"Normal Talking"
"Thoughts"
(Time and Place Indicators)
Teigu
Disclaimer: I don't own Akame ga kill or any of its characters…
(Later That Same Night; Capital Streets)
"P-Please don't kill me!" a young woman pleaded, as the hand around her throat tightened, which made her try to pry the man's grip off her. On the ground next to the woman was the decapitated body of her boyfriend; the blood oozing from his neck staining the road in the process.
"Such a naughty, naughty girl. It's your fault for walking around at late at night. Don't you even care that something bad might happen to you?" the man said in a pitiful voice, his fingers digging into the young woman's neck. "Didn't your parents ever warn you of the monsters that come out at night?"
"I-I'll do anything you want! Please… please just let me live…" the woman begged, tears freely flowing down her cheeks as she was fast approaching her last moments.
"Oho, you'll really do anything?" the man asked, causing the young woman to rapidly nod her head in response. "Well, I love to talk, so why don't you entertain me? Then, maybe I can reconsider what you've done and let you go."
"W-We can talk! I'll talk with you as long as you want!" she exclaimed as she felt the man's grip on her neck loosen ever so slightly. The woman thought she might finally be free from his grip… but that was until the man asked his first question.
"What does it feel like to have your head chopped off?" he asked, earning a confused look from the young woman. "Does it hurt? Or do you feel absolutely nothing?" In the blink of an eye, a large blade extended from the man's arm and sliced cleanly through the woman's neck so quick that the woman didn't even feel the blade hit her skin, before her lifeless body fell to the ground. "I guess you really don't feel anything." he shrugged, before a twisted smile flashed on his face. He dropped the woman's decapitated head on the ground next to her body, as he licked the blood that spurted onto his fingers. "Mmmm, how utterly delightful! I just can't seem to help myself! I need more!"
(The Next Morning; Night Raid's Base)
Tatsumi groaned as he slowly awoke from his slumber. But when the young man went to rub his eyes, he found out that he couldn't move his right arm. Cracking a single eye open, Tatsumi nearly screamed when he saw Akame lying in the bed with him, sleeping peacefully. Tatsumi then noticed that she was hugging his arm and clung to it like a child, while her head was so dangerously close to his shoulder. The young man's entire face burned bright red when Akame suddenly snuggled closer to him.
"What the hell?! What the hell?! What the hell?!" Tatsumi frantically chanted in his head as he tried to remember what happened last night. "Calm down, Tatsumi… she's still in her clothes so we didn't do anything bad. Let's see… what happened last night? Oh yeah that's right, Akame wanted to sleep with me because she couldn't sleep alone and bad dreams keep haunting her."
"Tatsumi…" she breathed out while still deep in her sleep, catching his attention. "Get back here and help me with dinner…"
"What the heck? It doesn't seem like she's havin' a bad dream at all… and why is she holding on to my arm? Damn it Akame, let go of me…" he tried to take his arm back but the girl only tightened her grip, lessening his chances of escape. "Oh, come on! What the hell is going on with her?! Shit, what if she wakes up? Oh, save me! She'll surely pummel me repeatedly and literally cut me to pieces! And then the others would say that I took advantage of her… wait, how did she hold on to my arm in the first place? I remember we were on opposite sides of the —"
"Good morning, Tatsumi." Akame's voice snapped Tatsumi out of his thoughts and he turned his head to look at her. She had already released his arm and she was sitting up from the bed; her blood red eyes quickly locked with his emerald green ones. A small smile spread across Akame's face and he blushed a bit before he smiled back in return. "Thank you for letting me sleep with you last night. I wanted to see if sleeping beside you would help relieve me of those bad dreams I've been having lately."
"Well, I'm glad to help then…" Tatsumi said, his face still burning red due to embarrassment before he rubbed the back of his head. "I shouldn't mention anything about what just happened… she might not know it, and the last thing I want to happen is for her to know…"
"I'm glad you feel that way, because I plan on doing it every time I have a hard time sleeping." Akame said with a small smile.
"Wait, why would you even want to sleep with me in the first place?" he asked in confusion. "Shouldn't you go to Big Sis, Sheele, Mine, or even Sayo instead?"
"Do I make you uncomfortable when I lay in bed with you?" she asked in her usual monotone voice.
"No, that's not it! I-I mean… it's just a bit awkward between us since you're a girl and I'm a guy… it's just… it's just a normal thing for girls to be around each other often instead of boys… it'd make us seem like a couple or something…" he whispered out his last words with a blush, but it was something that Akame was still capable of hearing.
She lightly chuckled. "We're assassins, Tatsumi. I don't think our lives can be normal again." she simply replied yet she had something else in her mind. "Keep going Akame… this is just step one in claiming your man for yourself. If what I'm feeling is right, then I must do this to get him to notice me. I know for a fact that this should be embarrassing for a woman like me, but I can't let that hold me down. I'll tell him what I feel during our training later on and I can put this exploding feeling in my heart to rest." she thought to herself.
"Oh… I guess that makes sense, then…" Tatsumi muttered, sweat-dropping afterwards. "Still, it's pretty awkward for us to be together… what do you want the others to say? That we're officially together? This girl and her awkwardness sometimes…" he sighed.
"Now come on, we have to start our morning train —" Akame was cut off when the door to Tatsumi's room suddenly swung open. Both assassins blushed bright red when Leone waltzed into the room with a large smile on her face.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" Leone asked as she skipped over to the bed with her eyes full of amusement. "Tatsumi, why is pure and innocent little Akame in your bed? Did you two have a steamy night full of passionate lovemaking?"
Tatsumi yelped and immediately shook his head in panic.
"We did nothing that relates to that, Leone. All I did was sleep in the same bed as Tatsumi because I was having nightmares last night. As you can see, we have our clothes on. Now why are you here, Leone?" she asked, standing up from the bed and crossing her arms. "She must have done this on purpose to get Tatsumi to herself…"
"Oh, you're no fun Akame!" Leone whined. "I was just trying to tease you both a little… oh well, you win." the blonde girl sighed and walked back over to the door with a cute pout. "The boss called us all in for an emergency meeting, so you'll have to skip your morning training for the day. From the looks of it, it seems pretty serious in my opinion."
"We'll be right there. And Leone, please don't tell anyone about what you just saw or I'll pour hot sauce all over your tongue." she tried to threaten, which only got Leone to start laughing as she left the room. "Looks like my plan to tell Tatsumi what I feel during training has backfired… I need to find another way…"
"Your little secret is safe with me, lovers. Try not to take too much time to yourselves before heading to the meeting, okay?" Leone said before giving the duo a sultry wink before leaving the room. However, Tatsumi didn't miss the sensual sway Leone put into her hips and shook his head yet again to get lewd thoughts out of his mind, and this time it was about the blonde-haired Lionel user instead.
