"Why does this always happen to me!?" A young boy around 12 years of age cried out as he swiftly jumped over a 2 meter tall tiger-like danger beast before swiftly dodging a strike from a smaller yet faster wolf-like danger beast.

"First I get lost while hunting and then I run in a bunch of danger beasts, again!" he the boy shouted out continuing to evade the Danger beasts' attacks in an almost casual manner.

The boy appeared to be about average height for his age with brown hair and green eyes. The only notable things about him that differentiated him from other children his age was his abnormally muscular build and the blade strapped on his back. This boy's name was Tatsumi.

"Okay that's enough!" the boy yelled drawing his sword and dashing forward. The boy then proceeded to cut down both danger beasts in around 3 seconds flat his movements nothing but a blur to the untrained eye.

The boy was about to sheathe his blade when he suddenly tensed before spinning around. "Shit" he mumbled "I've got to stop shouting so loudly while I'm out here." He finished still staring at the mob of several dozen danger beasts slowly prowling towards him.

-2 hours later

"Okay seriously!" the boy shouted "that had better be that last of them!" his voice echoing through the vast snowy forest surrounding him

Tatsumi had perfectly good reason for complaining as it happens, mostly that over the course of the last 2 hours he had killed around 300 danger beasts with absolutely no breaks and as such was exhausted to the extent that he had, once again, forgotten to stop yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Oh shit" mumbled realizing his mistake and quickly covering his mouth and standing completely still hoping that he had killed all of the danger beasts in the surrounding area.

His hopes were promptly shattered by the sound of howling piecing the night

"aaahh, damn it." Tatsumi moaned as he cried anime tears.

-2 months later

"I'm back!" Tatsumi yelled cheerily as he walked into the village a large danger beast slung over his shoulder.

"Tatsumi! You're alright!" a number of voices yelled as several people came out of the house

Tatsumi smiled and was about to speak when suddenly he was smacked harshly on the top of his head "You're back? You're Back!? That's all you have to say for yourself? Where the hell have you been! It's been two months since you went missing!" a gruff voice yelled at him.

Looking up Tatsumi saw the face of his teacher, a retired soldier from the Imperial Army, glaring at him fiercely.

"Well? What do you have to say for yourself brat?" The veteran asked Tatsumi a tick mark clearly visible on his forehead.

In response Tatsumi mumbled something unintelligible resulting in the old soldier smacking him on the top of the head "Speak up"

Tatsumi swallowed and looked up appearing nervous "I got lost." He admitted in a sheepish voice

The collection of villagers who had come out to see what the commotion was about simultaneously face planted at the boy's response.

"You…" Tatsumi's teacher spoke looking about an inch away from having an aneurism "...got lost?"

"Yep" Tatsumi agreed cheerfully "At first I kind of knew where I was but then I kept getting attacked by hordes of danger beasts and then I got completely lost so I just spent the last 2 months surviving in the wilderness and fighting off danger beasts" the boy said excitably "I'm pretty sure I got a bunch stronger Sensei! I bet I could beat you now, no problem!"

"Oh really well then, why don't we spar then that way I can beat the shi- test your abilities" the ex-soldier spoke the tick mark on his forehead pulsing visibly.

Tatsumi grinned widely "Sure!"

-Ten minutes later-

Tatsumi gripped his wooden sword calmly staring down his teacher who was wielding a similar mock weapon. "Let's go sensei, I'm going to kick your ass!" the boy said charging forward as fast as he could.

The old soldiers eyes widened as Tatsumi closed in on him with ridiculous speed 'what!? his speed has increased nearly two fold since I last saw him!' swiftly moving his blade the old soldier deftly blocked Tatsumi's attack his arms shaking slightly at the force behind the blow 'and his strength has gone up a ridiculous amount as well' the soldier diverted Tatsumi's blow before counter attacking

"What's the matter sensei, you look surprised!" Tatsumi said confidently "I told you I got a lot stronger"

A tick mark appeared on the soldiers forehead 'It shouldn't be physically possible for anyone to increase their overall combat strength so much in two months let alone someone at his age' despite thinking this he roared out "don't get overconfident brat!" while charging forward and proceeding to swing his wooden blade in increasingly complex combos. 'while he's probably only a little bit slower than me I still have a decent strength advantage as well as one in experience, while he may have plenty of practice killing danger beasts the amount of experience he has fighting human opponents is considerably less.' The ex-soldier then frowned as a though crossed his mind 'although for how much longer will that last advantage last? The only reason he isn't nearly as experienced as me is because our fights usually include me beating the stuffing out of him to keep his ego down, now that he can fight me relatively equally that stupidly fast adaptive ability will probably kick in.'

