Akame Ga Kill: Garou

In Nightraid's hideout, Shelee entered the throne room where the rest of the assassins were gathering except for Bulat and Lubbock.

"I treated Bulat and Lubbock wounds, their injuries are not life-threatening but still bad enough to prevent them from moving for a while" Shelee said

"I'm more worried about their mental state than their physical one, especially Lubbock" Najenda said with a frown, making her subordinates shiver remembering Lubbock's….

"So Leone, What happened? And how many people ambushed you to end up like that?" Mine asked Leone, who was standing at the side silently, Leone shivered a little before looking back Mine and the others, who were all staring at her.

Leone took a deep breath then spoke bitterly "We were not ambushed, we have been attacked head-on. Also, it was a single attacker."

"What ???!!!" The Assassins were stunned

"It was that bastard from yesterday!!!" Leone said

"Again??!! Didn't you beat him yesterday and forced him to run away?" Mine asked

"Yesterday, he was injured and tired, barely able to stand. Today, he was at full power" Leone said bitterly.

"He recovered to full power in a day despite his injuries and came back for a fight ?" Tatsumi said

"Yes, he is fully recovered. And Tatsumi, he came back to insult us, to crush us but not for a fight. After all, he was too strong to call it a fight, calling it bullying is more suitable" Leone said as she clenched her fists remembering Garou's might.

"Tell us everything" Najenda said in a grave tone. Three top assassins with Teigus losing against a single man was no small matter. She must get all possible information about such an individual.

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Garou arrogantly and slowly walked toward the three assassins causing their instincts to scream danger, especially Leone, whos Teigu gave her animalistic nature. The assassins didn't hesitate even a moment. They went all out from the beginning; this time, their opponent was not someone they could afford to underestimate.

Bulat used his trump card and went invisible, while Leone moved forward to confront Garou. Unlike the previous time, she didn't charge thoughtlessly. Her previous experience told her that thoughtless brute attacks might provide her with nothing but more pain and suffering.

Leone got closer and prepared to punch Garou, who was still smiling without reacting to her attack. She suddenly stepped to the right opening a way for Lubbock, who threw few Knives toward Garou. Garou extended his right hand and caught the knives effortlessly. His smile didn't fade as he moved his hand like lighting to interrupt Leone's kick from the side with the back of his hand.

Leone seeing her attack blocked wanted to step back and attack again. However, Garou didn't allow her; he extended his hand and caught her leg. She felt as if an iron claw caught her. She wanted to struggle, but Garou didn't allow it, he rotated with her still in his hand and threw her to the back, hitting an invisible Bulat, who was about to hit him.

With their relationship and years of working together, the assassins developed a decent teamwork. Leone attracted Garou attention with her fake attack opening the path for Lubbock knives. Then she tried to land a kick using the chance provided by Lubbock. Finally, Bulat was going to hit Garou's blind spot while he was blocking his other two teammates. Sadly their plan didn't work, against any other person it would have been good enough to take them down or at the very least forcing them to use their trump card. And even with then, their escape was not assured, but against Garou, it was only a child play.

"Is that all of you got? Disappointing" Garou gave them a disappointed look angering the three of them. It is not that he expected much from them. He saw how sloppy they were in their first encounter. To Garou, they were a group of brutes with strength and speed above average, and that is it. They didn't possess the skill or discipline to face him, even if he had lesser speed and strength, he would still be able to crush them all the same.

Lubbock the one who stayed the farthest said "You will regret your arrogance", he then pulled his hands to the back causing wires which he spread around during the small confrontation to surround Garou and move toward him at full speed. These wires were different from the usual ones. These were Lubbock trump card, wires that can cut through anything. He didn't want to restrain Garou like last time. He wanted to cut him to pieces and get done with it.

Garou wasn't aware of the wires difference, but his instincts told him they were dangerous. Besides, he got caught once, he wouldn't allow such a thing to happen twice. He turned toward Bulat and Leone and charged toward them, with his speed and flexible body, he passed through the gaps of the wires which still not closed.

In an instant, he was standing at the side of Bulat, who was not able to react to the sudden movement of Garou. Bulat attempted to strike Garou, but he was too slow, Garou kicked his head with too much force that he flew away, crashing through a tree. Moments later, Bulat armour disappeared and replaced with a silver sword. The armour returned to it is seals state as the owner himself was out cold.

Lubbock and Leone were shocked, Bulat was physically the strongest and had a powerful armour protecting him, yet he was knocked down with a single kick from Garou. If they were the one to receive that kick in the head, wouldn't they die on the spot?

Both of them pushed these thoughts to the back of their heads. They needed to focus on the enemy; otherwise, these thoughts will become a reality. Garou walked toward Leone with slow pace again. She took a battle stance preparing for engaging with him, at the same time, her mind working furiously to find a way to take down Garou.

