I have returned at last, my friends and the twenty-first chapter of "Akame no Taizai" is here! Sorry for the long long wait again because of the damn writer's block and the college's schedule again as usual but don't worry I managed to pull it through!
I wonder if this crossover story might end up in the tv site in Akame ga Kill! and Nanatsu no Taizai pages, although it might be cool to see some tropes listed for this one. XD
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Akame ga Kill! or Nanatsu no Taizai. They belong to their respective owners and that includes the animation studios behind the anime adaptation of the two awesome manga series. The OCs are mine by the way. XD
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Chapter 21
Almost immediately after Love Helm announced the official start of the match in the Byzel Fight Festival, Matrona swiftly charged towards her opponent and unleashed a flurry of powerful fast punching strikes on Griamore's torso that had apparently caught him off guard!
"Too fast! Right from the start, she flies into his body and attacks relentlessly!", the impish man enthusiastically commented while jumping to the amazed audience watching this fight.
But as the hat-wearing woman continued her relentless punching, a purple orb formed around Griamore's stomach and deflected her strikes, much to Matrona's surprise as it began to form around the large muscular man.
"I can't afford to lose here. Don't hold this against me, little lady. For this is my ability...Wall!", he said before being completely covered by a huge magical barrier orb that cracked the floor of the arena by its intense pressure where he stood on and floated inside of it.
"Hey, with the powerful move like that...", Ban commented on Griamore's power in surprise upon witnessing it in use during the match with King seemed to agree with him as well.
"He's a Holy Knight too?", Meliodas wondered out loud when he saw the display of the man's defensive power, leading to Akame gave an indifferent look in response that clearly says within her mind with a hint of sarcasm: "You don't say, Captain." or "No, it's some regular musclebound dude who just used magic. Of course, he's a Holy Knight!"
After Griamore revealed his power, Matrona attacked again but all of her punches could not break through the barrier no matter how strong she was as Howser said about his fellow Holy Knight's ability, watching the spectacle. "It's too late, little girl. Any ordinary magic or physical attacks have no affect on him at all. When he's in that state, all you can do is wait for him to release or lose his power."
"You should have finished the fight before it completely covered his whole body.", he finished with a sigh that his friend's victory is already is on his favor before Alyssa cheerfully chimed in at his side.
"Oi, oi Howsy! Never underestimate girl power you know! Tee-hee!", she said with a playful smack on his shoulder.
"Geez, you're certainly so overly-enthusiastic Alyssa!", the young Holy Knight exclaimed as he rubbed on the slightly pained shoulder she playfully punched earlier.
Matrona continued her barrage of quick punches on the impenetrable orb to no avail until Griamore begins to expand the Wall barrier to push her back and the woman struggle to hold her ground with a little success.
"My Wall is the physical manifestation of my will to protect Princess Veronica at all costs! I'll have you pushed out of the ring before long.", Griamore explained the origins of his power before expanding more of the barrier orb around him in an intent to forcefully push Matrona out of the ring as she was pushed back to the near edge of the arena.
"Griamore's strange power has Matrona cornered!", Love Helm commented at the sight of the woman struggling to stay on the ring and holding back the large man's barrier at the same time with her bare hands.
"I will be the one to advance in the finals! As long as Lady Veronica wishes it, even the Seven Deadly Sins or Meliodas will grovel at my feet!", the Holy Knight arrogantly declared that somehow irked Matrona as she raised her fist.
"I won't allow for such a thing to happen!", she retorted in declaration as she punched Griamore's barrier with enough physical force that broke into pieces, shocking her opponent that his Wall has been breached.
"That voice... No... It can't be... Diane?...", the Red-Eyed Killer Knight realized the familiarity of Matrona's voice after overhearing her angry retort back at the Wall-covered Holy Knight.
After breaking through Griamore's Wall with relative ease, Matrona quickly sprinted towards the surprised large muscular man and gave a devastating uppercut in his chin that sent him flying out from the ring right down below the Great Byzel Rock where he made a huge crash and landed on the ground with dust exploding from the impact!
However, the hat flew off her head in the midst of sending the man flying out of the ring and it was revealed to be a young woman whose face is identical of the Serpent's Sin of Envy, Diane while she raised her left finger in a victory pose after easily defeating the Holy Knight.
"Griamore was knocked out of bounds! The winner is Matrona!", the impish man declared this match's winner much to the cheers of the audience and Howser's utter disbelief and sweatdrop.
"She broke the Wall with her bare hands? Is she a monster?!", he wondered out loud but his fellow colleague standing next to him brushed it off.
