Chapter 14 – Kill Them All
Night - Celestial Palace Entertainment Room
"This will be the day in which I finally spill your blood!"
The blonde, handsome, and broad shouldered man shouted whilst pointing his hidden sword at [Name]. Every persons' heart pumped rapidly in this circular theater room in disbelief. Some looked at [Name] and others looked at Sheev.
The king was the one to break the silence with noticeable anger, he stood up and shouted.
King Lilth: What is the meaning of this!?
Sheev: My lord, this scum is an imperial traitor.
Everyone shot looks at [Name] in bewildered and aggressive ones at that. It's possible that these people were imperial loyalists and didn't think favorable of [Name] because of his supposed opposition.
Sheev: He serves the revolution and he'll pay in blood.
The king rose looked over to [Name] and asked.
King Lilth: Is this true [Name]?! You serve the revolution?
[Name]: That isn't important right now, what is more important is your daughter.
King Lilth: What?! Is this not to your liking? This is an honor to behold?
Other commonwealth royalty agreed and said numerous things like "It is an honor", "what is he on about?" "Does the princess not look presentable enough?" "Is he envious of the imperial hero?"
[Name]: NO! This is wrong?! She's a little girl, a kid! Don't any of you see how wrong this is?! She's the flag bearer of your settlement and even she sees the flaw!
Sheev: Silence! [Name] get down here and face your demise!
[Name] is utter shock gestured at Sheev.
[Name]: This guy sucks! He's a total complete fool who's only more imperial fodder, plus I've defeated him in combat before.
King Lilth sat back down and smiled.
King Lilth: Then we shall have a trial by combat. The loser will be banned from the settlement for life and the victor will claim ownership of our daughter and do as they wish to her.
Everyone gasped and Uta herself got up from the bed and shouted.
Uta: Father!?
King Lilth: Silence girl. Let them duel it out.
[Name] then quickly removed the blazer too tight for him, only fitted for him last minute. Sheev was with in utter glee as he stuck an on-guard position. [Name] then stood with a arm outstretched and received one throw to him. He unsheathed it, and it was a Wakizashi blade. It was short and Sheev's was long. Sheev smiled as he realized he had the advantage.
Sheev: Well, make the first move. Revolution scum.
[Name] scooted forward in a sideways position and Sheev did so as well.
With the speed of lightning Sheev quickly struck with a horizontal cross cut and [Name] parried making a high-pitched clang! noise. Within a second [Name] and Sheev entered a fierce hurricane of steel and sparks. The air filled with whistled as [Name] blocked, parried, and danced around Sheev's heavy handed blows. Like their fight before [Name] had no hope of matching his savagery with the blade, so finding a chink in the armor was his best option.
Sheev had gotten better however, much better. His hatred and jealousy of [Name] made him powerful. [Name] saw no openings as he resorted to twirling his short blade to create constant motion to make parrying easier. Sheev landed a kick on [Name]'s chest leaving a dirtied foot print on his chest and it nearly winded him. He backed away as the audience clapped. He looked over to see Uta concerned and the king and queen in glee at the contest.
Night - Night Raid Fortress
Tatsumi used incursion to cloak himself as he spied on Chelsea. He intends to scare her, to make her pay for using such harsh words to make an example out of his beloved deceased comrades.
She was bathing in the hot springs outdoors and luckily she had no idea he was there. Behind a rock he tip-toed over to her and right before he did; It was Susanoo?! He stood up and looked at Tatsumi and inquired on why he was spying.
Tatsumi: I uh! I didn't know it was you Sus- I didn't honest!
Chelsea then laughed and transformed into her normal state. She then bonked him on the head and told him on why he needs to improve in masking his aura and she apologized for the comments she made about the deceased members of the night raid. However, Tatsumi also inquired on something.
Tatsumi: Hey Chelsea? What do you think about that other guy, [Name] I mean?
Chelsea: The weird guy? Oh, not much to be honest. He's like that coworker you see at a new job who quit or got fired a after a few days.
Tatsumi: You don't think we should go after him and ask to get him back?
Chelsea: I don't see the point. He showed lots of potential but he's gone and there's nothing we can do about it now.
Tatsumi looked down and lamented at this possible fact. He then looked up at her again.
Tatsumi: Well do you at least think there was anything we could've done to stop him. I mean we treated him fine didn't we?
