Zhang Yong crawled through the streets of a certain city, blood dripping from him.
He encountered several guards as he was getting out, and Death Qi put pressure on his body.
His body was fragile, and his recent excessive use of Death Qi had nearly destroyed him.
After waking up in that room and killing the noble, the guards came, and he burned them as soon as they entered. After that, he used Dark Dragon Dash to face the remaining guards and ended up burning down the entire mansion.
His injuries were severe, to say the truth. It seemed the original owner of the body had been tortured, but Zhang Yong did not obtain his memories, which made it difficult for him to know exactly where he was or in which world.
Upon reaching the city, the Death Qi he had gathered ran out completely.
After walking for a while, he collapsed on the ground.
"Hey, you! Are you alright?!"
Zhang Yong heard the voice of someone approaching him, but everything was blurry in his vision.
Then, the sound of a carriage came, and from it came the voice of a young girl.
Immediately after, he lost consciousness.
...
When Zhang Yong woke up, he found himself lying on a comfortable bed in a warm room lit by dim lamps.
He felt sharp pains spreading through his body, but he noticed that his wounds had been carefully bandaged.
At that moment, he looked ahead and saw a girl in maid's clothes looking at him. She began, surprised, "Ah... I-I'll call the lady." Then she hurried out.
Zhang Yong looked toward her as she left the room quickly. His expression was full of confusion. "What just happened?"
A few minutes later, the maid returned, accompanied by two people. The first was a young man of medium height, with green eyes and medium-length brown hair, a wavy strand falling heavily. The second was a gentle-looking young girl.
Her blonde hair reached her shoulders, adorned with a soft, light blue accessory. Her eyes were blue.
She wore a white, long-sleeved shirt with a light blue ribbon around her neck.
"Oh, you're finally awake!" she said cheerfully.
"Aria-san," the young man standing beside her whispered cautiously. "Don't get too close. We don't know if this man is wanted or something."
"But Tatsumi, you can't say that. I think it's impossible that he's wanted." Then the girl turned toward Zhang Yong and smiled brightly. "Right?"
Zhang Yong looked at the girl and was immediately overcome with nausea. After living through more than five thousand years of memories, he had developed a sensitivity to the slightest bloodthirst in a person, from which he could judge how many people the person before him had killed. The more unpleasant the scent emanating from the person, the higher the kill count. And this girl... she emanated an extremely unpleasant scent.
Zhang Yong looked at her and nodded his head. Then that girl turned toward the young man and smiled. "I'll leave you with your friend. See you later." Then she turned and left.
As soon as that girl left the room, Zhang Yong and the young man stared at each other for a while before the young man sighed, approached, and sat on the chair beside the bed. "God, I was worried when I saw you fall. I thought you were a corpse on the roadside."
Zhang Yong looked at this boy and felt a sense of familiarity with him, as if he had seen him before.
"What's wrong with you? Why don't you speak? Are you deaf and mute?" The young man looked at Zhang Yong and felt as if he was acting arrogantly toward him.
The young man sighed again. "Anyway, you have to make sure to thank Aria-san. If it weren't for her, you'd be sleeping on the roadside. Isn't she like an angel? I can't believe there's someone as kind as her. Even her parents are kind. They even offered to help me join the army." He said enthusiastically.
Zhang Yong stared at him for a while before saying, "What's your name?"
"Oh, what?! You could talk this whole time? Why didn't you say anything?" The young man seemed annoyed. "I'm Tatsumi, and I'll be joining the army soon. I'll definitely become a famous general, so remember my name well."
Zhang Yong did nothing more than nod his head at Tatsumi's words. This boy didn't seem like a bad person—no, rather, he didn't have that unpleasant scent around him. He seemed pure.
"Can you give me some time to rest?" Zhang Yong looked toward Tatsumi and asked calmly.
"Alright, sure!" Tatsumi stood up from the chair. "Anyway, you should indeed rest." Then he walked toward the door and left.
Zhang Yong looked out the window. A new world, a fresh start. Then he closed his eyes and smiled to himself 'At least I have my Dantian. But... the spiritual energy in this world is scarce. Still, it exists at least'
Then Zhang Yong took a lotus position. The world mission hasn't arrived yet. I must prepare.
He looked at his skill list. Everything was locked, and he would have to train them all over again, from the beginning.
"This is going to be troublesome."
Regarding methods of cultivating spiritual energy, he had three choices.
The Grand Circulation of Spiritual Energy was useful for people even if they lacked resources, increased cultivation speed, and was useful even for those without talent.
The Five Sacred Elements Technique: Zhang Yong had chosen this technique initially to build a solid foundation. His system would cause rapid breakthroughs, and to keep up with that, he needed to strengthen his foundation.
Then, the Mysterious Heaven Technique, which he obtained from Tang San. It was also a technique that strengthened the foundation and help gathering and Purifying spirit energy
'Let's see. The Five Sacred Elements Technique would be slow. And in this world, I don't know how long I'll stay. I need power quickly, not stability. The same goes for the Mysterious Heaven Technique. That only leaves the Grand Circulation of Spiritual Energy' He smiled secretly and decided to choose this art first
The time had already passed midday when he began.
After choosing the Grand Circulation of Spiritual Energy, Zhang Yong began to focus on regulating his breathing and drawing in the surrounding spiritual energy.
Despite its scarcity in this world, he was determined to extract every atom of it.
The process was slow and painful, as if he were trying to drink water through a thin straw.
After hours of effort, he felt a thin stream of energy enter his body, flowing through the basic energy pathways.
[Obtained +1 Experience Point]
"This takes me back to the old days. The status screen."
