"People exist to save themselves. You will uand that at the moment of your death."— Oda Sakunosuke, Bungou Stray Dogs

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  The day, Roy tio work alongside Akame, their partnership proving to be quite effective. As night fell, Najenda summohem both.

  "There's been a report of a sadistioble family in the Imperial Capital," she began, her voice serious. "They lure in travelers with false promises of hospitality, then subject them to horrific torture for their own amusement."

  "Leone has iigated and firmed the report. Your mission is to elimihis family."

  Roy felt a sense of familiarity. Luring travelers and t them? Wasn't this the mission Night Raid uook in the beginning of the story?

  However, there was a slight differehis time, it was just the two of them.

  But then again, the targets were just ordinary humans. It didn't require the entire Night Raid team to hahem.

  "Uood, Boss!" Akame aowledged the mission.

  "Roy, this is your first mission, so Akame, please look after him," Najenda instructed.

  "Yes, Boss!" Akame nodded, gng at Roy.

  With the mission accepted, they set off uhe cover of night.

  ...

  The moon hung high in the sky as Roy and Akame arrived at the mansion of the sadistioble family.

  The mansion was brightly lit, with figures moving about and guards patrolling the grounds.

  "Let the mission ence. Be careful," Akame reminded him, her expression serious and focused, a stark trast to her usual carefree demeanor.

  "Uood," Roy replied with a smile.

  Akame vanished into the shadows.

  They had pheir approa the way here. They would infiltrate the mansion from both sides, ensuring no one escaped.

  As Akame disappeared, Roy stretched casually and walked towards the mairance. He had no iion of hiding.

  "Who's there?" The guards at the gate noticed Roy approag and challenged him.

  Roy remained silent, tinuing his advance.

  "Halt! Or we'll shoot!" The guards raised their ons, aiming at him.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Seeing that Roy still didn't respond, they opened fire.

  Roy drew his sword and effortlessly deflected the bullets.

  In a fsh, he appeared before the guards and swung his bde.

  Thwack!

  Heads flew, blood spraying like a fountain.

  With one hand in his pocket and the other holding his sword, Roy stepped over the headless bodies without a ge in his expression.

  The lights in the mansion flickered on, alerted to the otion.

  A wave of guards charged towards him, shouting and brandishing their ons.

  Roy smirked.

  "Ice Breathing, First Form: Flog Ice Bdes!"

  He swung his sword, unleashing a barrage of ice projectiles that flew towards the guards like a flock of birds.

  "AAAAAGH!" The guards paurning to flee.

  But it was too te. The ice projectiles pierced their bodies.

  Thud! Thud! Thud!

  The sound of ice pierg flesh filled the air.

  Dozens of guards were instantly killed, leaving a bloody se.

  Roy tinued his advahout pause.

  Ihe mansion, Aria, the young noblewoman, and her parents withe age, their faces pale with terror.

  They screamed and fled towards the back door.

  However, anrim reaper awaited them there.

  Akame intercepted Aria's parents.

  "Eliminate!" she decred coldly, swiftly ending their lives.

  "Yo, Akame, are you done?" Roy called out, having caught up to her.

  Akame g the dead nobles and frowned. "There should be one more, the young noblewoman."

  "She must have run that way," Roy said, pointing towards a lone warehouse in the distance.

  They had e from opposite dires. If aried to escape, they would naturally run towards either side.

  "Let's finish this," Akame said, heading towards the warehouse.

  Roy followed closely behind.

  They were incredibly fast. They caught up to Aria and her remaining guards before they could reach the warehouse.

  "Eliminate!" Akame decred, swiftly cutting down the guards.

  Roy appeared before Aria, blog her path.

  Aria stumbled and fell, her eyes wide with fear.

  "Please don't kill me! I'll give you anything you want..." she pleaded.

  "Unfortunately, you don't have the right to beg for mercy after what you've done," Roy said coldly.

  Thwack!

  Blood spttered as Aria's head rolled on the ground. Roy had executed her without hesitation.

  "Well done. You didn't hesitate even when fag such a 'cute' girl," Akame ented with a rare smile.

  If Roy didn't know her better, he would have thought she was mog him.

  "She wasn't cute at all. Just a devil in human form," Roy retorted.

  "Indeed," Akame agreed with a nod.

  "This warehouse must be where they tortured their victims," Roy said, the building. It looked simir to the one in the inal story.

  He approached the warehouse and sliced open the door with his sword.

  They entered.

  The se inside was like a gruesome depi of hell. People were bound, suspended, and subjected to horrific torture.

  The stench of blood and decay filled the air, making Roy nauseous.

  He khis world was dark and cruel, but he had uimated its depravity.

  Akame, however, remained unfazed by the horrific se.

  Her eyes were calm, but a hint of killing i flickered within them.

  Roy didn't want to stay here a moment longer.

  But as he turo leave, a voice called out from a cage deep within the warehouse.

  "Let us out!"

  The rattling of s echoed through the room.

  Roy turned bad saw a young man and woman bound by s ihe cage.

  There are still survivors?

  Roy hadn't expected ao be alive in this hellish pce.

  He approached the cage, effortlessly cutting through the bars and the s that bound the ttives.

  "e out," he said, then turo leave.

  He couldn't stand to be in this py longer.

  "You must have been tricked by that noblewoman," Akame said to the two survivors.