At that moment, he remembered something. Akame wasn't treating him so well. Whenever she was around him she seemed more aggressive, colder to him. She must've sensed something in him that she didn't like. Maybe that horrible treatment by her drove him off? He thought about more, it's time to say something about. It's time to ask Akame herself.
But as he thought this Mine in a towel came by from a different way and undid her towel to bathe.
Mine: Hey Chelsea did you see that—TATSUMI!?
She screamed with seething anger. Tatsumi's face was totally red as he saw Mine's nude body.
Tatsumi: Sorry I-
Chelsea: He was peeping in on me and I caught him.
She said with shrugged shoulders. Mine quickly rewrapped her body and screamed at him further.
Mine: OH SO YOU'RE A DAMN SCUM BAG PERVERT NOW HUH?!
Tatsumi: Hold on Mine that's not the whole story!
Mine: Chelsea! Hold him down I'm getting a hot knife!
She said as she ran back towards the house. Tatsumi then used every ounce of life to escape and run after Mine to calm her down to save his manhood.
Same Time – Imperial Palace
Wave shuttered as he heard the nonstop shrieks of a man behind a strong metal door. Kurome sat along the door and ate extremely special brownies. These brownies were particularly special. Iced with three different chocolates, creamy hot fudge interior, and stuffed thickly with marshmallow. Wave wondered how she could be enjoying brownies at a moment like this where someone was being tortured in a room behind her. The shrieks stopped and he heard heels thump into the hard flooring as the door's metal shrieked while opening.
She didn't have her cap on as she looked back into the room and when given the opportunity Wave did too. The man was sitting in a chair arms placed across a stone table. His hands were black, swollen, blistered. They were bloated and had burst open while yellow puss poured out and onto the table. His face was beaten and some of his scalp was gone. She had frostbitten his hands and partially scalped him.
Esdeath: Can you believe him? begging and pleading for me to stop. I mean I'd barely done anything to him yet. But never the less what update do you have for me? Have you any leads?
Wave: None yet. He's like a ghost and so is the Night Raid.
Esdeath: I can care less about the Nightraid right now. I just want to find [Name] and you know that.
Wave then out of nowhere decided to ask her the question [Name] hadn't regarding this situation.
Wave: Permission to ask a personal question general!
Esdeath: Proceed.
Wave then stood silent for a moment and then changed his mind already. So instead of doing so he changed the question. He then gave an awkward smile and chuckled slightly before he rubbed his head and asked.
Wave: What do you plan to do about the Nightraid with no leads?
Esdeath curved her mouth a slight bit and put a hand on her chin. She mused on this and tilted her head slightly.
Esdeath: Well that wasn't very personal. But to answer it, I may or may not decide to call on the wild hunt to assist us. Although normally I wouldn't call on any assistance for anything; this is a different case.
Wave: The wild hunt general?
Esdeath: Yes, the wild hunt. Because as of right now the Nightraid isn't my main purgative, finding [Name] is.
Wave then realized he didn't need to ask anyway. Was she going to find him to show him unconditional love? Or was she affronted by [Name]'s escape and she was bent on torturing him? Esdeath had turned and walked in another direction down a separate hallway.
Wave: Oh, general?!
She stopped as to answer his question, not facing him at all.
Wave: What are you going to do when you find him?
Esdeath then turned and smiled. He could see the curvature of her beautiful face behind her slightly turned back.
Esdeath: You mind cleaning my subject up and throwing him back in his cell? I will appreciate it.
That was Esdeath's most polite way of telling him to mind his own business to wave. Wave looked in the room to see that husk of a tortured man. He then looked at Kurome and saw that she was still eating those delectable brownies but it irritated Wave at the same time.
Wave: Kurome? How can you sit there and eat brownies at a time like this? A guy was just having his head ripped off and his fingers frozen.
Kurome finished a bite and wiped a small amount of hot fudge from her mouth and she responded.
Kurome: Because they're special brownies.
Wave: How are they special?
Kurome: Well, my sister and I would finish tough missions we'd head to this family sweets shop and got the best brownies ever and we'd sit together under a tree and enjoy them together. Her's was baked with two other chocolates, and stuffed with caramel and walnuts. Those were her favorites and these are mine. But the shop moved away because of all the strife that the revolution caused. These are only imitation brownies to the ones I liked. So, that's another reason for me to find and kill her.
