Alrain: I apologize for not updating this story at all.

OC's: Yuri (Maid), Kurayami (Akame and Kurome's mom), Nagami (Maid), Valmet (Martial Arts Master hired by Tatsumi), Freya (Brothel Queen and contact of Tatsumi)

Chapter 5: Discussing and the 2nd Mission.

Red Light District.

'I know brothels are the safest places to discuss, but these ladies must now the time and place for wanting to bed me!' groaned Tatsumi mentally as women from left and right gave him suggestive winks, called out to him, or touched a part of him or tried to even downright corner him whenever he came. Luckily the last 3 weren't done as he walked alongside Freya meaning it was very important who he was, not just looking good but an important call of hers...or just a favorite customer of hers that was a beast in bed and Freya wanted to go for another round.

Not that the thought of bedding Freya wasn't something he didn't want.

"I see you like what you see about all my girls here, you've become quite popular for being a pretty boy," smirked Freya as she had caught him staring for a second before resuming to looking at her back, that alone made her grin even wider as her attire a parody of formal as it showed a lot of skin and enveloped her hourglass body nicely, showing all her curves and the outlines of her body yet something about it told him that it wasn't just a fit body.

"Just for my looks and probably all of them guessing that I am an important call of yours or perhaps one of your favorite clients, and I think it is heading to the latter than the former," replied Tatsumi speaking out what he was thinking because he knew to lie to Freya took too much effort seeing how perceptive she was.

Freya simply took his answer and they arrived at a room where 2 male guards were and immediately opened up the door for them, both entering and Tatsumi surprised not sensing any anger from them nor a speck of jealousy but more like wishing him luck?

When he got into the room it was obviously big and had very expensive coating and furniture yet a seductive atmosphere, dark red light, the scent of sweet candles, no windows, plenty of devices for certain tastes as well as toys but he didn't recognize a few of them at all, and not sure if he wanted to know about them at all.

"Take a seat," said Freya as she lied down on her side on a sofa while pouring herself a cup of wine.

"Comfy," commented Tatsumi feeling how soft the sofa was and how easily an ordinary person would sink in it and be hard to convince him or her to get out of it.

"Of course it is, now onto business and that is for the next month of payment," said Freya sipping her wine elegantly while making it some drip down off her chin and onto her cleavage.

"The payment is ready as I have eliminated all the current men that owe your brothels debts, expanded your influence and you're area and as of last a total of 10.000 gold pieces," said Tatsumi listing off the ways to pay Freya which could be done other than in the form of money, like collecting debts although that was money, take care of those who cause trouble in the brothels or haven't paid, more area for the Queen, and some other forms which included Love Making.

"Good...are you still certain that you don't want to take the other way to pay me~?" asked Freya in a sultry tone that neither held a joking manner in it or disappointment if he refused. "It would only take you a few days to pay it off without losing any money and you gaining something out of it too, and I can assure you my girls would be eager to agree to this way of payment~!"

"As tempting as that sounds I can't right now as my 2nd mission will be giving me less and less time to operate, but perhaps one day I will take that offer of yours," the 2nd mission would be tomorrow and he had to return as his free days were over as paperwork, meetings, personal purchases, and a lot of other things robbed a lot of time away.

The Brothels were surprisingly agreeing to the fact that it was in a way supporting the revolutionary Army but they were far smarter, the corrupt Empire hampered down their earnings and they kept a close eye on that. Due to the Empire constantly killing off so many people of the countrysides getting resources were harder, more problems because of their soldiers, constant up and downs of their customers, beggars on their streets, and more work for the higher-ups to do. The Empire itself was powerful but not even they could ever attempt to seize control over the Brothels at all because as much as the soldiers gave trouble they were useful, the favor of the soldiers and many other high-ranking officers and the Nobles prevented them from taking over, all the Empire Soldiers were useless sans a few and would easily fall for the seduction of the ladies and end up killed.

