Chapter 7: New love? Esdese makes her move!

When Arata came back to the base that night from his mission to protect the official form the Night Raid imposters, he had, on his back in a bag, the Teigu the Sanjuushi used and carried Bulat with his arms. Everyone was surprised, and sad for the death of their passionate member, that the onyx eyed teen was this strong, if not for the fact that he was wearing Incursio.

...Somewhere near to Night Raid's base is the location of an Onsen (the hot springs)...

The one who is talking a relaxation bathing is none other than Mine; the tsundere girl looks down gently, from sitting down in the water, at her left hand to see if she is able to move it as pleasantly as she pleases. To her amazement, Mine is now perfectly able to move into the motion of her arms without feeling the pain of torn muscle and a slightly cracked forearm.

She stood up from her position, saying, "Yes! Finally healed!"

The pink haired tsundere had gotten back to wearing her usual outfit, consisting of her casual pink dress, and then next she ran inside the corridors within Night Raid's Hideout by herself.

'Until my wounds were healed, I had to stay at the base and rest. Now I can get back into the fight...! I have to work twice as hard to make up for the loss of Sheele and Bulat!'

Mine stops in front of the doors that lead to the training grounds. She impatiently opens it wide open and enters the area, shouting, "Anybody here? I need someone to train with!" She witness the sight of shirtless Lubba downing push-ups with Leone sitting on top of his back, while Arata is currently doing the same at the moment with Akame sitting on his back. Yuuji was going at it furiously, a burning desire to train harder than ever to protect Akame. His fiery passion burns brightly as he swung a heavy metal pole with iron block endings, whilst also wearing body weight that shows he means business when the crimson eyed teen rigorously trains.

'God, the smell is horrendous!' Mine sweat drops as she walks in closer to the two doing push-ups.

With Arata huffing and puffing, he managed to say hi to Mine while Akame says, "So you've recovered! That's good!"

"What are you guys doing?" The loli tsundere hesitantly asks.

Leone gleefully answers, "Just helping these two guys out with their training."

Arata explains his part of the story, catching her attention, "After equipping it, I understand that... *breathing intensely*... Incursio consumes an amazing amount of... spiritual and physical energy to use. In order for me to be able to use it as good as Aniki, I need to train my, my body even further to the next level...! As I am now, I can barely use it's invisibility for several seconds before it releases."

Blushing from his pure determination, Mine looks at Lubbock to see a different response, changing the subject from Arata. "It's unusual to see you getting sweaty, Lubba."

The green haired teen perks his head up in response, "There are just the two us guys in the group now, with the other strong dude working hard over there. So, you know, I got thinking maybe I should start taking things seriously."

Yuuji yells across to them, "And maybe you should start getting serious with the Boss, kono baka (You idiot)!"

Leone smiles from that remark, "Yeah that sounds like a good idea for you, Lubba."

"Pfft." Lubbock replied as Leone continues to tell him, "Even if what you said sounds cool and all, you can barely do half as many push-ups as Arata."

"Nice to see you all healed up, Mine!" Yuuji yelled across in recognition of the tsundere's health improvement.

"Thanks for noticing, peasant, perhaps you may be allowed to help me train and get stronger." Mine slightly teased the crimson eyed teen. Yuuji only smiles in response.

"I'll definitely help with that as well, anything for you, Mine." Arata said as he tries to focus hard in his training which has caused the pink haired tsundere to blush.

"The bumpkin kid can help me train too, if he so wishes to serve me."

Akame looks down, reading along the words within the open book in her hands as she stoically expresses her opinion, "That's to be expected... since there is such a large difference in weight between Leone and I."

The faces of everyone, including Mine, Lubbock, and Arata, were filled with a horrific expression as they know not to insult Leone's weight, the one thing Akame disregarded as she has always calculated her thoughts to a probable solution to a discussion without thinking of the consequences of her words that would lead to punishment. It seems that Leone is readying a frighteningly harden fist upon Akame's poor head as everyone was still in shock from the harsh answer from the red eyed beauty. Then just suddenly in a speed of light, Yuuji appears in place of Akame, softly pushing her off of Arata's back, which results in the crimson eyed teen proceeding in taking a blow from the blonde.

"Akame-chwaaaa!" was the last word of Yuuji's before his face met with a deadly punch from Leone. The crimson eyed teen can easily dodge that by letting the fist go through him, but he had wanted to make it meaningful.

"All... for... my... Akame... chan~" The red eyed beauty is confused at what just happened; Akame was analyzing everything carefully until then she finally realized that her head was saved, thanks to Yuuji that is. Akame went over to help her downed fellow red eyed teammate of a lover as Leone is perhaps completely satisfied... for now... Arata and Lubba felt sorry for Yuuji, and Mine simply shrugged it off as long as she's not the one to face Leone's wrath.

"Oh, you're all here." A familiar voice said.

Everyone popped their head to who had spoken, to reveal that it is no other than Najenda while carrying a rather large traveling gear on her back.

"Boss, what's with the getup...?" Arata asks, standing up with his usual collar shirt on as always. The leader of Night Raid drops the backpack to the ground.

"I'm guessing you are heading out to the Revolutionary Army headquarter?" Arata further inquires.

"Yeah, I need to go deliver the three Teigu that you had confiscated from the three beasts." Najenda takes out the Teigu Double-Bladed Axe: Belvaac from the bag.

"Boss, that axe is unbelievably heavy. I managed to carry it here using Incursio..."

"Ohh, I can handle this much. See?" Najenda lifts up the axe over her head with ease, "I wouldn't be able to use it as a weapon, but if it's just carrying it, then there's no problem."

"Was the boss always this amazing?" Arata whispers to Lubba with sweat drops on his head.

"Of course! You do know she's a former general, right?" This answer pleases Najenda with a slight blushing smile. It wasn't Arata's fault that he didn't know about the Boss's strength; she hardly showed her extent of power so who would've guessed? Probably Senpai...

"I leave the place in your hands, Akame. Yuuji, you will be acting as a second in command. Standing orders are 'everyone to train'." Najenda issued a command.

"Understood/Yokai de arimasu." Both Akame and Yuuji responded in unison.

"Hey, umm... no offense, but is it really okay to leave the whimsical one in charge?" Arata questions his substitute leader's skills in leading.

Yuuji smiles as he answers for him, "She takes her orders very seriously at all times, so there won't be any problems in that area of field... unless meat is a main concern..." The crimson eyed teen whispers the last part.

The boss readdresses the sudden change in command, "But the main reason I'm heading to HQ will be to secure some new members. I'm hoping they can spare some talented people to replenish our fighting strength, but I am not going to hold my breath."

Arata looks slightly depressed, saying, "I'm sorry that my strength was insufficient..."

After lighting up a cigarette, the Boss replies, with her left eye closed, "The ones you were fighting, the Sanjuushi, had the strongest offensive capabilities in the entire Empire. They were key figures in Esdese's personal army. All three of them were eliminated, and their Teigu were recovered. Esdese's strength may have no equal, excluding Yuuji here..., but her army has certainly been weakened as a whole due to this incident. This will do much to allay the concerns over when the revolution takes place. You not only saved the lives of the people on the ship, but also the lives of thousands of Revolutionary Army soldiers. You are strong and you did excellent, Arata."

"Najenda-san..." The onyx eyed teen smiles while looking down for he had heard a compliment for the great achievement he had achieved, but it was also thanks to Bulat for taking out the other two enemies. Najenda merely stated that Arata did well for standing strong against the three beasts on his own ground, especially his fight against Nyau, the blond haired midget.

Leone looks to the side, thinking if she should say something to the latest member of Night Raid, then decides to tell him. "I wasn't going to tell you since I didn't want to inflate your ego, but... Bulat said something to me a while back. He said that you may still be green and wet behind the ears, but he knows that you will become seriously strong in time. With strict training, Bulat thought that you may become so strong that you just might leave him in the dust. He looked forward to seeing it."

"Damn it... Aniki..."

Yuuji placed a hand on Arata's right shoulder, facing him face to face, "Be proud of your own self, my dear friend, and live on strong. In remembrance for Bulat, show him that you can become the kind of man that we had expected you to be and inherit our strong will!"

As Yuuji comforted his best friend, Najenda smiles as she wonders towards the outskirts of the base on her path to HQ.

'Even so, we're still short handed... and the report Leone brought back say Esdese is organizing a special force of Teigu users... looks like things are about to get more difficult...' Najenda thought as she looks up at the blue clear sky.

At the same time, Esdese was visiting the Capital's graveyard.

"Liver. Nyau. Daidara. You guys lost... which means you three were just too weak. It's only natural for the weak to be eliminated... my weak subordinates." Kneeling down and placing a hand specifically where Daidara resides in his grave, "You were so weak that I'll have to take vengeance on your enemies in your stead. Will my new Teigu using subordinates be arriving today?"

As if appearing on the right time to answer her question, the prime minister munches on an 8 foot long meaty ass sandwich while looking down on a clipboard that has a list, "All six have been gathered, but they seem to be people of low-status, even if they are capable. And they all appear to have certain personality quirks. Sorry about that."

"I don't know much about the people that have come. Maybe I should play around with them?" Esdese asked to herself as she walks away to meet her new group.

...Capital Main Street...

Entering within the walls of the Capital for the first time is a young man of average height with short dark blue hair and eyes. He wears a blue jacket and a red scarf with an anchor on it. Under that is a white shirt with a single blue line down the middle. He also wears a pair of grey jeans with a belt and dark blue boots, carrying a very heavy looking bag.

'My name is wave. I've fought for the Imperial Navy as a true man of the sea! Presently, I'm on my way to join a special police force being put together by the Empire. It's kind of a promotion. For the first time in the city, I wanted to make a flashy entrance. I even decided on these clothes because they make me look so cool! I was greatly admired in my hometown. The assortment of seafood I'm carrying... is a memento forced on me by my mom and dad. But for some reason, I get the feeling everyone is giving me furtive glances... maybe I'm doing something improper or something?'

A few people whispered amongst themselves, speaking such as, "A bumpkin?"

"It's a country boy, right?"

"Definitely!"

After exhaling, Wave continues his thoughts, 'Whatever... I'm a man who has fought pirates and sea monsters! I can't let these little unimportant things bother me!'

A while later the young man had finally arrived at his intended location to the Capital palace. Standing before a door that's labeled the meeting room inside of the building, Wave exclaims within his mind, 'Here I am! I need to arrive at the meeting place smoothly. Because the people in here are gonna be my teammates from now on. The first impression is crucial. So in order not to be taken lightly, let's do this!'

"Good afternoon! I've come from the Imperial Navy, I'm Wa-" The only thing that stopped him in midsentence was the fact there was only a single man present inside of the room; one man wearing a strange clothed up gas mask and shirtless.

Wave quickly closed the door after he said, "Pardon my intrusion."

Sitting against the door he had just shut, he nervously says, "Ummmm this room belongs to the office of torture then? Haha... guess I mixed up the two rooms, but, the meeting place is supposed to be in... The special police conference room, and... This is it." Wave took one more glace at the label above the door frame.

'Which means that's one of my new co-workers!? What a place the Capital is! Nowadays, pirates look more normal than the people here! For the time being, I need to keep positive and conduct myself well.'

Wave tries to compose himself as he reenters the room once more. "K-kon'nichiwa (good afternoon)" the young dark blue haired man sits on a chair at the table with the weird man.

'Oi, oi... What the fuck gives about this guy!? That masked guy just has been staring at me this whole time! This sucks, mom, I already want to go home! This city already has my wits end!'

Wave's eyes glues in on a girl that enters the room. Black hair and eyes with a black sailor outfit, the one who assassinated the entire village recently. She sits in a chair across from the dark blue eyed man and then place a bag on the table labeled 'Kurome's Treats'.

As she takes a bite, Wave tries to catch her attention as she left a single sweet hanging off from her mouth.

"H-hey."

Looking up at him, the blue haired man continues on as he asks, "Are you a Teigu user that was summoned here as well? Nice to meet you, I'm Wave..."

Then the girl gave him a sharp look, and next she responded by leaning forward from sitting and hugs her sweets close to her.

"You can't have any of my candy."

'She's kind of strange too!' Wave thought to himself.

"Sorry to bother you." He quietly said.

