Chapter 5: Obliterate their Justice

In the dawn of the morning, more like 10:21 A.M., the bustling street of the capital were filled to the brim with people who are trying to make a profitable gain in the bazaar, selling stocks for those who are interested in their products. Leone, Arata were assigned on a scouting mission today. Yuuji decided not to join them because he is obviously partnered up with the one whom he loves.

Arata walks around with Leone, thinking, 'Reminds me of that one time I've spent scouting with Mine... that was a great experience!'

Whenever someone looks at Leone, it seems that they are acquainted with her. A woman gives her a friendly greeting; an older woman asks if she could use another shoulder massage the next time she comes by. A strong young looking man says, "Lookin' hot today, babe! Come drink with us tonight!" while another man, sitting on a wooden chair, also commented, "Yeah, come hang out with us, Leone!"

"It's a lot livelier than the average slum, huh?" Arata asks.

"Souls as strong as weeds... It's what happens when you struggle to survive all your life." Leone answers as she waves off to the people she recognizes.

"It really looks like that you are awfully popular around here though."

"It is my hometown after all, was born and raised here!" Leone smiles as she continues to talk, "I made a name for myself working at a local massage parlor..." The blonde haired Onee-chan was cut off as three men down the block runs straight for her, yelling out, "There she is! It's Leone!"

"I'll have you pay your drinking bill!"

"It's time to settle your gambling debts!"

"I want the money that you scammed off my brother!"

As they both started sprinting from them, Leone asks Arata, "What'cha think? Interesting place, huh?"

"Interesting!? I'm more worried about what would these guys do to you afterwards!"

While the two of them run away, something new happens in the Imperial Palace.

...In the audience room of the Palace...

A soldier reports in to the Emperor, kneeing down as he said, "I have a report. It's about generals Nakakido and Hemi. They are gone. They have joined up with the rebel army!"

Many military strategists begin to say, "The military genius Nakakido has..."

"This will make the rebel army a much bigger threat..."

"If we don't get a handle on this, the Empire-"

The child emperor stands up from his throne and spoke his mind openly with the other, "Do not let your thoughts run away with you! After all, they are down in the south... we can deal with them at any time! The rebels gathering together just mean that they will be easier to clean up!"

"... So, did I handle that well, prime minister?" He turns his head towards him for an answer, while the others were snapped out of their depressing thoughts on the situation.

The pig of a minister grotesquely eats on a large piece of steak as he responds, "Ufufu... As always, your majesty is a mountain of calm in the sea of chaos. We have a closer problem than some far away rebel army. This is the problem that we should be focusing on. The leader of the Imperial guard assassinated. My own blood relative, Iwokaru, is dead! Even that crazed serial killer was killed by Night Raid, and they kept his Teigu! I want them to be dealt with so badly...! I've been so obsessed with this that I have gained weight...!" If he hasn't been eating so much, then he wouldn't obtain a nasty habit of devouring more food when under pressure.

"Are there not professionals searching for their hideout?" The emperor inquired.

"They haven't been in contact. They're probably dead, but I have another plan."

"Oh?"

"I've already called in someone reliable to help me express my uncontrollable rage! The one who recently succeeded in subjugating the northern tribes... I have called for general Esdese to return to the capital."

Causing everyone in the room to be alerted of the news, one of the strategists asks, "B...But grand general Budou is in command of the capital forces, is he not!?" frightened as he tries to find an alternative solution than to bring in a sadist back to the capital.

"But to ask the grand general to do something as low as hunting rebels would be an unforgiveable wound to his pride, would it not?"

The child emperor appears to be in deep thought, "Esdese, hmmmm... She is a hero that rivals the power of general Budou. I'm relieved! She is the ice hearted woman who executed 400,000 enemies by burying them alive."

The prime minister reach out his hands before making a fist as he says, "She will bring to task the hopelessly incompetent imperial guard. This is no longer a question of life or death! These animals are getting stronger day by day. She shall hunt them down and kill them all!" With a twisted face, Honest's words are absolute and Night Raid will have to defeat another difficult foe.

...Back to Arata...

"I don't think they will be following us this far. Right Leo...ne?" Arata looks around to see that he lost sight of the blonde.

'Ah shit! I lost her and I don't know where I am either...! And we also have a job to do tonight!'

Being the idiot he can be at times, Arata runs around in place while a girl of auburn hair and eyes watches him from nearby. She is currently wearing a military uniform, attired in upper body armor, with a long ponytail that almost reached the ground and being at a height of 5 feet and 4 inches.