And Budo and Esdeath wouldn't even go there at all to seize control as both had just enough pride to not do it, Budo because he didn't want his reputation amongst his solders to be soiled, and Esdeath obviously not finding it worth her time and Honest being afraid that he was going to offend her and that there wasn't someone else to do it, using her powers to wipe down a few brothels with prostitutes was just below what she would usually prefer to do. Who knew pride was such a handy tool at this moment and now that he thought about Esdeath he remembered her eyes, now looking at Freya hers were like that of Esdeath searching for prey.

All he knew about Freya was that she like him originated from the North as her hair and eyes told him that as most colors come from the North despite the climate, and the clothes somehow made sense as it mostly made you think more with your 3rd leg rather than your head, not that anyone can be blamed for this since Freya's body is just too much of a treat to the eyes you could hardly think right.

Like right now and standing up he had made his decision and walked over to Freya who's eyes lit up in excitement.

"Made your decision?" asked Freya shifting her legs a little bit and letting more wine drip in her cleavage to pincer Tatsumi down if he backed down from this, and the answer was received as Tatsumi crawled all over her and hovered above her.

"I did when I have the time and when it is right then I will switch over to do the other form of payment...perhaps some of my subordinates too," replied Tatsumi lowering down the clothing from Freya's body with relative ease, but almost yelped when Freya pushed him on his back and tore off his clothing without using the right way to take them off and without damaging them.

Never deny a woman of woman she really wants.

'Damn it, I got so caught up with Freya I almost was late!' that had happened a good few hours ago his 'meeting' between him and Freya that he almost missed the meeting, luckily while he was Number 1 he wasn't the leader as Najasho had the role as a leader nor did he appear as someone perfect once.

"With the Sabatini Group gone thanks to Akame and Tsukushi, we can advance to the next mission to execute," said Gozuki patting the head of Tsukushi who forced herself to smile as the thought came back to her or the memory, the memory how they would look like when they were dead if they had truly killed him if it wasn't for the Imperial Arm that Sabatini had. "Our mission is to execute the Viceroy Rakiri that has been leaking out information to the Revolutionary Army and the Northern Territories, our spies have caught him doing it and our mission is to execute this traitor,"

"Anything else that we might need to do?" asked Najasho.

"Aside from what you need to do to gather information try to earn yourself a coin, the region Rakurou that the Viceroy rules have kept it very peaceful and if that peace is broken by us then it might cause chaos," replied Gozuki.

From what Tatsumi understood was that Rakurou was one of the few good places the Empire had and was to be left untouched, it was to make it look very appealing to the people of the Northern Territories to go to the Empire, unaware of the corruption that was going on throughout the whole Capital and corrupt them with money, fame, women, alcohol, luxuries, and everything like Loyalty too. He had heard of Rakurou as it was the very Region that inspired him, Sayo, and Leyasu to go the Empire as they heard how prosperous it is.

And how it ended up in his 2 childhood friends deaths and him joining Night Raid which he had a slight scuffle in himself, not meeting Night Raid wasn't something he looked forward too yet at the cost of his 2 childhood friends...not dwelling on it further Najasho began the meeting as Gozuki left them to get himself a drink. Better practice for Najasho to plan strategies out which did put a bit of weight on his shoulders, but luckily with him and Cornelia throwing in some ideas and the others pointing out the obvious to put away the tension.

"We will all be having different positions, I will be acting as a High-Ranking Military officer that came to Rakurou to rest up...as that is how everyone here describes me as," that got a few to stiffen up that Najasho heard about the commentary about him but seeing how it didn't bother him in the slightest he continued on. "Akame and Poney will be working in the kitchen and Cornelia, Tsukushi, and Kurome will be acting as maids,"

"What about me and Green?"

"Both of you will act like butlers in the hotel where I will be resting," replied Najasho and cleared the meeting except he halted Tatsumi from leaving. "Tatsumi, there is still actually something I want you to do,"

"And that is?"

"I need you to gather information of any Nobles that might be resting there, Rakurou is especially a spot for girls of Noble families to rest and since Green isn't good at handling girls," replied Najasho and as he said this with a straight face Tatsumi who had been trained by Chelsea, and been a bit practicing in his time with Night Raid how to figure out Akame see that Najasho wasn't trying to be offensive and was uncomfortable about talking about this.

"Got it and there is no need to be embarrassed about pointing out that I go well with girls and women," chuckled Tatsumi seeing Najasho almost blush before taking a serious expression.

