Merraid made a plan and carried it out with Cassandra like assassins, but they soon discovered that it was useless.
Broly liked too many kinds of food. No matter who in the group handed him food, he ate it, and any Danger Beasts they encountered along the way were roasted and eaten as well.
"Ah, how am I supposed to get his attention?!"
Merraid scratched her hair into a mess. Broly was close to everyone in the group, but precisely because he was close to everyone, she found him difficult to approach. No matter how she tried to close the distance, it seemed to remain the same.
Of course, Merraid could tell that the boy treated Akame, Kurome, Mine, and Esdeath differently. He was closer to them than to the other children, but she could not figure out why.
"Miss Merraid, why not just ask them directly? There's no point in us sitting here guessing."
It was Cassandra's first time seeing her mistress so troubled. After thinking for a moment, she offered a suggestion.
"Would anyone really tell a woman who came to steal their man?"
Merraid did not think anyone would. During the past two days of travel, she had tried fishing for information, but she could sense the wariness those specially treated girls held toward her.
"Isn't it a little early to call it stealing a man? He's still just a boy..."
Cassandra complained, then began speaking well of the others.
"I think Akame and Mine are both quite easy to get along with. They haven't looked down on me just because I'm a freak with an extra pair of arms."
Because of the extra pair of arms that set her apart from ordinary people, Cassandra had been abandoned by her biological parents at a very young age.