"Oh my, my justice sensor is acting up! You there! Can I help you with something?" asked the woman as she jogs towards Arata.

The onyx eyed teen looks over to her and says quietly to himself, "Those clothes... are from the Imperial guard..." thinking to himself about the time when he met Ogre the demon.

"I am Seryuu of the capital guard forces. A warrior of justice!" the woman announces herself while saluting in a cheerful, yet professional, voice.

Arata was surprised to find out a little dog next to Seryuu. "Kyuu~~~~nn Kyuu~!"

"Are you hungry, Koro-chan? Just hang in there a little longer, okay?" The young woman asks as she sits down with her left arm wrapping around her legs.

'A cute little white fur colored puppy standing on it's black colored back legs?' Arata thought as he quickly says, "Aw is that what I think it is? What's that derpy kawaii looking thing? Assuming that he is a male, of course..." Arata loves dogs; the sole fact is that he used to have a dog of his own... until he had to put the dog up for adoption for he was too dang poor. And another reason was that he has a very nasty allergy with cats, not a cat person it seems. He agrees that kittens are adorable, but just from a cat's hair brushing against his skin will cause an allergic reaction, such as watery, itchy balls of eyes. Arata will hands down don't care if the cat becomes a neko loli tsundere girl; ears and tail, he would disregard his allergy and go crazy for all that is a loli waifu.

"Hahaha, Koro is just the cutest! But he's no regular dog; he is a Teigu called 'Hecaton Chires'. But please don't worry about it. He's harmless to all except for those who embrace evil."

'...! Holy shit! That dog was written about in the Teigu collection book!'

"By the way, what seems to be the problem?"

Arata begins to scratch the back of his head as he says, "Ah~~ well I seem to have lost my track. But I do know of the name of a bar where I'm supposed to meet my friend, unfortunately I've gotten my sorry ass lost..."

"We can't have that! I'll show you the way while I continue my patrol, this way." With unnerving determination, Seryuu yanked Koro to her side, holding the biological Teigu with her right arm and gently holds Arata's left hand with her right. "Let's get you to where you need to be, okay?"

Koro suddenly jumps off from Seryuu's grasp and started to bark cutely while bouncing up and down, "Kyuu~! Kyuu~~~ Kyuuuu~~!"

"Do all of the imperial guards have these living Teigu like this derpy dog?" Arata inquires.

"Not at all. In fact, I'm the only one who possesses a Teigu." Koro seems to be angry at this point by reading his body language, probably because Arata keeps calling him derpy, although his weird cute face says otherwise.

"Koro-chan is... oh... That's the name I gave him. He won't move unless his user has perfect compatibility with him, you see. It was among the higher ups, there were none who were compatible. So they test the compatibility of those even in the lower ranks. During my physical exam, it seems that Koro-chan responded to the justice in my heart. And so, he's now my partner! Right, Koro-chan?"

"Kyuu~~!"

'Could it be koroshiya, meaning professional killer?! So that dog has to be dangerous! Yabai...(Damn)'

"Hmm... could it be possible that those guys had done something suspicious that made them incompatible with Koro?"

"They must've not had the same burning desire for peace and justice as I do."

"That makes a lot of sense..." Arata thought, but he knows it's bullshit and that the majority of the imperial guards are corrupted. The girl before him truly wants a better world to rid of evil, but could their path be the same, or not?

A while later as the sun was setting down from searching; it seems that Seryuu has successfully led Arata to the correct bar.

"Well then, this is the place you were looking for."

"Thank you very much for your assistance."

The auburn haired girl quickly replied as she proudly saluted, "Don't mention it! Please call me if you chance upon any evil. I'll immediately destroy it for you!"

"Ahahaha, that's reassuring."

"Let's go Koro-chan; you're still hungry, right? How does five death-row prisoners sound?"
"Kyuuuuu~~~!" Koro replies as he and Seryuu runs back to her patrolling route.

'Wait... what the fuck!? Is she joking? Please tell me I've heard that wrong, it must've been a type of snack or something... aah never mind this Capital is fucked up beyond all reason.' Arata takes in a fresh air of breath before thinking. 'An imperial guard Teigu user, huh... it certainly seems dangerous... dangerously cute! But sounds terrifying, so if it eats human flesh and have craving to eat from what the user deems to be evil... then I'll need to urgently report this to the boss as soon as I am able...' Arata starts walking to where he is supposed to rendezvous with Leone in case they got separated.

