Book Four
Volume 14
Ch. 192 Rome ii
Pov.
-Kara-
"Thorfinn! Get back here, you!" Cana chases after Thorfinn after ditching breakfast
"Leave me alone!" He growls as their voices get closer
"Youre in no position to fight anyone, mister!" She chases after him as he storms though the forrest
"Get over here and fight me!" He growls as I meditate over the lake.
I settle onto the water's surface, inviting him over.
Before he could dive into the water, Cana pounced on his back.
"You little rascal, you! How dare you not eat my eggs and toast and fish and chips!"
Her legs flail behind her as Thorfinn swings around trying to get her off
Despite how ridiculous the sight was I could still feel the rage burning inside him with that nasty look he gave me. Even after finally conceding to Cana
I teleported to Esdeath once they disappeared through the trees.
"I was begining to think you wouldn't come back to me, love."
"Dont call me that."
She smiles
"After this, I want nothing to do with you or the World Government."
"Thats too bad. I was hoping we could live happily ever after, reigning together."
"I already have a family of my own."
"Yes, I've heard you've got quite the habit of abandoning your kids."
…
Pov.
-Cana-
"How is it, do you like it?" I chow into my meal, watching Thorfinn close
"It's fine…" he digs in.
"And you, Paris?"
"It's really good! Thank you, Mrs!"
I smile tenderly, watching how much Thorfinn resembles Kara…
Kara…
For all I know he's a million years old… maybe billions or even a gazillions.
So much rage… I can feel it tearing him down.
And Thorfinn is no different.
Paris helps me clean up after breakfast.
I joined Thorfinn outside where he realized Kara was gone.
"Hi!" I jump on a tree branch, a safe distance from his wrath and plop Lia on my Lap
"What?"
"Do you know your way back home? Your mom must be worried…"
Another Lover's Quarrel…
"Getting rid of me already?"
"What?! No way!" I shriek. "I'm just… I don't know, I'd be worried if Eri went missing too…" I kick my feet.
"Mmm!" Lia claps
"Lia too, but she couldn't get very far even if she tried." I tickle her nose
She giggles hysterically.
I float back to the ground.
"You should try speaking with him, before anything. You two have a lot more in common than you think…"
"That's the problem… it's his fault I can't let go of this rage."
"Except he's been drowning longer than you have."
…
"But he's trying, whether either of you realize it or not… more than anything he wants us to see that… he really does care."
Despite how terribly hard it is for him to express it… I can see him trying to understand. Constantly denying his flesh and choosing us.
His family…
"Your mother. Umm… I'm sure she's really nice…"
Should I be worried about her?
"Shes really beautiful…"
Dang it…
"Like you, Cana."
"Hehehe." I giggle
"It's been over a year since I've last seen her… before that I was gone for ten… now this…"
"You're right… I can't let go."
"You will…" I raise Lia above my head.
She opens her arms begging to be held
He reluctantly takes her. Holding her awkwardly before I teach him how to properly cradle her.
"There's plenty of Lia to go around." I smile softly.
He nods…
At least he's much more open to try than Kara…
Thank God.
Pov.
-Thorfinn-
3 weeks later
"How much longer?" Cana whines, sitting on Kara's lap
"Just a few months." He rubs her back
I step out, before instigating again
He looks exactly the same…
His appearance hasn't changed one bit.
How is that possible?
I thought I wouldn't be able to recognize him but… just seeing his damn face reminds me how much I hated him.
…
I follow the tip I got regarding the rich brat that has been slaughtering outsiders.
I managed without raising any alarm
I step behind the eldest sibling
I bring my hand over her mouth and shove my dagger into her neck.
I twist the dagger and step back before getting any blood on my clothes.
I watch her choke and gag
She reaches for the ceiling
I turn around and throw my dagger at the guard turning the corner, nailing him straight in the temple before he even knew it was coming.
I continued down the halls, taking anyone and everyone who knew what was going on out.
I then finally caught up to a pair racing to the slaughterhouse.
I took out a guard who lagged behind them.
One of the two was an outsider. Another victim whether they know it or not.
