Hi mina san its time for another update! No spoilers but hopefully it's as enjoyable as the other two.
"The lack of Akame X Tatsumi isn't simply surprising it's harrowing as well."-AsheriteAbyss13
Breakdown
Grand fall!
Out of the ash laden sky came a black armour crashing straight into the middle of the enemy encirclement. He crushed the skulls of two of the men due to the impact.
"So you're with them as well hunh? If you're so intent on defying us then you can join them!" Cried out the leader on a large chariot
"Correction. I'm not one of them." The man clad in the black armour pointed out as he pointed to Akame and Tatsumi.
"And two. It's not called "defying" if you had no authority in the first place. Idiot." Mocked the man in black.
"Why you little"-
"Save it bastard. You'll need all the breath you can get when you speak to the king of hell!" The man in black exclaimed as he jumped onto the chariot.
"Grand Impact!"
The man in black aimed a blow to the leader's head. The result was a headless corpse.
"Time to get rid of the stragglers." He mumbled.
The man in black launched into the remaining men and began his efficient trash disposal.
"Come on Tatsumi. We don't want to be in his debt any more than we need to be." Akame urged.
Akame leapt into the fray as well and began to quickly mow down enemy numbers.
Tatsumi steadily got back to his feet and prepared to fight as well.
"Incursio!" He screamed.
The armour enveloped him once more. But it was different from the other times before. Almost as Incursio had changed far more than he had expected. He felt a change in how it worked as if it was no longer the Incursio had he had received from Bulat nor even its evolved version from before.
However it seemed like this new version had put an even bigger strain on Tatsumi than the previous version.
"Gagh! This thing is even worse than before. With my current stamina I can barely just fight."
Tatsumi struggled to summon his weapon. He found that his spear had been replaced with a large black scythe.
"Crap! How the hell did I get this? I don't know how to use this!" Tatsumi exclaimed.
But oddly it felt familiar to him. Almost as if he had known how to use it before. He swung it as practice. It felt light and he could visualise what to do with the scythe. He knew that somehow could still fight with this.
Overhead Akame was surrounded by several men. Tatsumi decided to help her.
"Akame! Duck!" Tatsumi shouted.
Akame responded immediately. Tatsumi rushed past the men at break neck speed and swung at the men that surrounded her. He cut of all their heads clean.
"The hell's up with that speed?! It's unnatural!" They screamed.
The attackers of the village fled from the village.
"Che. Cowards." Spat out the man in black.
Immediately Akame pointed her katana at the man in black.
"Why did you help us Wave?" Akame questioned.
Wave released Grand Chariot. On his face was a look of disgust.
"Me?... Help you two?... That's not likely! You two helped to kill my comrades and friends. Don't count on me helping you two!" Wave shouted.
"Then why the hell are you here then?!" Tatsumi demanded.
"Trash extermination of course."
"You have you reason to help anyone. The people you fought for are gone!"
"Wrong. I may have fought for the Empire but what I truly was fighting for was for the people of the Empire. Personally I don't care who leads the country so long as the people are happy and content. But as for the people who killed my comrades; I'll never forgive them!"
"Then why aren't you taking your revenge?" Tatsumi asked with his armour released with a look of caution on his face.
"There isn't very good reasons for me to fight you. Throwing away my life for something as purposeless as revenge is stupid and besides I have something to look after." Wave mentioned slightly.
"I take it you won't fight us then?" Akame questioned her sword wavering.
"I won't help you but I won't fight you so long as you don't fight me. We keep out of each other's way then we won't have anything going on between us." Wave assured.
"Hmm. Fine we'd better investigate what happened and report this later." Akame decided rationally.
They split up and searched the village for things that would tell them of the reason why they attacked. Akame and Tatsumi went together, Wave as per their agreement left to do what he needed to do by himself.
As they observed the village's remains, they found no survivors. As it got closer to dawn the extent of the damage had become obvious. All the buildings had burnt down. The fire had stopped but only because it ran out of things to burn. Trawling through the remains of houses and buildings had produced nothing.