'Helping someone on a whim is good and all, but I must hurry and find that Night Raid group... Captain Ogre...' Seryuu tears up a bit as she starts to remember the days of training under the demon, Ogre. 'That difficult Teigu has chosen me. I have made myself stronger. Justice shall never yield to evil! That's what my papa who died in the line of duty always said!' The auburn haired girl remembers from obtaining a sort of trump card Ogre had mention to her, from a doctor friend that wishes to conduct an experiment that will be painful on even excruciating level to the point the subject were to wish they were dead. But Seryuu nevertheless accepted the deal in order for her to attain the skills necessary to defeat evil...

'The evil... that killed my teacher, Captain Ogre...! Night Raid... I will never forgive you!' What a shame that the auburn haired girl can't even realize that her Sensei is a scum and a worthless piece of shit that terribly caused a lot of chaos and death to the innocent. Have she not even once found that out suspicious?!

Having to meet up with Leone and went to the rooftop until the time of night, Arata was still a bit upset that the blonde had somewhat ditched him in the middle of the day during their escape earlier today.

"So, this is the red-light district, huh...? It definitely makes your heart beat faster." Arata said as he crouched to see many shady people and prostitutes on the street, and then the drunk. He thought that Leone and Yuuji would love to go crazy and drink non-stop at this place.

"That straight forwardness is kind of cute, kid. Okay then, time to work. I've got debts to pay! Transform! Lionelle!" Leone's body altered into a more lion like feature, causing Arata to clap and smile from witnessing this amazing transformation.

"Alright! Changing into this form always gets me excited! Okay, let's sneak in, we've got killing to do Arata." Leone picks up the black haired teen in a bridal carriage position. He knows what's going to happen next, so he yells, "Let's do thi-" and then the blonde immediately dashed from one rooftop to another in a graceful leap in which Arata was almost surprised; however, he knew that she would do something like this.

The guards never suspected them as Leone lands on the targeted rooftop, sliding when she did before she says, "Phew, made it!" smiling as she poses while Arata replies, "So that's what you meant by 'sneak in'? At least it was effective, by all means."

"Over here, over here. Hurry up!" Leone motions for Arata to get up from his knees to see what she found.

"Look." As the onyx eyed teen viewed from a piece of a square removable ceiling, courtesy of Leone, he seen something truly despicable. A room filled with drugged girls whom probably can't even realize the state of situation they are in currently. Arata is smart enough to not say something stupid to get himself caught, so he studied the two who entered the room. The big guy is most likely a henchman who works for the boss for this mission. One of them has an eye patch over his right, and medium build, while the other one is behind him and looks like a heavy build.

The patchy eyed boss says, "Ohoooo~~ Very nice, very nice. Hey there girls. If you keep earning money well, I'll make sure to send around some more 'medicine', alright girls?"

"Oka~~~~~yy." The women responded with lust in their voices.

"Mmm? Hey boss... take a look at this one."

As he grabbed his attention, the eyed patched man looks with disgust on his face. "Ahhh, damn it. This one's done for. She smells like rotten fish. She's broke."

That said woman looks at the henchman and clings to his leg as she says, "Hahhhh... I need some of your drugs~~"

"Deal with her. We'll get a new broad to take her place." With that being told, the henchman strikes the woman and as it seems that the attack hit a vital point in her neck, fatally killing her. Leone eyes sharpen with an icy cold glare at what happened.

"We'll have to call up another stupid bitch from the slums, right?" The big man said while wiping his blood stained fist.

"Yeah, those good for nothings will do anything as long as they get paid after all."

Arata knew that Yuuji would end them right on the spot if he had seen this. "So these are the bastards that were specified in the request then... un fucking forgivable!"

Leone looks down as she responds, "The one he just hit... was someone I knew from the slums..." Then the blonde stood up with an angered expression, while making a fist against the palm of her other hand, "They make me sick... Let's put an end to their shady business permanently!"

"As Senpai would say... with pleasure, especially after hearing Sheele's story, I have nothing more but to contempt for people who does these things..."

A little later, before Arata and Leone burst in for the party, the boss sits in a room with his bodyguards as one of the women serves him sake.

"Boss... It's about time we expand our drug delivery route, don't you think?" The same big guy said. He would probably be considered as his right hand man.