"Nope, it's girl power Howsy! Never underestimate it!", Alyssa simply interjected with a playful wink.
Sighing inwardly of the young woman's overly-enthusiasm, Howser then notices a disappointed Veronica leaving the ring after her bodyguard's humiliating defeat at the hands of Matrona despite the strength of his power.
Love Helm commented on the stunning beauty of the first match's winner. "A gigantic muscular man falls to an incredible attack by a beautiful lady! This year's Fight Festival is gonna be a storm!"
"Don't tell that's...", Ban trying to guess the identity of the woman who greatly resembles Diane.
"It's Diane, Ban.", the Owl's Sin of Vanity straightforwardly answered that the immortal interjected that there's no way someone like Matrona is Diane just like the way he thought of King in his fat and child forms back in the Capital of the Dead.
"Captain, am I dreaming or something?", King asked his captain who seemingly looked indifferent of the revelation.
The brunette woman then approached the Sins or more specifically to Meliodas with giddy look, walking out of the ring as she playfully said, "Ah well... I want to keep it a secret for a little longer. Busted!"
However, Meliodas gave an oblivious look in response and asked a stupid question. "Who are you?" This has resulted for Diane to angrily punch him in the gut with a pout and walked away aggravated that her true identity didn't even surprise him one bit much to the bewilderment of the crowd watching the scene.
"I don't care! Captain is stupid, stupid!", she yelled in frustration.
"What did I do?...", the blond boy wondered why did she hit him that hard while clutching his stomach in mild pain after being punched like that.
"You really are stupid, Captain.", King noted before running after Diane to comfort her while Ban simply stood by and watched the amusing scene.
"Definitely really stupid indeed.", Akame said in agreement while internally, she was really surprised that her giant friend had shrunk down to human size when she revealed herself inadvertently after defeating the son of Dreyfus in the match and finds it baffling what kind of sorcery could shrink a giant.
Later inside the hut, Diane explained to her captain and the fellow Sins of Gluttony and Vanity that she and Elizabeth, after revealing the third princess to have been shrunk down to a size of a doll as well and hid in between the shrunken giantess' breasts much to King's shoc-king reaction, were being shrunk down by a mushroom monster while on search for ingredients for dinner at the forest.
Because of the unfortunate encounter with the mushroom monster, the Serpent's Sin of Envy had to wear Elizabeth's clothes and her earring too while the silvery-haired young woman had to hide inside Diane since there were no clothes around that could fit her small size which Meliodas noted of.
While King finds the blond boy's comment vulgar with a nosebleed, he explained about the mushroom monster responsible for shrinking the two girls Diane was talking about. "That was probably a King Trumpet-type mushroom, the Chicken-Matango. It's a timid monster, so you hardly ever see it, but when it's in danger, it releases spores that shrink other living beings."
Hearing this made Akame consider avoiding that kind of creature if she doesn't want to end up shrunk down like Elizabeth did when hunting down ingredients for food in the Boar Hat. Being subjected to her captain's perverted jokes is enough for her as she tolerates them to a certain extent but the single thought of about being shrunk down in her naked body for Meliodas to see may be too much for her to handle and might drive her insane!
That made her shudder in cold sweat down to her spine and was internally relieved that she came with her fellow Sins to ended up participating in the Fight Festival instead of going with Diane and Elizabeth in the forest.
"Why didn't you tell us sooner?", the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins demanded.
"Because...", Diane said with a playful look on her face before jumping towards Meliodas and landed on his arms with joy! "I wanted to surprise you Captain!" she continued with a lot of imagination fantasying herself with her captain and explained that she was always jealous of Elizabeth being with him while not including Akame since she was just being a butt of perverted jokes by Dragon's Sin of Wrath.
Seeing Diane in an unfazed blond boy's arms brought great distraught on the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth and the Red-Eyed Killer Knight simply sighed inwardly of her friend's love obsession with their captain before King told her to get off Meliodas this instant which she complied immediately.
"Ooh I'm still taller than you Akame! I guess you're my little sister now! Come here! You look really so adorable up close!", the Serpent's Sin of Envy noted after getting off Meliodas' arms, hugging a slightly-flustered Akame like a child cuddling her beloved toy.
Why me?..., the red-eyed girl thought in a mix of deadpanned and blushing looks upon being hugged by Diane. Even in her shrunken height, she's still taller than me as she said..., she mentally commented in a sad look that Diane is a little bit taller than her if not taller than Merlin.