'Shit... what's with this situation!? One just sits there eating candy after candy, you're gonna get cavities ya know! Damn! And this weirdo just sits there staring constantly at me. What's his deal?'

"Pardon me!" An auburn haired girl said as she slams the door open, along with a small white dog that opened the other large door. Wave continues to look as tears appear from being surrounded by a group full of eccentric characters so far.

Saluting from her position, she says, "I've been reassigned from the Capital Defense Forces. I am Seryuu Ubiquitous! And this is Koro!"

"Kyuu~" the living Teigu is also saluting as well.

'Ohh... this one seems normal enough!' Then that thought was short lived as Seryuu throws rose petals around the room.

"Dr. Stylish, the preparations are finished!"

A man wearing glasses with a suit and a lab coat over it walks in. "First impressions are important... and that would, of course, be important to a stylish man like me."

'This time, it's a crazy homo!?'

"Oh dear," Stylish's eyes begins to sparkle from focusing his attention on Wave, "On first look, you're clearly a country boy, but you're actually somewhat of good looking. I can make you look even better. Let's get along well together, okay?"

'And he seems... to have taken a liking to me...' Horror glued all over his face from this dreaded encounter.

A blond haired male, wearing robes like a scholar and a book by his side, comes into the room next and addresses himself, "It looks like I'm the last to arrive."

"Hey, nice to meet you, I'm Wave..." The man hopes that he is at least normal enough from the others.

"I'm Ran; it's a pleasure to meet you." the blond smiles.

'Finally, in the end, a normal person has come!' Wave stood up as he holds the blonde's hands, giving off a weird signal to Ran as he can't comprehend why the man is acting like that.

"Uhmm... Mina-san... I've made some tea." The masked man walks back in with cups on a plate. A three cut scar visibly across his mid chest from a danger beast no doubt.

As he has given the cups to everyone, the shirtless man then gives one to Wave, saying, "I must apologize. It is our first meeting, and yet, I didn't greet you... I have a fear of strangers, you see... I was nervous. I must be more likely to have the most seniority here... and yet I acted like that! Let's get along as fellow Teigu using warriors. I'm bors, from the incineration squad."

"Haha..." Was all Wave replied as he thought to himself, 'H-he has a fear of people with an appearance like that...?'

Stylish gave Bors an uninterested stare as he caught his attention when he spoke. "The incineration squad... a unit that will stylishly scorch anything, be it man or thing... I see... That's why he has that look, huh."

'He's definitely not my type...' The doctor kept his opinion to himself.

'So all six are here...' A hockey masked blue haired woman said as she enters the room almost immediately before anyone took notice.

"Eh... who's that?" Wave said as he conveniently looks to his left from where the woman stood at the front center on the stage in the room.

The blue haired chick points out to them all, "I don't recognize any of you! What are you doing in this room!?"

Wave replies, "Hey now. We were called here for a special as-" his sentence came to a halt as the woman rapidly went in and kicked him in the chest, sliding him across the table and hangs on the floor, clearly knocked the fuck out whilst catching full attention of the group finally.

"Your opponents will be assassins... always be on your guard!"

The woman followed up her assaults against Ran, and after he dodged a few barrages of kicks flying towards him, he simply replied, "Whoops."

'Umu! This guy is pretty good.'

As she stops trying to kick the blond, Seryuu takes the element of surprise and attack her from behind. To the auburn haired girl's dismay, she fails as the blue haired woman stood there and grabs her left arm without looking then slams her entire body against the cement floor; mass amplification, thanks to physics, makes a crack from the sudden impact.

"Guh." Seryuu replies, the pain coursing through her entire back.

"When attacking from behind, you give off too much killing intent!" With that slight opening, Kurome swiftly charges in, a sweet in her mouth and hanging there like before, and then quickly takes her katana of a Teigu out from its sheath, horizontally cutting the attacker's hockey mask from the lower half, revealing her mouth.

'Even playing around, I shouldn't give this one any opening.' the blue haired woman smiles.

"So that's the Teigu Yatsufusa, huh...? It has a splendid cutting edge..."

As her mask completely broke, Bors says in astonishment, "Gen- general Esdese!"

Wave somehow manages to get recover back from the knockout as he scratches his head, "...damn that hurt."

Looking at Esdese's icy blue eyes, he thought, 'Even the boss is a weird one!?'

After the ones that got injured had been patched up, they walked side by side behind Esdese on palace grounds.

"Were you surprised by my little game?" The blue haired general asks. "Much better than the normally droll welcoming reception, wouldn't you say?"

"I'm used to being roughly treated." Wave confessed.

"Thank you for the lesson, ma'am." Seryuu happily said while hugging Koro to her chest.

Esdese fixes on her new black attire and a black cap, whist the other were also of matching formal attire in black. "Okay then! We'll have a party after our audience with his majesty."

Wave reacted in clear shock, "Wha— we're suddenly going to meet with the Emperor!?"

"I like to get the annoying things out of the way first."

"Next time?" Wave rhetorically asks.

"Esdese-sama, before that, should we not decide on a name for our team?" Stylish curiously inquires.

"Umu! We are a unique force within the military. Organized and tasked to mercilessly hunt down and eliminate atrocious groups of enemies... therefore, we will be the special police force, known as 'Jaegers'."

...The next day...

Wave is in the kitchen with Bors as the two were preparing the food they have made for the whole six Teigu using group.

"Using my memento... the seafood I brought from home to make a big welcoming dinner was a good idea." Wave said.

'But isn't it a little strange that he can cook with that mask on his face!?' the dark blue haired man thought as Bors keeps on breathing strongly with his gas mask while holding a type of vegetable in his left hand, the other hand is stirring the veggie soup with fish meat.

"Wave-kun," Bors caught his attention after cutting out a fish's scale with a French Chef knife, "The spinach needs to go in last. It's a bit early for that."

"Oh, sorry. But... you know Bors-san, I was sure to be relieved in discovering that you're actually a kind person." Wave released a small smile.

"I'm not... really that kind at all..."

In the dining facility, the rest of the Jaegers were patiently waiting for their food, as Kurome had a cat toy where she is wagging it around playfully in teasing Koro to try catching it.

"General, what about you; what have you been doing in your spare time?" Seryuu asks in curiosity.

"Mostly hunting and torture, otherwise I study. But at the moment... I was thinking... that I might try my hand at being in love.

"Love!?" Everyone had seems to internally scream it out as their faces were filled with complete shock from the news that the sadist of a woman wants to try love for the first time, a thought that was to be believed impossible for someone as such as Esdese.

"By the way, has the report on the spare Teigu come in yet?" the long blue haired general asks.

"Ah... y-yes it has. The giant scissors Teigu that we retrieved from those evil people is currently being held in the main guard office. But we have yet to find anyone suitable to use them..." Seryuu supplied a solution, with the recent shock of news still inside of her.

"And any this rate, the prime minister will take control of them hmm... that would be such a waste." Esdese said as she interlaced her fingers together while in deep thought of the situation. "In order to find someone capable enough to use them, I say we should put on an entertaining show."

In the bustling streets of the Capital, Arata made his way through the crowd of people as he searched for a particular store, wearing a coat but not actually putting on his hood to raise suspicion to himself. One weird store he had walked pass by was for selling flowers and the big owner was wearing a flower on his bald head, same goes for his child by his side, as he told a potential costumer about his shop.

As the onyx eyed teen made his way, he found a store with big front labels on the top 'Book Night' together. Standing at the entrance and leaning against the wall is no other than Lubbock of Night Raid, as he wears a professional entrepreneur outfit with a black apron on.

"Ohh?" Lubba caught notice of Arata.

"Yo."

"Hey."

The two exchanges their informal greetings as friends, and then Lubbock signals him to go to the back door leading him to a hidden cellar within the book store.

"Be careful while heading down there." Lubba warns the black haired teen.

"Nice getup. This place really does gives off its secret charms as a 'secret base' kind of vibe." Arata happily smiles.

"Right? I'm very proud of it."

"But you didn't make it, did you now..."

Making his way inside, he found a cozy Yuuji sitting next to Leone on the couch with papers hanging about with the target's face and personal information. The alcohol on the table shows that the two drinking buddies had their 'fair share' of no name brand fireball cinnamon whisky. That flavored drink was introduced to Leone by Yuuji, as she had never tasted anything delicious before and hugs his head between her boobs, causing a misunderstanding as a certain red eyed girl would leak out killing intent.

She took notice of Arata walking in and warmly greets him with literal open arms, "Hey~ There~~ Welcome to the Capital hideout." Continuously smiling as she is too deep in dipsy.

"Yo, Arata, how's it going?" Yuuji asks, drinking next to Leone.

"Onee-chan, aren't you a little too relaxed? And you too Senpai?" Arata was astonished to find out that they weren't taking it that serious, but they are in the inside.

Lubba grins from his reaction as he then informs him, "Okay, so. Mine has finally appeared on the wanted posters... therefore the only ones who can walk around the Capital openly are us four." The green haired man holds up a wanted poster of Mine with her hands out and sticking out her tongue as if she gives a care in the world.

Arata speaks up, "Since my face was seen when I was on that ship, I thought it might have been dangerous for me to be out in the open, but it seems like no one has recognized me in public while I was walking out in town to get here. So... I believe I should be alright..."

"You are right, Arata, and since no one on that ship knows about what happen to Bulat, they all assume that he is still active in Night Raid, giving you the chance to conceal your identity when using Incursio!" Yuuji pointed it out the facts.

"True, true, that'll come in handy Senpai... but also... speaking of the city, the special police squad Jaegers seems to be on every person's mind to talk about among the citizens..."

Lubba puts his forearms behind his head as he added in, "Obviously, since Esdese is their leader... that's the real hot topic... such a seriously dangerous person is..."

"Tell me, how dangerous can she be?" Arata asks.

Yuuji turns to look at his best friend, "That's right, you haven't heard about that one time... but since it happened near my hometown, I'll explain what I know. Almost 11 years ago, there was a group of savage tribes in the southwest that rose up in rebellion against the Empire's tyrannical rule. The Empire immediately dispatched a military force to go forth and vanquish them. The tribes had 10,000 soldiers and the Empire sent 120,000 to quell them. The result of the fight would be obvious to anyone. However, those far off from the outskirts of the Empire were hell for the Empire's soldiers who had been comfortably raised near the Capital. Poisonous bogs and large rivers of mud impeded their advances. Swarms of deadly infectious insects with deadly poison and diseases had a devastating effect on troop morale. They were also being relentlessly attacked by wild animals and exotic danger beast species. In the might of Mother Nature's fury, the expeditionary force had all but nearly given up the fight. The tribes who knew the land well were also constantly conducting highly effective night raids on their forces, maximizing their use of guerrilla warfare to the tribe's advantage. The imperial army was too exhausted to even put up a fight, and many more casualties suffered on their end. Growing impatient, the Empire dispatched the young, but very capable, general Najenda and general Esdese to reinforce their main forces. With the help of additional generals, the Empire was able to conquer the group of tribes. And even after their utter annihilation, general Esdese decided to reward her troops by ravaging the town, violating it until they were all satisfied, raping the women/men of the villages were the common treat from Esdese to her men. And so... even though they had been ordered to make an example of them, the crazy bitch would make a few survivors live to see another day in hope that they come looking for revenge, stronger as that is what Esdese wants the most in this world. I believe that's what happened."

"But that wouldn't make sense, is it not a dumb move to plant the seeds of hatred in the ones they had let live like that? In other words, isn't that just like fanning over some smoldering coals into a burning furnace?" Arata asked as he and Lubba sat in a different couch that is perpendicular to Leone and Yuuji with a coffee table in the center for the drinks and whatnot.

"That's what Esdese was hoping for. She wants more rebellions, you see, that way she can continue to enjoy herself and fight in more battles." Lubba answers for Arata.

"She's one fucked up psycho bitch..."

"Haha, you got that right! Arata..." Yuuji commented as he is a bit drunk from drinking bottles of alcohol.

Leone lays herself on the couch, resting her legs on Yuuji's lap which he doesn't mind at all. "Hahhhh, I knew it was a good idea not to mess with her. She's seriously dangerous." The blonde is currently not as drunk as before the conversation went on with the story of the tribal rebellion. "Would I have just been one more added to the numbers of hundreds of thousands she's killed if I had...?"

