Chapter 136 - #135 Bonding (2/2)

The guy who wanted to attack Akashi from the left side had pierced his sword into the corpse of his colleague instead of Akashi. He clicked his tongue and when he wanted to retract his sword, Akashi caught it with his bȧrė hands.

The quality of these weapons was pretty bad and there was no momentum behind it so the blade was unable to even pierce Akashi's skin. If it would have been the attack with great momentum behind it, it would definitely be able to injure Akashi.

”Huh?!” The guy noticed that his sword was stuck and tried to use his entire body weight to pull it out just to receive a kick from Akashi to his ear but the kick was so strong that his entire head was blown away.

*Thud* *Thud* *Thud* All 3 bodies of dead ȧssassins dropped on the ground at the same time.

'Try to run away, huh? I don't understand why he is a leader when he is such a coward' Akashi thought and chased after the last guy.

'Quickly, I must return quickly to the main group, he won't attack me there!' The leader of now deceased group thought while jumping from branch to another branch at his top speed without even looking behind him.

”Are you aware that main group is a few kilometers away from here?”

He snapped his head behind him when he heard that chilling voice right behind him.

There, he saw literally a smiling red devil covered in blood, carrying peacefully sleeping maiden without a drop of blood on her body or her clothes.

”AAAAAGH!” He released a high-pitched scream that could be heard kilometers away. Making all birds in the vicinity to fly away

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”Shit...” Akashi muttered when he finally burned all of their bodies to ashes.

'Was he some kind of Danger Beast? How could he release such a scream? Thankfully, I put my hands on Kurome's ears to block the sound but I still had to suffer that...' Akashi thought while massaging his ears with a disgusted expression.

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The scream was also heard on Akame's side and they were running in the opposite direction so they were quite far away from Akashi. Akame and Green didn't stop running despite heating the scream but it slowed the main group for a few seconds before they a few people to investigate it.

”...Green, how far is it?!” Akame shouted while glancing behind them to see a few ȧssassins slowly catching up to them.

”Only a few minutes of running until we arrive at that cliff. We will have to jump down to the river if we want to get them completely off our backs. Leone will be there to take care of us in case we lose consciousness upon the fall” Green replied while gritting his teeth. He didn't like this idea of jumping from more than 250 meters high cliff down in the river but he was also aware that they didn't have many options.

”Stop where you are, Akame, Green!” The ȧssassins at front pursuing Akame and Green shouted while catching up.

”Akame, Green! Stop, both of you! Father can still-” Tsukushi caught up to them thanks to them stopping for a moment. She wanted them to stop deserting but her words got stuck in her throat once she saw bloodied Akame holding Gozuki's weapon.

”Akame...why do you have that weapon?” Tsukushi asked while intensively staring at Murasame in disbelief. Her voice was completely devoid of any emotion.

”Tsukushi...” Akame noticed that Green was intensively staring at her and shaking his head but she couldn't just run away from her best friend without saying anything first.

”He didn't give it to you, right?” Tsukushi asked while looking at the ground with a slightly crazy look in her eyes. She was holding onto the last strands of hope before she would completely lose it.

”I-I am sorry, Tsuku-” Before Akame could finish...

*BANG* Tsukushi fired without any warning, aiming at Green's head instead of Akame which surprised both of them.

”TCH!” Green clicked his tongue and tilted his head to the side at such speed that normal people would damage their neck. Despite reacting almost instantly and dodging in a fast way, he was able to dodge the bullet only by a small margin.

'?! Her bullets can change trajectory!' Green thought before he even took a breath after evading death by a small margin.

Green was ready to react to a bullet in case it would come back at him but instead of coming at him, a bullet took turned to left, aiming for Akame's shoulder.

*Clang!* Akame was fast enough to put Murasame in front of the bullet, successfully blocking it. Although she was surprised by this attack since she also thought that the bullet would come back at Green, she was still able to easily block it since bullet's speed slightly decreased after changing the trajectory.

”Tsukushi!!!” Akame said while gritting her teeth, she would have never imagined that her best friend would try to kill Green for something she has done. Green was also Tsukushi's friend and they spent 8 years together.

'I could understand her if she targeted me but why would she go after Green first?!!' Akame thought with upset expression, she was currently extremely angry at Tsukushi, however, she was also angry at herself for once again endangering her friend's life.

Akame was extremely shocked when she saw Tsukushi looking at them as on the strangers.