Multiverse Character Reaction to Godzilla #2
A/N: This is an alternative universe of Akame ga Kill where Godzilla's intrusion had significantly altered some events leaving some characters alive and causing some to die sooner than expected. Just a heads-up for anyone reading into this chapter as a follow up to the synopsis below. Other than that, enjoy the reactions from Akame ga Kill's characters mostly from Night Raid.
Synopsis: When Godzilla was resting in the very ancient Atlantean ruins that spoke of a long lost time in prehistory when man and Titan once coexisted in peaceful harmony, the ground split open with the resulting energy transforming into a portal that was created by the resurgent energies of an alien world in another dimension that once had an extraterrestrial civilization that is now extinct for reasons unknown. The still slumbering Godzilla was sucked into the portal and in there, he further mutated, growing more powerful and larger with three rows of spikier and bigger, wicked looking dorsal plates from absorbing huge amounts of cosmic radiation of the inter-dimensional portals connecting from his universe to the next. Once he has exited onto the other side of the portal into another universe different from his own, he would wake up very irate and confused, immediately sensing that the world he woke up to is not even his own anymore. Not helping him was the influx of the cosmic power that is now slowly corrupting him into a more destructive and aggressive monster. The angrier King of the Monsters would rampage about while exploring new universes while uncaringly disrupting the universe's timeline and history in the process.
GODZILLA
First Sighting:
Pacific Ocean, 1954
Specimen
Scientific Classification:
Godzillasaurus rex
Monarch Classification:
Gojira/Godzilla
Nickname(s):
King of the Monsters
Atomic Dragon of the Pacific
The Ultimate Apex Predator
The Dragon Guardian of Odo Island
God of Destruction
Giant Lizard Beast
Big Guy
Big G
G-Man
Size:
150 meters (495 feet tall) (formerly)
315 meters (1,155 feet long) (formerly)
199 meters (655 feet tall) (currently)
762 meters (2,500 feet long) (currently)
Weight:
155,000 tons (formerly)
185,000 tons (currently)
Threat Rating:
High to Extreme
Species:
A giant, amphibious, bipedal archosaur-type of reptile with his genetic roots extending back to the Carboniferous Period. Possibly related to the ancestral line leading up to the divergent families of ornithodirans (dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and birds) and crocodylomorphs (crocodiles, phytosaurs, aetosaurs, and raisuchians). Godzilla's species has evolved physical characteristics convergent to other groups of the archosaur family: Having two pillar-like feet with huge toe claws and a thick yet very long, whip-like tail similar to a sauropod, three rows of large jagged, maple-shaped dorsal plates akin to that of a stegosaur, a osteoderm-laden, scaly hide similar to that of a crocodile albeit the armor plates were more tightly packed, and a proportionately small head armed with powerful jaws several times more powerful than a Tyrannosaurus rex, with the exception of a pair of brawny, powerful arms with hands having four sharp-clawed fingers and an opposable thumb, which allows them to grab on to their prey or surroundings; a trait normally possessed by great apes.
Nature:
Bio-atomic
Behavior:
Protector/Destroyer
Unique Features and Abilities:
His crocodilian-like scales and plates are nearly diamond-hard with some being spikier scutes. This is what makes him extremely impervious to conventional and some of the most powerful superhuman abilities, thus earning him the distinction of being the most destructive unstoppable force of nature in existence.
Equipped with powerful jaws capable of biting through the hide of Anguirus, known for their capability of withstanding a direct hit from a MOAB, a pair of strong arms to grapple and hold on to its opponent, a long whip tail capable of leveling buildings with ease and breaking the bones of other Titans, Godzilla's physical capabilities also allows him to tackle or overpower monsters that are of the same size or larger than him. Other than that, Godzilla's own roar can be heard at least 10 kilometers and can temporarily deafen his opponent, stunning them for a few minutes. This makes Godzilla and his species one of the more strength-oriented Titans.