"She must be an incredible demoness for Onee-chan to say all that." Arata said.

"My dear Leone, you gotta be open-minded about this... If you were to be caught by Esdese, she would realize the amazing regenerative properties you possess and would have immediately started her heavenly tortures upon you as many of those techniques may be new and quite deadly to kill a hardened average human." Yuuji stated the facts, for which Leone sweat drops on her head, saying, "You are true about that, but are you only saying that despite me being Akame's 'comrade' or are you implying something else?" the blonde leans in towards Yuuji, compressing her big boobs against the crimson eyed teen's chest causing him to blush a lot whereas it seems he is about to nosebleed upwards to kingdom come.

"Umm... uh... ah... err, hahaha." Yuuji simply scratched the back of his head, unable to make a verbal comment. Leone licks his face right below his right eyelid, now that made him nosebleed slightly which made him knockout, his head hanging on the neck rest of the black colored couch. Leone laughed from his reaction as she moves back to her seating spot, truly pleased with the result. Arata wasn't able to say anything about what has happened for his mouth was gaping.

And as for Lubba, he was very jealous of Yuuji being able to get all the girls. He tried to change his mind as he is about to pulls out a rolled up poster from his satchel. "If you're interested, I've got something to show you Arata. Esdese is sponsoring a city wide tournament and the winner will get a heap load of cash as the reward. You did say you wanted to send money back to your village, right?"

"Ah! That's what I just needed, I might go to it. Thanks Lubba." The onyx eyed teen wore a stupid looking grin on his face.

Yuuji sprung up his head, tilting it towards Arata with open eyes intently on him. "I'm going to that tournament. No doubt about it."

Arata smiles in knowing that his best friend would want to do this because he is indebted from the care that his generous village bestowed for him who showed great hospitality for him in his early teen years. "If you're going in it Senpai... I'm calling it quits because you would most likely leave me near dead if we fought."

"Aw come on don't be a kill joy Arata, you would still have your limbs! So it's not totally overkill. Am I right Lubba, or am I 'just' right?"

"Ahhh... no comment." Lubba plainly stated before Yuuji grabs the poster from him.

"Its fine dude, I'll just have more fun sitting with Lubba and Leone where the bystanders are at. I shall only cheer you on and any loli who might be fighting, whereas anyone else will get booed at and throw in some nasty insults. That way, suspicion wouldn't be aimed at me as I am a simply enraged fan, ahhahaha."

Yuuji nodded in his reason for not participating in this event, although he would like to have this chance to have a type of sparring match in it. Oh well, at least he won't feel cheap as he will win this tourney... to repay the kindness given to him by the village hidden in the snowy mountain.

...In the Capital Palace's dining table...

Guardsmen were shook to see that the prime minister is such a glutton who eats and eats and eats to no avail! Only one joining him in the feast is his nephew, Makoto.

The child emperor decides to ask him a question before eating his meal, and as Honest is about to devour one fourth of a cake with a large bite.

"Say, prime minister? Concerning us with general Esdese... why has she started talking about things like love?"

Honest points out, "Everyone starts desiring the opposite sex when they reach a certain age. Such as general Nouken as he brought along his ten concubines when he goes off to the battlefield, you see. In a way, general Esdese has always been a person that has lived for the thrill of a life or death battle... She will forever choose war over flowers, until now that is, but it just seems that desire is finally blossoming within her."

"I see. And for that, she wishes to find someone suitable..."

"She is a person of great pride, so she won't accept anyone unless..." The prime minister had a piece of cake hanging off of his mouth after explaining it, but Makoto spoke before he could finish.

"Hmmm... but could there be a man, who meets these requirements, really do exist...?"

Looking at the list again, it states that Esdese's 5 said requirements are the utmost ridiculous levels as such of becoming her lover. He should be younger than her, easier to be manipulated; he must be able to hunt the most dangerous species and be fearless, and that said potential lover cannot be a native near the Capital as for Esdese has been raised on the outskirts of the Empire, and he who have a pure and innocent smiling face. But above all, the male must possess a hidden potential of untapped ability for Esdese to be able to make him into a person of general class status, which makes it a disqualification to almost everyone of whom Makoto and Honest knows of to be clearly impossible, for the odds of it is at the bare minimum to none.

"Looking at the first requirement would disqualify almost everyone, huh..."

"Being trained by her to become of general quality would be rough too..." Honest said.

Ran, a personal member of Esdese's team of Teigu users, appears next to her in his usual robes, asking, "What do you think of these ones, Taichou (Captain)?"

The blue haired woman response, "I think boring fighters make for boring fights. I guess it's too much to ask for someone capable of using a Teigu to suddenly appear, huh?"

With an astonished look as soon as watching the man with the sword who hacked his opponent down to the ground, he replies, "Oh, it seems the fight is about over."

The blue haired announcer for the tournament is also a member of the Jaeger. Standing on the ring, a distance where the fight was taking place, Wave cheerfully expresses his feelings to the microphone on his hand, "Winner! Nobunaga of the Dry-Goods store!"

"Yeaaaah~~ I'm the winner!" Nobunaga roared as a certain onyx eyed teen booed him from the bystander seats, yelling at him to 'go back to cleaning his damn dusty ass goods, damn scrub'.

Ran's face switched from a blank expression to a smiling grin as the next two contestant looks promising.

As the participants enter the arena's ring, Wave loudly yells with the microphone in hand, "In the east corner! Karubi the Butcher!" A large man towering over about 10 feet is wearing some sort of bull head over his head. "In the west corner! Cyan the Phoenix!" the crimson eyed teen shaves off his beard, making Yuuji looks like Arata in a year and a half younger. He wore the usual outfit of black jeans and boots, his open front shirt is red with white alternating shapes in design.

Ran said to Esdese on the VIP seating, "One of them is just a kid, huh." And the dark blue haired ice woman stayed silent with a neutral face as she analyzes the crimson eyed teen intently. 'His eyes speak of a trained veteran of warfare...'

With the supporters among the bystander seating area, Lubba was eating popcorn and Arata cheers on his Senpai. The two sat next to each other in the mid section of the benches whereas Leone sat in the rear left to them, smiling, "That's an interesting cover. Can he really have that good of a regenerative ability like me? But it should be interesting nonetheless; Yuuji is going to win this, obviously."

"And changing his name is a good thing so people won't suspect him from the past..." Lubba stated the fact.

Karubi decided to speak 'down' first, "You're not so tiny like the rest of them, ain't ya? That prize money is already in the bag, kukuku. I may have been excommunicated, but I'm a ninth level master of the Imperial Fist, ya know!"

'This guy is old, and he may be arrogant as hell, but he's certainly strong enough to back it up...' Wave thought.

Arata stood where he was at, shouting, "Hey, big guy! Do you know what they say when a tall guy falls down?" Karubi looks up to the onyx eyed teen, "They all yell 'timmmmberrrrr'! And your lumber is cheap as fuck so they burned the rotten wood in a shit hole!"

Yuuji started to laugh his ass hard, mainly so he could agitate Karubi and that the joke his best friend pulled off was hilarious.

"So you think this is funny?" The ninth master of the Imperial Fist asked... a bit irritated.

"I do not know, but how's the weather up there?" Yuuji jokingly replied.

"You little..."

'Even if he is just all talk, he may pack a punch.' Alastor mentally said to the crimson eyed teen.

'Naw, don't worry too much Alastor, I'm just trying to have as much fun as I can possibly have at the moment.'

"Begin!" Wave commences the start of the one versus one battle.

"Let's go! I'll give you a full helping of my destructive fists!" Karubi screams with a bit of anger in his tone, charging towards Yuuji.

Obviously enough that he isn't going to use his Teigu's abilities because 1: It will raise suspicion on him, and 2: Karubi is not even worthy enough to be even mention of using his full power against him... so the mera mera no mi user will use a small percentage of his strength...

As Karubi comes in to his location with a downward strike first o the ground, Yuuji quickly side stepped out of his range and kicks him hard in the sides to send him across the edge of the ring, talk about using minimal force.

"Gah." Karubi grunted, then he immediately goes in and sent several fists flying in front of Yuuji, to which he effortlessly dodges them and not even bothering to catch his punches because he wants to show off his skills in movement.

Smiling in his wake, Karubi sweats nervously as he says, "You are no normal kid, ain't ya?"

"You ask me." Yuuji replied as he pummels Karubi in the guts and one hard punch that sent him flying across and then crashed against the cement wall of the sidelines right below where the viewers were at.

Wave, Esdese, the bystanders, had their mouths gaping at the amazement from the teen that fought on the ring. Leone and Lubba were smiling that their member won, of course.

An astonished Ran said, "Taicho, that boy is exceptionally well skilled!"

"Yeah..."

Wave puts a hand in the air, "That's the end! And the winner is Cyan!"

As everyone was cheering loudly for him, Arata was screaming out, whereas other people looked behind to stare at him, "Whoooo! Go Senpai! That scrub trash got wreck!"

Yuuji smiles in delight as he thought, 'You see, Alastor, it was fun!'

Esdese also had the smiling expression as her heart skips a beat, "I've found him... He's a candidate for using that Teigu, right?" the general asked.

"Taicho?"

From Yuuji's stand point, everyone stops cheering as Esdese, herself, is coming to the ring.

'So... she's going to grace me with her presence to reward me herself?'

As the long, blue haired general stood in front of the crimson eyed teen, she asks, "Cyan... was your name, right? It's a good name."

"Thanks, so why did you come down here?"

"The match just now, that was superb. I wish to give you your reward personally." Esdese confessed.

Yuuji had assumed that was the reason for her to do so, "Thank you very much! My village may survive after all!" the crimson eyed teen smiles again, thinking that it is like a kind of charity from the enemy as Esdese blushes a little.

'Money is money, so I'll accept it and act respectful so that I may repay the debt and get out of here in one piece.' Yuuji thought.

Lubba had his mouth covered with his hands as Leone and Arata looks at the two on the ring with a curious gaze.

All of a sudden, Esdese placed a leader pet choker around his neck as she says, "From now on... you'll belong to me."

"Eh? Huh? Ehhh?!"

"There are too many distractions here. Come with me to the palace." Esdese starts to drag Yuuji, and notice that he was indeed very heavy to pull, but alas, she is a general for a reason and successfully pulled him along slightly slower than tugging an average teen.

"This is advancing a bit too quickly~ I'm not mentally prepared for this~~ Wait a sec-" Yuuji jokes around as Esdese hand chopped the back of his neck.

"Nope, I won't do that." She said with a smile all along.

Esdese caught his body from falling and carries off his ripe, yet contradicting, heavy body.

"We'll talk in my room. When it's just the two of us..."

"I... I won't give in to a weak hit like that..." Yuuji spoke out as Esdese was surprised herself from his amazing endurance.

"My, even hitting a vital nerve that would knock out most human, you are truly interesting..." Esdese hits the same spot 6 more times which completely knocks him out cold.

As Arata, Leone, and Lubba and everyone else has a disbelieving face, the green haired man mentally yells, 'Wh- what the hell is happening!?'

Back at Night Raid's base, the trio who went to watch the fight came back to report what has happened to Akame as the current leader in charge.

"Yuuji was carried off by Esdese!?" the red eyed killer stood up from chair and slams her hands on the table aggressively, worryingly deeply for her lover as her face says it all.

"Did she realize that he is a member of Night Raid!?" Mine asks.

"We didn't really feel any animosity or blood thirst though..." Lubba said.

"I don't really know... but I don't think it's likely for Senpai to be suspected... yet." Arata gives out his opinion.

Leone looks at Akame with her arms crossed as she shares a piece of her thought, "But the only way to know for sure would be to go to the palace and see for ourselves... what should we do, acting boss?"

Akame stays silent as she grips her left hand tightly and puts a right hand over where her heart is at, "Yuu-chan..." her sadden expression is clear.

Mine looks at her and comments like a typical tsundere, "Don't say something stupid like, 'let's go off and rescue him' Akame. You realize the palace is filled with traps and soldiers, right? Even breaking in there at the best of times would be an impossible task! And Yuuji's true identity may not have been discovered in the first place. For the time being, we should move our base further into the mountains."

