanted to know. "Your room is next to mine, and I thought I heard you vomiting. "

Barely listening to him, Wendy leaned against a wall, too weak to stand any longer. Grabbing her before she collapsed, Bols asked her.

"What's happening to you?"

"Leave me alone!" Ordered Wendy, pushing him back slightly.

At first surprised by her gesture, Bols finally saw her sobbing, while she affirmed.

"You frighten me ... all of you! Leave me alone!"

Hearing this, Bols directed his gaze into Wendy's room and finally found a drink. Filling it with water, he handed it to Wendy, along with two medications.

"Here, swallow this."

"Huh?"

"It'll do you good." Bols assured her.

Feeling too weak to do anything about it, Wendy finally complies. Putting the pills in her mouth, she then swallowed the water in one gulp before putting her drink on the floor. Seeing her then remain silent, Bols sits down beside her and asks her.

"Wendy, why did you join the army?"

"Certainly not to kill people." Assured the child.

"I know what we did tonight was a bit extreme but, you know Wendy, those people were really bad! I myself read the report on their list of misdeeds! A lot of them were wanted for murder and looting."

"That doesn't excuse killing them all." Wendy roared. "Besides, you talk about killing murderers, but haven't you ever killed innocent people?"

Listening to her without saying anything, Bols finally lowered his gaze, before confessing.

"I've surely killed more innocent people than I've killed murderers!"

"Huh?"

"I was part of the cremation crew! And my job was... to burn down entire villages with their occupants on the prime minister's orders."

"You... burned down whole villages?" Wendy was horrified. "But why did you do it? What was the point?"

"It could have been different reasons, but for the most part it was because of a risk of deadly disease that had been detected! Or because several people in the village were suspected of working with revolutionaries!"

"And that's just it?" Wendy got angry. "That's just why you killed them."

Then hitting him in the face, Wendy hurt herself more than anything else, weak as she was. Yet, she continued to hit him, while angrily asserting.

"Why did you do it, Bols? You are a kind and caring person! Why did you behave this way?"

Suddenly stopping, Wendy felt a liquid touching one of her fingers. Coming out of the two holes in Bols' mask, so that she could see, the liquid showed that he was crying himself, and he answered.

"To protect my family! I have killed hundreds of people, so that they may live in this infamous world of empire."

Sobbing, he continued.

"I was born in a prison where there was only one rule to survive! It was every man for himself and god for all ! I was brought up by guards and they had fun making a sort of entertainment out of me."

"Entertainment?"

"Yes! They trained me to fight one-on-one against prisoners! The rules were simple: during the fights, except for outside help, all blows were allowed to kill or knock out your opponent! As for the "reward," the victor obtained the right to continue living while his opponent was immediately executed, if he wasn't dead during the fight."

"And ... And so ...?"

"Yes! If I'm alive today, it's because I've won all my fights! 2,860 in all! I fought against so many prisoners and each time I had to endure knowing that I was the last person my opponent was going to get " a chance " to talk to before he died! Even before I became a soldier in the army, my hands were already stained with the blood of my former opponents! I was disgusted by what I had done."

"But... But then why keep on killing?"

"I have a daughter, Wendy! As long as I'm an elite soldier, I know nothing will happen to her! But, the day I have to disappear..."

Squeezing the point, he mumbled.

"There's a chance that something bad will happen to her! And I refuse that."

"That doesn't excuse what you've done, Bols! Nothing can ever make up for what you did."

"I know that, Wendy. " Shouted Bols. " And one day I will be punished for it ! And if it's not a man who will punish me, it's god who will. "

A heavy silence settled over the room before Bols broke it.

"You aren't meant to be like me, Wendy! You are a pure-hearted person! Murder would only turn your feelings to evil."

"You know I can't do that, Bols! Esdeath would never allow any of us to leave the group! Especially me."

"What are you going to do, then? There will come a time when Esdeath will force you to kill someone! And at that moment you will have a hard choice to make: Either you will kill your opponent or you will fight the general's way. "

"Do you regret, yourself, what you have chosen?"

"I can't answer that question, Wendy." Confessed Bols to her. "Of course, I'm guilty of killing so many people and I could never forgive myself! However, if I had decided to die, I could never have been the father of a family like the one I have today! For me, they represent a ray of light in the nothingness that imprisons my spirit."

Rising to his feet, Bols faced Wendy while trying to reach out to her.

"I understand why you must be afraid of me now! But I want to make it clear once again! I just want to be your comrade! And if you feel sick again, you have no reason to hesitate to come to me."

Staring at him, while his voice showed nothing but sympathy, Wendy finally sighed before declaring.

