Chapter 6: Murderer vs Killer
Shiki jumps and parkour on every roof as he chases a vampire who is trying running away from him. He notices that he jumps down before Shiki knew and had to take his shortcut to cut his escape route.
The vampire turns his head as he thinks, Looks like I evade him. I'll make it somehow... While he kept running before he felt his whole body was being hit by something. He turns again as he saw Grim Reaper's smiling at him before he knew he meets his own fate. The next thing that he stabs on his back before turning into ash.
Dr. Stylish's POV
He sat on his chair while writing on his notes, It's been three weeks since Satsujinki starts killing spree. No motives and no evidence and nothing. Only a tiny bit of clue. Almost of them were useless.
He heard the door was being knocked before responding, "It's open. You may come in." Normally he leaves the door to unlock when his apprentice came by. He came in as he notices there were more bod bags came in recently.
"You're early, sir. More bodies came by?"
"Yup. More of them did come by. Satsujinki has done it again as he keeps pouring more. And you may start soon, Red."
"Again? Then I wonder what was military doing because they couldn't catch him while they were focusing on Night Raid's targets. No wonder he keeps killing and slicing all long night." said Red, starts to preparing his uniform before approaching to body bag before Stylish stood there while waiting for him.
Without a word as he opens a body bag which it is filled with gory pieces and few pieces or what's left of them.
"Prepare to write your paper and there are many things that I wanted to discover behind on Satsujinki's true motive," said Stylish as he starts to inspect pieces.
He starts to write as he starts to give more questions, "So how did he cut people into pieces? Aside with ash?"
"Good question, normally he had some like butcher knife or some kind of Teigu that he can cut. Speaking of ash, I can't explain it well because they had on their clothes. And again, it's still very mysterious to me. I suspect he made people... 'disappear' without a trace."
Red starts to nod his head as he continues to write on his notes as he could keep up with him while he talks and inspect on every different corpses.
Shiki's POV
He lay on the roof as he stares at the sky. He feels like as if he wanted to touch the endless sky, unlike becoming a god or whatever he is. He doesn't know what his future lies below with him.
And now he starts to look for recent murder nearby by him while the military police bare people from inside while the investigator is at the scene. He knew what he saw his own clairvoyance from killer's perspective. Just like he already did saw Roa and others as well. He already gains his experience with his clairvoyance since he had Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, but there are many mysterious around with his other abilities.
He starts to freerun as he jumps onto the roof to take his shortcut on the scene as he jumps down without having them to notice there were two people were beheaded. One is male and another one is female. He starts to examine the corpses before he heard their footsteps, "Hello, Verio. How is your investigation going?"
"Dammit, Satsujinki, you almost scare me to death. More importantly, how did you get in here?" said Verio as he starts walking toward him.
"Making my own entrance, am I right? And also I would like to know what's up with them?"
He starts sigh as he looks around when no one is nearby, only Satsujinki, "Two of them were murdered as beheaded last night. Our guys know his name is Zanku the Beheader. He originally serves as an executioner in prison and beheads countless prisoners. He became insanity and claimed that he heard some voices in his own head. Shortly he decides to abandon his own position and steal Teigu from his own supervisor and now he killed our men and civilians. I should let you know that he had Specter which he can read whatever in your minds or whatever he got."
"Mmm...When did he kill them? Last night?" said Shiki as he still inspects on the corpses.
"He usually kills them as night. Same goes for Night Raid with different killing methods. Wouldn't count with this unless it's noble or some higher-ups. And still no trace of Klein or Valesti. I'll keep digging whatever deep was it."
Shiki didn't speak his own words while he nods his head, "Very well. I'll get Zanku before Night Raids get him. Do your usual work as well," he starts to climb up as he reaches on the rooftop before starts to freerun.
Flashback*
Shiki watches her sleeping on the chair as if she is like a sleeping princess from a fairy tale. He wants to wake her up but he couldn't. Did he felt being hesitation? No. Was he nervous? No. He felt being unsure if he wants to wake her up when his time comes.
He uses his right hand to touch her cheek as he smiles at her, "I wish we could dance at night...truth to be told, I really don't know how to dance. Back in the old day when I used to take you out for your experience. Heh...I remember we used to watch the movie and I thought you were bored. And I realized that we've been on a date. At least you would've seen my face like that."
Once he stops touching her cheeks as he heard the trap has been sprung, "If you excuse me, we have an uninvited guest here. I'll be cleaning this up soon."