"True, huh... wonder if we should ever go over to Chibul-sama's place to discuss it."

And then Leone and Arata destroyed the ceiling, making a dramatic entrance, as he says to all of the targets in the room, "The only place you fuckers are going... Is hell!"

The heavy build man had a shock expression filled with fright as he stutters, "I...Intruders! Kill them!" And then the guards ran towards the two.

In retaliation, Arata draws out his blade and easily cuts down two guards in one swift motion, and then he dashed to one of them and slashed across his abdomen, revealing a bloody gush and spilled intestines.

Leone was surrounded by seven men with their blades that varied in sizes drawn out. "Our targets are the drug smuggling ring leaders... but you also share their guilt... so you lot can all die together." Leone pulls back her right fist behind her hand as she quickly bashed in the 4 men in front of her, and then she mischievously grins as she swings her right leg hard against the other 3, sending them flying across the room and creating a crack on the wall from the mere impact of the blow.

The terrified man who ordered them to kill them had a horrified expression as he saw the dead bodyguard's face, so he takes out a concealed handgun and screams out, "D...Don't fuck with me! If you think I'm going down that easily, you've got another come-" Couldn't even finish his sentence as for Arata appeared before him in an instance, remarkable speed, and cuts him in half, separating him from his lower half of a body. With a priceless look on his face, leaving a blank expression, while still holding onto the gun without even having the time to pull on the trigger.

Before the boss could ask anything, Leone grabs him up by the neck, smiling.

"Gah... Wha-what do you want...? Money... drugs? I'll give you whatever you want if you'll just let me go!" The boss pleaded for his life.

"I don't want either of those things. What I want from you... is your life." Leone grips a harder on his throat as he tries to ask, "Wh... Who the hell are you guys..."

"We're nobodies!" Leone mega punched the man as she continues to say, "Therefore... Disposing of society's trash suits us perfectly fine." The man had a hole formed on his shirt from the punch as it appears that it critically killed him. A perfect K.O or more like killing the shit out of him as Yuuji would have said it.

As Arata walks along besides Leone around the Capital, perhaps on their way to Night Raid's base, he asks her, "So hey, what's going to happen to all those broken down girls now?"

"That's not our problem, is it?" The blonde said while having her arms up behind her head.

"I guess so, but..."

"There's an old doctor in the slums they can all be taken to... though he isn't all that skilled. We'll see him and explain the situation. He's got a thing for young girls, so I'm sure he'll be happy to help them."

"Onee-chan..."

"But the possibility of saving them isn't all that high in the first place..."

"...ahhahaha. You can say whatever you want, but you are a kind person at heart, aren't you?" Arata gives out a smirk as Leone starts to rub her head.

"It's only because I know some of those women."

"Whatever the reason is fine. As long as we can give them a bit of a hope to live is good enough." A little grin forms on his face.

Leone blushes from Arata's confession, then she starts leaning in a bit closer to him without onyx eyed teen to even notice it. "...Arata. I've thought this about you from the beginning, but~~" Leone grabs his cheeks with her right hand softly as she pulls him in for her to lick his left ear gently, saying, "When you make that sort of face... It's rea~~lly cute..."

"Umm... uh... ah... w-w-what did you do just now?" Arata backs away slowly, touching the right side of his blushing face.

Leone smiles intently as she places her hands on her hips, "Fufufu... I was literally marking you, so if you grow up to be a good man, you're mine."

"Um... I... but..." Arata couldn't say what he wanted. He thought about saying that he was in love with Mine... but an animal cutie like Leone cannot make him say no, he just has a fetish for that sort of stuff just like his Senpai except that he got it from reading a tasty doujinshi and not from his older bro.

As for Arata, he looks down blushing while Leone says, "...so. I wonder how the others are doing."

...Somewhere in the forest near the Capital...

Sheele and Mine are sprinting as a pair, away from the location in the Capital whereas they've assassinated their target and things got a bit messy.

"That Chibul guy was way too wary of attacks." The pink haired tsundere said.

"But in the end, it didn't cause too many problems."

Both Sheele and Mine's attention were distracted as they dodged away a preemptive attack from a girl with an auburn ponytail.

"An enemy...!?" Mine skids away from the imperial guard, as her outfit gave away who she is.

'Who is this bitch... I didn't even notice her at all... and she seems different from the other imperial guards...'

Seryuu looks at the wanted poster that has Sheele's face plastered on it.

