Author Notes: After several chapters of not focusing on Akame, it's time to get back to her being in the spotlight. In addition to learning a horrible truth, Akame is going to be burdened with even more tragedy with some startling revelations.

Chapter 10: Kill The Regret

Inn in the Western Kingdom

Several Weeks Later

The news spread like wildfire across the world- the area where the Empire stood was wiped from the face of the Earth while fortunately, the new royal family had been spared from the destruction due to their fortunate meeting in the western regions of the continent. The loss of Najenda and the Teigu users proved to be a devastating blow to the people, something that managed to dash their hopes in spite of the new royal family's attempts to liven the population's spirits. While more cynical people believed it to be well deserved, seeing that the land that the capital was built on seemed to be oozing corruption for the last decade; others felt sorry for the people who were caught in the middle of the depravity of the Minister, only to be snuffed out by what seemed to be the wrath of the gods. Rumors of the royal family contacting the Eastern continent for support was also growing increasingly rampart due to the country sudden increase in technological advancements, leading to what many deemed impossible, weapons that surpassed the Teigu. In addition, there were also speculations that the impossible had finally been achieved- a item that could bring the dead back to life had been created, but due to the secretive nature of the country, the truth was currently unclear.

Two of the leaders from the Revolutionary Army, Hemi and Nakaido had been stationed there on the new Royal Family's orders in hopes of acquiring the new technology to aid them, having been already living there due to previous orders from the top brass. Previously, the two had been absent from the war due to Najenda sending them away to negotiate an alliance with the Eastern continent to give aid for the Revolutionary Army's overthrow of the capital, by the time the negotiations were a success, Najenda's forces had already succeeded in their tasks much to the two general's chagrin. Though it is speculated that the real reason was their characters were particularly not ones that would work together with Najenda's group and had kept them away to not have to deal with their flawed personalities.

There were also rumors of a group of fourteen monsters that had going around and mercilessly killing anyone that was in their path, monsters that suspiciously like humans yet had features that were clearly supernatural. The accounts were so bizarre that they seemed to be fictional tales of horror at first, but the frequent attacks implied that they were real to an extent. While the rumors died down after a week following the capital's destruction, the damage to the population was severe- reducing its numbers to a mere hundred at most due to these monsters committing mass genocide on a level that exceeded anything the Empire had managed to accomplish. Only the royal family and a few notable tribes and towns had been spared from the onslaught by sheer miraculous luck.

Regardless of the news she had learned from the gossip of the townspeople, Akame had more pressing thoughts on her mind- mainly how her body was finally beginning to shut down at a quicker pace than what she had expected it to.

Akame had decided to remain hidden in an inn ever since her encounter with the monocle man with powers similar to that of her and her sister's Teigu while occasionally going out in hopes of finding a cure to her current ailment. In addition to this, she kept wondering how she managed to drive him away after being overwhelmed by his abilities in spite of her condition...making her think back on Dr. Regular's words that she was somehow like this man.

In the meantime, she had tried to ask if anyone knew the cure of the markings on her body and the jolts of pain they caused. However, she met with people being too terrified to speak to Akame, bowing to her like some god or telling her coldly that it was matter of time till it took her- and there was no cure for it and that it was an inevitable occurrence. All she could hope for was the pain to be quick and relatively painless. She had noticed that she had been sleeping more frequently as of late and that she had been eating considerably less than before. The latter was notable because she was a very big eater, especially when meat was involved in the meal. Gradually, she had been feeling more symptoms as her ailment progressed: increasing incidents of nocturnal throbbing pain , reduced body temperature almost like a decaying corpse, her vision was slowly becoming blurry and her breathing getting slower as the days passed. The last notable symptom was simply this, when all was quiet- she heard them, something that the executioner Zank had once told her that he had experienced and that, which had made him commit murders in the first place. Voices, voices of those she had killed groaning from the floor below and seeping into her room like wrathful spirits reaching out in futile attempts to grab her. One notable was familiar, very familiar with eyes of cold blue from a blue haired spirit that smiled back at her.

Akame was in a deep state of depression, so much that she barely noticed 16 unusual individuals parading the street outside of her window as if they had accomliedh something spectacular. One was a Roman-eque soldier that was praising himself over his defeat of two giant lizards and pink shrimp - a statement so loud that Akame could hear from the window in her room, the way he said these words, it heavily implied that it was Tatsumi and Mine he spoke of, but third caused her to recall Wave for some reason. It made sick inside, even more than what she was experiencing at that very moment.

Another that was walking in the center of the streets was a giant marlin faced giant with a vacant expression wearing white robes dragging a bag that seemed to be moving and 14 individuals that followed behind him, one notably carrying a large mechanical arm of green coloring. That of her former leader Najenda. It had confirmed at least one of the rumors, that the capital had been destroyed and this was likely the group that managed to drive the population of the Empire's continent to a mere 100.

Akame became gripped with intense emotions of extreme sadness and anger towards the person below who had heavily implied to have killed her former leader as well as the other thirteen for killing countless people according to the rumors. The only thing holding her back was the knowledge that her body was too weak to fight them in a prolonged fight, especially with certain facts that she had to consider. If they were strong enough to nearly wipe out the continent as well as kill Tatsumi, it seemed likely they were way above even Esdeath in strength and that it was likely they had powers that had allowed them to do so. Powers that were probably on the same level as the monocle wearing man or something equally worse. With that in mind, it would be futile to fight them due to the probable difference in power, especially in her she crossed her her arms around her legs and began to cry silently with regret, cursing her inability to do anything due to her decreasing health. Slowly, she began to calm down enough to notice the final object that was behind the 16 members.