"Go ahead and hide, my lady! I'll protect you!"
"Tatsumi!" She cries
…
I sheathe my daggers.
"I'm not here to kill you, brat."
"Wh-Whats your deal?! The-these are good people…"
"Sure… now step aside."
"No way!" He charges at me
I step back
His attacks were gutless and weak
I step aside and smash my fist into his cheek.
"Hrah"
I duck under his blade.
I slam my palm into his chin and grab his wrist, snatching his sword
I raise him off the ground and slam him on his back
I press the blade up to his throat only to find a Katana pressed against mine
I raise my head
"Who are you? Did you kill everyone?" A dark haired girl with blood red colored eyes
"Tatsumi! Hey, there!" A girl with yellow hair, lion paws and a tail peaks over the girl's shoulder.
"Hey! You're the girl that stole my money!"
"You know these two, Leone?" The girl flips her blade so that she doesn't cut me, but clearly ready to slit my throat if anything.
"Not this one. But Tatsumi made a smoking hot donation."
"Donation?! I gave you two pounds of silver, give it back!" Tatsumi kicks his feet
"See? Donation." Leone nudges.
"Enough, did you kill everybody or not?" The girl taps my chin with her blade
"Yes I did."
…
"Why?"
"Same reason you're here."
"Wh-what, why are you here?" Tatsumi gulps
I toss his blade aside
The girl removes her blade off my throat.
"See Akame? We're all in the same team!" Leone claps.
"Can someone tell me what's going on now?" Tatsumi pats himself down.
"This family that took you in, they slaughter outsiders and auction off their organs when they aren't torturing them to death." Leone glares at the girl trying to get into the slaughter house
I draw my dagger
"Hey wait!" Before Tatsumi could stop me I blow past him
Just as the girl got the door open I shove my dagger in through her back, crushing her rib cage and pinning her against the door
"Agk!" She gasps
I grab her hair and tear her back before taking my dagger.
"Oh wow, that was super brutal!" Leone cheers
Tatsumi hurry's over just as I kick the door down
…
He steps inside.
There were hundreds of corpses hanging, imprisoned, and stacked to the ceiling.
He falls to his hands and knees, mourning for two of his companions that were among them.
I step outside.
"Looks like you're really good at this. You should join us." Leone nudges my arm
"I'm not doing this for fun."
"Neither are we…"
Kara… he did this.
This is the depravity he left behind….
That's all he does, he kills everything he touches.
Even Cana… as Innocent as she may be… one day he'll kill that too…
"You okay?" Leone leans in
"I'm fine."
"We've got a super awesome hide out. You can bring your fam if that's your concern." She giggles.
…
"Very well… let's see."
Pov.
-Kara-
This blade…
This Crystallized Hardening.
It's the same one Eren shoved into his chest…
"Like it? Heard it's yours…" Esdeath kicks her feet
…
"Where did you find it?"
"It fell into my lap, believe it or not." She smiles
…
"Lucy…"
"Hmm…" she smiles
That's the Presence inside her.
Lucy must've bound herself with Esdeath's Soul.
"You condemned yourself to hell…"
She crawls over, throwing her arms around my neck
"I couldn't help it… that's just how much I Love You…"
She pecks and licks my neck
"She showed me everything… and I… I've never been so in love…"
…
"The pain you've endured… and the pain you've inflicted… that's what you are… that's what you've always been…"
…
"And I can never get enough of it…" she takes me into her mouth
"Mmm, I need you more… Kara." She moans around me
I set the blade down, sitting back on on her bed.
"Mmm, your Hate, Your Wrath, Your Pain…" she chokes and spits "I know how much you've Lusted for this… how much you miss this…"
I grab her throat.
She climbs on top.
Her walls perfectly take me in.
They strangle me, keeping me from ever letting go until I finished what I came here to do.
…
Esdeath and I pant in a pool of our sweat and fluids.
"So soon?" She grumbled as I sat up
"Nine Months, and you'll get what you wanted."
I pull myself off and gather my stuff
"Oh fine… See-ya around…" she waves
…
I step out of the capital, barely sensing Cana's presence off with Thorfin and the girls.
