Akame Ga Kill: Kill the Second Chance.
Chapter Six: Reunion with Night Raid.
(Time Skip; Night Time in the Capital; With Tatsumi)
It is now night time in the Capital and the citizens has long since entered their homes, leaving the once crowded streets completely empty and eerily silent. This is due to an extremely strict curfew every citizen in the Capital must follow, along with every law made by the emperor himself and his various advisers who do as they please like the Prime Minister.
If the citizens in the Capital don't follow the laws or the extremely strict curfew, then they will face a death sentence for not only being out late but defying both the Empire and the laws. Once you defy a law or something in the Empire, even if it was an accident, you won't be able to say any line of defense at all. You are simply dead. End of story.
There wasn't a strict curfew back then since it's rather stupid to have one. Why create such a stupid pointless curfew when people can just do whatever they want in a city? But when Honest became the new Prime Minister after making the former Prime Minister retire and made the Empire what it is now because of the heavy corruption, there is now a strict curfew the citizens in the Capital must follow, including country people who travels to the very huge city.
Unfortunately, country people don't have enough money to rent inns to follow the extremely strict curfew, due to the financial resources many villages and towns lacked outside the Empire. It also didn't help there was a heavy taxation as well, creating widespread shortages in remote areas, resulting country people to leave their village or town and travel towards the Capital to earn money…only to find death awaiting them upon arriving.
So, the country people who had traveled to the Capital to earn money for their village or town were forced to sleep outside in the completely empty and eerily silent streets with no roof over their heads, no food to eat, no showers to use and no comfortable bed to sleep on. They had nothing at all.
While other country people in the Capital were trying to get comfortable in the streets since laying on cobblestone isn't really the best ground to sleep, even if you have a rather good sleeping bag to rely on, a certain time traveler was putting on a very convincing naïve country person as he waited for the stupid selfish bitch who will take him to not only his childhood friend but Night Raid. He was currently sitting in the exact same spot as before in the old timeline, which is a stone railing wall.
"I can't believe I'm doing this shit again," Tatsumi muttered to himself as he pulled his jacket around him to get 'warmer.' Not that he doesn't need to since he's already warm to begin with, thanks to his fire ability. But he still needs to act like a naïve country person.
Tatsumi was wondering why in the name of Tyrant he is repeating this event again, which was enough to make him feel extremely pissed and disgusted for two different reasons. Pissed because he had to act like what he was when he first arrived at the Capital in the old timeline and disgusted because he would have to touch the noble heiress hand after accepting the bodyguard job. Tatsumi would need to wash his hands after that last one.
Tatsumi knew he was being very harsh, angry and bitter right now, despite not showing the emotions on his face since he need to keep his act up, but he just couldn't help it. He had not only lost his childhood friends, but he had been working as a bodyguard for a sick family he didn't even know until looking inside the wooden shake where many dead bodies were.
It had greatly shaken and horrified the brown-hair assassin from seeing so many dead bodies and the two emotions grew upon spotting his dead childhood friends tortured beyond belief, which was enough for him to become extremely angry and lash out onto the noble heiress whose true nature has been revealed with a single swing on his sword that killed her.
While the reason may be simple and provided an explanation, it was still rather unnerving to hold so much harshness, anger and bitterness because of a family who liked killing country people for sadistic pleasure. But this family had ruined Tatsumi's life after entering the Capital and he was going to make sure they pay for what they did to him and Sayo.
Of course, Tatsumi could've just altered the timeline again like he did three days ago after arriving in the Capital by just heading straight towards the mansion, transform into his Dragon King Armor: Starblaze and start killing everyone there in a cruel-brutal manner. Then once he's done, he would head towards the wooden shack that showed him the dark truth about the Captial and start using his healing and cleansing powers to heal Sayo from her greatly weakened poisoned state before encountering Night Raid who will start asking – well, more like demanding since it is their mission to begin with – numerous questions about him.
But no, Tatsumi had thought to himself back in his village he needs to let Sayo experience the pain again, no matter how much pain it brings him, so that he can rejoin Night Raid without telling them much about himself, including being a half human/half Danger-Beast hybrid. Repeating the same event like before was a decision he's now starting to regret.
Luckily, Tatsumi would only have to endure two days with the noble family before Night Raid arrives, so he was sure he could keep his naïve country person act up…unless they get on his nerves so much with their obnoxious voices. If that happens, he will just kill the family, heal Sayo and find another way to join Night Raid. End of story.
