At the capital, Run rushes into Esdeath's office.
"Esdeath! Vergo and Najenda have been spotted in Romary street!" Run exclaims.
Esdeath jumps up at the sound of Vergo's name being mentioned. She walks towards the door with haste.
"Call all of the Jaegers immediately!" Esdeath orders Run. Run hasn't seen Esdeath this rushed before, could it be that it's Vergo?
Later, the Jaegers have gathered.
"Najenda is continuing east. Vergo is headed south. We're going to split into two groups, Wave, Run, you're coming with me. Bols, you're going to get the elites of the imperial army to come with you due to our lack of numbers. We should have a group of captains off-duty at the moment, We will go get Vergo while you get Najenda."
Also at this time, the Prime Minister ordered the four Rakasha Demons to mobilize, Vergo and Akame are the best of Night Raid and are presumably not alone. If they can get rid of those two, they would weaken Night Raid by a considerable amount.
Bols and a group of six captains followed by 50 elites of the Imperial Army are riding their horses only to get interrupted by a scarecrow. Reading, 'Hot Guy'
"That is the most suspicious thing ever." One of the captains said as he dismounted. The soldiers all dismounted and grouped up.
Suddenly, a beam cuts through two of the captains.
"What?!" Some of the soldiers exclaimed, the captains and Bols have already pulled out their weapons to prepare for the fight.
Seconds after, the scarecrow starts to shake and explodes, and Susanno rushes forward to Bols and slams down his weapon, Bols back stepped and the earth shattered under the force of Susanno's attack.
Multiple figures appear, Najenda, Leone, and Akame appear out of the fog.
"Forwards soldiers!" Bols shout
All of the soldiers move in at Bols command. Due to his weapon, he can't afford to use it when all of them are there. So he's simply going to manually cut them off by sending them all at once in the beginning to both tire out Night Raid, and to be able to use his Teigu when he needs to.
Naturally Mine knows this fact and will keep her aim out on Bols.
"Ha!" Susanno lifts his weapon and sweeps in an arc sending multiple broken Imperial soldiers flying, the more experienced soldiers jumped away and the captain leading the charge jumped over the attack to try and kick Susanno in the face. Leone rushes in and throws a fist towards… the family jewels. The captain withdrew his kick in favor of blocking it, but it sent him flying back.
"Damn, that's going to bruise, girl…" The captain muttered while rubbing his hands before giving a lecherous gaze to Leone who simply grimaces.
The thing is, Captains may not be at the level of Night Raid members but they're still strong in their own right, and a couple captains on Night Raid can be enough to take down one of them. And, when fighting adding another fighter isn't simply 1+1=2.
The captains split into groups of two, it's definitely not enough to beat them but it's enough to stall so their Jaeger can use his Teigu much more efficiently.
A blast echoed into the area and Bols was prepared and jumped out of the way. The numbers on the Imperial Soldiers are constantly dropping every time a shockwave resounds throughout the area.
'At this point, if I start to worry about casualties I won't be able to get out of this alive… I want to live to see my family again!'
Bols's weapon starts to emit smoke as it charges up
"Wait sir Bols don't do it!" One of the soldiers yelled before getting swallowed by the fire. Najenda who was fighting the captain grimaces, and another blast tears through the air at Bols who dives out of the way.
Mine is safe from the enemies as they can't reach her, but her allies are still in potential of being harmed. She grips her hand.
"Kill him before he sets the whole area aflame and kills all my friends… that's a tight clinch, don't you think Pumpkin?" Mine mutters to herself.
Bols is cursing himself, with four of the Night Raid members they're soon going to cut down the fodder, kill the captains and then him. He can't use his trump card willy nilly either, cause the sniper will just kill him when his weapon is gone. He can't go after the sniper either as he's occupied and they won't let him chase the sniper down.
