Okay, does any of you guys have been visited by a lot of these artists? I know that I'm not the only one here, right?
I mean, other big hitters such as the likes of 'free man writer' and 'Iron117Prime' does have their own custom arts of their own but what do you think?
Let me know in the comments below and tell me that do they really get payed or anymore that I need to know about them because for one, I was also told that they're bots or something.
That aside, I hope that you guys enjoyed the story so far.
I mean, I don't know what to expect cause I mean, there are a lot of times that my other stories, 'Nemesis the Warlock' hasn't been given any reviews, both in Wattpad and in .
Well, anyway...
Hope you all enjoyed the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Akame ga Kill and 'Akame Ga kill: Return of Red Dragon emperor' by 'animemaster212'. They belong to their respective owners.
Enjoy.
It has been another day since Ylith had basically joined Night Raid to become one of their assassins, although he doesn't hesitate to go out on his own lone crusade to destroy some imperial outposts if he has to.
As he lies on his bed in the room he has been given, he contemplates why he would ever consider wanting to become part of Night Raid, specifically aligning himself with people who are not of his own kind, for the most part.
Even if, in a pragmatic sense, he needs allies against the Empire, he also knows that he is more than capable of facing the Empire alone, and it will be no different now.
Yet, the only reason he joined was because of that young woman, Sheele. Her name is apparently a self-confessed airhead who had convinced him to join Night Raid if Ylith makes a deal of surviving against his assault and despite overwhelming odds. Sheele persevered despite the fact that she is basically a mortal woman, while Ylith, on the other hand, is...
Complicated, to say the least.
Shaking his head, he looked at his spear and his many Teigu, especially that other Teigu he got from that bandit chief he killed, specifically a pair of chakrams that controls the wind as he raised his hand up as it glowed, making all his weapons float in front of him.
Ylith then looked at his weapons and his own hand as his other hand gripped his sheet in rage. He still remembered that his clan once respected and enjoyed these powers. And yet, despite all the power he had, he couldn't even save his people from the Empire.
'Mother... Father... Sister... Everyone... I'm sorry...' He thought as his spear started to float towards him as he grabbed it as well as the others as well which disappeared in a brief of light as he is about to stand up when-
Ylith heard a knock on the door and heard a familiar voice, "Ylith... are you still there?"
Ylith heard Sheele's voice from the other side of the door. He just sighed and said, "Yes, Sheele. I'm still here."
"Oh... Okay..." Sheele said in an understanding tone, "Are you awake yet?"
'If I had been awake, I would have responded to you.' Ylith said as he facepalmed and sighed before saying, "Yes, Sheele. I'm still awake."
"Oh, good..." The door opened, and Sheele peeked her head inside, smiling as she said, "Just to let you know that breakfast is ready, and Tatsumi is cooking."
"I'll be there..." Ylith said as he stands, "I hope that there at breakfast, there will be a lot of vegetables at the tables."
"Uh..." Sheele can only just point her fingers and displayed an awkward expression, "Well-"
"Don't finish that. I know there's a certain carnivore at the table, and I'll tell her that if there aren't any veggies at the table, I'll be finding my own food elsewhere." Ylith warned.
"What kind did you eat?" Sheele asked curiously.
"Well, mostly fruits, vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, bananas, apples and anything that nature shall give what it shall bring." Ylith explained it all to her.
"No meat?" Sheele said to him which he gives her the look.
"No meat." Ylith stated to her thoroughly at that, "I'm a vegetarian."
"Okay..." Sheele said as she adjusted her glasses, "Anyway, I promise that your diet will be respected. And besides, I think there is a food that you will like..." She noticed that Ylith was still giving her the look, "And don't worry. It isn't meat."
"Hmmm..." Ylith grunted, "I shall take what you say with a grain of salt, but other than that, I believe I am hungry. Let's go, shall we?"
"Let's." Sheele said as she lead Ylith to breakfast.
Finally, in the kitchen, Tatsumi has been struggling with what he is cooking alongside Ieyasu, as they struggle with their cooking, except for Sayo, who is enjoying herself cooking with ease.
"Is it finished already?" Mine said impatiently.
"Ugh... I'm starving." Lubbock said as he pat his stomach.
"Come on guys. Be patient, you all." Bulat said to them all until finally, Sheele and Ylith has come to their kitchen.
"Hey, Sheele. Hey, Ylith..." Leone said, waving her hand at Sheele and Ylith.
"Morning, Leone." Sheele nodded at her while as she takes her seat while as Ylith takes his seat as well between Leone and Sheele.