This made Kurome sneeze in a cute look and wondered if someone is talking about her behind her back before proceeding in her feeble attempt to reach for a bag of cookies in the kitchens before Yosniv, who was there cooking meals for his fellow Jaegers, slapped her wrist when he caught her red-handed and reprimanded the former Imperial Assassin that too much sweets is bad for her health much to her utter dismay.
Later letting go of Akame after cuddling her quite adorably fondly, Diane turned around to the boys and then raised her short skirt to show her underwear she borrowed from Elizabeth right in front of Meliodas and King who quickly passed out in a massive nosebleed after seeing it.
"Here, Captain! Grope all over! Just like how you do it to Elizabeth every day.", she said.
"Come on now. Even if you tell me to do it...", the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins protested with a folding of his arms much to the brunette woman's disappointment that it's always Elizabeth her captain has his eyes on, not her despite being in human size now much to Elizabeth and Akame's concern.
Diane then said that in her belief of finally becoming smaller than she was now would finally got what she always wanted as the shrunken Giantess always tells herself that and thought that her captain didn't care about her just because she's big but Meliodas comforted her with a pat on her head and told her that he can't do such things to someone so important to him, including Akame that he enjoyed making perverted jokes at her expense.
"Captain...", the former Night Raid member muttered while Elizabeth felt a little depressed.
"Just be content with this, okay?", the blond boy assured which Diane took it well but before hugging him in her embrace to the chest, with her wild fantasy of having children with her captain now much to Akame's chagrin and Meliodas' indifference although he took notice of the shrunken third princess hiding away from sight in embarrassment.
"Hey King.", Ban said after entering the door a bit roughly before noticing an unconscious fairy lying on the ground surrounded by a small pool of blood. "How come you're dead already?", he questioned.
The Owl's Sin of Vanity bluntly informed the immortal man. "King has suffered a nosebleed Ban."
"I hope you didn't doo that yourself, Kamehame-Ha? Kahahahaha!", the spiky white haired man teased much to Akame's cute embarrassment before she struck him in the blunt end of her Murasame at his face quite a bit too hard with blood spilling but his immortality healed shortly thereafter.
"How's the fight going?", Meliodas asked his fellow Sin after resolving an issue with a shrunken Diane.
Turning around, the Fox's Sin of Greed sing-song commented on the match after Diane's victory. "There's not much to saaay. That geezer's waaaay too weak."
On the arena ring is the match between Howser and Taizoo in the second round which is very clearly one-sided in the fight as the latter didn't fare well much against the likes of the former as expected from a Holy Knight of the kingdom with visible signs of physical injuries he suffered and sustained after trying to hit him with his normal strength.
"Come on... Why don't you just give up and surrender now?", the young man trying to convince his opponent in a diplomatic way.
"I'm not done yet!", the former mountain bandit steadfastly refused to yield despite the overwhelming odds against him.
"Jeez... Unlike Griamore, I didn't want to use my powers on an ordinary person. I'll make it quick so I don't feel bad for you.", Howser said as he gathered the small tornado of wind from the ground and formed it around his left arm, coating it entirely.
Desperate to win at all costs, Taizoo charged forward and attempt to throw at one heavy punch on Howser who commented that it was a nice fight but was then blown away from the ring by his opponent's simple tornado-imbued uppercut and crashed landed outside the Great Byzel Rock in a similar manner Griamore did after Diane defeated him in their match.
"The winner is Howser!", the small impish man declared the match's winner to the audience as the young man gave a dashing victory pose with a yell. "Alright!"
"Howsy won although it was a one-sided match against Taizoo. Oh well, gotta help the poor man though. His pride must be crushed.", Alyssa said and left the arena shortly after Howser's victory. And to see Princess Veronica and Griamore of all places here... Strange... I might as well ask them since they're not simply here for fun of the town's festival..., she thought.
"Oh, he's not bad.", the Dragon's Sin of Wrath commented after watching the man's victory over the three-time champion of the previous Fight Festivals which Ban agreed with the rest of the Sins watching the spectacle.
If Howser even used a fraction of his full power, he might have ended up killing the man in the match if he went all out., Akame noted after observing the battle.
"And now, the third round! Cain vs. Old Fart!", Love Helm announced the next match to the cheering audience.
The Grizzly's Sin of Sloth dryly noted that the match he's in has come while holding on his Chastiefol's pillow form, "Guess that's me."
"Who's the guy without a shred of naming sense that came up with that?", Diane questioned.
