Akame Ga Kill: Garou

Garou watched Ogre's men carry the injured and taking them away, Ogre apologized again for what happened before retreating alongside his men while Seryu walked right behind him. She remained silent after Garou let go of her, she didn't even look at Garou again.

"Mister, thank you !!!"

Garou looked toward the two children who spoke at the same time, he didn't reply as his eyes moved to the woman standing behind them. She was pale and shaking slightly as she looked warily at Garou. She wasn't especially ugly nor beautiful, she was an average looking woman.

The woman moved closer to the children while watching Garou, she put her hands on their shoulders and pulled them closer to her. She said with a shaking voice "Thank you very much, If there is anything we could help you with, please ask."

Despite her saying this, Garou knew she was too afraid and barely able to speak. Probably the only reason she managed to talk was in fear of Garou getting a wrong impression of her, she didn't know who he was, but all the strong people usually are evil, and Garou looked like a typical evil man. However, her fear didn't bother Garou he replied "Good, I have a few questions I would like you to answer."

"Yes sir" The woman replied

"Call me Garou" Garou said

"Yes, sir- I mean, Garou….. My name is Himiko"

"I'm Eren, and this is my twin sister Ari" The boy didn't want to be left out, so he introduced himself and his sister.

Garou looked at the boy and nodded before looking back at Himiko, who was flinching uncomfortably, he said, "We need a place to sit first as I have many questions for you."

Himiko tried her best not to cry or scream, she said fearfully "I'm sorry, please follow me."

Garou followed Himiko alongside the children, she led him inside the orphanage.

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In Ogre's office inside the police station, Ogre sat on his chair tiredly. After the whole parade with Garou, his first action after arriving at the police station was to punish those who followed his vice captain, as for the man himself, he was kicked out of the police. Considering his injuries, even if he didn't kick him now, he would have to stop working as he was a cripple now. Ogre followed the laws this time because of the possibility of Garou knowing about how he handled the men. Every time he remembered Garou's eyes, his heart would shudder, it was genuinely terrifying experience.

"Teacher" Seryu entered the office and called Ogre waking him up from his thoughts.

"Oh, Seryu, How are your injuries?" Ogre asked her

Seryu put her hand on her neck, where bandages where covering it. Garou didn't hit Seryu. However, his iron grip left her neck bruised badly.

"I'm fine, Garou didn't harm me…. Not like the others" Seryu replied weakly

"What about Koru?" Ogre asked her again

"Koru is fine as well, berserk mode and the Garou's damage caused it to overheat and slow its regeneration rate significantly. I won't be able to use Koru for 3-5 days" Seryu answered bitterly, her teigu and partner got damaged badly because of her foolishness.

"I'm sorry, I acted foolishly without waiting for your orders, I almost got myself and Koru killed. On top of that, I might have angered Garou to the point where he attacked you and the rest of the police. I'm really sorry" Seryu spoke in a weak voice and lowered head to Ogre.

Ogre didn't respond immediately, he didn't even think of blaming or lecturing Seryu previously. Garou's strength was something far exceeded all his expectations. If someone told Ogre an injured man and bandaged like a mummy can do all that damage to berserk Koru, then Ogre would have laughed at him and called him crazy.

Although Ogre had this kind of thoughts, he naturally would never tell Seryu. He took the role of a wise sage as he spoke, "Seryu, I warned you about Garou earlier, I told you he was exceedingly dangerous. Yet, you ignored my words and fought with him, if not for the fact that I came at the right time you might have ended like the other men or even worse, you might have lost your life there!!! I hope you will learn from your mistakes and not act impulsively again if you want to bring justice then follow your orders and only your orders."

Seryu kept her head lowered, she didn't refute Ogre. he then asked her "What did you feel when you fought with Garou ?"

Ogre was terrified by Garou's stare alone, then what about a person fought against him and looked into his eyes from close distance. What did she feel?

Seryu froze slightly upon hearing the question, She remained silent for a while and Ogre didn't force her to speak. She finally said, "At first, I felt fear and intimidated by his stare and the air around him. However, I had Koru beside me, so I washed these feelings away. But the next thing I knew, Koru was down, and my guns didn't work against him, he caught all the bullets with his b.a.r.e hands. I felt despair and terror as a bad feeling was growing in my heart. Even when I made Koru go berserk, the bad feeling was still there. I saw Garou defeating Koru in an instant, my mind stopped thinking, and then I was in his hand, my life was in his hand. His cold eyes stared into mine, I thought I would die…. No, I knew I will die !!!"

Seryu voice by this point was cracking, her eyes turned and started crying stunning Ogre. It was the first time for him seeing her cry after her parent's death.