"Not only that...I worry about having my face being ripped off by the others," muttered Najasho loud enough and there was a hint of jealousy.

"I see, sorry for continuing the conversation, I will be on my way and prepare the findings that you must spend in order to blend in," said Tatsumi walking away to get about 300 golden coins for Najasho to spend and before he had completely left the area he whispered something out to Najasho. "Poney doesn't see me like that,"

At that Najasho snapped his head towards Tatsumi who winked at him and gave him a thumbs up clearly giving away who Poney was interested in, it made Najasho blush and Tatsumi grin to see him blushing so openly and having a different expression. Still, he knew he left Najasho confused as he would know that Najasho would still not be sure if Poney liked him, he would be thinking despite all the time he was treating her a bit harsher then the others?

Predictable is what Najasho was as girls are very close to each other and that she might have picked up the skill to hear any real passion behind the voice.

It just proved again how testifying the unity of women were but also how respectable they are.

And it was indeed true to the stories that Rakurou was a region to be admired ranging from the smell of food from the food stalls, the beautiful mountainous environment added with a healthy dose of vegetation and rivers, yet acting like natural barriers against any forces or big Danger-Beasts. Genuine smiles were seen and people going on with their daily life and the Nobles acting at their best behavior and no abuse of their power, while some wanted to do so fear had an iron grip on them as nobody of them was arrogant enough to go against personal orders and protection of Prime Minister Honest.

Currently at the Cafe Najasho simply read his book and tried to ignore the squeals from the cafe making Najasho smirk slightly, his plan worked and he honestly didn't want to mess up the mission...but now that he thought about the mission he'd rather fail because the Viceroy worked together with the revolutionary Army, and the Northern Territories that suffered quite some losses though not as close to what the West suffers. If they killed him then both sides would suffer quite some losses which made Najasho conflicted whether he wanted the Viceroy dead to keep their identities safe, or let hundreds of people suffer again by the hands of the Empire with not a lot of ways to fight back.

He'd ask Tatsumi about this since he knew that his brother would also feel conflicted too.

Inside of the Cafe, it wasn't only the girls squealing at Tatsumi but also giggling at Green as he was given pointers to be just himself and he did, he had stumbled over his words and rubbed the back of his head and everything a shy guy would do. It had a good effect as they giggled at his slightly clumsiness and awkwardness, and the few stares he had gotten that he was an innocent boy made the dominant girls look at him like he was a rare piece of meat. Who said that innocence only triggered the lust of men as women alike can do that too, but apparently it wasn't good for Green who was blushing at the all too suggestive winks and actions he was given.

'Tatsumi...I don't know how to handle all those girls!' right now Green wished he had that same calm smile like Tatsumi as he skillfully served the customers while handling the suggestive tones of the girls.

Well, with Tatsumi he wasn't even close to blushing at all having been teased plenty of times by Leone and Chelsea and those 2 had been far more daring, a bit of licking the spoons, winks, slightly sultry tones, and what else there was didn't even deter him to Leone pulling him and pushing him into her chest, and Chelsea is a bit more shameless roaming her hands all over his body when nobody looked. Oh, not to forget that how he did this all so smoothly is that he worked in Lubbock's bookshop and having swallowed some of Susanoo's core...yeah, that still felt wrong to say even in his mind.

Well, thanks to Susanoo he skillfully was able to do his job well like he had done it for years as the core did alter his body a bit, by triggering the Tyrant's body it modified his body to be even stronger and more agile and memories that gave the messages of experience through helped too.

'I hate this already!' complained Poney as she skillfully gutted another fish before being handed a rare breed of fish that was a lot of money worth, and the Head Chef praising her for being a natural talent as gutting the fish up which didn't feel satisfactory at all for a girl to know she was good at cutting fish. The Kitchen was filled with too many passionate chefs that she was sure no information could be given to her, how she could make all the Chefs out as passionate was because they literally burned up with imaginary fire too easily. 'Najasho won't fall for a girl like me...'

