The Longsword Of The Renmant Flame

Billy's body trembled when he gazed at Alice, who seemed at his own age… It's her… Alice suddenly ran away, surprising Billy.

Billy: Wait a moment!

Billy chased after her, strangely, she was much faster than she should be, maybe she trained too… or...

Meanwhile, at the corner of the alleyway that was behind him, Akame popped out.

Akame: What's taking you so long, Billy?

However, the alleyway was completely empty, except for the small puddle of piss at the side. At the other side, Billy and Alice arrived in front of an abandoned church, both of them were not tired in the slightest.

Billy rushed at Alice and… Threw a fist on her, which was caught from her with a single palm. 

Billy: ...I knew it. You are Zank, right?

Zank: Haha, you found out? I guess this woman must not be that much important then.

Alice's figure distorted and it turned into that of Zank, that was holding a palm against Billy's punch. He was a blonde haired man with a pair of of tufts that sticked up above his head, his eyes were blue, there was an eye-shaped headgear on his head, revealing a green mechanical eye, and was wearing a long coat.

Zank: If I didn't read your mind with my Teigu then I would have believed your act, you are really good, you know?

Billy: Heh, many people told me that in the past… I know that Alice was dead, she would not have lied about something like that. If I was more naivier that I am now, maybe you could have been successful on your trick.

Billy put his other hand on the hilt of his sword while Zank stepped back, dodging a slash that almost grazed his clothes.

Billy: 'Did he just seen through my attack? It must be the Teigu on his head…'

Zank: Bingo! Teigu "Spectator". One of its five sight abilities, "Insight". It can ready your thoughts by seeing your facial expressions, body language, and stuff like that. Think of it as an extreme form of observation.

Billy: You are pretty talkative, aren't you?

Zank: Talking is one of my hobbies after all. Oh, and by the way… The power used to find you was "Farsight". Whether it's night, or foggy, I can see you clear as day!!

Billy kicked the ground and thrusted his katana forward.

Billy: If you can read my mind by observing my body language, then I'll just need to have a serene heart…

Billy's eyes turned empty, and a strange suffocating atmosphere appeared around Billy. His father, Bora, teached him this trick to weaken the informations received from one's five senses and exponentially strengthen the sixth sense. 

Billy was seeing black and white, his nose lost the sense of smell, same with the taste, while he could hear only incredibly low whispers which should be screams and his sense of tact was dulled.

Even so, he could literally see Zank's eerie killing intent and bloodl.u.s.t as if it was dragon ball's ki aura.

Zank: Serene heart, you said? Interesting…

Suddenly, Billy's sword stance changed, it was as if he was still wielding Meat Grinder, holding the katana with both of his hand as he stared down on Zank. A tyrannical aura surged up from Billy.

There was this phrase, the weapon is scary depending on the person that was wielding it, if a baby wielded a Teigu, then it would be just laughed at, but if an a.d.u.l.t successfully use chopsticks as a lethal weapon, he would be feared.

Billy jumped in the sky, and Zank continued to observe him, through another sight ability, he was being able to see Billy's movements on the muscles, being able to see his next attack. So he took out his Kataras and put up his guard.

When Billy slashed downwards with his light katana, an immense weight came upon Zank, surprising him. His knees bent and the pressure from that strike caused a great smoke screen to appear, covering the two of them.

When the smoke screen was cleared, Zank observed with shock that Billy's katana was halfway to snapping in two one of his Karatas. Billy and Zank were stuck like that for some moments, before Billy started to push forward, and used the opportunity of Zank stuck on him to throw him through a wall, destroying the first Karata.

When Zank opened his eyes again, he saw Billy that was almost impaling his heart, so he moved his c.h.e.s.t away, dodging the katana that embed itself on the debris behind him like an hot knife in butter.

Zank's sight turned back to Billy, who let go of the hilt of his sword and almost punched him, Zank blocked his punch by putting his other Karata in front of him, but Billy's punch suddenly shifted a bit lower, aiming for his arm and snapping it in two with the sheer strength that fist carried.

The punch continued forward until it completely broke the arm's bones, and sent Zank's body deeper in the ground. Then Billy stomped on both of his arms to stop him from guarding himself and bent his back down, before sending a series of slow but strong punches straight in the ground.

He started slowly before the speed of his punches were really fast, abnormal for a normal greatsword master. And after finishing to pummel Zank in the ground, he stopped and blinked, his five senses turned back to normal little by little. He looked down to a certainly dead Zank, seeing as his body was full of holes done halfway through the body.

Billy: That'll teach you to not play with other people's emotions…

Billy picked up Zank's Teigu, Spectator, and turned around.

Billy: Sorry Akame, I didn't warn you because I wanted to sneak upon him.

Akame was in front of him, she shook her head and said.

Akame: Everything is fine if you can carry out the job perfectly, your fight attracted a bit of attention, it's better if we leave now.

Billy: Yeah.

Billy picked up his katana from the ground and left the area, warning the other two teams about the mission completed and turning together back to the hideout.

An entire day passed since then, and now it was evening. Billy was over the cliff where the hideout stood, and looked at the moon that was slowly coming out from the valleys far away from there, he took out a familiar letter and gazed at it. 

Even after being heavily injured and attacked with pressurized water back then at the castle, he did his best to avoid that the letter was damaged.

Billy: Alice… So that's how you look if you would be still alive… It's a shame that you aren't here anymore.

Suddenly, an apron covered his head, he turned back and saw Akame.

Akame: What are you doing out here? We have dinner to prepare, you know.

Billy closed his eyes and let out a long sigh. He folded back his letter and put it in his pockets, before he picked the apron and followed Akame.

Billy: Here, here, I'm coming. Don't twist your p.a.n.t.i.e.s.

Akame: Hmm, if you try to kiss me again without any good reason or warning then I'll kick you straight in your manhood.

Billy: Yeah, yeah… Let's just get this job done, I need to rest a bit.

Akame let out a slight smile before she took Billy back to the kitchen to make dinner.