Heavy modifications will be done to this chapter as it goes live. - Jambles

A few specks of shrub and leaves fell onto Tatsumi's head as he leaned back against a tree, letting the dead Trakunikiss wing surf around in his hand, gently and lightly gripping it;letting himself hold it to the brink of it falling onto the ground.

Where they arrived, the wing didn't work. He tried to figure them out more, but all it did was screw with his brain even more then the week did.

These wings weren't available for use repeatedly...he would have to find another wing before he'd be able to bring back any of his friends...and he still had the nagging thought that made him so uncomfortable it made him mentally ache. He still didn't know what Esdese could have up her sleeve, and why there hasn't been a militia surrounding them yet - he expected that it would happen - making very heavy influential actions on keeping his guard up, but he just fell into the unknown factor.

As he brushed the shrub off of his hair, he gently stood up to feel condensation on his coat, gently brazing it and moving his hand to wet his hand with it;promptly wiping it on a drier part of the durable fabric.

As he turned to the right of the tree, he wasn't too surprised to see Akame standing there - she had gotten good at appearing in weird places.

"So, this is where we stand, huh?" she said with a stern voice.

"Yeah..."

"It pisses me off. We lost our friends, and we took down that fat cat, and now, we're being put through an emotional roller-coaster for what reason?"

"That's what I've been trying to figure out, but Akame - don't complain about it, be happy about it."

"I'm trying my hardest-"

"All I can say is that you are alive, and are standing beside me right now...the very fact that this little object brought you back from the dead is astonishing on its own. That makes me happy."

She sighed as she looked at him, staring off as the wind blew through the grass, uncomfortably shaking the dew off of the nature.

"Tatsumi can I please ask you once again, why do we have Esdese with us?"

Tatsumi sighed as he responded.

"Look, I've already told you why...she isn't the enemy anymore...can we just leave it at that?"

"No, we can't...why couldn't you have just run away and did all of this, why bring her along? More over, I can't believe you're letting her sleep with you either...after all the things she did?"

"In case you haven't noticed, I tried that already-and-...it really isn't my choice whether I sleep with her or not...its kind of like a game of cat and mouse, and I'm always the mouse."

"If she is along with us while we are doing all of this - who's to say she won't just throw us all in prison after its all over? She'll know just as well that she wouldn't be able to handle all of us at once."

"What was our goal when we attacked the capital?"

"Ridding the corrup-"

"The corruption, that's right. Have you seen-"

His words were cut short by Akame sharply punching him in the side, causing him to stutter a bit before staring back at her annoyed face.

"Don't interrupt me like that...its very rude."

"Alright, I'm sorry - but have you seen any soldiers creeping around, any commanders or imperial arms users lurking?"

"N-no. Now that you mention it, the only people we've seen are the ones that you've killed, but I had just assumed that it was because of Esdese' presence."

"Look, I was told of a very, major evil sprouting up. Mura told me that the only way that it's alive is because I'm alive - and she even went as far as to haphazardly tell me that it's the reason I'm alive."

"So that Murasame girl really is bad news..."

"Its not her that's the problem...its this evil. I've seen the things it does to me - the way it talks to me...Akame its scary."

"What are you going on about? What do you mean done to you?"

"A few nights ago, my eyes bled - and I didn't even feel it. They bled like crazy, crazy enough to turn a rag it's same color. It spoke to me in my sleep, it told me that it would 'play a trick on everybody' and that it would finally find 'the joy of creation'."

"...and you don't think that isn't Murasame screwing around with your skull? Its bad enough that she coaxed you into finding these things, maybe she is the one that is creating all of this in the first place. It doesn't make any valid sense why she would be an entity or a human in my sword. She might be that demon - causing trouble..."

"Akame...she isn't. I've touched her before, she has let me know things that should have broken the boundary of insanity, but some-how...I just want to take whatever is coming head on. I just want a happy ending, doesn't that sound okay?"

"It does, but I think we should really take every possibility into consideration..."

"When I bleed, it isn't blood. Its just light. What does that tell you?"

Tatsumi grunted as he noticed the thrusting motion that Akame gave out - he knew that she was going to cut him with something, so he just let her cut his arm with her sheathe. The sheathe made a shifting sound as it hit his coat - gently letting a bit of what was supposed to be blood drip from the tear in it.

All that flowed out was white light;a white, bold void of light.

Akame stepped back in a slightly surprised expression as she slightly smiled.

"You've become some knight of god, haven't you? I ruled all of this nonsense you were speaking of as some kind of Tyrant effect but, you're bleeding light..."

"You don't need to mention him...he hasn't been anywhere since I stepped foot outside of my village...nowhere when-just forget it, and forget him."

Tatsumi sat in a wooden chair in a voided room, staring at a map sat on the table in front of him. He had a small candle lit, although he really didn't know why. He had guessed he did it as some sort of change in scenery - or maybe it made him feel a disconnection from some of the crazy crap he had been put through. Part of him just wanted to cut his arm even more then it already has been, and maybe then, just then, he would be able to understand what was flowing through him...because it wasn't blood. He wasn't human...

The color of the table had faded away with the darkness of the room, leaving nothing but the blinking candle light and the crudely drawn map. He heard a small grunt as he lazily glanced over at the nearby bed, watching Esdese grip the makeshift pillow he made to substitute for himself.

He had learned a few tricks throughout the months they've been together, but he really didn't expect to find her so cute...

He knew that it wasn't going to be easy to bring Night Raid back, but there was a sliver of thought hanging onto his consciousness like a small pebble on a creek stream; everything was a cake walk from the beginning more or less, Mura showed him where the Teigu were, and he gladly accepted the discoveries...

It only tolled on his mental state, making him question Murasame...

He couldn't question her now, because she owned the one thing that he couldn't find much of at all...Answers.

Tatsumi thought to himself, making out a pathway essential to their current surroundings. If The Trakunikiss wings are truly in these locations marked on the map, its clearly a reciprocal thought that there would be more people like the clan that attacked them looking for the small stones just as he was.

This land has claimed so many lives, its hard to think about what crazy human is looking for these, or how they even came across them.

But again, Tatsumi is a little crazy in and of himself.

After a long fight between him and his immune system, Tatsumi decided to settle on looking for the wing located a hop and spring over from where they were.

He knew it was stupid, and he knew it was cliche and reckless, but it was the absolute only lead he had. Sheele and Leone were inside of his mind, constantly blaring images of themselves at him;tearing at his motivation.

As he folded the map up and placed it further on the table in a tiring slug, he hunched himself over in the small chair that riddled itself with dust.

He placed a hand on his forehead as he slightly jumped at the surprising feel of Esdese' arms wrapping around his neck and placing him in a hugging position, allowing her to speak to him closely.

"You should really stop this whole 'getting up in the middle of the night to mope' act...because its really, really tiring, Tatsumi..."

"I'm sorry, but we went back to that forest clearing for no reason - the wing didn't work at all."

She wrapped her arms tighter around Tatsumi, causing him to sigh.

"How can you wake up so easily?" he responded.

"You could call it an attribute of mine...I always want to know where my love is, and once I felt that stupid pillow I knew it wasn't you."

"But that still doesn't-"

"I worry about you like this...- Get in bed Tatsumi. Now."

"Alright fine, just let me-"

"Now."