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This blog dedicated to my partner, Henrietta and all the other Gunslinger Girls.


To my former colleagues:
The posts that follow will serve to confirm my “leave of absence” from the agency and explain why I felt compelled to take Henrietta and disappear. I wish I could have shared my thoughts in person but I tried several times and met your resistance. So, although I love and respect you all, I don’t trust you. I witnessed what happens when an agent shows any doubt or threatens to expose the program. Remember Raballo and his unfortunate accident? Yes? Well, I think I’ll explain myself from what I consider to be a safe distance from you all.

To the public:
For those who don't already know who I am, let me bring you up to speed. Long story short—I was an Agent for the Italian Government employed by a Special Ops Division dedicated to fighting Padania or The Five Republics Faction, a nationalist, right-wing group that is opposed to globalization and dedicated to the independence of northern Italy.

We operated through a front organization, a seemingly benevolent social agency, the Social Welfare Agency. SWA’s official mission, “to help the hopeless” was a cynical means to recruit our "secret weapons", the children we trained to kill. The Agency would offer to take in sick, injured or abandoned young children, implant them with cybernetic limbs and train them to be murderous assassins. Because of my youthful enthusiasm and somewhat delusional patriotism, I agreed to participate in this program. And that’s where I met Henrietta, my partner; my Gunslinger Girl. Together we were the best fighting unit or fratello (Italian for sibling) the agency had.

The longer I worked at the Agency, the more I was lulled into believing that what I did was OK, that it served the greater good. This comfort I felt began to worry me and made me wonder how close society might be to accepting our questionable practices as normal and indeed necessary for national security. In my search for a safe way to relieve my guilt, I’ve decided to tell my story and wake up as many people as possible. No, wait, that's too gentle a statement. The fact is, I want to scare the shit out of people so they will be careful not to trade their values for security.