Leone's eyes shone with battle intent as she thought of something, she jumped to the back and hugged one of the trees and uprooted it with her brute strength. Garou seeing her actions was amused and even whistled then said with a mocking tone "Gave up on hitting me and started attacking trees? Such a brutish p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.e."

Leone was angry hearing his words, but she kept her calm as she swung the tree toward Garou, who laughed and jumped high in the air that he was near the top of the shorter trees. Suddenly Garou heard the voice of an object piercing the air toward him, he tilted his head a little and saw a spear coming toward him. With a flawless move, Garou's hand extended toward a close tree branch. He applied a force causing the tree to break into small pieces while his body got pushed in the other direction, causing the spear to miss him.

Lubbock clicked his tongue and said "The next one will pierce through your a.s.s, you f.u.c.k.i.n.g bastard !!"

Lubbock didn't stop his attack while talking. He talked to distract Garou from his next attack. Threads were speeding toward Garou from all directions. What Lubbock didn't know his way to distract Garou has earned him a special punishment from Garou.

Garou replied with "Now, you sealed your fate", before started moving like a ghost, he skipped through the wires with unheard speed shocking Lubbock and even Leone.

Leone managed to see a shadow of Garou movement before losing track of him. She immediately turned her eyes toward Lubbock worriedly. But she was shocked again, Lubbock was not there !!

" AAAAAAHHHHHHHh"

Leone heard Lubbock miserable scream from the above, she looked up and saw him hanging upside down with a tree branch sticking out of his a.s.s. She didn't know how to think or react, such a sight during battle was something out of her expectation; in fact, it would be weirder if she did otherwise.

"You are the last one" Garou's voice came from behind Leone, tearing her attention from Lubbock miserable state.

Leone jumped to the back again widening distance, by now she understood perfectly that she stood no chance against Garou. She never expected him to be this powerful. His speed and strength were out of her league. What she didn't know was Garou's greatest strength wasn't his speed or physical strength but rather his skills. Sadly, she wasn't qualified to see Garou fighting as a martial artist.

Garou attacked once more. He instantly closed the gap between them. He appeared in front of Leone with a wide smile on his face. Leone felt helpless, she increased the distance so she could react to his sudden movement, but still failed to do so. She hopelessly punched Garou's face while praying for her punch to land on his face.

Garou disappeared again causing Leone to feel despair. She still couldn't hit him or even keep up with his movement!!!. When she thought the situation was already bad, she widened her eyes as her animalistic powers started disappearing. She lowered her head and saw her belt was missing.

"I felt this belt wasn't normal. It turns out it was your source of power" Garou's voice drifted from behind.

She turned around and saw her belt being inspected by Garou. Her blood turned cold. She was barely able to fight earlier, now after she lost her teigu, how is she supposed to continue battling Garou.

Garou returned his attention to her. He said with his evil smile "Now that you lost this toy, the source of your power, what are you going to do?"

Leone felt fear crossing through her body. She lost her weapon to her enemy, an enemy too powerful to fight back against and his smile scared her even more. It could be said Garou's smile is quite scary on its own. After all, Garou had a natural intimidating air and looks. His smiling face could scare men and animals equally.

Leone raised her hands into battle stance. She knew she couldn't win this. She decided since she had no chance of surviving today, she might as well go with a fight no matter what.

"Oh!! For your courage, I shall spare you the unnecessary beating" Garou was slightly impressed by her resolve to fight regardless of her inevitable defeat and her fear.

He raised his leg high in the air then he stomped the ground with a terrifying force causing it to crack in all directions. A huge rock rose from the ground in front of Garou. He continued with his other leg kicking the massive rock from the bottom, forcing it to fly higher than any tree.

The display of brute force shocked Leone, this kind of strength was something beyond the capabilities of humans, was he a human? It was all that Leone's mind could think of.

After kicking the huge rock, Garou dashed toward the stunned Leone, his hand extended toward her like an iron claw. He caught her as if she was a hopeless prey, his moved followed by throwing Leone in the hole, which appeared in the place of the huge rock.

Garou then jumped toward the rock, it already reached the highest point with it is momentum and now was going to start falling again. Upon reaching the rock, Garou used his martial arts to destroy it to soil and dust.

All of this occurred in a mere 2 seconds, Garou dropped to the ground and watched the dropping soil and dust flooding the hole where Leone was. He watched as she was buried alive there.

He strolled toward the buried hole, once he stood on the top of it. He thrust his hand deep through the soil, then pulled it back. He brought Leone's head to the surface. Her face and hair were messy and covered with dirt. She was about to say something, but he used her belt to gag her mouth.

Leone looked up at Garou with confusion and terror. Garou smiled then his eyes moved to Bulat. The assassin who got knocked first was waking up slowly. Garou had a thoughtful look on his face before walking to the assassin.