Leone grinned as she hugged Ylith's arm with her 'assets' as she said, "Morning, Ylith. How'd you been?"
Ylith doesn't respond and just say, "So, what is on the menu?"
"Meat!" Akame declared with startling passion which makes Ylith cringed at the mention of it.
"Ugh... Passed..." Ylith said in disgust.
"Don't worry, Ylith. There is another food that you like if meat isn't what you want." Sheele said in assurance to him.
"I doubt it." Ylith said in a skeptical tone.
"Order up." Sayo declared in a happy tone while Tatsumi and Ieyasu are panting in a tired manner.
"So... Much... Meat..." Ieyasu said in a dreaded tone.
"Why are there so many meat?" Tatsumi said in a terrified tone.
"Here you go." Sayo said as she, alongside Tatsumi and Ieyasu, put down their plates of food as everyone, mainly Akame, smiles and dig in.
Ylith can only look in disgust at the sight of meat being eaten, chewed and devoured, as he look away before Sayo put something on on his table, "Here you go, Ylith. Sheele had just taught me how to make this so, dig in."
Ylith then looked at the food placed in front of him, appearing to be flat and flabby as he grabbed it and started moving it around, seeing it flap around. "What is this?"
"They're pancakes, silly." Sheele said with a giggle.
"Pancakes? Is it like meat?" Ylith said again in a skeptical tone.
"Hahahaha, no silly. Here, watch." Leone said as she let of go Ylith as she pick something out, appearing to be a bottle of sort and pour it on the pancake.
"Is that 'honey'?' Ylith asked again as the contents are smeared it all over the pancake.
"Yup..." Leone said in agreement, "Now, come and try it."
"If you insist." He said reluctantly as he pick up his fork and spoon and started to cut some parts as he stabbed the small parts of the pancake with the honey smeared on it and move it towards where his mouth should be.
Then he noticed everyone looking at him in a quizzical tone as Ylith said, "What?"
"Aren't you... Aren't you going to take off your mask?" Lubbock said to Ylith, who could only respond by looking at him blankly.
"No." He said without hesitation as he put the pancake into his mask, much to everyone's shock as the pancake just... passed through his mask?
'What? How? How the hell did he put that pancake into that mask of his?' Mine thought in shock as she watched Ylith chew the pancake inside his mask, his eyes widening in surprise at such a sensational taste.
"This is... this is delicious..." Ylith said as he continue to gobble the pancake from his plate, actually enjoying the taste of the pancake.
"Uhm... thank you..." Sheele said, chuckling awkwardly as everyone watched the mysterious and aloof Ylith had let his wall down as they watched the more endearing side of their most mysterious member of Night Raid.
Meanwhile, outside of the base, Tatsumi and his friends, alongside Ylith, are being lead by Akame as they come towards a large lake.
"Wow, that's one huge lake." Ieyasu stated, looking at the aforementioned lake he is seeing.
"So, what are we doing here, Akame?" Tatsumi asked Akame about what are they doing here.
"We are catching the large river tuna today." Akame answered to his question.
"You mean those rare and very dangerous fish, right?" Sayo said in shock while Ylith just gives a glare at what Akame is about to do.
"That is right." Akame said as she takes off her clothes, making Tatsumi and Ieyasu fall down on their backsides in shock as they watched Akame stripped herself.
Then she said, "What are you two doing?" as Tatsumi and Ieyasu look at Akame who is wearing a white bikini.
Tatsumi just sigh and said, "Whew, she's just wearing a swimsuit."
"You could have warned them about what you are doing..." Sayo stated to Akame with a frown, "You know it isn't exactly okay to strip in front of the boys."
Akame just ignores her before jumping up and diving straight to the lake with relative ease as Tatsumi, Sayo and Ieyasu watched at what she is doing.
"I'm out." Ylith stated as he turned around, making Sayo look in shock at the Phantasm walking away.
"Ylith? Where are you going?" Sayo asked him as Ylith stopped as he responded with, "You can catch those creatures however you want. But do not force me in the kidnapping of such innocent creatures to be use as your sustenance. I'm off." And with that, Ylith disappears from thin air.
As Sayo, alongside Tatsumi and Ieyasu watched him disappear in such a mysterious ways, the river tuna are thrown out of the lake as they landed where they flopped around as Akame finally comes out of the water as she said, "Erase your presence and then, you can easily catch them." Then she noticed that Ylith isn't here as she said, "Where's Ylith?"
Sayo just sigh as she answered, "He doesn't want to fish."
"Right..." Ieyasu said as he rubbed his head, "Forgot he's a vegetable."
