Akame Ga Kill: Garou

Garou watched the beast flying away with the defeated assassins. He didn't follow them as he had no reason to hunt the beaten dogs. Besides, he had no intention to kill anyone from the very beginning. He only came here in hope for some challenge and increase his own power, as for stopping Nightraid it has nothing to do with him. However, Najenda's hypocritical words angered him, in addition to the series of events and the assassins lack of understanding toward Garou's led to this point.

In fact, Garou had no planning for killing, he was at most going to give them a thorough beating, especially Najenda, and that would be it. Garou destroyed Susanoo because he considered something similar to a robot, similar to Seryu's pet, so he had no problem destroying it. As for Sai, the man committed suicide in the hope of injuring Garou. He failed but still got Garou's respect for the courage and determination he showed, but also made Garou despise the revolutionary even more. Finally, Gato, he died because of the pink bitch last shot, the assassins murdered their own comrade in the hope of killing Garou. Garou could understand why they acted like that, but he still felt disgusted after all the talk and courageous words they spoke. They made themselves look like they live and die together for their goal, only to kill their own. So his last attack aimed to cripple the pink bitch and injured the hypocrite bitch in one go.

Garou turned around and began walking toward the direction, where Wave and the others went to. A few minutes later, he saw Bols running toward him.

"Garou!! You are fine, When I saw the explosion, I knew I messed up by leaving my Teigu there. " Bols spoke frantically.

Garou felt something was wrong, but he couldn't determine what it was. He replied "Why are you here? Where is the rest?"

Bols replied "I was afraid it might have hurt you or even worse. I couldn't stop myself from coming and check on you. As for the rest, they are tired and a little wounded but nothing dangerous. They should be fine. But still, I'm glad you are okay"

"Did you think your little toy exploding can hurt me?" Garou asked, seemingly offended.

"OH! NO! NOI I knew you could survive it hahaha... With your speed, finding rocks or create a pit or a cave to avoid the flames won't be hard for you." Bols said while waving his hands nervously.

At this moment, Garou was sure something is wrong with Bols. The man spared with Garou previously, and he knows how heat resistant Garou is. Garou had no need to hide, let alone digging a hole like a rat. Garou let it pass for now, as maybe the man thought the destructive power of the flame increased. In a way, it was true, the flames were hotter than the usual ones.

"What about Nightraid? Did you manage to take them down?" Bols asked.

"Nope they escaped, but 2 of them died in the process " Garou answered not counting Susanoo as a member.

"I see that's unfortunate, but thanks to you, we managed to survive" Bols said.

Garou's eyes narrowed dangerously. Bol's muscles relaxed a little when he said the escaped then flinched a little when he heard two died. It might be very minute change, but how sharp is Garou observation? At this moment, he knew the one before him is not Bols but an imposter. In his old world, shapeshifters were not common but still no that rare. Monsters, animals and even robots who can blend in the environment or change their looks to be the exact of others all existed. So there was no reason for him to think this world has none of that kind.

Without saying any words, Garou punched Bols in the face knocking him down mercilessly. Bol's body turned into smoke and an orange-haired girl laid in its place. The girl's stared with horror at Garou, her broken nose was leaking blood.

Garou observed her, he noticed a makeup box is attached to her side, Garou determined that it was her Teigu or at least the tool used to shapeshift. After all, who would bring makeup to battles? Garou didn't bother to speak anything, he looked calmly at the girl as he raised his leg and stomped down.

The girl closed her eyes when she saw him raising his leg, she gave up on life there, she knew she had no hope of escaping from him. All of her teammates failed to beat him and had to flee to keep their lives, and even two died in the process. What could she alone do? She regretted her decision to get close to him. She thought he would lower his guard around her because he just won a battle against multiple opponents.

A moment later, she heard the sound of something breaking but felt no pain. She opened her eyes, she saw Garou's leg on top of her teigu. It was destroyed beyond hope of repair. She shivered realising he was not going to kill her directly, she couldn't stop herself from thinking about the grim fate awaiting her. She stared at Garou who looked back at her, then started to walk again, passing her without doing anything.

Chelsea blinked not understanding why he ignored her. She thought he wants to toy with her, to give her a false hope then to crush it. She gathered her strength and stood up, her back to him. She turned around and stared at his retreating back and spoke "Drop the act! I won't run and satisfy your d.e.s.i.r.e to see me broken. I prefer to die with dignity."

Garou stopped and looked back at her with a frown. She spoke again "I saw people like you, you let your target run away, and when they think they are safe you appear before them and crush their hopes of survival"

"You are weak and don't have a weapon, I have no reason to fight or kill you," Garou said.

"As if I will believe you!!!" Chelsea said as she brought her needles out.

Garou ignored her and continued walking away, while she stood there refusing to believe he let her go just like that. Chelsea stood in the same place for hours before she left, not believing what happened, she even thought he was tracking her secretly.

Garou continued moving in the same direction from earlier, and after a few minutes, he heard Dr Stylish voice.

"That f.u.c.k.i.n.g horned bastard, I will f.u.c.k.i.n.g kill him" Dr Stylish said

"Please Dr, let me treat you first" Wave spoke with hopelessness in his voice.