Bulat hazy eyes widened when he noticed Garou approaching. He stood up immediately with vigilant look on his face. Bulat looked around to see where his friends were. He saw Leone's head gagged out of the ground. He blinked in confusion, how things came to this? He thought. He continued to look around, but he couldn't see Lubbock. Bulat sighed in relief. He thought Lubbock went to get reinforcement while he was unconscious.

Garou didn't know what Bulat was thinking if he did, he might have laughed loudly as pointed to the green assassins. Garou spoke to Bulat "Hey, since you are awake, take off your clothes, and I will spare you the extra beating."

Bulat blinked at Garou's word. His first thoughts were who would ask his enemy to strip mid-fight? Then a crazy idea passed through his mind. Maybe this enemy before him was interested in men. He might be gay, but he still wouldn't go into a relationship with an enemy, not to mention he prefered young men, not men in their early thirties or late twenties.

"I'm not going to repeat myself, take them off, or I will beat you and take them myself. It is your choice" Garou repeated.

Bulat gave Leone another look before he thought to himself [ I can't beat him on my own, my best option is to buy time till the others arrive. Besides, he doesn't look so bad ]

With this thought in mind, Bulat blushed slightly and said "I don't mind it, but we shouldn't do it here, someone is watching us here", in the end, Bulat winked Garou.

It was Garou's turn to be stunned; he looked at Bulat speechlessly. Usually, Garou wouldn't care about gays, but now he felt disgusted by Bulat, he couldn't care if Bulat was gay, but to talk to him like this and wink him was another matter.

The air around Garou turned wild as his mind filled with ways to torture Bulat. From the side, gagged Leone look at Garou weirdly, from her point of view, Garou animalistic nature resurfaced seeing Bulat bashful look. Usually, men would be aroused seeing beautiful, timid girls, right? Then gays would be excited in the same way if they saw timid handsome men !!!

After coming to this conclusion, Leone understood why Garou called her p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.e and wasn't interested in her body. Usually, men would at least look at her assists even during combat. But Garou didn't bother with them in the slightest. Suddenly everything made sense to her. He was gay, and he was now interested in Bulat !!!

Garou disappeared from Leone's sight with Bulat. She knew Garou took Bulat with his superior speed. Finally, Leone heard the screams of Bulat from behind the trees, she knew at that moment, Garou was the one standing at the back. She prayed for Bulat safety.

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Leone telling the events as she remembered, and she managed successfully to get various reactions from her friends, especially when she spoke the last part.

"He r.a.p.ed Bulat?" Mine asked while making a weird face.

The rest of the assassins, including Najenda, felt awkward and not sure of how to react. The exception to this was Shelee who said "That can't be, Bulat u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r is still there. I think Garou wanted the clothes only. Maybe he liked them, and since he got a similar build to Bulat after all, he took them"

"I don't think it was that simple Shelee" Mine replied dismissing her friend, the rest of the assassins ignored Shelee as well. Ironically, the clumsy killer was the only one who got it right.

Mine turned to Leone and said "I wish I were there. I would have shot a hole into that bastard head."

Leone shook her head and said "Thankfully, you were not. You might be a great sniper by your physical strength, and close combat ability is by far the weakest. Before you could aim and shot, he would have already killed you a dozen times over."

Mine was speechless. She just huffed in reply. While it was Akame turn to ask "Why didn't he kill you? He obviously could have done it."

Leone knitted her brows tightly and said "I don't know, he was far stronger than us, but despite all the danger and how scary he was, I didn't feel any killing intent. He was more of a torrent of rage and anger directed at us."

Najenda, who was silent until now finally said "He might not considered you strong enough for him to kill you. Or maybe he didn't know who you were and thought of teaching you a lesson for attacking him. Regardless of the reason, that man hold too much power, probably only Esdeath can beat him in one on one fight. We need to gather information about him; for that, I will head back to the revolution headquarter. I will make a special order to look for this man. In my absence, Akame will be the leader. You will continue your missions under her. As for Bulat and Lubbock, they are not allowed to join missions for the next few weeks. They need to recuperate first."

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Garou was in the capital. He was wearing new clothes, the clothes he took from the disgusting bastard. Garou back in the forest felt a little happy seeing a man with a similar body build wearing clothes to his liking. Fit shirt and wide and loose pants, however, the disgusting thing turned out to be gay. Even more, the guy winked Garou, Garou who showed no fear from the strongest enemies, he who didn't even budge in the face of death, felt uncontrollable shiver running through his back. The incident ruined Garou mode thoroughly. Even though he pretty much beat the gay to near death. He was still angry.

That ruined his revenge. He stopped moving and decided he should forget about the whole thing. Garou turned around toward the Capital gates. Nothing better to forget his misery than hunting and having a nice meal.