Chapter 157 - #156 Training Kurome (2/2)

'I guess it won't be cheating using my own ability since she is using it too' Akashi thought and his own sword became coated in flames which partly negated the shocking effect from crossing swords with Kurome. However, that wasn't everything, his flames around his blade were occasionally spouting fire around which forced Kurome to stop her relentless attacks.

[Paralyzed: -8% to your speed and strength (4s)]

'The effect is already weak thanks to my flames and it only lasts for 4 seconds which is really low amount of time. It's about time we finish it up.' Akashi thought and started his own series of relentless attacks. Kurome was trying to dodge most of his attacks but she was still forced to parry some of them, she also had to be constantly on her guard against that spouting fire from his blade.

She began using her second technique, smaller thunderbolts but for Akashi, they were too predictable since Kurome had to point the tip of her sword at the location she wanted to shoot at.

”*Huff* *huff* I guess it's my loss but I learned a lot thanks to this battle.” Kurome said with a slightly sad smile but that quickly changed to a satisfied one.

”True but you would have still died if it was a life-and-death battle which means that you still have to face the punishment to always remember this loss” Akashi said with a slightly sadistic smile while leaning forward.

”?!” Kurome's face quickly changed to a scared one.

”W-What do you mean, Akashi Nii-sama? I thought that you were only joking previously.” Kurome said while forcing out a smile.

”I was...There is no way you would survive the entire afternoon tickling session, therefore, I decided that whole hour will be enough.” Akashi said with a ”gentle” smile.

”Wha-! Is that truly necessa-ryyyy?!” Before she was able to ask, Akashi took her under his arm and went back inside the mansion towards his room.

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”haha, please stop!! haha” This was the most frequent sound the maids walking past Akashi's room kept hearing for the whole 1 hour.

Despite her begging, Akashi never stopped but he also used this whole hour to show her suitable location on the human's body to target with her thunderbolt. He also used more than 30 minutes of trying to suggest to her a new technique that might be possible to create with her Kaminari. Although when she heard him for the first time, she was completely confused and had no idea where she would have to start however once Akashi went into deeper details, Kurome began to understand his words and thinking.

It would be mostly a one-time technique per battle and it would use the advantage of her advanced Iaido. [N/A: technique of quickly drawing the sword]

It would use the lighting in her sword to create some kind of cage around her which would eventually expand as she would draw her sword. The barrier itself would follow the speed of her drawing so it would be practically unavoidable, however, as said before Iaido is a technique effective usually only once per battle.

Once Kurome understood the concept of the technique Akashi wanted her to create, she was eager to go and try to create it since it was to her liking.

After Kurome's punishment was over, she immediately went back to the training grounds while Akashi began focusing more attention on Night Raid and Honest specifically. Next few days, Night Raid struck the Capital only once, they were keeping a relatively low profile but Akashi was aware that it was most likely due to training their 3 new members.

4 days after his spar with Kurome, he received a letter from Honest saying that he wants to congratulate him for his 18th birthday and that Akashi has his condolences for losing his fiancee. The letter also stated if he ever wants to marry anyone from the Capital, he has his full support.

'Is he trying to get on my good side? Or is there something else behind this? Maybe he wants to use my strength to hunt Night Raid since Esdeath isn't here. Anyway, there is also an invitation to the party organized by himself. Should I go? I guess I should, not showing up after receiving his letter would be viewed as a big offense and there is no need to do that right now.' Akashi thought while walking around in his study.

---Night Raid's side---

Sayo, Ieyasu, and Tatsumi worked hard but they still haven't gone to complete even one mission which frustrated two boys quite a lot.

They haven't been only training the entire time, they also gained some experience in real battle since there were a few spies trying to locate their base. Although the entire trio hesitated to kill a person once he lost and began pleading, they still learned their lesson when the said person tried to attack them back when they least expected it. Ever since then, they stopped hesitating since if it wasn't for Akame, Sayo would have lost her head.

However, a quite ironic thing happened and that is the person who was closest to death wasn't the one who became the most determined to end everything in 1 slash. Her two childhood friends became much more determined ever since that accident which pleased other members to see them working so hard. There still hasn't been any other similar accident and they have yet to go on the mission but everyone was aware that those two would never hesitate to kill ever again.