Chapter 39

Naiveté is the thirty-ninth chapter of the Black Cat manga and the first chapter of Volume 5.

Plot
Rinslet Walker is shocked to see Lugart Won. Train Heartnet asks the assassin if he came for another fight. Lugart replies that he has not and that he will take a time off his professional work. He thens reveals that he saw Train deflected the guards' bullets to protect them from certain death and asks him why he did so. Rinslet angrily tells him that it was the right thing to do, since there is no need for a reason to save a life. Lugart tells her to shut up, as he was not talking to her. He goes on to say that the average man believes such nonesense, but he and Train are assassins. They do not help others or take unnessary risks, because those who do, die. Train tells him that he had left that life along time ago and that he now lives by his own rules, meaning that he will save lives and spare enemies if he can. Lugart tells the sweeper that such naive thinking will kill him. The assassin says that he will train more and one day return to challange the sweeper, promising not to let anyone else get the bounty on his head, the leaves. Rinslet asks if it is alright to let him go, and Train reminds her that he will return. Rinslet realizes that Saya Minatsuki was the one who changed the once cold-hearted assassin.

Somewhere else, Eve is talking to Sven Vollfied on the phone. Train shows up and asks her why Eve has a phone. The girl replies that she asked for one, so Sven gave her his old one. Sven explains that after today's events, it seemed safer for Eve to be in contact with the two of them.

When they get home, Train tells his partner about what happened. Sven is furious Train allowed Lugart Won to escape twice, and beats him up.