  They looked weak but hadn't been tortured yet. It seemed they had just been captured.

  "Yes," the young man replied, his voice filled with fear. "We thought they were kind enough to offer us shelter, but after dinner, we lost sciousness and woke up here."

  The horrors within the warehouse filled him with terror.

  If they hadn't been rescued, their fate would have been unimaginable.

  "You mean her?" Roy poi Aria's corpse.

  The young man's eyes widened in horror.

  "Yes, that's her!"

  "They lure travelers with false promises, then torture them to death for their own amusement," Akame expined. "That's the true nature of this family. You're lucky to be alive."

  Rhe two survivors.

  They were Ieyasu and Sayo, Tatsumi's friends from the inal story.

  He hadn't expected to enter them here. It seemed they had just been captured and hadn't been subjected to any torture yet.

  They were indeed fortunate.

  "Take this money aurn to your vilge. The Imperial Capital isn't a pce for you," Roy said, tossing them a bag of s. He then turo leave.

  "Mission aplished. Let's go," he said to Akame, and they vanished.

  "Thank you for saving us!" Ieyasu called out, watg them disappear.

  He picked up the bag of s and helped Sayo to her feet.

  He decided that ohey found Tatsumi, they would leave the Imperial Capital, this monstrous city that devoured people.

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  Back at Night Raid headquarters, Najenda praised them for pleting their mission.

  "Well done on your first mission, newbie!" Leone excimed, slinging an arm around Roy's ned giving him a thumbs up.

  Roy, momentarily blinded by her cleavage, could only ehe warm embrace.

  "Roy, you'll be partnered with Leo," Najenda announced with a smile.

  "Haha! I'll take good care of you, kid!" Leone decred, beaming.

  Only Akame seemed disappointed by this arra.

  "Leone, report on your mission," Najenda instructed, folding her arms.

  "Yes!" Leone's pyful demeanor vanished as she turo business.

  She released Roy and presewo portraits. "Our targets are Ogre from the Imperial Guard and the oil mert, Gamal."

  "Acc to the t, Ogre has accepted numerous bribes from Gamal."

  "Whenever Gamal its a crime, Ogre finds scapegoats for him. Many i people have been imprisoned because of them."

  "Have you firmed the information?" Najenda asked, lighting a cigarette.

  "I've seen and heard it with my own eyes and ears. It's defirue," Leone affirmed.

  "Alright, we'll accept this request," Najenda decided.

  "We'll punish these criminals."

  "Although eliminating Gamal will be easy, dealing with Ogre won't be so simple," Leone tinued. "When he's not on duty, he spends his time drinking iertai distriear the pace. Security is tight around there."

  "It's too dangerous to send someone who's wanted."

  Leone, as the intelligeherer, was well-versed in the Capital's situation.

  "Then who should we send?" Najenda asked.

  "I..." Leone raised her hand. "I'm not wanted."

  "I don't think I'm wanted either," Roy said with a smile. "How about I take care of Ogre?"

  "Should we wait for Mine and the others to return?" Akame suggested with .

  "But we don't know when they'll be back," Leone tered.

  Najeinguished her cigarette and looked at Roy. " you ha?"

  Roy smirked fidently. "I have plete fidence."

  "Overfidence be fatal," Akame warned.

  "Don't worry, Akame. There's no one in this world who kill me," Roy reassured her, patting her head.

  "Then it's decided. Roy will eliminate Ogre, and Akame and Leone will deal with Gamal."

  "No problem!"

  "Yes!"

  They accepted their missions without hesitation a off immediately.

  ...

  Iertai district outside the Imperial Pace, Leone carefully expihe yout and the locations where Ogre could be found.

  "Got it?" she asked, patting Roy's shoulder.

  "Yes, don't worry," Roy assured her.

  "Then I'll leave it to you. Akame and I will hahe oil mert," Leone said before running off.

  Roy sighed and strolled through the bustling streets.

  He, a Maou-Css Devil, was reduced to doing such trivial tasks.

  But Akame's affe for him seemed to be growing, and Leone also treated him differently.

  He was fident he could win over Sheele, who was about to meet her demise in the inal story.

  Roy spent some time expl the eai distritil he finally found Ogre in a tavern, drinking with some panions.

  It wasn't a good time to strike. Although Roy could easily overpower them all, he wao maintain a low profile.

  After all, he was supposed to be an assassin.

  Roy decided to wait for a better opportunity. He ehe tavern, found a seat, and ordered some food and drinks.

  ...

  Meanwhile, Akame and Leone had infiltrated the oil mert's mansion.

  Gamal, was swiftly eliminated.

  "That was easy. I wonder how Roy is doing," Leone said, stretg.

  "Let's go che him," Akame suggested.

  "Eh? You're worried about that kid? Alright, let's go then," Leoeased, amused by Akame's .

  They headed towards the eai district.

  Since Akame was wahey couldn't get too close.

  They observed the area from a nearby rooftop.

  They saw Roy exiting the tavern.

  "Roy's out. I wonder if he succeeded," Leone said, fog her attention.

  Roy walked dowreet casually.

  Just then, a group of Imperial Guards approached him.

  "Oh no, it's the Imperial Guard! Was Roy discovered?" Leone frowned, worried.

  "No," Akame said calmly.

  As if to firm her words, the guards simply walked past Roy, nnizing him.

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