A/N: Hello there, everybody! Please enjoy yourself in this yet another info built segment, onward with another evil Akame ga Kiru character in this quite tasty chapter!

Chapter 4: Kill the Executioner

...In the alleyway of the Capital, Nighttime...

The red moon shrouds upon the brutal decapitator, whom killed two Imperial guardsman days ago, just finished beheading a male and is now gripping a helpless young woman by his left hand.

"Please... please don't kill me!" The terrified woman pleaded.

"Oh, but I must. It's your own fault for walking around at this time of the night. Didn't your parents warn you about the scary monsters that come out after dark?"

"I-if you let me live, I'll do anything..." She said as she cries out for her life.

"Really now? You would be willing to do anything I asked?"

"Yes! I will! I'll do it, so please!" She screams out in terror.

"And what if I told you that I want to see your head separated from your body? Would you be willing then?" The killer reveals a menacing stare as he swiftly decapitated her.

"...Huh...?"

He then drops her head on the puddle of her own blood.

"Mmmmm... Happy, happy." A malicious grin appears as he thought of the many victims he'll have fun with. "I just can't stop doing this."

...The next morning, Night Raid's training area...

With several heavy swings from a large blade, Arata stops and rests a bit.

"I can't keep this up for long, Aniki... My arms..."

Bulat did a final swing from his pole that has a large metal brick at the endings.

"Aah? What is it? Looks like your muscles still move unnecessarily."

"Exactly my thought, Bulat. Arata, you need to concentrate and strengthen your will." Yuuji added in the conversation after he rigorously completed in doing a thousand of pushups, sit-ups, punching and kicking the sand bag, and wielded two large blades and swings them both from each hand at rapid pace. He just came back from his daily routine of running out from the base and back to the training grounds with a heavy armor and 2 ton weights on each limb, which is what he's currently wearing as it seems that he finally breaks a sweat.

Bulat walks next to Arata and assists his training.

"As he said, if you can lose all the unnecessary motion, you'll last twice as long. And you'll become even stronger; you can leave it to me." Bulat gave him a smile as he positions Arata's muscle in the correct form of movement.

"R-right..." The onyx eyed teen says with a weak smile.

"Arata... Time to prepare breakfast." Akame stands near the training grounds' entrance with a pink apron that yet again spells out Kuma-san. How kawaii is that.

"I'll be joining you for it in just a sec, Akame-chwaan!" Yuuji exclaims as he then jumps out of the armor and weights, grabbing out an ice cold bottle of water and gulps it down in mere seconds. "Phweew... That hits the spot..."

Bulat thinks of how nice that Akame has Yuuji, and a bit jealous of her because the crimson eyed teen has a nice set of lean, strong muscles.

In the hideout's kitchen, Akame is chopping up ingredients for breakfast, and Yuuji takes up more than half of what she's doing.

Arata walks in and asked, "So what are we cooking today?" to which the red eyed beauty replies, "Croquette bowls" she said as she holds up a potato in her left hand.

'Croquette bowls in the morning? Nothing less from assassins... damn.'

When they were all famished from the meal, Arata seems to have a pot belly while, sitting next to him, Leone stretches her arms up as she yells a tone of relief, saying, "Thanks for the food!"

"My stomach's not looking too great..." As he rubs his enlarged body, Leone takes a glance at Arata.

"Huh? Mine and Sheele aren't awake yet?" The onyx eyed teen asked as he peers on over the two empty seats with each untouched meals to the right from Akame. Yuuji is sitting in between Akame and the Croquette bowls for the pink haired Tsundere and the purple haired air head.

"Yeah, but it's always been that way." Akame takes the bowl next to Yuuji, and eats in just seconds. The crimson eyed teen takes notice of this and grabs the other bowl and gave it to her. As the red eyed beauty takes the second bowl from Yuuji and begins to eat it, she feels the need to reward him somehow... so she used the chopsticks to hold on a piece of meat and then motions her lover to eat it. Akame blushes when Yuuji signals her to put the meat in his mouth, whilst closing his eyes in a cute manner. When they were both finished, the bowls were place back just as quickly as they ate it.

When Akame takes out a handkerchief to lightly clean her lips with her eyes closed, Arata asked with wide eyes, Leone did the same, "You ate that at an extremely fast rate, didn't you? Damn..."

Akame stands up and says, "Arata, we're making tuna bowls for lunch." As she said that, Sheele walks behind her to her seat.

"So that means the creation of tuna may include mustard and mayonnaise, as well as pickle for someone who loves it... I don't like pickles... so I'll make mines pickle less!" Yuuji exclaims as Arata stares at both him and Akame.

"Tuna sandwich sounds better..." Alas, he was ignored.

"Are (huh)? Where's my breakfast?" Sheele asked as she sat on her chair and stares at her empty bowl.

Somewhere secluded in the forest alongside the river, Najenda is sitting on a rock next to a gravely injured male Revolutionary Army spy.

"Well done. Where are the others?"