Leone sighed as she entered the hallway and began to make her way to the emergency meeting. "Looks like Akame's gonna get to Tatsumi first at this rate… oh but remember this, Akame… you won't be the only person to have him, so don't claim him to yourself. I'll get him soon enough…" Leone licked her lips as she squeezed her thighs together to contain her arousal. "You'll be my mate Tatsumi and I will be yours… I don't care even if I have to share you with anybody else."
(Five Minutes; Night Raid's Meeting Room)
"Everyone, we have a new target." Najenda said, sinking into her usual chair. "He is a serial killer who's been terrorizing the capital as of late. The killer only appears late at night and beheads all of his victims as his way of killing. We have no way of knowing how many people he's killed, but by our sources, he's screwed up at least over forty people by now."
"Wait, most of that number is filled up by guards, right?" Tatsumi asked, which caused Najenda to nod in response. "Then he must be pretty strong."
"There's no doubt about it then. This killer must be Zanku the Executioner, if my hunch is correct." Lubbock said, causing Tatsumi to quirk an eyebrow.
"Zanku… the Executioner… who the heck is that?" Tatsumi asked as he raised an eyebrow, which caused Mine to groan in annoyance.
"Hey, I don't know who he is either…" Sayo pointed out, sheepishly raising her hand.
"You both really don't know? Man, you really are some innocent souls from the countryside." Mine said, pinching the bridge of her nose afterwards.
"Excuse me…" Sheele suddenly piped up, getting everyone's attention. "I don't know who he is either."
Mine shook her head and sighed. "Sheele, I think you just forgot who he is."
"Can you just get to the point, Mine? Who's this Zanku and how does he exactly spell trouble for us?" Sayo asked in an annoyed tone, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"Fine, fine. Well like we said, his name is Zanku the Executioner." Mine began, closing her eyes as she began to explain everything. "He originally worked at the largest prison in the empire… as the executioner. Because of the corrupt minister… he was never short of people to execute. All day… everyday… almost without resting… over and over… they say that he beheaded all these people who were begging and pleading for their lives. And then after years of the same thing over and over… beheading became as natural to him as breathing."
"Okay, I think I'm starting to regret asking about it…" Sayo muttered, feeling a sudden chill run down her spine.
"So...beheading for the jail just couldn't satisfy his bloodlust anymore, so he took to the streets." Mine said, as she reopened her eyes.
"As soon as a team was dispatched to find him, he seemingly disappeared from the public." Bulat chimed in, locking his eyes onto Tatsumi from across the room. "But… I never imagined he'd ever show up in the capital."
"Then that makes him a dangerous psychopath who needs to be dealt with." Tatsumi said, nodding. "What should we do then?"
"Well, Zanku stole a teigu that belonged to the current prison head in the capital. At this very moment, he's out loose on the streets with it so that makes him a powerful enemy that going alone to face him is suicide." Tatsumi looked away when Bulat suddenly cupped his chin. "We have to act in groups consisting of at least two to people… or else we could be put in danger."
"I feel that I'm in more danger right now for a whole different reason, actually." Tatsumi thought after he saw the sparkles in Bulat's eyes. "Uh… I got it, Bro… teams of two. Hehe… anybody want to partner up with me?" he asked, internally hoping that somebody would be able to save him from his situation right now.
"Boss, I'll be on a team with Tatsumi." Akame offered almost immediately, earning her an annoyed look from Leone and surprisingly, Mine. Tatsumi's eyes widened slightly when Akame suddenly grabbed his hand and led him away from Bulat, before confusion took over him once again, wondering why was the red-eyed beauty acting weird lately.
"Damn it! First she sleeps with him, now she wants to be partnered up with him!" Leone thought, as she released an annoyed huff. "Okay, I need to be patient… it's not like it's the end of the world for me yet. I'll find a way to make him mine. Just you wait, Tatsumi."
"Oh come on! I wanted to team up with Tatsumi!" Mine thought, glaring at the back of Akame's head. "This is great, just when we are both getting along nice and well, Akame comes in to be there for her pupil. Well, Tatsumi is her pupil as well and they are — GAH! Just… calm down and let this slide… there will be plenty of missions for us to get partnered up together."
Sayo giggled to herself, sending Akame, Leone, and Mine mischievous looks. "Looks like Tatsumi is working his charm already and he doesn't even know it's happening… Hah! The same reason why he never knew that he had so many fangirls back in the village that had a crush on him." She crossed her arms and smiled slightly. "Well, as long as all of them would be willing to share, I'm not gonna step in and make my presence known."
"Alright, Tatsumi and Akame will be one of the teams." Najenda said as she lit a cigarette. "The other teams shall be Leone and Sheele, and Bulat and Lubbock. Mine and Sayo, you'll be picking a high vantage point and provide overwatch for all of the teams. If you spot anything suspicious, be sure to signal them so nothing bad happens to anyone. Got it?"
"Yes, Boss!" the two snipers sang in unison.
"Good, you all remember your teams?" the Boss asked and everyone nodded all at the same time. "Then go out there and hunt down a serial killer! Make him pay for his crimes!"
(That Night; Empire's Capital)
Akame whistled a short tune as she scanned over a map of the capital. Her blood-red eyes swept over a large colored area of it and she took in a deep breath. "Looks like we're in charge of watching this whole area." Tatsumi approached Akame and looked at the map over her shoulder before she continued speaking. "We have the second largest section to cover, so we need to be extremely careful of our every move, as he could strike at any moment."
"I wonder if those civilians didn't come out on account of the killer…" Tatsumi said, checking on his pistol, the one that he got during his training with Mine yesterday. After making sure that it had a full magazine, he placed it back in its holster. "I wonder what should I use against —" Tatsumi stopped himself from speaking any further when he heard the sounds of numerous approaching footsteps. "Akame… you hear those?"
"I hear them too." Akame replied before they quickly dove into a nearby alleyway to stay out of sight. The girl then spotted several capital guards run past the alley's entrance. "Okay, this changes things. We'll have to watch out for the capital guards as well and make sure they never see us." When Akame sensed that the coast was clear, she
After a few minutes, when they realized that the guards were all gone, they continued on their mission. "Hey Akame, there's something I've been meaning to ask you, before we fight Zanku." Tatsumi said, rubbing the back of his head.
