As the team almost finished their training. Shiro left the apartment unit to buy some food for their lunch.
It was almost 15:00 before they ended their training.
As the rest of the team awaits for Shiro's return. Ryu asked Eiji to come close as he is going to teach him new skills.
"Eiji. Come close, I'm gonna teach you new skills."
"Ok!"
"You now know 'Incinerate', right? Nod if you know."
Eiji nodded.
"What about cold snap?"
Eiji shrugged.
"No. What does it do? Is it different from Rin's glacial spike?"
"It is more commonly used for knives. It turns the stabbed person into a complete frozen body."
Eiji was amazed.
"Can you show me?"
Ryu nodded and prepares a training dummy.
He then prepared a knife and as he stabs the dummy, he then chanted,
"Cold snap!"
The dummy turns into a complete ice.
Ryu then unsheathe his sword and sliced the frozen dummy into half.
Eiji was amazed and asks,
"What if flicker plus cold snap? Will it do?"
Ryu smirked and prepared another dummy.
This time, he threw the knife at the dummy and chanted,
"Flicker!"
Followed with another chant,
"Cold snap!"
Eiji was surprised.
Ryu then says,
"Yes it works, as you can see, you can combine skills only if it is viable."
"Can I use it with a sword?"
"Yes, but make sure it hits a target. Unlike glacial spike, cold snap is more useful in a specific target."
"What else can you teach me? Do you know immolate?"
"Yes, but it is also used for stabbing only. When did you knew this?"
"After we won and celebrated that night. I left the shop for a while to get some fresh air, but only to find out I'm being hunted by the remaining hoarder who survived."
"What?? Damn it! I should've told you your lives are still at peril since some hoarders survived."
"It's ok! It is already over. Besides, I've been saved by Rin that night."
Ryu sighed.
"Well then? Want me to teach you immolate or you wanna try it?"
"And how will I try it?"
"Hmm, if only we have a fruit or an animal to slaughter."
Eiji gulped.
"An animal to slaughter?? Nevermind that skill, just tell me anything else without an animal involved."
"Hahaha.. Well, we can use fruits."
"But there are no fruits. Just give me anything else without a live target involved."
"Ok ok, how 'bout blade flurry?"
"What's that?"
"You will be able to slash multiple targets at once. You can also use it against one target, but I don't recommend it."
"Why's that?"
Ryu sighed.
"Why don't you try and find out."
Ryu then prepared 3 training dummies.
Ryu then tells Eiji,
"I want you to charge at these dummies and as you get close, chant 'Blade Flurry'.
Eiji nodded and prepared himself.
Eiji then charged. As he gets close to the first dummy, he then chanted,
"Blade flurry!"
As Eiji blinked his eyes, he also found out that he quickly slashed 3 targets in just one blink of an eye.
Eiji was surprised and asks,
"What just happened? I only tried to slash one target.."
"I know, it just moves on its own."
Eiji was surprisingly amazed.
Meanwhile,
Toki and Rin began their physical training.
Toki did sit-ups, push-ups and shadow boxed after.
Rin on the other hand, did some cardio exercises.
"Girl, you have some abs in there. Don't tell me you do workout before sleep." Rin compliments Toki.
"I only do pushups before sleep. Nothing else."
Eiji heard their conversation and was shocked.
"But do you do gym sometimes?"
Toki smiled a little.
"Yes. If Shoto has his workout, so as I."
Eiji spits his water as he heard it during his drink.
Eiji then asks himself,
'Why I never get to a gym with them?'
After a while, Shiro then returned with bento foods from a near convenience store.
The team prepares to eat their lunch + breakfast.
Eiji compliments Shiro,
"Ah! You just picked the right food, Shiro!"
Toki and Rin enjoyed their food and at the same time, eating so fast as if they have never eaten for months.
Shiro then says,
"The hoarders were stalking at me in the convenience store."
"Then? Did you try to lose them?" Ryu asks.
"No need to, they just literally stayed at the store."
"I guess they now know where we at. We should prepare ourselves, we don't know when they will attack."
After that, they all then prepared for the night to come.
The team stayed at the apartment all the way 'till midnight, except Rin.
Rin was at the park, alone. Waiting for the hoarders to come right at her.
One girl with long black hair then approached her.
"You are.. All by yourself? Why?" Akame asks Rin.
"Who knows? I guess just wanna be alone with you all." Rin looked at her with a smug face.
"You do know you'll be slaughtered all by yourself. Right?"
"I probably haven't introduced myself to you."
Akame then smirks.
"Ohh.. I know everything about you and the rest of your team."
"Do you? Then how come you didn't know they are not exactly 'my team'?"
Akame got confused.
"I see.. Is that why you are alone?"
Rin laughed, smirks, then gazes at her.
"That's right.. Because I'm what you call 'The lone wolf.'"
Akame closed her eyes and smiled.
"I guess you outsmarted us again.."
Akame then prepared her sword and charged at Rin.
Rin prepares herself a katana and parried with Akame. The two girls then clashed with one another.
Meamwhile,
The hoarders along with the brushed hair blood hoarder, smashed their apartment unit's door.
They found no one inside, but an empty room.
The blood hoarder and the hoarders were shocked as they are surprised that the team is also not in their respective unit.
It is clear that only Rin left the apartment and not the team, so they thought that the rest of them stays inside their apartment unit when suddenly, Ryu dropped some flash bang at the hoarders, making them unable to see their surroundings.
Toki and Shiro then came in and slashed the concussed hoarders, leaving only the brushed hair blood hoarder alive.
Ryu then had a thought and asks himself,
'Why is there only 6 normal hoarders?'
Ryu looked behind him and saw an incoming attack from the hooded blood hoarder.
The hooded blood hoarder girl smirks and says,
"Looks like you predicted our plot, but plot twist! We predicted your plot instead."