[Status
Name: Zhang Yong (Hegai Naoto)
Age: 18
Body: Life-Death physique lvl7
Level 1 [1/500]
Strength: 9
Endurance: 8
Agility: 8
Intelligence: 10
Spiritual Energy: 1
Status Points: 0
Emotion Points: 8,182,182
Abilities
Skills. Store. Inventory. Missions.
Gambling
]
This time, this was a red window. This was this world's window.
"You must be joking. This boy has higher stats than I had when I first got the system?" Zhang Yong couldn't help but frown at this. He looked outside the window. It was night.
Then suddenly, he felt a powerful killing intent emanating from a nearby place.
He struggled to his feet, kicked the door open, and started running. At that moment, blood began to pour from his body again because the speed he was moving was faster than his already injured body could bear.
Then he turned his gaze outward and activated the Eternal Dream Field. There was that scene.
It caught his attention: silhouettes of people standing in the night sky.
In front of a red moon, below it the silhouettes appeared: a girl with pink hair carrying a huge gun, a girl with black hair and a katana, a person in armor carrying a spear, a man with green hair wearing goggles on his head and gloves gleaming with iron claws, and a blonde girl who had cat ears and tiger claws.
This scene was familiar to Zhang Yong, but he didn't know where he had seen it.
Then he saw Tatsumi below chasing after a guard with the girl called Aria.
At that moment, Zhang Yong held his head. His mental energy was too low to use his skill.
'Should I run away? After all, I don't care about the boy. But if these people aim to wipe out the entire mansion, I'll be caught in it. The best solution would be to get rid of them' Zhang Yong thought and analyzed his chances but found no other option.
Immediately, he broke the window glass, drawing the attention of the individuals standing in the sky.
The girl carrying the katana had already headed toward Tatsumi after killing the first guard.
At that moment, Zhang Yong pushed his body and reached Tatsumi's side.
Upon seeing him, Tatsumi was suddenly astonished. "What are you doing? An injured person shouldn't fight."
Nevertheless, Zhang Yong ignored him and stood in front of the girl who was carrying the katana.
She wore a sleeveless dark shirt with a white collar and a red tie, and a red belt with a red side panel over a black pleated skirt.
"Not a target... I'll kill you both if you stand in my way." The girl looked at the two with sharp expressions.
Zhang Yong felt it when he looked into her eyes. They both had the look of a seasoned killer.
He realized immediately that he could not defeat her in his current condition. He was still weak.
While his blood dripped onto the ground, he felt the presence of Death Qi in the place. Exactly, it seemed to be coming from the warehouse.
Zhang Yong jumped to the side, broke down the warehouse door with his body, immediately activated the Absorption Palm, and the Death Qi began to swirl around his body and enter him.
While Tatsumi stared in shock, unable to believe what he saw. Inside the warehouse, there were many corpses, hanging, tortured, and dismembered bodies. Eyes dangling from the wall. Foul blood seeping onto the ground. It was literally a scene from hell.
Zhang Yong stood up from his place and returned outside. "Now I can fight."
Tai Yin Si Xiang - White Tiger Sword
Immediately, the Death Qi in Zhang Yong's hand transformed into a sword of black light.
He advanced toward them and rushed quickly toward the girl, swinging his sword with force. The two swords clashed powerfully, and Zhang Yong was pushed backward by the force.
At that moment, the girl with cat ears appeared and pulled Akame by the back of her neck. "That's enough, Akame."
The girl with the katana, named Akame, raised her head to look at the cat-eared one. She was clearly taller than her. "What are you doing, Leone?" Akame's face was expressionless.
Then Leone looked toward Zhang Yong. "Instead of fighting, don't you think it's better to check on your friend behind you?"
At that moment, Zhang Yong was shocked when he heard the names. Akame? Leone? Tatsumi?
He realized. He had transmigrated into the world of Akame ga Kill!
Behind him, Tatsumi was shocked by what he saw. "Sayo?"
His gaze was fixed on the corpse of a naked girl, with long black hair, her lower body missing, and blood dripping from her corpse.
Leone approached him and stood beside him in front of the warehouse entrance filled with corpses.
"So you know someone? This girl you're trying to protect, she and her family are a bunch of sadists who kidnap people coming from unknown places to play with them as they please."
While Leone was speaking, Aria tried to secretly escape, but Leone noticed immediately and grabbed her. "You still want to protect her?"
Immediately, Aria screamed, "That's not true, Tatsumi! You have to believe me! I don't know anything about this place!"
"Ta... Tatsumi..." A voice came from one of the dungeons. Inside, there was a young man, in a miserable state from severe torture. "Tatsumi... it's me... Ieyasu..."
"That girl... she invited us. After eating... we woke up here... She tortured Sayo to death...!"
At that moment, the girl's expression changed. "And what's wrong with that?" Then she pushed herself free from Leone's hand. "You worthless fools from the villages. You're no better than livestock..."
At that moment, Zhang Yong's arm rose, and he grabbed the girl by her neck and lifted her. "How much I hate your kind. Unfortunately, I'm not the one who will kill you."
At that moment, Zhang Yong released her. "What the—" Before she could realize anything, Tatsumi moved and cut her throat.
At that moment, a coughing sound came from Ieyasu's cell, so Tatsumi hurried to him.
"He's in the final stage of the Lump of Corruption disease. The lady of the house was feeding them drugs for experimentation. He can't be saved anymore," Akame revealed calmly.
'This boy cannot be saved'. Zhang Yong kept staring at Tatsumi during his final moments with his childhood friend.
'Perhaps I could have cured him, but why would I treat someone destined to die?' Zhang Yong looked coldly toward Ieyasu before his body burst with blood from the wounds he hadn't healed earlier.
After pushing his body beyond what it could bear, he collapsed to the ground, drowning in his own blood.