"Yeah that's true, this place may have been found, sooner or later." Leone replied.

"B-but we should try and save Senpai~..." Arata said, which Mine looks at him as she's irritated, "Did you not hear what I just said!?"

Lubba then says, "So... what do we plan to do about Yuuji...? Even though saving him might be impossible..."

"I know that we lack the means to rush in headlong after him... However! Yuuji is our important comrade! So we will do whatever we can for him!"

'Yuu-chan... Please be safe... and Esdese... you had better not be violating my Yuuji!' Akame's feelings were mixed in by sadness, rage, and love while releasing a deep killer intent around her.

Meanwhile... in the palace, Yuuji found out that he's detained and chained to a chair, comfy wooden one at that. Everyone except Kurome were present, she has to go get restocked for more candies.

"And so this is the newest addition to Jaegers, Cyan." Esdese announced.

"You dragged in one of the populace, just like that?" Bors asked.

"Now, he will no longer have to live in poverty. And he isn't just an extra man for our group either... I felt it. Yuuji is the one who will become my partner in love." Esdese confessed with a blush.

"So why does he have a collar around his neck, then?" Wave asked while pointing it out.

"...because he's become my lover, of course, and I want him to stand out." Esdese answers with a blank stare.

Ran says with reasoning, "Well, if you want him to be your official lover, and not your pet, shouldn't you remove the collar in order for there to be a difference? Otherwise, he'll seem like a sex slave."

After the sadist general thought about it, she responded, "Hmmm, that's certainly true... I'll remove it. By the way, are any of you married or have any lovers?" and everyone was single until Bors raised his hand up.

'Seriously!?' Wave thought.

Seryuu was surprised as well as she asks, "Bors-san, is that true!?"

"Yes... I've been married for six years now! I really don't deserve someone as wonderful as that though!" His blushing is visible as he touched the sides of his face with his hands at the thought.

"Ano... excuse me~" Yuuji tries to grab everyone's attention of what he's about to say, "I'm really flattered that you have taken a liking to me and all, but... I'm not really all that interested in working for the imperial court, so..."

"Fufu, it will likely take a bit of training to get you to be obedient, hmmm." Esdese replies.

"Now, now, everyone. He's just confused. It's a lot to take in all at once, you know." Seryuu spoke out in consideration to the kidnapped teen.

"Don't you dare talk to me like as if you know me." Yuuji's killer intent spikes through the roof. Everyone was having a hard time breathing except for Esdese, her face filled with glee that her future husband is a feisty one.

'This guy is unbelievably strong!' Wave thought while struggling to move. If the users have masterful control over emotions, they can control their killing intent by suppressing it, to prevent the opponents from discovering it, thus hiding one's motives and preventing one from being tracked by such emotions. Anyone who can also perceive a foe's killing intent can perceive the foe's next move and prepare the next appropriate move in advance.

"Now listen to me Esdese... I already have someone I love at the moment... so I can't be with you..."

"Who's that person? Whoever she is, I will have you as my own no matter what..." Esdese said in a serious tone.

Kurome walks in with her new bag of sweets, "So what's the news?" Then she instinctively unsheathes her Teigu as she says next, "Is he the enemy?"

'Good timing, I won't mention Akame... for Esdese will hunt her down to the end and end her to be with me which I will not allow! Am I really that good looking? Anyway...But I can't kill her here or else escape will be impossible... must wait until the coast is clear... I guess I'm going to play along, I suppose... Na? Sleeping ass Alastor?' Yuuji inwardly said.

"No, even better, he's going to be my lover..." Esdese says again as her interests in Yuuji goes into great lengths.

"Huh? You look familiar, have we met before?" Kurome asks the crimson eyed teen.

Yuuji would have bawled his eyes out and hug Kurome with all his might, but he had to suppress the feeling so his true identity wouldn't be found out through a link from his connection to Kurome.

"No... Sorry, but I think you got me mixed up with someone else, the name's Cyan." Yuuji said with unwavering resolve in his crimson balls of eyes.

Then the atmosphere changed and then everyone else in the Jaeger, besides Kurome and Esdese, were able to breathe relatively easier.

'This young man... is amazing! And handsome at that! I must have him for other purposes! But too bad that Esdese gets to keep him' Stylish thought with interest glinted in his eyes towards Yuuji.

An imperial soldier comes into the room, saluting to the blue haired sadist as he states, "Esdese-sama! As ordered, I finished the report regarding the area around Gyogan Lake..."

"Great... this is perfect timing. You guys, your first big job has come up."

After Yuuji was unchained from the chair, he stood next to Wave as to keep constant watch on him, orders from Esdese.

In the meeting room, the blue haired general laid out a map on the table with the location of the lake and some geographical layout with pathways and roads to take to get there.

Kurome couldn't help but to stare at Yuuji the whole time while Esdese speaks out, "We've come to learn about a fortress that's being inhabited by a group of bandits near Gyogan Lake."

"Of course! We suspected that these shameful evil-doers had some sort of refuge on the outskirts of the Capital." Seryuu said as she leans a little bit on the table.

"Umu. We are delaying the search for the location of Night Raid for a short while. For now, we should deal with enemies we can see."

"And if the enemy should surrender, what should we do, Taichou?" Bors rhetorically asks.

"Surrender is a tool of the weak... and its nature's course that the weak should be removed from the world."

"I have to agree/disagree with you there, Esdese-chan. If they had done something terribly bad, even god would want them to perish but not hate them, because where there are good, evil needs to be there to keep a balance world. Nowadays, there are more demons wearing a human's face. And in the Capital, it's their job as a government to keep its citizens happy and safe... that would be contradicting if it were to be the other way around, right? I believe this is what Night Raid had been doing, such as why they assassinated officials that were suspicious of a serious crime, and multiple more." Yuuji spoke his mind out.

Esdese smiles from his response, as Seryuu laughs, "Aha... ahaha, Night Raid have committed atrocious acts, no way are they in any form of justice, and to be able to slaughter evil-doers before they can commit evil... I am... truly glad I've become a part of this group!"

"You may exterminate them to your heart's content." Esdese said.

"Thank you, ma'am."

'There's something a little off about this...' Wave thought.

Esdese announces, "I have one more thing I would like to tell you before we move out. Each of you will be required to eliminate dozens of people. This is the type of work we will be doing from this point forward. Are you all fully prepared for that?"

"I'm a soldier. I follow orders. Even if it means I must kill them." Bors said in a serious tone.

"I'm the same... this is merely practice at following orders. This is how I've always thought of it." Kurome said which made Yuuji frowns a bit.

Wave held up his Teigu in a key of a sword as he says, "I... was able to join the Navy due to the patronage of a certain great man... If I were to ask him how I may repay that great favor, he would tell me 'just do your best and fight for the sake of your country, that's all you need to do'... So I can do this! Even if it means my own life!"

Ran closes his book, "For the sake of making my desires come to fruition, I wish to rise higher and higher. It doesn't matter if it means I can't do the most purest of all deeds, seen in that way, I wish nothing more than to proceed with this mission task."

"How about you, doctor?" Esdese asks directly to the quiet Stylish.

"Hmm. My guiding principle is really simple. That is the pursuit of style! So, do you understand now?" The doctor exclaims with a striking pose.

"Nope, not at all."

"From the moment I saw Esdese-sama... I knew it. That unfathomable strength... that ice-like cruelty... ahh... it's as if a goddess was descending from heaven! That style is without equal! Until I met Cyan here! I want nothing more than to study you and him!" Dr. Stylish expressed his thoughts quite dramatically while, in his eyes, he sees Yuuji and Esdese sparkling as if the heading of 'Stylish' were big and bolding above them both.

Esdese tucks her general's cap properly, "I see, no doubts amongst you all then... that's good. Then it's time to head out! Let's go Cyan! As a substitute member, it will be good to see the abilities of your fellow teammates."

"I will bet so... and I have a single request." Yuuji said as he walks along by Esdese's side.

"What is it?" Esdese asks.

"I am in need of a katana with a strong blade because I gots no weapon, yo! And also I hope to get the cash from entering your arena because I need it to repay a debt to a kind village."

"I will get you the finest katana from the Capital's armory before we depart, and the money will come later, I promise." Esdese said as they all depart from the room.

...In the mountain range...

In order to intercept the bandit's hideout, the Jaeger has to take out the two guards at the checkpoint that'll lead them up to the main base.

"We've memorized the layout and enemy positions, so what kind of strategy should we use?" Ran asked.

Seryuu crosses her arm as her usual pose while Koro hangs on behind her, "Justice demands that we fight fair and square and attack from the front!"

Supervising the Jaeger from above, Esdese sat on the mountain cliff near where her team is walking off to the bandits. The crimson eyed teen also sat next to the left side of the long, blue haired sadist on that said cliff.

Yuuji takes a look at his new weapon strapped to his left side. His blade is thirty inches long with a twelve inch handle, designed to keep the danger beasts as far away from taking a bite on its user while it allows Yuuji to use its extra leverage to clear a path to safety. The titanium Katana is mono tempered 1060 carbon steel, this blade is differentially hardened to ensure that the edge stays sharp as possible and is optimized, like a traditional Katana, to even cut human flesh and bone like a hot knife cutting through butter, meaning that the weapon will meet no solid resistance as long as it's against unarmored individuals. Furthermore, to prevent any of those squirting goo of blood from rusting the blade - the sword is coated with the rare black titanium alloy, adding a high extra strength and toughness (even at extreme temperature) and also prevents glint from giving away the user's position during the day or reflecting off any possible light source or burning fires. The blade is colored with a black hilt with white stripes, a 5 inch black chain hanging from the end, and sheathe while the blade itself is in crimson color like his eyes.

"This will be the perfect place to observe their fighting from." Esdese said.

"Ah, I have to thank the original creator again for producing such a fine piece of blade, if possible... and you have my gratitude for giving me this weapon." Yuuji respectfully said as he bowed, causing Esdese to slightly blush.

'Hmm... Wait, isn't this a perfect chance for me to escape? No... Esdese may incase me in ice from escaping... most indefinitely not an option at the moment...'

Esdese quietly grabs onto four finger of Yuuji's right hand, blushing more as she gazes at the Jaeger.

'Chikusho (Damn it)! There's no way out of this now...'

The Jaeger was spotted out by a guard on a manmade tower.

"It's a raid! Everyone scramble!"

The main gate was opening, and then came out 20 bandits with guns and knives with matching helmets. Many of them lot started to shout out against the group who appeared out of nowhere.

"Hey, did you guys even know where you were when you came to this place!?"

"You guys have some nerve attacking from the front like this!"

"You don't really think you're going to be getting out of here alive, do you!?"

One of them had lust in his eyes as he sets his eyes on Seryuu and Kurome, "Oh wow~~ there are some real cuties with them, huh? We're going to have some fun with them when we take those two back to the base, ha ha ha."

Seryuu walks up to them alone, "First, I'll clear a path with the combined power of the doctor's Teigu and myself. Koro, number five." The biological Teigu grew huge, surprising the shit out of Wave, and then bits on her mechanical arm as it transforms into a big drill. 'In exchange for the loss of my arms, the doctor blessed me with a new power... "Judgment of the ten kings". Enma's spear of justice!'

Many of the bandits had their limbs torn and a few impaled from the harshness of her brutal attack.

"Wha- what the hell is this thing...!?" A frightened bandit says as being unexpected from a flying Koro going towards him, the living Teigu bit off his left arm and parts of his organs from the left side of his body.

"These guys are bad news! Report this to the boss! And close the gate, hurry!"

"Next... number seven!" With an evil grin on her face, Seryuu points the cannon at the main gate.

'Taizan's cannon of justice' Seryuu completely destroyed the gates to smithereens.

From Yuuji's point of view, "Sheesh, that Seryuu is really kowaii (scary)."

"Seryuu is the most bloodthirsty when it comes to killing villains of the Capital." Esdese responded.

"I see... then how did she end up with a mechanical arm that allows her to shift it into different forms of weapon?" Yuuji asks the busty sadistically general.

"Dr. Stylish is the doctor who performed the surgery for her. The Teigu 'Perfector' using it, the speed as well as the precision of the user's fingers is increased hundreds of times. In his words, it's already the most stylish of Teigu, although I have yet to understand what he means by it."

