Chapter 163 - #162 Talk about the Future 2 (1/2)

---Northern Tribes---

A battlefield in front of one of the biggest cities was painted with red color and decorated by numerous ice sculptures and ice meteors.

”General Esdeath, we have won this battle with ease! The only remaining thing to do is to capture the city and the North will be once again under the Empire's control!” The soldier reported to Esdeath standing in front of the corpse with severed limbs and shocked expression.

The sorry state corpse used to be the so-called hero of the north and Northern Tribes's prince. It was said that once he took a spear into his hands, he hadn't lost any fight. Seeing him in such a sorry state made all others from Northern Tribes lose all hope.

Esdeath herself looked quite bored despite just killing thousands of people and breaking their prince's will just by severing his limbs.

”General Esdeath, your orders?” The soldier asked when he saw his general just standing still without moving at all.

”We are going back, initiate our retreat back to the Empire.” Esdeath replied after looking at the clear blue sky for a while.

”?! B-But what about the city? Aren't we going to capture it?” The soldier asked with a confused expression.

”Go, now!” Esdeath shouted while sparing him a glance out of the corner of her eye which was enough to completely scare the soldier so he hurriedly bowed down and went back to inform everyone.

'There are only civilians...Look at their faces filled with despair, there is no fun in crushing them right now. Plus...After such a long battle I think like I am missing something...' Esdeath thought while looking at the walls of the biggest city of the Northern Tribes with a bored expression before she turned in the Capital's direction while putting her hand close to her heart.

'What is this feeling? It makes me completely forget about that rubbish hiding behind the walls. I have sudden dėsɨrė to go back so I won't waste any minute by slaughtering that city.' Esdeath thought with a slightly opened mouth and confused expression, looking completely cute if she wouldn't be standing in the middle of a battlefield filled with thousands of corpses and remaining.

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”General Esdeath! Is there any problem?” Three Beasts asked while kneeling, they were slightly surprised hearing that their General wanted to retreat before finishing the job.

”We are done here, we are going back. There is something back at the Capital that I need to take!” Esdeath replied with a cheery smile which completely shocked the trio since she never had such a cheerful smile even during the battles.

'What is going on?' The trio couldn't help but think with dumbfounded expressions.

---Near the Putolu Tombs---

*huff* *huff* ”This transformation takes a big toll on my body but I was able to kill each one of them.” Najasho muttered when he was finally done hunting those 2 who had Cornelia in control. It took much longer than he anticipated since they discovered that they were being followed, they started bribing all kinds of bandits to slow Najasho down, however, in the end, he was able to catch up to them.

Killing Mashiro who specialized in shooting and bȧrėhanded martial arts wasn't that hard but they still had the support from Cornelia who was still under their control but Najasho was only constantly improving when he had to kill numerous numbers of bandits each day so fighting 3 of them while making sure not to kill Cornelia was no longer problem.

”AAAGHH!!” However, when he killed the one who was controlling Cornelia after questioning him how to get rid of that parasite without getting any results, Cornelia regained consciousness and screamed of the pain while holding her head.

”?! Cornelia! Do you still remember me?!” Najasho immediately rushed to her and gripped both of her shoulders.

”Ughh!! N-Najasho?” She muttered but her face except for showing that she is in great pain also showed a bit of uncertainty.

”Tch! We can't go back to the Capital, it's too dangerous. Let's try to find something to ease the pain in the town near the tombs since the parasite originates from there, maybe we can find something here” Najasho suggested while helping Cornelia to her feet.

---Back to Akashi---

”...Whaaat?!” There was complete silence for more than ten seconds before Mine exclaimed aloud, making everyone turn at her.

”What makes you think that you are worth so much as to disperse the entire rebellion?!” Mine asked with a dumbfounded expression while pointing her index finger at Akashi.

Akashi just threw her a glance before turning back at Najenda.

”You-!!” Mine was getting out of control so Sheele came to calm her down.

”That's something I can't decide on that on my own. I am only a leader of this ȧssassination department, no one so important that I can call shots of getting the entire Rebellion to disperse. And if I was able to do that...what would you do once you take care of Honest and the current Emperor? There will be chaos.” Najenda shook her head.

”I am aware of the chaos that is to come with killing Honest and Emperor. I will also take care of that problem for you, isn't that kind of me?” Akashi asked with a teasing smile.

”So your goal is to become the next Emperor?” Najenda narrowed her eyes and asked with a serious expression.

”Hell no...I don't want any more paperwork, keep the shitty throne away from me. What I truly want is to not see anyone from the Revolutionary Army in charge of the Empire.” Akashi said while waving his hand in front of him to deny Najenda's words.

”So you want there someone you can control...” Akame muttered from behind.

”That's right” Akashi turned at Akame and agreed without any hesitation with a big smile.