Inside an alcohol ridden airspace, Tatsumi sat at one of the many booths in the small pub. Wave, Kurome, and him were taking a stop after walking for a long while. They came across a small town in between where they were going. These were very common to find in almost any parts of the land, considering beer and alcohol were pretty popular at the time.

He didn't ask for alcohol, he just wanted water and a place to stay for a while. Most pubs had an Inn, but this one seemed like one of the rarities. It wasn't night-time anyways, so he figured they'd set out on search for an inn within another town soon. Their adventure was going so smoothly, but there was one, substantial problem.

Esdese had already sent people looking for him. He had to constantly put up with avoiding visual servants from her. In a way, he didn't mind it. He knew that she would find him sooner or later, but his plan: Get so far into the quest that she would have to join him. Sure, being an Empress has to be tiring, but really, how many more people are left in the Capital or world to assassinate?

He was glad that she was looking for him. He wanted her to be apart of the group.

Tatsumi snapped out of this thoughts when one of the waitresses lightly tapped him on the shoulder;causing him to give out a surprised reaction. This made her jump as well.

"I-I'm sorry you scared me." Tatsumi said, clearing his throat.

"N-no its my fault. I stared at you for a minute, I was wondering what you were doing, guess you were in deep thought." she said while embarrassed. She wore a strikingly resemblance outfit to Kurome. The all black attire, except she had white hair. He couldn't say it was the same hairstyle, her hair was pretty long. Her figure donned an odd resemblance to Akame's.

"Ah...well what do you need?"

"I was wondering if you needed anything else."

"No, I'm ok. Thanks for the thought, though."

"C-Can I sit next to you?" she asked, leaning closer to Tatsumi.

"Yeah, sure."

He moved over in the cushioned seat, allowing her to get directly close to him. They were almost touching each other.

"So. How has your day been?"

"It's been better, considering I'm finally out of the Capital."

"That place is pretty big and inconvenient isn't it."

"You are so right."

"Your name is Tatsumi...right?"

"Y-Yeah how did you-"

"A lot of the people that pass through here talk about how envious they are that you are with the Ice Queen so much. Its not any bad talk, just people that wish they were you apparently."

"I gotta give it to those people, I envy them for wanting my position. I didn't think I'd want it but somehow, things turned out that way."

"Uh..M-Mister Tatsumi you kind of confused me there, what exactly did you say again?"

"I'm sorry I just get lost in thought a whole lot."

"Oh. Yeah, I can see now." she let out a giggle and scooted closer to him.

"So where are you heading next?"

"W-well, its kind of confidential."

"Oh...so Mister Tatsumi is on a mission he is?"

"Yes, but its not what you would think. Its my own kind of mission."

"That's really cool! You're looking for Falorin, correct?" she wore that same giggling sound that pierced Tatsumi's soul.

Tatsumi widened is eyes and glanced over at her. She had this look in her eyes, he couldn't quite explain it, but it looked like she just saw her best friend burned in fire, her eyes looked, blank, it a weird sort of way.

"How did you know that."

"I know everything about you Tatsumi."

This conversation only caused Tatsumi's eyes to widen even further and a bit of sweat to drip down his cheek.

"I know where you were last night, where you're going, I know what you wore yesterday, I know what you ate, I know you and your Teigu, and I always see where you're going. I know everything about you Tatsumi. I know that you found the book. I know-"

"How do you know all of this, may I ask?" He put his hand on the broken Incursio.

"I love you, that's why. I love you so much Tatsumi. Ever since, ever since I saw you in that Market, I knew that I had to follow you...I knew that I-"

"I'm going to leave now."

She moved closer to him, putting her hands on his shoulders, trying to kiss him, but he pushed her back with higher force.

"I thought you were a waitress-"

"Nope. I just followed you here." she let out another one of those giggles.

"I'm leaving now."

He shoved her aside, making her stumble as she was forced out of the seat, Tatsumi leaving his water beverage to move accordingly to all the rumblings underneath and next to the table.

"You can't deny me."

Tatsumi ignored her, and walked swiftly towards the pub door. As he had the door halfway open, revealing a crack of sunlight to come through the designed wood, he halted at what he heard.

" I know exactly where Falorin is. I also have a distinct location to where Murasame is."

"You're lying."

"You want me to prove it?"

Tatsumi walked out of the pub, allowing himself to lean on a nearby tree, underneath the branches, giving him ounces of shade every now and then, dirt falling off of his black coat.

He didn't notice her already next to him, nearly grabbing his hand. Her talking made him jump once again.

"All you have to do is let me come along, and let me love you."

"How about you tell me where it is or I'll kill you?"

"You want to make a scene in the middle of a some-what public rest stop? Go ahead, Tautsy~"

He hated this. In almost every event, almost every moment, he seemed to have gotten used by someone or something. This girl might be using him to get to Falorin, or one of the Teigu. Wait, that didn't make sense because she knew where they were. He could use her to receive the Teigu. She didn't seem like a Teigu user, but unfortunately appearances are the biggest weapons you need to watch out for. He sealed that fact when he met Seryu.