"...I knew it. It's the same face as on the wanted poster... You are definitely Sheele of Night Raid! And judging from the Teigu she has in her hand, the other girl is also a member of Night Raid! Hiding myself and waiting night after night was definitely worth it... because finally... I have fi~~~~nally tracked you down, Night Raid!" With an evil smirk and a crazy as all hell expression, she announces, "Imperial guard forces... Seryuu Ubiquitous! In the name of justice I will absolutely make you evildoers pay here and now!" Seryuu points out as she crosses her arms with Koro by her side, Mine and Sheele readying themselves for the attack.

Because of their power, when Teigu users clash, "Death" is called to the field. Even in this battle that's about to begin, there is no exceptions!

The showdown between the three takes place in front of a clockwork tower, outside of the Capital's walls. Mine is the first to speak up.

"So you know who we are, then why are you here? I don't think you came here just to die..."

Corruption and anger filled Seryuu's crazy eyes as she stares, pointing at Mine and Sheele who were standing next to each other, "No matter what happens... I will deliver justice! For my father who fell in the line of duty to villains like you! And for my beloved teacher who was murdered by you and your friends! You all will never be forgiven!" The crazy bitch still doesn't know that they were both evil with a twisted sense of justice; thus their inevitable death.

"She's really intent on doing this, huh? Okay then, the first to strike has the advantage!" Mine sets Pumpkin into machine gun mode and fires barrage of energy shots towards Seryuu. The auburn haired girl continues to stay in place as Koro quickly moves in front of her. "Kyuuah!"

As the attack cause a cloud around the target, Mine says, "... Did I get her?" and it appears that Koro got fucking huge, possibly 13 feet tall of an over sized fur cushion! No wonder Seryuu is so confident...

Sheele was the one to figured it out as she says, "Mine, that thing is a Teigu!"

"Seems like it, but that's a biological Teigu, right...?"

"Tonfa gun!" Seryuu pulls out a duel submachine gun and shoots at the duo assassin, luckily for them, evasion is a success.

'I don't think attacking from this distance would be very effective'

"Koro! Prey!" With that commandment, Koro went into a devouring position as it tries to gobble up either one of the assassins. The biological Teigu went after Sheele. Fortunately, the purple haired assassin cuts it in half thanks to Extase.

"I'm sorry." Sheele apologizes as she throws off the blood of her giant pair of scissors.

Koro suddenly rejuvenated back together, angrier as it has black abyss eyes that crave for revenge. Then Mine shot a powered beam to Koro, knocking him back towards Seryuu's position, and most importantly, away from her partner.

"Don't you remember what was written in the book, Sheele? Biological type Teigu have a core hidden somewhere in their bodies. If you don't destroy that, it'll just continue regenerating. It doesn't have a heart, so even Akame's Murasame wouldn't be able to kill it."

"It would seem we have a somewhat troublesome opponent this time, huh?" Sheele supplied a comment.

"Koro! Arms!"

"Kyuuuuuuuuu..." The said Teigu grew extremely empowered pair of arms, ridiculous for a damn biological dog of a weapon!

"Gross... it looks like we don't have any choice but to do that, Sheele."

"I understand."

"Pulverize!" Seryuu commanded.

"Ki~Shaaaaaa!" Koro unleash out a full frontal volley of punches that's going straight for Mine.

"What the hell?! There's no way to dodge!" The pink haired tsundere exclaims. It seems they're knee deep in shit as it is now.

"Mine! Get behind me!" Sheele stood against Koro's attacks, defending her partner, with her Teigu as a shield.

"Ku... Strong..."

Seryuu takes out a whistle and blows into it, calling in her allies.

"A storm of attacks... and she's called for reinforcements... This is what I would call... being in a pinch!"

Mine leaps into the air to avoid hurting her teammate, "Let's do this!" Then she shoots out a rather large beam that engulfs Koro in his entire form as it seemingly melts him down to the insides of his flesh.

"Its power increased?! But...!" Koro seems to have only shrunk a bit in size.

"Shit! It's already started regenerating, what unbelievable force..."

"Don't underestimate Koro's durability..."

"The Teigu are just tools." Sheele replies as she nears in closer to chop Seryuu in half. "All I need to do is kill its user to make it stop!"

'Was she aiming for me from the start!?'

'I'll use my secret skill~~' Sheele thought.

"Ecstasy!" The purple haired lady yells as she used her trump card, blinding Seryuu.

