Chapter 153 - #152 Clumsy hand (1/2)

”...” There was complete silence except for Aria's whining and most people were looking at Akashi who was trying to look as shocked as he could.

Tatsumi, on the other hand, didn't know how to feel, his sword his pierce the bitch that tortured his friends but it wasn't with his own hand. He also recovered from his confusion and slowly backed away from Akashi since he was unarmed right now and he really thought that Aria is Akashi's future wife.

”Aria!” Akashi suddenly exclaimed while running to her with a ”concerned” expression.

Poney and Kurome couldn't help but look at that sight with a blank look in their faces.

”A-Akashi, help me, please! It hurts!” Aria said while tears were constantly pouring down her cheeks.

”Don't worry, I can treat your wound. But I need you to trust me and let me pull that sword out.” Akashi said with a reassuring smile.

”I- Won't I bleed out?” Aria asked between her sobbing.

”Don't worry, I won't let you die by bleeding out!” Akashi said with a gentle smile and Aria just nodded her head and relaxed her body.

However, when Akashi took a grip of the hilt, his lips curled up into a slightly ridiculing smile but before Aria was about to even absorb it.

Akashi instead of pulling the sword to his side, he pulled it upwards while the sword was still inside her, making her entire body split in half if it wasn't connected by her waist.

”Huh?” *Splash* Aria was surprised by this but she still didn't get what happened until she stopped feeling her entire body and until she saw blood spray from her all around. Of course, not even a drop of blood has fallen on Akashi who was being protected by his flames.

'Letting blood of your enemies splash on you can also be viewed as some kind of respect but I definitely don't want even a drop of her filthy blood on my clothes' Akashi thought in position with the sword still facing the sky.

”...” No one said anything since the entire series of events was extremely weird to them.

Akashi turned around and saw most people looking at him with either confused expression or blank expression.

”Oops? My hand slipped...a little bit.” Akashi said with a completely stoic expression before he threw the sword back to Tatsumi, making it pierce the ground just near his feet, startling him a bit.

'How can your hand slip so badly?!' Everyone wanted to shout at him but even Tatsumi by now knew that there was something very wrong here. Now that he thought about his ”fight” with Akashi, he wasn't even trying to injure him and he was constantly positioning so such a situation could be created.

”*sigh* I guess I will need to find a new wife now...” Akashi sighed and muttered with a sad expression while looking at Aria's corpse.

”Can I join the queue~?!” Since it dawned on Leone that Akashi wasn't really standing against them, she decided to play along and shouted while raising her hand.

”Leone?!!” Akame exclaimed with a shocked expression.

'He is handsome and powerful, if I can drag him to our side it would be worth it~. Well, I also didn't really hate our little chase game.' Although Leone was joking, if there was even a speck of chance Akashi agreeing to her proposal, she wouldn't back away.

”Wait...I still have her mother” Akashi completely ignored Leone and continued muttering while holding his chin.

”?!” Everyone's eyes widened in horror when they heard him but Kurome and Poney only glared at him...even usually so obedient Kurome glared at Akashi, this only showed how bad joke it was.

”...Chill out, I was just joking” Akashi said while throwing both Poney and Kurome a weird look.

”*Huff* *Huff* Guys! Ah! Here you are!” Suddenly a new person arrived, completely out of breath while pointing at Akashi with her weapon.

”Sheele?” Everyone from Night Raid muttered while giving her a strange look.

”He took my target and run away with her...” Sheele explained but when she looked around one more time she noticed a weird atmosphere here, no one was exactly hostile but it was full of unknown people who were feeling tense.

'What is happening here?' Sheele dropped the matter of catching Akashi and instead thought.

”A-Akashi? You said that you have her mother...would you be so kind as to give her to us so we can perform our justice?” Leone asked with an embarrassed smile.

”Justice? Don't speak about that after scamming that boy.” Akashi said while pointing his sword at Tatsumi who at first looked surprised but after a moment he nodded with a serious expression and glared at Leone.

”Ha-ha, I didn't force him to give me his money...We also need fundings to live as ȧssassins...” Leone released an awkward laugh before explaining while holding both of her hands in front of her, trying to calm Tatsumi.

”Maybe not directly but swinging your ċhėst in front of his face definitely helped a lot and what matters the most is the thought and your goal was to scam him.” Akashi said, adding fuel to the fire but Tatsumi who heard him blushed a little, receiving glares from Ieyasu and Sayo, although each had a different reason behind those glares.

”Wha-! How do you know that?! I mean- Why do you think so?” Leone exclaimed with a surprised expression before she regretted it.