"I'm the only one who made it here." He said as he struggle a bit to speak.

"I see..."

The spy hands out a documented file to her as he said, "These are the names of supporters who've offered assistance when the revolt starts."

Najenda grabs it with her mechanical arm as she said, "I will take good care of it. Leave the rest to me."

With his dying breath, he said unto thee, for those are his final words, "Please... Ensure the revolution..." his right hand drops to the floor as life cease within him.

"Yes, no matter what."

...Later that night, Night Raid's meeting room...

"The target this time... is the rumored serial killer that is plaguing the Capital. Late at night he suddenly appears, and chops off the victim's head indiscriminately. It's unknown how many dozens of people he has killed so far." The boss said with a serious tone.

"And a third of those killed were part of the Imperial guard, right? So he must be strong to do all that." Arata puts in his personal opinion.

Lubbock looks at Najenda and says, "There's no mistaking it, he has to be Zank the Executioner."

"What's his story?" Arata asked.

Mine decides to answer it for him, but she instead says. "You've never heard of him? You must have really lived in the sticks if you are a country bumpkin, huh?"

Sheele raises her left hand as she says, "Pardon me, but I don't know who that is either."

"I think you've just forgotten, Sheele." The pink haired Tsundere replied.

"So, what kind of monster is he then?" Arata continuously asks.

Mine finally gave the persistent bastard an answer, "Originally, he was apparently the executioner in the largest prison in the capital. Because of the Prime Minister... there were many people to be executed, the numbers increased. Day after day, again and again, he kept cutting off the heads of those on their knees who were pleading for their lives. It seems that after years of this, these beheadings became a nasty habit of his."

"It wouldn't be strange that he lost a few loose screws with a job like that..." Arata commented.

"So, since executing prisoners started not to be enough for him, he then became a psychopathic killer who began to kill at random." Mine additionally explained to Arata.

Bulat joins in the topic as he explains, "He disappeared right around the time that a detainment force was sent out to find him. Who were to believe that he'd show up in the Capital?"

"What a dangerous guy, we need to find and kill the shit out of him!" Arata further elaborated as he throws a fist upward.

"Well, hold your horses, Arata."

"... Aniki?"

"Zank stole the warden's Teigu before leaving. And from then on, he became a serial killer. And so we should travel in pairs," Bulat grab's Arata's chin with his index finger and thumb with his sparkling face and then continues, "because if you ran into him without a partner... you'd be in big trouble."

'I kind of get the feeling that I'm in another dilemma of danger at the moment. I'd rather want Mine as my partner...'

"Hey boss... Did we ever find out what Teigu Zank has?" Mine inquired.

"Sadly, we're still looking into that."

'Then he won't reveal things so easily... That's troublesome.' Leone thinks to herself.

"Well one way or another, if Akame or I were to find him, then you can consider Zank to be terminated to a crisp or poisoned." Yuuji adds in to the group's discussion.

"The meeting is now adjourn, go in pairs and eliminate this scum!" The boss orders every member of Night Raid in the room.

...Later that night, in the Capital streets...

Arata didn't get his chance to team up with Mine, because she's with Sheele, and Leone teamed up with Bulat while Lubbock is scouting near the area for any potential danger for the others. Instead, the onyx eyed teen went along with the strongest duo assassins.

"Yeah." Akame said as she looks at a map with a location marked on it. "Our search area is down this way."

"Seems like the citizens of the Capital are too scared of the killer to even come out at night anymore, huh?" Arata looks off to the side as he said.

"That actually makes things easier to-"

"Shit, hide." Yuuji said quickly as Akame muffles Arata's mouth and rushed down the row of houses and then hidden themselves behind a stone wall. The scene is a bit interesting because there isn't enough room for three, so Akame is sitting on between Yuuji's hips, causing him to smile with a blush, his heart beating rapidly as so as Akame with a tint of blush on her face.

"The Imperial Capital Guard." Yuuji spoke up after he clears up his throat as the city's guardsmen left.

"Even these guys have shown up... we need to be careful." Akame included it.

As the three of them got up and walked further into the section, Arata begins to asks, "Say, Akame... Can I ask you something before we start searching more?"

"Don't worry, I've brought emergency rations." Akame said with a thumbs up.

"That isn't what I wanted to ask... but exactly, what is a Teigu?"

"Things like this." Akame unsheathe her blade to Arata. Yuuji just lit up a fireball oh his right hand.

"I kind of get the idea, but it's still not enough."

"Well Arata, you can think of the character 'Tei' in Teigu for 'Emperor' or 'Empire' which means that it's a powerful weapon for only the strongest of warriors can wield them. Got it?" Yuuji tries to explain it to his best friend.

"Hmm~ I do, but I'm intrigued by the Teigu's history."

