Disclaimer: Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro created Akame ga Kill!, I'm just... :/

It was noon, the brightest time of day, and a dark and sombre procession was winding its way through the capital. Equally grim faces lined the streets; all had come to pay their final respects to the late General Najenda.

A rising star in the new government, the citizens' darling had spearheaded several rebuilding projects before a sudden fatal heart attack took everyone by surprise.

Thirty is too young to die, they whispered sadly as the general's body was laid to rest in the new Cemetery of the Heroes. In the shadows, one person disagreed. You see, she knew better. The figure had flowing black hair, crimson eyes, and faint red markings on her face; all hidden beneath a hooded cloak.

The next day, there was idle talk about the stranger no one could identify, who stood at the cemetery's gates till dusk, humming quietly:

Ring-a-round the rosy,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down.