Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks


Agore's POV

"Find Peace in the Embrace of Mother Earth." I bowed having finished filling the graves.

I picked up my shovel and headed back inside.

"Tatsumi." I said as I walked passed "I'm all done, You can go see your friends now, just follow the path to the cliff's edge I set some grave stones up there."

He didn't look up as he walked out the door "Thanks…"

I went to the sink and started washing my hands.

"That was a good thing you did." Sheele smiled.

"I would have done it for anyone." I shrugged "Burying people is what I do…doesn't make it any easier."

"How was it?" Akame asked.

"Awful." I rubbed my head in frustration "those people…desecrated them…the boy, his insides were dead…and the girl, she was hanging like that before she died a few day ago."

Akame only frowned.

I held my hand in the air and made a slicing motion "Her leg…was removed while she was still living…I found it and sowed it back on so she'd at least be complete…"

I shook my head "Apologize, I'm killing the mood, ignore the undertaker and his ramblings."

"It's fine." Akame gave me a polite smile "If talking about this helps you I don't mind listening."

I laughed a bit "You're good at that…listening to me I mean."


A few days later.

"It's been three days." I hummed "How long till Tatsumi sides with us?"

I was sitting in the main meeting room with Sheele, she was reading I was refilling my vials and medicine bottles.

"Yo!" Leone shouted dragging Tatsumi in.

"Oh, we were just speaking about you." Sheele shrugged "Have you still not made a choice to join us?"

"Yeah he hasn't, why not shower him with some words." Leone laughed.

"Well you know where our hideout is so if you don't join we'll have to kill you." Sheele deadpanned "and then Agore will bury your body in a place where no one will ever find it."

"What a warm welcome." Tatsumi sighed.

"Think about it carefully." Sheele told him.

"Wait a second!" a high pitched voice snapped.

"Here comes fun." I rolled my eyes while spooling a thread.

"Why are you letting this guy just walk around the hideout!" Mine yelled.

"Cause he's one of us." Leone shrugged.

"No he's not!" Mine stomped her foot "He doesn't have the boss' permission."

"Hmm?" she glared at Tatsumi and looked him over.

"He fails, just looking at his face I can tell he's not ready to work with us."

"WAH?!" Tatsumi gaffed "What was that?!"

"Ignore her, Mine's abrasive to everyone." Leone said "Come on let's keep looking around."

They wandered off and I finished my preparations of my medical kit before putting it back int eh bag.

"I'm going out to check Lub's traps." I said.

I try to get out each day and check the traps Lubbock sets to see if anyone tripped them and got killed as a result, luckily today was a dry day, no bodies. On my way back Akame popped down to tell me that the boss was assembling everyone for a meeting.

When I got there everyone else had arrived and she debriefing us.

"I see then…well Tatsumi, would you like to join Night Raid?" Boss asked.

"I'm dead if I say no right?" he asked.

"Not really." Najenda shook her head "we can't very well let you go back though, you'll have to work in the workshop. Declining won't get you killed…so?"

"I was planning to go to the capital and becoming successful in order to save my village which has no money, but the capital is rotten…"

"When the heart is sick, the skin dies as well…" I said.

"Huh?"

"He means when the core is corrupt the outside suffers too." Bulat translated "Do you want to dig out the source of the sickness?"

"Bulat used to be in the imperial army." Boss explained "But her left and joined us after learning of the Empire's corruption."

"Working to eliminate evil is much better than working under it." The man explained.

"But, even if you guys kill the bad guys bit by bit the world won't change will it? In the end places like my village won't get saved by that."

"Well then Night Raid fits you even better." Najenda smiled "To the far south there is a hideout for the revolutionary army, it may have started small but it's a large force now, they needed a covert unit to handle the messy jobs, that's us, Night Raid. We're in the capital to remove the bugs of corruption, when the army attacks we'll take advantage of the situation and take out the Prime Minister, the source of the corruption."

"Take out the Prime Minister…" Tatsumi gulped.

"That's the goal, there are other people but that's not important right now. We have a plan, and when we win this country will change."

"Weill that contry help people?"

"Of course."

"Well…awesome." Tatsumi smiled "So this stuff is like taking out the trash, assassins for justice and all that."

"Hahaha!"

"He's funny!" I laughed.

"What's so funny."

"Well, no matter how you slice it, all we do is murder people." Leone smirked.

"There's not much justice in that." Sheele said.

"We could all die at any second." Bulat told him.

"Everyone here has their own reasons to fight." Najenda told him "Do you still say yes?"

"Will I get a reward?" Tatsumi asked.

"Yeah." Boss shrugged "If you try hard you can save your town."

"Then let me in." he nodded "If it's for something like that then I have to say yes…my friends would have done the same."

"You probably won't be able to go home." Mine told him trying to get him to back off.

"That's fine…so long as everyone there is happy I don't mind."

"Well then welcome." Boss smiled.

"Intruders!" Lubbock yelled running in "The traps are tripping!"

"How many and where?" Boss asked.

Lub looked at his had "Looks like 8, and they're getting close."

"Take care of them." Boss said.

"Now go!"

We all ran for the door and split up into groups to take care of the infiltrators.

"Care for a tag along?" I asked running with Akame.

"Of course not." She smiled.

We headed towards the group near the river and found three men stalking around. We confronted them, they seemed to be looking at Akame a lot.

"If she's here that means the hideout is defiantly around here." The one said.

"Still she's a cute girl, maybe we can have fun with her after we kill the man."

"Hup." Akame sheathed her sword as she walked passed the men "Don't be so casual in combat."

"She was…so fast."

"Immolation!" I swung my lantern and the one man was engulfed in flames.

"Huh?" Akame suddenly ran off.

"Hang on where are you going?" I called "Dammit…"

I looked at the dead bodies before gathering them up "Well I better go gather the rest."


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