"So then, where should I start? Hmm~ About 1,000 years ago, after the great Empire was created, the Empire began to worry. The Teigu were instructed to be created by the orders of the First Emperor. To prevent this, he had gathered many materials and hired the greatest scientific minds from all over the world to make the strongest weapon and defenses. Although they are extremely powerful in some ways, Teigu are not indestructible, so they can be destroyed through beyond their limitation or by brutal force. Many weapon and armor type Teigu were forged from ultra rare metal, such as orichalcum. Teigu are not limited to one ability; some are known to have secret powers that are yet to be discovered, and some have powers that are lost to history. Legend says that many Teigu were created from the remains of the most dangerous of legendary ultra class danger beasts that have unique power, imbuing the equipment with special abilities. With the first Emperor's absolute power and limitless fortune, he accomplished a feat that is impossible in this current era. The results were the creation of the 48 deadly weapons, known as Teigu, but almost half of them were lost during a civil war about six centuries ago. Each and every one of them is said to be powerful beyond belief, such as mines. Each one holds the power of a thousand elite warriors. It's said that the Emperor's retainers, who the Teigu were given to, achieved greater military success than ever before. I can say it for a fact that my Teigu is very alive to me... because he even talks to me in a proper manner! For now, he's sleeping though."

"Okay then, poindexter, too much information..."

"Yuu-chan, what do you mean by 'he' talks to you?" Akame stares at Yuuji deeply in his crimson orbs with an intent to discover by what he meant by it. The red eyed teen continues to eat her little sandwich as she awaits an answer.

"I'm so sorry I couldn't fork over the information and tell you before when Arata and I joined up with Night Raid. I made a promised to keep his identity a secret until now, he trusts only to you, because we're together in love, and Arata as my best bud. To start it off, his name is Alastor, a great ultra class fire phoenix/dragon danger beast, a king of his kind, sealed within the forbidden flare fruit, which I ate years ago. He can only be destroyed if I die; thus my survivability is at an utmost importance to him.

"So what you're saying is that... you have a badass dragon within you and kept it a hush hush all along!?" Arata eyes increased exaggeratedly in large stars as for the hype is immense in quantity.

"Well~~ you can say that I~ got the Tatsumi (sleeping dragon) inside of me~." Yuuji said with a wink.

"Is he a part of you then?" Akame inquires further into this interesting topic.

"Quite literally, it seems that it may have been possible that our souls were fused together when I ate the fruit. That strange fruit has to be part of the puzzle that made the fusion to miraculously succeed. I've only read several mythologies about it, and based on the books, it's as rare enough as it is for the mera-mera no mi to appear in this world, as the only one of its kind obviously, and the transfusion with the soul of the consumer and the one that's trapped within the fruit. Shrouded in mystery, it is still yet unknown of what type of technique was used to seal Alastor..."

"Makes sense, since you do love to hunt, and meat of all things. Could it be synchronization in personality, or just good compatibility?" Arata comments his thoughts.

"Can he consume you?" Akame continues on with her sea of questions, slightly worried about Yuuji's current state with his Teigu.

"I'm pretty sure he can devour me, but that would mean his death in the process so it would be highly unlikely for him to do it. The best bet is that he might want to accomplish is to possess me if I allowed him or if I'm ever unconscious in a heat of battle, resulting my life on the line. And I believe I can use a technique that allows me to have the aspects of a fire dragon, scales and wings, and maybe even the size of Alastor... but that's still uncertain."

"That is incredibly awesome, Senpai!"

"I'm satisfied with your answers, thanks Yuu-chan, I'm glad to know that you'll be okay." Akame gives him a smile that melts his heart. The very image makes him blush.

"Why, anytime I'll h-hope to provide an answer to your questions, Akame-chan!" Yuuji smiles back, unknowingly the two hold hands as they walk along the street.

After a while of searching, Arata looks at the two and asks, "Is it that everyone has one of these Teigu, right?"

Akame replies back, "Yes. Everyone but the boss. My Teigu is the one cut killer 'Murasame'. A single cut from this accursed blade is certain death because the blade injects a cursed poison into any wound caused by it that will kill within seconds. There is no antidote for this poison. Also, just as people possess secret skills, so does the Teigu. Incursio, for instance, can take on the characteristics of its surroundings, allowing it to blend into it for a short time. With such strong abilities built into the Teigu, there has always been one 'iron rule' while using them... If two Teigu users with intent to kill clash, without fail, one of them will be a victim. In other words, if two Teigu users fight, only one will survive. Our target is Zank who has a Teigu. Even if you both strike at the same time in an encounter, the possibility that both will live is zero!"

"So even with a mere scratch, that blade will inflict mortal wound, right?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm lucky as hell to be alive that I wasn't stabbed by you since our first encounter... I probably wouldn't have survived without Senpai's intervention."

"Damn right you needed my help, Arata!"

While holding Yuuji's hand with her left, Akame lifted up her Teigu with her right hand, saying, "I've had this blade for a long time. It's become famous all over as the one slice, certain death demon sword."

"You aren't supposed to get well known, are you? But regardless, that's to be expected, isn't it? I mean, it's invincible like Senpai."

