Kimiko

I went back to my room, thinking about all the stuff that just happened.

My joints being abnormally flexible aside from my muscles—which by the way never fuckin' occurred to me since I'm a goddamn idiot—, Weiss' horrifying torture method, the pitiful scared look on Kimiko's face after suffering at the hands of Weiss, and her origin.

She coughed up everything she knew. About how the Black Mambas got ahold of an eastern slave from all the way out here in the most western part of the continent. About her troop's strange pitch-black Aura and her instinctual repulsion of any source of light. And finally, who was the person that hired the Black Mambas to abduct Rosaline.

Let's start from the beginning, shall we?

"Kimiko". She was a simple village girl who lived on a small island at the eastern edge of the Alumis continent. Her family was dirt poor, they barely scrounged up food from the very few crops they managed to grow. Famine plagued the village all year round.