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PREVIOUSLY

Those damned whistles. Luckily, I can cover my ears, unlike dogs, but that does not stop the annoying noises from buzzing on my eardrums.

Fortunately, it did not last long and I was able to focus on those bastards again. However, it was too late to follow them. They had managed to enter through the hidden door, which they closed, and it was likely that they would have some insurance with which I would end up fighting before I could reach them.

It was also likely that some of them would blow the whistle as a warning signal, so it is likely that guards come here and ...

* Sobs *

Crying. A cry of pain reminded me all of a sudden, that my goal was not those miserable ones.

When I turned around I could feel my chest sinking and my anger escaping at the sight of the three girls, who had curled up among themselves to console themselves. The aroma of fear covered them all and I could feel the blood of two of them: the girl in blue alone was holding her friends with one of her hands while covering her right eye, or where she must have had her eye - if the blood I ran down his sleeve to clarify what had happened. The yellow one was held by her two friends while she looked at me with clear fear and made a futile effort to resist the pain that surely came from her broken knees and seated at angles that should not be possible. Only the rose seemed to have nothing besides his torn clothes, but like the other two was terrified to see me.

I could not help but wonder how he would deal with this.

DAY 5 AFTER THE ARRIVAL TO THE WORLD OF AKAME. INTERACTING WITH THE GIRLS.

Convincing a group of girls that you just saved that you are not a monster, after seeing you behave like one, is hard. Very hard. As soon as I tried to get close to them, they shrank as much as possible while sticking to each other seeking safety. Fortunately, the girl who was missing an eye –I later learned that her name is Luna– could overcome her fear and ask me who I am.

Classic movie line.

After introducing ourselves I was able to convince them to follow me to leave the place. I had to load Fal (the one in yellow) for her legs, and I gave my coat for the cold to Air (the one that had her pink coat torn).

It has been a few weeks since the incident where I met them, and we are currently staying in an apartment above the tavern where I almost lost track of them. I met the owner, Renzu, while trying to go unnoticed; which turned out not to be difficult.

Apparently, during the same night, an alarm sounded that led all the guards to investigate an incident, in a park; which I heard was due to members of Night Raid, and we learned about that the next day. I hope Akame is well.

Anyway, Renzu is apparently one of the few people with a kind heart in this place. I do not hesitate to take us to his house, which I accepted after hearing his heart to know that he did not cheat us, where he later called a friend of his –a doctor– to check on the girls. I had to give him half of my money for the treatment of both, Fal and Luna. Good person or not, medicines and materials cost; even with the discount he offered us.

Air, Fal and Luna did not say anything during the first days and did not leave the room except to eat, which Renzu's friend explained that it was not strange because of their situation. The first to dare to leave the room was Air. She thanked me in the name of the three, and I asked her to tell me how they ended up in that situation.

We sat at one of the tables in the tavern to talk about it four days after meeting them.

She hesitated to tell me a moment, but then she explained to me that they were sold to ensure the welfare of their people by paying the taxes of the empire. In a way, I was not surprised that much, it made some sense in an environment like this empire. Although I must assume that because of the high price that says they paid for them, it was a sale with specific conditions, which was a red flag signal for me. I fear –in the best of cases– that the town never expected that the three would end up in this situation.

Another thing that sadly seems, is not strange around here. According to Renzu, that was one of the methods by which the rich managed to abuse the country people who arrived with the sad desire to achieve success. Just the dream of propaganda of the first world, anywhere.

The funny thing was when she mentioned that everything happened because they let their guard down, according to her, all men are wolves –a little ironic considering who was the one who saved them.

The way she said it, made me think of her as one of those girls who in animes turn out to be somewhat innocent and try hard despite being clumsy. Something like Wendy Marvel maybe?

I had to forget the idea when she suddenly started crying. Here... in the middle of the tavern... where all the people looked at me like I was the worst thing in the world.

"Shit, how do I end up in this?" I thought then.

Fortunately, I did not have to explain anything or try to make her stop crying. She clung to me, I guess just thinking about it reminded her of the experience.