Godzilla is specifically evolved to absorb and metabolize radiation effectively thanks to his large maple-shaped dorsal, spinal plates that store up excessive nuclear energy for further use in battle or lean times when radiation is less plentiful despite being carnivorous in nature as he had been reported to prey on whales occasionally. It is this adaptation that allowed him and other Gigafauna like him to survive.
Godzilla is able to expel excess radiation in the form of his Atomic Heat Ray, a Chernokov radiation-laden beam of plasma energy, resembling blue fire from his mouth thanks to his own biological nucleo-synthetic organ located between his esophagus and trachea. This attack both burns and poisons his opponents and the environment with deadly radiation, and now it is more potent thanks to the cosmic radiation of the inter-dimensional portals. He has been discovered to possess another ability, which is when he generates and releases the excess radioactive energy via battery-like muscles on his right and left flanks and through the pores existent between his scales as an EMP-like shockwave called 'Nuclear Pulse', which could short out even EMP-protected electronics within a 200 mile radius and inflict devastating stun damage on other Titans. Godzilla, however, prefers to fight up close and personal with his enemies as his brawny physical stature is more than enough to crush them.
And what remains will be torn apart by wickedly hooked claws and teeth. The force generated by his swinging tail is enough to cause shockwaves through the air, and shatter bedrock.
His eyes can be shielded by ghostly white, diamond-hard nictitating membranes that glow blue like his dorsal plates whenever he's about to charge up his Atomic Heat Ray. Most of his senses are attuned to nuclear energies, including a directional sense of smell, and an "aura-sense" similar to radar that may have evolved in response to a variety of flying enemies. He is most maneuverable in water, capable of powered cruising at over 180 knots. His tail generates moving whirlpools that aid in thrusting him forward with minimal effort, like hydraulic turbines.
Due to his amphibious nature, Godzilla possesses gills on each side of his neck that enable him to extract oxygen from the water. On land, his gills become enclosed by flexible armored scales and he will use his lungs to breathe.
Godzilla's bones are believed to be as strong and dense as titanium, steel, and tungsten alloys. It is this astonishing skeletal structure that enabled him to walk on land without collapsing from his own weight.
[Play Godzilla KOTM- Main Title - Bear McCreary]
Akame ga Kill:
Godzilla goes on a furious rampage after having woken up deep within the snowy mountains just a few miles away where Esdeath, her loyal Three Beasts, and her army had camped in their mission issued by Prime Minister Honest to subjugate the Northern Tribes and its hero, Prince Numa Seika. His awakening and the fact that his body was still reeling from the aftereffects of having absorbed so much cosmic, alien radiation from the inter-dimensional portal that transported him into this dimension, effectively caused him to be more aggressive than usual. The mission screeched to a deadening halt as he burst out from the mountain wall with thanks to spitting out his more powerful Atomic Spiral Heat Ray. Esdeath and her Imperial forces never had encountered a "Danger Beast" that was so titanic and extremely powerful like this before in their lifetime that not even the Death Tagool would come close to Godzilla's knee in terms of height alone. It was their moment of hesitancy and mesmerized fascination in Esdeath's case that costed them as the King of the Monsters wasted no time in crushing them underfoot.
Despite their best attempts to retreat, Godzilla proved to be too big for them to truly escape from his wrath as he annihilated nearly all with the exception of the Three Beasts having escaped with very small remnants of their forces, and Esdeath who was truly caught up in the thrill of the fighting a "Danger Beast" that surpassed anything that she had hunted and killed before. Regardless, it mattered little as Godzilla's cosmically enhanced atomic radiation eventually weakened the formidable General and the intense heat hampering her Ice-Based powers from their full potential. Godzilla decided enough was enough and he released his Atomic Spiral Heat Ray, decimating Esdeath's last attack before the area was engulfed in a mushroom-shaped explosion that could be seen for miles away. Only Godzilla emerged from the mountains of the Northern Regions whereas Esdeath was nowhere to be found.