"Vegetarian, Ieyasu. He called himself a vegetarian." Sayo empathize the correct phrasing of the word itself.
"So, in the end, Tatsumi manages to get two while Ieyasu manages to catch one." Najenda stated as Leone laugh out loud as the boys can only give an annoyed look.
"Is it true that you boys takes off your clothes and yell, 'bring it on'?" Leone said as they glared at her.
"Hey, it's not my fault that they're fast." Tatsumi stated to her.
"Yeah, and seriously. You can't expect to get that deep in the lake." Ieyasu stated with a pout.
"And what about Sayo and Ylith? Did they catch anything?" Najenda asked which Akame just shakes her head.
"Sayo refused because she doesn't want to take off her clothes." Akame answered, making Sayo glared at her.
"Well, excuse you but if you haven't noticed, I don't have my own swimsuits." Sayo stated to her.
"You still have your undergarments." Akame pointed out.
"I'm not stripping to my underwear!" Sayo answered, shrieking at her.
"As for Ylith, well-"
"I am not joining you with capturing those innocent aquatic life in the water. You can judge their lives however you want but do not tasked me with such a disrespectful act against nature and all life itself." Ylith complained to everyone.
Everyone listened to what Ylith said, having already their mysterious member's obsessive care with the wildlife itself and vegetarian lifestyle.
"Anyway..." Najenda said, wanting to have their priorities straight, "Leone, you want to tell us about the job you've received?"
"Yes, Boss." Leone responded with a nod and a serious expression as she showed everyone the two photos and placed it on the table.
One of the pictures appears to be a rugged muscular man who is most notable for his scarred right eye while another picture showed a seriously ugly man that looks as if a toad and a slug had a baby or somebody, which the imagination does not want to think about.
As everyone who is new to Night Raid looked curious on who they're seeing, Ylith then asked the question, "Mind telling us who are they?"
"I'm glad you asked..." Najenda stated to him as he point at the first picture, "This one is known as Ogre the Demon. A member of the Imperial Police Force and a captain at that, earned the title for his impressive skills with his sword."
"How charming." Ylith sarcastically responded with a bored tone, "As if blades would help against someone like me."
"I could say that you shouldn't underestimate Ogre because he didn't earned the rank and title for nothing..." Najenda said before puffing another smoke and said, "But considering the feats of your power, you're not wrong that you can handle him just fine." She admitted to him before pointing at the next picture.
"And this is Gamal, the Oil Merchant, a corrupt one at that and they both are in cahoots with each other." Najenda explained to him.
"How surprising..." Ylith said with a roll of his eyes, "Anything more noteworthy than another stereotypical example of a dog of the Empire?"
"Well, if you must know, whenever Gamal ever commits a crime, Ogre would come in and pin his crimes to someone else while Ogre lives free with the bribe Gamal gives him..." Najenda explains, "And our client is just another victim of Ogre's crimes, who's fiancee has been falsely accused, falsely punished and sentenced to death without even a trial at all."
"That's horrible." Sayo said in shock and horror as Tatsumi and Ieyasu look furious at such a news.
This revelation does make Ylith give a more serious expression, well as serious as his mask is shown as he said, "Alright, you convinced me. Anything else I want to know?"
"Just that before he is executed, the client's fiancee has been given the letter when he overheard them talking and..." Leone then takes something out and placed it on the table as everyone watched in surprise at what can be described as a big bag of gold, "She give us this as compensation."
"Wow..." Tatsumi said in awe, "That's a lot. Wonder how did she get it?"
Ylith then proceeded to approach the bag of gold and grabbed it, inspecting it as everyone watch in confusion at what he is doing, "Ylith, what are you doing?"
As Ylith continue his inspection, he said, "Leone... How did his fiancee get this much money?"
"Why do you want to know?" Leone said in confusion.
"I just..." Ylith said as he continue inspecting, "I sensed something from his bag. Something so utterly revolting that..." He then look at his hands and said, "I can't believe I touch it."
"Well..." Leone has a hard time answering until she answered, "I don't know how to tell you this but I can smell something and that she has a venereal disease."
This answer made Ylith dropped the bag of gold in shock and disgust at what he had just touched.
While Sayo and Tatsumi can only look in shock at the revelation, Ieyasu appears confused as he said, "Uhm... What's venereal disease?"
"It's a disease where people would... you know..." Akame said as she tried to motion her hands to give him the display which made Ieyasu more confused.
"What's-" Ieyasu is interrupted when Tatsumi whispered something in his ear which Ieyasu nodded in understanding before her eyes widened in shock, horror and disgust at what he heard, "It's a what!?"