Poney thought about Najasho and how his usual stoic and stern face always made her heart flutter and whenever his hair got so long, he may look like a girl to others but to her the long hair made Najasho look more mystic and elusive, like one of those elves in the stories that are generally described with long flowing hair and sharp ears. While he lacks the sharp ears the hair was just so beautiful like it was made of a combination of silk and gold weaved together, how she desperately wanted to touch it and bury her face in it as his self-made shampoo smelled so nice.

'He won't like you!'

If only she could be more strict and quicker at understanding motives and meanings and look serious too, she guessed that Najasho liked a girl who was as smart as him and good at making decisions, probably being able to speak her mind too as whenever she wanted to ask about talking with him. The last one because whenever she gathered all her courage it seemed to vanish the instant she wanted to tell him, and even if she managed to tell him she was sure that he would say that he didn't see her that way.

Probably more as a little sister that needed his attention and she wished she had been gifted in areas like her friends, she was very envious of how well-developed the other girls were even Kurome was growing in certain areas she wanted to grow. She sighed and continued gutting the fish not allowing herself to dwell any longer on the subject whether Najasho would accept her love or not, even if he didn't accept she would not let it hinder their comradeship nor let it affect the future missions.

"Gut this fish next-!"

A slight gust was felt by the Head Chef and the other chefs and turned around to see Poney having waved her arm a single time, a few seconds passed the Koga Tuna was perfectly cut up into pieces.

"And done!" finished Tsukushi the wash within record time acting her job as the maid of the Viceroy's castle household while earning money, this wasn't her 1st time doing the laundry as she had been naturally good at doing chores nor did she ever complain about doing it. It left the other maids simply flabbergasted how quick she finished the laundry and how she carried it all by herself, while the attention of the maids was taken it allowed the other 2 maids to search around the castle.

'Not getting anything here,' thought Cornelia walking through the interiors of the castle with a broom while searching for the office of the Viceroy, Kurome, on the other hand, was looking through the other rooms and checking if there was anything found there while taking candy away when she found a pot of it.

"Hey, girl! Come over here!" shouted one of the officers of the castle making Tsukushi come over to him as he led her to a hallway. "You know there is another way for you to earn more money, you know?"

Tsukushi had a sense of foreboding as she had the feeling of what the man would say to her.

"If you serve me with that nice rack of yours-!" the officer didn't get to finish his sentence as Tsukushi as a knife embedded itself into the stone wall next to him, Tsukushi smiled at him but the smile was anything but nice or friendly as a dark purple mist oozed out of her. Luckily the knife wasn't a part of her equipment like Prometheus as the Viceroy allowed the maids to carry combat knives to defend themselves if any males tried something funny, it made her like the Viceroy much more and continued to smile as the officer ran away with his tail between his legs.

"No man is allowed to touch me as these belong to him!" whispered Tsukushi as she returned to her work as a maid.

"So, in the end, no one has gotten any information about the Viceroy's schedule," concluded Najasho and he didn't sight feeling relieved that they probably didn't have to kill the Viceroy, it would put some punishment on them but he didn't know if he could do it and wanted to ask Tatsumi one more time about it.

"Nothing here...except for men leering at me again!" pouted Tsukushi that she'd gotten harassed again for her chest that was even bigger than that of Cornelia's, and while she pouted at having too big breasts for her age Poney glared from the corner of her eyes enviously of the giant orbs.

"Same here, there wasn't anything in his office that just proves how careful and well-orchestrated he is," added Cornelia not having found anything in the Viceroy's office, Kurome's answer was the same that she didn't find anything in the other rooms that was worthwhile to take with her.

"Got nothing here either...except for smelling like fish!" complained Poney smelling still faint whiffs of the Koga Tuna she had been cutting for hours, however, the next thing Najasho said baffled her and made her day a bit better as she was told that once she takes a shower she can use his shampoo.

"Green, Tatsumi,"

"Only a small thing and that is that the Viceroy cooks his food by himself so poisoning his food doesn't work," told Green scratching down on the option to kill the Viceroy through food poisoning.

"And where is Akame?" asked Najasho.

"She's working over hours," replied Poney who smirked in amusement. "Because she had been caught eating the food in the kitchen,"

Najasho and Cornelia sighed that Akame got herself in trouble again for eating too much food while Kurome stayed silent, while she preferred sweets it was still not too different from eating much more than her body said.