"The metal is generating light!? This ability can't...!"

"It's over."

"Ah..." The auburn haired girl desperately tries to defend herself by blocking off Sheele's strikes with the tip of the sub-machine guns.

'So the user herself is strong as well'

Koro regain its senses from Extase's flash and realize that Seryuu is in danger, so it disregarded Mine to save its master, but instead lost its footing as the tsundere blasts a hole in its leg.

"Did you forget about me~? I won't let a mutt run away from my sights!

'It may be too strong for me to take it down, even in a pinch... but keeping it occupied should be enough... I can try to find its core by process of elimination.'

As Sheele was fighting Seryuu, the auburn haired girl accidentally dropped her right gun and shielded both arms from Extase's cut, cutting of both her arms.

'She sacrificed her arms to prevent a killing blow. But either way, it's over with this next attack...!'

"Justice will always win!" Seryuu surprised Sheele as she pops out a gun from where her arms were attached to.

'Body modification!?'

"This is the trump card given to me by my captain! Take this~!" She takes the element of surprise and tries to shoot down Sheele, but fails to do so as Sheele quickly blocks it with her giant pair of scissor.

"Guhh I'm not done yet!"

Koro will overheat and be unusable for a few days if I do this... but I have no choice!'

"Koro! Secret skill, Berserker!" The cute white dog that was standing on its back legs, suddenly got bigger and more powerful as pack full of muscles spread about its body as the fur changed from white to red.

"Guooooaaarrrrr!" Koro roar was so shattering that it caused the two assassins to cover their eardrums from bleeding and possibly permanent deaf.

"Uwaaahhh!"

"Ku..."

'So she had a secret skill as well!' Mine thought, but it was cut short as Hekatonkheires got her within its grasp.

"Damn..."

"Mine!"

"Crush her!" Seryuu yelled as her face contorted itself into that of a demon.

"Uuu... uuu... aaahhh!" Mine starts to scream as Koro grips harder onto her, the small frame fragile body of the pink haired tsundere. As she screams more, tears start to overflow from her eyes, streaming down her checks.

And then somehow... somewhere, Arata grips his chest where his heart is at as he feels disheartened and broken while walking with Leone back to the base from having a chat with the old doctor to 'take care' of the girls.

"Aaahhhhhhh! AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mine cries out evermore as the bones of her arms starts to cringe up and creak more and more and close to breaking into fragments, and then utterly her rib cage will break along with her internal organs.

Sheele will bear witness no longer as she has jumped towards the arm that imprisoned Mine and cuts it off from gripping her.

"Sheele!" The tsundere cries out in joy from being saved.

"I seem to have made it just in time!"

Then suddenly, a gunshot wound appears right below where her heart would have been hit. Mine stares with widen eyes as she couldn't believe what's happening right now.

"My body... won't move..." This is bad for the purple haired assassin as Koro is charging towards her. The bullet must have been grazed by paralysis.

'Execution of the just!' Seryuu mentally thought with a completely evil grin, biting down on a barrel from where the shot was fired within her mouth.

Hekatonkheires bites on the upper portion of Sheele as the lower half of her was dismembered. Mine stares helplessly, still injured from Koro, she never felt so useless ever in her life at this very moment.

"Shee... Sheeeeeeleeeeeee!" Tears never ending falls from her face as she grips on Pumpkin even while her elbows were bleeding from being crushed. Seryuu has a face of glee, clearly pleased that her twisted justice was about to be fulfilled.

'How dare you... How dare you do that to Sheele... I-I'll destroy you!'

"Over there! They are battling!" Groups of imperial guards came as reinforcement for Seryuu. "Call for more back up!" A female officer yelled as troops pour in from one side in large numbers.

Suddenly, a blinding light appears in the sky, stopping the imperial defense force in their path towards Mine.

"What!?"

"What the hell is this light!?"

"Be careful! Something's going on!"

Mine looks over to where Sheele right arm is still holding onto Extase, as her lips spoke out, "Ecs...tasy..."

"Sheele!" Mine screams out for her beloved partner.

"You need to get out of her now... Mine..."

Seryuu sees where the light is coming from as she says, "That woman... she's still fighting in that state...?!"

"But you..." Mine looks up to see Sheele one more time, a smiling form plastered on her face as she knows that Mine needs to escape so that her attempts wouldn't be in vain, damn it...

'I'm happy... that I was able to be useful in the end...'

"Koro! Hurry up and put an end to her!"