Comforting people is not my fort, the only thing I could do was to hug her. She was disturbed by the contact for a moment, but as soon as I started rubbing her back she clung and hugged me more tightly as she continued her cry. I did not even care if they kept looking at us.

DAY 14 AFTER THE ARRIVAL TO THE WORLD OF AKAME.

Air and Luna began working as waitresses in the Renzu establishment, once they seemed to overcome the experience. On the other hand, Fal helped him with the accounts due to her 'situation'. Apparently, she worked in a store in her old town, which helped her have a job with which to distract herself in what we were waiting for the doctor to come back.

Treatment options for broken arms and legs were, surprisingly, common in this place. Something about a rare danger beast similar to sharks, but with cartilage that adapts without problem when is applied. The animal is as big as a Megalodon of twenty meters and lives offshore. Too weird to see it, the last ones were a few years ago [1].

But the media and trained doctors –among them, Renzu's friend– were very few. Most were invoked by the imperial army due to expeditions and some conflicts with the revolutionaries, so the opportunities to attend Fal was small and much more to have what the doctor needs. Being honest is likely to have to resign to the wheelchair.

For my part, I work the night shift in the bar, while for the day I do something similar missions, for something similar to a guild that exists between the area of the poor neighborhoods and the middle class.

Remember the Deadpool movie? Well, for the people who are from the same place as me, I ask them. I think that in the bar of his friend that says the avocado, you could take mercenary jobs, here is something similar, only that instead of the ugly friend, there is a woman –maybe in her forties– and bodybuilder, who is called Creak. Funny story about how she earned the nickname, something about a guy who tried to get away from a fight key.

There I took mainly courier work within the capital and collecting materials in the surroundings. I do not earn much with the delivery of packages, but the rewards in the collection vary according to the risk, and as a bonus, I can keep something of what I gather.

Now, why do I do this? Well, it's not just to earn my food, for Fal or to keep my room in Renzu's apartments. But to learn about the incidents that occur in the surroundings, and to know both inside and outside what is happening in the capital. It's interesting to see how much of gossipers are some of the guards who come to leave job ads and drink. They believe that because they talk in whispers they are not understood. No, that only happens when they start babbling cause how drunk they were. In part, my improved senses also help to hear.

The thing like that was becoming a routine since I was getting used to both the work and the information gathering, as well as coexisting with the three girls, who started to see me like a big brother I guess. A life entertaining enough. At least that's how it was until the pump was released.

DAY 15 AFTER THE ARRIVAL TO THE WORLD OF AKAME.

He can't save Fal's legs. The doc had finally come back just to tell us. That another doctor, a famous one who worked directly for the emperor had sent to take all the resources that would help Fal even just walk.

He told us that the appropriation of resources was forbidden in the Empire, but because that another patient of the other doctor was a user of imperial weapons, they allowed him to take 'everything he will need', in other words, he took everything. And once his operation was a success, the doctor assured that he had to use a good part of the cartilage in the process and that he required what was left over only in case of damages after the surgery that was not noticed before. That was the official explanation they gave him.

The strange thing was that because of the fame of the doctor it was illogical that he needed it all because he was like a Stephen Strange, as I heard, with respect to surgical operations. Surely he just wanted to have it for himself, because he had a reputation for experimenting with prisoners as well.

After hearing it Luna and Air did not stop begging the doctor by some other means or if he could talk to the other doctor, but from his evasive gaze I could say that it was impossible. The guy had not even left his belongings to his house yet, he comes directly to apologize.

Fal, on the other hand, had not said a word yet, but because of how her hands trembled she did not need to.

In and of itself it was her difficult situation, with some sudden pains in her knees. I dealt with my ability to relieve pain. Returning to her village also seemed impossible; they feared to be sold again, and just as Fal and Luna were, they could abandon them as a 'burden'.

To make everything worse once the doctor left, with Renzu accompanying him, the girls began to beg me.

Remember that I mentioned that Air asked me to know what it was?

It turns out that the myth of the werewolf was not unknown to this world. When did I tell Air it did not take long to ask the classic questions: "Do you just become a full moon? Do you lose control? Do you get hair all over? Do you become a complete wolf? Is it true about silver? ... "

–"Of course, always the silver" –I thought funny at that time [2].