"If you're worrying about snacks, I brought some for us." Akame said, pulling out a few candy bars. "Did he figure out that I wanted to be partnered with him on purpose?" she thought to herself.
"No, that's not what I want to talk about." he said, chuckling lightly as he watched Akame unwrap a candy bar and begin to cutely nibble on it. "I was actually wondering what exactly is your teigu and what can it do."
"This…" Akame said, as she raised her sword. "… is the teigu, One-Cut Killer: Murasame. I thought you already know that." Without any further explanation, Akame returned to eating her food, internally sighing in relief that he didn't have any suspicion about her sudden offer back in the base earlier.
"Uh… I still don't really get it." Tatsumi deadpanned.
"My teigu lives up to its name. Anyone who even knicks my demonic blade will have a cursed poison enter their body, bringing sudden death. Hence, it is a one-cut killer."
"So… that means that that sword of yours is pretty awesome. It almost makes you seem invincible."
"Hardly, but it does have a weakness." Akame revealed as she laid the sword across her lap.
"Which is?"
"I have to be extremely careful when I'm cleaning it. If I even slightly cut my finger while I wiping the blade, I'm dead." she said in a joking tone. "So when I'm in battle, I have to directly cut my enemy for the curse to work effectively."
"So that means, it would spell trouble for you to kill someone wearing an armor like Bro's." Tatsumi said in realization, rubbing his chin.
"This world is a place where you have to make your first cut count… it might just be your ticket to victory. In every battle I fight on, I have to be quick and inflict the first strike however…" Akame said, as she gazed down at Murasame. "Like Leone and the others, I can't entirely rely on my teigu to fight my battles for me."
"You're saying that the weapons all of you carry are teigus?"
"Yes." Akame replied, as she placed her hands on her hips. "All of us except the Boss have one."
"Okay, now I'm curious… what teigus do you all possess?" Tatsumi continued his questioning, causing a small smile to spread across Akame's face. "I'd like to know, so that the next time I get partnered up with either of them, I can think up a strategy on how I could work with them properly."
"I knew you'd ask that." Akame said as she sat down on a nearby bench before inviting the brunette to sit beside her. Tatsumi didn't hesitate to take the blank space next to her and eagerly waited for her to speak. The young man idly noticed that Akame rested her hand on top of his, and interlocked their fingers together, causing him to blush deeply at her bold action.
"What the heck is going on with her? Akame's acting really weird lately… it's almost as if she's being clingy like Leone is! W-Wait, don't tell me that that's true… the last thing I need is a stoic glutton who sticks to me almost all the time with all sorts of shenanigans. But… I can't imagine Akame being like that… okay, I need to calm down… just calm down…" he said to himself, taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down.
"Leone's teigu is known as, Animal King: Lionelle. It's the belt she's always seen wearing. Her teigu transforms her into a beast, and it greatly increases her strength and other physical abilities, which makes her a tough opponent to beat. It also strengthens her sense of smell, which makes her an excellent scout for recon missions."
"Does she get any other animal-like characteristics?" Tatsumi asked as he remembered how the busty blonde had been acting rather clingy and seductive lately.
Akame rubbed her chin in curiosity. "No, I don't really know. She mostly acts normal in front of us but we have no idea on what's happening with her if she's alone. It's a possibility, but we have no real proof of it."
"Dang," he said to himself. He had thought that he might get a clue to Leone's weird behavior if he asked Akame about it, but he never thought that even the girl who seemed like the closest one to the Lionelle user would know nothing about it. "Looks like I'll have to deal with this problem on my own then…"
"Mine's teigu is the firearm, Roman Artillery: Pumpkin. It turns the user's spiritual energy into a powerful blast to be fired on an enemy. I'm sure you've gotten a hint of how it's used last night."
"Pumpkin's destructive power becomes stronger and stronger depending on the state of the situation she's in." Tatsumi finished and Akame smiled in response.
"Exactly… now who else is left… let's see… right, Sheele's teigu is the Cutter of Creation: Extase. It's a giant scissors-like teigu that can cut anything in the world in half. It's also extremely sturdy and durable, so it can also be used as a shield to block attacks."
"Okay, that sounds scary and awesome at the same time…" Tatsumi said, feeling a sudden chill run down his spine.
"Lubbock's teigu is, Infinite Uses: Cross Tail. It's an extremely durable thread teigu that can entangle an enemy or enemies as a lethal trap, or it can be spread out to sense incoming intruders. His wires are actually spread out all around the hideout to detect any unwanted visitors."
"So that's how Lubbock found out about those mercenaries when they found our hideout when I joined…" Tatsumi murmured, reminiscing about his first battle as an official member of Night Raid.
"Lastly is Bulat's teigu, Demon Armor: Incursio. It's an armored teigu that provides an almost unbreakable defense for the ultimate protection. However, it also puts a heavy burden on its users; if an untrained person tried to use it, they'd die afterwards. Incursio can use special properties from the danger beast it was made from, and turn invisible for short durations." Akame finished.
"Wow, you guys have totally awesome teigus right there…" he commented, whistling in amazement. "I wonder if I could ever find my place among you all…" he muttered to himself afterwards, which Akame could still hear quite clearly.
"What do you mean?" she asked, munching on another candy bar.
"Well, considering the fact that you've probably hung around with each other for longer than I thought, you guys know each other well that even you can state all of Night Raid's teigus and their abilities. It must mean that you guys are used to each other, and it makes me wonder if the same would happen to me or not."
"Tatsumi, don't think of this in that way, okay?" said Akame, placing her hand on top of his shoulder. "You've already found your place the moment you decided to join us, so there's no need to worry about that. As for working with us, we'l just have to see what the future holds in store for us, right? Haven't you realized it yet? I wanted to pair up with you for this mission because I wanted to see how well we could work together." she half-lied.
"Oh right, come to think of it, Boss said that we are supposed to be partners right?" Akame smiled and nodded in response. "Well, I never really thought of it that way… I thought you just wanted to team up with me because we are like student and teacher or something…"
"Let's just say that I am doing what that legend is trying to point out." she teased, causing Tatsumi to chuckle in response. "But really, you don't have to question your place in Night Raid, Tatsumi. We see you as an important comrade, so don't forget that."
"You're right about that… thanks, Akame. Really, thank you. You've been there for me ever since I joined and you gave me your trust even though I was just a complete stranger back then." he said, momentarily forgetting about their mission and held her hand tightly, which caught her off guard for a second before she smiled as well, enjoying the short but sweet moment with her not-so-hidden crush. "I gotta admit, this wasn't so bad after all."