"No, this blade has a weakness."

"Such as?"

"Maintaining it is nerve-racking. You have to be extremely careful while sharpening it. If you accidentally cut your finger, you die instantly."

"Ah..." Arata let out a sweat drop.

"And in a battle, if you don't directly cut your opponent's skin, then the curse won't be executed."

"Facing someone like Aniki, It would be tough fighting an armored opponent, huh?"

"This is a one slice, certain death world to begin with. I try not to overestimate the abilities of the Teigu. As such, a Teigu's power shouldn't be relied on too heavily." Yuuji embraces his red eyed beauty in a hug, and then they continue onward with the search for Zank.

'Akame... What kind of horrible things have you been through all this time...' Arata thought.

Standing above the clockwork tower amidst from the assassins of Night Raid is no other than Zank the executioner.

"Hnnnnn... It seems that assassins have now arrived, in addition to the slasher. My, what a dangerous city this is, hehe... so happy, so happy. ... Okay then... Which head should I go after first?" Zank zooms in with his Teigu as a middle eye, going through many members of Night Raid, until he spotted both Yuuji and Arata. "Ah, eyes filled with such passion for love, and another with a sense of duty. Admirable, admirable." Zank looks intently at Arata from a long distance. "... It's decided! The most delicious fruit are the ones that are just about to ripe."

Walking down the streets of the Capital, Akame, Yuuji and Arata saw a mini market (an especially secret revolutionary army owned store) and bought themselves some refreshments. Whilst drinking, they rested on a bench from the front of the store.

"Do you think he's coming tonight?" Arata asked, sitting from the far left.

"Perhaps he's roaming around our area, be vigilant." Akame replied from the far right.

"Either way, we have no choice but to wait patiently, I suppose. What do you think, Alastor?" Yuuji said from sitting between the two of them. The two gave Yuuji a curious gaze to see if they could hear Alastor speak, or not. To their amazement, they can hear a strong deep voice emanating within him, the tone from Alastor seems to contain wisdom and a vast amount of intelligence.

"Zank may have scouted out everyone, or killing random victims, so everyone must be on their guard."

"Thanks for the heads up, Alastor."

"That's interesting and all, but I gotta go somewhere."

"You're going to the bathroom, huh?" Akame said with her eyes closed, holding hands with Yuuji and the other with her snack still in place.

Arata walks over to an alley to take a leak. "Hahh, I'm kind of on edge tonight, even tenser from what Alastor said..." As he finished doing his business, Arata heard footsteps from his left. "Hmm?" Arata looks to the direction and spotted out what seems to be... a long silver haired loli?! The little girl walks away from Arata.

"Please don't go away, my lovely. There's a serial killer on the loose, and so I must protect you!" Arata ran after the girl who disappeared from the corner.

A while later, Yuuji and Akame walks over to where Arata supposedly took a leak... just to find out that no one is there.

As Arata tries to catch up with the silver haired loli, she finally stopped near an abandoned brick building with many surrounding stone columns. Inspecting the strange girl, Arata realize that she is wearing the standard uniform of the Afterlife school, a skirt with white petticoat underneath, white knee high socks, brown loafers and a pale blue barrette clip on the back of her head, which keeps a part of her hair up. Being only 150 cm tall (4'11 feet), she is the perfect image as Arata's loli waifu.

Arata stares into her golden eyes, with hints of auburn/brown in certain shades, and then says, "If I'm not mistaken, then you must be Kanade-chan, right? Holy shit... have you truly been reincarnated into this world?"

The girl only smiles as Arata approaches her, "Anyways... I'm so happy you're here! I'll protect you in this world!" Arata then embrace her in a deep hug.

"How passionate, looks like I showed you something rather special..."

"Huh?" Arata looks up to see that he was hugging a 7 feet tall grinning man.

"Combaowa. (Evening)"

(Technically Konbanwa, but his mannerism makes it sound like that.)

Arata back away from the hug as he says, "Uwahh! Holy shit! My Kanade-chan turned into a strange old man!? Nooooo!" He yells as his image of Kanade shatters in his mind...

"Rather than calling me 'old man', I would prefer that you affectionately call me Zank the Executioner." The slasher revealed who he was as he takes out blades from his sleeves that are latched on his forearms.

"Kisama..." Arata emotionally takes out his blade as he his intent to kill spikes up.

"You've been separated from the others... If you wait, your two friends will eventually show up... But will you live long enough for that to happen... But why are you still thinking about the girl you saw?"

'I will make him pay for ruining my reunion of the image of my perfect waifu from a Manga... But what the hell!? How did he read my thoughts...? Is that eye a Teigu!?"

"Pinpon~ (Bingo)! Teigu 'Spectator'. One of its five visionary abilities, Perceptive Sight, I can read your thoughts by seeing your facial expressions, body languages, and stuff like that. Think of it as an extreme form of observation to the ultimate degree. If I get questions about you right, can I turn you into a shrunken head?"