I do not know why but I decided not only to answer and correct some of her questions, but to tell she some of the things I had learned thanks to those who introduced me to the other world that existed in my reality: things like the ability to smell emotions, the herds and hierarchies, alleviate pain and self-healing, and how some who become even improved so much that overcome chronic diseases. But now I regret it.

They wanted me to convert Fal, believing that there would be a chance that she would recover her legs that way. To which I refused, but they did not stop insisting. I try to explain what it took to do it; the possibility that her body did not accept the 'gift', as I sometimes tell it [3], and could die. And in case she did, at some point, she might have to get away from them because someone discovers what she is. What was very likely in a place like this empire and the difficulties of the first full moons until she managed to learn it, in which I did not have the time to help her.

But that did not matter to them, they insisted and insisted, they even said that they would convert to never leave it. Air and Luna tried to offer themselves as a payment to convince me; either in a sexual sense or in servitude. I did not care, because all they got was to get mad at that. Do not save them from almost ending up in something worse than that life, only so that now they will try to crawl before me with something similar.

However, before I told them to shut them up, someone interrupted me.

–Only I will do it! –Fal shut us down, making us look at her.

She looked me straight in the eyes and then made an attempt to bow before me from her chair while asking me to turn her into a werewolf. And when I mentioned again the fact that she could die, she just said that she would accept it if it happened; that she promised her friends that she would be the one to protect them from everything in the capital and that I was now her only chance to keep that promise, after what happened.

Although, I understood what they wanted to do: rearrange the joints and hope that the healing abilities restored the ability to walk. Never heard of a similar case, I had heard how becoming a werewolf cured chronic diseases such as asthma, but nothing to return the ability to walk, I don't know anything to support the idea. And obviously, I told him so. [4]

"Then I'll find a way to protect them from this chair," was what he said.

Again I wanted to tell her that it was not an option and all the risk it would take to convert her, but something stopped me. Since Fal asked me to convert her, I can feel a wave of scents coming from her, the determination to take the risk; anxiety and fear of my refusal to give her what she asked me; the doubts... but also the shame and contempt. Shame for failing her promise, and self-contempt for her impotence.

Dammit.

I really did not know what to do, even why am I staying with them?:

a) Reject the girls' request and leave.

b) Reject the request of the girls, but stay with them.

c) Accept.

2019/06/02

1-Ok, I will not go into detail with this point but it is a reference to the use of shark cartilage to strengthen the joints.

2-In the Teenwolf series, it is pointed out that the last name Argent (from which the hunters of the series come) means silver, and it is indicated that it is because of that that the myth originates that only silver can kill a werewolf, when in reality it means that only the Argent (Hunters) can. Even so it is a popular idea that is always marked in the myth of the werewolf, so in my opinion is something fun that is always thought when someone hears about a new character of werewolf "Hey, and what makes his silver? " Even if I do not remember if in the series at the end if I could do something or not.

3-Call it 'don' is a reference to Anne Rice's novel, The Gift of the Wolf. I read it a while ago.

4-Although it is mainly a whim that occurred to me so that my Oc stays with the girls, I would also like to know what those who have seen the Teenwolf series think (if not that only the fans of Akame ga Kill comment). The idea comes more than anything from the time that Kira is wounded and pain is applied to heal. Yes, I know she is a Kitsune (I saw the whole series, although I do not remember all the details). But the point is that at that moment his mother communicates with her and tells him the similarities between the Kitsune and the werewolf, among them the ability to heal after applying pain. So I saw it as a possibility for Fal to walk again. Hence, believe that it is possible that by converting, and not being natural what happened to his legs there is an opportunity to save it.

SOMETHING I THINK I NEED TO POINT IS THAT I AM ASSUMING THAT THERE ARE ONE MONTH LAPSES BETWEEN EACH IMPORTANT MURDER OF THE TRAMA (AKAME GA KILL) IF SOMETHING SAYS ME THAT THERE IS ALWAYS A FULL MOON, ACCORDING TO I REMEMBER. I DO NOT KNOW IF SOMEONE KNOWS AND CAN CONFIRM IT.

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