"When I'm with you, all kinds of things seem prettier than usual to me. So I have to wonder sometimes... How beautiful must the world look through your eyes?"— Miyako Shikimori, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie

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  That night, in the meeting room of Night Raid's headquarters, Najenda issued another mission.

  "Our target this time is the serial killer who has beealk of the Imperial Capital" she announced. "He's known as Zanku the Beheader, a nighttime prowler who specializes in decapitations."

  "He was ohe executio the Capital's rgest prison, but due to the Empire's tyranny and the tless executions he carried out, he went mad. Now, he roams the Capital, killing indiscriminately."

  Najenda looked at the Night Raid members. "Your mission is to eliminate him."

  "Yes!" they responded.

  "We'll work in pairs. Let's go!"

  The Night Raid members formed pairs.

  Roy was assigo Chelsea's team.

  They set off into the Imperial Capital to hunt down Zanku.

  Due to Zanku's ret activities, the Capital was heavily patrolled by Imperial Police.

  After arriving at their designated area, Roy led Chelsea to a quiet spot and waited.

  Chelsea, seeing that he wasn't actively searg for Zanku, asked curiously, "Roy, aren't we going to look for Zanku?"

  "No need. He'll e to us," Roy replied with a mysterious smile, leaning against a wall.

  Chelsea hesitated. She could transform into a cat to avoid dete by the Imperial Police while searg.

  Just as she was pting whether to go off on her own, Roy spoke up.

  "He's here..."

  He had sensed a gaze filled with malice directed at him.

  He instantly identified the source: Zanku.

  Zanku stood atop a tall tower, them from above.

  None of the Night Raid members escaped his notice.

  "Huh? Where?" Chelsea looked around but couldn't find Zanku.

  "Over there." Roy poiowards Zanku's location.

  Chelsea followed his gaze and gasped. It was indeed Zanku.

  "Wait here. I'll take care of him," Roy said before vanishing in a fsh.

  "Hey, wait..." Chelsea tried to stop him, but he was already gone. She quickly followed.

  ...

  "Even assassins have appeared. This city is truly dangerous! Kekeke, whose head shall I take first?" Zanku mused, looking down at the Night Raid members from his perch atop the tower.

  "I think... you start with your own," a voice said from behind him.

  "Who's there?!" Zanku spun around.

  A young man stood there calmly.

  Zanku instantly reized him as one of the assassins he had observed earlier.

  "So it's a Night Raid assassin. Hahahaha!" Zanku ughed, not taking Roy seriously.

  "Are those your st words?" Roy shook his head. He wasn't one for idle chatter.

  He drew his sword and struck without hesitation.

  Thwack!

  Blood spttered as Zanku's head flew off his shoulders.

  "Why... couldn't I see?" Zanku muttered in fusion before dying.

  Roy uood his question. Zanku's Teigu was "Spectator," which granted him five different vision abilities: Insight, Farsight, Clearsight, Fht, and Illusionsight.

  These abilities allowed him to perceive emotions, see distant objects, see through obstrus, glimpse the future, and cast illusions.

  Zanku had activated Fht, but he couldn't see anything, hence his fusion.

  In the inal story, Zanku, with his Teigu, could hold his own against Akame for several rounds. He was no weakling.

  But without his Teigu's abilities, he was instantly killed by Roy.

  After all, Roy was a Maou-Css. The differen their strength was too vast for Spectator to foresee his future.

  "Roy, where's Zanku?" The ht Raid members arrived.

  "There," Roy said casually, pointing at the headless corpse on the ground.

  The Night Raid members were dumbfounded. Zanku had been killed so quickly?

  "That's definitely Zanku," Chelsea firmed, pointing at the severed head. "That thing on his forehead must be his Teigu."

  Lubbock retrieved the Teigu from the head. "Well then, the mission is plete. Let's head back."

  "That was easy!" Leone excimed, stretg.

  "Indeed. Let's return," Chelsea agreed.

  The Night Raid members headed back to their base.

  ...

  The m, Roy woke up to find someone sleeping beside his bed.

  "Hey, Sheele, why are you sleeping here?"

  "Mmm..." Sheele sat up groggily, rubbing her eyes. "Because starting today, you're my partner. Please take care of me."

  Roy eechless. She had e to his room so early in the m just for that?

  He knew Sheele loved to sleep in.

  They the off on their mission.

  It wasn't really a mission, just a ce for them to get to know each other.

  Sheele was quite airheaded and clumsy, often messing things up.

  So, she wasn't assigned any chores at the base.

  They arrived at a riverbank, and Sheele, in a rare dispy of motherly affe, offered Roy a p pillow.

  She then shared her past with him.

  Sheele had grown up in the slums of the Capital. She was often ridiculed for her ck of talent and clumsiness.

  Once, she had killed someoo protect her friend, but she had faced retaliation, and her parents were murdered.

  However, she had mao kill all her attackers with surprising efficy.

  That's when Sheele discovered her talent.

  She was clumsy and i at almost everything, even walking without tripping.

  But when it came to killing, she was incredibly gifted. She was born to be an assassin.

  She then joined Night Raid.

  After heariory, Roy couldn't help but think that everyone had their own ualents.

  Sheele, who couldn't do anything right and tripped over air, was a natural-born killer.

  Roy then shared his own story, though he embellished some details and omitted others.

  They spent a pleasant day together.

  ...

  The day, Roy and Leoo the slums.

  Their mission was to iigate the area.

  There were rumors of a group manufacturing and distributing a drug simir to a halluogen.

  They lured women from the slums with mohen trolled them with the drug, f them into prostitution.