The news of Esdeath's apparent demise at the claws of a new, extremely titanic species of Danger Beast that resembled a giant, charcoal-gray, heavily armored Death Tagool with three rows of maple-shaped, azure dorsal plates that pulsate with a bright blue light and was about twice or three times the size of the skeletal Danger Beast sent shockwaves throughout the land. Night Raid was the first to pick up the word on the startling turn of events so unbelievable and unreal that even Akame almost outright dismissed the news. While opinion on the matter was mixed within Night Raid's members and the Revolutionary Army ranging from relief to skepticism about the newfound "Danger Beast" species, the Empire was in full panic mode as Esdeath's disappearance had a negative impact on the capital and its forces. The appearance of a new titanic species of "Danger Beast" that could shout a roar that could make the earth tremble and harness an unknown destructive power that wiped out mountains and decimated entire armies, possibly nations, only worsened the atmospheric paranoia engulfing the Capital. Many people thought that this beast was the fabled Behemoth of ancient times that had long ago destroyed the earth, incinerating ancient civilizations now lost to time, having returned to finish what he had started. They feared the worst in that the beast might unleash its vengeance on the Capital. Citizens, especially the nobility, were seriously considering fleeing the Capital should the Behemoth stomp right up to the city's walls. The Imperial Guards worked overtime of keeping the peace despite a growing number of them wanting to desert ranks and flee while the going was still good.
Inside the Imperial Palace, it was worse with the higher ups conversing one another in a fear-stricken reaction of the current situation. Many of the officials and politicians were aligned with the corrupt Prime Minister to advance their own personal ambitions or merely to save their own skins. Currently, there was a meeting going on in the council hall with Prime Minister Honest and Emperor Makoto present. The meeting turned heated and argumentative so badly that Prime Minister Honest was forced to bring in Great General Budo to break it up before it went too far.
Then another news of Godzilla or "Behemoth" in his latest appearance was on the outskirts of the capital where he not only unintentionally thwarted the Three Beasts' assassination attempts on Honest's political rival, Chouri and his daughter, Spear, but also killed Daidara, who was so driven by revenge to avenge the late Esdeath that he refused orders from Liver to retreat, with one stomp. Chouri and Spear were undoubtedly relieved that they were no longer at risk of being assassinated, but they were not out of the woods when they had their up close experience of Godzilla literally towering over them. The titanic monster almost crushed them with his clawed, sauropod-like foot that both the former prime minister and his daughter were very lucky that they were just inches away from where the archosaurian Monster King had stomped on their carriage. The encounter left Chouri and Spear shellshocked and the evidence of Godzilla being there was a massive footprint where the desolate village once was.
Later, Chouri and Spear were rescued by Night Raid during their original mission to track down the new mountain-sized "Danger Beast". The two were taken to Night Raid's hidden HQ to recover. After introductions, the former prime minister explained to Najenda and the assassins what had happened to him and his daughter that eased their suspicions of them being potential spies for the Empire, but also alarmed them that not only those two had a close encounter with Godzilla but also witnessed killing one of the Three Beasts, Daidara, like he was just a gnat waiting to be crushed into paste.
Just then a falcon flew screeching into the base, bearing a written message from a Revolutionary Army insider spying within the Empire. Akame was the one retrieved the small scroll from the falcon. When she read it, the news surprised her as she didn't expect it this to happen sooner, and she rushed into the base to relay the shocking message to her friends and comrades:
Godzilla/Behemoth was already devastating the northern districts of the Capital!
