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"Welcome to the Velvet Room."

A young girl stood inside a small room. She had short chest length blonde hair with a fluffy, blue hair accessory. She wore a long sleeve white shirt with a blue bow tied at the collar under a blue dress with a black midsection. She wore it with white boots. To complete the look she also had big blue eyes.

Said eye color was light compared to the dark, velvet blue that was before her. But there was something very odd about the room's interior. In front of her were several rows of blue chairs facing forward, the front row being prevented from moving forward due to blue wooden fences propped up. There was a path that split up the chairs that led directly forward.

As she slowly walked forward, she took a look behind her to see the door she had come through with a stone frame and a brown door with a certain face she would never forget. The face was white on the left side while black on the right. That design looked so blank, yet so ominous at the same time in a way.

As she passed the fences, there were only three chairs to her right as well as her left. Both sections were behind blue tables. But to her farther right was a barrier of blue wood with two rows of a few chair with the back row being a bit taller than the front one. To her left sat another barrier of blue wood similar to the left. The only difference was that it was meant to seat only one person.

At the wall that was across from her was a giant podium with five chairs in a row facing her. The center held a golden gavel which was resting on a gold circle. To the right and left of the podium was a door, similar to the one that was behind her. The difference however were that the door on the left had the white face half only white the right had only the dark side of the face.

But what she really came here for was the table draped with a velvet blue tablecloth at the center of it all. There, a boy with dark blue hair unkempt at the front, blue eyes and a light build, being shorter than average. His bangs covered his right eye. What he wore could be described as a black school uniform unbuttoned accented with a loose black bow tie. A white collared shirt was worn under the uniform as he finished the look with a classic grey belt, black pants, and black shoes.

"This place may see between dream and reality, mind and matter." The boy continued as he was the one who had greeted the girl. He was sitting at the table already, a small deck of cards with a familiar face design on the back of them. "Now, I do believe there is no need to introduce yourself."

He gestured towards the table, allowing the girl to take a seat. Accepting the offer, the female slowly stepped forward until she reached the table. Pulling out the chair, she sat down on the soft cushioning that was provided by the seat. "It's nice to see you again, Mister Minato." The girl smiled politely with a small wave of her well manicured hand.

"As it is for you, Miss Aria." The boy now known as Minato nodded slowly. "Now… What is it that you desire to try and know?" He asked, taking the deck of cards by his side and began shuffling them. His fingers danced as they have done many times. Practice could be seen with such quick work.

He had seen the young girl many times already. Perhaps when he had just moved into the Capital of the Empire. He started this certain business because it seemed to be of a natural cause to him. The blonde girl was one of his first and most frequent customers, at least visiting him once a month. Though it would be for fortune telling, the girl would also ask to spend time together as her parents would be busy most of the time.

But a pair of hands interrupted his shuffling and thoughts.. Seeing his only hands clenched in the girl's grip, the boy looked over to the girl with curiosity. "Actually…" The girl trailed off, feeling a bit embarrassed that she had to interrupt one of her favorite's work. But she felt like she needed to do this herself. It was him that she needed help from after all. "I was wonder if… I could read my own fortune."

The curious gaze was still worn on the boys face. In the end, after a short period of silence, he let go of the deck and slid his hands out of her touch. Smiling thankfully, the girl got to work as she actually turned the cards around. She took great care of her she treated the objects, as if even the slightest wrong action would destroy the entire collection.

Finding her first card, she gently placed the card in front of her on the table with the top of it facing her. On the bottom it held a symbol of XIV with a design of four different shapes and different colors in their own private squares. "Temperance, inverted. Someone has taken a comfort in drink. From what does she see sully? What does she not wish to see?"

The boy only continued to watch the girl tell what she thought of the cards that she was placing in front of herself. He was interested to why she wanted to do this. If this was actually a way to express her request, he had no problem allowing her to do so. "Perhaps the many fools those are among the Empire?" He asked.

The girl gave an amused look before having her eyes widen in remembrance. "Ah, yes… the Fool." She continued, placing a card with a 0 with the bottom facing her. The picture was now a man with a bag attached to a stick that was over his shoulder and a dog was at their heel. "Someone has been led astray, continuing to follow down such a path."

"Not bad." The boy commented, leaning forward. "But, you have to make me believe it. I need to see it in your eyes." He added just the smallest smile, letting her know that he was making a small joke.

