Four years ago, the girl Emiko had asked Simon Lacroix what had happened to her mother. Uncomfortably, Simon explained that she had died when she was a baby. She knew, though, that he was lying when he said she'd got sick, and demanded the truth. Sighing, Simon admitted that her mother had been a beautiful woman named Shado, and a bad man named Robert Queen had murdered her, robbing him of his one true love. This was also a lie. He told her that after killing Shado, Robert Queen had tried to kidnap Emiko, but Simon had killed him and avenged the girl's mother. Still, Robert's son Oliver Queen would come for them unless they stopped him first. That is why they train each other to kill. That is why the Outsiders protect them. Hearing all this, Emiko determined for herself that she wanted to