Akame Ga Kill: Garou

"For my master, I shall defeat you here" Susanoo spoke as his heavy sword length started to increase, he swang with all of his might toward Garou. Garou tried to block the heavy blow directly with brute force, he failed to stop the sword and was pushed back a few meters. Garou was slightly amazed, he initially thought the increase would be around the same as Koro's. Garou didn't know Susanoo's trump card requires the sacrifice of the owner's life force, which means it gives a much greater boost compared to Koro's.

Although the power and speed boost was bigger than what Garou anticipated, it was nowhere near enough to defeat Garou. Garou estimated Susanoo's raw strength after the increase to be slightly above Esdeath's, making him the strongest opponent he has faced so far, at least in terms of raw power. As for his skill, Garou hoped Susanoo to be more than just muscles if so then he might be as strong as Esdeath or even stronger.

When Susanoo pushed Garou back, Sai used the small opportunity to get Leone to Najenda and the rest, he used his water to carry the armless Leone away. Garou saw this happening and ignored it, He had already defeated Leone, so keeping her had no meaning for him, his current target is Susanoo. Garou dashed toward Susanoo and punched him, but Susanoo used his sword to block the blow, but it was his turn to be pushed back. Garou's punch held more strength than Susanoo's sword blow.

Garou didn't attack again, he looked at Susanoo with his c.o.c.ky smirk and said "I hope you still have more to show me. Otherwise, it would be too boring."

Susanoo gritted his teeth and attacked Garou, he swang his sword with all of his might, but to his dismay, Garou easily dodged the blows. Susanoo didn't stop nor take a break, he maintained his attack at the same pace. Garou in return kept dodging, but his smirk turned into a frown, it turned out his opponent barely had anything to show him. Susanoo was a palace of strength, and that's it.

Garou sighed lightly as he dodged again, he was excited for nothing, then his eyes turned sharp as he decided to start his onslaught. The next moment, Garou's fist blurred and tens of punches landed on Susanoo's body cracking it. Finally, Garou finished it with a powerful kick making Susanoo's body along with his core shatter like glass.

The assassins who gathered on top of the beast looked horrified, Susanoo might be a teigu, but they treated him and felt as if he was one of their own, a comrade and friend. As for Garou, he turned around to look at them and smirked, he said "Sorry, I broke your man-sized toy, I will make it up to you and break you as well."

His words enraged the assassins, but they had nothing they could do against him. They had to retreat immediately, else their fate would be the same. Sai, who was making his way toward them, stopped in his track, his leg was broken, and he was moving slowly. He knew he had no way to outrun Garou.

He looked at his comrades and said "Leave now!! I will buy you some time" then he turned around to face Garou.

Tatsumi and Akame were about to jump and join him, but Najenda stopped them, she made the beast start flying as she said "His leg is injured and had no way to escape, so he chose to stay and buy us time. We can't let his sacrifice go in vain."

The assassins reluctantly stopped and watched sorrowfully as Sai faced Garou alone. On the other hand, Garou whistled as he said "Colour me impressed, I didn't see this one coming considering how useless you are."

Sai looked coldly at Garou, he replied "Regardless of what you think of us, the moment we walked this path, we prepared to suffer hardsh.i.p.s and even die for our cause, we are ready to sacrifice. What about you? Do you think yourself great? Maybe some mighty hero? You have all this strength yet you don't do anything to change the unfairness in this world, people like you are the worst!!! You are just a monster!!! In the end, the likes of you will be crushed!!"

Garou smirk disappeared as he looked coldly at Sai, he didn't want to waste more time on this, he decided to finish Sai then catch the silver-haired bitch. Garou's body dashed toward Sai, in an instant, he stood in front of him. Sai face had the same determined eyes not flattering in front of Garou. Garou was slightly impressed, so he said "Any last words?"

"Yeah, I just." Sai gave a weak and helpless smile then the smile turned into a mad one " GOT YOU!!!"

