Akame jumped into a graceful backflip avoiding the Teigu's flames. Her feet dug into the red sand of the volcano until she came a stop. She was sweating profusely from the heat of the magma surrounding the plateau.

"Did you think I'd go down that easily, Ziedrich?"

She taunted, taking the opportunity to attack her opponent as he recovered.

"Of course not, Akame. That's why I challenged you."

The stoic old man said. He had blonde hair and was tall and strong in stature.

Akame slammed her Murasame into his glowing red Teigu at mach speed. Sparks flew as they clashed swords fiercely.

"Hmph. I guess you have a deathwish."

She said.

Ziedrich grinned as he put more pressure on his fiery katana.

Akame felt her hands burning from the heat that his sword was conducting. She darted back a couple feet in a kneeling position.

'His Imperial Arm is dangerous. I can't challenge it at close range. I have to get a strike in and try to get the poison in his bloodstream. I know I'm faster than him.'

She watched him leer at her with a fearsome expression.

"Hah! I know what you're thinking. You think you can outspeed me and take me down with your venomous blade... I don't think so!"

He laughed insanely as he whipped his sword around above his head creating a fiery veil around his body. The flames enveloped him emanating a white hot glow.

"I'll make you tremble at the power of Ormyrr!"

Akame covered her eyes from the sheer brightness of his trump card.

"Serpentine Fire!"

He violently exploded. Akame braced herself digging her sword into the ground as the shockwave sent her sliding towards the edge of the plateau. He re-emerged from the smoke completely covered head to toe in flaming armor. It glowed a scarlet orange color. His helmet was menacing and draconic as was the rest of his armor. His shoulder pads were two massive spikes dripping magma and the center of his chestplate resemble an ancient serpent-like danger beast. His sword had also been enveloped in the fiery veil and it had grown what seemed like dragon wings at the hilt.

Akame dug her sword out of the plateau and stood her ground. She swung her sword to her side flinging the dirt off. She walked towards the opposition but as she did, she felt her skin start to heat up and almost sear. She winced at the pain.

"Hahahahaha! Let's see you try to defeat me now! With these defenses, you won't be able to get close to me."

Ziedrich said through his draconic visage.

'This isn't good. I need a new approach.'

Her thoughts were interrupted by a fireball accelerating towards her at an almost impossible speed. She shot up just in time as the fireball flew under her reducing part of the soles of her shoes to liquid. She didn't have time to rest when she saw two thin waves of fire coming at her, one horizontal and one vertical. She reacted quickly slicing the first and using her momentum to gracefully spin in a corkscrew slicing the other. The waves smashed into the volcano's wall behind her. Ziedrich launched towards her with his sword, preparing to strike her as she was still in mid-air. She felt the heat of his armor begin to sear her flesh. There was only one possible way to survive this attack. She timed her counter perfectly. Just at the point of Ziedrich's attack, she put her sword underneath her and used it as a platform to flip over him and land a kick. She hit him with such velocity that she managed to not transfer any of his heat. She flew high into the air above him as he flew the opposite way into the ground below. Murasame spun towards the ground but Akame went into a nosedive, quickly catching up to it. She grabbed it and dug into a stalactite sticking out of the volcano wall.

The dust settled and she saw Ziedrich folding his arms looking at her hanging onto her sword with one hand. The ground around him had turned to glass upon his impact.

"I'm impressed. No one's ever survived my initial attack let alone land a hit on me. I look forward to seeing the outcome of this fight."

Akame swung herself onto the sword and grabbed it backflipping onto the stalactite. She jumped higher up towards the opening of the volcano. She used the time it would take for him to close their distance as a chance to think of a way to beat him. She noticed the pile of rubble his projectile caused. It was a good amount of debris. Maybe she could bury him? She looked at the stalactite around her and thought that she could possibly lure him into a good spot and cut down the stalactite and crush him. She couldn't do it in her present state though. She needed the speed boost from her trump card. She judged that by the time Ziedrich flew up to her she could have transformed already and use the speed to launch herself back to the plateau. She despised using it though because it reminded her of all the people she killed but it was necessary at this moment for survival. She slammed her blade into the rock and fell to her knees from the strain of her transformation. She gasped for breath as the accursed ancient calligraphy wrapped itself around her body. An ominous purple aura surrounded her as her transformation neared it's end. Her eyes grew black, with the exception of her pupils, which flashed a menacing blood red color. She grasped the handle of her sword and stood up. Ziedrich was closing in on her and she could feel his armor smiting her skin with it's heat. Ziedrich was too far away to notice Akame's transformation. All he could make out was two red beads where her eyes should be. He couldn't even react to Akame blasting past him knocking him off course. She was way too fast to transfer any heat from him. He flew into the volcano wall smashing into it with serious force. Akame landed on the plateau shattering the glass beneath her into a splendid spectacle of sparkling glass reflecting various shades of orange and red. Ziedrich grunted in frustration.

