"Please... please don't kill me!!" A woman begs in terror.
"Oh, come now. It's your own fault for walking around at this time of night." He continues, holding her up by the neck. "Didn't you're parents tell you about the scary monsters that come out after dark?"
He's in you're way... KILL HIM
The man turns around and sees a man wearing a black trench coat and a top hat, he wore some weird burlap looking mask covering his face.
"You must be Zank the Beheader." The man says in a crooked voice.
"Hmm, how delightful, you like to be added to my collection?" Zank asks with a creepy smile.
"Actually..."
The atmosphere becomes silent until The Beheader's arm falls to the ground, dropping the girl he was choking. Zank screams in agony until a knife goes straight into his neck.
Zank turns around seeing the dark man behind him.
"Hush now, hush now." As the mysterious killer gently lies him on the ground.
"You're still alive? You must be one strong mother fucker." The man gives the Beheader a grim smirk.
"I heard you can hear the screams of the previous victims... I do too, but it doesn't torture me, it's like music to my ears." Zank coughs out blood, staining the mysterious man.
"Fine, have it your way." He says as he raises a cleaver into the air.
At Night Raids Headquarters
"Any info on Zank?" Najenda asks Leone.
"Well... you'll be surprised about this."
Everyone looks at her, as she holds up a burlap sack stained with blood. Leone tosses it to Najenda, catching the sack with her metal arm. When she opened it, her face shown shock and disgust.
She pulls out the head of Zank, with his Imperial Arm attached to it, with an envelope nailed on his forehead.
Everyone looked disgusted, Tatsumi felt like vomiting.
Najenda removes the envelope from the head and opens it. She takes out a letter.
It reads;
Poor rat bastard thanked me, saying that the voices are gone, but I told him that the voices will come back and scream into his ear drums, it was hilarious watching him cry like a little bitch.
You should thank me for giving you that Imperial Arm, Night Raid, but watch out for what's coming for your purple haired friend.
P.S. I'll be in the capital if you want to stop me from killing some innocent bystanders.
- The Ripper
"Is that creep talking about Sheele?" Mine asks angrily.
"Most likely, Leone, were there any witnesses during the incident?" Najenda questions.
"Yeah, I've met the girl who encountered Zank." Leone continues, "apparently the mysterious man saved her, but warned her to walk away before he changes his mind. I tried to ask her about his appearance, but she was too terrified to talk about it."
Najenda sighs, then looks at Akame. "Akame, where's Ezio?"
"He's still in his room... I'll go get him." Akame walks away.
"Alright everyone, our new target is The Ripper, do not underestimate this person, if he can kill Zank easily, he might be able to take you all down one-by-one, do not fail!"
The Capital, Midnight
"C'mon, Tatsumi, our search area is down this way." Akame says.
"Seems like the people of the capital are too scared of the killer to come out at night anymore, huh."
Akame covers his mouth and hides behind a wall. They heard footsteps of officers coming by.
"I can't believe WE have to look for this "ripper" guy." One officer complains.
"Yeah, I heard one of our colleagues found him, and got his intestines ripped out. Gives you the chills right?"
As they walk away, Akame and Tatsumi comes out of the shadows.
"To be honest, I'd rather get my head chopped off than my guts being ripped out of me." Tatsumi chuckles nervously. "Well, if you can excuse me for a minute."
"Taking a piss, huh?"
Somewhere downtown
"Hahh, I'm kinda on edge tonight, hmm." Tatsumi heard footsteps behind him.
He turns around to see his supposed to be dead friend Sayo, who looks alive and well. He stares at her in shock.
Sayo starts walking away, then Tatsumi started following her.
Tatsumi looked at her with joy. He walks towards her to give her a hug, when he tried, she faded away like smoke.
"It's nice to see a dead loved-one again, right?"
Tatsumi widens his eyes in shock, he turns around to see The Ripper standing behind him him.
Tatsumi immediately backed away from him.
"A little too late for that, don't you think?"
Tatsumi felt something bit him behind his back, he pulls out a syringe from his back. He collapses to the ground, feeling like he can't move.
"It was pretty difficult finding Curare around here." He squats down in front of him.
"Don't worry, it won't kill ya, if I made you drink it, yeah it would. But I made a few tweaks on it, just to make you paralyzed for 5-15 minutes."
"W-why are you doing this." Tatsumi stutters.
"I just want what's mine." He answers
They hear the sound of footsteps, Tatsumi see's Akame, Sheele, and the others with them.
The Ripper stands up and turns around to face Sheele.
"Welcome to the family reunion, Sheele." Sheele just stares unfazed. The Ripper continues, "It was nice of you to bring friends, but... let's just keep it in the family."
"I'll take care of him." Sheele equips Extase, and charges at The Ripper.
Sheele slices The Ripper in two, but then realizing it wasn't him, but an illusion.
"Don't get too cocky." The Ripper appears from behind her, and kicks her away.
Sheele tries to regain her balance. The Ripper takes out two daggers. Sheele tries charging again, but The Ripper dodges her attack, he then tries to slice his dagger at her face, but only giving her a cut on her cheek.
This time The Ripper charges at her. Sheele slashes her giant scissors at him. But unsuspectedly, he jumped over the attack, and kicked her across her face.
Sheele' glasses fall off, she then kneels down on the ground, dropping her Imperial Arm. Mine aims her gun at him, but Bulat stops, shaking his head to signal her to stay out of it.
The Ripper starts to chuckle. He walks towards her glasses and picks it up, he then walks towards Sheele, and puts them back on her.
The Ripper walks back slowly. "Looks like we should call it even."
The Ripper takes off his top hat, and then removes the burlap mask from his face. Revealing his identity.
"Nii-san..."