"Know your place, Rachael Tans."
Amau Sueko's tone was perfectly calm, as though she had not taken the other woman's words to heart.
And indeed, she had not. In her eyes, the woman was nothing more than a reckless, shortsighted brute. Even with talent beyond the reach of ordinary people, her personality alone doomed her to failure.
"You're the one who needs to know her place, Miss Amau."
Although Amau Sueko's tone was unfriendly, Rachel did not particularly care. She simply moved in front of Amau Sueko, looked into her eyes, and asked with some puzzlement:
"What are you afraid of?"
"It's not that I'm afraid. You simply don't understand him, Rachel."
Amau Sueko felt a headache coming on. Faced with a teammate who refused to listen to reason, she could not help worrying about the plan ahead.
Rachael Tans was someone who could truly be called a law unto herself.
She had once learned certain secret techniques in the Eastern Isles and possessed an extraordinary gift for assassination—an unparalleled talent, even. That school of ninjutsu was famous throughout the Eastern Isles, but its requirements for accepting students were so stringent that, in a sense, Rachel had stolen its teachings.
For that very reason, only after she killed thirteen fellow disciples sent to hunt her down in the Eastern Isles did the head of the school have no choice but to recognize her as a disciple.
Later, however, she offended an influential figure in the Eastern Isles and was pursued all the way into the wilderness. She had been forced to cross it to reach District 25.
Even after arriving in District 25, she did not settle down. The very first thing she did was kill an executive officer of a Peacekeeping Forces branch, causing an uproar throughout the district.