As for Godzilla, after he easily destroyed the section of the city walls, he rampaged without any resistance at first since there were no tanks, squadrons of jets, or battleships to stop him. The fiery boulders and artillery rounds fired by the cannons and catapults from the undamaged city walls didn't even make him flinch as they bounced off his diamond-hard scales. He advanced onwards, crushing many shopping establishments, houses, and entertainment businesses with his massive feet and long tail. Millions of panicked and terrified citizens saw their dreaded prediction come true as the Titan did indeed wanted to destroy them. Many fled, but many more died either from trampling each other in terrified haste or being unfortunate enough to be directly in the monster's path. The only notable opposition to the powered-up King of the Monsters were two-thirds of the Three Beasts and the Four Rakshasa Demons, but even then, it wasn't enough.
Two out of the Four Rakshasa Demons, Ibara and Mez were wiped out early when Godzilla callously tail-whipped them, killing them with their bodies snapped in half from the impact. Sten and Suzuka were forced to retreat , quickly realizing they were no match for him. Nyau deserted after seeing countless Imperial soldiers destroyed, including the ones he gave a morale boost to thanks to his flute-like Teigu, Scream. A clearly infuriated, desperate General Liver, who had lost any exterior pretense of professionalism after Esdeath and Daidara's death, Nyau's cowardly desertion and the decimation of the Empire's citizens and soldiers, resorted to taking performance-enhancing drugs to manipulate his own blood via Black Marlin in the hopes of at least making Godzilla bleed, even if a little. However, unfortunately, he was even denied of that when Godzilla simply fired his Atomic Spiral Heat Ray, incinerating General Liver's blood dragons. Liver, himself, evaporated out of existence being consumed by Godzilla's atomic fire, which also destroyed several city blocks killing several thousands of more people in the blast.
Then came the Great General Budo, and using the powers of Adramalech, he was the only one who could bring Godzilla to a standstill. The Titan King and the Great General faced off in an intense stalemate with both neither giving any ground to one another as the latter's powers had managed to damage the former so far like Thunder Crash and the Advent of Thunder Emperor. However, Godzilla's cosmically-enhanced powers and increased durability enabled the Monster King to tank the Great General's high-level destructive powers without even going down and with his stamina unaffected. The archosaurian Titan retaliated with his own attacks such as his Atomic Spiral Heat Ray, fireballs, and shockwave-induced tail-whip that either Budo blocked/deflected with a great deal of his power or sometimes avoid them.
The battle wore on much longer than expected much to Prime Minister Honest, Emperor Makoto, and everyone's growing incredulous shock given their expectations that Budo would have at least, knocked the Behemoth unconscious by now. At first it was subtle, but as the battle turned into a longer one of attrition with the area of about 100-mile radius of the city decimated, Budo became noticeably exhausted with his Teigu nearing the limits of its maximum power. Godzilla, on the other hand, became bored and rather unimpressed as it was clear that Budo, in terms of power levels, was barely comparable to that of a low-tier Titan fighting him. Not even Budo's superhuman might that did a number of bruises on Godzilla, which were rapidly healed, kept him interested anymore. After the Monster King concluded that Budo was no longer worth the salt wasting his time on, he dismissively turned his spiked back on Budo. The exhausted and disheveled Great General was not only shocked, but his disbelief quickly transformed into extreme anger at Godzilla's disregard towards him as unworthy. Budo activated his trump card, Solid Shooter, as he charged huge amounts of electrical energy and threw an enormous electrical orb at Godzilla's back.
To the shock of everyone, even Night Raid along with Chouri and Spear watching from afar on their Air Manta, not only did Budo's trump card not electrocute Godzilla, but his spines glowed as his body absorbed the energy like a sponge. Godzilla turned around with a deadly glare with his eyes illuminating ominously with cosmic azure light towards a now frightened and weakened Budo. Then the Monster King redirected the energy with twice the destructive power in the form of his now more juiced up Atomic Spiral Heat Ray that scorched the Great General deprived off his skin and muscles as Budo fell as a disintegrating corpse. Still needing to vent out the excessive energy, Godzilla obliterated huge chunks of the Capital's infrastructure: roads, buildings, bridges, etc. Thousands upon thousands of civilians and demoralized soldiers were wiped out by the cosmic atomic blast. Not even the Imperial Palace was spared as walls were obliterated and large portions of the architectural wonder meant for royalty was rendered into flaming, collapsing ruin. Prime Minister Honest was killed when the Spiral Heat Ray evaporated him and Emperor Makoto was scorched in half by the explosion with his right side burning and his left arm severed while many of the officials had been killed.