"Oh, how considerate of you, dear" Dr Stylish voice sounded again, but this time it was calm and loving. Garou frowned at this, this man reminded him of the prisoner S-class hero too much.

Garou walked closer to them and spoke "They should have cut your tongue instead of your arms, maybe dig your eyes as well"

Wave and the rest looked at him with shock, then their faces turned into smiles.

"You are back!! HAHAAHA... I knew you will win. Tell me, how did it go?" Wave said excitedly.

"Tell me you thrashed the horned brute" Dr Stylish said venomously.

"You are quite talkative for a defeated group" Garou replied.

"It doesn't count!! They ganged on us" Wave protested, but Garou's glare shut him up.

"Coming here was a waste of time, they were too weak. I should beat Esdeath when I see her next time. She said they were strong and dangerous" Garou spoke again.

The four resisted rolling their eyes at his words, the assassins were not weak, he was abnormally strong. But none of them dared to voice their thoughts. Also, knowing their general, Esdeath would be more than glad to take Garou on at any time. Sometimes, they even thought she might be a m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.t secretly. Her readiness to fight... Get beaten by Garou is genuinely astonishing.

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Hours later, Garou and the rest met with Esdeath and her team in the city as it was agreed previously.

"I see... It is good no one of you died" Esdeath said then turned to Garou and continued with smile"As much I'm thankful that you saved my subordinates, I'm not happy with the fact you left me like that. you were really heartless there."

"And I feel like to break your legs. The assassins turned out to be a waste of time." Garou replied.

"I think they are fine, it is just you inhumanly strong." Esdeath replied honestly.

"They are weak with unrefined skills" Garou repeated.

"Putting that aside, how come you didn't catch them or kill them? I don't believe they can outrun you" Esdeath asked.

"Why would I catch them? I defeated them then they ran like a group of beaten dogs. If you don't remember, I came only to fight them, as for killing or catching them, it has nothing to do with me" Garou explained.

"That's a shame ..." Esdeath sighed before continuing "I was looking for a torture session with you. I wanted to show you my skills in that field"

"Torture session?" Garou asked.

Esdeath nodded with a smile "Yeah. I was planning to put the ones we caught in the dungeon and torture them until they break!!!"

"I'm interested. You can get information from your enemies away from me" Garou said with a frown.

"Who cares about information!! Watching the weak break is quite enjoyable" Esdeath said.

Garou's frown increased "You torture others for fun?"

"Yes" Esdeath said.

Garou despised the idea of torturing others for fun, he can understand enemies being cruel against each other, it is a war after all. But torturing people for the sake of fun, this is something below Garou's morals code.

Esdeath noticed the look of disgust in Garou's eyes, she was confused by it. So she asked "What is wrong? You don't like the idea of torturing others?"

"I might be cruel, but I won't go as torturing for no reason" Garou replied.

"Why? It is only natural for the strong to dominate the weak" Esdeath spoke resolutely.

"Have you ever heard a lion attacking a cat? The lion would never do it unless the cat annoyed it. It is because he is stronger. The strong attack and even kill the weak when need it. A powerful person won't seek weaklings for fun!! Only the weaklings will go after those who are weaker than them." Garou spoke back.

Esdeath was silent, she thought about his words as she remembered her tribe destruction. She lived her entire life with the mentality of the strong crushes the weak. She always believed in it and shaped her life on this very idea. She never thought of herself being wrong, after all, she was the strongest, and her words held true for so long. But now, Garou stood before her and said something different from her beliefs. If it were someone else, she would disregard it as the weak trying to defend himself or those like him. But Garou was someone stronger than her, he was on a whole different level. Even though she wanted to support her point, she knew Garou the very logic behind it is broken by the very existence of Garou.

Esdeath closed her eyes and pondered more, she remembered Garou protecting the kids and teaching them, she was too focused on him, so she didn't pay attention to them. Thinking about everything so far, she felt she finally began to truly understand Garou.

Esdeath opened her eyes and looked straight in Garou's eyes and said "I always believed that what I'm doing is the natural thing. Nothing wrong about the strong crushes the weak. My very belief is built on the fact that I was the strongest and those who I knew were also merciless toward the weak. The weak helps the weak and defend them because they feel someone out there stronger and can threat them. But you are an exception, you are strong, cruel and merciless, yet you don't find joy in what I deemed natural. I would like to think about this more on my own"

Esdeath turned around and left Garou and the stunned Jaegers. Garou also turned around and started walking away, his disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e toward Esdeath disappeared for some reason when she looked at him and spoke. He felt something in her changed.

"Was that really our scary sadistic general?" Wave asked while staring at Esdeath back. No one of his teammates replied they were too stunned seeing the change.

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Author notes:

I know Esdeath in the original was cruel and refused to change no matter what she was told or saw. Her philosophy is the result of the acc.u.mulation of her father words and years of living among cruel people. Hearing about her wrongdoings and what is right naturally won't work as her mentality build on the fact words with no strength to back them are meaningless.

So I believe hearing it from Garou who is far stronger than her has far more weight on her mentality than hearing from someone like Tatsumi, she deemed far weaker than her.

I wanted to explain this point since I know many will disagree with me and say I changed Esdeath personality.