He left throne room as he starts to investigate his own man-made trap. He starts to run faster than any normal human could. Once he reaches his destination as he saw an old man which he recognizes him, Zeltrech.
"Not bad, Shiki. Not bad that you made your trap. Say...how may traps did you set? 300? Thousands?" said Zeltrech as he starts to smile at him while he still had his crane.
"If you're here about Arcuied, then she's still sleeping. And I told you that I will let you know when she wakes up."
"Heh, shall we go for a walk? I was hoping that we are having some tea and talk, but it's not about her," said Zeltrech as he starts to walk as Shiki follows him on his side.
"So what did you want to talk about?"
"You remember the one Kaleidoscope that I did talk about this earlier?"
"You mean Parallel World? Stuff like some exist and some don't?" Shiki remembers that he used to talk about a different world and travel to another world like her Sensei did use to visit Shiki which her age didn't cause her being old.
"You sure remember this than what I've been expecting. That's when you first got your Mystic Eyes of Death Perception before you woke up. But there is another one who had very similar Mystic Eyes of yours but she's on a different path. I believe your father used to visit different clan. He never noticed some differences because there is another one like you."
"Huh? I'm sure that's what I've read it already because there's no record of another clan. Nor the person exists."
"You and she lives in a different world but you may never notice some difference. Like it's just really small and you don't know how small it is," said Zeltretch as he starts to use his finger to close each other.
"And how do I know difference one? I remember I was investigating and found cults trying to use their own ritual to summon someone or something."
"I see. It's their first discover that they are trying to summon...a servant. I've heard long ago they are being stomped by servants while the others have a special ability like that. They're trying to capture a Heroic Spirit in order to use some powerful. And also there are few people who try to find you as a servant, but there are few things that I can't tell you because you have Sion."
"I see. Any advice for me?"
Flashback ends
He woke up from his flashback before he starts to remember his conversation with Zeltrech. He notices that his Martin of Shroud sat beside with him before noticing the moon. And now it's time for him to hunt Zanku the Beheader down. He put his Martin of Shroud around his head to cover his eyes. And finally, he stood up as he starts to free run to find him.
The next thing that he notices there were two Night Raid members were talking. From what he could hear a word from Akame, "A power of Teigu shouldn't rely too much."
Yup...You don't have to use your power too much like when I used my eyes and almost kill by myself. Like when I fought against Roa and lost my arm to him. Luckily Ciel gave her own blood to repair my arm which it's not good for me.
They both head direction as Shiki follows them by below on the roof without having them notice.
They spend for 15 minutes to look for Zanku while Shiki sat on the roof before he starts to give up. Before he leaves as he notices Tatsumi head gone to an alley. He instinctively knew Zanku might need to separate him from Akame in order to kill him alone. Without his Teigu, he is going to be good as dead soon. Lastly, he caught his glimpse as Zanku peeks from the corner.
He starts to observe his Teigu before Tatsumi saw something else as he spoke, "...Sayo?"
He knew it that Zanku can read his mind and create his illusion. Zanku starts to run as Tatsumi follows him as Shiki pick on their trail before free running on every rooftop.
Once Tatsumi stops chasing as he felt cried, "I'm not mistaken. It's Sayo. What's going on here? You were alive at all time?" He walks toward him as he hugs, "I'm really glad you're alive and well."
Zanku starts with his sadistic smile, "How passionate... It seems I showed you something nice." It hit Tatsumi's head as he realized what he heard and looks up at him before being back out.
"Uwah! Sayo turns into a strange old guy!" said Tatsumi as he starts being scared of him.
"I would rather be called as Zanku the Beheader than 'old man'. You should correct my name once I'm here always." said Zanku, still smiling as he crosses his hand blades.
"Oh, boy...what a lame name that I've heard of," said Shiki as they both heard and notice Shiki stood beside next to him. While Zanku realized and back off no more than five meters away from him. He was surprised that he sneaks up behind on him while he never notices his presence.
"Ho...how did you manage to sneak up behind on me? How come I never notice your presence?!"
"I would rather sneak and stab on your back...but it's quite easy for me to finish it," said Shiki as he held his knife, pointing at him before introducing his name, "Oh, by the way, my name is...Satsujinki. You better remember it."
"Heh...and you forget that I can...read your mind and predict your movements!" said Zanku starts laughing while Satsujinki wasn't frightened, nor scared and still holding his knife.
"Be my guest."