"I didn't eat it all, okay, and it looked delicious!" argued Akame as she came into the room.

"Probably only the meat and fish...and perhaps also still eaten raw too," sighed Cornelia as she had hit right where it counts as Akame slightly stiffened at that, walking over to her little sister-figure she grabbed her by the head and was ready to give another lecture to her, even with an amazing resistance against poison food poisoning was far different.

"Uhm!? I-I have information about the Viceroy!" blurted Akame out through her fear of hearing another lecture of Cornelia that reminded her of her mom when she got angry once. Luck was on her side as it only took a few seconds which lasted for Akame like hours before Cornelia let go of her and sat down, now Akame was able to give the information that the Viceroy planned this night to go hunting the local Danger-Beasts the Ragurou-Bambi, but doing so he had several hired assassins guarding him along with his personal guard.

Viceroy Ragiri was smart as he had hired a well-known Assassin group of the West known as the Desert Scoprions which could not be taken lightly, according to the Secret Hitman book Tatsumi purchased from the Black Market and promising that he won't sell it, putting this signature on a contract, leaving contacts of who he was affiliated with. Let's just say Freya's name wasn't to be underestimated as the Red Light District also reached that place, and that if you can get her trust on your side it was easy to get certain things.

The Desert Scorpions was an Assassin Group that was spread across the whole West that took missions from anyone who wanted someone dead or is guarded, with the Empire their demand has increased and prices surprisingly low too. It was more that they felt the need to help their country and their people rather then money as the bosses themselves have a close community, not that they didn't get anything in return as they hid the assassins in the village and took care of their basic needs and maintenance. The Assassin Group Book provided a lot of information and quite specifically too at what they specialized in, also High-Ranking Assassins for hire but not their real names but their given nicknames, achievements written on it too and everything else.

But aside from the known group it was also especially known for their incredible senses to navigate throughout the wastelands of the West, no need for a compass for them as they are useless in the Deserts that had often Meteor rains that disturbed the waves that the compass senses.

"The Desert Scorpions...sneaking around them won't be easy," commented Green.

"The one who has the most chance to take a shot at the Viceroy is Tsukushi, Tatsumi's Vassal Arm would be far too bright to be even used," Najasho looked at Tsukushi who nodded that she would be ready to take the shot on.

"Then it is good this finished in time," said Tatsumi getting a small box out of his bag and handed it to Tsukushi. "Since Prometheus still makes a lot of noise I have tried to make some additional parts for you,"

Tsukushi opened the box and saw all the different parts in the small box and found a silencer, a scope, weird-looking bullets, a compass, a flashlight, a laser pointer, and some other things you would see in a pistol set.

"These attachments are made of the strongest and most durable Danger-Beast skin and organs and whatnot I bought and hunted, while it may not be the same material Prometheus is made of it is," explained Tatsumi as he had prepared for almost everyone some items and while he admitted he was very good with making Imperial Arms, he did require concentration full-time to create weapons that bond well with a Vassal Arm and that it isn't a permanent attachment to it.

=Continuous Concentration: Parallel Mind.

-An Imperial Arm in the form of a battle crown that allows the mind to be separated and while it lacks offensive abilities it's power is great for commanding Armies. It can split the mind apart in 4 allowing procession of information being read, hearing the people talk and take actions, do multitasking, and various other things too.

=Trump Card:

-Soul Separation: Is able to split a part of his mind and soul combined out of his body that can immediately oversee the battle and sight is shared with the other minds, it is intractable and even if it was tracked in some way destroying it would have no meaning as the scattered pieces return to the body.

=Weakness: Like Eyes of Procession: Mercury is isn't suited for direct combat nor long-ranged combat but it is great for commanding armies all by yourself.

This one had been particularly hard to make as it required some help of his masters to make this and they found it in return such a masterpiece they halved their costs, some wanted to even buy it and he had almost considered it but decided against it and used another Imperial Arm to erase it from their memories. The materials required to make had been from Danger-Beasts from the mysterious East part of the world since they are more related to mystical powers, the Tyrant had visited the place but left it after staying for a short period of time as the Danger-Beasts gave it a slightly hard time to hunt.