"Like, fuck no, would I go for that! Holy shit, you're one talkative guy for a psychopathic murderer..."

"Talking is one of my hobbies after all. Oh, and by the way... the power I used to find you was 'far sight'. Whether it's night or foggy, I can see you clear as day!" Zank dodged from a slash from Arata as he distanced himself from the onyx eyed teen. "So~~ Happy! You figured you would try something because I was talking? It's completely useless. Because I can see everything that's going on in your little head." Zank points with his right index finger to his Teigu on the center of his forehead.

Arata charges towards Zank and tries to slash him again, but he failed to do so.

"You step into my space and attack with a slash from above. And then try to end it with an upswing of the blade to my midsection... which is... A feint... To leave me open for your thrust to my windpipe. So... is that what you were thinking?" The crazed grin does not leave Zank's face as he moves in to leave a deep wound across his chest. Arata manages to swiftly move out of harm's way, blocking the blade barely as he received a gash on his left thigh.

'He's strong, I'll give him that. He's on a whole higher level from anyone I've fought before... fuck the usage of his Teigu!'

"The look on the face of the one whose head I'm about to take... It's just so irresistible. Most of them have this completely blank look of surprise on their face. So? What I'm saying is that... what kind of facial expression will you show me, huh...?! Happy, happy~!"

"There's no way I'll lose my head to a fucker like you! My neck isn't that weak!"

Meanwhile, Akame and Yuuji are in search for Arata.

The red eyed teen unsheathes Murasame, as she says, "Arata... where have you gone...?" Yuuji walks next Akame and says, "C'mon to this direction, I can somewhat tell by sniffing out his scent."

Now back with Arata's fight...

"That's good. The young are so upfront and honest. Still think I'm a fucker now? Well, I like you, kid! So shall I add you to my head collection?

Arata receives multiple slashes from Zank's frontal assaults, leaving him covered in cuts and bruises.

"Happy, happy~~ I think I've hurt you just about enough now... I just love hearing someone beg for their life with that sort of look on their face. So I was careful not to damage you too much."

"What... the fuck... was that...?" Arata said in between deep breathing.

"Now..." Zank raise his hand as if gripping the air. "Beg for your life! You may even be able to buy enough time for your friends to show up."

Arata slowly gets into an offensive position as he says unto thee, "...you've got to be fucking kidding me. Do you really think that I'm that gullible to get on my knees and beg for an incompetent piece of shit who only knows how to decapitate people and then clean up their bloodied mess for my life!? And for ruining my perfect image of my perfect silver haired loli!? There's no way in hell that's ever going to happen!"

'If he can read my mind then the answer is simple. I'll focus everything into this final attack!'

"...Ohh? Quite valorous, aren't you? I'm sure your wounds are hurting, yet it's as if you want a master of decapitation like me to help you commit suicide."

"Fuck your shit!" Arata toke the element of surprise with his inhuman speed as he attacked Zank in a forward slash. Swift cut across his right eye, Zank made sure that Arata receives a deep nasty slash wound on his back.

"Heh. Got your bitch ass..."

'He surpassed my expectations with a speed of that attack. This damn kid got my eye...'

"And you... have the nerve to call yourself a 'master of decapitation'? Hah! Doesn't this mean you have failed to kill me...? You pathetic worthless dirt bag, don't make me laugh..."

And with that, Zank yells at Arata, telling him to shut up. When the executioner lost his cool and ran towards the onyx eyed teen's downed position, a wall of flame blocked his passage and a beautiful red eyed teen appears before Arata, from over the rooftop, defending the fellow Night Raid member as Yuuji stands besides her with flames engulfing his right arm.

Akame gives a small smile, as she says, "Good job riling him up. Emotionally speaking, it's your victory, Arata."

"Akame... Senpai!" The black haired teen smiles in relief, seeing as his two comrades came to his aid.

"Jeezzets Arata, we barely found you in the nick of time. A second later and something would've seriously happened. Saving your ass yet again... well, tend to his wounds Akame, I'll try to end this quickly."

"Hmmm... the ill reputed Akame and the demon sword, Murasame. I've wanted to meet you, and a flame user as a lover of yours? Happy, happy."

"I've wanted to meet you as well. Taking your life is my current mission, but Yuu-chan can do it." Akame went over to attend to Arata's wounds.

'Transparent Sight!' Zank mentally thought as his Teigu power activates to examine Yuuji through his clothing, consisting of his usual open front shirt and black boxers underneath his black shorts with no belt, and inspected Akame's undergarments as well. 'I see. This guy only has a dagger belted to his left side, while Akame doesn't have any hidden weapons!'

"Be careful, Senpai... with that eye, he can read your thoughts and body language!"

"Thanks for telling me... so that's the power of his Teigu, huh..." Yuuji starts to build his anger greatly from the way Zank looked at Akame with his eye's power.

