Najenda: With Esdeath drawing nearer to the capital, our spies are having more difficulties providing intel about her. Leone, your mission is to spy on Esdeath and watch her movements for any suspicious behavior and DO NOT try to fight her.
Leone: Roger that boss!
Najenda: On another note, there has also been a series of murder involving politicians. The culprits are using Night Raid as a cover up. The total death count is 4 politicians and 61 bodyguards so far. *shows fake poster*.
Tatsumi: That doesn't make much sense it looks obvious that isn't us.
Najenda: At first i thought so too but given that the bodyguards aren't your everyday fighters it only makes sense for people with teigu to be able to easily take them out. Which leads me to the theory of the ones being behind this the three beasts, Esdeath's personal bodyguards.
Tatsumi: I may not know a lot of politics but them using Night Raid's name for their crimes make me sick! I say we go after them boss!
Bulat: That's the spirit Tatsumi!
Najenda: Then it's decided, we will show these imposters the consequences of their actions. There are 2 potential politician groups that can be their next targets. Akame, Lubbock head to the northern border of the empire where a group is handing out supplies to the people. Bulat, Tatsumi you are to board a fancy cruise ship, the Ryuusen, where a group of politicians is hosting a social party to discuss their opinions regarding the empire... NIGHT RAID, MOVE OUT!
[Yosif's house]
I never made Dango before but given how it's a snack i'd say it wouldn't be that much of a challenge. If anything this is just like making pelmeni but they're sweet. First i have to add 250g of mochiko or in other words rice flour into a bowl. Add 200cc of hot water and begin mixing by hand. Smoothen the dough and roll it into a snake like how a kid would usually do with their play-doh before cutting it up into small segments. Roll said segments into balls, boil for 3 minutes and cool in cold water for another 3 minutes. Because i don't have food coloring, i decided to use some strawberry, blueberry and mango jam to make the dish more colorful. No sauce also means that i have to find a quick alternative so i make what i think is the closest brew to green tea before setting everything up on a small plate. The room where i kept Sheele in was just a plain bedroom with a wardrobe, bookshelf, a chair and table with a small fireplace and a comfy bed completed with a cozy fluffy magenta blanket. Sheele was still sleeping soundly in the bed so i just set the snacks on the table close enough so she can sense it and wait by the door. It only takes 2 minutes for Sheele to start stirring. Seriously, what's up with everybody's obsession with food, it's already bad enough that there's Kurome and Akame, Leone doesn't count since she's more of an alcoholic.
Sheele: mhm...those smell nice Akame.
Me: I'm not Akame Sheele.
Sheele: Eh? *gets up and looks at me* You're the guy we fought uh.....What was your name again?
Me: It's just Yosif, no last name.
Sheele: Why...am i here? Where is this?
Me: You're currently under my house as for why you are here let's just say i's because i choose to.
Sheele: Oh so i'm your prisoner?
Me: Nothing of the like Sheele, you're here for your own safety, i support Night Raid somewhat but not the revolutionary so that's why i stop but not kill you. There may be others joining you down here but don't worry you'll be able to return when the war is over.
Sheele: I remember... Mine, is she okay?
Me: Yeah she made it out with a broken arm. In a way your "death" helped your team to grow stronger, be more wary of their surroundings.
Sheele: So i'm not useless after all.
Me: Don't say that Sheele, God has a plan for each and everyone of us. You may not know it but every actions of yours serve its own purpose no matter what you. There's no such things as useless or meaningless.
Sheele: Thanks...can i...have those *points to dango*
Me: Of course, i made them for you after all, knock yourself out. I'll introduce you to the others later but for now just rest, i did kick you quite hard in the head yesterday. And by the way, i sent Extase back to Night Raid so you should think of a weapon suiting you in the meantime. Now if you excuse me, i believe i have 2 guests at my door.
Sure enough, the phantom arrived at the capital at dawn leaving Chouri and Spear to be picked up by a squad of knights. Although it was extremely, i wasn't going to take any chances of some guards happening to spot us so i made tunnels beforehand and even prepared cloaks for them just to be sure. Spear and Chouri were now waiting in the living room sitting on the couch being uncomfortably watched by 4 silent knights. I let Spear kept her weapons to ease their moods but if i wasn't there in the next 5 minutes i'm pretty sure Spear would've stabbed one of the knights. To start straight at the problem, i entered the room wearing the ascended wraith set instead of my captain armor before dismissing the knights. This caused Spear to be even more tense as i sit down opposite of them while Chouri seems genuinely shocked.
