intelligence from the ship onto a USB drive. However, mid-mission Sorey discovers that Akame had gotten her own secret mission from Director Ciel Phantomhive to extract the M.O.N. Special Mission Unit STRIKE, eliminate the pirates and rescue the hostages. After the jog, Zavied and Sorey share and bond over their common experiences in adapting to life after each serving tours in the armed forces. Akame arrives to take Sorey with her on a mission to rescue the hostages of the M.O.N. vessel Lemurian Star, which had been taken over by a group of hired pirates. Sorey, Akame, and Kureo Mado, along with other members of the elite M.O.N. While out on a morning jog in Amestria, Sorey frequently passes a Seraphim who later introduces himself as Zavied, a wind Seraph who now works as a counselor at the Amestrian Department of Veterans Affairs. Two years after the Battle of Amestria, Sorey continues working under the alias of Shepard as an agent of the espionage agency M.O.N. But things get more complicated when Sorey's thought deceased best friend Mikleo is revealed to be alive and a villain like no other - the Winter Seraph. (with whom Ciel Phantomhive initially agrees) starts creating countless weapons of mass destruction to seemingly protect the world - but really wants to destroy it and rebuild it, Sorey and his colleagues must team up to stop him. However, when a shadowy enemy from within the chief offices of M.O.N. In hopes of fitting in, Sorey becomes an agent of M.O.N., as well as a close friend of Akame and a new hero, Zavied. Two years after the Battle of Amestria, Sorey lives quietly in Amestria, still struggling to adapt to the modern society. It is the sequel to Tales of Zestiria the X and Jump Force, and is the ninth installment in the Anime Cinematic Universe and the third installment of Phase Two. Tales of Zestiria the X: The Winter Seraph is a 2014 anime film.