Wave felt bad for her, him just asking about those brownies spawned such sour memories to her. She's eating treats that her and her hated sister used to enjoy together before things went south It seems incredibly trivial to want to kill a sibling over brownies but it was more than that. He never knew why she hated her sister so bad, and he never bothered to ask. "Now to change the subject, how about a task for us to bond more over" he thought.
Wave: Hey Kurome?! You mind helping me with this guy?
Kurome: Nah. She asked you.
Wave's face then instantly soured and his shoulders dropped.
Same Time – Celestial Palace
[Name] was having little success against this hulking man. It seems like Sheev had gotten bigger and strong since the last time they met. [Name]'s heel's continued to dig into the red carpeting with each side step and hard block. Sheev wasn't beginning to tire either. The king's voice then boomed throughout the small room.
King Lilth: It's already apparent to us to the superior combatant is. Sheev cease playing with him and finish the ceremony so we may sleep!
Sheev: As you wish!
Sheev then stomped forward and unleashed a barrage of extremely power over head blows in which [Name] struggled with, he was being backed up and couldn't win. [Name]'s heart wasn't in this battle from the start. The death of his friend and disappearance of his adopted daughter or sibling did nothing to help him. If anything, that's what stunted him. He couldn't focus on too much else, let alone winning a potential life or death duel.
Then [Name] was struck down by the sheer force of the blow from Sheev's powerful broadsword. [Name] didn't even dare to get up. He stayed with his head held low.
Sheev laughed and hurled insults, while doing so he placed his boot on [Name]'s head and pressed it against [Name]'s forehead.
Sheev: Where's the confidence you had moments ago!? What about when we fought the last time? Ah never mind. You proved to me that you are what I said, nothing. I haven't an idea in what the general see's in you at all. You barely even put up a fight.
Uta: Get up [Name]! Get up please!
Sheev: Hell, your friend put up a better fight than you.
[Name]'s eyes darted up even with Sheev's boot on his head.
[Name]: What?
He said with a sharp hiss.
Sheev: Yes, your home and friend were massacred by me and my regiment. You were meant to be in the slaughter but you were absent, probably aiding the revolution in some way.
[Name] sat up forward and completely nullifying the full force of his boot pressing down on his head.
Sheev: What the fu-
[Name] then took his own short blade and stabbed Sheev's leg straight through. Sheev then let out a holler of pain and anguish. [Name] then rose and headed toward the man without his own sword. Sheev slashed and [Name] caught the blade between his arm and side and smashed it in half. He then palmed Sheev in the face with a sickening crunch!.
[Name] then threw a succession of martial kicks and destroyed Sheev's ribs and sent a front kick then left him flying and into groups of people. The people pushed him back into the fight and he tried a futile swing that [Name] saw coming. [Name] trapped his arm and high kneed his face and swept him to the floor.
[Name] then grabbed his throat and raised him off the floor.
[Name]: You took all I had from me. But luckily I am still merciful.
Sheev spit out copious amounts of blood and teeth.
Sheev: You're too soft, a real man would've killed me.
[Name]: You wouldn't know anything about a real man.
He dropped him and walked over to the princess.
[Name]: I've won. Looks like I've come to rescue you twice today.
He with a smile offered his hand to her. She with a smile outstretched her own and took hold of his hand. She was overjoyed at her rescue and had gotten away from the throngs of people to walk forward to [Name].
The king was less the please about this outcome and so was the queen. However, a deal was a deal and [Name] was going to take her away from this kingdom, she must've wanted to, given her demeanor. Sheev had begun to fumble around on the ground and mumbled underneath his breath.
Sheev: Bastard, how dare he humiliate me! Not only in front of the empire, but the celestial empire as well! This will not stand; THIS WILL NOT STAND!
He yelled as he rose and grabbed [Name]'s fallen blade and threw it with expert accuracy at [Name]. The shining blade soared and it flew with the speed of a bird. [Name]'s reflexes awakened and he moved nearly instantly. However, there was a splat! and everyone gasped. [Name] wasn't caught, "so what happened?" he thought.
He looked back and the sight nearly turned him bone white. The blade had been sent through Princess Uta's skull. Her face was stuck with the smile she had on her face for a moment before she fell and [Name] caught her. [Name]'s heart fell as she did. The men and women screamed and certain people even fainted. The King and Queen screamed in horror and pain.
King Lilth: GUARDS! KILL THEM BOTH! DO SO FOR YOUR PRINCESS!
He screamed with tears in his eyes as he stood pointing at them both.