After giving it hard thought, Tatsumi let his guard down and started to talk with her, ignoring the fact that she had her arm wrapped around him;causing them both to lean against the now partly shaded underlying of the tree.

"Why do you love somebody like me? You could be deceiving me."

"I could name many things...You always want to help if there is a child or somebody in dire trouble. You would always throw yourself into danger knowing that it would protect your comrades. You're cute, you're cool, did I mention you're cute? You-"

He felt himself shocked by her. He was becoming even more uncomfortable because of her constant inching towards his face and hugging him, causing her chest to touch him while she was talking about him. Embarrassment spread across his face as he scurried away from her grasp and started to talk to her again.

"You said you knew where Falorin was?"

"Yes...I believe you marked it on that map you made too."

"H-how the hell do you know so much? Have you been watching me this whole-"

"Yes, I know where you sleep, and what you have done in the past week."

"You...you are creepy."

"If myself being creepy gets me closer to you, then I don't care."

Tatsumi was about to say something but she cut him off and continued talking.

"-I know where it is, and which location to go to on that tattered map you made. It's a local cemetery located just outside of one of the most noted towns. Its a neat little town, I've been there a lot. Really country town. It's called Fellridge.

"Fellridge?" Tatsumi muttered to himself, again jumping at the fact that she had her arm wrapped around his without noticing again.

"How do you do that so fast?"

"It's my Teigu."

"So you are a Teigu user."

"Yeah silly, why would I know where Murasame was?"

"I see...are you ever going to let go of my arm?"

"No." she let out another one of those giggles.

"Look, can you take us to Murasame and help us find Falorin?"

"What a big request."

"You're the one that got into my face about it."

"I'm teasing you, Tautsy~"

"Please don't call me that. That is ridiculous and it should never come out of anybody's mouth ever again."

"Tautsy."

She loved his expressions, and she was acting a whole lot like Esdese.

"What's your name?" he asked.

"You're such an idiot Tatsumi. I'm Murasame you nitwit."

"You-"

"The evil eyes? With the demonic eyes?"

"You."

"I'm Murasame, and I know exactly where Falorin, Trakunikiss, Murasame, Lionel, Pumpkin, and lots of others. I know all of their locations, do you want proof?"

She cut him off speaking again, this time causing Tatsumi to get very irritated, shuffling his hands in a fit of frustration.

"Do you even remember making that map?"

"No."

"Because I made it. I took control of you and I made it..."

"How the hell can you say that so easily? You couldn't have let me know that you were about to hop into my soul?"

"You wouldn't have let me!" she stuck her tongue out of her mouth with a cat-face like expression. She really did seem like a sneaky, sneaky demonic cat.

"So are you possessing this poor girl?"

"No, this is me, actually."

"I have lots of questions for you."

"Well, lets get to them, as we get the road because I don't want to stay in that pub any longer. It sucked waiting for you there."

Wave and Kurome peered from a stone wall, very subtly revealing themselves to Tatsumi and Murasame.

"Cheating on Esdese already, I see." Kurome said, with a teasing expression.

"Anybody would cheat on her, shes a blue embodiment of evil!" Wave exclaimed.

Tatsumi was very embarrassed at this point, and to his dismay, Murasame was doing nothing but giggling while holding his arm.

"G-guys it isn't what it looks like, ok? She knows where the Teigu's are, like direct knowledge. If you guys would be alright with it, shes coming with us to find the Teigu."

"I don't have a problem with it, the more the merrier." Wave said.

"Just let us keep our personal space." Kurome responded.

Kurome noticed that Tatsumi wasn't wearing his hood and started to glare at him. This was a constant issue that happened all morning. Tatsumi wouldn't put his hood up to disguise himself so people wouldn't report them to Esdese or her group.

"Put your damn hood on Tatsumi!"

In a jerking reaction, he swiftly put his hood on, Murasame's arm still locked with his, her expression wearing a very content feeling.

"I don't want to deal with another one of her goons or clowns, do you know how annoying it is to fight soldiers using a broken Teigu?!"

"Calm down Kurome, my hood is on." Tatsumi put the one hand he could out to notion a stopping signal with his hand, shaking it lightly.

"You haven't been the one fighting these idiots...at least have a little more-"

"Alright Kurome, I get it."

Wave let out a huge sigh.

"Let's get going to the next town, guys. We can't risk anything further. Murasame, do you have like a bag, or something?"

"I'm not bound to terrestrial restraints." she said, with a smirk on her face.

"Are you an actual person, and not just a sword?" Wave asked.

"Yes. I was the spirit that was trapped inside that weapon for a long time, but for some reason, After the death of, well, my user...I woke up, in my normal body again. It had been years since I was, but now, I am free from that restraint, and I am now a Teigu User of my own. I left the sword you guys call my name in the hands of an acquaintance I've gotten to trust. In Fellridge."