"Huhhh~ I understand now... but where did those troops appear from?" Yuuji asks as he saw about 50 soldiers appear besides Stylish.

"Ah, those are his enhanced troops. They are his private army that, with his Teigu assistance, has been performed enhancement surgeries on. Stylish calls them his 'Pawns' as if it were a game of chess."

"That makes sense... I would do the same as him since that is a smart play."

Seeing Bors running in front of the wall and archers readying their arrows, he immediately used his giant propane tank on his back as cover and then pulls out a weapon that started shooting out fire. The flame thrower Teigu, Purgatory's Invitation : Rubicante.

'Wow... his flamethrower can't even be extinguished by water alone?' Yuuji mentally inquires.

Yuuji spotted out that 3 men decided to run for their lives, leaving Ran to reveal his Teigu. Flying into the skies, the golden eyed blond eliminated the escapees.

"Beautiful... what's his Teigu?"

"The winged Teigu, soaring for thousands of miles, 'Mastema'."

"Nice..."

Then Esdese's hand is now atop of his hand.

"Cyan... I'll be raising you myself. So you will be able to do much more incredible things than this with ease."

"Esdese... you seem, how should I put it, different from what others have said about you."

"You've heard of me. Is the image different from what you imagined? Truth be told, this is the first time I've had these sorts of feelings. Such as being in love with someone... but... it isn't so bad." Esdese blushes as she puts a hand over by her heart.

'Hmm~ could I somehow convince her to become our ally...? Her actions until now have been unforgivable, but... if she changes and use her power for the sake of defeating the Empire as penance, the danger that our allies are in may drop immensely! Worth the risk to try...'

"I'm assuming that I'll be sleeping in your bedroom for the night, is that right?" Yuuji asks Esdese, to which she nods at his question as a 'yes'.

'Alright then... if that's the case, then I will try persuading her tonight! I'm going to take center stage in this fucked up world we all live in!'

...Later that night, inside Esdese's bedroom...

Yuuji is currently laying down on the blue haired sadist's master bed, with his left leg slightly up so that his left arm is resting on top of it, and putting up his right arm for his head to rest on that hand. The beautiful general is talking a shower where Yuuji can see the shadowy outline of her... body... causing him to get a large boner underneath his shorts.

'Fuck, fuck, fuck! I won't cheat on Akame, I will not! Be it temptation or not, I will kill it and stay in control!' His tension just reached its peak, causing him to momentarily space out. 'Ah! Not good, not good at all! And why the hell are you still sleeping!? You damn Tatsumi (Sleeping dragon)! Wake up and give me an advice.' Alastor left a mental note within his mind that reads out 'Do Not Disturb' making Yuuji enrage a bit further. 'Okay, I obviously need to calm down... shit, and I need to convince Esdese to join our side... I need to be the winner in this battle of wills!'

Esdese finally got out of the shower, walking into the room with only wearing a white sleeve shirt and white pantsu. Her fair white skin after a shower makes her look like an actual goddess of beauty who has ascended from the underworld. Still, Akame is the one and only lover for him... but... look at Esdese... beautiful icy colored eyes that beg for someone, or maybe something, warm to keep her body temperature fluctuating normally.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Esdese apologizes as she finished drying her long blue hair with a towel.

"There's no need for you to say such a thing!" Yuuji shakes his head left and right as he is constantly staring at her boobs, such a size that are comparable to Onee-chan's, or even slightly bigger than her breasts. The crimson eyed teen tries to stay control... or else he'll nosebleed like the last time with Leone...

"Would you like anything to drink?"

"Ah, yes, if you have any fireball cinnamon whiskey, I'd love to- wait, no... uh... on a second thought! Those are hard to come by, so I'm really fine!" Yuuji yelps as moves his arms rapidly in embarrassment.

"Are you, perhaps, nervous, Cyan?"

"N... not really. What makes you say that?!" Yuuji asks as his face reddens a bit.

"Fufu... you're so cute. Well, I'm not quite sure what to do in this situation either... but as long as we know what we want, I'm sure we can figure it out, right...?"

"Oh... I see..."

"By the way, I think we have some reserves for that whiskey variant you wanted. I'll be right back with your drink~." Esdese said as she walks out the room, a coat and her white boots on to roam about for the special alcohol.

"Okay then Yuuji, when she comes back... ask her if she likes you, and then try to get her on your side!" the crimson eyed teen whispers quietly as Esdese left, but he quickly used the bathroom before she came back.

As Esdese reenters her bedroom to hang her coat and takes off her boots, she found a shirtless Yuuji sitting on her bed with his shoes and socks off. The crimson eyed teen resolves into doing this in order to have the general come to his side...

The blue haired sadist blushes as she looks like a radish, trying to avert her eyes from staring at his muscles to meet with his crimson eyes. Esdese walks over to a bedside table and pours in his drink and one more for her.

Yuuji and Esdese take a few shots from the Whiskey before he says, "Damn... this taste will never cease to dull!"

"I'll have to agree with you, this is the first time I have ever tasted it." Esdese blushes as she leans closer to him.

"Umm... There is one thing I'd like to ask of you... that is, umm... Esdese-san... you do like me, na?"

Esdese gave him an impassive glance, and then she leans in forward for a surprise kiss. The blue haired general pushed Yuuji's backside against the mattress of the bed as she then placed a hand on his muscular chest, making him blush from the lip contact and where she's touching... his rock hard abs!

"If I didn't like you, we wouldn't be doing this now, would we?"

'I... I need to get a grip of myself...!'

"Then I would love for you to hear out my request!"

"Love?" Esdese blushed more as she then says, "Hmm~ tell me what it is. You have my undivided attention." Her blue eyes held such passion for Yuuji, causing him to swallow down his spit.

"As you may have noticed, the Empire is despicable as it is now!"

"That's only natural. Many people feel the same way. So what?"

Yuuji released a killer intent unlike anything Esdese felt before, literally making her feel the chills on her spine. The one thing she never dreamt of feeling ever in her life that of which is fear. The sadist of a general actually felt terror for a moment! This only made her more exhilarating and the opposite of what most people would have experienced it if they had felt such a murderous aura, alas, Esdese is not one of those 'average' humans.

"I despise what the Capital has done to me... My old life taken from me; therefore I don't give a fuck about the Empire wants and their so called 'needs' as if I would give a shit about working under them, if it came to that... I'd rather take myself out in a bang with the prime minister. Thus, I've decided that I'd work for the Revolutionary Army who actually cares about the people."

'Okay, since I've gone this far, I can't really tell her about my work with Night Raid... but some crappy half-assed lie won't work on someone like her... Then this is the one method I can think of!'

"Esdese...will you defect the Empire and join along with me to fight for the Revolutionary Army? For the sake of love and peace, so surely we can lessen everyone's suffering and direct the torturing to those that truly needs some pain in their worthless, pathetic form of life!"

Yuuji stares head on with seriousness in his eyes, becoming sadistically to those who deserves it as the killer intent still clear in the atmosphere. If it were any greater, the entire palace would have been alerted and go in search of a potential enemy in the vicinity.

"...Cyan..." Esdese grits her teeth as she slaps across Yuuji's face, a loud smacking noise, stopping his murderous aura at the same time. Not a surprise coming from an almighty sadist. The crimson eyed teen could have escaped the slap, but he can't risk being caught by Esdese red handed with his Teigu and his dark past connections.

"What are you thinking, saying that to a general of the Empire? Although... I don't mind the thought of torturing someone."

"You know, that what I'm trying to say is unreasonable to you and crazy... but be as it may, we might become separated as lovers and enemies."

Esdese leans in closer to the crimson eyed teen in a hug, her bare breasts skin slightly against the chest of his skin.

"You don't need to worry about that. All you need to do is stay here with me. I understand the painful hardships you have had to endure until now... but from now on, I won't let anything of harm going to you ever again... except for me, of course." Esdese licks the wound she gave to Yuuji, which results him to blush deeply.

"As my lover, and not merely as my possession, you are the only one who I see as a man and someone who can give me excitement. So I will never let you feel lonely again."

"Ah... I'm truly happy that you feel that way about me... but I just can't... I already have happiness, but I need something more than just about myself."

"You're worried about your family, right? Of course, I will place them under my patronage." Esdese crawls closer to Yuuji on her knees, still on bed while he sits there with a look of sorrow.

"That's... not possible for me... I wish that same offer could have been given to me almost a decade ago..."

The crimson eyed teen starts to grip the covers tightly with his left hand while the other hand held his forehead.

"I told you that the prime minster, no, the Capital as well is to be blamed, has taken my old life, but that was not enough for them and their greed. They had the audacity to pillage and completely annihilate my village for it was just a simple agriculture community! The screams that day was horrible... my life turned upside down, and before I even know it... m-my family was murdered before my eyes... I-I-I couldn't process what was happening at the time, although it was clear for me as a 9 years old child... corruption and war came to my village and took everything... only two people were there to keep myself together..." Yuuji started to cry a bit, trying to keep it together as he had been keeping his composure all along, just like how Akame did hers when she has to keep a switch on and off to stay at her 100% effectiveness when it came to the battlefield.

"...Cyan." Esdese calls out to him with a sadden expression.

"No one should have to go through what I had experienced... and this current Empire is so rotten to the core, it needs to change one way or another... and if you really love me as much as you say you do, then try to imagine it in a different perspective... For instance, there is a girl who has come of her late-teen age in a village. And like us, she has found someone and fallen in love... but living in this society with barely any public security, plagued by hunger and poverty, she may never even get the chance to act on those feelings again. Can you understand what I'm saying?"

Esdese looked blankly inscrutable.

"No, I can't understand! I don't understand the feelings of the weak! The law of this world is 'Survival of the Fittest'. Its how the weak are weeded out, and it just means that those who die were too weak on their own leisure. Cyan... you may have been weak, but you were able to raise your abilities, correct? And thus you became strong, and that's what attracted my gaze to you. However, it's only natural for the weak to perish."

Yuuji starts to raise his voice, "Th- that's fucking bullshit!... but, true at the same time... however, it's the Capital's responsibility to protect its people... but they bully and take whatever they like, whenever they feel like it... So if you really have any feelings for me, then I suggest but please, consider my point of view beyond your biased opinion of the world." The crimson eyed teen solemnly said with a sad, yet, dead straight look of determination.

'...that facial expression too... is also nice... however.'

"That's not going to happen. Don't get confused about the situation! I'm not going to be changed by you. I'm the one that's going to be changing you! Nothing else matters!"

At this moment, the two subconsciously stood on the bed, continuing to argue.

"...You may say what you will about changing me, but this isn't something you can change... even if I were to be tortured into the depths of hell itself!"

"Fu... so stubborn. But... I guess that's why."

'I suppose that's how he can show such a happy smiling face, huh...' Esdese closes her eye lids as she goes into her river of thoughts, and then the blue haired beauty places her hands over her heart. 'I want to see that smiling face again... those feelings... I want to possess him completely... In that case...'

Esdese sat on the bed as her button up long white sleeve shirt were more open, revealing her rounded, knotty depression in the center of her belly of a navel with four buttons left from removing her shirt and to become bare half naked from her upper torso.

"Well, I'm tired after all that has happened today... we'll talk about this more later. So for now, shall we go to sleep, Cyan?" Esdese asks.

Yuuji looks both ways, unable to decide. The blue haired goddess is totally out of anyone's league and for him to be able to make love to her... is... is something that would make Lubbock goes extremely jealous, cursing the crimson eyed teen for being lucky with the babes.

Yuuji gets up from the bed and his right index finger points to the black couch that is lined up against the wall of the bedroom across them, with a portrait of nature's finest environment.

"Th... then I'll go sleep on that comfy looking sofa!"

A soft silky hand grasps the left palm of his hand. Yuuji looks back behind him to have only see Esdese, with those eyes indicating the loneliness in them.

"I'm not mad about what you said, so sleep in the bed with me!"

Yuuji thought about it shortly before saying, "Ahhh... that's right! I still need to shower first! Be right back!"

Yuuji escaped her grasp and walks towards his destination, then stops at the entrance of the bathroom as Esdese spoke to him, "This goes without saying, but if you make a scene within the palace or try escaping, it will mean your death. For the guards here who devoted their whole lives to defending this palace, so as this is not the type of place where just saying 'its okay for me to be here' will get you off the hook. Budou's personal guards are also skulking around the palace. So please don't think of doing anything strange."