They all looked at each other as they glare with one another.
Meanwhile,
Rin and Akame continued their clash.
Rin switches from katana to glaive. She then gracefully wield her glaive as she parries each and every attacks of Akame.
Akame dodges Rin's attack while Rin blocks all of Akame's attacks.
Akame used a barrage of slant at Rin, so Rin tried to step back and avoid her attacks.
As Akame was about to charge at Rin, she then switched her glaive into a flail. Making Akame's sword suspends from the flail.
As Rin suspends Akame's sword. She then took a punch to Akame's belly.
Akame then dropped her sword.
After a while, Akame's sword then vaporized from the ground and returned to Akame's hand once more.
Rin smirks and says,
"Looks like you also have a large amount of mana with you. As in who does that summoning?"
"Let's just say, only me.."
Akame then smirks.
The two began to clash once more.
Meanwhile on the other side,
Ryu glared at the hooded blood hoarder and replied,
"But I do believe you didn't missed one of us. Do you?"
The hooded girl grew her eyes as she saw the hoarders behind her, getting sliced into half.
She then saw Eijiro with his great sword.
"Plot twist! We still outsmarted you.." Ryu shouts.
The entire team smiled. The hooded hoarder then kicked Eijiro before Eiji even tried to re swung his sword.
As she kicks him, another 5 hoarders came from the other side and cornered them.
Ryu then parried with the hooded blood hoarder, while Toki clashed with the brushed hair blood hoarder.
Shiro clashed with the 5 hoarders coming from their other side, while Eiji tried to get up once more and blocked the coming hoarders from his side.
They then began to clash with one another.
(During the time they eat their lunch, after finding out that the hoarders stalks Shiro. Ryu prepared a plan.
"I sensed one of them listens to us during the time I said our plan. I literally did that on purpose.." Ryu says.
Eiji was confused and asks,
"You knew it already? Why are you telling us this now?"
Ryu smirked.
"Because no one is listening to us now. Now's the chance to tell the real plan."
"I'm listening, what's the plan?" Rin asks.
Ryu then looked at Rin.
"You're gonna have to act as bait. Only you will leave this room tonight."
"Sounds like a plan. I've been wanting to fight them alone once again." Rin smiled.
"Unfortunately, they'll see you leave this unit. That means they will either keep you busy or they'll go all-out on you."
"Then? What are the rest of you gonna do?"
"We will leave this apartment unit. Me, Toki and Shiro will stay at the next unit just beside here."
Toki raised her hand and asks,
"Wait. Why Eiji is not mentioned?"
Ryu smirked.
"Because Eiji will be waiting underneath the stairs."
Eiji gulped.
"Wait what? Why me?"
"Because you are the least of their concern."
Eiji was just speechless.
"The plan is simple, there are two options here: First, if they go all-out on Rin, then we'll back her up. Second, if they only kept one blood hoarder to keep Rin busy. Then that means they'll come assault us here in this unit. If that happens, they'll send front liners to do the assault first, while the rest of them awaits from afar. When that happens, Eiji will then be coming from their behind and start slashing them into half." Ryu added.
Eiji gulped. Toki and Shiro was amazed by his plan while Rin smirks from the corner.)
Toki, who was facing the brushed hair blood hoarder, suddenly heared her chanting,
"Thousand Rupture"
Toki quickly evaded her as she steps back to avoid her attack.
Toki then charged at the brushed hair hoarder right after her skill attack.
As Toki parried with her, she then tried the strategy she used against Ryu during the training.
Toki used her left arm to parry the brushed hair blood hoarder heavily and then, she quickly wielded her katana upside down from her right arm to heavily parry the blood hoarder once more.
Followed with a step on the foot, the brushed hair blood hoarder got stuck and was unable to move until suddenly, Toki performed a spinning back kick at her.
She fell to the ground while Toki shouts,
"For Shoto!"
The brushed hair blood hoarder grew her eyes while she evades all of Toki's attacks from the ground.
The brushed hair blood hoarder flips over to stand and parry with Toki once more.
The brushed hair blood hoarder then says,
"Did you just said that name? Don't worry you'll be meeting him soon.."
Toki got irritated, gnashed and began to heavily parry her.
Ryu on the other hand, has unfinished business with the hooded blood hoarder girl.
The hooded hoarder spun her scythe, making Ryu unable to come close. Then suddenly, the scythe increased its length through its chain, but Ryu parried it and began to try to get closer at her.
The blade of the scythe returns back. Ryu then dodged it and proceeded to charge at her once more.
The two clashed endlessly, but Ryu increased his speed, making the hooded blood hoarder spills some blood from the scratches.
Meanwhile,
As Shiro killed one of the 5 hoarders. The remaining four charged at him in different angle. One of the hoarder jumps at him, two of the hoarder charged at him from opposite sides. While the remaining hoarder stood behind and watched them clash.
Shiro used an upper slash against the hoarder who jumped. He then unsummoned his long katana to summon his smallest katana and quickly parried with the two hoarders coming from left and right.
As soon as he pushed the two hoarder, he then resummons his long katana to quickly slice them while spinning in 360°.
As soon as he sliced the two hoarder, he then saw the remaining hoarder pointing a gun at him..
Shiro opened his eyes wide and gulped as if he was shock to see a hoarder brought a gun to a sword fight.
As Toki, Ryu, and Eiji clashed with their rival, they suddenly heard a gunshot.
The team was surprised and shocked as they saw Shiro fell to the ground.
Shiro's world then suddenly stopped while the team hurried to help him.
Rin heard what happened through their communication device.
The hoarders began to increase their number and pointed their gun at them, cornering the entire team except Rin.
The hooded blood hoarder then smirked and says,
"Welcome to the new age.."