"We won't find anything to let us know what happened here through the burnt remains. Let's at least try to piece things together with what we know." Tatsumi indicated.
"Well we know that they were organised. The where wearing uniform. I'm pretty sure they were wearing the empire's military uniform." Tatsumi indicated.
"Yeah. They're had too many people to be bandits or thieves. The amount of men was closer to a squad of men in an arm y of sorts." Akame mentioned.
"It didn't look like they took anything with them. Apart from horses they didn't have anything that could take a lot of items. They weren't here to steal." Tatsumi mentioned.
"It's like they were here to just cause chaos. I mean what's the point of burning down the village and the forest as well. It's almost like they wanted to attract attention to this village…" Akame pondered.
"Let's go we won't get far with speculation." Tatsumi indicated.
Akame grabbed on to his shoulder to stop him from leaving.
"Tatsumi what happened before? You know when you nearly killed me…." Akame asked Tatsumi.
Tatsumi tried to think but it was as if a mental block was keeping him from remembering. All he could remember was not wanting to kill Akame. He forced his thought back. Pass the mental block….
Past…..The…mental…blo…..ck…..what….happ….en..ed…..Aka….me?
"Agh!...No…..No! No!...No! Kill!.Klll!...Not me!...Sh…e…said….I didn't have to…
All the memories flooded his mind. Of all the corspes risen from the dead. Of all them back to haunt him forever….
"Agh!BudouEsdeathSyuraHonestNyauBulatSchereMine!"
Tatsumi buckled and dropped to the ground convulsing in pain and fear.
"Gahh! Rent!...Kill….Survive!...No…Stop….I don't…..Want this…Stop it…..Sto….p….it"
"Augh!AHH!" Screamed Tatsumi as his body shook to breaking point.
He was nearly tearing up his skin, his eyes bloodshot and nearly popping out. His screams continued, growing intensity as Tatsumi struggled to fight back his emotions, his dark self and all of him sane.
Akame was scared. To be honest she hadn't seen anybody this broken and lost before, to the point she too felt fear. It wasn't easy to get Akame to fear. Out of all the enemies she had fought, out of all the deaths she had dreaded and found pain in experiencing them. The thought of losing Tatsumi to whatever that inflicted him; some figment of his mind that can't let go or Tatsumi's true feelings scared her the most.
Doing what even Akame herself thought foolish in her rational mind she took hold of Tatsumi's wasting form and held it tightly. She could feel him struggling, his body racked with pain, but most of all she saw his tears. This coupled with his contorted screaming told her all that she needed to know.
"I'm sorry Tatsumi, I shouldn't have asked you. Maybe you would be better off not realising what happened. Perhaps you won't hear but I need to tell you this. I know I told you this before but it isn't your fault. I can tell you can't see me can you. All you can see is the dead again isn't that right. It's worse than your nightmares. They've told you that you can't escape right?" Akame told him.
"Akame?" Tatsumi questioned
"No….No….She told me…..not here but…no she is….help me…" Tatsumi continued to moan.
"Help me…..Akame…." Tatsumi whispered.
"He can't see me at all can he? How can I get him to know which is reality and which is fake?"
Akame struggling to come up with a suitable solution and with her grip slowly fading, she did the most shock inducing thing she could come up with. She kissed him, straight on the lips...
She held the kiss for as long as she could. She lost control and fell to the ground on her her pleasant and relieved surprise Tatsumi's body began to stop shaking. He eyes began to refocus.
Laying on the ground the first thing Tatsumi saw was Akame's faces closer to him that every before. His manly parts began to react violently, instead of the dark thoughts he saw earlier, his thoughts filled with her scent, her skin and most importantly her red eyes. He pulled away violently.
"Why did you?" Tatsumi questioned on his knees his body still weak.
Akame too had risen from her embarrassing position.
"Because I wanted to help you. That's all." Akame explained.
His eyes reacted in pain and fear.