'So this is what Murasame's trump card can do.'

"I should be honored. Forcing the great Akame to bring out her trump card just to defeat me. Things are starting to get interesting."

He stood up out of the rubble.

"Show me what you can do!"

He challenged swinging his arms furiously towards the ground. His armor plumed into another fiery explosion as if he'd just shifted into a higher gear. The ground exploded behind him as he launched towards Akame. Akame also shot off towards him, outmatching his speed easily. They clashed swords. The impact sent them flying in opposite directions, only Akame was faster, rebounding off the volcano wall and getting another blow in. She managed to close in on him before he could attack forcing him to block her. Her touch-and-go strategy kept Ziedrich's flames from burning her to cinders. She rebounded again off the opposite wall and she hit him a little faster this time. She kept the flurry up, getting a little faster every hit as she shot off the walls like a ghostly shadow wielding a deadly butterfly edge.

'Too... fast... Arghh!'

Akame made the last strike she needed to leave him exposed as the blow she'd just landed sent her flying above him. She shot downwards breaking the sound barrier somewhere in the middle of her descent and she landed an earth shattering kick on his chest plate. Black hatred manifest mixed with the ferocious orange flames of a legendary dragon creating a purple explosion. Ziedrich landed on the plateau again creating a crater of glass. He was injured this time and he couldn't get up. His draconic armor receded back into his Teigu. He coughed up blood and mustered a smile.

'What joy it brings me to see a young one such as her possess so much power.'

Ziedrich tried to get up but his body was completely shattered. The kick she'd landed on him was astronomical in force.

He saw Akame darting around the stalactites above him, slicing as she went. They crumbled off of the volcano wall and tumbled down towards him one by one.

'What cunning.'

Akame's strategy was the most clever he'd ever seen, both in setup and execution.

"Agh!"

The legendary warrior screamed in pain as the stalactites fell onto his body crushing him and sending the glass beneath him up into the air completely reduced to dust. He was covered by rock except for his head and his right hand which still held his Teigu.

Akame landed a few feet in front of him holding her blade out in front of her.

"Eliminated."

She said as the black writings on her body returned to Murasame. Her eyes returned from black and red to her normal, innocent girl eyes.

"Bahahahaha!"

The warrior let out a hardy, billowing laugh even on the precipice of death.

"Do they really make you say that nonsense in your little guild?"

He laughed at her quirk once more.

Akame was taken aback by his jest but she found his new tone to be somewhat intriguing.

"It is an honor to die by your hand, Akame. I believe you are the next greatest warrior to grace this planet."

He coughed up blood.

"Ever since I was young, I had a knack for fighting. When I decided for myself that I was going to make it my lifestyle, I traveled to every martial arts class and temple across the land. I quickly mastered every technique and when I was your age, I was considered the greatest warrior by the Southern Empire. I was placed at the front of the army by the general because of my fearlessness. I led armies to victory and slaughtered hundreds of thousands in the process. It was only after I proved myself on the battlefield that the Emperor offered me this Teigu."

He tightened his grasp on the sword making it clink against the glass. Akame looked at his sword which somewhat resembled her's, only differing in design.

"He said that I was destined for this sword because scriptures said the only one who could wield Ormyrr was one with a spirit that possessed the strength of an entire army and the skill of the present world's wealth of martial arts knowledge. He went on to say that the danger beast that it was created from put up an incredible fight and it took days to finally bring it down only through sheer number of infantry. They believed the monster inside was angry because of it's unfair demise and everyone who attempted to wield it had erupted into flames and died."

