Before I start this chapter off, I just wanted to say that you guys should check out a story that was inspired by one of my ideas. It's called Grim Tale, fair warning it's a dark story so be careful. Shit will get FUCKED UP. But this is the AKG fanbase, so who knows how you guys'll take it (I'm a bitch as stated when I said I can't watch a character I've grown attached to die)

Guest/Justify Crimson: Thank you.

Haruhism Follower: Wave/Ran Teigu is proof that a double Teigu is possible if your will is able to make the Teigu to accept working together. (Tsundere Follower) Mine just had… well it'll be explained in a bit.

Don't get that bit about body parts, but I did get an idea for Esdeath V. Tatsumi (don't worry, their moms won't have the same name)

Well just because he had a teigu that doesn't mean he can never use another. Who knows, maybe i'll take suggestions.

That… yeah tbh I have no idea how this'll end. If Tatsumi and Esdeath will elope and create a lovechild, Akame and Mine admitting their feelings, Sheele finally getting that cookie on the top shelf, Dorthea going through an incredible story and staying alive till late 90's/early 2000's and telling her story to a reporter who then gets killed by a vampire friend of hers she thought to be dead when he was going to publish it, y'know, stuff like that.

orca3553: That can be a possibility. Personally I thought it- *computer crashes and blows up*

WildCard555: You gotta remember, it takes a specified amount of Demon Extract to have powers. So maybe if he waits a few months his blood cells die off and get replaced with them, giving him weak ice powers, but I got a better idea.

Yes, he did.

Here you go.

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The impact certainly held an new feeling. No, that wasn't right, it was an old one. It just never appeared in all her time since reaching the Capital.

Esdeath felt pain.

It wasn't much, just a small prick, but it made her feel something deep. Something primal.

Something powerful.

Her heart was a jackrabbit and her face a strawberry. She didn't know this feeling, she heard tale of it, but never once did she fall victim to it.

Was she in love?

She would see deeper into this at a better time, but now she had to deal with the men that killed her subordinates. Her gaze fell to them, the one she didn't even know of until this incident was looking at the hand he hit her with, and the Hundred-Man Slayer was making his way to his comrade.

She'd cripple him before he took another step and freeze the brunette. If he was capable of hitting her nearly a foot into her ice wall that was already 50 feet away from the ship, then he was more than capable of surviving the cold until she could properly restrain him in the palace.

As she tried to move her arms to push herself free, she noticed something.

She couldn't move.

It wasn't only that, the pain on her stomach seemed to be the only thing she could feel. To test her hypothesis she bit, or whatever you could call the strange motion of closing your teeth with half success, into her cheeks. She had no control over her body, but had complete access to feeling. She hadn't heard of a drug like this before. She shouldn't have even been susceptible to poisons. Her Demon Extract should have annihilated any pathogen that entered her bloodstream.

She shook her head, she could have Stylish check out her blood later, if she couldn't use her sword to stop the enemy, then her abilities can do it for her.

As her mind stressed on freezing the Night Raiders in place, something peculiar was noticed.

Her body felt cold.

That was a physical impossibility, once the Demon Extract entered her body she became the coldest person on the planet, literally. So how in the world did the ice she created feel cold to her. And not only that, as the duo was jumping from the ship, she couldn't create anything to impede their retreat.

As they left her sight, she could only think about what the masked man did to her. He had taken all control from her body and nullified the ability of her Teigu… She was definitely going to have this man for herself. But until this effect wore off she would only have her own mind as company. Seeing as she had nothing to do for an unforeseen amount of time, it was perfect to create ideas on how to stop him and counteract his abilities herself.

She would have smiled had her face been under control. She had the idea of a Trump Card for a while, but if she just made a few alterations… Oh it would be a beautiful catastrophe.

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"C'mon, you gotta stop worrying, they're only a day late. You know as well as me that if they were dead that the Capital would string 'em up in the gates." Leone tried to calm down the worried Sheele.

When Sheele was nervous she did things, and when Sheele did things, nothing good came of it. When they were a few hours late she tried to bake; destroying the oven. When they didn't come in the morning she cleaned the base; she scrubbed soup into the floor and gave everyone at the base soapy water for breakfast. And now she tried to do the laundry in the afternoon. Her clothes were small enough already, Leone didn't need them to shrink to a size smaller.

"I know you're right, but I can't help it. He nearly died and then we just sent him out on a mission before he even gained good handling on his Teigu." While it only happened once in a blue moon, Sheele did make sense from time to time.