Both assassins sat like this for a while, letting a moment of silence wash over them as they simply enjoyed each other's company.
"We should've known he wouldn't just come and jump down on us." Tatsumi sighed, taking a sip of his soda before he groaned in annoyance. "Man, I'm starting to get really bored… can't I just fly around the whole place and look for him then? That gives us an advantage, right?"
"You can't. If the guards see you glowing like a bright light in the night sky, they'll be suspicious of it and they won't stop until they figure out what's behind it. We'll just have to be patient and wait it out, Tatsumi." Akame said, taking a bite out of her fourth candy bar for the night. "Just keep your guard up."
"Uh… I'll be right back, Akame." Tatsumi said, feeling something build up inside him before he quickly got up off the bench so he could get rid of it.
"Gonna take a leak?" Akame asked which made Tatsumi blush bright red in embarrassment, before nodding through the red color that his face showed as he left, with the red-eyed assassin keeping her eyes locked on to him so she'll knew where to find the brunette.
Just atop a clocktower about a few blocks away, a lone figure surveyed the area surrounding him. Zanku had a twisted smile on his face as he used the teigu on his forehead to observe Akame and Tatsumi from a distance.
"Hmm, that scene was so touching that I might get a heart attack." Zanku said, watching the two assassins share a brief moment to themselves. "First, there was a killer. But now, assassins are on the prowl at night. This town is one seriously dangerous place, and I need to cleanse it." the executioner's twisted smile grew as he observed the other assassins in the area. "And now to the fun part, who should I behead first?" He then spotted four possible targets he could attack. "Should I go for the two snipers who's providing overwatch? Or what about the blonde lioness and the purple-haired scissor user? No…" Zanku began to chuckle like a madman when he spotted Tatsumi. "I think I'm going to go for the tastiest morsel first."
Tatsumi walked through the night time streets, his face looking desperate for a possible alleyway he could. As he quickly passed through the mostly empty city streets, he then heard a girl's voice.
"Ahoy there, citizen! You look like you need assistance!"
Tatsumi turned his head and spotted a guard moving in his direction. Stopping his movement for a quick second and his eyes glaring at the figure due to being pissed off, the figure stopped before him and saluted. "I am Seryu of the Imperial Guard, good citizen! You seem lost around here! Can I be of assistance?"
"No." Tatsumi said. "I know where I'm going. Your assistance is not required." Tatsumi growled out, remembering that it wouldn't be a good move to talk to a person of the Empire while on a mission as well as the fact that he didn't trust the government of the capital.
Seryu, at first, was a bit angry at the way she was spoken to but even she could tell that there was a tinge of pain in his voice. He obviously wasn't in a good mood, and thus she continued her motives to help a citizen any way she can.
"Could you tell me what is wrong, citizen? I can help you!"
"I said no thanks!" Tatsumi said, sprinting away from Seryu, who was stunned for a short moment before she ran as well, engaging in a hot pursuit of Tatsumi.
Dashing through a nearby alleyway that he found, Tatsumi quickly made his way to the rooftops, using his speed and athleticism to his advantage as he climbed up the walls which were close to each other. He would've opted to use Starfall to fly away right now, but then it would be unpredictable on where he could possibly end up on due to how fast his speed in flight was. When Seryu rounded the corner, she kept going forward and went the other way; Tatsumi looked down from above and sighed before heading back onto the streets to resume his search of a new alleyway.
Finding a new one just down the street, Tatsumi walked into it and proceeded with his moment of privacy, and the brunette breathed a sigh of relief afterwards. "Ah, that's the stuff… finally free from all that…" Just as Tatsumi zipped up his fly, he heard footsteps at the other end of the alley. Turning his head, Tatsumi's eyes widened when he saw Sayo grinning at him. "S-Sayo?" However, before Tatsumi could say anything else, Sayo took off, running away from sight. "Wait, where are you going?!" he said, following her.
"Oh, come on… what's taking him so long?" Akame asked herself as she went to the alleyway where she last saw him go through. Her eyes widened when she saw that the alley was completely empty with no sign of her brown-haired comrade anywhere. "Shit, where did he go?!"
"Sayo, come on. Now's not the time to play games." Tatsumi said, catching up to his childhood friend in the middle of a large plaza. The girl stood in front of him, smiling cutely before he narrowed his eyes in doubt. "Something's not right…"
As quick as a rabbit running at its top speed, Tatsumi pulled out his pistol, and fired several shots at Sayo. Before the bullets could hit however, the dark-haired girl was then replaced by a large imposing man. Two dangerously sharp blades extended from the his arms, and blocked the incoming shots.
"Your trick's pretty lame, try a different one next time." he taunted.
"How?!" Zanku asked, glaring at Tatsumi with hatred and anger burning in his eyes. "You were supposed to see someone you loved yet you shot without hesitating!"
"I don't know what the hell that was, but it made a mistake." Tatsumi said as he loaded a fresh magazine into his gun. "The person I saw is someone I do love… but even I know that she's not foolish to leave a comrade alone while we're out to kill a certain bitch. So your mind games have no chance to work on me, Zanku."
"Oh, so you know who I am? I do love prey who has at least, a little fight left in them for to entertain me before I kill them." Zanku said as Tatsumi unsheathed his sword. "It's seems you've been separated from your little partner… should you hold me off and wait for backup…" Tatsumi's eyes widened as the executioner continued to speak. "Or are you going to fight me head-on and end this… is what you're thinking, isn't it?"
"Shit! Can he read my mind?! Is that eye thing on his head his teigu?!" Tatsumi thought, causing a large smirk to spread across Zanku's face.
"Bingo! It's the teigu, Spectator. One of its five senses is called, Insight." Zanku explained, as he tapped the weird-looking eye on his forehead. "Just by simply looking at your expression, I can know your every thought. It has the ultimate power of perception… and I think you deserve a prize for guessing right. How about I hang your head over my fireplace when I go back home?"
"Geez, can't we just move on from this?" Tatsumi rolled his eyes before taking a defensive stance. "I gotta say, you sure love to blabber about anything you find interesting."
"Talking happens to be a certain hobby of mine." Zanku shrugged. "While I'm still at it...the way I found you was the power of, farsight. Whether at night or through the thickest fog… I can see clearly over great distances!" Zanku's smirk disappeared when he barely managed to sidestep in order to prevent a sudden attack from Tatsumi, who was glowing yellow for some reason along with his sword.