To Garou's surprise, Sai's veins exploded, and needles made of blood came out of his body, aiming for Garou. Garou hurriedly blocked the needles, except for one that managed to graze his cheek. Garou looked at Sai's body, which was a corpse now, Sai was the first one to damage him after Esdeath. He had to admit the man resolve was admirable, and he felt a little pity for the man.

"It doesn't matter what world I'm in. The system is the same, the dependency and blindness are just the same" Garou mumbled to himself.

Suddenly, the sound of a bullet being shoot resounded in his ear. Garou looked toward the assassins and saw Mine just shoot a bullet, but it was not aimed at him. Garou was confused for a moment.

He was focused on Sai and his own thoughts, that he didn't notice Najenda orders Mine to shoot. Najenda knew Sai had no hope of survival today, but they still had one last shot to take down Garou. It was Bols Teigu. She forced Mine to shoot the Teigu regardless of what was going to happen to Sai and Gato who was still planted in the rocks.

Garou watched the energy beam as it headed in a relatively far distance from him. He looked at the direction of the trajectory, and his eyes narrowed. He saw Bols Teigu there, he instantly understood what the assassins want to do, he snorted and looked back at them.

The next instant, the energy bullet hit the Teigu and shone with a blinding light followed by a terrifying explosion. The explosion was strong enough that the flying beast which was over a hundred meters away lost it's balance for a little before it could fly straight again. In fact, the booming sound and the explosion shape could be seen and heard from miles away.

"Did he die?" Tatsumi asked.

The rest didn't answer him, they stared at the destruction covered by endless flames and smoke. Moments later, Leone spoke "I can't see any way someone could survive an explosion like that in the face. We should celebrate this."

The rest turned around to look at her, Akame said with grieved tone"Sai, Gato, Kenshi and Susanoo all died for this. Can we really celebrate?"

Leone lowered her head while the assassins were silent. Many of their friends died today, they might be prepared for death, but watching your friends die in front of you still hurt all the same. As the assassins were still grieving their friends, the sound of something piercing through the air resounded in their ears. All of the turned immediately back only to see Gato's axe near them moving toward Mine. Before any of them could react, the axe connected with Mine's gun and cut it in half then proceeded toward her arm, severing it. Mine screamed in pain as tears filled her eyes as she fell on her knees.

"MINE!!!" Akame/Leone/Tatsumi all said the same time, and before they could get closer to her or understand what was going on. The sound of thud heard from their side near their boss.

The three looked at their boss side and got shocked even more. She was lying on her back with the axe implemented in the middle of her c.h.e.s.t. As Akame and Tatsumi stared dumbly at their injured friends, Leone looked back toward the explosion area, and her shocked face was replaced with horrified one.

"NO! NO!! HE IS MONSTER" Leone said frantically.

Tatsumi, Akame and Mine who was still in pain, looked in the same direction. Their faces paled as they saw a black shadow walking from inside of the flames. The shadow cleared and became visible, it was Garou. His clothes were burned in different places and had black marks all over his body, but no visible injuries.

The beast flew away, carrying the injured and shocked assassins to safety. Garou stood there staring, he didn't try to catch them or stop them, despite being able to. He crushed them completely and hunting them further was meaningless.

On top of the beast, Leone stared at Garou for sometime before looking back toward Mine, who was being treated by Tatsumi, and Najenda, who was being treated by Akame. She spoke in a despaired voice "He said he will make the boss body a sheath for the axe, and he did it!!! He is a monster, how are we supposed to beat him? Can we even do that?"

The remaining assassins didn't answer, she asked the same questions burdening their hearts and minds.

In this mission, Nightraid utterly failed. They lost four people including Susanoo, four Teigus execulding Susanoo and three other members were heavily injured or even crippled. Today, they lost more than half of their total combat force. On the other hand, The Jaegers lost only one Teigu.