Akame Ga Kill: Trios Revenge

Blood Killer: Ren

It's been nearly three months since Selan had died. It feels like it only happened. He was the one who kept us going, who led us, who kept us alive even in the direst situations and he died to keep us together. That's what he was destined to do. In the past few months, Najenda's kept us busy by doing side missions. Taking out guard captains on the countryside so that the Revolutionary Army can make camps out of the taken villages. The rest of Night Raid doesn't fully trust Anna yet. She's had her bad days and her good days. At least today, is a good day. Najneda's got another mission for us. 

"I don't know if you heard the rumors or not," Najenda says, "but we've managed to lose three villages to an unknown enemy. Akame has told me that it is the Empire, but it's only one man. He must be a new addition to the Jaegers and is extremely dangerous. The locals around the areas have been calling him the Blood Killer. It appears that he can use his own blood as a weapon. I advise extreme caution you two. Take down this User and take his weapon from him, or better yet, try and recruit him. We need all the help we can get."

"You think we can take this guy down?" I ask.

"Why just us?" Anna pipes in, "If he's that dangerous, why not send Akame, or one of the others. They have more battle experience than us."

"The time to prove yourself worthy to our cause is now." Najenda lights up a cigarette, "If you defeat this killer, we'll fully welcome you both into Night Raid. Now go, I expect you two to do well."

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We've been following leads about this Blood Killer for a few days now and we've gotten nothing. He seems to have completely disappear from the area. His trail of destruction goes in a triangle of villages and he's destroyed more than the three we were looking for. I wonder what Teigu he uses. I wonder if we'll even be able to defeat him. I grip Yami as a blade whizzes through the air. I turn on my heels and slash the blade away. It would seem the Killer has found us instead.

"I can't have my targets fighting back, now can I?" A man walks out of shadows of the forest, "Do you really think you can beat me?" He's dressed in a cloak that covers his whole body. He drops his hood and I'm surprised to find that he's nearly my age. He's been in some hardship in the past as well. He has scraggy black hair and dark blue eyes. He drops the cloak onto the ground and his weapon is revealed. A chain with small spikes is wrapped around his waist and run down his arms in armored sleeves. And at the end of the chains are two blades. "Play time." He smiles and instantly disappears. I step in front of Anna as she touches her seal. I block one blade as the other wraps itself around my leg. Spikes dig into my calf and blood spurts onto the forest floor. I scream in pain and get thrown into a tree. I nearly wrap around it from the force of the blow. Yami clatters to my side as I gasp for air. "You, I'm not interested in. Your sister however, is a worthy opponent." Anna flashes forwards and catches the blades in between hers. She manages to land a kick into the boy's chest and sends him stumbling backwards. I crawl to my the tree and use it to stand up. I grab Yami off the ground and watch the Killer and Anna fight. He's only toying with her and I can't read his movements at all. He's on a whole different level than us. I dash forward to help out Anna, only to get a blade piercing straight through my shoulder. "Stay out of this Ren." He's so calm about the situation. He knows that he has already won this fight from the moment it started. It wasn't us that was hunting him this whole time, it was him hunting us. We're the targets that the Empire wants. They only want Anna back.

"Rirīsuwaibān!" Anna yells out, "I'm gonna kill you if it's the last thing I do. I will bring peace to this world." I've only seen her do her trump once, but Master told her not to use it anymore. I only hope she knows what she is doing. The fiery green wings sprout from her back and her left hand turns into a fiery green claw.