Tired and having let off all of the steam out from his system, Godzilla stomped back away from the Capital, leaving behind a truly traumatized and flabbergasted populace.
The following interviews and personal reactions are held with a host of different individuals. Makers of this documentary do not in any way endorse or condemn the viewpoints of any of these individuals and are strictly neutral concerning all affairs with the Empire, Night Raid, the Revolutionary Army, the Northern Tribes, and other parties.
[Play Gundam Seed - Kanashimi no Hoshi and Gundam Seed - Kodoku - both by Toshihiko Sahashi]
Tatsumi:
"W-W-W-Wha-?"
(Tatsumi shakily grabbed a glass cup of water and gulped all of the water down in seconds so fast that he nearly choked and coughed because of that.)
"*cough* *cough* WHAT WAS THAT?! WHAT ON ACTUAL FREAKING EARTH JUST HAPPENED?!"
[BEEP!]
"Calm down? Seriously?! The fact that a Danger Beast just annihilated a good portion of the Capital and wiped out a quarter chunk of the innocent populace in taking out some of the strongest generals the Empire has at its disposal, not to mention possibly killing the Emperor who is a kid?! Okay, I know I might be reacting unprofessionally here, but come on, I am extremely worried that we have a legitimate world-ending threat we know next to nothing about!"
"The Empire may have corrupt, blood-rotten, heartless politicians, especially a certain chicken-eating Prime Minister, running the Capital to the ground, but that does not completely justify the utter, indiscriminate destruction that we witnessed! I mean, how do you want me to react? I don't know! On one hand, I am glad that the Behemoth wiped out some of the biggest obstacles that were blocking Night Raid from liberating the Empire from corruption! And yeah, maybe saved Mr. Chouri and his daughter from having their butts skinned by those Three Jerks. However, I am having a hard time stomaching at the same time that it destroyed a lot of good in the process especially with that azure fire of his that spits out from his mouth! Innocent people dead! Families torn apart and for some, will never be stitched back together, with all never being the same! And don't ever get me started on the human predators that will definitely take advantage of the chaos to fulfill their own twisted pleasures as anarchy looms ever closer with the Emperor incapacitated or dead for all we know and the spineless governors jumping ship!"
"Argh! This world is already screwed up and I am trying to help Night Raid purge out the filth that claimed Ieyasu and almost crippled Sayo! The Behemoth's actions did nothing to improve it other than getting rid of some of our annoyances. That's why I have to train harder so that the next time that monster decides to screw us all over, I am not going to let anymore innocents die under our watch!"
Akame:
"While I will somewhat give the beast some credit considering it had destroyed Esdeath, the Three Beasts, and perhaps taking out Prime Minister Honest, otherwise, I am cautiously concerned of the Behemoth."
(pause)
"We must not forget that the Behemoth is still for all intents and purposes a Super Class Danger Beast, who has now become an uncertain threat to everyone. The fates of Honest and the Emperor remain unknown and balance of power has shifted with the Empire now hanging on by more precarious strings. I hope the Boss will give us the order to mobilize and perhaps convince the Revolutionary Army to do so soon."
(pause)
"You mean Prince Numa Seika?"
"Regardless of whether he'd care to ally with us or not, he will use this great disruption to mobilize the Northern Tribes onto the Capital regardless with Esdeath no longer in his way."
