Chapter 20 - Magnificent Revenge
In a not-so-large, quiet city somewhere in Japan.
As the sunset was about to appear, Akame arrived in that city.
The reason Akame came to this city, where she had no connections, was quite simple.
Revenge.
To take revenge on those who betrayed her, turned her into a cripple, and pushed her life to the edge of a cliff!
While searching for a way to take this revenge, Akame, who had even found a new life goal, felt her heart pounding with the thought that she could finally cut off this bad connection and with expectations for her life afterward.
“You seem excited too, Blood River? Well… This will be your debut battle after all.”
Akame gently stroked the famous sword Blood River, which was quietly ringing its blade name.
“You’ll be stained with the blood of an extraordinary person from your first real battle?”
After all, Toyoda Yamatake, an S-rank superhuman of Japan and a big shot in Japan’s underworld, would be a fitting debut battle for this sword.
“Hmm, let’s see… A 23-story building with no special features… Ah, is that it?”
Since there weren’t many 23-story buildings in the city, it wasn’t difficult to find.
“A desk with heavy makeup and rough-looking security guards with tattoos… This is the right place.”
A desk with makeup so heavy it was like a performing geisha, tattoos and scars visible even at a glance, and security guards with rough appearances.
Just looking at the atmosphere these guys gave off, one could tell they were involved in the underworld, so Akame smiled and drew her sword.
“Hey there! What are you doing!”
“Do you know where this is…!!”
Seogek!!
Before the security guards could finish speaking, a clear cutting sound rang out, and Yamatake’s subordinates could no longer continue their words.
After all, how could a corpse with its head fallen off speak? These guys weren’t even strong superhumans.
“Instead of rushing at me, why don’t you call your boss~? He’s the one I have business with~.”
A single strike.
Due to the chillingly fast and precise swordwork, only the subordinates’ heads fell off, so no commotion could even occur.
After all, everyone here now was Yamatake’s subordinates.
“Well, it doesn’t matter. I’ve found it anyway.”
Akame smiled and swung her sword with her red eyes shining-
Jjeoeok!!!
And the high-rise building was split in half.
Although the building didn’t collapse because it was split vertically, this was rather a disaster for Yamatake’s subordinates.
“Wow~. It’s quite tall?”
Because Akame started rampaging through the gap created like that.
Chwak!! Seogek!!
The swordsmen grouped as the Three Great Sword Saints each have different styles, so they each have their own individuality.
The Sword Immortal of China handles a sword that is like a hexagon with no flaws anywhere, adding experience to it,
The Sword Drawing Emperor of Korea has no great techniques or flashiness as he only delved into sword drawing, but the destructive power of each strike is truly unparalleled.
And the Flower Sword’s sword is said to be the fastest and most beautiful.
Kagagak!!! Seogek!! Chwakak!!!
That sword is faster than any other swordsman’s sword among the Three Great Sword Saints, and has unparalleled brilliant techniques, so there are always afterimages in the trajectory of the sword she swings, and those who couldn’t catch up with the sword and saw the afterimages couldn’t help but admire the sight.
Because the swung sword bloomed flowers.
Chwa-jwa-jwa-jwak!!! Seogeok!! Seukak!! Jjeoeok!!!
Swordsmanship that draws flowers with a sword, and because the technique is so brilliant that the enemy’s blood slashed by that brilliance blooms into flowers and decorates her as she passes through the air, the world called her like this.
One of the Three Great Sword Saints. The most chilling yet beautiful sword. The Flower Sword (花劍).
This scene that was blooming now was enough to prove why she was called the Flower Sword.
How many seconds had passed since she took flight,
Before the deep red flowers could fully bloom and beautifully decorate the building, Akame reached the 23rd floor of the building and found her targets, Inui Fujio and Toyoda Yamatake, and smiled.
“Ah, found you.”
“…! You are…!!”
Yamatake, who reacted to this, twisted his face and tried to take a battle stance, but Akame, who rushed in instantly and kicked him away, smiled and looked at Fujio, who was standing frozen in shock beside him, and said.