In their village Tatsumi was and had almost always been the strongest of his generation even when compared to boys currently pushing into their late teenage years. The primary reason for this was that Tatsumi had shown an uncanny ability to rapidly adapt to the movements and technique of an opponent to the extent that unless his opponent was considerably stronger and or faster than him he could adapt to fight them blow for blow even if they were considerably more skilled than him initially. On top of that Tatsumi physical capabilities could be called insane possessing strength that could be called frankly inhuman only the fact that he was a twelve year old keeping him at a level his teacher could deal with.

Despite his insane physical prowess he could not by any means be called buff possessing at most a slightly above average physique for his age. This was of course mind boggling as his teacher was somewhat afraid at how strong he would be by the point he actually attained a build of that level.

The ex-soldier had no doubt that the young boy had near limitless potential easily displaying high-general class potential to anyone with a sharp enough eye to see it. Prior to his 2 month disappearance Tatsumi was easily at low captain class combat power, but now? Tatsumi's combat prowess was pushing into high captain class just a bit lower than his teacher had been prior to leaving the army.

The ex-soldier knew he had been an exceptional soldier back in his army days, short of a teigu wielder barely anyone in the Imperial army could have defeated him. He had even been tested for compatibility with a few of the spare teigu that were currently not in use but alas none of those available had been suitable for him. And although one might have popped up later that he could use he instead chose to retire at the earliest possible moment having grown tired and disgusted at the increasing corruption and cruelty present in the capitol.

Although his skills had initially started to decay after leaving the army he had soon found reason to get back into practice and even surpassing his old limits and that reason was standing right in front of him. 4 years ago about a year after he had moved into the village danger beast activity had started to increase in the area and as such the village elder had requested that he train some of the adults and children in the village to defend themselves in the event of an attack. He had agreed rather easily, while he himself could easily slay all the danger beasts attacking the village he couldn't do it instantly and the damage they could cause before he could finish them all off could potentially cripple the village.

The ex-soldier had selected several of the children and adults in the village to be trained in combat. The children of course wouldn't be expected to fight in actual battles until they were at least 15 but it was good to train them to defend themselves and it was then that he had seen the jewel hiding in the midst of the village. Unlike almost all the others who he had selected to be trained a single young boy with green eyes had volunteered to learn how to fight. This young boy as you would guess was Tatsumi.

He had been found abandoned in the woods around 6 years before that (10 years before present day) in a clearing that stank of blood. It had been rather easy to put together a good guess of what had happened based on what was left behind. The most likely situation was that his family had been traveling through the area when they were attacked by danger beasts and in an attempt to save their child they had hidden him as best they could before attracting the attention of the danger beasts and luring them away. The few men in the village trained to fight at the time had followed the path left behind as best they could to a clearing a few miles away filled with blood, torn fabric and little else, whoever had been there was doubtlessly dead by this point.

It was a sad, but not uncommon, occurrence in the dangerous world they lived in and the only mysterious aspect of this was the visible scar right over Tatsumi's heart and the fact that none of the danger beasts had smelled him in the clearing, or if they had, chosen to ignore him and go after whoever he had been with.

The people of the village had taken the young boy in and collectively raised him among themselves; he had grown up to be a kind boy who, after becoming aware of the fact that the village had raised him despite already difficult times, had made great efforts to help out whenever possible. It was evident that the boy thought that by becoming strong he could protect the village and help repay the debt he felt he had to them, despite their numerous attempts to convince him that he didn't need to pay them back.

Seeing the fire in his eyes the ex-soldier had quickly accepted his request to be trained believing that even if he had little skill his determination would make up for it enough that something like killing danger beasts in self-defense would be simple enough. Incidentally he was only half-right in that thought, had Tatsumi possessed little to no skill then the determination he had shown would have been more than enough to turn him into a decent soldier but Tatsumi was far from unskilled.