"There's still a lot of work to be done for Night Raid. Should Behemoth decide to bare his fangs at us..." Akame partially unsheathed her Murasame, revealing part of the blade, "...I will kill him for the sins he has committed against the innocent without hesitation. I'll sacrifice myself to Murasame if I have to just as so my friends may survive to carry out Night Raid's mission."
Leone:
"I honestly have more bad than good vibes from the Behemoth. When I saw that giant lizard causing major ruckus and death onto the Capital, my body froze with all of my animal instincts screaming at me to run and never look back while clashing with the rational part of my brain. Yeah, that's how really sketchy the Behemoth was. Look, don't get me wrong, I acknowledge that it smashed down some of the big sources of pain in the ass for us. Maybe, it was a blessing in disguise, but I am not buying it."
"Just a lot of things about that Behemoth don't sit well with the beast within me and some things about it unsettle me. It's like when I looked into that lizard's eyes, I saw it's not like the Danger Beasts we're used to...in a very weird, unnerving way. It has like some kind of spirit. I could clearly sense it behind those furious eyes..."
[She drank sips of the alcoholic beverage]
"The best way I could describe it is like I am seeing a noble god slowly being corrupted into an angry demon. It's in some sort of pain, but at the same time it's like feeding off from it that has translated into this destructive energy that really had people crapping their pants. Do you understand what I am trying to get at behind this crazy shit?"
"No kidding, both depressing and scary at the same time."
[Drinks more of the alcoholic beverage]
"Regardless, I am not going to delve into any more of that melodramatic psycho business. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt enough to want to smash something. Speaking of which, I will probably smash some Marg Dons and imagine the Alpha as the Behemoth I am going to eventually have to pummel because I wanna live life to the fullest and fight as the strongest! And I'll be embarrassed to carry the title of King of the Beasts if I allow myself to lose to an overgrown lizard!"
Lubbock:
"I might be in the minority for this, but I think we're better off leaving the Behemoth alone."
"I mean, considering how easily that Danger Beast was able to off Esdeath, the Three Beasts, and even the strongest General of the Empire without breaking a sweat, it may not be the wisest to antagonize it. Perhaps until we have more information about this new species of Danger Beast. That's where I will have to scour through my bookstore. I am no scientist, but somebody has to try."
"Secondly, I don't want to rush in not knowing what I am up against cuz' I hate dying without getting a hot girlfriend."
Mine:
"I don't know about everyone else, but I rather leave it alone so that the Empire will be the only one to suffer from that reptile kicking their asses off from their ivory towers. Let's face it, they're screwed. They and that bitchy enforcer and her ugly monster of a dog can be incinerated by the Behemoth and I couldn't care less."
Bulat:
"You'll have to forgive Mine for her language. She had just lost her best friend, Sheele, to a member of the imperial police that happened to have a biological Teigu that devoured her. Out of all of us, she and Sayo are emotionally the most all over the place, but don't say that around them, or they will kill you."
"Back to the question at hand, anyways, I think the Behemoth made our jobs easier...in the very short term. Right now, the biggest obstacle, Prime Minister Honest is out of action. In terms of the long run, however..."
[He scratches his the back of his head behind his pompadour hairstyle.]
"...our job has become more complicated with the already fraying stability of the Empire now on the verge of collapse way faster than we could predict. It means more work cut out for us and we currently have nowhere enough manpower to rat out the many elements of Honest's corruption still festering from within the Empire. Then there's the Behemoth. Not too many people would have the stomach to take on a Danger Beast that wiped out the Empire's strongest Generals and Teigu users in a row, which impacts our recruitment. And even if we gathered every Teigu from all corners of the Empire and arm any able-bodied, compatible man and woman to kill this beast, I doubt any of us will survive unscathed even with my Incursio. Simply put, the Revolutionary Army's chances of reforming the Empire will be slim, next to none as long as that wingless dragon continues to plague this region until either we or it are destroyed."
"That's my frank assessment of the situation and it makes me want to vomit just saying it."