"Wakarimasu." (A formal saying of: I understand)

'My fellow comrades from Night Raid, and people with information also said that the inside of the palace is one of the most dangerous places to be... so I guess I wouldn't be able to attack her and then leave this shithole in one piece, huh? Well, not like I could kill something as beautiful as her, but wait, Akame's beyond the definition of beauty... so I can't betray her no matter what...'

As Yuuji walks into the bathroom to shower, Esdese looks up to the ceiling with a finger to her chin as she realizes something, "Ah...! I wonder if it would have been better to shower together?" then she smiles, "...Well, its okay... I don't need to rush, right..."

Thinking back to what Bors told her when they were trekking back to the Capital, the flamethrower Teigu user has told her that the trick to capturing one's beloved heart is about never giving up, because even for he who was rejected twice by his wife at first. But he had said that it's all about waiting and finding another chance to pounce the right opportunity, and that to keep it in mind that it takes some time as well. Esdese was holding a small notepad with a pen as she said, "Humuu... indeed, I see."

As she lies back on her bed, head on the pillow, she thought, 'Bors said it as well. First off, tomorrow...! When we're out hunting dangerous risk species together... that's when I'll be able to show him my ability. I will slowly make you fall for me... using this new and interesting plan.'

...The next morning...

Yuuji walks around the palace interior, looking for food as it is the dawn of a new day. As he found the kitchen, Esdese instructed him the layout of the compound the day before, Yuuji also saw Wave, drinking a cup of coffee, and Kurome eating her bag of sweets.

"Yo. Did you sleep well last night, Cyan?" Wave asked, and then the crimson eyed teen sighs.

"It doesn't sound like you did." Wave commented. The blue haired man gestures him if he wants the same coffee as him, because there were still plenty for three more cups.

"I was kept up late last night for some reason... mentally; I'm somewhat fine, but not physically... oh and please pour me some of that hot coffee."

(Warning: the next paragraph will contain some sexual content.)

'What I obviously cannot tell him the true reason is that I was nervous about last night... that she used me as a body pillow and... a-and... Violated me all night long... although if I think about it, she was sleeping the whole time and talked a little bit, in her sleep, about like how much she loves me. B-b-b but she grabbed my dick! Really soft hands like Akame... Stroking it for a while which resulted in my 9 inches erection, until I've felt that same chill down my spine as that same white hot substance came out from my meat rod... And nobody has done it besides my Akame; she's the one who loves stroking on my cock, and giving me a blowjob, however, I think both her and Esdese love the taste of my semen for some reason. And even though my red eyed beauty doesn't show it as often as she does, Akame has yet to properly express her emotions, only blushing which is too kawaii for me as it gets me turn on even harder... she and I shared a memoir of memories together, including those of intimate physical attraction... however; I have yet to sexual intercourse into my beloved Akame's special place, my virginity goes out to her as hers is to me. So I'm glad that it didn't reach to that situation with Esdese, or else I would have cursed myself and unable to explain my weird little incident to Akame... but would she be able to understand what had happened if it did escalate that far? Who knows...'

Wave came back with his coffee. Yuuji graciously accepts it and noted how good it tasted. And then he looks to the left and saw Kurome eating a lot of her sweets at the table.

"You're eating candy this early in the morning, Kurome?" The blue haired man asked.

Kurome closed her eyes as she replies, "Mind your own business. It's preferable to eating any more of your seafood. Besides, I wouldn't want to start smelling like a beach such as you do."

Wave takes a whiff of his own scent as he responds, "Eh?! Seriously!? Do I smell that much!?"

"No, I don't the two of you are overacting a bit too much..." Yuuji said, looking at both Wave first then Kurome.

After staring at her for a moment, the crimson eyed teen remembers the fond memories of being with her and Akame. Playing together as kids when the days of working in the fields were done, and public education is just as necessary. But after that fateful event that removed him from his old life, it was only Akame and Kurome that gave him a reason to move on forward and the needs to protect the two precious in his world. If it had not been them two, Yuuji would have no choice in what to do in his life afterwards... besides surviving to get vengeance against the prime minister to the end of hell.

Kurome caught the glace from Yuuji. "You can't have any!" she leans forward as to protect her goodies from any potential predator who feasts on candies.

'Ha... that same stinginess of food is the same as Akame and I... I'm glad you haven't changed much... Kurome... but hopefully, I'll free you from the Capital grasp somehow...'

"You still seem too familiar... strange... could it be a doppelganger that I've slain who had your identity?"

"I'm sure its mere coincidence... but if I don't mind me asking, I was wondering just how similar you look compared to that same Akame from the wanted posters..." Yuuji lied as to see how Kurome would react.

"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing." Wave confessed.

"Yeah, she was the most accomplished member of our society as well as her partner, my Onii-chan, but as you guys know, she has betrayed the Empire. I wish to meet her again so badly... And then... my beloved Onee-chan will receive her death by my own hands... I would be so happy if I could find the remains of my Onii-chan, because they said that after he had escaped his containment cell from questioning his superior, Fire Fist Ace was thought to be dead in the cold harshness of the mountains, multiple assassinations placed on his head from the highest preeminence of the Empire. Because Yuuji was the superiority, his prestigious stature stood on the same level next to Akame. My only regret was not being able to find his corpse..."

Kurome's killing intent spikes up after speaking about ending her own sister, which only saddens Yuuji even more. The crimson eyed teen mentally shivers at the thought of what would she do to his dead corpse. He has to find a way for them both from killing each other, because those two are the most important people in his life besides his best friend, Arata.

Yuuji felt the presence on the other side of the door as someone opens it in a rush, revealing it to be no other than Esdese herself.

"Cyan! For the next few days, we'll be hunting. We're heading to Mt. Fake."

'So we're heading out to a place where Bulat took Arata to train to the north of Night Raid's hideout... This is my opportunity to plan the escape!'

"Wave and Kurome will be coming as well. Mount Fake is the perfect place for an ambush, so keep your eyes open for enemies while hunting!"

Wave and Kurome both corresponded "Roger" as Esdese has yet to prepare her general's apparel, buttoning together her long sleeves shirt as she firmly ties her white high heeled boots.

"Until evening, we'll be conducting the hunt for Treeman cells. Once we get there, Kurome and I will search the east side, while Wave and Cyan search the west side. And one more thing, I didn't get to see much of Kurome yesterday. So as your Captain in charge, I need to make sure of your abilities."

Kurome has her eyes sparkle, Yuuji made an emotionless gesture of a nod, and Wave points to his face as he reacted with confusion in his voice, "Eh? Does that mean that you have already confirmed mine?"

Esdese pats down and adjusts her cap as she answers, "You happened upon a good Sensei. Your strength is perfect, you should be proud of yourself."

Unable to see if she complimented him or not, Wave stares up at the ceiling with a sweat drop just below his right cheek bone.

'Together with Wave, huh? He won't be as concerned with keeping tabs on me... sorry buddy, but I gotta ditch you and leave you to be punished by Esdese. It's easier than escaping through her having an eye on me. God knows what that woman would do to you, so please forgive for you are a person with good intentions in the Capital military... I hope.'

"We will switch off at dusk. Then Cyan will be with me."

'When night falls, the amount and strength of species that come out will be of a higher level, and that is when I will impress him with what I can do!'

"What about the rest of the Jaeger?" Yuuji asked.

"They will be policing around the Capital, in the meantime." Esdese solved his question.

Esdese smiles at the thought of her brilliant plan coming true in her favor. Unbeknownst to them all, Stylish stayed hidden and listened through their entire conversation behind the wall from a different entrance to the kitchen, except for Yuuji since he was highly trained into detecting the slightest changes in the environment and made out to be the best of the best. He kept notice of this predicament that may unfold later on.

...Following that day, afternoon at Fake Mountain...

Wave takes in the scenery as he has no idea what to expect, following behind Yuuji who knows the area; the crimson eyed teen was trained to be at his best in familiar environments, in fact any, but especially in mountain regions and forest areas.

"...I know that all of the dangerous kinds of monsters that appear at sea... but as for mountain types, I'm completely useless." Wave admitted.

"Since most of the danger beasts here prefer to utilize their natural camouflage and attack by surprise to their advantage, you need to be wary of even a rock by the side of the path. In other words, be aware of your surroundings." Yuuji filled the blue haired man in with some useful tips.

"Hai!"

After walking along the mountain side for a while to see a clearing with trees on their pathway, Wave brought up a conversation from the past.

"But you know. I wonder why you didn't bring this up when we were back at the palace. You have got some serious skills of your own, huh? If anything does show up, I guess I should ask you about it."

"You could something like that." Yuuji smiles as he continues up the hill, and then he says, "Somehow, you kind of remind me of a best male friend of mine."

"Your best friend? What makes you remind me of him?"

"Let's just say... that he wanted to join the imperial army just like you, but he failed the proper requirements to be in a higher position in the military, mainly because of the recession. So he ended up making a fuss, as well as me, and I had to drag ourselves out before we got kick out of there by force, but now he's making a living in the entrepreneur business, which I've suggested that we both do at that time."

So Yuuji made a lie in that last part, partially... he truly would like to grow a business with Arata sometime near the future; a cozy place that is somewhat like a café, and a place to read peacefully that also has the special whiskey as a reserve for celebrations and such.

"Hopefully I can meet this great friend of yours, since he and I are so similar." Wave said as he noticed that Yuuji started to unsheathe his Katana. Then the crimson eyed teen appeared by his side in an instance, blocking the path of a strike behind Wave. Yuuji cuts the branch of a Tree beast in the process.

"Kishyaaaaaaaaa!" The monster roared in painful anguish.

"You saved me, I owe you one!"

Yuuji continues to stare at the monster in front of them.

'He just reminds me of Arata in some ways... well... this is my chance to escape!'

Then, a whole lot of them appeared from all direction, many in different sizes, menacingly staring down at Wave and Yuuji.

"Attacking in a group, huh? Though you don't look as tasty as the monsters of the sea."

"These Tree beasts are not very strong, but they strike in large numbers."

"All right! Then let's clean out the area! And turn them into firewood!"

After wiping out all of the danger beasts that showed up, Wave scratches his head.

"Phew... done and done. It seems you're finished over there, too. Right, Cy... huh? What? Where are you? That's strange, Cyan... where did you go? D... don't tell me... he ran away!? Gah! This is bad! I understand your feelings, but I can't just let you do that! I still have many things I want to do before I die!"

Wave then screams his head off as he rummages through his hair; an image of Esdese's terrifying face lurks all over his mind.

The blue haired man takes a short hard stare at his short black blade from its scabbard, "...No other choice..."

Then he stabs the key into the ground, revealing Carnage Incarnate: Grand Chariot is an Armor-type Teigu that is nearly identical to Incursio, although its key is a black short sword with a hand guard and a chain link tassel on the hilt. When Wave released his Teigu, it takes the form of black full body armor with a black wing-shaped cape in place of Incursio's more traditional cape.

...Somewhere nearby at the river...

Arata was on the lookout for his Senpai, Akame pleaded him to join her in for the search as the others were out looking in different areas. Taking a knee down with his Incursio activated, Arata is right next to a beautiful waterfall. Then his instincts kicks in as he felt danger approaching him, making the onyx eyed teen to launch himself out of harm's way. A devastating kick was planted against the wall where the pathway would have damaged Arata.

"Wha... who is this..." Arata asked.

'The same type...? An armor Teigu!?'

"Oi oi... seems I have accidently run into a big fish, huh..."

Wave walks up to Arata and pointed at him, "I know that Teigu. It's Incursio... the prototype for my own Grand Chariot... and having said that; the fact that you're wearing it must means that you are a member of Night Raid, right!? I see. A suspicious looking mountain is the perfect place for a suspicious looking guy like you to be lurking around!" then they both get into a fighting stance.

'Change in plans. A member of Night Raid is the one standing before me that takes precedence over Cyan who's already gone.'

