393 Without Fail

Lieutenant Shao Ran returned to the Vanzano Estate a few bells afterward... 

He had tried his best to resuscitate the kid, but his basic training never taught him how to un-kill a boy punched so hard, his insides exploded. He ended up burying the body in the depths, a few malms off the coast-- underneath some heavy rocks, too. No one would find him there... not unless they were able to breathe underwater like he could. 

He sterilized the kid's heirloom sword with a burst of his Golden Crow flames and left it in a trash heap behind an Olea Garden. No fingerprints, no mana signature, no witnesses. No one would be able to track the murder back to him... 

Ran had done a lot of questionable things in his life, and this was easily in the top ten...

The top five, at least. 

Maybe top three. 

"Lieutenant Ran!" A voice called out for him. 

Sea god's shitebox.