6 months, that was the amount of time it took Tatsumi to reach the level of the average soldier in the imperial army. In 6 months, as an 8 and a half year old Tatsumi had become stronger than about 95% of people would get in their entire life. That was about when the ex-soldier had begun training again, shaking off the rust and pushing himself beyond his limits.

It wasn't done out of something petty like jealousy, no after those first 6 months, hell after the first 6 weeks, the veteran had known Tatsumi would become a warrior of the highest caliber. Somehow he, someone who could never compare to someone like Grand General Budo, or anyone who wielded a teigu had been given the chance to be the first teacher this boy would have. This boy who he believed, no, who he knew would go farther than anyone else before him.

His old teacher had once told him that the greatest thing any fighter could do was pass on his knowledge and skill to the next generation. He had of course been a hard headed brat at the time and had argued that his own skill and ability would be the stuff of legends and he wouldn't have time to take on a student. His teacher had directly after this rather arrogant statement simply laughed and told him that passing on your skills is much more meaningful as it showed that not only were you skilled enough to survive and learn on the battlefield but you came out of it without breaking.

He had completely forgotten of this until after he had begun teaching Tatsumi and finally at that moment he had realized what his sensei had meant at the time. Over those six months he had become convinced that rather than being remembered for what he had done in his time in the army he would be known as the man who had trained a legend, and while when he was younger he may have been disappointed by this the him now could think of no better way to be remembered.

Which brings us back to the reason he had trained and trained himself back to his old level and beyond, the reason was this, the stronger he was the better he could teach Tatsumi. He broke past barrier after barrier for the singular purpose of helping Tatsumi break them just a little faster.

While he didn't neglect training the other adults and children who had been chosen to defend the village he always gave that little bit extra when training Tatsumi spending extra time training him after the others had already reached their limits and gone home to rest. The villagers of course noticed but were also aware of the reason why he spent more time on Tatsumi as even the least combat oriented of the villagers had quickly seen the boy's immense potential.

His efforts had paid off in rather short order as well, when Tatsumi had been ten a disease had spread through the village that, while nothing fatal, had left a large portion of the villager bedridden the ex-soldier included and, as if smelling their weakness, danger beasts had attacked. With the majority of the sick and wounded moved into the town hall to be looked over by the 20 or so people who had not grown ill and almost all of those with any combat experience too sick to fight they made a rather juicy target for the various monstrosities.

Standing in their way was a single boy who stared down dozens of danger beasts fearlessly as they approached hungrily. As he had been unconscious the old soldier hadn't had the fortune to witness Tatsumi's fight but from what he had been told it had been an amazing display. The boy had nearly died defeating the attacking danger beasts and had been bedridden for about a week after that but he had still beaten them back saving the village. And that was another thing, the wounds he received should have taken a month to heal but instead Tatsumi was chomping at the bit get back training within 6 days his wounds almost fully healed.

When he was 11 he had begun going on hunts coming back with various edible danger beasts in order to help feed the village in response to the increased taxes and price of food caused by the corruption in the capital. The boy was without a doubt the closest thing to a hero this small town had ever had and none of residents wanted him to leave although all of them knew that for his sake he eventually would have to. The reason of course is a matter of too big a fish in too small of a pond. While the danger beasts in this area were numerous and relatively powerful they would likely become the rough equivalent of training dummies to Tatsumi and there is only so much you could do with an opponent that can't hit back.

While at first Tatsumi had intended to join the imperial army in order to earn money to support the village the ex-soldier had quickly dissuaded him of the thought, telling him of the rising corruption that lay waiting just beyond the gates to the Capitol. Directly after this Tatsumi had begun to train even harder stating that he was going to get stronger and join the Revolutionary army to free the country from the corruption that now plagued it.

Shaking himself out of his reflections he reacted as Tatsumi struck out again with his wooden blade the old soldier swiftly dodging to the side stabbing his wooden sword directly at Tatsumi who barely managed to dodge. Round after round the veteran felt his advantage slipping away as Tatsumi, who could now keep up with him physically, began to dissect his technique learning his weak points whilst covering his own just as swiftly.

Unfortunately for Tatsumi his success made him overconfident, understandable for a 12 year old, but none the less the reason for his defeat. The boy swung in for an attack at a perceived weak point only for his blade to be smacked aside by his teacher's sword which then swiftly landed a sharp smack on Tatsumi's head.