Tatsumi is being shocked when he said it already. He is going to warn him, "Shiki! You can't fight against him! He can use his illusion and you'll fall his trap!" He notices Zanku stood there and digging whatever in his mind as he starts exclaimed, "Just...just how many people did you kill? What the hell are you? You're not human!"
"Surprise, surprise, Zanku. I never like anyone else who tried to read my mind. Just like Wallace did, unfortunately, he is already dead by my own hands and my friend."
While Zanku tried to read his mind before he looks left as Shiki was about to rush toward him as he sidesteps on right and protect on his left. He is about to defend and was expecting for him to attack. Strangely, he supposes to attack him and found out no one is nearby to him as he saw Shiki stood still there.
"You're dancing, aren't ya?" said Shiki as he still smiles at him.
"Then how did you do this? I'm pretty sure you were very close to me."
"Then how close am I?" said Shiki as he walks toward to him before there were more than 5 persons were going on the different direction while Tatsumi witnesses their fight.
"What...the hell is he?" said Tatsumi, trying to get his own answer while he saw Shiki is walking toward to Zanku as if he is going to attack him while Zanku looks around to defend by himself.
"Tatsumi, you're here." said Akame as she found Tatsumi sat on the ground before noticing them, "When did Shiki get here?"
"I...I don't know how did he get here. I never notice he was there until he was nearby to him." said Tatsumi as Shiki starts to attack him before Zanku was able to move back before he felt his right cheek was being scratched by a little.
"Damn...you're damn good. But I have a question about your eyes...you have Teigu in your eyes?"
"...No. it's just special eyes. I'll tell you once you'll die real soon. You're welcome to try it."
He starts to scream and rushing toward him while Shiki makes his stance before starting to preparing his counterattack against him.
Zanku is about to aim his neck before Shiki ducks as he slices Zanku's sword as if he cuts it like paper.
"You cut my knife and I still got one more left! JUST LET ME CUT YOUR NECK!" While he still had his sword flailing around while Shiki easily avoids his attack.
"Boringggggg...All is you're dancing just like that. Then I'll show you the real way." He puts his knife in his pocket as he put his fists, "Then let's get it done, shall we?"
While Tatsumi and Akame watch them as Akame comments, "His moments is like a true assassin to me, but he is very fast than what we were unable to see his movement."
"Like Shiki said this before. He is very well trained as an assassin. But he needs our help."
She shook her head, " It seems he doesn't need his help, in fact, he knew how to deal with some people."
Shiki avoids Zanku's attack as he chops his left arm while his arm hits on the ground.
"Arrrgghhh! You bastard!" He still rages as he rushes toward to him before Shiki dodges on right before stabbing his Zanku's stomach. The next thing he still had his strength left to uncover his eyes. He reaches Shiki's blindfold before uncover it.
Shiki opens his eyes which he saw both of them were glowing as if they were like a blue jewel. The next thing that he felt his back was being chilled. He looks back and saw people were holding their heads that he killed them. They all raise their fingers, pointing at him and shouting at the same time, "Murderer! You deserve to die!"
Zanku tried to run but his legs were stuck before numerous hands caught him as they drag him down before starts to scream, "Help! Please give me mercy!"
In reality, Shiki watch's him laying on the floor and starts being chock by himself and screaming at the same time. He notices that he had Zanku's blood was dripping on the ground as he licks his blood.
"It taste...bitter. You should've never take my blindfold away from me." He retrieves his Martin of Shroud as he wraps his head to cover his eyes and tied it a bit.
"Impossible...not a single blow to kill him. What in the world is he?" Said Akame as she grips her Murasame. She doesn't know if she is willing to fight against Shiki which it is impossible for her to win.
"Enjoying the show, didn't you?" Said Shiki as he smiles at them while Len in her human form is sitting on the rooftop, watching them.
"Mmmm...I really want sweet."
Author's notes: Here goes for nothing, but being laze around to play my ideas, playing Warframe all long day, Frostpunk and Apex Legends (Hey! You're a damn freeloader!)
And now I'm traveling with my family to spend my own free time and now I decide to write it on my cellphone which I knew there were lots of typos or spelling mistakes. Please let me know if you find any mistake that I made and I'll be going home soon as I'll get it back as usual.
And speaking of this...not sure what to put this up because I've been trying to put some small reference from Fate and Kara no Kyoukia in order to fit it but I'm not sure how it works for me as well. Except Melty Blood is ok (Dammit Nasu!).
Anyway have a nice/evening and I hope you have a good time to read and write some criticism.