"Just leave me Akame! I remember! All of it! I nearly tried to kill you! Just leave me to die. You can leave your life without a broken man like me." Tatsumi spat disgusted at himself.
Akame shaking got up to him, grabbed him by his collar with one arm and punched him in the face. It sent him flying to the near wall.
"SHUT UP!"
With her breath ragged she continued.
"You told me that you would live! Have you remembered that? You told me that you would live and stop me from experiencing this pain over again and yet…You would want yourself to die! Do you know how much pain I would feel if you died! You told me that everyone will be happy. But you're not! How am I supposed to be happy if you're dead? And yet you insist on dying. Even though its selfish desire to remove yourself from the pain you don't realise how much pain it'll cause others!" She cried out with tears in her face
"So whatever you do. Please don't die, don't say that. Don't make me feel like dying myself to join you all. Please live. Even though you might breakdown again, even if you where to go berserk again, I'll be there to pull you back. And when you talk like this ever again I'll beat you again and again if I must to get it into your head that "YOU WILL NOT DIE ON ME". Akame declared as she walked to Tatsumi
She offered her hands to pick him off the ground. He accepted with tears on his own face unable to hide the shame and guilt that he felt in making Akame sad once more. He realised that his promise with her still stood to this very moment. He attempted a determined face.
They walked back towards the sunshine.
Wave had searched the dead bodies of the enemy. He was searching for any plans or notes that could lead him to something.
"That Tatsumi when did he get this much power? Last time I checked he had a spear not a scythe and what was that black shadow that I saw before I fought those guys?"
Finding nothing within the cut up corpses of the soldiers he turned his attention to the leader on the chariot whose head Wave found crushed possibly after they had fled. One his body he found a note. A mid-size piece of paper which detailed the strategy that the man should take.
"He wasn't a high level commander was he?" Wave wondered.
He felt another side of the note and flipped it. This side was far more detailed. It highlighted events that took place beyond this area. He checked the dates listed and they were all set for this day. He continued to read the note of paper and found something of worth.
Akame and Tatsumi returned having found nothing of interest. They decided to report what they could.
"This attack was an organised attacks"-Tatsumi began
"This wasn't the only attack. This was a simply a series of attacks on several villages. It seems like they were meant to attract the attention to the neighbouring garrisons of soldiers. It seems that the specific garrisons that they were targeting were the ones closest to the Naraku Imperial prison where the soldiers constantly rotate shifts there as guards." Wave revealed.
"Wait then that means"-
"Yes more people have died but that's not what's important. What I'm worried about is what these guys wanted to do at Naraku Imperial prison. As I can recall that's where all the criminals that have something to do with Teigu crimes are shipped off to." Wave explained.
Something clicked within Wave.
"No. This isn't good. Because they didn't want to move the Teigu from the prison they held it there in one of the securest areas of the prison. These guys want the teigu and perhaps even the Teigu criminals held in Naraku Imperial prison." Wave realised.
"Even when I was still with the empire that place was meant to be impenetrable! How?" Akame asked disbelieving.
"The current government doesn't have enough people to do every job so the guard duty of Naraku prison fell onto the nearby garrisons that were closest to them." Wave explained grimly.
Over in the distance several horses' neighs could be heard. It sounded like a troop of horsed troops.
"Crap that's the horseback troops of this garrison! We could get stuck with them for days if we don't get out now." Tatsumi exclaimed.
"Worse than that Tatsumi. If the troops are here then there isn't anyone guarding the prison leaving it open to attack." Akame explained.
Wave nodded, he calmly removed a whistle from his pocket and blew sending a loud whistle through the air.
Immediately the sound of two horses and the turning of wooden wheels head straight to their immediate area.
"That's my ride out of here. You're welcome to come along if you don't mind sharing a wagon with your enemies." Wave offered.
"Don't be ridiculous! We're your enemies, you can't forgive us right?" Tatsumi asked angrily.
"Yeah that's right, I can't forgive you but as I've said before I've up aside feelings of revenge and hatred for you now. I'm doing what's best for the people of this country and you two certainly can help. I doubt you can help this situation by being locked up in a jail cell so considering all the facts I'll let you on." Wave explained rationally.
