Chapter 218: Running in Different directions
— Akame leaned forward, coughed, and started spitting blood.
The intense pain made her shiver, but Akame didn't let out a moan.
Tatsumi wanted to rush forward and help her, but when he made a move, an orange laser slammed into the ground right in front of his feet.
The meaning of this warning was all too obvious. Since even Akame couldn't fight him, Tatsumi definitely wouldn't be able to do anything.
Akame's condition was very bad right now. Large number of broken bones, punctured chest...
— Nine-seven-three-seven-nine! Akame shouted.
Tatsumi had only recently joined the Night Raid and wasn't familiar with these numbers, but Mine understood.
Three orange lasers were fired right in front of Tatsumi and each one fell closer to Tatsumi's feet.
Akame herself began to gradually retreat, and the Main's fire support subsided. Tatsumi quickly realized what was going on and started to retreat.
Akame stared at Su Xiao and waited.
Su Xiao looked at Akame and the Main Road in the distance. After that, he looked at Tatsumi.
They were retreating in three different directions.
He could only go after one person.
— Decided to go this way?.. Su Xiao muttered as he rushed towards one person at full speed.
His target was Tatsumi! He didn't believe Akame would give up on him and not save him.
Akame clenched her teeth tightly. Their enemy was a hundred times more cunning than she had thought, and she could only abandon her original strategy now.
At that moment, Tatsumi realized that he had become a burden.
After realizing this, Tatsumi felt a large rock fall on his chest. His gaze gradually became firm.
Tatsumi looked at Su Xiao, who was approaching him very quickly, and looked at the bottomless waters three meters away.
And then he jumped. Tatsumi jumped into the salt water, even though there was an open and very serious wound on his chest.
Even if he doesn't drown, he may die from shock or infection.
— Su Xiao immediately changed his direction and ran towards Main.
There was a dull splash in the distance as Mine jumped into the water as well.
Su Xiao stopped walking. — Clear.
This time Su Xiao looked at Akame.
Akame, on the other hand, saw Tatsumi jump into the water and immediately started running away.
If it didn't leave a trail of blood, Su Xiao would have thought that it wasn't injured at all, as it moved very fast.
Su Xiao hesitated. He began to think about whether he should continue the chase.
He had been chasing the enemy since morning until now. Today, he was just cultivating his stamina rather than trying to kill his enemies.
First, a marathon in the form of chasing Leon through the forest...
Then the devil's swamp...
Now Tatsumi was also in the water, and Akame was also running away from him.
The direction Akame was running in was the inner part of the imperial capital. The situation inside the imperial capital was complicated and it was very well suited to escape.
Leone chose the forest because of her Teigu.
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A bloodied girl was running away from a guy with a sword.
This scene startled many ordinary residents of the imperial capital, and many civilians notified the guards of the incident.
Of course, it wasn't allowed to harass and kill people in the imperial capital. A large number of guards immediately gave chase.
But they didn't stop Akame — instead, they got in Su Xiao's way.
— Stop, put down your sword, you assassin, " the guard captain raised a strange-shaped pistol.
The guards of the imperial capital had firearms.
— I'm a member of the homicide squad and I'm doing my job, " Su Xiao said and showed his killer ID card.
— My Lord, we are very sorry.
After Su Xiao showed the assassin's identity card, the guard captain's attitude changed a lot.
— I'm chasing a member of the Night Raid, immediately tell everyone that all exits from the imperial capital are reinforced. A member of the Night Raid is an eighteen-year-old girl with a sword, wearing black clothes and with wounds on her body, do not let any suspicious people out of the capital or out of it.
— The guard captain straightened up, sweat already streaming down his face.
These guards behaved arrogantly in front of the civilians, but they became obedient sheep in front of the people from the assassin division.
The assassin department was usually run by the royal family or generals. They had the right to do anything. Even if they killed a person on the street, the incident would eventually be hushed up, and the victim's family wouldn't even be paid compensation.
These were the rules in the imperial capital. Power was everything, and those with power could arbitrarily trample on the dignity, body, and mind of ordinary people.
Given this, it wasn't surprising that the empire eventually collapsed.
The capital's guards were quickly mobilized, and all entrances and exits were reinforced.
However, it wasn't difficult for the members of the Night Raid to silently leave and enter the imperial capital.
After entering one of the alleys, Su Xiao squatted down and found some blood on the ground.
Putting his finger to the blood, he felt that it was still warm.
There were white clothes scattered around, and some of those clothes were stained with bloodstains. It must have been Akame who threw these clothes around while she was looking for something to use to bind up her wounds.
Su Xiao chuckled. He drove the blade of his sword straight into Akame's chest and then made it even bigger with a very simple move.
Although this kind of wound wasn't fatal in the end, it would be extremely difficult to bind up, plus Akame was a girl and this kind of chest wound would be a little more difficult to bind up.
Su Xiao started to follow the trail of blood. Akame was like a wounded deer trying to hide in the imperial capital.
— I want to see how long you can last.
Twenty minutes later, Su Xiao found that he had entered a very shabby street — the surrounding buildings on this street were in disarray, and drunken men were becoming more and more common.
He entered the slum area, the most chaotic and impoverished place in the imperial capital.
If a beautiful woman dares to come to the slums alone, she may be kidnapped, and the next day she will appear on the red light street nearby.
The scale of the chaos here was far more impressive than anyone could have imagined. The fact that the women in this place might have been abducted wasn't the worst part. These drunkards were all people with the most uncertain fates. Today they could fall asleep on a dirty bench, and tomorrow they could wake up on the experiment table.
Su Xiao walked through a dark alley and after a while came out on a busy street.
By this time it was getting dark.
But this street was highlighted in pink or red.
Gentle music intertwined with laughter on this street, and many men and women were snuggled up to each other.
On the balconies of some buildings, he saw women in open clothes. These women looked at the passers-by below and seemed to be looking for a rich guy for the evening.
Su Xiao came to the red light district, the busiest place in the slums.
But Su Xiao didn't just come to the red light district — he still had a sword in his hands, and the blood on his clothes indicated that he had recently killed someone.
This greatly frightened the guests of the red light district.
Naturally, his appearance affected the interests of some people, and these people were not going to sit still.
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