This time she smiled back as well, but it was also a bit sad. "I'll try to be better then." She replied, continuing to go through the deck. Next was a card with VI with a man silhouette on the left while a female silhouette was on the right. At the center above that was a heart. "The Lovers, a powerful relationship has led to a crossroad and needing to make a decision. But who does this relationship belong to, a daughter and her parents perhaps?" She asked before closing her eyes. "What is the name that I see? It is… Aria…"

"…What is it that you desire?" Minato whispered.

Staring directly into his eyes, the girl place one final card over the three she had just placed down. This final card held XX and had some sort of giant looking down towards a small group of people. "…Judgment." She whispered back.

Minato simply looked down to review the cards that were on the table. He soon looked back to see Aria's eyes that were solemn and full of guilt rather than the friendly gaze they held when she had entered. "Why do you desire such?" As he questioned her, he waved his hand at the same time. The cards immediately began to fly around the two of them. Spinning around, they danced in the air as they gathered back together into the deck and went back to his side.

Aria looked down towards the table. Her hands trembled and clutched her legs as well. "I was so happy…" She whispered. "I was… normal. Nothing was out of the ordinary for me. But… my parents… the horrible things they had done. They forced them onto me. Every time I said no, I only remember pain. I couldn't take it any longer. I partook in such horrible things. It was sickening at first… but… I started to enjoy it… the longer I kept going, the higher my pleasure came from committing such heinous acts… It's too much for me… It's… It's…"

Aria slowly began to weep, finally letting her story flow out of her mouth. A soft cloth soon brushed across her face and she looked up to see Minato brushing her eye with a blue handkerchief. "So… you desire judgment from me?"

Aria shook her head. "Not only do I want judgment, but I also want you to sentence my family as well as the guards." She requested.

"And what makes you think I am able to do that?" Minato asked, leaning forward once more.

"You are a certain someone's brother, if I remember you telling me once correctly. If you do not accept, I will not fault you. But if you do, you know where I live." Aria stated, slowly standing up and walking off to the door she had entered from. Her steps were muffled by the blue carpet as she trekked across. But as she got to the door, she turned her head to face him one last time. "Farewell, Mister Minato."

"Until we meet again, Miss Aria." Minato bowed his head as the blonde closed the door.

Bringing his head back up, he shuffled the tarot deck once more. With another wave of his hand, a few cards spread out in front of him in a circular motion. Turning his hand, one card flipped over to show XVI and a tower being struck by lightning. "Hm... The Tower in the upright position represents the immediate future. A terrible catastrophe is imminent, but to who?"

He paused to think about it, but decided to continue on. "The card indicating the future beyond that is…" With another wave of his hand, the second card flipped over to reveal XIII with a skull in front of an ominous looking door. "Death in the upright position, this symbolizes metamorphosis and deep change, regeneration and cycles. Death isn't the end, as shown in the tarot deck, but it instead changes life at that point… But what change will come?"

With one final wave of his hand, the final card turned over. Staring at it for a long time, Minato finally nodded his head and stood up. Walking up to the podium behind him, he grabbed a book that sat next to the golden gavel and snapped his fingers. All of the cards soon began to fly around and land into the book before he snapped it closed.

But the card he flipped last couldn't go in because he had caught it. Walking towards the left side of the room with the white half of the face, he looked at the card once more and stepped into the room.

The card read VIII Justice.

PXA

Among the rooftops, Minato ran along the upper part of housing while making his way to Aria's mansion. He arrived quicker than expected as he witnessed several guards patrolling the ground of the grand house. Normally he wouldn't be partaking in such an event such as assassination, but the cards had deemed it so.

Originally, he would obviously be found out about if he had gone in his usual attire. Of course he would be wearing a disguise. Instead of his black and white attire, it was lighter. White pants, boots, gloves, and sleeves were on the limbs of his apparel, the area around his crotch and the main body of his shirt was light blue. A red scarf was worn around his neck and mouth. His hair was as white as snow with a grey metal headband, with his bangs covering the right half of his face which was behind a metal mask. To complete the look, there was a small metal lyre on his back.

Reaching behind his back, he took the instrument and was about to strum it but then there was a commotion among the guards. Most of them ran inside and some around the side of the mansion. Curious to what was happening he leapt down off of the roof. Landing on the ground, he ran into the giant house and began his search.

It didn't take long before he ran into a group of guards. Reaching for the lyre once more, he grabbed it and slammed the frame of the instrument into one of the guard's heads. The strength behind the force not only slammed the body into the wall, but also crushed the flesh. With a guard lying dead on the ground, Minato pointed towards an area between a couple of other guards feet.

A blast of fire exploded from that area, igniting the men and had them scream in pain. To silence them, he simply gestured up this time and an even larger explosion of fire went off. A final guard swung his blade as Minato's back was facing him. But the disguise seemed to fade off of the boy as the image of what he looked like before now took form as some sort of mechanical looking being.