Dropping his blade and clutching his head Tatsumi cried "Ouch! Why do you always whack me so hard with that thing?"

"To try and deflated that head of yours and keep your irrepressible ego in check you overconfident brat" the former soldier stated gruffly as he attempted to hide just how close that fight had really been.

The boy pouted slightly before straightening up "If I can't beat you yet then I'll just train more until I can" the boy said determination sparking in his eyes "what are we practicing today?"

Internally the veteran groaned, this was another notable point about Tatsumi: he almost never got tired, he could take hour after hour of training and still be ready for more after a few minutes rest, It was insane. Between his absurd speed and strength compounded by his physical endurance and apparent healing factor the Veteran half wondered if the kid was part danger beast.

"alright brat, you've gotten quite a bit faster and noticeably stronger but let's see if we can push that a little further" the veteran spoke leading Tatsumi into his forge "I had just finished making this up before you went on your little two month vacation" he said indicating a pair of what appeared to be leg weights "Their made of rare Oroka omoi metal which is only found in a small part of the empire but is still extremely cheap"

"Why?" Tatsumi asked confused

"Simple" the grizzled veteran replied "because it's almost completely fucking useless" he said sagely "its weaker than iron, brittle, and it's stupidly difficult to forge properly."

Tatsumi sweat dropped "then why did you make me something out of it then?" the boy asked confused

"Because of its last attribute" the veteran said lazily "it's stupidly heavy; those two leg weights there weight around 200 pounds, each. Before you say anything else think of this, if you can run around at a fast speed with those on you'll increase your speed without them noticeably. No to mention it'll help you practice silently landing from the air; an additional 400 pounds should make that a lot harder. "

Tatsumi gulped lightly before nodding "let's get to it then, I guess."

-4 years later-

A boy around the age of 16 stood at the front of his village looking back at what had been his home for 14 years of his life for the last time before he left. Hopefully he would be able to return at some date but there was no guarantee he would be that lucky, he was after all going to join a revolution against a thousand year old super power. He had grown even stronger to the point where if unrestricted he could beat his teacher in an instant although he rarely fought without some form of restriction.

Despite his complaints his teacher had forced him to leave behind his training weights, which now weighted around 1000 pounds each, behind due to the fact that his teacher felt he would accidentally get into a fight with someone really strong and then forget he had the weights on and get himself killed because he had forgotten to remove them. His teacher had suggested that he, rather than head directly to the revolutionary army and requesting to join, should head to the capitol and kill off some corrupt officials, soldiers, and or nobles in order to gain their attention so they would come to him. His teacher said that they would be less suspicious of him than if he had just walked up and asked to join as it's not every day you run into a 16 year old with general level skills who still had tons of room to grow.

By his teachers advice it would be best if he seemed slightly hesitant in joining them as well as then they wouldn't ask a bunch of annoying questions that would get in the way of Tatsumi kicking imperial ass. His teacher also told him to try and steal a teigu from the capitol if he could citing that if he could obtain a powerful enough teigu and become proficient in it then no one short of Grand General Budo or General Esdeath would be capable of defeating him unless he got overconfident and/or slacked on his training.

Taking a last look at his village Tatsumi set off towards the capital, his eyes burning in determination. 'I'll destroy the corruption ruining this country' he thought resolutely 'for my village, my friends, and everyone else that suffers due to the greed of others. No matter what happens, I won't back down!'

-3 weeks later-

A cloaked figure stared up at the massive walls "I made it" he spoke softly closing his eyes for a moment before they snapped open a feral grin stretching across his face. The figure began walking towards the massive gates that were the entrance to the capitol city of the empire flicking down his hood to prevent himself from looking suspicious he calmly passed through the gates the guards only giving him a cursory glance before dismissing him as another country bumpkin who probably wouldn't even last a week.

Tatsumi kept walking glancing up at the rapidly darkening skies "it's almost night I guess I should…" the boy froze suddenly "oh shit, where the hell am I going to stay tonight?"

-Several hours later-

Tatsumi was sitting against a wall on the side of the road looking generally pitiful and depressed, despite having plenty of money he had been incapable of finding a hotel to sleep in and as a result was going to have to sleep on the streets.