Akame was starting to become fond of this man.

"Upon receiving this weapon, I was immediately overwhelmed with power. It took me a awhile to master the swords abilities but when I did, I became the most feared man on the battlefield. My Empire prospered because of it. As I grew old, I began to lose some of my ability and I retired from the battlefield to this Island."

He started hacking violently. He didn't have much time left.

"Akame, the reason I'm telling you all this is because I need to find a worthy warrior to wield my sword. None could match my strength but you, so with my final breath I offer you Orrmyr."

He exhaled and closed his eyes. His hand went limp and the legendary Teigu fell onto the glass.

Akame looked at the splendid orange sword. She walked over to it kneeling as she looked into the sapphire embezzled into the hilt. She placed her hand on it. She felt the same spiteful, searing heat that she had just extinguished in combat surging through her hand and into the rest of her body. She screamed at it's cruel judgment. The flames it emitted attempted to burn her will, however, Akame didn't break. The new Teigu sensed Akame's history and skill as a warrior and it felt a connection to Murasame. Murasame started glow in her other hand. The black aura of hate coming out of Murasame started to converge with the hateful flames spewing from Orrmyr. The two swords started to glow white as the two entities intertwined . They emerged out of the white glow as two identical swords. They were silver with a sleek design. The hilts were ornate and both the blades emitted purple auras. Akame's hair started to turn white like the snow and her clothes altered. She found her black uniform morphing into a white coat that went down to her ankles and her red gloves were now white as well.

'This feeling of power is... incredible. How is this even possible?'

She gazed at the swords in her hands. She felt a compulsion to swing them. She spun both of them in her hands in a swift circular motion. She didn't even have to touch the rock to cut it. The swords seemed to work ambiently. She heard a loud boom followed by a slicing noise and the volcano walls started to slide off into the ocean revealing the clear blue sky and tropical sunshine of the Western Isles.

'I…'

She grew sinister in her expression.

'I feel... Invincible'

She broke the sound barrier in an instant darting out of the volcano and onto the ocean, creating a rift from her speed.

'Mission accomplished.'

Akame thought, out of habit.

Just then she had an epiphany.

'Why should I even go back to the hideout? They're all weaklings anyway. They'll just get in my way.'

Her weapons were making her feel confident and she started getting addicted to the power she wielded. She felt like showing off.

Akame changed the direction of her travel. She quickly pivoted in the water shooting off in another direction creating a tsunami behind her. She started looking for Imperial presence to play with. Her senses surpassed anything of the planet and she could sense not only the Imperials near her, but even the ones in the capital. She locked onto a tent on a lonely tropical island and smashed into it. A red mist puffed out of the wreckage.

"What the hell!?"

"Night Raid!"

"No! It's some kind of women! I think it might be general Esdeath!"

"Why would Esdeath attack us!?"

The Imperial soldiers scrambled for their weapons.

Akame swung one of her swords deafening the soldiers from the shock wave it created. Every tree on the Island fell over and the rock face behind her slid off into the ocean.

"Fear me."

Akame said.

"W-What?... how'd she do that?"

"Who the hell is she!?"

"Screw it! We need to get out of here!."

The soldiers started scurrying off in all different directions. Akame stood still. She held up her other sword and swung it horizontally spinning around. Multiple thuds could be heard. She cut the heads off all the soldiers unlucky enough to have had their heads up too high. The soldiers who were in the forest started to hide behind the tree stumps. She could sense their presence so it didn't matter where they hid anyway. Instead, she shifted her focus to the one's swimming away slicing vertically at all of them. Each slash was creating an ear shattering noise and shaking the earth. One by one the men were sliced in half down the middle. Their blood turned the shoreline bright red. The terrifying white girl turned around and looked into what used to be the tropical forest. She lifted her swords up flipping them upside down and sticking both into the ground. Purple tendrils of energy started to shoot out of the ground stabbing all the guards hiding behind the trees. She heard screams coming from all directions. She smiled at her work.

Akame looked up at the purple tendrils that held dead Imperials impaled on them. She laughed menacingly and took her swords out of the ground. The bodies fell as the tendrils disappeared.

'Incredible...'