The executioner turned around in an attempt to kick Tatsumi on his back, but he dodged the attack and turned around as well. Zanku's eyes widened when Tatsumi revealed the pistol he was holding in his other hand. Raising the firearm, Tatsumi emptied the entire clip at point-blank range. Zanku managed to block most of the shots, but two stray bullets deflected off his blade and plunged into his arm. "GAH! You little fucker! You thought you could get a sneak attack on me while I was talking."
"Never let an opponent distract you on the battlefield." Tatsumi mocked, jumping back to create some distance between the two teigu users.
"Hmm, you're lasting longer than any of my victims recently. I have no idea how and why you suddenly glowed all of a sudden but it seems that sword of yours is a teigu that allows you to fly. How utterly delightful! Entertain me, boy!" Zanku exclaimed, as he glanced at the wound on his arm.
Readying himself, Tatsumi charged forward again; this time with a clear mind. "But it's still no use...I can still read all of your movements." Zanku said, remaining confident that he would win until Tatsumi flew up into the air just before he could even attack the executioner, causing the latter to look up in order to continue following Tatsumi' thoughts.
"I wonder how you can read my movements when I'm as fast as this!" Tatsumi said, landing behind Zanku and started to throw a variety of stiff strikes towards the back of his enemy, rendering Zanku incapacitated for a while before he turned around to catch the young man off guard, but his eyes widened when Tatsumi quickly went behind him again and resumed his work.
"The same strategy, eh? It won't work on me again!" Gritting his teeth slightly, Zanku quickly turned around again, this time managing to deliver a punch towards Tatsumi's stomach, who brought his sword up to deflect the attack. "HAHAHAHA, you can hear them too, can't you?! The voices of those that we've killed… asking us to die and join them in hell…"
The brunette jumped away again to prevent getting hit by Zanku's blades and narrowed his eyes while the executioner grinned evilly as he charged towards Tatsumi, taking the offensive this time. "I have to outmaneuver this guy… otherwise we might attract attention from guards sooner or later…"
Seryu lost Tatsumi within five minutes of her pursuit and she pouted cutely before she decided to just head back to the prison since this was going nowhere.
"Come on, Koro-chan! We'll be picking out some death row prisoners for you to snack on while we're waiting for a citizen who needs help!" Seryu said, rushing off to the prison while carrying a dog-looking teigu in her arms.
Upon arrival at the prison, she was approached by another guard. "Sergeant Seryu! I was doing some checking around Ogre's office and —"
"You what?!" Seryu hissed, fiercely glaring at him. "Who gave you permission to do such a thing?!"
"N-Nobody! I just thought you might like to —"
"To what?! Speak up or I'll have you fed to Koro-chan!" she demanded. The biological teigu had grown bigger in size and was ready to eat the man as a whole.
"I found his journal! I thought you might like to read it!" the guard replied out of fear bringing out a small notebook from his pocket. "But I only read a page of it! It was talking about how he adored you!"
Seryu grabbed the notebook from him before the guard ran away in panic, his thoughts on survival from the woman. She opened it to a random page and she spotted a name that was familiar to her.
"Gamal." she snarled. "He was killed about the same time as the Captain… but what did Captain Ogre have to do with that slime ball? He's a good-for"
The girl was well aware of Gamal's appetite for whores. He had tried to hit on Seryu back then but got shut up when she threatened him that he'll lose both his arms and legs if he tried to lay a hand on her. He apologized then and there and she never saw him or heard from him again. Sighing deeply to herself, Seryu took a seat on a nearby chair while she sending Koro off to eat three prisoners put in the death row. While hearing the screams of pain from those unfortunate souls, Seryu began to read more and her eyes were tearing up.
"Captain Ogre… why… how could you do something like this? You… you always told me that the we were the harbingers of justice… but… but you were just framing innocents… why? How could you? For money?" she thought to herself. "Damn it!" she cursed, throwing the book onto the wall, causing it to flip to another page. Upon spotting the journal entry that was about her, she picked it up and began to read it in curiosity. Tears began to freely fall from her eyes when she read that Ogre was only taking care of her because of a debt to her late father; he never cared about Seryu at all and only wanted to further his own advancement within the guard and he also used the girl herself for his own twisted purposes.
"No! I can't lose faith in the Imperial Guard!" Seryu stated, putting on a heroic pose before wiping the tears from her eyes. "Justice will always prevail! We are the harbingers of justice!" she continued before a guard came in.
The man saluted to her before speaking afterwards. "Sergeant Seryu! I'm sorry to bother you, but we have spotted the Headhunter! He was last seen heading to the church just a few minutes ago, following some sort of glowing beam of light."
A large smile broke out on the girl's face after hearing his announcement. "Thank you, Private! Koro-chan! It's time for dinner!" Koro stumbled out of one of the prison cells with a burp before Seryu carried him along the way follow her subordinate.
Upon arrival at the large church courtyard, Seryu spotted Tatsumi dodging strikes from Zanku. She was about to charge in to help the defenseless citizen when she heard the executioner suddenly talk to the boy.
"Come on, Night Raid! Is this all you got?! You will surely die if all you do is dodge and fly around like the coward you are!" the executioner laughed out. Tatsumi tried his best to find a new opening, but he was being forced to fly away when his enemy kept cutting him off and never gave him the opportunity; it was like Zanku knew where he was going to strike. "I know every move you are going to make! You'll never get the chance to attack again!"
While he was trying his best to dodge every attack, Tatsumi suddenly noticed a pattern in Zanku's slashes; he was attacking from the left, right, and from above and prepared himself to roll past him so he could finally get the opening he wanted, but Zanku only laughed evilly after knowing what the brunette was going to do.
"It's no use, kid! I'll just attack the other way then!" Zanku screamed out, lowering his blades before attacking upwards to cut Tatsumi off once again and force him to dodge, but this was exactly what the young man was waiting for.
Tatsumi sidestepped just before Zanku could hit him in the crotch, causing the large man to widen his eyes in shock because of how quick the brunette had reacted to his change of strategy and while he was left stunned, Tatsumi delivered a horizontal slash towards the executioner's abdomen, opening a large wound and blood started to spurt out from his stomach. Reacting quickly, Zanku retracted his left blade and covered his wound, which allowed the brunette to go behind him and slash both of his legs from behind, causing Zanku to fall to his knees in pain.
