Author's Note

Hello there, thanks for taking the time to check out this story I made. This is a story I'm writing for NaNoWriMo 2018 (National Novel Writing Month), so I'm working hard to make a consistent story and clear 50,000+ words by the end of November. This may not be a publishable story since it's a fanfiction, but any feedback, good or bad is appreciated. Also, this story will mostly be told from Carmine and Orie's experiences. For more of the story, I'd highly encourage you all to watch/read Akame Ga Kill. A lot of the beginning is created from Carmine and Orie's Arcade Mode stories apart from interacting with each other. Trust me, it wasn't easy trying to use to complete opposites of characters for this. Anyways, enough from me. Hope you enjoy the story!

Prologue

The Hollow Night. A phenomenon that appears every full moon. Every Hollow Night, creatures born from darkness known as Voids come to feast on a substance known as the EXS, the form of energy in all earthly matter and the source of all things. Those that possess the EXS are known as "In-Births," beings that are neither living nor dead but possess extraordinary abilities akin to their EXS.

During a Night, some humans wander the streets during the phenomenon, either aware or unaware of the risks of being attacked by a Void. If a person gets bitten by a Void, it will consume the person's soul and infect their body with the Void's common ability to manipulate EXS. Those that withstand the attack and maintain their sanity will reawaken as In-Births. Those that lose their sanity to the attack will lose their consciousness and will be turned into a Void themselves. By reawakening as an In-Birth, one would be able to access the Void's ability of materialization, which allows an In-Birth to give their EXS a unique shape or attribute. The greater the bite given by a Void, the more powerful the ability, however the bigger bite will mean a greater risk of being turned into a Void.

Knowledge of the EXS and the Hollow Night as well as the abilities of an In-Birth had been passed down and been fought over for 1,000 years between different factions. Some of them include the Night Blade, the original possessors and guardians of the EXS courtesy of the Hollow God, the Licht Kreis (also known as "The Light Circle"), a faction created to protect civilians from Voids and unruly In-Births as well as performing crowd control during Nights, and other gang factions that seek to have more freedom to use their powers, such as Amnesia and Bankikai (also known as "The Demon Society"). Some In-Births remain unaffiliated with any faction and prefer to work of their own free will, however conflicts between factions, namely the Night Blade, Licht Kreis and Amnesia, are well-known and can either help or hinder their own actions in the Night.

During a war between opposing sides, the spectators watch in bewilderment and wonder what will happen to either party. Will one side surrender? Will both sides completely destroy each other? Will they call a truce? Even stranger to think about: what would happen if both sides decided to work together despite their differences? Two or more unlikely partners working together towards a common goal in mind does not seem like a plan that would work out well for anyone involved, however, in this Hollow Night, two different people, two different personalities, two different kinds of abilities, will find their fates intertwined and forced to cooperate to work together in their new role in life. Their new roles as assassins working to overthrow a corrupt government. This ideology of two unlikely partners becoming assassins is where our story begins.