In the midst of this turmoil, she noticed something very odd in the back of the 14 individuals, it was a massive whitish sphere that seemed to block out the sky with its gargantuan size. When she tried to get a closer look at the object, it opened a large eye with a yellow sclera with a pink iris pupil and looked directly at her. This made Akame turn her attention away from the unusual sight and back to the front of the room. For some reason, it was something that she knew quite well deep in her subconscious, but it seemed impossible as she had never seen this sphere in her entire life.

As she tried to wonder what that creature was, a thought began to fester in her mind and brought her to the realization of her dire situation. She was alone, slowly dying and no one was left to help her to avenge her comrades. Even if she managed to kill those 16 she saw walking in the streets, it was very likely they belonged to a massive group who would kill her the second her guard was down. And that was her being optimistic that she could even kill even one of them in her current condition.

I'm the only one left. And I don't see a way to overcome this enemy this time. And I'm going to die soon. Damnit., she thought to herself as she somberly readied herself for her eventual demise of gradually dying in pain while keeping quiet in order to not bother anyone. To die in the dark without anyone to comfort her.

That potential future was actually blissful compared to what fate had in store for her. A truly hellish experience that would make a painful death seem like a serene dream.

Suddenly, Akame felt a presence heading her room and regretted not being able to sense it, let alone have the strength to do anything to deal with this potential assailant. A swear bead went down her head as the door began to slowly creak. To her surprise, it wasn't an assassin, but someone else entirely.

"She was a brave woman, your former leader.," said a neurotic, cheerful and confident voice from behind the door to Akame's room. It opened to reveal a young woman with thick glasses with spirals, wild indigo hair and a white lab coat that seemed too big for her to wear. Akame could only see a colorful blur due to her failing condition. Somehow she knew in her deep subconscious that this woman was somehow familiar, like an old friend from an age long ago. Which, would be impossible since she had never met this woman in her life. It was impossible...right?

"You knew Najenda?," Akame asked the odd woman as the latter sat down on the floor next to her bed. It was hard to trust her due to eccentrically she presented herself, but there were hints that it was deliberate in order to keep her from asking the wrong sorts of questions at the moment. What she said next was truly shocking to hear, something that was completely outside of her world of an assassin, a realm that seemed to be too absurd to be true.

"I implied this to her, but she didn't believe me as much as you're going to. Here it goes. To be more exact, I've known you, her and the 46 Teigu users for the last thousand years. It's got something to with reincarnation believe it or not," she replied to her question, causing Akame to have her typical black eye with a single white dot eye expression, seeing the woman as unusual and too unbelievable to be taking seriously. Yet, the nostalgic feeling at witnessing the indigo haired woman hinted that at least some of the words she spoke were true to a degree.

"I'm Gainen by the way, and I'm going to tell you what I told your former leader...before they got to her.," Gainen added referring specifically to the 14 individuals that murdered her, the capital and a great deal of the Empire's continent. Akame's expression narrowed as this fact was mentioned, a shrill rage swelled inside her head before eventually simmering down enough to think with a level mind.

"And what are they?," Akame asked with an urgent tone of voice. Gainen pressed her glasses and began to speak. The tension built up in the room as the indigo haired woman spoke. Akame gulped before Gainen decided to speak.

"They're demons.," Gainen said in a dramatic tone as two curved horns sprouted from her head. Akame gave her a deadpan stare of disbelief. Gainen removed the horns, they were a headgear. Akame did not like to be toyed with at this moment, especially with all of the drama that she had to endure recently. Akame took Gainen words to be more figurative, being demonic meaning they were especially depraved individuals like those from the Empire. However, Gainen's serious look implied that she was been literal when she mentioned this fact.

"I'm not kidding they're actual demons, Akujin to be more precise. They're Danger Beasts to that have acquired humanoid forms and intelligence while retaining their awesome powers. And they're several centuries old.," Gainen spoke in a more neurotic and cheerful tone, making it hard for Akame to tell which was the right answer to believe. For some reason, the term Akujin resonated with her as if a hidden memory was beginning to creep into her conscious.

This revelation however, made Akame even more alarmed at the situation at hand. Dangerous humans she deal with, but the fact they were literal monsters was both an absurd fact to be true and a horrific notion as she had no ideal of what kind of creatures Akujin were. It made her planned task to eliminate them even more hopeless than it had been before. What Gainen said next, shocked her even more than the Akujin statement.

"You have more in common with them than you want to admit. To be more precise- once you die, you'll be one of them- an undead variant to be precise.," Gainen said in a completely serious voice, a low-key tone of analysis compared to her dramatic voice from before. Akame remembered Shuirome and his Mura-Yatsu powers- how his markings were similar to herself to be exact. With this in mind, Akame became more intent on listening to what she had to say on how Akame...and potentially Kurome had in common with these monsters.

After a period of silence, she spoke again with her indigo iris eyes flashing from behind her glasses. She had changed topics to focus another revelation that confused her yet felt like she knew about this topic very well deep in her subconsciousness.

"It's better to start at the beginning. It's about a powerful Akujin who came to hate humanity and how his actions led to years of regret on my part. The one known as the Hell King, a monster that will be reborn into this era and bring forth the end of the human race.," said the woman as her expression became more serious than what she presented herself as. The tone of the room became extremely grim and Akame silenced herself to listen to what Gainen was about to say.

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