'Night Raid...The place where I belong... it was really fun...' Sheele remembers all the fond memories from every member within the assassination crew, even times where she had caught Yuuji and Akame's making out and once with Mine and Arata on a accident.

'I'm sorry... Arata... Yuuji... it looks like I won't be able to see you two again...'

Regrettably, Night Raid has lost the kindest member of the team...

"Hey... what was that light just now...?" A guard asked.

"Hey, Seryuu... Are you alright?" A fellow ally asks as later his face turns into a frightened expression as he has realized that the chick has lost her fucking marbles. But since when? Now that's a question...

"Ahaha. Ahaha... I did it...! Even though she abandoned her evil comrade, I fought well... What a half-hearted person..."

Seryuu then raises up her dismembered arms with a smiling expression of pure bliss, ignoring the pain, as she says, "Papa... I defeated the evil villain on my own! The light of justice shines upon the world! Ahaha! Ahahahaha... Ahahahahahahaha..." The reinforcements stare at her as they had found out that she's completely insane.

...Two hours later, Night Raid's hideout...

Arata couldn't get the feeling out of his chest as he felt like a tear of a maiden was painfully extracted.

"Mellorine~!" Arata yells out as Yuuji walks into the living room, giving him a weird look.

"What's gotten into you?" The crimson eyed teen raised a right eyebrow as he sat next to him on the couch.

"I don't know... I just felt a while back that someone needed me to protect them, and I only hoped for it to not actually happen."

"That is strange." So he says for he will do anything for Akame, and a crazy sixth sense that allows him to quickly process and execute a plan to help his red eyed beauty.

Suddenly Akame bursts into the room and says, "Come quickly outside. Mine has returned from her mission." And without a moment of hesitation, Arata runs out to welcome Mine, hoping nothing bad has happen.

The members of Night Raid are presently there to see Mine, with both injured arms. Every one of them has a different expression, but similarly they are all the same sadden face as they come to an assumption of what happened. Even Akame has a surprised face as she can't believe what has happened. Arata secretly hoped that Sheele was taken as a prisoner, but he knew that he shouldn't be that naïve.

"Sheele was..." Mine spoke as Lubba started to cry a river, Bulat closes his eyes tightly while trying not to cry himself as a hardened man shouldn't, Akame's eyes were just full of surprised sorrow as far as Yuuji can definitely tell, Leone has a darkened expression, and as for Najenda... she looks down away from the others, probably in tears. Yuuji felt horrible that the kindest, and probably the purest, member of Night Raid had to die in the worst case scenario. Of course, details of her death were absolutely not necessary at the moment but the cause of her demise is worthy. But the information on Hekatonkheires was added in by Arata when Mine and Sheele was assassinating Chubul.

"Aw... fuck... damn it... I wish the feeling wasn't right, I'm sorry Mine!" Arata walks up and embraces Mine. Yuuji did the same has he hugged Akame tightly to comfort her.

"You don't have to be sorry... baka..." The pink haired tsundere whispers out.

'I knew you were doing your duty... I know this is our punishment... I know all of that but... but you killed Sheele. And you will be hunting us from now on... If that is how it is! Seryuu Ubiquitous! I will certainly take you down!' Mine inwardly screams out as her head lies on Arata's chest.

The boss puts her mechanical arm forwards and hands open up to signify her meaning, "Sheele's death was certainly not pointless. The Empire will now understand that it takes a Teigu to fight another Teigu. And now they will bring in more Teigu users to battle for them. But what this means for us... Is that the chances to collect more Teigu will increase! Also, this is the beginning of a life or death struggle, Arata!"

Somewhere in the distant on the outskirt of the Capital, Esdese arrives near the cliff on what seems to be a very badass dragon danger beast, a chained collar for the rider to command the monster.

"I'm home, Capital."

A/N: So this concludes chapter 5... yeah I'm sorry that Sheele died, and believe me I didn't want her to die, but her death is meaningful in a way that shows a showdown between Teigu users will result a death on either side. Character development helped Mine and Arata, while Akame cries in the inside (Something that Yuuji can only tell). So please review this chapter and give me your thoughts of how you felt about it because it motivates me to get another chapter up and ready. And that dragon scene that Esdese arrived on was really cool, look it up on the last page of chapter 9.

I'm going to start working on the next chapter, so possibly it'll be released sometime this week. Thanks for reading, and I hope you guys will stay tune for the next time.