"RAAAAHHHH!" he screamed out in agony, spitting out a handful of blood onto the ground before Tatsumi locked him in his patented sleeper hold that easily rendered Zanku into a near-unconscious state before he started relentlessly kicking his enemy at the back of his head multiple times to make sure that he won't be able to retaliate. After a while, he finally stopped and ran away from the executioner towards a considerable distance before heading back with full speed to deliver a soccerball kick towards Zanku's chest, causing the latter to fall back to the ground with a resounding thud.
Without even giving it any hesitation, Tatsumi immediately raised his sword and plunged it deep into Zanku's vulnerable chest as the large man started twitching as a sign of his fast approaching death. Blood got splattered all over Tatsumi's clothes as the brunette's hair shadowed his eyes; his hands tightly gripped Starfall's handle before he pulled out the sword and cleansed it from Zanku's blood with a single swipe to the right.
"Those voices won't bother you anymore then. I hope you find what exactly you're trying to look for on the other side." he spoke, looking at Zanku as he drew his last breath and died with a small smile on his face. "Unlike me, I can still hear them and I will until I fall." he finished before he heard something growling in front of him.
Tatsumi looked up and spotted Seryu and her biological teigu already transformed into attack mode, ready to go for the kill.
"Koro-chan! Kill the Night Raid member!" Seryu spoke as she pulled out two guns and opened fire. Tatsumi's eyes widened for a bit before he used his sword to fly past the two and back into the city in an attempt to escape. As he flew past Seryu, he made sure to kill every other guard he came across with using his superior advantage in speed as he slashed through everyone there. Seryu narrowed her eyes and began to chase after Tatsumi with her guns blazing. "Koro-chan! Chase him down and don't let him escape!"
Koro transformed into a smaller quad-legged dog and began chasing after Tatsumi like a bloodhound.
Tatsumi wasn't looking back but he knew that he was going to escape this situation with his teigu's ability to make its user fly. He eventually stopped at the center of the capital and tried to look for a way to get away from there without having to fly because if anybody else were to see him glowing like a star in the sky, he'd be wanted all over the capital like Akame.
As Seryu chased Koro who was chasing Tatsumi, the girl's mind began to think about Captain Ogre and how he manipulated her trust but she shook it off and continued her pursuit. But it was only when she heard a woman's scream that she stopped in her tracks. She looked at the alleyway where she heard the voice and spotted an imperial guard being paid by a man in a business suit. The girl who was most likely the source of the scream was knocked unconscious by the guard in front of her who got carried away after the two men finished their transaction.
Seryu blinked a few times before she continued on her pursuit, but she kept her gaze at that certain alleyway, feeling that there was something off about the guard and that strange man.
Upon catching up to Koro who was at the center of the capital trying to locate where Tatsumi just ran off to, Seryu came across another horrific scene at the entrance to a shop. Another imperial guard was being sexually gratified by a young female who was crying and he had a knife at the girl's throat. Seryu growled in anger before she whistled a short blast to summon her teigu back to her side.
"You there! What the fuck are you doing?! What are you doing with that girl?!" Seryu demanded, storming over to the shop with a fierce glare on her face.
"Hey there, Sergeant." spoke the guard with a smug face.
"Captain, what are you doing with a knife to her throat? And stop what you're doing with her! This is inappropriate in the eyes of justice!" she snarled.
"Well, it's the only way to get whores like her to cooperate. You want a try with her?" he asked, smirking at the orange-haired girl as he put his arms behind his head in a relaxing position.
"Koro… time for a little snack…" Seryu seethed, narrowing her eyes at the man in front of her. The guard opened his eyes when he heard something growling and the last thing he saw was a mouth full of sharp teeth that his scream wasn't even heard afterwards.
The girl spat at the guard just before he was eaten out of anger and looked up at Seryu with a smile and tears were running down her eyes afterwards.
"T-Thank you… you… you saved me from… from that monster!" she said.
"No thanks necessary, good citizen. Justice will always prevail! Now, you should get home and rest. You'll be safer inside the walls of your house than here at night when criminals like Night Raid are on the loose." Seryu replied with a salute.
"Yes… thank you! I'll never forget what you've done for me!" the girl said as she ran off into the night.
After sending the young and innocent citizen off with one last smile, Seryu's expression shifted back into a serious one as she turned back to her teigu. "Koro-chan! Let's get back to finding Night Raid!" she ordered.
Tatsumi had ran for about five miles straight away from the center of the capital so he could either escape the place or meet up with one of the other Night Raid members. He was sitting on a fountain while taking deep breaths. "I need to find Akame and get out of here immediately. The mission is done and I just need to get back to base. Wait a minute, do Mine and Sayo even know that Zanku is already dead? And where are Big Sis and the others? Aw, don't tell me I have to find one of them myself…" he thought to himself.
He sighed and started to walk towards an alleyway before he heard some footsteps halfway and began to run once again.
It was then that he got trapped.
Seryu was inside the same alleyway waiting for him while Koro was in his enlarged form, ready to fight.
"Nowhere to run, Night Raid. You will be brought to justice!" Seryu said, a twisted smile appearing on her face. Tatsumi quickly began looking around for a possible escape route without having to fly and he quickly jumped onto the nearby wall but got smacked to the ground by Koro. Realizing that he had no choice but to fly out of there, Tatsumi drew his sword and prepared to escape but Koro grabbed him before he could and threw him backwards, right into the fountain itself as he fell to the ground.
Tatsumi's sword got thrown to the side due to the force of him hitting the fountain. However, he was able to keep his senses as good as they were by rolling out of the way just before Koro can stand over his body to prevent him from escaping. He got back up on his feet with a kip-up and dove for his sword, holding it tightly in his grasp as he narrowed his eyes at the biological teigu by the fountain, until he heard some footsteps in front of him, causing him to turn his head to look at whoever it was.
Seryu approached the fountain and drew a gun, aiming it at Tatsumi who was in her crosshairs. Turning his attention from the teigu towards the girl instead, he took a deep breath and was prepared to fight back against her when the both of them suddenly heard something strange.
It was when Tatsumi and Seryu heard a cry of anguish that they both turned to look at what could have caused it. At a nearby mansion, the window was wide open and they both could see a girl was being chased inside by a dog before being tackled to the ground by the little creature. The dog sat on top of the female and laughter could be heard all around her. A few seconds later, no more than ten men could be seen approaching her with a hungry look in their eyes and in response, both Seryu and Tatsumi rushed towards the house at the same time and forced their way inside.