'He said his Teigu is more of an advanced version than my Incursio... I can't be lax... This guy has to be from one of the Jaeger members I've heard of... I can probably take him down, but my main objective is finding Yuuji. So he must be around here somewhere, captive maybe?! And if I fight here alone, it'll be dangerous to stay here if Esdese shows up because Najenda says she is always near the Jaeger based on reports from the revolutionary spies. I gotta get Senpai out of here fast!'

Arata went over a cliff and tries to run away and find Yuuji, then Wave just as quickly impeded his path.

"I won't let you escape. So man up and fight me!"

The blue haired man in black armor yelled as he extraordinarily moved quickly from where he was at to smash a leg into the ground where Arata stood. The onyx eyed teen quickly dodged it, and right then he was forced to evade a fist flying at his face.

The user of Incursio counterattacked Wave's attacks and slammed a punch against his stomach. After the two created a distance between themselves, Wave spoke, "I've read the data on you guys. Again and again you indiscriminately carry out your assassinations... you are the villains that are slowly eating away the peace and security of the Capital. To make matters worse, the story is you are connected to the rebel army. Your very existence itself is something that can't be forgiven!"

Arata got really angry as he replied back. "...You are the one that's at fault... It is true that we may murder people. However, we... assassins of Night Right... are nothing like the villains in the Capital...!" Remembering Aniki's and Yuuji's training, Arata was able to remain resilient from Wave's remark and then leap into the air in hopes of finding Yuuji.

'Not only do I need to get this information about Grand Chariot and its user to everyone else, but I also need to rescue my Senpai!'

Surprised from his sudden speed in movement, Arata prepares himself from another attack form Wave.

"If you are so determined not to fight anymore... then this is going to be quite the one sided battle."

'Holy shit!'

Wave leaps into a higher place, right above Arata, by using his flight ability and performs a drop-kick on him. "Gorando fall!" A bone crushing high damage, Wave could have increased more strength and the speed of this move by creating two floating matters, each consisting of four dark petals shaped like diamonds. Arata was resulted in crashing inside the river.

"A perfect hit! I kicked him into the river... but now I've lost sight of him..."

As he landed and looked around frantically, he quickly said, "What? He's gone! Where is he!? ...Ahh! He must have escaped using the river's current! That's not going to happen when your opponent is a man of the sea!"

But unbeknownst to Wave, Arata used Incursio's invisibility to escape without being noticed right alongside the river.

Trembling with a quiver of motion, Arata struggles to barely kneel. "M... maybe it was too much to try to get away without fighting back much. But I guess he doesn't have the ability to go invisible like I do..."

Falling face first, Arata coughed out two blood spats, taking off Incursio.

'That last kick... had a lot of power into it... if I had not absorbed it, I really would have died... but now, I can finally return with important information... sorry Senpai, but I'm beat up.'

Hearing a growl from the forest, Arata looked up to see a danger beasts walking on four legs towards him. Big in size, the creature has yellow fur and lion-like manes as well as three red eyes; it also possesses big horns that grow from the side of their heads onward with six whiskers in total.

'A Jackaleo!? Holy shit, perfect timing as its feeding time for this big fucking pussy cat crap... it's useless to run away, I took too much damage that I can't even fight back. Well, time to meet my lolis in the other world!'

A flame of wall appeared to block the Jackaleo's advancement from munching on Arata, and then Yuuji shows up behind it and slashed it in half from with his new Katana.

"Are (huh)? Yuu...ji?"

Akame ran from behind Arata's Senpai and yelled, "Arata! Are you okay!?"

"Why are you... two here...?"

"I found Yuuji on my own search area, and then we greeted each other with an intimate kiss. Soon after we did, we heard a loud crash and we both ran to find out what it was since we were worried for your well-being." Akame takes out a bandage and covered his wounds with it.

"So... I didn't ask how you were able to pin point my location." Yuuji said as he blushes, it was because he greeted his love one with a good kiss besides him asking her how. And boy does he have a grand time trying to explain Akame thoroughly about what happened in the Capital palace with Esdese and the Jaeger.

"Arata and I have been going out and keeping an eye out for you. I was stalking out the Capital's front entrance. We both rushed after you had left the Capital to go hunting. We were tailing you secretly, and I just finally caught you!"

"More like, I had caught you instead, Akame..." Yuuji whispers behind Akame, hugging her from behind and tightening up as he buried his head onto the back of her neck... licking her there slightly and getting out a slight moan from the red eyed beauty.

"I see that you had done a lot for my sake of safety... I shall reward you even more so..." When Akame finished patching up Arata, she placed her hands on the side of Yuuji's head and dig through her fingers in his eerie black wavy hair, then Akame looks up from kneeling down to have only had Yuuji to passionately kiss her from behind.

"Again... you two were forced to come to my rescue once again, only to be making out in front of me." This lead Akame to karate chop the top of his head without looking at him for she is busy at the moment. Then the red eyed teen looks at Arata in the eyes.

"We'll always come save you. After all, we're friends!" She smiles brightly, or was that because she got some good loving from Yuuji?

"Thanks you guys, I'm glad to see two friendly faces."

As Akame smiled from that response, she was about to give him a hand... until Yuuji picked her up in a bridal carry pose as a certain green haired man comes running through, only to have grabbed Arata's hand and not also Akame's soft hands.

"Ta-dah!" He yelled as they all ran deeper into the forest.

Along the path as the coast was clear to walk, Yuuji asks, "Lubba... you were in the area nearby when Akame looked for?"

Lubbock scratch the side of his chin as he said, "...mmm, well originally, I advised them that this was just unnecessary. But I mean, if you weren't there, I'd be the only guy unable to learn how to get the skills to gather hot babes and form my own personal harem, and that would be troublesome... but I'd manage somehow."

While carrying Arata with over his right shoulder with Akame by his left shoulder, hugging close to his left arm as they walked side by side, Yuuji enjoyed the moment as he knows that even though Lubba says all that, the truth is that he was really worried about him but already realized that the crimson eyed teen doesn't need to worried over as he is a professional assassin skilled enough to make a tactical retreat in one piece.

...The next day...

Wave was at the meeting room, nervous as he was when as soon as he told Esdese what had happened at Fake Mountain, the blue haired man was immediately issued a punishment... and that is for him to have his arms tied behind him to a wooden post in the meeting room and four stacks of square cement on his legs in a kneeling position. Tears of waterfall streaming down his face as the pain is form what anyone would have expected of a sadist queen such as Esdese.

"...umm... how should I say this... I am truly very sorry for what I have done. I've deeply reflected on my actions and I apologize."

Wave is in that position while striped down to his boxers in complete humiliation. The one who is present in the room in front of the young man is the one who administer the punishment; Ran and Kurome were there as well to witness his failure.

Sitting on a chair and still upset about what has transpired before, Esdese speaks, "Due to your inattention, Cyan was allowed to escape, but more than that... it's the fact that you allowed a member of Night Raid to escape, that is so shameful. Kurome, stone!"

The lover of sweets walked over to where Wave was at with a single square shaped stone in on arm as she uncaringly drops it on top of the four stacks on Wave's lap, making it five now as the blue haired man screams from the pain.

"If it was Incursio, then I believe the one inside is the 'hundred man slayer' Bulat. Within Night Raid, he is a person deserving of special attention. And this is why you were told that once found, they could not be allowed to escape. Now the enemy will likely change the location of their hideout. Kurome, fire!"

"Mm!"

The short black haired twin tails girl responded by placing a steaming hot wax from a lit candle on her right hand just above Wave's back for it to stream down his backside.

"Aaahh! Hooooooooooot!" Wave screamed in agony from the burn.

"Wave..."

Esdese said as she closes her eyes in disappointment.

"Your abilities are top notch, but your mental control is weak. But you are reflecting... So we will finish playing with you after some water torture and a bit of light whipping. Then we can get past this."

'You call that playing!?'

Placing a hand over the right side of her face, she opens it and glares at Wave with an evil aura as she seriously states, "But the next time you screw up this badly... I will be handling your punishment... personally. So keep that in mind."

"...Yes ma'am." Wave said as he gulps saliva down his throat.

"General! My apologies, we scoured the entire area around Mt. Fake, but were unable to locate any sign of neither Cyan nor the enemy. Even using Koro to help track them down was ineffective!" Seryuu stood there saluting while the living Teigu was held against her, saluting as well.

"Well, the Hekatonkheires is more for battle anyway. Do not worry about it. So what about Stylish? He is searching as well, is he not?"

"Yes, he seems to be moving on his own... but Dr. Stylish still has yet to contact me."

"Well... hopes are thin then."

Esdese exhales in exasperation before Ran looks at her and asks, "General... it's about that Cyan-kun. You were saying before that there was a possibility of which he may join the revolutionary cause... is that really so?"

"Yeah... he boldly tried to convince me to join as well."

"If... he should possibly appear before us as an enemy in the future. How would you like us to deal with the situation? Especially since that he now possesses a dangerous weapon."

Grabbing everyone's attention in the room, Esdese spoke out her feelings, "Honestly... I love Cyan even now. My desire for him is burning even hotter than he is no longer within my grasp. However, the lives of my subordinates take priority over that. Bringing him back alive would be preferable... but if it comes down to you or him, there should be no question about it."

"Understood, Taichou."

"We have no choice but to pass judgment on those who are drenched in sin!" Seryuu said as she playfully grabs the side of face of Koro.

'If... you do get killed, it just means that us as far you could go as a man. But you aren't that weak of a person, right...? The will to kill and survive... it's a wondrous thing, huh... I will meet Cyan again. That is what I believe... No! I know we will meet again... although I have a feeling that is not his true name for some reason...'

Esdese gets out of her chair and looks up slightly out in the windows before continuing to think, 'and at that time, you will not be able to fight these feelings... you had better prepare yourself, Cyan!'

"What's so dangerous about the weapon you given him, Esdese?" Wave asked his commanding general as he prepares himself for the next torture session.

"Well... you see... it's a weapon based on..."

...Meanwhile, In Night Raid's recreation room...

"I was able to see most of it all, except Wave, the rest of the full fighting force of the Jaeger's strength." Yuuji said with the conclusion of finding out the strength in power of each Jaeger's Teigu and known tactics. The masterful crimson eyed assassin sat on a couch next to Akame, the main of attention among Mine who's standing, Lubba sitting on a recliner, Leone sitting on a second couch across the two red eyed couple, Arata on a recliner as well.

...The day before, in Akame's room...

Sitting on her red colored bed, the crimson eyed teen had truthfully told his red eyed girlfriend about the night he spent with Esdese... although he tried his very best to persuade her that he is innocent the whole time! When Yuuji had told her about his experience with Esdese... what she did to him, the long black knee-length haired teen was releasing a murderous aura unlike he had ever felt before, and probably made everyone in Night Raid in the mansion as well as she become truly infuriated, something Yuuji or anyone will never see Akame would do unless her precious meat is utterly ruined. The crimson eyed teen thought she directed her anger towards him and then closes his eyes in preparation to take any form of punishment from Akame, but to his great surprise as for he didn't feel any pain, she was standing there, tears drenching her red eyes in thoughts of her loved one being stolen from her by a sadist of a general. Her love shatters in pieces and completely tossed aside. Yuuji knows what he had to do as he hugs Akame in a tight embrace, vowing himself to never doing something crazy, unless he was forced to in a situation, to try betraying her love carelessly like that ever again; it was unacceptable and disgraceful, even if it was to convince Esdese to join over to their side. She nods while making a sound of recognition, accepting his sincere words of apology as she can see it in Yuuji's eyes as he, too, is crying as well. The red eyed couple soon stayed in each other's arms for the longest of time, before the two went to sleep together and started the next day to explain the Jaeger's fullest capability and personality info, or what Yuuji had seen because he didn't witness to any hidden trump card abilities as far as his crimson eyes could tell.

...Present time in the rec room...

"Seriously, all of them are Teigu users...? Damn that's scary." Leone said with a wry face.

"And our Imouto-chan is amongst them as well... Akame..."

Yuuji looks at Akame with a sadden face, seeing as his red eyed beauty is showing a worried expression only slightly for him to notice.

"And for Kurome to be a member of Jaeger too..." Akame's red eyes gaze at the floor in shock of the news.