“Wait just a moment, oppa. You’re next, okay?”
Shuddering at that chilling smile, Fujio desperately fled while Akame was dealing with Yamatake, and by then, Akame had reached Yamatake, who was embedded in the road.
“Wow~. It’s been a while, Toyoda Yamatake?”
“…Sarame Akame!! How on earth…!?”
“Is the leg I took from you back then still not well? That’s fortunate. If you were fine while I became a cripple, I might not have been able to sleep from resentment!”
Well, it didn’t matter anymore now, did it?
Seeing Akame laughing as if cheerful, Yamatake gritted his teeth and shouted with a face twisted like an evil spirit.
“We clearly confirmed that you became half-dead after being beaten by us back then, how could you come back so perfectly fine… No, even stronger!! We thought you were surely dead with no news…!!”
“Who knows? But even if I told you how, it’s not like you could use that method, right?”
Because you’ll die here today.
Yamatake, who looked directly into Akame’s smiling eyes curved like a crescent moon, gritted his teeth at that arrogant declaration.
“…Right, last time was unsatisfying to the extreme. Today I’ll surely kill you, Sarame Akame!!!”
Kuwung-!!!
Yamatake, who shouted loudly, overlapped his two hands and struck the ground like a hammer, making the ground ripple like a wave.
Toyoda Yamatake is a superhuman who handles the flow of the earth. Not just limited to that, he was a powerful figure who could also flow the earth’s currents through his own body, gaining a heaviness and hardness like a great mountain.
However,
Chwakak!!!
“…?!?!”
This time, the opponent was bad.
“That prideful and quick-tempered attitude is still the same, Toyoda Yamatake. Despite being beaten by me twice because of it?”
The two new eyes she gained. The Magic Eyes are literally eyes with special powers. It’s not simply for allowing her to see the world again.
The name of the right eye is the Magic Eye of Acceleration, and the name of the left eye is the Magic Eye of Severance (斷銳).
The power of the right eye makes her faster, and the power of the left eye scrapes away her enemy’s defense and durability, making them easier to cut.
Add to this the overwhelming magical power flowing from Pure White and the existence of the famous sword Blood River backing all of this up.
As the wall of earth that rose up surging collapsed instantly along with his proud solid durability, and his chest was greatly cut, Yamatake opened his eyes wide in shock.
‘H-how… No, more than that…!!’
Setting aside the body that was cut too easily, he couldn’t see or feel Akame’s movements at all.
The current Akame, born from the existence of two powerful Magic Eyes and Pure White, along with the existence of Blood River which could easily slice through Yamatake’s flesh from the start, was too overwhelming a monster for Yamatake, who was originally a step below Akame, to handle.
“Don’t worry too much~. I don’t intend to drag this out, you know?”
Akame smiled at the flustered Yamatake and moved again,
Seogek!!
First, the ligaments of the left leg.
Chwak!!
Next, the ligaments of the right leg.
Seugak!! Chwakak!! Jjukak!! Kagak!! Chwak!! Seogek!!
Chwak-!! Chwak-!! Seugaak-!! Seogeok-!!!
Just one breath.
“…Ku… Heuk…!!”
The price for the gap Yamatake gave, flustered by Akame’s overwhelming strength which felt so much greater than before, was truly terrifying.
In just that instant, all the ligaments and tendons of every joint in his body, and the muscle bundles of major parts were all sliced away.
Kung!!
At this overwhelming difference, Yamatake collapsed powerlessly on his knees, and with his neck cut on the right and left side with blood flowing, he muttered helplessly without even thinking of blocking it.
“Keheuk! Heuk…!! Im-impossible… This can’t be…”
“Isn’t this overwhelming difference an unbearable humiliation for you with your strong pride? That was the reason you attacked me too, right?”
“Heu, kuk…!! Sarame Akame…!!!”
He glared at Akame with bloodshot eyes while kneeling, and Akame smiled.
“Well, there’s someone else waiting for their turn, so I’ll end this now, okay?”