"Well then... how dare he stare at my Akame..." Yuuji starts to pop his knuckles, for as he couldn't wait to kick ass. "Just because he can read my mind, doesn't mean he can keep up with my movements! Your ass is mine!" The crimson eyed teen charged towards Zank at an alarming rate, causing the cement he was standing on to erupt in pieces as the executioner go on the defensive maneuver. Barrage of punches and kicks went at him, skidding Zank backwards. Appearing to the left and right side at an extraordinary speed, Yuuji delivered a hard punch that made the user of Spectator backside crash against the stone column. He immediately, but barely, dodges a swift kick that was embedded within the column of stone and then Zank moves out of the way as Yuuji destroyed it with a simple diagonal upward kick.

'How masterful... he has a mountain of close combat experience. And it isn't just his agility, either. He has excellent hand to hand strength to match, or even greater than that!' Zank thought as his grin stays as evil as it is.

"Amazing... Senpai is extremely agile... so that's a real fight between two Teigu users...!"

"Yuu-chan got this under control... but he would have finished this quickly if he had used his Alastor's power... so why isn't he using it?!" Akame worriedly express as Arata also wonders the same thing.

'God... fuck this turd muffin, he keeps on relying his Teigu by reading my mind and body... if that's the case, then... how about I show him some morbid images of himself being tortured to excruciating levels... '

"Ahh, you don't need to be filled with disturbing images, it's not healthy... how splendid! But Spectator has the ability to see the future as well! By seeing the tiniest muscle movements... I can see what you are planning to do next!"

Almost immediately, with Yuuji's quick movement, he smashed his right leg downward against the executioner... but to his surprise, Zank was still able to read his pattern as he parried his leg away and gave him a thrust wound deep into his chest cavity. The crimson eyed teen jump kicks away backward while covering his injury, blood seeping from the wound.

"Yuu-chan!/Senpai!" Akame's eyes widen as Arata couldn't believe what's happening.

'This is one tricky opponent to handle; it would have been easier if you used my power...' Alastor mentally spoke to Yuuji.

'If it weren't for his damn Teigu and that surprise attack, I would have had his ass by now...' Yuuji replied back.

'Luckily for you, my powers passively heal your wounds, but not the core... so do try not worrying your beloved. So, why won't you use my powers?'

'He made this personally by staring at my Akame with those beady eyes of his... I want to kick his ass with my own raw strength... and call me crazy but I think he's the filthy shit that gave me the weird feeling of beating the life out of someone back when I've returned from the assassination job of eliminating the prime minister's relative...'

'Hmm... Well you need to put away that pride of yours because it'll get us killed, and who knows what trick he may have from his Teigu.'

'I'll do my best to keep that in mind Alastor... if only his blades would break...'

"I tell you, that strange ability of fire you've released earlier that stopped me from finishing off your friend, and now you have an ultra class danger beast in your mind? Happy, happy! It makes me wonder if you are a biological Teigu since your mortal wound seems to be healed, or if it's a consumption type of Teigu like that one certain General of the empire..." With that said, Akame was relieved to hear it but still worries for Yuuji's safety.

"I could say the same to you, seeing that you know what I'm going to do before I can act upon it."

"I now know about the past assassination with Akame and you. Happy, happy~... Say, Fire Fist Ace... What do you do about the voices...?"

"...What voices?"

"Yes... the voices that never stops. The voices that drift us from hell... The moans of those who have been murdered. The ones that bear a grudge. Constantly calling for me to join them in hell. Since my time as an executioner, I've always heard them. But recently, they've been especially loud. I quiet them down by speaking. But how do you deal wi—"

"I don't hear anything. I've never heard of such disturbing noises. No voices. Nothing of the sorts. "

"...What? I thought that an assassin like you would share and understand this problem, but... how sad, it seems that I was mistaken!" As he yelled, Akame suddenly appeared in his place.

"It's because I love... What?! ...Akame?" Yuuji's eyes widen in realization that instead of Zank, it's the one he loves the most in the world.

"What's going on?" Akame asked as her assassin partner is starting to act strangely.

"Senpai! Snap out of it!"

"Illusionary sight. This ability finds the person most precious to you and shows them before your eyes."

"Yuu-chan! That's not me!" Akame yelled out, trying to grab his attention, but no luck.

"It's useless, Akame. For the one trapped in it, the illusion is absolute. He's in a loop of memories. Furthermore... no matter how skillful the person is. It's impossible for them to lay a hand on the one they love most... and not even the one in his head can interrupt his trance..." Yuuji drops to his knees as he smiles brightly as ever. "Die while smiling at the one you love most in this world! Ace!"

Zank charges in to take Yuuji's smiling head off... until someone stops his track yet again, and it was Akame this time.

"I will not allow the one precious to me to die." The red eyed teen begins her intervention by slashing Zank away from Yuuji.

"So now you want to join in as well? Happy, happy, but activating this ability twice is tiring. If you are a good as him, then I can't risk anything now, how depressing!"

Akame begins to mentally prepare herself for the worst, but what she saw shocked her eyes.