As Tatsumi sat brooding on the side of a street a fancy looking carriage pulled up as a girl around his age got out and approached him a guard at her side. "Are you alright" the girl said gently causing Tatsumi

Tatsumi looked up at her his expression relaxed having sensed her approach "ah yeah I'm fine" he laughed lightly "despite having enough money I couldn't manage to find a hotel to actually sleep in."

The girl giggle lightly "My name is Aria, what about you?" she asked kindly

"Tatsumi" he replied easily smiling lightly

"Well Tatsumi why don't you stay the night at my mansion? It would be awfully cruel of me to leave someone freezing on the side of the road after all." The now identified Aria continued kindly

Tatsumi smiled before replying "I wouldn't want to impose" he said " I've been in harsher conditions that his before" he explained easily "I once survived on my own in the wilderness for 2 months when I was younger so this'll be no problem for me" he reassured the girl.

At this she frowned slightly "now that won't do, I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight if I knew I had left someone to freeze out in the cold, even if they can handle it."

The guard next to the girl laughed "you might as well give it up kid, when Miss Aria sets her mind on helping someone there's no dissuading her" he said smiling cheerily.

Tatsumi looked at both a then a light smile on his face 'somethings off about this, no matter how I look at it' his smile grew "well I guess I won't refuse your charity then" he replied gratefully 'if it's a trap better I set it off rather than someone less prepared or unable to defend themselves'

-Later-

"Huah" Tatsumi sighed contently "that was delicious thanks again" he said to the family of 3 that had just fed him 'and thank you sensei for constantly poisoning my meals so I would gain immunity to various commonly used poisons.'

Stretching and giving an exaggerated yawn Tatsumi spoke out "I'm sorry but It appears the last 3 weeks of travel are catching up to me, I'm feeling quite tired at the moment" he said apologetically

"That's no problem dear," Aria's mother spoke kindly "I'll have one of the guards lead you to one of the guest bedrooms" she smiled at him gently

Tatsumi smiled back "I'd like to thank all of you again for this." He said 'or I would if I wasn't like 90% sure that your all psychopaths '

"and I'll say it again" Aria's father spoke in turn "think nothing of it, we have more than enough for ourselves and it would be greedy and narrow minded it we didn't share where we can." He said grinning at Tatsumi.

One of the guards then led Tatsumi away to one of the guest bedroom before leaving. Tatsumi turned off the lights and sat in a shadowed corner behind a dresser his sword unsheathed in his lap 'this is going to be a long night'

-a few hours later

"Yup, total pain in the ass." Tatsumi spoke as he wiped the blood off his blade "well that's one family of corrupted nobles dead and gone, fucking sadists." He grumbled

About an hour and a half after they had led him to the guest room three guards had come into his room and surrounded his bed which he had strategically stuffed pillows into to give it the appearance of someone sleeping in it.

"He sleeping like a log, lets tie him up and bring him down to the shed, lady Aria is getting impatient" one of the three guards had said which gave Tatsumi more than enough evidence to cut all three of them down before they could react before he had begun a slow almost lazy stroll to the shed the three had spoken of. Arriving he had opened the door casually his still bloody sword dripping steadily onto the ground

"It about time!" a voice I easily recognized as Aria's mother shouted "what are we paying you people for?"

At those words I stepped through the door and looked around as my eyes widened slightly at the horrific sight before my entire expression hardened. "Paying me?" I laughed coldly "besides a poisoned meal and a few false promises you haven't given me shit" I laughed harshly.

The family turned around their eyes widening in shock "wha-"

I laughed loudly drowning out his stunned outburst "I knew something was up about you people from the moment you approached me, I just played the naïve and ignorant bumpkin just to see what you all would do" I laughed louder "my old teacher made sure that none of those shitty second rate poisons you used would have any effect on me" he grin savagely "the wonders of the human body and all that."

The family looked shocked "k-kill him!" Aria's father yelled to their one remaining guard who brought a gun up and prepared to fire.

He never got the chance; the second he had begun to bring the gun up Tatsumi was already behind him as nearly a dozen deep cuts appeared all across the guard's body. He was dead before he hit the ground.

Tatsumi snorted derisively "you all are really unlucky you know that?" he grinned "or really it might just be karma or something"

"w-what the hell are you!?" Aria's father yelled shocked

"Me? Well I'm a lot of things, one of which is a general class fighter, possibly the youngest alive really" Tatsumi replied lazily "it would take 10,000 guards of this level to even stand a chance at killing me" he said mockingly.