"Imouto-chan? Does that also make you a blood relative to Akame, Yuuji? Ew, incest is such a turnoff..." Everyone looks at Arata, Yuuji has an urge to face palm as the onyx eyed teen quickly restated, "I'm just messing with you bro... anyway, why didn't you and Kurome escape the Empire together?" Arata asks Akame, looking at each other's eyes.

"When I became dissatisfied... of course I tried to convince her... but my sister chose to stay... if you ask her... I'm sure she would consider me a traitor..."

Akame interlaced her hands together on between her legs before asking Yuuji, "Yuu-chan, was Kurome constantly eating the same snack?"

Sitting next to Akame, the black wavy haired teen placed a left arm over her shoulders, pulling her close to his chest for a hug.

"Like you know it, she is still always consuming on those atrocious sweets... whenever there is a time to spare, she had been eating them as if it's her daily source of nutritional meal..."

"...I see."

Akame didn't spare a tear to fall as she stays compose, small thanks to Yuuji's warm embrace, but mainly because that's how she is being unable to react to certain feeling as an assassin. Her resolution to situations is what makes her move on forward from being broken down than someone who is weak minded, strong calculative thinking than an average skillful assassin.

Blushing under his care, Akame continues to look somewhat sad until a certain tsundere says, "Akame! I told you this before. If your little sister appears before us, we have to hit her with everything we got."

"We should be prepared if we're going to be up against her."

"Akame... listen, I will do what I can to see that Kurome live... although she may try to kill me after I reveal who I am, but even so, I must because it was that you and her gave me a reason to live, a reason to do what is necessary and to protect those of whom I consider my important people... I don't know how yet, but I will try my best..."

"Yuu-chan..." Akame replied before she is met with a passionate kiss from Yuuji, causing Lubbock to be very jealous, Leone seems to be jealous of her best friend but at the same time happy for Akame to have found love in their world of chaos, Arata almost said something like 'get a room' but he only smiles at Mine as she just blushes for the pink haired girl knows that Arata needs to be a bit more assertive and daring when kissing in front of other Night Raid members. The tsundere would most likely call him a pervert and smack him around, but she wouldn't really mind if it's only Arata...

Lubba went back to reading a collection book on Teigu; exclusive to the Revolutionary Army, a dialectical journal and notes on each of the entries of known Teigu so far.

"...Hmm. I would like a little more info on their Teigu. Seryuu's strength has been heightened by weapons surgically placed in her body, right? Rubicante is famous, but countering it would be difficult unless Yuuji here takes care of that..."

Mine interrupts Lubba. "Info on the winged Teigu Mastema is already in the notebook."

"But its special ability is still unknown..." Lubba finishes off his thoughts.

Looking at Akame's slight blushing gaze from just kissing Yuuji, Arata asks her, "So speaking of Teigu, what type of it does Kurome use?"

Yuuji answers for Akame, "Its Yatsufusa; March of the Dead. Those cut down by it... become Kurome's living corpse dolls. This can curse up to eight people. She can also freely manipulate the dolls and the abilities they had in life. If she rescinds her ability, they turn back into ordinary corpses."

"Holy shit! That means if you get killed by her, you will get a fate worse than death... fuck, and that means you basically turn into an enemy against your own allies..."

Leone half suppressed her laugh as she says, "But since you'll be dead, you won't need to worry about it."

The worried expression says otherwise, Arata wouldn't want to become a mindless puppet and hurt the lolis he love dearly with all his heart.

Mine sweat drops from what Arata said as she voiced her opinion, "Murasame is scary too... but Yatsufusa is frightening, huh..."

Lubba rest his back on a different couch with his arms behind his head, "I really don't want that kind of death. Anyways, the remaining Teigu are... that armor type Grand Chariot... and Perfector."

"That doctor guy is the one I want to take out first. If we do that, I would like to get a hold of that Perfector. Because that's the Teigu does seem highly useful..." Mine said with her arms cross, standing while receiving blank looks from everyone in the room.

'If that Stylish heard this, I am sure he would be delighted... while saying that it is the most stylizing Teigu ever.' Yuuji inwardly said.

"And what's up with that Katana you got there, Senpai?"

Yuuji looks on over yonder next to his leg, usually placed along his left hip so that he can take it with the other hand for the crimson eyed teen is right-handed, as it's a sheathed blade that's slanted next to the couch as it is what his best friend asked of him.

"Ah, this?"

Yuuji picks up the blade and reveals it as he unsheathes it for Akame to see and inspects it from watching it from all sides. She nods in acceptance at its brilliance. Akame really does have an eye for talent, and a great weapon.

"It's my very own blade from the Capital while I was held captive their by Esdese. Apparently, the Katana wasn't made from some well known blacksmith in our time... it was created about 300 years ago... which makes this a Teigu."

"Wait... what!?" Arata exclaims as everyone was surprised at the aforementioned answer from his Senpai.

"You heard me... A Teigu."

"Yuu-chan... Weren't you able to use only one Teigu?" Akame inquired with a widen expression, fearing the over exertion of his usage of another Teigu as one person can only wield one of its kind at a time. The crimson eyed teen uses a Teigu already... a mera mera no mi devil fruit infused with a ultra class danger beast of a sleeping Alastor... so it's hard to fathom a warrior who can use more than one Teigu, it is near impossible.

"Well... I had a theory to test it out, and Esdese gave me that option. By the way, the actual reward from that tournament I won in was this Teigu; therefore, after wielding it for a bit, it seems that I am half of an organism Teigu... or at least partly due to my fusion with Alastor. That sleepy ass dragon tells me stuff and then sleeps it off, so I don't bother him much since I can do things efficiently on my own. But yeah, its thanks to be being a part of a living Teigu that gives me greater physical, and probable mental, endurance."

"So you can wield more than two Teigu? That's unheard of... but at least you aren't useless in the slightest bit..." Mine somewhat complimented Yuuji.

"That wasn't in the books at all, probably one of those missing Teigu in the past. We should add in as much info as we can into it." Lubba said with an astonished reaction.

"So first off, what's the name of that blade? And how were you able to become compatible with another Teigu?" Arata's endless sea of questions pesters Yuuji, but doesn't seem to annoy him in the slightest.

"It's called Akai Tsubasa Kageyoshi (Vibrant scape of red blade) and I thought about being side by side with Akame, the joys of wielding the same blade to be in a graceful style with hers, that and how amazing it really is. I can only assume that the trump card is what the name suggests... but who knows unless I test it out."

"Talking about who we should take it is fine and good, but come on guys; we're all in this together again!' The blonde cheerfully exclaims as she pulls Yuuji on a hug as his head is pressing against her bosoms. "We finally got Yuuji back!"

Akame pulled Yuuji from Leone's grip and the couple sat back on the couch where they were, while giving her best friend the 'you can't have him, he belongs to me only' kind of look.

"So... what do you think of the person herself after seeing her in person?" Mine asked the crimson eyed teen, his hair being delve through by Akame's right hand. Akame let out a killer intent that made everyone's heart nearly jumped from it, except Yuuji anticipated it as he had felt her anger and murderous aura towards Esdese for violating him.

"...umm, yeah Esdese, huh? She is on an entirely different level... but nothing that I can't handle dealing with if I had to fight her one on one, with it I may be given a chance to defeat her, additional support if necessary..."

"We don't know what limits and weaknesses of her Teigu are, except it can be counter with Yuuji's, right?" The tsundere asks if anyone has an answer, or an idea.

Lubba cups his chin as he shares out his thoughts, "Yeah, just how far and how much can she freeze with her ability?"

"...Esdese is certainly powerful... but she has a weakness." Akame spoke out while looking down, still scratching Yuuji's head and getting a nice response from him.

"...and that is?" Leone inquires.

With her right hand continuously scratching his head, she starts to take out Murasame with it inside its scabbard.

"She's alive... she has a beating heart. If so... I will kill her even if she is the fabled strongest of the Empire, and for attempting to steal my Yuu-chan!" Akame holds out her Murasame with killer intent leaking out. Everyone sweat drops as Yuuji hugs her affectionately from behind, calming her down to her normal undifferentiated expression with hints of blush marks on her face.

"It's not an idle boast coming from our honor student. Rather than say it, please do it." Mine commented with a smile.

"That's our trump card for you, just what you'd expect!" Lubba starts to yell, "But you already got Akame, and now someone just as busty and beautiful as Esdese?! Please show me your techniques! Oh wise one!"

"Oh pipe it down, baka marimo!" Mine harshly commanded, getting a glare from the receiver of her insult (Lubbock) as that said person hates being called by it.

"Ending it with one hit from Murasame would be great. Well... it really appears that we're going to have to rely on this strategy thing, huh." Leone said as she laid back on the third couch to herself.

"Yeeesssssss~ and I'll do my best to support my waifu with all my love~! Or better yet, end Esdese with my own hands." Yuuji said with a change of tone during each of his sentence, and then the crimson eyed teen sat next to Akame, their hands holding together.

"Returning to the original topic at hand... I think the Jaeger's members just about match us person per person in terms of ability. So as it stands now, we are at a disadvantage in regards to number of members. If we had to go up against them as we are now... we'd be in trouble with one member short amongst us six. At least we got Senpai here, but I don't think it has to do with their level of fighting spirit or heart." Arata spoke out as everyone had a cautious expression on their face; Yuuji just hopes that he would be strong enough to protect his comrades from danger...

Yuuji starts to hint at something intriguing with a sly smile, captivating the attention around him of his fellow Night Raid members.

"About that... it seems fortunate for us that I have developed an interesting technique..."

...Ten kilometer away from Night Raid...

Just wondering in search of Yuuji, Stylish sought out tracking down of what seems to look like is Yuuji. He pursuit him endlessly with his three strange companions, or human experiments, a girl with bat ears who can detect the slightest noises around her environment which makes her perfect as a tracking unit, and a man with a large beak who can smell miles away, and another beefy man who has eyes that can see the tiniest glint such as Lubbock's threads which makes them unnoticeable as they came closer to Night Raid's hideout. Earlier before, they were fooled by a clone that is made to look like Yuuji, surprising the doctor to a great extent.

With a smile as he gathered his intellect, Stylish raised a right hand to rest his head on.

"Fufu... I thought that young man was very strange from the start. He was far too adept at adapting to the situation for a simple country boy."

As Stylish spoke, his three followers turned around to meet his gaze.

"Stylish-sama's perceptive ability is better than my sense of smell."

"I have seen the light."

"It's like hearing the Buddha's prayers."

The three, while not trying to be funny, stated the brilliant doctor's skills who did not really outmatch their own enhanced sensory abilities.

"I don't need your ass kissing..." Stylish said as he looked up to see a hidden mansion underneath a cliff, "Bingo. A gay's intuition is never wrong. Though it is a long way from Mt. Fake... Night Raid's secret base, I've finally found you."

Author's note: Well... here's what i have been working for a while. A nice long fun filled chapter, what a haul it is. And one thing for sure, I am going to take a small break from working on this fanfic... but not forever! So don't worry about it, and for those who are wondering about what other story i might write... well... er... it's going to be multiple crossovers but the main setting will be the SAO universe for the sake of adding my friends in it as OCs and with an addition of the Hollow Fragment story to it. The Naruto one is going to take a while, but forgive me if it's a long wait. I got school to take care of, and in light of that news, it seems that this week I will be getting a new laptop to work on fanfics much more efficiently!

The next chapter for this fanfic will be a new OC in Night Raid as additional reinforcement, but I'm puzzle if i should keep Chelsea in it or change her character a bit... and there may be another OC that will join the Jaeger to make the numbers match somewhat.

And as always, please leave a thought of what you think in the reviews. Constructive criticism will help me in numerous of ways, but at least something of what you liked about it and things that i might have missed like did i change their character a bit too much. Thanks again for reading, and I will be back with a fresh fanfic next month or so. And one more saying before i conclude this, but I am sorry, not sorry, that the Dub of Akame ga Kill on adult swim is purely shit and I hate how they have no acting in their character whatsoever, no feels when delivering the mood, it feels more rush than anything else, the voice actors are shitty and I despise how they could just get rid of the opening and ending of the Anime as if the 30 secs BGM is better... it sounded generic as shit to a start up of some rock, but at least the OST are still properly inputted where it should be. Nevertheless, this is why I changed from watching Dub to Sub years ago. The only dub I like is DBZ and nothing else.