ABOUT 8HRS EARLIER
is Kisumu?" Gil exclaimed out of excitement, "I've never been here before."
"We can tell." Catherine and Akame said in unison.
"You should be more like me, unfazed by such mediocre beaut…" She trailed off as she saw a shop. "is that wearing those tall shoes I want one Akame!" She began tugging on his clothes.
"No."
"But why?"
"Coz you have no clue how to use them."
"Huh?" She gave an exaggerated expression, "Of course I do, I'm a genius."
In the midst of the companies chaos there were somethings they needed to get done.
"Look Blake gave us enough money for travel expenses and food, but if we miss use it then he won't give us anymore."
'Do I look like I'm made of money? Wait actually don't answer that.' Is what he most likely would have said.
"So…"
"So how about we get something to eat then head over and find ourselves some train tickets." He opted for this idea, since he didn't wanna spend the entire day window shopping for shoes.
"I want something exotic." Catherine announced.
"I want something that tastes good." Gil announced his choice.
"Jeez you have such low standards for everything, how undignified are you?"
"Stop using big terms on me!"
And with that Akame had to sit through another one of their fights. Although one could say this was one of their more tamer ones.
Anyway, after this they went to a diner where they grabbed some lunch. And after that Akame decided to make a stop that would have made the two following him question his motives.
"A convinie-- a convenience store… What's that?" Gil asked.
"We're gonna need some more intel, this is the best place to go." He simply said.
All Gil and Catherine could do was shrug as they followed him inside where they were greeted by a lady who was moping the floor.
"Mhh!" She grunted at them.
"Stop, you'll scare away the customers." Said the man at the counter. He was a curious man, yes indeed. One with many tattoos and piercings.
"So you gonna buy some shit or…" He asked.
"I could go for the or." Akame answered.
"?"
"I hear you sell sweat sour spoon sap, curious?"
"Oh? Yes, you must be an OG. Well I must treat our patrons with respect. How can I help you?"
Akame took out a card, "The blue north express I need tickets."
"Seriously, I assume you don't people seeing your face, either that or you don't have any ID."
"The second and third one. He also needs an ID." Akame pointed at Gil who waved back at the man at the register.
He nodded, "OK, I'll just…" He took out his phone and began typing.
"Oh, can I get one of those?" Catherine asked.
"Only if you behave." Akame responded.
"I'm always the best behaved." She put on the cutest face she could muster.
"Liar." Gil coughed.
"Who are you calling a liar you loser?"
"I have no idea what you're saying, I was coughing."
"Akame, Gil called me a liar."
"I did not." Gil defended.
"Gil don't start fights you can win, and Cath stop provoking him."
"Whose side are you on?" They both asked.
"Neither of yours."
The events took place rather slowly, and in truth they were probably in there for a duration of more that 30 minutes.
"Yoo, I have someone willing to negotiate if you've got something good to offer in return."
"What are his conditions?"
"There are three:
1) Someone whose good at sorcery preferably a 3 star sorcerer and above.
2) A person with facial transfiguration, cloaking or any type of sorcery that is able to change physical appearance.
3) Someone whose not interested in country politics."
"Incredibly specific huh?"
"Yes, he also says you should meet at this specific location…" The man showed him a picture, which Akame perfectly visualized.
"Thanks."
"No prob, anything for an OG, we'll just need more recommendations. If you will?"
"I will…" Akame.
***
Now Akame made his way out of the hotel, his footsteps were hasty and silent. It wasn't nice walking outside at night, was it beautiful though? Absolutely, but the cold numbed him to the point of exhaustion.
'Its been a while since I've felt like this, and it mostly has to do with the bloodlust I can feel emanating from that woman.' He thought, 'She' hidden her signature but It seems her lust for my demise is something she can't control.'
In the distance Jericho watched from a good distance away, all the while still in communication when Teddy. "He's still on the moved." She talked into the ear piece, "In pursuit now."
"Copy that, I'm still outside the building." He was stationed a much shorter building to observe the floors, from there he could see everything, "If anything comes up I'll tell you."
"Copy."
She moved, like the wind. Or at the very least she thought she did. In any case Akame could already feel her presence there, and with the amount of blood lust anyone within 14 meter radius could feel her.
He sighed. "Oh well, time to go for a run I suppose." He took off in a rush.
"Damn, he's moving." She shouted into her ear piece.
The suddenly he upped his speed, this time a bit faster than before.
"He's fast."
'Is he enhancing his body's speed with fragments… wait, even with my eyes this perspective I can tell that there's no fragment energy surrounding his body. I can only feel his life force, which is so little… then how come he's able to move like this? Is this just his physical strength?' She thought before biting her lower lip, "He's gotta be super strong then, I can't contain my excitement."
***
ELSEWHERE
Do you remember the bad parts of town I had mentioned previously, yes we are currently there and there was a man in white buggy clothes that seemed traditional, he also had a large circular hat he wore over his head and used it to cover his head.
He yawned, turning his head a lamp light flickered in the distance. With an interval of three flickers a shadow appeared just below it.
"Hello there, you must be who I am here to meet with." The man in white covered his mouth with a mask.
"Yes." The shadow appeared behind him, a beautiful looking man with white hair and green eyes appeared before him, "Shall we get this meeting started?"
TO BE CONTINUED!