Shambhala, Shamshir, Crosstails, Murasame, and Yatsufusa were all made of Danger-Beasts that originated from the Eastern Part of the World itself, and all of their powers were straight-up terrifying and tricky to handle. The only people that could handle that all were people who aren't quickly taken back or with a lot of experience, Esdeath had shown that but that couldn't be counted as Murasame was tricky to handle but easy to avoid with pure skill.

"For the others, I have something else, Najasho I have for you some special potions that allow you to handle your fatigue better, a nice minty flavor is added to it," said Tatsumi and handed it to Najasho and opened the leather pouch that had the colors of his outfit, 5 thin bottles with a clear blue liquid were filled to the cap. Najasho then rose his eyebrow as there was a note to it and took it and read it and a blush threatened to cover his face as he read the contents of the note, and tucked it back in and glared for a second at Tatsumi who looked very innocent.

"Cornelia, I have for you spikes for your Gauntlet, a pressure watch, poison that can be added to your Gauntlet, and as of last a small hidden blade device that can inject poison," and Cornelia got her equipment and saw that the spikes had very tiny hooks added to it to tug on the flesh of opponent, a pressure watch to see how strong the opponent is if she planned to block, 3 thin bottles with clear green liquid, and something that looked like a knife switch made of leather and metal.

"Poney, for you I made some new boots made of a durable Danger-Beast which leather is very light yet incredible tough that bullets, arrows, nor spikes can pierce it, furthermore the boots allow you not to feel pain from any attacks and there are spikes you can add, poison is added too," Poney's box contained 2 leather boots that were colored in a mix of blue and brown and the insides felt very nice and comfortable yet firm. "It also contains an environment camouflaging meaning some enemies are in for a nasty surprise,"

"Green, I didn't know what I could add for you so I have some special glasses that see through smoke, smoke pellets, filtering mask, poison pellets, and various other pellets," handing his pouch to him Green nodded knowing that his Vassal Arm moved way too wild and too unpredictable Tatsumi couldn't exactly make something, something that could improve his Vassal Arm was a bit hard to do.

"Kurome, you pretty much ave only standard from pellets like Green's and the breathing mask too, also additional knives in case you need to shake off some enemies," the box had what it contained also a breathing mask and pellets like Green's did.

For himself, he had only a small modifier for his Vassal Arm as it only shot beams of energy similar to Pumpkin although without the charging power when in a pinch, and the reload was also bad but the energy wasn't wasted and simply solidified when it was switched to the Energy Blade form, the original name was changed as he felt not wanting to confront some people.

"Is it wrong for me to feel that I want to make the mission go wrong?" asked Green not really wanting to kill someone beneficial and kind as the Viceroy who was doing dangerous actions against the Empire.

He was met with everyone shaking their heads that it wasn't wrong to feel like that at all.

"Your not wrong that you want this mission to fail...if we only could contact the Sabatini Group then perhaps we could've avoided this," the Sabatini Group was back with the Revolutionary Army to lay low and to make sure they stay in the Empire's eyes as dead and not alive, while Sabatini was allowed to leave for missions his team wasn't as the last piece of information they have been given is that they became trainers.

"Tatsumi...even if we do this won't this cause mistrust in the Revolutionary Army!? Won't we then be seen as enemies of them as they will send assassins after us if we kill the Viceroy," asked Cornelia worried about their current relationship knowing the Revolutionary Army was still wary of them, the Sabatini Group might be Avery influential group in them but even that could go so far.

"...Then we get stronger and stronger than we can shrug off enemies like them too if there were ones who went rogue and tried to kill us we just have to be stronger," he would make sure of it and he would craft more weapons for everyone here to keep them safe, this wasn't just about Akame alone anymore but about the whole group. Years spending with them made him remember how Night Raid was and how the group could've easily befriended them, all of them their own unique quirks and habits and while the boy named Guy wasn't in it he would see him befriend Lubbock well. All of them became great friends and no longer was it Akame alone that he wanted to protect and if something went wrong he would prevent it, looking down at his hands he gripped them and balled them up as he remembered something else.