The horses and wagon came up to Wave immediately after he said what he said. The one driving the wagon was a girl. A girl whom they thought was long dead. With short black hair, black eyes, and black sailor uniform and a jet black katana strapped to her waist the girl was unmistakeable. She was Kurome…..
"Get aboard you three. Nee-chan, Tatsumi shocked to see me? No matter just get on!" She ordered.
They got aboard the wagon and left the village with more questions than answers.
Meanwhile at Naraku prison
A man in a black cloak walked up to the door made out of steel. He was holding a large bloody rusack.
"Hm well that was easy. It was far too easy…Personally I thought it would be harder but since the plan worked to perfection I guess that it was a vain hope."
Knocking his fists at the door he inspected the door's strength.
"Hmm. This is pretty strong. Well let's hope I get the right ones."
The man pulled out a sword hilt with no blade. He channelled his energy into the sword hilt and stuck it to the steel door. Immediately the door's steel began to melt around the area of where he stuck the sword hilt. He cut open a large hole big enough to fit himself comfortably through it.
"Hmm. Well that was good luck what would happen if I got the wrong one?" the man grinned and laughed.
He entered the room. There was no light inside. It was essentially a solitary confinement room. The man couldn't see them but felt six massive presences in the room along with the stench of dead corpses.
"Who are you?" A voice cried out.
"Oh a gruff voice. I'm scared. Not."
"Stop messing with us. You're not here to serve us that bland tasting crap again are you?" another called out.
"Serve you? Well that's half correct. I'll serve you your freedom from this place but instead you'll have me as your commander and master." The man in black called out.
"Hm interesting. What do you offer us?" A cool headed man asked.
"Excitement, Chaos, freedom from boredom, power and all the other random crap that a normal supervillain offers to his men." The man responded.
"How can we trust you?" another one asked.
"Because I've have set you free."
At that moment the locks that bound the prisoners broke.
"And because I've given you your teigu's back."
He threw the bag in the general area of the voices. He heard their scurrying to the bag.
"Alright we trust you. But our question still stands; who are you?"
"Jeez be nice okay. As for my name you can call me Maestro Yamime. If any of you are into that kind of stuff you can call me danna-sama (master) or Hakshaku if you want (lord)."
"Hmph don't be so arrogant. We'll call you commander but that's it."
"Suit yourself. And I liked danna-sama. Oh well. That's fine. Come on you six we have some fun to be doing." The man in a black coat motioned towards the hole.
The six were led out by the man named Yamime.
"Whoo boy you made quite a mess here." Shouted a young looking boy.
"Huh I get to test my skills again on the world!" Another muscled bound man with short black hair exclaimed.
"Calm down. Our master has a job for us to do boys." Purred a women from behind the rest.
"Youngesters. Seriously stop acting like children!" an old man with greying hair retorted
"But some of us are young old man." Cried out a young girl.
"Sure you are. But we are all murderers here. Age is irrelevant to murder." A coolheaded man with glasses spoke.
"Yes and age is also irrelevant to Teigu's as well right?" Yamime shouted.
As they continued to walk they got closer to the entrance of the prison. They could hear the movement of men on the outside.
"Oh look here. Looks like we got our first job together. Hope we get along!" Yamime greeted in a cheerful but disconcerting way.
"Right!" They cried out in unison.
"How fun, how fun! This is gonna be great. How are things on your end Tatsumi? Najenda? Akame? Wave? Kurome? Don't bore me. It's the only thing I hate."
Well that's another chapter of the kill the torment. Looks like things are heating up right? You'll have to wait and see for more. Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as the rest. If thought that the actions of Kurome and Wave where odd do tell.
If you can spare a review or two you are welcome to. Criticisms welcome and praising helps to as well.
AsheriteAbyss13-Oh Bulat just died in the anime. Its okay anime only watchers. It's the last one for a while. Have faith in Night Raid okay.
Goodbye see you!