Me: So i'm sure you both have a lot of questions and i'll try to answer all of them.
Spear: W-what a-are you?
Me: Don't you mean who?
Spear: O-oh s-sorry.
Me: I'm just messing with you, i don't mind. I'm what you would call an undead, a being unaffected by diseases, hunger or aging brought to life by dark magic. Well in my case i just sort of woke up like this one day.
Chouri: Woke up?
Me: Yeah, i was just sleeping like every other day in bed and the next thing i know i wake up in a coffin in some unmarked tomb. I'm not going to go into much details at that so moving on. As for who i am, i'm Yosif, leader of the abyssal legion made of those knights you saw earlier, the executioners and the angels of death though they respective names are endless paladin and endless phantom so try and remember that.
Chouri: So all the things they did were your biddings?
Me: That's correct.
Chouri: Why? Why would you attack both the empire and the revolutionary?
Me: I'm sure i don't need to explain why the empire needs to be gone. As for the revolutionary, it's also the reason why you're sitting here chatting with me instead of being dead in a ditch somewhere.
Chouri: Me? I don't understand, what's so special about this old man that made you go to such lengths of saving us?
Me: Because you're worth saving, you're the ones who truly do their best for the people.
Spear: Isn't the revolutionary fighting for the people?
Me: Not by a longshot. They fight for their own selfish beliefs that bloodshed will make all the problems away. Chouri however, you're way better than all of them. You can think 5 steps ahead of time and all of your moves are calculated and all of your actions bring nothing but benefits. Now tell me, what would happen if the entire imperial army fall?
Chouri: The empire is left defenseless against invasions, no enforcers left to maintain order and it'll be our own end. I can't believe i haven't thought about that.
Me: Given time you would have either way. What i'm saying is i need your help.
Chouri: For what?
Me: To build a new empire free of the previous corrupt one and the revolutionary, a true utopia.
Spear: B-but what about me then?
Me: Oh you could also help out on the battlefield, i'm currently assembling a team of my own elites to fight Night Raid or imperial teigu users should the need arise. Given enough training i'm sure it would be a piece of cake for you.
Chouri: I see then where would we be staying?
Me: This place is a lot larger than it looks, there's plenty of rooms for you to pick downstairs. Now i'm afraid i have to go. I need to fake my own death.
I gave some thoughts about making things calm between Night Raid and Jaegers and i came up with a solution. The easiest way for them to unite is by sharing a common enemy which i will play. I have Sergei wear a cloak and lead an attack on the Ryuusen where he will kill the Yosif everybody knows then i'll take it over from there. I won't be using my armor most of the time since Esdeath would recognize it and i'll make my voice deeper or just downright not talk too. And in order for the others being Ieyasu, Sayo and Spear to remain anonymous, i'm thinking of designing them their own uniform. That will come later, right now i need to think about the exact details of the "fight".
[Skip to after Tatsumi destroys Nyau]
I have been hanging onto the side of the boat since departure and judging how quiet it has gotten, i assume that Tatsumi is done with killing the three beasts. I climb aboard and there he was holding Bulat who is bleeding out.
Me: TATSUMI YOU FOOL WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!
Tatsumi: WAAA! Yosif? I...What are YOU doing here?
Me: I have no time to explain, he's coming.
Tatsumi: Who's he?
Me: NO TIME! CATCH! *toss antidote at Tatsumi* GRAB BULAT AND RUN!
Tatsumi: Yosif what are you talking *GROOOOARRRGHH* about?