[He pinches his nasal bridge between his eyebrows and breathes through his nostrils.]
"As for General Liver and Great General Budo?"
"Even though may have been dead to me after I joined Night Raid, the soldier inside of me still respects them. They may not have been the heroes that I once looked up to, but at least, I am glad that they went down fighting for what they truly believed as men regardless of having to be subservient under a corrupt, soulless regime. I have already mourned for them when I had to come to terms being Bulat of Night Raid rather than Bulat, soldier of the Empire, long ago. So to me, their death is mercy and their release from that bondage to the dying husk that is the Empire. Strangely, I thank the Behemoth for doing the deed."
"And that will be the only thing I will personally be grateful to the dragon for because, otherwise, the Behemoth is the enemy of Night Raid, my comrades, and the people of the Empire I swore to save and protect as long as its hatred for man will drive him to destroy us."
"One that Incursio and I cannot allow to happen not until justice is truly served in this world!"
Sayo:
"To say I was rendered aghast would be a huge understatement. The only word to come even close to describing what I saw would be...catastrophic."
"But even worse, we did nothing. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! While we watched on the Air Manta basically twiddling our thumbs, a lot of good, decent people were scorched into ashes! I know I have no love for the Empire after what that little lying brat did to me and Ieyasu, but we're talking about ordinary citizens!"
"Ordinary. Decent. People!"
"We should have at least done something to help them! But no, all because of [imitating Najenda's voice] 'We will risk giving our position away in a tense, destructive situation with no guarantee for survival.' schtick."
Sayo growled as she grabbed a glass cup of water and threw it angrily against the wall, shattering it with water and ice cubes splattered all over!
"BULLSHIT!" Sayo screamed with tear-stricken angry eyes as she was beside herself. She became mentally irrational as the trauma of earlier events starting with her torture in Aria's household started to hold sway of her emotions, "Then why the hell did we even ride up in the Air Manta and watch it all unfold in the first place?!"
"I already heard the excuse that this was meant as a recon mission and we were not supposed to interfere! I get that! Yet I feel so disgusted the moment I tried to use it to justify the fact that we just watched the Danger Beast create a massacre! It's not right! How does this make Night Raid any better than the evil Imperials that have tortured, beaten, raped, sodomize, and worse, watch with cold indifference and disgusting laughter as their victims die in front of them as a result?!"
Sudden flashbacks of she, Ieyasu, and Tatsumi's departure from their home village, the village elder, their splitting up, she and Ieyasu, tired and exhausted, meeting a courteous Aria and her family, then their torture at the hands of the same girl and her family, Tatsumi's shocked bewilderment when he was shown the truth by Night Raid, Sayo's recovery in bed, Ieyasu's grave, her first mission accompanying Tatsumi, Leone, and Bulat to the area where Chouri and Spear had taken refuge, and the haunting image of a large bloody stain in the crushed ruins of the desolate village where a severed hand belonging to a little village girl that clutched onto a deformed bear doll.
Sayo's expression morphed into that of terror and despair as she was beside herself, crumpling her knees with her legs like jelly as she fell to the floor. Her thought process disjointed and disorganized. Shakily, she grabbed from the pocket of her black jacket the very same bear doll from the now destroyed village as she clutched it tightly to her chest as she whimpered.
"When I saw the girl's hand, I thought of Ieyasu...Tatsumi...our parents...the thought that came to my mind terrified me. Shook me...the thought of not being able to make a difference...the fact that I would die like Ieyasu and these villagers that are just like me, him, and Tatsumi...not saving mine...Tatsumi's...village...we disappear...without a trace...I..I..."
Then occurred to her horrific flashbacks of witnessing Godzilla incinerating the northern districts of the Capital with his Atomic Spiral Heat Ray as many of the unfortunate citizens got caught in the crossfire.
Men, women, children, the elderly, the sick, the downtrodden, the young, the old, lovers, loners...