"I was terrified, the only thought crossed my mind was to escape. I was afraid of death, I even thought of abandoning justice to save my life, I didn't want to die!!! I don't want to feel like this again ….. I don't want to fight Garou again. I'm so sorry, I will never do anything without your permission again" Seryu broke down.

Ogre stood up from his seat and went to hug her, this was out of his expectation. To think facing Garou nearly broke Seryu !! Garou was truly far scarier than what Ogre thought. But he was still satisfied with this. He might have lost a few of his men, but in return, Seryu was now more obedient to him than ever. The trauma she experienced won't allow her to act on her own for a while. Seryu was his best tool, and he was glad to see such an outcome.

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"And the empire is fighting against every other country alone?" Garou asked Himiko

"yes, The empire is the strongest country in the world-dominating all other countries. And as of late, the empire started sending armies to destroy all other countries around it to keep itself as the strongest and remind the world of its might!" Himiko answered Garou. By now, she was not as fearful of Garou as earlier, as he didn't do anything to harm her or the children. He merely asked questions, and many of them were simple ones that any child in the street knows.

It was kinda funny how a powerful man who could cause so much damage and scare the police soldiers to retreat, doesn't have basic knowledge of the world. She wondered in what cave did he live before coming to the capital.

"What about the police? The looked quite corrupted to me or have crazy soldiers. Who is responsible for that gathering of filth?" Garou asked again.

Himiko sighed and said, "It wasn't always like this. You see, when the previous emperor was still alive. Police where the optime of goodness and fairness. However, after his death, everything went wrong."

"The new emperor is an evil tyrant" Garou casually asked.

"No, the new one is a little child, the son of the previous emperor. As far as I know, he is a little kid ignorant about how to manage the empire. So he is just a symbol sitting on the throne. The real man in control is the prime minister, I heard he is someone irresponsible and prefer to keep eating. He pushes all the work for his subordinates without care which resulted in spreading corruption. The police force where among the first to be corrupted as these men removed the old good police chiefs and captains and replaced with their men, so they could control the law. I'm not really sure about the details, there are many rumours about how things came to this" Himiko answered.

Himiko didn't know about the prime minister crimes in detail, she was unaware that he spread corruption on purpose to have an easier time ruling the empire. What she knew was the general speculation the common people came up with and rumours.

"Do you remember the little dog that was the police girl? What kind of beast it was? I felt something of it being unnatural but couldn't put my finger on it" Garou asked. He felt that Seryu's dog was not a simple dangerous best. He wanted to know if it is known around here.

Himiko shook her head, "I don't know, but I heard rumours about powerful weapons created by using S ranked dangerous beasts called teigu or imperial arms. They were created by the first emperor when the empire came to be. I don't know anything else."

Garou closed his eyes as he remembered his interaction with Seryu and the rest, he remembers the other soldier calling Koru a teigu. So it was a powerful old weapon !!

Garou opened his eyes and said, "Thank you, that was helpful."

"Umm …. Mister" Ari, who was sitting with her brother near Himiko silently until now spoke

Garou and Himiko looked at the little girl, who continued speaking "Can you stay with us? Bad people might come again" she asked hopefully.

Garou didn't answer her, but Himiko did "Mister Garou might be busy and can't stay here all the time to protect us."

"Then let's hire him !!!" Eren said, supporting his sister.

"We are too poor, we barely have money for food," Himiko said bitterly. She understood the children insecurities, but there was nothing she can do here. Putting aside her fear of Garou, she knew they barely had money to feed the children, let alone hiring someone. And she knew rich people would pay tons of gold for Garou to work for them.

"If you can provide me with a quiet place to stay, then I don't mind. And if you know how to cook, then the food is not an issue. I can hunt a few animals and beasts, it should solve the food issue" Garou said casually.

He needed a place to stay, not to mention he didn't know how to cook, he wanted to eat a tasty cooked food. Finally, he was a broken man with empty pockets, gathering money was not hard considering how strong he was. But he was not willing to step too low for it. Also, he didn't want to look for rich people and work for them because he despises rich people and those in power, he would prefer to stay in simple orphan overworking for them. Finally, seeing how bad the situation in the orphanage, helping the children a little is not a bad idea.

In front of him, the two children jumped happily while Himiko was stunned. She didn't see it coming.

"But ….." Himiko wanted to say something

"Do you have a problem ?" Garou interrupted her

His casual question made her shiver, she shook her head as she replied "No, you are more than welcome."

Garou didn't mean to scare her, it was only a casual question. But his display earlier made his casual words quite the threat. After all, who would want to piss someone like him?

With this, his first day in the capital ended with him finding a place to stay and someone to cook for him. In Garou's eyes, this was a peaceful day.