Eventually Akame’s sword moved, and after stabbing Yamatake’s heart three times, cutting his neck, and stabbing his head once more for a perfect confirmation kill, Akame looked around.
“Let’s see… The teacher said to go to that mansion on the hillside of that mountain, right?”
And she started moving to where the next target would be.
Not long after, when Akame arrived at the garden behind the mansion, Inui Fujio, who had just arrived here and was breathing roughly, was visible.
“He really was here? The timing is good too… As expected of the teacher! He’s amazing, isn’t he?”
How could she not be devoted after this?
“You, you…?! How did you get here…!!”
“How? It was all in the palm of Buddha’s hand, as they say.”
Akame, who noticed that this was Yamatake’s place after glancing at the mansion, swung her sword at an invisible speed to slice up the mansion and garden, removing any future troubles, and stood smiling in front of Fujio.
“I told you to wait just a moment, didn’t I? It’s been a while, oppa~. I can’t tell you how happy I am to meet you again like this?”
Although her words were as if greeting a friend she hadn’t seen in a long time, the atmosphere and the chilling feeling contained in it were so terrifying that Fujio instinctively drew the sword he was carrying.
“Sarame Akame… You damn woman…!! How did you appear again!!”
“Oh my, why are you reacting like that when we meet after so long? I’m going to get hurt~.”
“Uwaaaaah!!!”
Fujio, who had drawn his sword, rushed at her, but
Kaang!!
“Huh…?”
Before the sword could even be swung, it was cut in half, and Fujio was dazed as if he had become a fool.
“Your skills haven’t changed, have they? That’s a relief~. I would have been upset if you had become stronger after betraying me! But it’s also quite disappointing that you’re in this state after betraying me, you know?”
“Uh, uuh…!!”
Fujio, whose anger instantly turned to fear, twisted his face and slowly backed away, and Akame smiled softly and slowly advanced.
“Do you remember? The day you betrayed me was also a night not long after sunset like this…”
“Damn it, damn it…!! Why do you always stand in my way…!!”
“I always vividly remember that day, you know. I want to start shaking off that memory.”
Akame moved forward with a smile, not caring what Fujio was saying.
“Uuuh… Don’t come…!!”
“Won’t you help your ex-girlfriend? Ah, of course, there’s no refusal~.”
Fujio soon started running away backwards, but before he could go far, he was caught by the back of his neck by Akame.
And she started forcibly slamming magical power into Fujio’s body.
“Uwa… Uwaaah…!! St-stop it…!!”
“I thought about what would be most painful for our Fujio to do? But in the end, there was only one answer!”
Regardless of whether Fujio was struggling or not, Akame continued speaking with a chilling smile.
“Dying while losing all the power you’ve worked hard to build up. Isn’t that the most miserable death fitting for you who worked hard to become stronger? What do you think?”
“Aaaaargh-!!!!”
Pakang!!! Kwagagak!!!!
Soon, along with a terrible bursting sound, a storm raged, and Fujio, whose insides were torn apart and shattered, fell powerlessly to the ground.
“Ah… Aah…”
“Your expression is good~. That’s exactly the expression I wanted to see!”
Akame, who smiled as if satisfied, drew her sword.
“Don’t worry~. I still have some old affection, so I should send you off nicely, right?”
Soon, Fujio’s dazed eyes reflected the red blade and Akame’s brightly smiling face-
“I’ll send you off nicely by cutting you into a pretty flower shape~!”
Fujio ended his life miserably without even being able to scream.
They say when a woman harbors a grudge, frost falls even in May and June?
The Flower Sword, who repays kindness with kindness but repays resentment with even deeper resentment, thus magnificently finished her revenge.
“Ah~! That feels refreshing! Is the only thing left now to serve the teacher?”
She showed a bright and radiant smile that didn’t match the miserable scene spread behind her back at all, and started moving forward, forgetting her old bad connection as if nothing had happened.
“Oh? This car looks nice… The teacher would like it if I brought it to him, right?”
…While also collecting some spoils of war along the way, that is.