Their humanity obliterated and burned into ashes, yet their shadows of their humanity inscribed into every stone and wreckage with the most haunting of them all being shadows of two lovers about to protectively embrace in their possibly last tragic romantic moment before they were evaporated into kingdom come.
Sayo broke down as she became overwhelmed by the trauma, sobbing as quietly as she possibly could as any words she attempted to form all died in her throat and were replaced with agonizing whimpers.
However, fortunately, it was Tatsumi, but he too was emotionally troubled when he heard Sayo angrily crying. He was doing his best to keep his emotions in check, albeit barely, as he rushed to Sayo's side to his best to comfort her. When she saw who was kneeling by her side, she hugged Tatsumi and wept bitterly onto his shoulder. Tatsumi, for his credit, hugged back silently as he silently shed tears in response. No words were needed and frankly, they were unnecessary as the sullen mood spoke for them.
Watching from the corner was a forlorn, exhausted Najenda along with Akame, Leone, Lubbock, and Bulat watching behind their leader at the emotionally-draining scene in front of them in sympathetic silence.
Mine actually heard the emotional commotion, but she retreated into her bedroom and slammed the door shut. As soon as she smacked her back against the door, she slid down to the floor as she cried not only for the thousands upon thousands of Imperial citizens and even soldiers that had perished from Godzilla's assault that fateful evening, but also for Sheele who died prior to Godzilla's rampage on the northern side of the Capital. Mine, in an exercise of futility, cursed at the gods for allowing Seryu to get away with the murder of Sheele and the theft of Extase when the Behemoth should have stomped in and roasted her psychotic hide right there and then.
Spear was seen comforting her tired father with a sad smile on her face and wrapping a cloak around him to keep him warm on the couch. Chouri was shaken and distraught with sorrow and guilt as he felt responsible for leaving the citizens that were once under his care to Emperor Makoto's...no, Prime Minister Honest's administration to plunder the wealth and the power of the Empire for his own selfish ambitions and personal gain. Thus, indirectly responsible for angering the gods in the heavens quite enough to summon the Behemoth unto this world as punishment for man's sins.
Within the dark alley of the city way in the Capital, a broken and depressed Nyau no longer cared if some mugger, robber, or criminal would stumble upon him and perform whatever despicable deed they might do to him. He lost the will to live after witnessing General Liver die and concluding that Esdeath wasn't coming back. His flute Teigu lying on the ground next to him untouched for hours.
Emperor Makoto's half-burned, dismembered body carried in a blanket away from the destroyed Imperial Palace to the infirmary by one of the few palace guards and the Emperor's servants that have managed to survive the Behemoth's wrath.
Despondent citizens mourned and wailed over the dead across the flaming northern districts of the Capital with the surviving soldiers of the Imperial army standing mourning with them.
Even Seryu and Coro couldn't hold back their tears mourning in deep sorrow that "injustice" had reigned supreme instead of what she considered "justice".
Bols looked at the destruction of the Capital's northern districts, signified by the burning glow of the fires and smoke, from the porch of his house with his stern look hidden behind his gas mask. With him were his wife and daughter, Kije and Logue. They stood beside him with Kije having a concerned, sad frown on her face while a scared Logue hugged tightly to her mother.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Esdeath had actually survived, albeit heavily scarred, and was standing on a forested hill overlooking the Capital where she could clearly see the trail of destruction left behind by Godzilla. Her right side of her beautiful face and flawless back was now marred with grievous burn wounds covered by patches of ice she applied on to prevent herself from bleeding to death. Where there was once a smile that signified pleasure in hunting and sadistic love in dominating her opponents in a fight, there was now only a frown filled with hatred and the poisonous desire to not only hunt down the Behemoth, but also torture and desecrate him so badly that death would be more merciful as she glared out into the horizon where she could see a glimpse of Godzilla's glowing spines in the distance.
End of Part 2