"Tch"
Najenda thrusts her hand forwards and punches the captain in the face, making him stagger back as he holds his bleeding and broken nose. At least until Susanno appears and smashes him into the ground. The other captain simply grits his teeth, they were struggling to hold out even 2 on 1, but now it's 1 on 2 and he's bound to get crushed by the large man. All the footmen at this point have either ran away to be shot away from the sniper or died by the large man.
There's no point in resisting at this point, so he simply rushes into the fray blind and swings his sword, obviously it missed and when the large swung down his large weapon towards his head, he didn't bother to dodge.
Splat.
All of the captains are down. Bols has tried everything he could, and the area is completely on fire. But the Night Raid is moving slowly. He picks up his canister and lifts it up over him.
"I have no choices left!" Bols yells out and throws it into the air. If he dies here, it's fine as long as he can take down the leader, and three other Night Raid members.
Just before he could even grab the detonator, a large wide blast cuts through the air and blasts into Bols, effectively making his effort meaningless.
"In short, this is a flawless victory." Najenda declares as she raises her fist to her three comrades.
Bols is dead.
The rest of Jaeger didn't realize it was a fake diversion until they heard the news of the casualties.
Bols, six captains, and numerous elites of the empire were killed. But that wasn't all…
"What do you mean Bolic is dead?! There's a reason why you four were supposed to be there!" The Prime Minister slammed his hand into the table, naturally nothing happened and ended up rubbing his hand.
"We're sorry sir… it all happened too fast." A large man simply says.
…
"You four… you will join the Jaegers to help exterminate Night Raid… Now!" The Prime Minister yelled and clearly peeved. His hands are shaking and his forehead is covered in bulges. Night Raid has been whittling down their forces and at this point the Revolutionary Army might be able to put a dent into them if they decided to attack now.
"Damn it!" Wave yelled as his fist crashed into a tree, sending it back flying.
'Bols had a family… he had a family and kids and they slaughtered him and the rest of them! Those monsters…'
"Wave…"
"Esdeath! You said we would be able to kill Vergo! But all that happened was that we searched for nothing and lost Bols, and many others due to these assassins!" Wave yelled and slammed his fist into the ground.
"I'm going to kill those assassins by my own hands if I get the chance too…" Wave silently made this oath to himself, which didn't go unnoticed by Esdeath who turned away. Esdeath wore a wide grin.
…
Two hooded figures walk down the streets in the impoverished areas of the capital. One of them is an astoundingly tall figure and the other one is shorter than average. These two are Lubbock and Vergo. Unfortunately, they got the attention of two of the Rakasha demons. Which eventually led to all four of them.
"Those two must be Night Raid… and I think we both know who the tall one is. We should get the rest of us to take those two down."
"Are you sure? That's the empire's strongest and one of Night Raid."
"We have to take them both down otherwise the Minister might just cut off our heads since he might deem us useless, especially considering our latest "
"Ah, that's true. I guess we have no choice." The two figures disappear.
Lubbock and Vergo are walking down the street to meet up with an ally.
"Lubbock. Go on ahead, there's people tailing us." Vergo simply said.
"Are you sure Vergo? I can help you if you want."
'Hell no, you can handle it yourself but I'll at least sound considerate.'
"No, you can go ahead. There's only four of them." Vergo simply said and vanished.
Lubbock smiled as he wiped the sweat off his brow as he once again avoided a fight.
The Four Rakasha have gathered and stalked their prey from a distance, only for the little one to run off and the big one vanishing.
"Wha-"
A fist slammed into one of the four, with a solid crack. The man had his neck snapped from a single punch, but it probably doesn't help that he's being slammed into numerous buildings along the way. The large man appeared in front of them and he threw away his cloak, revealing the large man and man on the wanted poster. The public knows him as the strongest criminal in the empire, but the Rakasha naturally know him as the strongest in all of the empire.
Killing intent is seeped into the air as Vergo doesn't bother to hide it, making the three remaining Rakasha sweat and pale.
The large man cracked his fist as his fist turn pitch black and vanishes
"Let's get this over with quickly…"