"I don't hate you, Bols! I'm just disappointed that a man like you turned to evil! It doesn't matter if you're a man of the empire or the revolutionary army, killing innocent people can never be forgiven."

However, she grabbed his hand and said.

"Nevertheless, there's still time for a change, Bols! People can change and you're no exception."

"I don't know, Wendy! Of course, I want to do good around me, but... the empire will can never change! The only way to survive inside it is to follow orders."

"Don't talk nonsense, Bols! You're a human being! Not a machine! You have emotions and you can speak your mind! You don't have to blindly obey orders."

Just looking at the girl, Bols ends up putting the box of medicine on a small table, before pretending to leave.

"Sorry, Wendy! But my family's happiness comes before everything else."

Thinking he would disappoint her by saying this, the man left, before Wendy whispered.

"Thank you for the medicine, Bols."

Stopping for a short while, the man finally left the room.

"No problem." He said. "After all, we're teammates."

It was seven in the morning. Being long awake, Wendy let the minutes pass before she sighed.

"She didn't come."

Since her arrival in the army barracks, a morning ritual had always taken place. As soon as seven o'clock rang, Seryu had always entered her room to wake her up, before letting her get ready to leave on patrol at eight o'clock sharp.

Yet, waiting for a while, Wendy finally left her bed by herself when it was a quarter past seven. Seryu wasn't going to wake her up today.

"Is she still mad at me for yesterday? I said that for her own good."

To tell the truth, Wendy had long been afraid of Seryu's cruelty. Yet, Wendy did consider her as a friend. And nothing meant more to her than to change her. However, it seems that the young warrior didn't hear it that way and now preferred to spend her time with Stylish.

Quickly getting dressed, she left her room and headed for the palace kitchen. Now that her stomach was empty, she had to find something to eat. Entering the desired room, Wendy saw Bols cooking. Hearing her, in spite of the oil simmering in a pan, the man cried out.

"I'm glad to see you up, Wendy! I was afraid you would have to stay in bed."

"I'd rather get up by myself than see Esdeath come into my room to get me up by herself."

"You don't like her, do you?"

"Not at all."

"Just try not to aggravate your relationship! So far, she hasn't been too bad because she knows you're very talented! However, at some point she's going to get really mad and of the two of you, you're going to be the one that's going to get hurt the most, Wendy."

"I'll be careful, Bols." Wendy promised him, without really believing it.

Trying to look at her to see if she was sincere or not, the man paid no more attention to his cooking and suddenly cut himself, peeling an onion. Moaning, he put his wounded finger against his mask because he couldn't put it in his mouth, while moaning.

"I always have these little problems. "

"Wait!" Cried Wendy, putting herself in front of him.

Then grabbing his wounded hand, the girl lit up her own hands. And, in an instant, Bols' wound stopped bleeding and disappeared without a trace. Astonished by this, the man stared at his hand, while saying.

"I had heard Esdeath-sama speak of your powers... but it is more than I thought! How can you do this?"

"I have my little secrets." Wendy said, snickering a few.

Seeing her like this, Bols murmured.

"Are you an angel?"

" Huh?" Wendy wondered.

"No ... nothing." " Lied the arsonist, returning to his stove. "It's just... you really don't belong here, Wendy! The army's not for you! You, I can see you working in a hospital, taking care of wounded patients! I really don't see why you're here with us. "

"Bols..." Began Wendy, looking out a kitchen window to see the city in the distance. "I want to change the empire."

Stopping then in his task, the arsonist stared at her as she continued.

"To do this, I must rise in rank and rise higher in the army! I want to become as important in the eyes of all as Esdeath is! And that is when I myself will begin to change the mindset of the soldiers! And once they change, making real laws in this country will be much easier!"

"Wendy... what you're aiming for is a utopia."

"No ! It's Seryu who's aiming for a utopia! What I'm aiming for is something even more surreal! It's not with the help of a miracle can I achieve it! I almost need the help of God Almighty. "

"Then why do you want to do it?"

Smiling at this moment, seeing the faces of her friends, she said.

"Because other people also want to work miracles, without having the slightest idea of giving up! That's what life is like, Bols! Believing in your dreams makes them come true, because in the end, you alone are the master of your destiny!"

Still staring at her, Bols finally returned to his kitchen, saying.

"Wendy... just one thing! Don't alienate the emperor! I don't want a child as pure as you to be executed while being called a witch!"

And before she could say anything, Wendy saw her friend put the contents of the frying pan on a plate and handed it to her.

"I appreciate you much, Wendy! I wish my daughter would one day be like you!"