Seryu pushed Tatsumi away to make her way inside first and blew two of the men's heads off with her gun before using a nearby chair to smash it onto another man's head, crushing his skull. In the corner of her eye, she saw Tatsumi with his sword, slitting throats and impaling their enemies at an unparalleled speed. About thirty more men appeared from different rooms and floors and charged towards the two.
"Koro-chan! Dinner time!" Seryu screamed out. Only a few seconds later, the walls were sent into splinters as Koro barreled through and chomped down on five other men with one massive bite. This gave them the advantage for the next minute that the whole house was filled with nothing but blood and separated limbs everywhere. The girl who was held hostage had already escaped into the night and she was safe, but the same couldn't be said for the men.
"Koro-chan! Find any remaining men that might still be hiding!" Seryu ordered as the one guy who was still remaining raised a knife above his head to kill the girl from behind but Tatsumi proved to be faster by flying above Seryu's head which allowed him to behead the man cleanly before he landed on the floor. Seryu turned around and saw that the Night Raid who just saved her; Koro was about to eat the brunette but Seryu raised her hand that stopped her teigu from doing so.
"T-Thank you." she spoke softly.
"Your thanks aren't needed." Tatsumi said, sheathing his sword as he walked away to leave, but Koro quickly blocked the door with its massive body.
"You aren't leaving, Night Raid. We have much to discuss." she continued in a more neutral tone, while also trying to hold back the tears threatening to fall down her face.
"Tch, I guess I should have just let him kill you, huh?" Tatsumi said, cursing his luck for this day.
Seryu quickly grabbed Tatsumi by the hand and led him outside towards the fountain where he sat down comfortable before she took a seat next to him. Tatsumi was extremely confused why they were out here in the open when she could just kill him easily and he was even more confused when Seryu suddenly buried her face into his chest. He then felt the girl begin to sob and tremble, her whole body shivering.
"I'm so confused!" Seryu cried into his jacket.
Tatsumi could tell that the girl was troubled and she was heavily conflicted was something that he decided to momentarily tolerate the fact that she tried to kill him earlier. "About what?" he asked in return.
"Everything about this place… I was raised to believe that the empire was amazing… I was taught that my job was to uphold justice and deliver justice to those who deserve it… but… I found out today… the empire was evil all along… Captain Ogre… Gamal… guards taking bribes and raping women… and then these… these men about to let a dog molest a girl then rape her afterwards! I don't get it! Why did it have to be like this?!" Seryu cried, looking up into Tatsumi's green eyes.
Tatsumi patted her back softly and looked at Koro who was now sitting next to her back in its original form, munching on a dismembered hand.
"It's the truth though, the empire is filled with corruption…" Tatsumi began. "I… I thought it was amazing too at first… you know that rich family who got murdered last week along with all their guards?"
He felt her nod in response.
"That family had a history of taking foreigners off the streets and playing with them. The little girl living there had a knack for torturing people, especially females, while her mother played doctor and infected people with different kinds of diseases…" Seryu felt Tatsumi's fist clench from behind her. "They took away two of my friends… and it was a damn miracle that I saved one of them, but the other one… ARGH! I won't allow myself to cry over him anymore… it's not what Ieyasu would have wanted…" he said, gritting his teeth as he steeled himself to prevent the tears from flowing out.
"But… if the empire is like this… then I can't fight alongside it anymore! I can't bring myself to hurt innocent citizens like what other guards have been doing… I'm going to leave tomorrow morning! I will not work for a government as corrupt as this!" she shrieked out, clenching her fists weakly as she lightly sniffled. "But… where am I supposed to go after this? I don't know what to do!"
"Heh, you know you could join us…" he offered, causing her to look up at him again. "Yeah, I know that us Night Raid members are assassins, but we do not harm any innocents. We target the source of all this corruption, which stems from the capital and ultimately… from the minister himself. I know that we are not entirely good people, but we do fight for what's right. We aim to finish this war with the minister's head on display for everyone to see it as a symbol of freedom from the corruption forever… but if you don't want to, then I won't force y —" he was silenced when Seryu put her finger towards his lips.
"I understand your resolve… I'll be by your side… regardless of how I see assassins like you back then, you fight for the same thing I want… justice. I don't know much about you, but I can see your intentions are clear. So… I accept. Me and Koro-chan will join Night Raid and fight with you." Seryu said with a small smile through her tears, before burying her face in Tatsumi's chest once again.
All of a sudden, Akame landed from the sky with a worried look on her face as she ran towards her crush. "Tatsumi! I'm here! What's going on over here?" she asked, only to see that the brunette was busy comforting an orange-haired girl who was crying on his chest. "Tatsumi, who is she?"
"She's our newest member," Tatsumi said with a smile.
(Later that Night; Tatsumi's Room)
"Man, what a day… hopefully a good night's sleep can help me clear my mind…" Tatsumi thought to himself as he prepared to go to bed. A lot of things happened today for the brunette, which started with Akame waking up in the same bed as him, fighting Zanku in perhaps the toughest battle of his life yet, to recruiting another member of Night Raid by the name of Seryu Ubiquitous. "I wonder what would happen to us now that an imperial guard joined our cause… well if anything, I'm just glad that we have —" the brunette was cut off from his thoughts when he heard someone knocking on the door.
"Oh, for the love of…" he sighed. "Who could it be at this time of night?" he groaned to himself before a raven-haired assassin appeared in his thoughts. "A-Akame?! N-No, that's impossible… we just slept together last night because she was having bad dreams, right? It's impossible for her to have nightmares for consecutive nights, right?" he said to himself, yet he couldn't stop himself from walking towards the door before grasping the handle. Sighing deeply to himself, he shook his head in defeat. "Well, it looks like I don't have much of a choice, do I? Better get this over with right now before anyone even sees her here…" he said to himself as he opened the door.
Just as he thought, Akame was just waiting out the door but unlike last night, she didn't have a pillow with her. Did that mean she wasn't going to sleep beside him tonight? And what's more, if looked upon closely, Akame's face was of the color red, if not deeper.
"Yo Akame," he said with a smile. Even though he didn't particularly liked getting out of bed this late in night, he wasn't going to complain about seeing the ruby-eyed assassin again. He did like her company and she was a good friend to him ever since he first joined Night Raid. Hey, not to mention the fact that she's sexy as h — WOAH, WAIT! That's going too far now, isn't it? Shaking his head to get those kinds of thoughts off his mind, he turned his attention back towards the girl in front of him. "So what brings you here?"