"Bullshit, that's impossible!" Aria's father spoke again he voice filled with disbelief

Tatsumi laughed "if you think so, but either way I'm still more than strong enough to kill you three."

The Nobles' eyes widened as they realized he was right "now let's not be hasty" Aria's mother spoke out slowly "we're a very wealthy family you know, how about this" she continued "you could become our personal guard; we'd pay you quite handsomely"

Tatsumi laughed "fat chance, I'm afraid I can't condone torture like this" he spoke in an almost lazy tone "my teacher may have had me slaughter bandits in order to desensitize me to killing but I'd never sink so low."

The fear on the nobles' faces became even more evident

"No so fun when the boots on the other foot is it?" Tatsumi said quietly "any last words before I send you all on a one way trip to hell?"

In response the family began their last futile attempt at convincing him to spare them the father even going so far as to offer up his daughter to become Tatsumi's wife or even his plaything if he just let them live. This of course just disgusted Tatsumi even further

"Nothing meaningful, well time to die then." Having said that Tatsumi blurred forward and cut all three nobles down with a single lightning fast slash that bisected all three of them.

-A few minutes later-

Tatsumi began to walk back towards the main house whilst lazily cleaning his blade with a scrap of cloth he had taken off of the guard's uniform.

"Hmm I might as well see if I can find some money or a jewelry box or something valuable to send back to my village" he mused "it'd help them stay afloat till I finish purging the corruption in this rotten country." He kept speaking to himself before he froze and then whistled 'that's some killing intent, I guess this group of sadists had already signed their death warrant before I even got here'

Tatsumi snorted quietly before turning away from the house and increasing his pace moving towards the edge of the estate back towards town 'I really don't feel like dealing with this now so like all great people I'll put off my problems until later' he thought sagely.

-Pov switch (Leone)-

I stood alongside my comrades suspended on the strings that made up the primary function of Lubbock's teigu staring at the house I frowned before speaking "this is weird, even with my enhanced senses I can't sense anyone in the house."

The others looked at me also having failed to detect anyone

"This is weird it might be a tra-" I froze as the direction of the wind shifted and my hypersensitive nose was instantly able to detect a rather familiar smell.

"Blood" I whispered dashing off in the direction of the smell my fellow night raiders following my lead as we dashed through the woods coming to a clearing front of the shed that according to our Intel was the location where the targets would torture their victims. With my enhanced senses I easily noticed two trails of blood leading to and from the shed. I frowned lightly slipping swiftly through the open door and into the shed where I found something quite surprising.

While I had expected to find the tortured bodies of those that the nobles had targeted I did not expect to find said nobles cut into pieces along with a guard that looked like he'd lost a fight with a rather vicious cheese grater.

"Well damn, looks like someone got to them before we did." I spoke calmly moving further into the shed and allowing my fellow night raiders to enter as well. Stooping down I examined bodies.

"Whoever did this was probably quite strong" Lubbock mused.

"It doesn't take much skill to kill a second rate guard and 3 people who've never worked a day in their life Lubbock" Mine replied scathingly.

"No Lubbock is correct, based on the way they were killed you can indeed tell the killer was rather strong." Akame spoke in her usual monotone voice

"Huh?" Mine said

"You might not know it since you use a gun but it takes a rather large amount of physical strength to cut 3 people in half in a single swing, which based on the bloodstains the person who killed the nobles managed to do," Bulat said calmly dispelling Incursio while leaning down to examine one of the bodies "and this guard was cut around dozen times and based on the angles of the cuts it was done in a second or two at most as it would be difficult to get the cuts in the same angle if the guard had been on the ground and any one of those cuts would probably be fatal."

Lubbock nodded "I'd say whoever did this was a least a high captain class fighter probably higher." He mused before shrugging "well whatever someone did our job for us but that's no reason to stick around" he said moving towards the door "this place creeps me out."

The rest of the night raiders nodded as they followed him out of the shed.

Looking down at the blood trails just outside of the shed Akame spoke, directing a question at me. "Which one's freshest?"

Glancing at both blood trails I spoke after a moment "that one" I indicated one of the trails.