"Orpheus." Minato whispered. With a mental command, the floating being blocked the attack with its arm before batting the sword away. Before the guard could recover, the being grabbed the lyre and went for an overhead strike. But the strings connected with the top of the head, causing the body part to be split apart and having the guard fall over with death taking its toll.

The being soon floated back towards Minato and their bodies connected. Soon, the two of them began to merge, with the boy wearing his disguise soon enough. Continuing his search, he came across a hallway that was full of completely slaughtered guards. It looks like he wasn't the only one after them. But it was still Aria's wish that he would judge her, and he shall do his best to fulfill that.

"Huh? Who are you?"

Hearing the voice, Minato slowly turned around and saw a rather busty blonde haired woman with quite the revealing outfit. But what made her look really unique were a pair of lion ears and a tail that were on her person. Not to mention the animalistic looking hands.

Perhaps that was the effect of a Teigu, an Imperial Arm. Should he answer her? Would that accomplish anything? Would she strike if he ignored her? Would she see him as a threat? Minato stood silently as he thought about what to do. But then he remembered what he was here to do and decided to ignore the woman.

Ignoring the blonde's voice, he observed what was outside thanks to a window out of the corner of his eye. There, he could see several guards being slaughtered by someone he recognized. No, they weren't familiar with him as he wasn't familiar with her. It was Akame of Night Raid, an assassin of a group that belonged to the Revolutionary Army. The army that was fighting against this corrupt Empire.

Looking slightly up around the window, he saw a guard dragging away a blonde girl who he definitely recognized and was familiar with. Aira. But Minato was interrupted as he felt a fist collide with his face. Flying down the hall, he regained his footing. Looking back forward, he saw that the woman had punched him right in the face.

"Hey now, isn't it rude to ignore a woman, much less someone who is talking to you?" The woman asked in a hurt manner. But clearly she was making fun of it.

Then again, she did make a point.

"I apologize." Minato said, his voice being disguised behind his metal mask. He then bowed formally to make sure that it could buy him time to not get punched again. "As to answer your question from before, I'm afraid I can only give my name to those who have found me and established a contract." He coolly continued. "Now, may I ask you to introduce yourself?"

"Well I'm afraid that I can only give my name to those who buy me a drink." The woman grinned, seeming to be proud of her response. "So what are you doing here anyways?"

"As I suspect to why you are here, to see what fate shall be given to those that live in this household." He answered, before turning around. "I apologize, but I must cut our conversation short." Gesturing, an explosion erupted right in front of Leone. Such an attack blinded her as she was forced to cover her eyes.

Taking advantage of the woman being stunned, Minato leapt out from the window and dropped down into some shrubs that were below. Deciding to become something most appropriate of the situation, his disguise faded away. Now in his old uniform, he patted himself down to make sure everything was on him. When he felt his back, he felt the book strapped on. Placing a hand on it, he drew a certain card from it.

"Thanatos." He whispered, crushing the card. Black decided to consume him. The only things that pretty much colored him were long white gloves and boots, with a golden buckle that held up what seemed to be a slitted, thigh high skirt. His head was covered in a metallic, almost beak like armor with two pitch black holes that looked like eyes and a hinge locate at the jaw. In his hand was a massive, hiltless, single edged sword with serrations near the handle with a black sheathe with a golden tip was strapped to his waist. But what would really make him stand out would be the cape he wore, held up by a series of chairs was a series of coffins decorated by a figure holding a sword over their body. Each death box simply floated behind him.

Standing up fully, he saw that every guard had been slaughtered. Walking out of his hiding place, he had caught Night Raid's attention. Looking down at the bodies again before looking at the assassins, he remembered once again that Aria was nearby and began to walk away while sheathing the large sword in his hand.

"Hey!" One of the members shouted, particular a pink haired girl with two pig-tails.

Minato stopped in his tracks and looked over to them. He didn't respond as he simply waited for them to talk. But he would allow little time as he still had a wish to fulfill. But the silence seemed to irk the girl even further. "Don't you know who we are?! And who the hell are you?" the girl asked, pointing her finger at him.

Immediately understanding what was going to be a complete waste of time at the moment, he continued to walk away once more. "H-hey! Come back here!" The girl shouted at him. But she was then held back by a slight acquainted blonde.

"Hold on there, Mine." The woman stated.

"What? This guy just screams suspicion, Leone! How can we not ignore him!?" The girl now known as Mine shouted out.

