Chapter 158 - #157 A talk with Old Fat Fox (1/2)

---Night Raid's hideout---

Everyone was called inside the main hall by Najenda herself.

”Our new next targets just arrived. The first one is the oil merchant named Gamal and the second is Captain of the Imperial Police named Ogre.” Najenda said while slamming the table in front of her with her palm.

”How are they?” Green asked with folded arms.

”Both guilty. We already had Leone scouting them out. Both of them know each other quite well and also work together. Usually, it is Gamal bribing Ogre to turn blind eye to his actions. However, there are also cases when Ogre needs to find perpetrators of the crime caused by Gamal, so he just finds some people and frames them for crimes they have never done.” Najenda explained while Leone raised her hand and showed V sign with one of her eyes closed.

”Gamal is an easy target but Ogre is a different case, he is an experienced fighter and everyone fears him for his skill in swordsmanship but I have never personally witnessed it-” Najenda continued but the moment she finished, both Tatsumi and Ieyasu stepped forward at the same time.

”Leave that Ogre guy to us!” Both of them said in unison with a determined expression while confidently pointing their thumb at their heart but it was visible that they truly missed any other job than peeling potatoes and cleaning rooms.

”Huh? Hey!” Both of them looked at each other with a surprised expression when they heard each other say the same thing before they shouted at each other at the same time once again in unison.

”Stop acting like a monkey!” They grabbed each other's collar and it continued like this until Sayo stepped in and hit both of them into the head with a karate chop.

”Both of you stop!” Sayo shouted at her childhood friends who were kneeling down, rubbing the top of their heads.

'Why are there so many women here?' Tatsumi thought with an irritated and slightly stupid expression while looking at Ieyasu who understood him instantly.

'And they also have to be so damn violent.' Ieyasu thought and both of them nodded at each other in agreement.

”If you really want this mission, the 3 of you can go take care of Ogre, you should be fine since your strength rose quite quickly and since you are childhood friends, your teamwork should also be good.” Najenda agreed without any problem which slightly surprised other members, mostly Mine...

”Wait, wait, wait! Why do those greens have the opportunity to go on a mission so early after joining in?” Mine asked while pointing at Tatsumi.

”Kuku, what is it shortie? You haven't been in the same situation as us by any chance, right? And by any chance, you haven't been forced to do odd jobs for whole months before performing missions, right?” Tatsumi decided to rub salt into the wound and said while covering his mouth with his hand while laughing at Mine.

*BANG!* There was absolutely no warning before the gunfire was heard.

”?!” Tatsumi quickly jumped out of the concentrated shockwave's way.

*gulp* He gulped down when he narrowly dodged and also after seeing how none reacted to her sudden attack in any way.

”Hm? AAAH!!” Tatsumi noticed smoke coming out of the top of his head and immediately screamed out while putting his hand on the damaged area of his hair.

”You stupid pink shortie! Now you have done it!” Tatsumi shouted while drawing his sword and pointing at her.

”You want a fight, you will get it!” Tatsumi rushed towards her.

”Haha, bring it on rookie!” Mine shouted while taunting him with her hand, waiting for him to come even closer to use the most of her Teigu's specialty.

---1 day later---

Akashi went to attend a so-called party organized by Honest in the evening.

”Haha, it's good to have you here, Akashi! Let me congratulate you to your 18th birthday!” Honest released hearty laugh that scared most of the people in the hall and extended his hand to Akashi for a handshake.

'Hmm, he is so close, without any bodyguards, how easy it would be to just envelop him in flames during that handshake...There would be great unrest among the army and most importantly Emperor would most likely issue an order to execute my entire family but if I can take care of the Emperor, there will be Great General Budo's army which will be quite troublesome. I guess I will have to focus more on gathering people before I strike but for now, I should just accept his fat hand'