Many shades of Justice

An Akame Ga Kill Story


Author Notes

Hi guys. Before we begin this story, there's something I'd like to say.

I LOVE Akame Ga Kill. I love the anime. I love the manga. I love the characters. I love the setting and story. And it's in my opinion, it's a very underrated series that deserves more love.

With that said, if there's any character I hated more than anyone else in the series, that would be the insanely devoted to justice nutcase that is Seryu Ubiquitous. I swear, every time I wanted to punch her in face and have her take a good long look at what her "justice" is doing to the common people of the Empire. She's an absolute hypocrite who believes that if you're with the Empire then you're a good person, no matter how flawed you are. And if you're not with the Empire, then you're an evil person and you deserve to be put to death.

I didn't like how she died in the series. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad she died but I think what would have been more fitting is for her to see that her way of dealing with "justice" was causing more harm than it was doing any good. I wanted her to feel broken and for her to realize that she was wrong.

I'm not going to make this a story where changes sides, but I want her to know what it's like when she realizes that she's no better than the criminals she condemns to death.

So, this an AU in which she is defeated by Mine and the bomb in her head malfunctions. So, she is instead taken by the members of Night Raid and is brought in front of the people who have lost loved ones because of her and the Jaegers. I plan to make this a short story or a one-shot story. Let's begin the story now.


Defeat at the hands of Night Raid

Seryu Ubiquitous and her teigu, Koro were about to kill Mine, who was laying on the ground wounded. Mine was badly hurt after the beat down she got from Seryu. With those metal arms of hers, Seryu's punches hurt more than that from a normal person's.

Mine was thinking about the promise that she made to herself. She swore that she would never live in such dark days ever again. And she would never let anyone else suffer from such horrible discriminations as she did. While she lay there on the ground, she was changing the barrel of her teigu, Pumpkin. She changed it from its assault rifle form to its sniper rifle form.

After rising to her feet, she saw Seryu and Koro leaping towards her. Without hesitation, she raised her teigu and took aim. She raised her voice and shouted:

"DON'T UNDERSTIMATE...PUMPKIN!"

The energy from her weapon cut right through Koro. The energy cut the living teigu in half. Koro was separated from his body.

"KORO!"

Seeing her teigu being destroyed was too much for Seryu. She had lost her father, captain Ogre, Dr. Stylish and now Koro.

"The Ten Kings is out of ammunition, but I still have these!"

Seryu's prosthetic arms separated from her body. Revealing that she had two guns in her arms. She took aim at Mine.

"Justice must prevail!"

"This is it!"

Mine looked at the girl who had taken away two of her teammates, Sheele and Chelsea. Sheele was like a sister to Mine and while she didn't get along with Chelsea all the time, she still considered her a friend. Both were killed and their bodies were eaten by Koro. Sheele sacrificed her life to save Mine and Chelsea was killed Kurome. Her head was put on a pike for all to see in a nearby town.

Mine moved her teigu with such speed that Seryu didn't see it coming. The energy blast from Pumpkin was still firing and Mine used the same technique she used on Koro. She cut Seryu in half.

As her upper torso was being separated from her lower half, Seryu yelled:

"NO! How could I let this happen?!"

The energy from Pumpkin was so great that it cut through the ruins of an ancient building. And as Pumpkin started to cool down, Mine had said to her fallen enemy:

"My weapon creates power out of emotional energy. The more intense my feelings, the more fuel for Pumpkin."

Seryu laid on the ground. She was severely wounded. With no arms or legs, she couldn't even get up to look Mine in the eye.

Mine continued to tell Seryu why she had lost to her:

"So, the moment you pissed me off, that was when you lost."

After a few tense seconds of silence, Seryu broke the silence by laughing like a mad woman. Even in defeat she continued to prove just how crazy she was.

"Justice will always prevail! No matter what the cost, all evil must be destroyed!"

Mine just walked up to her and shouted:

"Do…you…ever…SHUT THE HELL UP?!"

Mine stood above her, kneeled before Seryu and punched her in the face. She punched her again with her left hand and then she punched her with both her fists clenched together. As continued to punch her, she was thinking of all the lives that this girl had taken away.

"This is for Sheele! For Chelsea! And for everyone else you've killed!"

As she stood there above Seryu, Mine realized that her knuckles were bloody. She had hit people before but not enough to have blood on her hands. She'd always been a sniper. This was the first time she had ever beat someone so close to death.

After she looked at her hands, she looked at Seryu. Seryu was not dead but was knocked out. She had blood all over face. Mine stood there. Thinking to herself:

"I should kill you right here and now. At least then you won't hurt anyone ever again."

Mine grabbed Seryu's unconscious body and dragged her body towards a pile of rubble. She had every intention of grabbing a rock and then smashing Seryu's head with it.

Suddenly, Mine heard a voice from behind her.

"Mine! Are you all right?"

It was Tatsumi wearing Incursio.

"Tatsumi!"

Tatsumi ran to her and held her. This was the first time he had held her that way. Mine was blushing and so was Tatsumi.

"I was able to beat back that Raksha Demon. I don't think we've seen the end of her but at least we won't see her for a while. What happened to you? Is she dead?"

Mine told Tatsumi everything about her fight with Seryu. How she had come close to being defeated by Seryu. How she had destroyed Seryu's teigu. And how she had beaten Seryu to near death and how she intended to kill her. Tatsumi told Mine:

"Don't kill her yet. I have an idea. But first I need to find the teigu."

"What are you thinking?"

"You'll see. Tie her up and blindfold her. We're taking her with us."

"You don't intend to have her fight on our side, do you? Nothing I said got through to her."

"No. But she needs to know that her idea of "justice" is doing more harm than good to the people she's supposed to be protecting. I want her to see the true side of justice."

Tatsumi found Koro crawling on the ground. Koro was unable to heal himself and could only squirm and bark when Tatsumi held him up. Tatsumi found Seryu bound and gagged. Tatsumi knelt and asked Mine to hold on tight.

"Let's go."

Tatsumi ran with all the speed his legs could carry him and headed for the temporary base of Night Raid.