"...Kurome?"

"God damn it, you two! What you're seeing is an illusion!" Arata yelled at the two, and he received no responses. Yuuji smiles evermore as Akame couldn't believe what she's seeing.

"They're both in for it now! Die while gazing at your love one, Akame!"

Akame left a visible emotionless expression as she looks down and strikes horizontally with her Murasame from the incoming illusion. Zank blocks the attack just as he realizes the situation, sliding backwards from the mere force of her attack alone.

"Impossible... She didn't even falter... She's merciless...! How!? You should have been seeing the person you care most in this world besides Ace here!"

"It's because I loved her the most, that I wanted to kill her as swiftly as possible." Akame's eyes turned as cold itself, shadowing over as she stoically replied.

"She... what is she...!?"

"This fight is almost over..."

Zank looks at his duel blades from each of his forearm. 'Oh no... It's breaking!'

"First I must destroy his weapon." Akame dashes towards him, intent to kill.

"Nuraaaaaahhh! You think you can kill me~~~!?"

As their blades collides in a furry amount of slashes, Zank's blades begins to crack even more.

'I need to kill her first before Ace snaps out of his illusionary trap! I can see her next moves, so I have the upper hand!' Gah... I need to kill her now! But my blades are going to break before I can do that...!'

And with that thought, Zank's blade broke to pieces as Akame vertically slashed it, incredibly powerful.

"Eliminate." Akame swiftly cuts his neck horizontally, ending him once and for all.

"Gahah!" blood spewed from Zank's mouth and neck as he fell on his back.

"So, how about it? You can no longer hear the moans of the dead, right?"

Zank's earpiece shatters as he fell to the ground. 'The voices have stopped...' He smiles from the thought.

"...hah... happy, happy... Arigatayo (I'm thankful)... Akame..."

Akame walks away from the smiling Zank, and now she walks towards a smiling Yuuji. The red eyed teen strikes Murasame into the air for the blood to escape from it before sheathing it, making the blade easier to clean later.

"Yuu-chan, that was an illusion, snap out of it." Yuuji sits there with a droopy smile as it seems that he had fallen asleep. Akame toke this as an opportunity to see if the tales are true about a lover's kiss that can wake up a princess in slumber, in this case it's a prince. As she kissed Yuuji, she felt a rather deep feeling coming from him. Lips entwine as one, making Akame's heart beat rapidly, and with that, Yuuji came to his senses. He was obviously blushing from what the red eyed girl is doing, but nevertheless, he accepts the affection and kissed her back greatly, taking the lead with his hands pulling Akame's waist to his own.

"This is a lovely moment and all for you two... but can I have some help here?" Arata asked as he laid there. The three man team picked themselves up to regroup with the rest, and then they all left for the hideout.

For the next few days, Arata sought out training from Sheele, as his mentor, and even learned her past, killing the ex-boyfriend who tries to harm her friend and then later joined Night Raid when she was a freelancing assassin, and how there is actually a screw loose somewhere in her mind that makes her a perfectly natural, and an on and off kill switch which grants her the talented assassin title. But as such an airhead, she rarely does any chores around the base as she fails to accomplish it, like the one time where she mistook sugar for salt from shopping and Leone laughed as she rolled around the ground at her mistake, or that other time where she was in charge of laundry, she accidentally washed Mine with the dirty clothing... But besides her airhead personality, she's the kindest person in Night Raid; therefore the boss concluded that she would make an excellent Sensei for Arata.

Everyone was surprised to realize the passive ability Yuuji has, and that Alastor resides within him. Nevertheless, everyone takes a liking to Alastor due to his respectable manner and an interesting danger beast that everyone thought to have been in pure fantasy.

...The next afternoon, after Arata's days of training, everyone is presented in the meeting room...

"Arata... your wounds are pretty much healed, right? The Teigu we took from Zank... I want you to try using it." Najenda motions for him to take it.

"So no one else wants it?" Arata asked.

"It's one Teigu per person." Bulat answers to Arata with a smile.

Lubbock looks at Arata and added in, "Because it takes considerable mental and physical strength to control them."

"The eye has many useful abilities; I guess I'll try it on." Arata place the Spectator on the center of his forehead.

"There was nothing about it in the book. But it's a Teigu after all, so I'm curious to see what it does..." Najenda's eyes curiously gazed towards Arata.

Akame points to herself as she says, "It has the ability to read minds, right? Try looking at me."

"Try me as well, Arata!" Yuuji jumps into the conversation.

The onyx eyed teen looks at the ceiling as he then says, "You two... want to eat meat tonight!"

With a surprised reaction, Akame and Yuuji replied in unison, "Exactly, perfectly amazing!"

Leone had her arms crossed as she says, "No. He still hasn't activated its ability yet."

Mine did the same as she has a weary expression, "I don't want him to read my mind. If it has five different visionary abilities, try one of the others."