After sitting and leaning against the stone railing wall for another few minutes, Tatsumi finally heard the sound of a carriage being pulled towards his direction from his left, inwardly making his body become stiff as a board. It may have been a long time since it already happened before, but he had never forgotten about the carriage sound. There was no mistake about it; the noble heiress has arrived to collect naive country people who doesn't know the truth about the Capital.
Time to put the acting skills to the test, despite they are already very good to begin with.
Soon, the carriage pulled up in front of Tatsumi and he had to exercise so much willpower inside him to not lash out in extreme anger, harshness, bitterness and resentment as he watched the noble heiress step out from the carriage with two male guards flanking her before walking in his view point. She then placed her hands on her knees and bent downwards to get a look at Tatsumi, who was still exercising so much willpower inside him to not lash out.
The noble heiress was a cute, average-height, very kind caring young girl who was anything but cute, very kind and caring underneath. She had shoulder-length, blonde hair with a fluffy light blue accessory on top, fair skin and blue eyes. Her outfit consisted of a sleeveless light blue dress with a black bodice and white frills, a long-sleeve white shirt underneath, a light blue ribbon around her neck and a pair of white boots.
This young girl was Aria, the most selfish, petty, sadistic hypocrite bitch in the entire world who tortured Sayo and Ieyasu in the old timeline. She was also Tatsumi's very first kill before he got recruited in Night Raid, even though it had been against his will since being an assassin isn't what he wanted to be after leaving his very poor village. It was either joined or be killed.
"I don't think this handsome young man has a place to stay…" Aria said to the guard on her right, continuing to stare at Tatsumi, who stared back. "The poor thing being out alone in the streets and the cold." The last part was said in a slightly husky tone as her blue eyes, which hid the malicious intent, roamed over Tatsumi's lean-built muscular body.
Tatsumi nearly cringed in complete disgust at hearing those words and the slightly husky tone. Both sounded so wrong it violated his whole being. It also didn't help that he saw Aria's eyes roamed over his body with lust and perhaps desire in those orbs.
Forget washing his hands, Tatsumi would need to take a very long hot shower to wash away any traces of the noble family off him, including his clothes. He refused point-blank to have the scent on him and his clothes.
"We're doing this again, Miss Aria?" The right guard asked, lowering his gaze to the ground to avoid Aria's eyes, even though her attention was focused on Tatsumi.
"I can't help it," Aria replied to the right guard, a giggle leaving her mouth. "It's my nature."
'Nature, my ass!' Tatsumi thought with an inward scoff, while maintaining his naïve act. 'You just like kidnapping and torturing country people who don't know the truth about the Capital for your sick amusement, bitch! Along with your sick family! Let's see how you like being tortured!'
"Are you from the country, young man?" Aria asked, breaking Tatsumi's rather spiteful thoughts about her and her family.
"Yes, I am," Tatsumi replied politely, noticing a faint look of wicked triumph in Aria's eyes before it vanished skillfully and easily. Despite himself, he had to give her credit for masking the emotion. "I arrived at the Capital hours ago but didn't have any money to afford an inn to stay at, so I was forced to find a comfortable spot in the streets and sleep out here."
"If you don't have a place to stay, then you can stay at my house," Aria offered with a warm smile. It may work on other country people, but not Tatsumi, who knew full well the smile is definitely not warm at all, only malicious sadistically cruel.
Regardless of the smile, Tatsumi is still going to accept the offer to not only see Sayo but Night Raid again. However, he needs to act like a naive country person upon meeting a rich person for the first time. "Are you sure, miss? I don't have any money to pay you back and I don't really want to be a burden."
"It will be fine, young man," Aria said, waving a hand in a dismissive manner as she still retained the warm smile on her face. "Me and my family won't mind if we take you in. Like I said, it's my nature to help people from the country. If you want, I can see if my family can offer you a job as a bodyguard."
"Miss Aria can't leave a poor man like you out in the open streets to freeze," The left guard said, seeing Tatsumi was about to object. "You would either get trampled on or mugged by people."
"It would be best if you just accept her offer, sir," The right guard said a bit emotionlessly, already knowing what was going to happened to Tatsumi. How can he not when he witnessed the fates of collected country people every time? It always made a chill run down his spine.
"What will it be, young man?" Aria asked, hoping the handsome young man will accept her offer.