"Who else? It's Ban. He gave me a really ridiculous name too.", Akame indifferently said which the Diane already noted on much to the immortal man's amusement before he asked back of the Giantess' choice of name in the Fight Festival: Matrona that she claimed to choose from someone she knew in the past, intriguing the former Imperial Assassin. Matrona must be someone important to Diane..., she thought.
Meliodas convinced King to relinquish Chastiefol for now since this is a match between fists which the latter complied willingly and later gave a 'game-face' look and thumbs up when Diane cheered for him through the Old Fart alias much to the Sins' surprise.
Janeda, on the other hand, simply watched the scene with her cloak remained in place while looking at the Owl's Sin of Vanity as if she had a keen interesting in her opponent of the fourth match later on once this apparent farce of a match is over.
"Height: five feet, four inches. Weight: five pounds. It's Old Fart!", Love Helm introduced King that led to a series of teases and laughter since the alias Ban gave him didn't put up much of an impression on the audience that the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth didn't take it well.
"Height: five feet, one inch. Weight: 108 pounds. Cain!", the impish man continued with the introduction of the drunken old man who could barely stand still in place that worries the audience of why an old drunk like him would be even in the Fight Festival in the first place.
Sharing the growing concerns of the audience over the match between King and Cain since it looks simply nothing more than a petty fight between old men and children, Love Helm commented in a deadpanned tone. "Is this gonna be even a fight?"
Meanwhile outside the Great Byzel Rock, Veronica is trying to wake her loyal bodyguard up after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Diane after arriving at the man's crash site. "Griamore! Open your eyes, Griamore! You idiot!"
"Princess Veronica. Please, forgive me!", the large Holy Knight quickly got up from where he crash-landed on before went on his knees and apologized to her which she sternly chided him for letting his guard down in the match and voiced her suggestion to have taken Gilthunder instead of him since he couldn't even handle a woman who manged to break through his Wall power
"Yo, you alright Griamore? And hello to you Princess Veronica.", Howser called out when he entered the scene that got the two's attention.
"Oh my, for a big guy like you Griamore you sure got knocked from the ring by a girl. Tehee! Oh hello there Princess Veronica!", Alyssa commented while carrying an unconscious Taizoo of his wounds from his defeat by Howser earlier despite the heavy size of the former mountain bandit but this is nothing she can handle.
"Howser... Alyssa... You're not going to watch the fight?", Griamore said in recognizing his other fellow Holy Knight in Byzel while turning away in shame from Howser of his humiliating defeat.
"It's an obvious throwaway match. There's no point in watching. More importantly, why are you and Veronica doing here?", the young man said about the match between King and Cain being too uninteresting just by looking at it and then questioned them.
"Yeah, that's what I've been thinking too as well. Got me curious as to why would a member of the kingdom's royal family like you be doing here with a Holy Knight escort at a place like this? You're not here just to enjoy the festival, aren't you?", the redhead young woman said with a hint of serious look.
"You're right Alyssa. We're here to find Elizabeth.", the second princess of Liones explained.
"Elizabeth... Princess Elizabeth? She's here?", Howser said in surprise.
"You mean the third princess of Liones who went missing for months is here in Byzel?", Alyssa wondered out loud.
"Most likely. Since the Seven Deadly Sins are here...", Veronica said before began to explain everything to the two Holy Knights who seemed to be curious as they turned around at the sight of the next match was about to start.
Back to the arena, the match between King and Cain was about to start although this causes a whispers of great doubt among the crowd that this fight between the brunette boy and the drunken old is going to be a real lame-sauce while the Sins anticipated in their fellow comrade's performance without a weapon.
"I've never seen King fight without a weapon before.", Diane commented with Akame and Ban agreeing that she also never saw him fighting without a weapon as most of the time he battles with Chastiefol.
"I think this is my second time. Wait til you see him go at it!", Meliodas told them as he cuddled on Chastiefol's pillow form quite fondly and calls it soft.
Diane, I dedicate to you... the Fight Festival victory and the Sacred Treasure, Gideon!, King said to himself in his mind as he assumed a fighting stance against his opponent in the match.
"He's that amazing?", the Serpent's Sin of Envy questioned about the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth's strength without the Sacred Treasure.
"Yeah. King without his weapon is...", the blond boy noted just before the match begins now.
Being the first to make the move, King believed himself to be running in quick speed and throw a strong punch towards Cain but was actually slow in running and accidentally tripped on the tip of the crater from Griamore's Wall and fell before believing that the old man was too fast for him much to the Sins' dismay and the crowd's laughter.
"Incredibly weak.", he finished much to the three Sins' chagrin as they tilted over in utter shock!