"T-T-Ta-Tat-Tatsumi…" she stuttered out, looking to the side after saying his name. "C-Can I… can I talk to you… tonight? There's… s-something important I w-wa-want to tell you about…" she struggled to finish in embarrassment. "Come on! You weren't like this earlier! You tried to be his partner just so you could tell him! So why are you hesitating now?!" she screamed internally. "W-What if he thinks I'm weird if I say it? W-We just met no more than a month ago… no, no, don't be like that, Akame… you've faced way more than this."
Tatsumi was honestly surprised with what she wanted; was there even a certain topic that would be worth talking about late at night? Or maybe this was just an indirect way of saying that she's been having had dreams again? "S-Sure, but come on inside… it'll be disrespectful for me and bad for the both of us if somebody sees us talking here in the open…" he said, inviting her inside.
Like yesterday, he led Akame towards his bed and he noticed that this was exactly what happened last night when she wanted to sleep beside him. True to his guess, there was silence between them and nobody dared to speak for the next few moments until he decided to try and start a conversation between them once again. "So what did you want to talk to me about, Akame? A new mission or something about training?" he tried to ask.
However, unlike yesterday, Akame didn't respond to his question and just simply kept her head down low. The girl was blushing deeply and she was biting her lower lip out of nervousness. It wasn't a normal sight for the red-eyed assassin to feel like this, especially when she wasn't in battle, because she was seen as stoic almost all the time here at base and even whenever they were out on an assignment. Earlier in the morning, she was planning all day long on how she would confront Tatsumi and tell him the weird feelings that she had been feeling towards him but now, she wasn't feeling as confident as she was earlier.
"Akame?" he tried calling out when he noticed that his raven-haired comrade wasn't answering his question at all. Once again, she didn't answer which forced Tatsumi to look at her. And that was when he finally noticed that Akame's face had gone red for some unknown reason.
"Hey Akame, you're looking red all of a sudden… is something wrong?" he asked, holding her shoulder gently and turned her around to face him.
She was so lost in her thoughts about Tatsumi that Akame didn't realize she was looking at him straight in the eyes and she only managed to regain control of her senses when he touched her neck with his hand to see if she was feeling sick or something.
"Well, you're not sick, thank goodness…" he said, breathing out a sigh of relief. "If you're not sick, then what's wrong? Are you having bad dreams again? Or… or maybe you're too embarrassed to tell me about them? There's no need for you to be like that, you know? Have you forgotten that you can trust me with your problems?"
Akame was simply at a lost for words as she listened to him speak; everything he just said was the confirmation that she needed to prove that he really did care for her just as much as she did, and that alone gave her the courage she needed to do what she had been planning to do all day long.
Without any more hesitation, she threw herself at Tatsumi, straddling his hips before she captured his lips in a deep and fiery kiss in which she poured out both her love and lust into it like a hungry animal itching for food.
Tatsumi was shocked with her sudden action and he wasn't able to fully comprehend what was happening at the moment, which is why he didn't even make any response to her kiss and that allowed Akame to slide her tongue into his mouth, making her take this to the next level. Although the girl wasn't experienced in love or intimacy, she did know that a boy is supposed to make a girl feel good and vice versa when both are in love with one another. Akame cupped his cheeks with both her hands and pulled him even closer to her that her tongue could nearly reach his throat while their bodies were touching against one another, covered only by thin pieces of fabric.
After about a minute of kissing her love, Akame finally let go of him and looked at Tatsumi with a triumphant smile on her face.
She did it.
She fulfilled her goal.
She showed Tatsumi just what he meant to her through a steaming hot kiss. It was not just a simple petty schoolgirl crush, because Akame was in love, despite her not being completely sure about it.
It was all over now, right?
But hang on just a minute! How is he gonna react to what she just did? Will he be disgusted with her? He'll think she's weird? He'll cut off their friendship over it? Just by having those thoughts made Akame disheartened over what could have been, the biggest mistake of her life.
Tatsumi's eyes were still wide even after the red-eyed assassin had stopped kissing him. He never thought that Akame would do something like and he certainly didn't expect it, which is why he was momentarily stunned and wasn't able to respond to her action. He looked at her incredulously before he forced himself to sit up, causing Akame to be moved onto his lap before he raised a finger to his lips, still feeling the taste of Akame's lips on his own.
More seconds passed and the doubt in the girl's heart grew little by little, feeling that she was about to be rejected and she nearly felt like crying then and there, before she finally heard him speak.
"A-Akame… why did you do that?" he asked out of shock.
"Why did I do what?" she asked, oblivious to what Tatsumi was trying to talk about.
"I mean, why did you kiss me all of a sudden? You don't just kiss someone like that out of the blue, Akame." A fierce blush started to form on his face out of embarrassment, which the red-eyed assassin found to be both cute and funny at the same time. "D-Does this mean that y-you —" he was silenced when Akame put her finger on his lips.
"I don't know much about love, but I am willing to know more about it with you Tatsumi." she said with a teary smile, feeling happy that she wasn't rejected or anything worse. "I think I'm falling in love with you, Tatsumi. From the moment that I knew that I could trust you with my past, I felt that there was something that kept me somewhat connected with you, and this may be it."
"Y-You're in love with me?" he asked with widened eyes, shock taking over his entire soul. He knew that Akame and him had a close friendship these past few weeks but he never thought that she could be in love with him.
"Yes," she said before she wrapped her arms around Tatsumi, hugging him possessively. "I've had these strange feelings ever since that night when I told you more about myself and slept together here."
"Akame… I don't know what to say… to be honest, I like you too. Like, I really like you as a friend but I also want to be more than that and I think I can try and work out a relationship with you outside our assassin work…" An image of Sayo appeared in his mind. "But then there's — he was silenced yet again when Akame pressed her fingers to his lips.
"Please don't say anything else… hearing you accept my feelings made me so happy, Tatsumi." she said, a few tears of joy escaping her eyes. "We can talk more about this in the morning… for now, please kiss me, Tatsumi." she finished before locking her lips with his own in another heated kiss.
"Ah, forget it! I'll sort this issue with Sayo and Leone out in the morning… I got a hungry girl kissing me, so I should enjoy this while I still can." he thought to himself, wrapping his arms around Akame's back and started to kiss her back.
Little did the two assassins know that there was someone just outside the door, listening to their whole conversation and she was giggling mischievously to herself upon hearing the sound of kissing inside the room.
Harem: Akame, Sayo, Leone, Mine, Sheele, Seryu, Chelsea, Esdeath, Spear
Others: Lubbock x Najenda, Wave x Kurome
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Goodbye... and good night! BANG! *too sweet gesture*
-Lance
