Chapter 152 - #151 Warehouse (1/2)

[N/A: A lot of manga/anime oriented chapter, I tried to make it faster by narrating it but it still took a lot of words and time but skipping everything would feel like it wouldn't fit in the story. Important notice inside the Author's thoughts]

---Outside of the Mansion---

”Sheele? What are you doing here?” Lubbock asked with a confused expression.

”There was a man inside that mansion who we didn't expect. He saved one of our targets so I am chasing him down.” Sheele replied without even stopping.

'Huh? Our information shouldn't be wrong...but to think that there is someone who was able to get away from Sheele. So that's the reason for that fire inside the mansion.' Lubbock thought with a thoughtful expression while looking at the mansion. He was contemplating whether he should help or not since his mission was to be their lookout and back up but mainly he was responsible for not letting anyone in.

'No...if he got away, that means he doesn't want to fight with her, I should just stay here and make sure no one runs away' Lubbock shook his head before he started vigilantly looking around.

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While Sheele was looking around for Akashi's tracks, he already sneaked outside with his hostage over his shoulder.

'That must be Tatsumi. Anyway, I should go meet up with the girls' Akashi thought and picked up his pace.

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Kurome and Poney who were observing the warehouse's surroundings from the tree suddenly felt more weight fall down on the branch they were standing on which immediately made them snap their heads at Akashi who just arrived next to them without being discovered.

”*How the hell did you appear here like a ghost?! Do you want to cause us a panic attack?*” Poney whispered but it was evident that she wanted to shout at him. Kurome didn't say anything but she still nodded her head, agreeing with Poney.

”Sorry about that, when I switch into this mode, I simply don't care if it's ally or enemy.” Akashi said with a stoic expression while putting Aria's mother down.

'What mode?' Poney thought and rolled her eyes.

”Akashi Nii-sama, why did you save her?” Kurome asked with a curious expression.

”It's more for the formality, she will die but not by our hands. She will end up on the guillotine. After all, the Empire needs to execute someone if we are to disclose what this family has been doing behind everyone's backs.” Akashi explained while sitting down and observing the situation.

By now, both Aria and her guard reached the warehouse and Tatsumi also caught up to them but he wasn't alone.

”A-Akame and Green...” Poney muttered when she saw 2 newcomers. Although Kurome haven't said anything, she still had a complicated expression on her face once she saw her sister.

Akame dashed forward, intending to eliminate her targets but Tatsumi stood up between them, ready to intercept her. However, Akame completely ignored him which caught him off guard and she was easily able to get past him.

”W-Wait!” Tatsumi shouted at Akame while running after her but he was obviously slower than her.

Aria's guard who saw that clicked his tongue and prepared his firearm to shoot at Akame from short distance which would be extremely hard to dodge but before he could pull the trigger, Green's whip entangled around his leg and made him slip. Akame just finished the job by cutting his throat and Murasame's curse took care of everything else.

”I don't understand why both of us had to go when there was just one guard” Green said with a tired tone while adjusting his glasses.

'Hm?' Green noticed Tatsumi trying to intercept Akame when she was about to kill Aria but he didn't do anything since he was able to see that Tatsumi was pretty inexperienced when compared to Akame.

However, he was slightly surprised when he saw that Tatsumi forced Akame to jump away from Aria.

'What? Couldn't she just kill him? ...Right, she could but she didn't want to...Still, if he will continue to stay in our way, we will have to kill him even if he isn't on the list of our targets.' Green immediately thought of a reason why Akame decided to retreat a bit instead of finishing the job.

Akashi who was observing everything already had a dagger in his hand, ready to intercept any attack on Aria since he wanted to ”torture” her a bit more after experiencing that date. Although it was more like making fun out of her rather than torturing her.

”Stop! Why are you killing innocent people?! What the hell is wrong with you people?!” Tatsumi shouted while standing in front of Aria who was shivering on the ground in fear.

”Please move out of the way or you will become my target too” Akame said with a stoic expression.

Hearing her answer, Tatsumi got into his defensive stance with a nervous expression. Akame understood what was his answer and got ready to attack him.

They exchanged a few moves before Tatsumi finally took a hit and fallen on the ground.

”Shouldn't have we interfered earlier?” Poney asked while glancing at Akashi since she felt it was kinda waste, death of an innocent person trying to protect someone.

”He isn't dead...His fall was very weird, not like the one you would expect from someone who got hit by Murasame's curse. The sword didn't even penetrate his entire body...” Akashi explained but he himself didn't really care if the guy died or not, however, now he was slightly curious how he managed to survive that hit.

As Akashi predicted, Tatsumi survived the hit but Akame didn't take the bait.

She took advantage of him being unarmed and slashed her katana at his throat.

”W-WAIT! You are doing this for money, right?! I can-” Tatsumi started panicking when he saw the katana nearing his throat but Akame wasn't listening to him, however, before her weapon could slash his neck, someone caught her by her nape, dragging her some distance away from Tatsumi.

”What are you doing?” Akame asked with a confused expression while looking at transformed Leone before she looked behind at Green who was standing there while rubbing the top of his head and glaring at Leone.

”Well, it's kinda my fault that this boy got caught up in this situation...Anyway, why didn't you stop her, Green?!” Leone said while giving Tatsumi an apologetic smile before she turned at Green, shouting at him.

”...I wanted to but you dragged me in the same way as her and hit me before I could have done anything” Green rolled his eyes while answering with a slightly annoyed tone.

”...AAAH! You are that boob-” Tatsumi shouted while pointing at Leone with an angry expression.