"C'mon, you know that Boss is smarter then all of us, so stop worrying, she knows that even if he doesn't have the best grasp on his power he still grows exponentially better each time he uses it. In all honesty, he probably can get mastery of it in around 3 months. If he trains non-stop that is."

"If only we had the Dangai." Lubbock whinned, collecting the clothes of his that Sheele washed before Leone stopped her. The rags seemed to have been chewed by a Cave Bear. Subtly trying to get one of the girl's underwear that was hung next to his.

"Well this isn't a manga so get over it." Mine ranted, just before kicking him in the shin and grabbing her panties.

"Really Lubbock, really?" Akame was just disappointed, he was a master assassin, he should be more sleight-of-hand then that.

"I deny any and all claims against m-" before he finished the reel on Cross Tail moved. "We got company." The nice and friendly air around the assassins turned cold and serious as a possible threat was located.

Akame took lead as Najenda was not present. "How many and how far?"

"It feels like just one big guy. He's right at the edge of my strings due north, but he seems to be getting closer… and hitting each line on his way here."

"Let's go." With that, Akame grabbed Murasame from where it leaned against the wall. Leone activated Lionel. And Lubbock waved his fingers, retracting the thread he had in base to use in battle."Mine, Sheele, you two tell Boss where we went, join up with us if we haven't returned in ten minutes." The duo nodded and rushed inside.

The run there was only filled with tension and Lubbock saying where the man was from their position. When he was just five seconds away from contact, Lubbock wrapped his wires around the man's legs, Leone rushed ahead to take on any secret trick they might have with her advanced healing, and Akame moved in from her position at the side.

"Well that's certainly a strange way to greet someone." Bulat said as his face was in the floor and his pompadour splashed against ground.

"Bulat!" Lubbock immediately undid his strings.

"What the hell took you so lo…" Leone stopped short as she saw what was on his back.

Tatsumi had reverted to his original size and shape after he got Bulat to the shore, but when he took one step he immediately collapsed on the floor. He still hadn't woken up from two days ago and Bulat had to carry him all the way to the base. But the unconscious figure wasn't the reason she stopped, it was the mark that was on the back of his neck.

"How the hell does Tatsumi have that on him!?" She couldn't imagine how their newest recruit received the same mark on him that the Empire's strongest had on her chest.

"We can talk at the base. I'll tell you all I know and after Tatsumi wakes up then we can all get some insight on what happened back there."

"S-sure." Lubbock was still trying to sort out this mess in his head.

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"So you're telling me that after taking down the Three Beasts, Esdeath showed up, toyed with you, Tatsumi tried something stupid, it worked, and you escaped Esdeath." This was a lot of shit to deal with before Lunch.

"In a nutshell." The meeting was taking place in the infirmary, as Bulat gave his knowledge, Akame cleaned and redressed his wounds.

"I think that bringing this bumpkin onboard will lead to either the best circumstances or the worst. Only time can tell." Mine was seriously shocked at the shit this kid did on his first big time mission.

"Oh don't be like that, our little Tatsu's just turned into a beast." Leone just shrugged off what she just heard and started to give Mine a noogie.

"You know, it'd be better if you took this seriously." Lubbock was getting a headache at Mine's shouts of anger. "Right Akame?"...

He turned his head to see the deadly woman sitting by the small bed Tatsumi occupied in the room. 'And she is in super protective mode, isn't she?' Lubbock knew she'd be like this for a while before she could accept her friend wasn't going to die any time soon.

Sheele appeared to be the only other member to notice this as well. She walked up next to Akame and looked back and forth between her and the unconscious boy. She saw that the red-eyed assassin looked downtrodden, so she did what she thought would help. Politely ask Tatsumi to wake up.

"Hey Tatsumi, mind getting up?"

Nothing happened.

Lubbock, being the kind man he is, totally not trying to be the rebound hero at the moment, went to comfort the airhead. "That was a nice gesture Sheele but I think it'll take more then that to-"

Tatsumi's eyes shot open, he shot up, and created a very eloquent sentence.

"AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH, WHAT THE FUCK! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!" Tatsumi gasped out.

When he finally caught his breath, Tatsumi looked at the members within the room and spoke clearly. "Good, you guys are all here. I got some stuff you need to hear."

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Think this is the first time I don't have anything to say about this chapter. Feel like it's pretty average.

Anyways, have an Awesome day: N.I.A.