This was [Name]'s fault. All his fault and there was nothing he could do about it now. He was shaking in shock as he cradled her body. Her face still bore the smile she had before her death. [Name] ripped the blade out of her skull, blood spurted from her skull and throughout her eyes as [Name] closed them. [Name]'s stare pierced Sheev like a flaming arrow.
[Name]: YOU!
He stomped into the ground and sent his foot through the wood and it projected himself over to Sheev. He sent his fist straight through him and out his back and crushed his spine.
The guards all went for [Name] who picked up the blade slashed several men's chest before slamming his fist straight through one of the men's skulls. [Name] took the same blade that killed the princess and threw it, making it boomerang and slashed several guards' throats. One of the guards viciously stabbed [Name] in the shoulder blade from behind. [Name] screamed in anger more than pain and back kicked the man so hard that he keeled over and vomited blood.
Several more of them ran back the other way to retreat and the ten handmaidens circled around [Name] with Shoto blades and [Name] in a blink of an eye vanquished eight them with deep stabs and severed limbs. The remaining two attempted to fight but [Name] easily overpowered one and spiked his blade in their head. The other he disarmed her literally with a accurate slash and grabbed her hair, he then completely severed her head with the slick ease of his blade.
People were screaming and attempting to leave the same way that the guards came and retreated from. However, the guards out of fear sealed the door. These sickening people abused, hurt, and demoralized a beautiful soul like the young Uta. She wanted so desperately wanted to be saved from this fate and [Name] pushed her into it like a damned fool.
[Name] then ran over to the spectators, who were family and friends of high status were being slaughtered by [Name]. One by one each one of them were being slain for supporting the violation of this girl.
The entire room was soaked in red. The strong stench of iron filled [Name]'s nose as he saw the king come down.
King Lilth: You are no savior! You were sent from HELL!
He said as he charged [Name] and the king was easily flipped and had his head smashed. [Name] stomped his foot into the king's head and within a second, it was no longer a head. The queen fared no better, she leapt from the stands and brandished a sword of her own. She was previously a warrior in her own right, which is how she and the king met.
[Name]: Your husband was a fool. You are as well for marrying him. Neither of you cared for this girl.
"You lie!"
She screamed as she and [Name] clashed blades. With no effort, [Name] grabbed her hair and ripped it back and plunged his blade into her face. [Name] then walked over to the near dead Sheev, the thorn in his side and partial source of his ire now laid before him dying.
[Name]: By now you've lost all nerve in your lower and upper body; paralysis. Within moments you won't be here anymore and I want to know something.
Sheev; Wh. . .What?
[Name]: There was a girl at the house at the time of your attack. What happened to her?
Sheev: She. . .
He was barely alive and wasn't very coherent. So [Name] stomped and got him semi awoke.
Sheev: She escaped and that's all I know. Now go away and let me die in piece.
[Name]: No. I still haven't gotten revenge for when you took my friends life.
[Name] walked over and couched over Sheev, while holding his face.
[Name]: And for that you still have to pay.
[Name] then strained and strained as he pulled upwards. Sheev screamed and shrieked, as [Name] pulled. He then in a few seconds, managed to rip Sheev's head off his body as blood showered him. [Name] looked around at the carnage he caused. These people dead by [Name]'s hand and nothing felt more liberating at this moment.
[Name] picked up the princess's body and left the palace. As he came down the stairs, [Name] smelled the fresh night air hit his face as the blood dried on him. Several screaming towns people noticed this and ran to see this and made a spectacle of it. He princess carried the deceased young princess and rested it in the hands of a guard who stood watch at the outside of the palace.
Guard: What happened!?
[Name] said nothing and moved forward through the crowd of people who opened to let him by.
Guard: What happened?!
He repeated and as he went to look back at [Name]. But he had vanished like he was never there.
Night – Uncharted Wastelands
[Name] rode on his dark ghostly steed with his long maim flying into his face. The dark lands he rode into matched perfectly with his line of thought. [Name] realized tonight, there is no fighting with the darkness. To live free of the darkness one must learn to live above it, he'd failed. He was drug down by its pull instead. So instead of flee from it, it's time to embrace the darkness. Strangely enough at this moment he knew he can taste the strong iron of blood in his mouth, and he remembered hours back he tasted the same thing during his spree and lots of it. "How?" he thought. But then it dawned on him. It sank through his lips and through his lips into his teeth. Now he knows, it was because he was smiling.