That he might have to use the Imperial Arms he had made that was far too dangerous to be ever used.

"...I have an idea!"

"Where are they! The Ragurou-Bambi!" shouted Viceroy Ragiri a bit irritated that the rare Danger-Beasts in his territory weren't in his sight, the Viceroy was escorted by his guards and the Desert Scorpion Assassins guarding him.

"I'm sorry, sir, I was sure that the reports told me that they would be here!" apologized the Secretary as he went through shuffling the few papers he had been given, the ones that told him where the Ragurou-Bambi whereas this was a win-win situation for the Viceroy and the people of Ragurou too. The Viceroy got to hunt and get the enjoy the bounty and satisfaction of the hunt, and he would sell some of them to earn more money and donate it to the Revolutionary Army and certainly the secretary didn't want to fail at that.

It was as told as the Viceroy had hired the Desert Scorpions who were easy to recognize by their choice of clothing, clothing that provided plenty of space for the body to breath and catches air and not tightly stuck to the skin. Might be useful for the Deserts but an absolute marking to be targeted and get killed signaling to the group they were newbies, if they were truly experienced then they should wear clothing that suited Ragurou and make it less obvious that they aren't from here.

Tsukushi was looking from her place high up in the trees with a clear view on the Viceroy and licked her lips as she saw her target in distress, aiming Prometheus at the head of the Viceroy she pulled the trigger and the Splitter Bullet was fired.

Some of the Desert Scorpions heard a sound that certainly didn't belong to the forest and before they could react the Viceroy fell dead on the ground, a bullet hole through his head alarming al soldiers as they checked where it came from and dashed into the direction where the bullet was shot. The Desert Scorpions narrowed their eyes and dashed off into the opposite direction, while unknowingly watched by someone else as Gozuki far up in a tree drinking was watching the fight.

None of the Guards stood a chance as they were all decimated and a bright light came and burned them all into dust.

"Not, bad, well the time you took was a bit more then I expected but still a good job," said Gozuki taking another swig of his cantine. "The Viceroy is eliminated and even though the body is gone I have seen it, nobody can survive a bullet tearing through your skull and scattering your brain apart,"

With that Gozuki concluded the mission completed and left with the group in tow as they left Ragurou with the Viceroy dead, the group looked one more time back before returning to following Gozuki.

"Also, don't expect the next mission to go this easy as there are far more difficult tasks ahead," said Gozuki suddenly startling some of them. "They may be hard but they will all be very rewarding and it is for the peace of the Empire,"

'Yeah, for people like you!' scowled Tatsumi internally being careful not to be too close to Gozuki having discovered he was one of the 4 Rakshata and his senses were supercharged, he made sure not glare at all into any direction being worried that there was something he didn't know about them. He may have fought Suzuka but that was only for a short period of time and didn't have the time to analyze what she was capable of, other than being able to fold herself, extend her fingernails, and take heavy damage.

To think he would be soon working with one of the people he had tried to kill.

Oh, by the way, the Viceroy wasn't killed at all but [Mercury] was used to hypnotize Gozuki into seeing the Viceroy killed as Tatsumi did know one thing at least, that their senses were their weakness but also that their mind wasn't enhanced so no problem there. They warned the Viceroy who had left a long time ago with the Desert Scorpions and the Guards wearing civilian clothing, the ones killed were nothing but officers who were starting to taste the corruption of the Empire and hypnotized to be the puppets.

The Viceroy was saved and now send to the Revolutionary Army to aid their battle along with all the money he had spared up, but this wasn't going to be easy as the Viceroy may have been saved but the others wouldn't be that lucky to be spared from death.

'I can't save everyone at all...but I just want to keep them safe and alive,' thought Tatsumi as he walked back with the group to home currently was and with his new family too.

Alrain: I need to make more Imperial Arms and not just the most convenient ones for situations as I don't like that at all, so this time I am planning to use more elements in this story like adding more mercenary people and the like. Soon the Oreburg and Tomb Arc are coming and I also have to tell you that the Danmachi fanfiction I am going to write in Necros' name will be slightly changed.