Akame nodded before Bulat spoke "We should check it out, even if the person who killed the nobles is only high captain class he could prove a useful ally if we can convince him to join the revolution"

In response I took off after the freshest blood trail which seemed at most 10 or 15 minutes old hoping to catch up quickly. The trail seemed to be heading back to the house before suddenly diverting and then ceasing. I frown for a moment before glancing around a looking in one of the bushes. "This guy's pretty thorough against most people just this would probably throw them off the trail," I grinned "but not me" thanks to my teigu my senses are far beyond that of any normal human. Reaching into the bush I pulled out a scrape of cloth covered in blood which I can instantly tell belonged to the nobles that had previously lived here.

Humans did not have good enough senses of smell to track anything without the use of their other senses and dogs would have been too confused by the blood mixed with the smell of the other guard on the rag to be able to discern which they should follow. My teigu on the other hand allows me to do it easily. Sniffing the air again I shoot of after the scent of the mysterious killer.

Reaching the edge of the estate I frown and turn to face my fellow night raiders "he went into town it seems, do we still want to pursue him or call it a day?" I asked Akame who frowned in response

"While we are short-handed if all of us went into town we'd likely be noticed and sending only a few of us to follow them would end badly if this is a trap." Akame spoke showing a bit of emotion "If it's someone sympathetic to our cause we can have some of our informants look into it to see if they can recruit him" she says calmly "let's call it a night for now."

-Pov switch (general)-

As Akame spoke those words the entire group disappeared into the shadows as they left to return to their base.

Meanwhile about 2 kilometers away Tatsumi was strolling through the streets having cleaned the majority of the blood off of his person.

-Pov switch (Tatsumi)-

'Well that's 3 corrupted nobles and 4 imperial guards down and with that I've probably dealt with about a 200,000th of the corruption in the capitol' he though blandly 'and on my first day too.' He continued his random train of thought.

Looking around for anyone suspicious Tatsumi, rather conveniently, saw a couple of people edging into an alley. Curious he glanced around before slipping into a different alley and scaling the wall to the roof before stealthily making his way across the roof tops towards the other alley. What he found was a rather stereotypical shady meeting in progress.

"Captain Ogre has already been paid for this month so we won't have to work about the guards." One of them said "He'll make sure the patrol routes are clear of our targets so all we need to do is break into the houses and kidnap the girls our boss wants for his, heh heh, collection." The shady figure said his voice turning perverse.

'Well… that guys definitely not going to live to see the morning' Tatsumi dead panned internally continuing to listen in on the conversation.

"Ha! Captain Ogre's great isn't he? Murder, theft, rape, kidnapping, whatever, as long as you pay him anything's allowed" another of the figures laughed oblivious to the fact that he had just signed his, and ogre's death warrants.

'Yup they're all dead, especially that Ogre guy, where ever the fuck he is' Tatsumi thought and without further ado jumped down and cut down the entire group nigh instantly.

Swiftly cleaning of his blade Tatsumi climbed back up the rooftops and set of in a random direction 'okay so they referred to him as captain ogre and mention how he had influence over the patrol routes for the imperial guard, so he's likely the guard captain for this district' Tatsumi grinned 'now that's a target worth my time'.

With those thoughts in mind Tatsumi disappeared into the night.

-end-

-Omake-

-Pov (Leone)-

"Blood" I whispered dashing off in the direction of the smell my fellow night raiders following my lead as we dashed through the woods coming to a clearing front of the shed that according to our intel was the location where the targets would torture their victims I my enhanced senses easily noticed two trails of blood leading to and from the shed. I frowned lightly slipping swiftly through the open door and into the shed where I found something quite surprising.

While I had expected to find the tortured bodies of those that the nobles had targeted I did not expect to find said nobles cut into pieces along with a guard that looked like he'd lost a fight with a rather vicious cheese grater.

"Well damn, looks like someone got to them before we did." I spoke calmly moving further into the shed and allowing my fellow night raiders to enter as well. Stooping down I examined bodies.

"Those bastards" Lubbock spoke looking stunned "They took our Jobs!" he yelled

"Yeah" Bulat shouted "dey took owr jobs!"

"dey terk owr jabs!" Akame yelled uncharacteristically

"dey terker er der!" I shouted in agreement

"der terker oer DERR!" Mine yelled savagely

-Pov switch (Tatsumi)-

Tatsumi suddenly frowned "why do I feel the something incredibly stupid just happened?" he murmured as he disappeared into the night.

-End-

And yes, that was a south park reference.