Arata whispers to himself, "Damn, all she does is bitching around... which I love. ...Okay then. Activate, clear sight!" But when the eye does activate on command, Yuuji instinct's kicks in and hugs Akame's body from Arata's line of sight.

"Yuu-chan?"

"I'm sorry Akame, but my instinct tells me that if I don't do this... then I'll accidentally kill someone." The crimson eyed teen replied back as he hugs her tightly, his back is looking at Arata.

"Well, do you see anything?" Mine asks as she walks a bit closer.

"Holy... shit... I'm in heaven..." Arata's face lit up in mad blush as he stares at Mine's pink pantsu and bra, they are visible in his eyes.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" Mine asked as she slightly bends down to her knee level.

'This is the most fantastical ability ever! The Teigu are amazing...'

Arata suddenly fell to the ground, as he asks, "Huh? Wh... What's going on... I suddenly feel exhausted..."

"Shit, it's rejecting him!" Lubbock exclaims.

"Hurry and take it off!" Akame commanded Arata, but Yuuji quickly appear next to him and removed the Spectator and tossed it to the boss.

Najenda says, "It's the compatibility... it seems this Teigu isn't suited to you."

"You were thinking about how uncool it looked or something weren't you? The user's first impression of the Teigu is important, you know?" Mine expresses her thoughts.

"Umm... no, that wasn't the reason. It was far more amazing than anything I thought were possible, I was thinking of the trouble I might get into..."

"Like as such?"

"That's for you to guess Mine, and by the way, thanks for the treat!" Arata thumbs up as drool came out of his lips, leaving Mine to wonder what he could have meant by that last part. Except the last part where she remembers the morning peeping incident, but it still somewhat confuses her.

The boss stares intently at Spectator as she says, "This will need to be sent to the Revolutionary Army HQ then. It'll need to be analyzed so it can become a part of our fighting force."

Akame looks at Arata's face as if answering the question in his mind, "While we are an assassination team, collecting the lost Teigu is one of our sub-missions. When we run into enemies who possess a Teigu, like Zank did... We take them... Even the weakest of them are invaluable..."

"The more we have, the stronger the army becomes. So speaking of Teigu, which one is the strongest?" Arata asks with his eyes closed.

After some pause, Najenda answers, "Their use and capability changes... But if I had to say..." She places her mechanical hand to cover her eye patch. "The ice manipulation Teigu... is what I think. Luckily for us, its user is currently busy conquering the northern tribes, and we at least have Yuuji's Teigu to counter hers if she returns... fire and ice, are natural enemies after all."

Lubbock decides to explain a bit about the tribes. "Because the people of the north are very strong, they even have their own hero."

Arata perks up from his words as he replies, "I've heard about him. The hero of the north, Numa Seika, is a prince of the northern tribes. With his spear, he has never lost a battle. He's a brilliant tactical genius who the northern have absolute faith in, currently the Empire's greatest threat. His powerful army uses the country's most fortified city as base of operations. They've even become strong enough to invade the Empire!"

Lubbock nods from Arata's information, but he adds in, "But in order to keep that from happening, the Empire dispatched an expeditionary force to subjugate the northern tribes. But there's no reason to worry yet. Even with that woman as their general, it'll take at least a year or two to take control of the north."

Arata smiles as he says, "That just mean that the stronger the enemy, the better chance of us collecting more and more Teigu, after all."

"Well for now... everyone train. Arata, you will be on a scouting mission with Leone. This meeting is now adjourn, dismiss."

...In the northern lands, the fortified city...

There were many bodies incased in ice front the city's entrance to the very center, and many were tied to a spear to be left starving as they were thoroughly tortured, eyes and lips sowed shut. The general of the Empire's army is sitting on her makeshift ice throne. Kneeling before the general is none one other than the hero of the north, who is licking her boots like a dog.

A soldier came up to her as he says, "The northerners were defeated in a blink of an eye. That's our general for you!"

The general exhales first, and then says, "Their army, people, and pride were so easily crushed, huh... And this is their supposed hero...? How worthless. Die! Dog!" She proceeds to kick the head clean off from Numa's body, all the while she bores a face of disinterest as she rests her chin on her hand. As blood splashes on the faces of the soldiers, the general says, "Somewhere out there... Is there an enemy that can truly satisfy me...?" Her name is Esdese, her personality is a sadist, and she is considered to be the Empire's strongest.

Author's notes: Well... school's is now out and I've somehow survived the first week... believe me when i say that this chapter was meant to be released the week earlier, but I had to mentally prepare for another high school year. Good news is, is that this will be my final year of high school! Bad news is that I have trigonometry ;-; hopefully the next chapter will progress faster than this slow update... gomenasai~!

I'm trying to get the Naruto fanfic done with the first chapter... But I can't think as much as I was before school started... I'm sorry! On the bright side, it seems like I'll be able to start on a new fanfic. It's going to be Gate: Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri and I'm debating whether or not if I should make it a crossover or not...

And like I have said in the last time, thank you for reading my story and I'll see you in the next chapter, goodbye~.