Tatsumi is a country boy who comes to the capital of the Empire to enlist in the army with the intention of getting promoted quickly, earning money and saving his people from starvation due to the large taxes they have to pay. But when he arrives in the city he realizes that not everything is as he expected. After witnessing a horrible massacre carried out by the corrupt inhabitans of the empire and the death of his friends, he decides to join Night Raid, a division of the Revolutionary Army that opposes the empire, which is dedicated to managing intelligence in the capital and leads carried out assassinations requested by the organization.