I teleport to them.
Cana was bathing with the girls. In a secluded valley under a hidden veil.
"See, told you he'd find us!" Cana waves from the lake they bathed in
I wave back before joining Thorfinn, suspecting him for the change of housing.
"What is this?" I ask at the very end of the table.
Everyone looks up. I take the moment to scan their mugs, getting names, alias, and date of births with my sharingan.
"Nghk." They all draw their weapons and charge the very moment they recognize me.
I freeze them all in place. Without any effort.
"Kara… what is he doing here?!" Leone struggles
"Crap we're all totally dead!" Lubbock, a green haired brat, cries
"Wh-who's Kara?" Tatsumi trembles besides Thorfinn, who was giving me that same look as…
Colt…
He looks just like him…
I shake my head…
Seeing that blade must've triggered those memories…
It's been thousands of years… Why is it all coming back to me?
"Let them go." He finally speaks
I shut my eyes, releasing them and trying to get Colts face out of my head.
"I won't ask again." I cross my arms
"First tell us what you're doing here!" Bulat growls
"I'm not speaking to you, faggot."
They all lift up their arms. Only to have them all flung to the ceiling.
"Kara! It's so awesome. Have you had a look around?!" Cana hurries over in her bikini and her hair soaking wet as she rummages through the closet full of floaters
"Kya! My eyes!" Lubbock cries before he could even attempt to look at her with a lustful gaze.
"Come outside we're having so much fun!" She hurries back out with as many floaters as she could carry
…
"Thorfinn is this…"
"My Father… yes."
"Why did you bring them here, Thorfinn?"
"It's safe… don't get the wrong idea, I did this for Cana."
"And what's this?" I look around "Planning to take on the Empire yourselves?"
"Trying to save what's left of it…" Akame says
"What you destroyed." Thorfinn adds
"It's pointless. Esdeath will lay you out without raising a finger."
"Screw you…" Leone snares
"And you know, how?!" Tatsumi grips his blade still in its sheath.
"Beecause I can."
She is my equal. No thanks to Lucy.
"Do what you will." I look at Thorfinn "Don't look to me for help…"
…
Thorfinn joins them on a mission as I join Najenda outside
"You… I especially sense an overwhelming abundance of hate and resentment from you."
…
"Dont be suprised… I was only a child after all…" she grabs her shoulder
"I see…" she must have been one of the many slave girls we indulged with.
"I knew the war was lost the moment you returned to the Empire. When the time comes we know exactly where you'll stand."
"You don't know anything about me."
"Is that right? Your first thought was to kill me, wasn't it?"
…
"Over what? A jab at your pride?"
"That goes for both of us doesn't it? I took something precious from you. Something you can never take back." I smile
"Damn you!" She charges at me
I step back, before crushing her into the ground
"Agh!"
"Hey! What's going on around here!" Cana jumps out of the tree from behind her
I release Najenda
She spits and curses before storming off
"Did you sense me? Well, did you?" Cana jumps
"No, I didn't. What was that?"
"Score!" She twirls.
"It's a spell I learned."
"Which one?"
"I'm glad you asked!" She swings her cape over herself
Her presence completely disappears, perfectly camouflaging with the environment around us
Not even the dry leaves on the ground reacted to her stepping all over them.
"Heheh." Cana giggles, sitting on my shoulder.
I find a nice tree and sit back as she settles on my lap
…
"Thorfinn is doing better…"
"Yeah… hasn't tried to kill me…"
…
"Is the capital really that bad?"
…
"It's the worst you can imagine, Cana. The depravity I left behind…"
"You were just following orders…"
"Was I? Is that what I did in Japan?"
"Yes… you were a slave to your own rage… but now, you see things more clearly…"
Cana traces the scars around my neck, debating something in her head She finds the courage to say it.
"For where Sin Abides Grace is Abundant All the More."
"Cana." I roll my eyes
"What? It's true…" she pouts. "Im so happy to have you, Kara." She rests her head on my chest.
I hold her close…
"Well, I don't wanna hear it."
…
"Mmf." She pouts
…
-to be continued