Tatsumi nearly wets himself when the endless elites arrive. Given their history of needing the full team to fight a phantom, it's safe to say that all the colors drained from his face the moment he saw the 20 paladins and 10 phantoms with Sergei wearing a cloak levitating in the air all of which appeared out of nowhere. I need to make this shit spectacular and believeable, as far as they know the only person who could probaly take this much on is Esdeath so they won't be questioning the authenticity of my death. I grab the anti toxin from Tatsumi and gave it to Bulat myself before tossing them both overboard with Incursio. I stay on the edge of the deck to make sure Tatsumi can see the fight as he swims away. The paladins went in first and with me having extensive knowledge on them since i'm the one who summons them in the first place, easily take down each one with a well placed hit to their weakness being the Pterion. Next came the phantoms. Dealing with them without magic is a little tricky since standing in front of a dive is not the brightest of ideas. To land hits on them, i decide to do it the old-fashioned way and just toss shit at them. They would have dodged if not for the fact that my strength makes all the objects fly at approximately 200mph. Now it was time for Sergei to kill me. He descends down and we clash swords for a bit of flair really instead of professional dueling but it would be enough to fool Tatsumi. A minute or so pass and i deliberately let Sergei hits me hard. I know told him to make it look realistic but i didn't expect him to turn me into a shashlik by holding me up in between the ribs with his sword. Glancing at Tatsumi to make sure he was still watching, i see that he is now a safe distance from the Ryuusen for my final trick. I pull out a small satchel filled with pepper but from Tatsumi's point of view it would resemble gunpowder as i use pyromancy to cause an explosion sinking the ship. With that out of the way, Sergei and i gather the three beasts' teigus for the others before swimming away. I'm thinking of giving Belvaac to Ieyasu, Scream to Sayo and Black Marlin to Spear.
[With Night Raid]
The group is now heading to the meeting room as everyone has returned. Akame and Lubbock finished watching over their quarries, Najenda returned from gathering reports and Leone done with spying on Esdeath while Mine stayed at base to recover. They enter the meeting room to smell...alcohol? In one of the chair facing away from the door was Tatsumi drinking shots after shots out of Leone's whiskey. He turned to look at them and boy do he look miserable. They then notice a certain lack of a muscular man with his heart-shaped pompadour. It hits them that Akame and Lubbock haven't encountered the three beasts meaning that Tatsumi and Bulat must've met them instead. They were almost afraid to ask the obvious but Akame did so anyway.
Akame: T-tatsumi is Bulat...
Tatsumi: No, fortunately he survived the poison.
Najenda: Poison? I don't recall any of the three beasts using poison.
Tatsumi: It's not one of their teigus. Liver had a hidden strength enhancer serum that also doubles as a poison as his last solution. He used Black Marlin on his own blood to hit poison Bro.
Lubbock: Hold on...If Bulat survived then why are you so down?
Tatsumi: Aniki survived at the cost of Yosif's life.
Akame: Y-Yosif?
Tatsumi then retold the fight with the three beasts from the beginning up until the point where he kills Nyau. Then he begins describing what happens after.
Tatsumi: When i thought that all hope is lost, Yosif just suddenly jumps on board from underwater.
Najenda: What?
Tatsumi: I meant what i said, he just came out of nowhere then he started yelling at me for being on the Ryuusen for some reasons before tossing me the antidote and toss both me and Aniki overboard.
Akame: But why would he do that?
Tatsumi: Because he came, the leader of the monsters that have been appearing lately. He wore a cloak so i couldn't make out any details about him and this bastard could fly.
Najenda: What teigu did he use?
Tatsumi: That's the thing, i can't see his teigu either. He came with 20 executioners and 10 angels of death with nothing more than an ordinary sword yet his swordsmanship is even better than Akame's. What absolutely baffles me is how Yosif managed to kill all of the monsters without a scratch before challenging the leader. Yosif eventually lost and got stabbed through the heart but before he died, he looked at me one last time and activated a massive bomb sinking the Ryuusen.
Najenda: Akame are you feeling well?
Akame: *starts to tear up* n-no. I-I should've stayed by his side when i visited him... T-that way maybe i could've repaid what i owed.
Leone: Akame there was nothing you could do about it. And besides, i'm sure all your debts would paid if you can take down the son of a bitch who killed Yosif.
Akame: Whoever you are, for all the lives your monsters have claimed and for Yosif..... I WILL BURY YOU!
Total inventory:
Grenade launcher
Venus Magnum
Ascended Wraith set
Primordial's wrath: Damascus
Almighty Five Sights: Spectator
Diadem of supreme arcane might
15 copper 53 silver 38998 gold
Current familiars:
- Sergei the Armor Demon
- Victor the Soul Of Cinder