Then Cain raised his fist and threw a great punch towards King who was about to defend with his arm but this was nothing more than a simple smack in the head and a failed defense which the latter thought he was strong much to the Sins' chagrin once more.
So King is helpless and weak in battle without Chastiefol?! He won't even last a second against Bulat, Leone, or Tatsumi, or anyone else in Night Raid with basic hand-to-hand combat!, the Red-Eyed Killer Knight mentally exclaimed with a gaping mouth at the pathetic performance of her fellow Sin and Cain in their match.
"Oh, wow! This is an incredibly low-leveled fight!", Love Helm commented as the crowd laughed since the old drunk and the kid seemed to have ruined the level of the Fight Festival just as Taizoo warned them earlier while Hawk finds it so weak while selling more of ale beverages that gave him more profits.
Meliodas then told Diane and Akame that King even lost a fight against his own cat when it stole his snacks that left both women in a sweatdropped look as they then remembered that scene during the former Night Raid member's first tour around the kingdom ten years ago.
Seeing that the fight is getting nowhere, King decided to use his Disaster power on Cain who drunkenly taunted him to surrender with a laugh. This is bad. I can't lose here! I have a duty to return Gideon to Diane! , he thought while raising his hand at the old man. It might be a bit unfair, but I'll have to use my power!
Suddenly as if he knew the danger that was coming to him immediately just when King was about use Disaster on him, Cain quickly sprinted towards the brunette boy and palmed the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth in the face with enough force to send him tumbling a bit hard right out of the ring where Meliodas caught him with Chastiefol's pillow form, ending the match.
"Old Fart is out of bounds. The winner is Cain!", the impish referee called out the winner of the third match as the elderly drunk blamed himself that he suddenly lost control of himself while King cried in lament that he only wanted to trigger his rheumatism and didn't expect him to retaliate that quickly after suffering quite a bit painful palm strike in the cheek much to Ban's amusement and the girls' pity.
"And now the fourth round, Kamehame-Ha vs. Janeda!", Love Helm announced the next match after the near epic fail match between King and Cain which the two female contestants stepped forward and Cain leaving the ring a bit drunk and wobbling in his moment of victory.
"What? The little kid is Meliodas of the Seven Deadly Sins?! So they really are...", the muscular young man said in a look of shock and surprise of what his colleague told him just as Akame and a cloaked Janeda stepped into the ring for their match while Meliodas, Diane who was holding Murasame and Incursio for the Owl's Sin of Vanity, Ban tend to a humiliated and depressed King in the midst of his loss in the match against Cain.
Griamore nodded in confirmation to his fellow Holy Knights after getting up from the ground where he landed on in his humiliating defeat although left out Diane because he didn't recognize her in human size. "Yeah. Ban. King. Akame."
"Ooh they're here too as well! This is even more fun than I thought it would be! Teehehehehe!", the female Holy Knight giddily commented.
The second princess of Liones noticed Alyssa's mischievous smirk about the revelations of the Sins in the Byzel Fight Festival and finds it suspicious. Too suspicious for someone like her so cheerful even in the serious situation like this . That mischievous smile... What are you up to, Holy Knight Alyssa?..., she thought while trying to read her face to no avail.
"Seriously? I can't be dawdling around here, then!", the young man said before proceeding to return back to the fighting arena ring at the Great Byzel Rock as much as possible almost immediately.
"Hey! I absolutely forbid you from making a ruckus until we've found Elizabeth!", Veronica sternly ordered after turning away from Alyssa who had simply walked away from them and followed Howser with an unconscious bandaged Taizoo she carried at her back for a proper place to help him, fearing that his enthusiasm might cause some complications in her personal mission.
"Oh well, good luck in finding Princess Elizabeth and take care of yourselves. See ya around guys!", the female Holy Knight gave her goodbyes while pondering in her mind that things are now getting much more and more interesting by the minute.
"That goes for you guys too! If you make a scene before the festival is over, I won't let you off easy!", Howser shot back with a mild threat in response and kept on running as fast as his legs can carry him to the upcoming match between 'Kamehame-Ha' and Janeda that was about to start soon before jumping in a very high leap to reach his main destination.
"This is my chance to see those legendary criminals and their power up close! Starting with the eighth shadowy Sin, Akame! Yahoo!"
Author's Note: It would seems that the twenty-first chapter is done and the next update will come around soon after my writer's block needed to fight off again and little break as well not to mention. The next chapter will feature the match between "Kamehame-Ha" and Janeda before "Meliodaz" vs Baan" comes in next and also some interesting notes as well. :D
Anyways enjoy and don't forget to review.