"Fellridge is the next town we are heading to." Tatsumi said."

"Alright." Wave and Kurome said in unison.

Wave grabbed Tatsumi's shoulder as the group intertwined to start walking together.

"You're carrying some of the bags this time."

"Fine." Tatsumi wearyingly said.

Halfway on the road to Fellridge, Wave sparked up a conversation after the group had stopped talking for an extended period of time. Murasame, with her white hair, black outfit and strapped boots just let out an evil aura to him. He couldn't quite explain it. Kurome walking with a tire-some look on her face and Tatsumi just content as always. It seemed like they all were happy to be out of the capital, excluding the..."Murasame" of course.

"It doesn't make any sense."

"What?" the rest of the group responded, walking down the pathway, covered in dried up mud and cracks in the dirt. The grass slowly moved with the wind as the dust sprung off the convenient path.

"Murasame, you said you were trapped inside that Teigu, right?"

"Yes."

"Does that mean that all Teigu have spirits trapped inside them?"

"No, no that is nonsense."

"I was trapped in it by an old black smith that had a unique capability. He could merge other powers with Teigu to make them more powerful...but the cost of that was another user's entire existence. I was on the run for a long, long time, because the Emperor during that time had just took the throne; he wanted me captured and put into a Teigu for himself. They eventually found me and you could guess what happened after that...I don't like to talk about it."

Everybody had a sense of curiosity looming over them as they passed through a sign and archway, not paying attention to any of the signs saying "Welcome to Fellridge".

"Murasame was made after that incident, and it's power was formidable. The sword that Akame uses, it has half its power now that I am gone...but the power and aura of the demon is still in there. The very way it was forged was in treachery. I don't know how exactly Akame got her hands on it. The very reason I'm able to walk and talk now here back into the normal world is, its all thanks to Tatsumi."

"M-me?"

"Yes. When you woke up from your death, I saw it all."

"What did you see?"

"I saw an eagle, this fiery, really omniscient, transparent eagle, fly down and touch you. I don't know what it was...but it looked amazing. It was like somebody called God and told him to bring you back from the dead."

"Where were you when-"

"I was gazing through Akame's eyes. She...didn't make it."

Tatsumi exchanged glances over at Kurome, who looked very stale at the thought of Akame. He spoke up loudly so that he could make sure Kurome knew that he was directing it at her.

"We're going to bring her back, don't you worry about it. We are bringing all of our family back." Tatsumi said.

With everybody donning consoled faces, the group made its way to the entrance of Fellridge. It was indeed very country, the town itself bearing lots of resemblance to Tatsumi's old village town.

Tatsumi was still in awe about Murasame. He didn't know how she came to be manifested like this, or if she was using him. He didn't know if she was a demon, or if she was actually telling the truth.

How is she walking about like this? How did she just appear?

Tatsumi snapped out of deep thought once again as she lightly slapped him on the shoulder.

"Do you want me to show you to Falorin and Murasame now?"

"Is it really that simple?"

"Yeah, I'm me after-all. Everything can be simple with Murasame."

"You're saying that like I've known you forever..."

"Well you kind of have...in-directly of course."

Tatsumi took a glance over at Wave and Kurome, they both wore very tired expressions. He mentally thanked them for coming along with him on this mission. He would have never thought he'd be looking for Teigu's with former enemies.

Those very thoughts dwindled on his mind every night when he drifted off to sleep.

'How many compassionate, out-going hard workers have served the Empire not knowing...'

'What kind of Eagle would want to bring me back to life? It sounded stupid. It sounded idiotic. Why would there be any embodiment wanting to bring me back to life like this...was it because it wanted me to find these Teigu? Maybe it wanted us to live on.'

'Who the hell were the kids in the masks? It doesn't make any sense. This is like a horrible, horrible story, written very poorly...'

'Just how many,potentially good people have I killed?'

As Tatsumi walked with Murasame down the narrow pathway in between wooden housing, the duo did not notice the blue hair glistening in the wind as Esdese watched them both, from behind the very same entrance.

Sorry it took a bit longer to update, but that won't happen again. [I had to help a friend get his account back from a hacker(We are both Legacy Players of the video game: Destiny, so story is: some guy very angry at him for reporting him said hey, I'm going to hack you, and he did. Its all fixed now! We got the guy)].

Next chapter will be uploaded soon, and from then on, if no hindrances, one or two chapters a day.

Who am I kidding? There is bound to be another hindrance at some point...this is life you're talking about, man!

Thank you guys for reading and reviewing, it really does help me.

Also, it seems I had some punctuation errors in earlier chapters, I swore I proof-read a whole lot. Ah well, good thing you can go back and change them, which will be my adventure after I upload this.

You guys remember that you can do anything, anything you want. Triumph and live on happily!

- Jambles