  Roy and Leoask was to elimihis group.

  After a day of iigation, they finally located the group's hideout.

  That night, they prepared to take a.

  "Alright, it's time to work and pay off my debt," Leone said, crag her knuckles.

  Having grown up in the slums, she often helped the people there.

  This had led to her accumuting quite a debt to Night Raid. She was essentially w to pay it off.

  "By the way, Roy, you haven't seen my Teigu yet, have you?" Leone asked, approag him with a mysterious grin.

  "I haven't," Roy firmed.

  "The your eyes!"

  "Activate: [Beast King Transformation: Lionel]!"

  Leone's short blonde hair grew longer, reag her waist.

  Two beast ears sprouted from her head, a tail emerged from behind her, and her hands transformed into cws.

  She had bee a beautiful beast-eared girl.

  In this form, Leone's strength and senses were greatly enhanced.

  "Haha, how is it? Isn't it amazing?" she asked excitedly. "I get so pumped up whenever I transform!"

  "Yes, it's very impressive. But this tail..." Roy chuckled, reag out to touch her tail.

  "Hey! What are you doing?!" Leone snatched her tail away, her face flushed crimson.

  Her tail was a sensitive spot.

  "Ahem, I was just curious. Let's focus on the mission," Roy said awkwardly, quickly ging the subject.

  Leone gred at him, then sighed and followed him.

  They climbed onto a rooftop, and Leone removed a tile, peering down into the building below.

  The room was filled with purple smoke.

  Dozens of women were smoking, their expressions vat, lost in a drug-induced haze.

  This was the halluogenic drug created by the group.

  It was highly addictive and incredibly harmful.

  The door opened, and two meered.

  One was tall with ach, the other short and stout.

  "Good, good. Keep earning money, and I'll give you more of the drug," the tall man said with a greedy smile.

  "Yes!" the women replied in unison, their minds clouded by the drug.

  These women were forced into prostitution, their bodies exploited until they died.

  "Boss, look at her..." the short man poi a woman lying on the ground.

  "She's useless now. Dispose of her," the tall man said dismissively.

  "Bring in more women from the slums. Those women will do anything for money."

  "Yes, Boss!"

  The two me.

  "Scum!" Roy muttered coldly.

  "I reize some of those women from the slums," Leone said, her voice low and dangerous.

  "This is infuriating! Let's finish them off quickly!"

  Leone was enraged by the sight.

  Roy and Leone followed the two men to a meeting room.

  They were discussing how to expand their drug operation.

  Crash!

  The door burst open, and Roy and Leoered.

  "Scum, yn of terror ends today!" Leone decred.

  "Intruders! Kill them!"

  The meed quickly, summoning their guards.

  However, they were mere humans, no match for Roy and Leone.

  Roy and Leone showed no mercy. Within moments, everyone in the room was dead.

  "Huff... ing up trash is so satisfying," Leone said with a grin.

  "Si's still early, how about we cheine?" Roy suggested with a smile.

  "Eh?" Leone looked at him, then teased, "Still denying your i in Mine? Why else would you be so ed about her?"

  "Leone-san, I never said I wasn't ied in her. In fact, I'm most ied in you," Roy replied with a pyful grin.

  "Hmph! You little flirt," Leone scoffed, crossing her arms.

  "Let's go."

  If they didn't hurry, Sheele might be torn in half.

  'Restrug a body weakens one's power,' Roy thought to himself.

  They rushed towards Mine and Sheele's location.

  ...

  Mine and Sheele had pleted their mission and were returning to base.

  However, they were intercepted by Seryu Ubiquitous of the Imperial Police.

  Seeking revenge for her Teacher, Ogre, she had been searg for them throughout the Capital.

  Roy had been shocked by Seryu's character wheched the anime.

  She appeared to be a sweet and i girl, but she harbored a twisted sense of justice.

  To defeat evil, she had undergone horrifiodifications.

  Her entire body was riddled with scars, a testament to the pain she had endured.

  But Seryu, driven by her twisted ideals, had persevered and gained immense power.

  She also possessed a biological-type Teigu, "Hekatonkheires," which she named Koro.

  Its trump card, Berserker, could drastically increase its power.

  The two sides cshed.

  Mine faced Koro, while Sheele fought Seryu.

  Initially, they had the advantage, with two against one.

  However, after Sheele severed Seryu's arms, Seryu activated Koro's Berserker mode.

  The situation reversed instantly. Mine was caught off guard and held captive by Koro, about to be crushed.

  Sheele came to her rescue, severing Koro's arm and freeing Mine.

  But then, the tide turned again. Seryu shot Sheele in the heart.

  Koro lu Sheele, its massive jaws wide open.

  "Sheele!" Mine screamed, watg in despair as Sheele was about to be devoured.

  Suddenly, a massive ice pilr shot from afar, impaling Koro.

  Two figures appeared.

  It was Roy and Leone.

  "Sheele!" Leone's eyes burned with rage as she gred at Seryu.

  "Die!"

  Enraged, Leone charged at Seryu with incredible speed and punched her with full force.

  Seryu's body was torn apart, her death instant and brutal.

  Leoill fueled by fury, turowards the approag Imperial Polid attacked them.

  Roy rushed to Sheele's side, gently lifting her and carryio Mine.

  Mine, her body riddled with fractures and her arm broken, struggled to get up.

  Roy gently pushed her back down.

  "Mine, I'm gd I could be of use in the end," Sheele said with a weak smile, her life fading.

  "Sheele... Sheele..." Mine sobbed untrolbly.

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