"Well," Tatsumi said, adopting a thoughtful look on his face. "I guess sleeping on an indoor bed is more tempting than sleeping out here in the cold and on cobblestone, so I guess I'll take up your offer, miss, including the bodyguard job."
"Perfect!" Aria exclaimed happily as she clapped her hands together. "Then collect your belongings, young man, and step into my carriage. We will be heading towards my house as it's currently night time."
'All too easy without any problems,' Tatsumi thought with an inward sinister smile as he stood up, grabbed his belongings beside him and made his way towards the carriage. 'Hook, line and sinker.'
(Time-Skip; Two Days Later; With Tatsumi)
Two days have passed since Tatsumi accepted the bodyguard job by Aria and he wanted nothing more than to kill the noble family, along with the guards who served them. It was bad enough Aria kept looking at him with lust and desire in her eyes whenever food is ready, but her mother, equal of being a selfish sadistic bitch, was doing the same thing as well after meeting her, enough to make the brown-hair assassin feel more disgusted than before. He couldn't wait until tonight.
Though, there had been a rather…amusing moment of seeing the father in the noble family who was extremely pissed from seeing his wife gaze at Tatsumi lustfully and desire get yelled at by the two females when they spotted the furious look. The older man had been forced to sleep on the couch the next day after coming up useless excuses and it only made him more angrier than before, which earned another night on the couch.
Other than the amusing moment of seeing the father in the noble family getting yelled at by his wife and daughter who both continued to stare lustfully and desire at Tatsumi whenever food is ready, everything else was going the exact same way as in the old timeline with him, along with a few guards and Aira, in the Capital doing clothes shopping in daylight.
But there was a small change in the new timeline, a change Tatsumi had not regretted making at all after arriving at the mansion two days ago, even though he wanted to do it when everyone at the mansion is dead. He went inside the wooden shack after making sure the noble family was asleep, as well as not getting spotted by the guards, and began healing and cleansing a completely naked, unconscious, bruised, dirty, greatly weakened poisoned state Sayo, who was not only hanging on the ceiling with her hands bound but barely hanging onto life.
It was thanks to Tatsumi's training that Sayo was still able to cling onto the slightest bit of life even when tortured beyond belief. It is amazing, but still horrifying to endure so much pain.
While Tatsumi, who had been very sad at seeing the state of his childhood friend, couldn't set Sayo down from the ceiling or clean her dirty bruised body because there might be a chance Aria could become highly suspicious about how she got down and cleaned, he did cleanse the poison out of her system and brought her strength back. This should last long enough until Night Raid arrives, but Tatsumi was worried they may not show up since there could a chance they are focusing on him, due to being a half human/half Danger-Beast hybrid.
Tatsumi prayed Night Raid will arrive at the mansion where the noble family is instead of focusing on him.
As Tatsumi and the other guards continued to do clothes shopping for Aria, who kept going from one store to another with a guard franticly following her, he wondered why he was repeating this event again when he could've just altered the timeline like he did in the Capital three days ago. Oh, yeah, because he was an dumb bumkin like Mine said when he asked who Zanku is.
'Only a few hours left until I'm done with this shit,' Tatsumi thought, releasing a sigh as he continued walking around carrying all the clothes bags with his fellow 'guards.' He was definitely regretting repeating this event again. 'I have no idea why I chose to repeat this event again, which I should've altered, but thank god I don't have to do it again. If I do, then I'm going to go with what I thought two days ago: Use my Teigu and kill everyone in a cruel-brutal manner.'
Tatsumi only had to endure a few more hours of walking around in the Capital until tonight where he could release his extreme anger, bitterness, harshness and resentment on the noble family.
Tatsumi couldn't wait for it.
And done! That's the ending of the second part chapter! I immediately got started working on this right after I posted the first part chapter because I still wanted to make up for the long-waited update. Again, I'm very sorry about that. While the part chapter may be rushed, I did put effort into writing this, so I hope you guys enjoy it.
Next chapter will the second part of Reunion with Night Raid, but it may take a while to write since I need to figure out the next four people who will get their spirits, which are the Jaegers, and the names for them. Once I have the names for the spirits and the next four people, then I'll get started on the chapter. However, I want to work on my other stories.
Anyways, here is the second part chapter and I hope you guys enjoy it. I will combine the two part chapters in a few weeks.
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