"He didn't even bother to try and attack me, despite creating an explosion right in front of me." The woman dubbed Leone explained as Minato continued to walk away. "Besides, he must be here for a certain reason. Let's not interfere and see where it goes."

Minto continued to walk through the woods but soon found who he was looking for thanks to a short walk. He made his presence known easily as his appearance was pretty easy to spot despite the dark night matching his own dark outfit.

A guard who was next to Aria soon shouted with a battle cry as he ran forward while spraying bullet from a gun in one hand. Turning around, Minato allowed the coffins to act as a shield against the firing. But he turned around and grabbed the guard by the throat as the attacker had stopped pulling the trigger and was about to use a sword.

Gripping the guard tightly, Minato took a deep breath in a exhaled loudly though his mouth. A purple gas slowly poured out. The guard did his best not to breath in, but he already did before realizing what could potentially be coming out of the scary being's mouth. Watching the body spasm, Minato soon grabbed the guard's shirt. Rearing his head back, he slammed it against the guard's and broke their skull before tossing the male towards a tree which caused their head to be crushed on impact.

Looking over towards Aria, he let out a single word. It sounded like a hiss and a growl, but Aria heard it perfectly well. "Judgment." Behind it all, there was a familiar voice. Aria was shocked to see Minato in such an outfit. She was a bit scared, but it was all downed by satisfaction as the boy took steps closer and closer to her.

"Stop, damn it!" A voice shouted. Minato soon heard a blade move through the air. Immediately, he spun around and the coffins hit a boy about Aria's age. The young man skidded on the ground, but quickly got back up and protectively stood in front of the girl.

Minato's eyes were able to be seen, but it was clear what it said in his body language. Move. "There's no way I'm letting her die in the hand of someone like you!" The boy shouted as he ran forward to try and protect Aria.

"Tatsumi, wait!" Aria shouted.

But the fight was over as soon as it started. Minato simply drew his blade out quickly and with a lot of strength batted the boy's weapon away. "Wha-?!" The boy yelled out in surprise before being punched straight in the chest.

A shattering noise was made as the known Tatsumi was sent flying back. Tatsumi landed on the ground and was only his back while remaining motionless. By the sounds of it, it seemed like the boy was seriously injured and suffered rib damage. Tatsumi stayed dead silent for a while.

Minato meanwhile looked down towards the hand that had punched Tatsumi. He flexed it a couple of times before looking directly at the boy. He continued to stand in place while the boy continued to lie down. Soon enough, the boy grunted and got back up to his feet. "You won't even let your guard down and approach me?" Tatsumi asked.

"My hand felt like it punched something other than your body." Minato answered simply.

Tatsumi reached into his shirt in response, pulling out some carving that was shattered. "Everyone from the village protected me." Tatsumi slightly grinned, holding it out.

"Tatsumi…" Aria soon placed a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Stop it…"

"It's alright, Aria, I can beat him." Tatsumi tried to assure the girl.

"You sure you want to do that?"

A new person entered the conversation, which turned out to be accompanied by Akame. "Ah, you the boob!" Tatsumi exclaimed, pointing directly towards Leone.

"Yep, the beautiful sister from that time." Leone waved cheerfully, but soon stopped doing such. "You lad, you think you're protecting an innocent girl. But-"

"Can you call me such after seeing this?" Aria cut Leone off, showing a key in her hand. Walking towards a small locked shack that was a couple of meters away, Aria undid the lock and opened the door. "Please look at what you were trying to protect."

Bodies.

"If there was one word that could describe the whole roo, it was bodies, the whole room was filled with corpses, blood, and gore everywhere. Heads had eyeballs removed from their sockets, but still were connected and hanging. Bodies were torn open, with ribs sticking out, hearts punctured, intestines wrapped around a person's neck to choke them. Legs were twisted, torn apart, punctured with so many holes, The appendages were torn apart, and placed on somewhere it shouldn't be. Some corpses simply hung on the ceiling, with spike rammed into their stomachs.

The sight fo this was like a nightmare. A nightmare so horrible that it made you feel like you were in it.

But this wasn't a nightmare. It was reality. A reality that took a form of hell itself.

"What… what is this?!" Tatsumi shouted in horror, his face paling on what he was seeing.

"This… is the true Capital." Aria slowly answered, getting confused looks from the Night Raid members. "My family… we lured in people from the countryside… with our disgusting sweet words and promises… and we subjected them all to a torture and toyed with them until they died… That is the true nature of this household…"

Tatsumi didn't really hear her as he was completely horrified. But what he saw right in front of him surprised and scared him even further. "S-sayo…?" The boy uttered, seeing a body that was familiar to him.