"Indeed..." Leone responded with a nod, "She basically sold her body to get this much money to pay us."
"She doesn't need to do that." Ylith said, "We would have accepted any payment if it means another dog of the Empire us dead. What she is doing is just unnecessary."
"That maybe true but the Revolutionary Army need the funds to bolster their strength, numbers and resources and the money is needed to get them back into shape." Najenda explained it to them but Ylith is hardly buying it.
"So, what? We should ignore that some has to get violated just hire you all and ignore an innocent women that had been so thoroughly abused just for the greater cause for a greater good? Is that it?" Ylith said in a tone of frustration at him.
Najenda just sigh and said, "I know that it is wrong but we can't just expect to save everyone here. All we have to do is to make sure that her sacrifice wouldn't be for nothing." Najenda answered to him, thinking that he actually understand her reasoning.
Suddenly, Ylith says this, "Is that right? How noble and honourable of you..." He said in a tone of sarcasm, "Spoken like a true dog of the Empire."
"Excuse me!?" Najenda said in an offended tone.
"You heard me. I remember how many of those Imperial dogs have a saying for a lot of them. 'The Greater Good', 'Be Honoured To Serve The Empire', 'The Cost of the Innocent's Suffering is Paramount to the Glory of the Empire'. Everything I heard when I fought against anyone in the Empire, always wasting justifying their actions as 'for the Greater Good', always justifying everything they did as heinous and cruel as it is their entitled right to being one who is worthy of giving glory to the Empire. Whether it's because they are oblivious, ignorant or actually don't believe what they preach and is nothing more than lip service, all that no one cannot deny is that they justify everything for their own selfish reasons. Selfish beyond all reason and doubt about it..."
He then glares at Najenda as he said, "So tell me... Is it truly justified to take advantage of a women or did you not give a damn?"
Najenda glares back at him but as much as she tries, she admits that the intensity from Ylith's gaze is not to underestimated as she just sigh and said, "Look, I'm sorry that it happen. But we didn't ask for her to... do that to herself..." She sigh again as she said, "All we had to do is to just accept her request and we will punish them for the sins they caused. This I swear."
Ylith glared at her for only about a second before he reluctantly sigh, stating, "You're right. You are not at fault for her self-violation. And for all of my power, I couldn't even cure her." He stated sadly.
Leone can only look at him in a sympathetic expression before realizing something, "Hey, how about this? Why don't we meet our client and help her with something? If it makes you feel better, that is."
"How? I maybe powerful but I am not capable of making miracles." Ylith stated about himself before internally said, 'At least... in comparison to my sister.'
"Oh, don't worry about a thing. Besides, there are other ways to help her with something." Leone assured him.
"Leone, Ylith. What about the mission?" Akame said, wanting to make their priorities straight.
"Well, let the kids handle it." Leone said in regards to Tatsumi and his friends.
"Us?" Tatsumi said, pointing at himself.
"Uh... I don't know... If you said that this guy is like really tough, then I don't think we're actually that capable." Sayo explained to them.
"Maybe not you three but doubt can only lead to stagnation and if you want to be worthy of being a part of these organisation, then you need to prove to them." Ylith said to them.
"Heck yeah. We're gonna show you guys-" Ieyasu boasting is interrupted when Ylith said, "Without acting so full of yourself, that is."
Ylith can only shake his head and said, "Admittedly, I don't exactly trust you three to actually be successful if the boy's immature display is any indication."
His comment made Ieyasu look down as Sayo glared at him, "I could have just gone towards these Captain and show him that his strength in the face of my grand power..." He displayed boastfully as his spear head glows, "But one must not rely on a crutch to achieve the acts of growth and evolution..." He then look at them and said, "So, I shall go with you three in order to make sure that the mission goes smoothly."
"Really?" Tatsumi said to him, "You're coming with us?"
"Of course. Us new recruits got to stick together, correct?" Ylith then look at Najenda as he said, "Is there a problem with the plan, you all?"
Najenda leaned herself to her chair and said, "Technically, that is the plan. Although I could say that I do want you and only you Ylith, to easily handle Ogre while Leone and Akame..." She said to the two girls, "You two will handle Gamal. Understood?"
"Understood, Boss." Everyone said their peace as Najenda.
"Good, now..." Najenda then gives her final declaration, "Do not let these scums leave unscathed. Show them no mercy."
So sorry about that. My journal keeps me from from exceeding the words of 5000. Now, after I finally finished this work...
Ciao...