"Tatsumi…? Tatsumi, is that you!?" A new voice shouted out the name. Tatsumi's eyes widened and stiffly turned towards the source of the voice. His eyes widened more on what he saw. It was a bloody victim that was horribly scarred and behind bars. He reached out with an intense look on his face.

"I…Ieyasu!?" tatsumi shouted out in shock and horror. The nictim known as Ieyasu just looked at Tatsumi with tears leaking out of his eyes.

"That girl… that girl tortured Sayo to death! She brutally tortured her! Right in front of my eyes!" Ieyasu shouted in pain and anguish.

Aria at this point practically fell to her knees and cried loudly. "Yes, it's completely my fault! I've done this! I've done a lot of what you see right in front of you! I've agonized that girl for so long and so hard! And because of what!? Because of how straight her hair was!" Aria soon began crawling towards Minato.

Leone and Akame tried to stop her, but Minato took a step forward and ended up right in front of Aria. "Please…" Aria whispered. "After all that you have witnessed, how do you charge me?" She looked up towards the strange helmet, where she could really see Minato's eyes.

"…Guilty." He hissed as one of his coffins fell onto the ground. Turning it around with his arm, the death box opened up on its own as if it had a will. Extending a hand, he waited as Aria raised her own and placed it on. Being brought up, she was led into the coffin.

Turning around so she would be facing Minato one last time she whispered three numbers. "Sixteen, thirteen, zero. It is the code to the safe in my parent's room. There awaits my family's fortune; your payment."

Minato only nodded as he closed the coffin door. But stopped when Aria had a couple more final words. "Mister Minato…" Those words were so quiet even Akame or Leone couldn't hear them. But the fortune-teller heard perfectly and stopped just an inch before the doors were closed. Inside, Aria smiled as she shed a single tear. "Thank you."

He slowly nodded his head as he fully closed the coffin and it locked. Drawing his blade again, he brought his arm back fully before slashing the boy with great strength. But it didn't even affect the box. Turning around to face Night Raid and Tatsumi, the coffin began to float once more along with the other ones.

A brief period of silence was between the four of them. None of them said a word or made a sound. Minato then shook his and began to walk through the forest and out of their sight.

Akame was about to move and follow, but Leone grabbed her by the collar and shook her head. "Don't. I don't think that that is the best idea. Besides, mission accomplished." Leone commented, looking over to Tatsumi. "Now, what to do about you…"

PXA

Minato emerged from the left door still in his 'Thanatos' disguise as he had made it back to the Velvet Room alone and not followed. The coffin that held Aria opened as Minato gently took her into his arms in a bridal hold. The outfit disintegrated, now being presented in his own uniform.

Slowly, he walked towards the door on the right that had the black half of the face on it. The door opened on its own. As he entered and the door shut on its own, he saw a pile off sticks under a bed that looked extremely soft. As if she were sleeping, Minato placed Aria on the mattress gently and carefully.

Taking the book that was on his back in his hand, he brought out a card with a 0 at the bottom of it. "Orpheus." He whispered, bringing the being back into existence. The figure knew what it was meant to do, and pointed towards the sticks that were under the bed.

A small fire burst out and began to burn the sticks. Smoke began to slowly fill the room, but left just as quickly through a chimney that was installed in the room. As the fire burned Minato just watched as the fire crept closer and closer to Aria's body. There, he continued to wait until the fire had burned everything it need to.

How long had it been? Seconds? Minutes? Hours?

Who knew how much time had passed, but the fire had reach Aria's body long ago and was finished burning it. Opening the book that was in his hand, several cards flew out and danced around the room. Picking up wind this way, the cards continued to spin around the room. Eventually, the ash from the fire lifted from the ground and flew out of the chimney.

Minato then continued to stand in place and wait until the cards came back to him and formed a deck in his hand. Turning around, the door opened and he walked through and closed the barrier behind him. Walking back to the table, he set the book and deck of cards down and sat in a chair. He then closed his eyes and thought about some of Aria's final words.

"Sixteen, thirteen, zero…" He muttered to himself. Waving his hand, said cards flew out and he stared at each an everyone of them. Sixteen was XVI, the Tower. Thirteen was XIII, Death. But 0 was a new one, the Fool instead of VIII Justice. The new card interested Minato the most.

"The number zero on the fool represents a new beginning. But for who though? Could it be for that Tatsumi child? Or… could it be for me?" Minato asked himself, staring at the three cards that were in front of his face. Staring for a long time, he finally gestured the cards back into the deck as the door in front of him began to open.

He stood up and bowed formally and greeted his new guest.

"Welcome to the Velvet Room."

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