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Akame didn't react, so Lubbock quickly pulled Tatsumi up and led the two away.

Fighting is impossible.

The longer they delay, the more dangerous they become.

The best course of action right now is to leave immediately.

As they gradually disappeared from view, Xiaolin's perspective kept rising.

On the top of the mountain in the distance.

Dr. and his enhanced soldiers were keeping a close watch on the area from a distance.

Unfortunately, the Imperial Arms' abilities are far more powerful than those of the enhanced soldiers, and Kobayashi was able to detect them very easily.

"Instead of reporting to Esdeath that I was colluding with Night Raid, you've made finding Night Raid's headquarters your top priority, Doctor?"

Looks like I didn't manage to lure him out.

But the ending won't change, Doctor, your time to die has come.

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Night Raid Headquarters

Tatsumi was telling everyone about his experiences with the Hunters. Just as the others thought, the Hunters, like Night Raid, were all composed of Imperial Arms users, and each of them was as strong as the Night Raid members.

Esdeath, however, is on a completely different level.

Having witnessed only a fraction of her strength, Tatsumi asserted that the few of them alone were no match for her head-on, just as Kobayashi had initially predicted.

However, Akame's solution was her Imperial Arm, "One-Hit Kill," which allowed her to use her curse ability to kill Esdeath as long as Murasame could harm her.

This wasn't a great answer, but they could only pin their hopes on their strongest ace—Akame.

"Speaking of Kobayashi, he..."

"Just as I guessed."

"That idiot! Why didn't you just say what was wrong? Why did you run away?!"

"Even though that's what you say, Leone, you're actually the happiest, right? You were still fuming when you came back yesterday."

"What did you say?!"

Leone, angrily having her thoughts exposed, rubbed Mine's cheeks, causing the petite twin-tailed loli to beg for mercy.

"In any case, it's best if Tatsumi comes back safely."

"Alright! Let's hold a banquet then!"

"Oh!"xN

No, no, no, we can't let our guard down so soon after we get back.

It seems that Najendan's absence has made them complacent.

Using his [Far-sightedness] ability, Kobayashi shook his head and sighed helplessly, then said to the shadowy figure behind him who was constantly beckoning his subordinates to surround him:

"To overlook the possibility of being tracked is the worst mistake an assassin can make, don't you agree, Doctor?"

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"You're right, Kobayashi."

The doctor didn't try to hide anything and stepped out of the shadows, explaining, "I found it strange that a mere blacksmith couldn't possibly have such strong environmental adaptability. I never expected that I would actually discover Night Raid's headquarters."

"But what if this is a deliberate illusion to lure someone into a trap?" Kobayashi tilted his head, looking at the excited professor.

"……What's the meaning?"

"nothing."

The doctor's questioning only elicited a strange smile from Kobayashi, which made him feel a sense of crisis.

But it was forcibly suppressed.

"Kobayashi, you didn't show up here to help me eliminate the Night Raid, did you?"

"No, I came here specifically to see the doctor."

Although the two were smiling throughout their conversation, the tension was escalating, and their murderous intent was growing stronger.

There was absolutely no mention of the fact that the two are now on the same side and are both members of the Hunter class.

Because they knew that only one side could leave alive tonight.

However, Kobayashi still has a question.

"Doctor, why didn't you pass on the information about my contact with Night Raid to Esdeath first?"

"Because there are countless reasons to explain it."

The doctor shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Even if you were originally a member of Night Raid, General Esdeath wouldn't care, after all, that's the kind of person she is."

Furthermore, you can easily claim that you abandoned the darkness and joined the Hunters, and you can use the excuse of rejecting their attempts to seduce you to cover up the earlier encounter.

"I see, I've learned something."

In reality, Kobayashi didn't think that much about it. He was hoping that the professor would cause trouble when he was in contact with Akame and the others.

Killing the postdoctoral fellow in front of them would provide a more plausible explanation for his unusual behavior and make the raiders more convinced that he had a reason for his actions.

Unfortunately, he didn't jump.

"However, I can tell you definitively, Doctor, that I am not a member of Night Raid, and never have been."

"Is there any point in saying this now?"

"Well, you're right."

Kobayashi nodded.

But then he said something strange, “Doctor, I actually saw your future.”

"My...future?"

The doctor's eyes flickered slightly, and his fingers twitched slightly.

While seemingly talking to Kobayashi, he was actually issuing orders in secret, instructing the group that had already formed an encirclement to launch a surprise attack on Kobayashi.

Kobayashi acted as if he hadn't noticed at all.

He countered with, "But I have a question—can the future be changed? If it can be changed, how? And what impact will the change have? I'm very curious."

"Those kinds of things... you can think about them after you're dead!"

The doctor had no intention of listening to Kobayashi's nonsense, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the enhanced soldiers hidden in the shadows to attack together.

Including the Imperial Arms user he specifically brought to ensure the success of the Night Raid.

—The new owner of [A Cut Apart].

Dozens of strangely shaped, enhanced soldiers charged forward, their eyes gleaming with fanaticism and their mouths drooling incomprehensibly. They were so impatient that they seemed to regard Kobayashi as some kind of delicious delicacy.

Even when surrounded by numerous enemies, Kobayashi showed no sign of nervousness.

"Seriously, can't you let people finish speaking?"

Snapped--

The snap of fingers made a crisp sound in the silent night sky.

The enhanced soldiers who kept approaching Kobayashi, their fingers almost touching the hem of his clothes, were frozen in time as if a pause button had been pressed, the slight distance acting as a chasm to block their rudeness.

At the same time, Liu Zi suddenly appeared.

She gracefully lifted her skirt and gave a slight bow, as if she had just done something insignificant.

"W-What's going on...?!"

The doctor's eyes widened, clearly displeased with his men who had suddenly stopped. He shouted, "Hey! What are you doing? Take him down right now! Hurry up!"

But no one in the room obeyed his orders.

Even the enhanced soldier beside him seemed startled by his loud rebuke, his body trembling slightly.

then.

Several blood-red threads appeared on the soldier's body.

To the doctor's horrified gaze, the thread tore wider and wider, and a large amount of bright red blood gushed out from it, staining his white coat red.

Having lost the connection of the skin, the body suddenly collapsed, turning into several pieces scattered on the ground.

The enhanced soldiers beside him acted as a trigger, and the other enhanced soldiers, including the new Imperial Arms user who could "cut in two with a single stroke," followed suit like dominoes.

The doctor was surrounded by a large number of severed limbs and pools of bright red blood.

The scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, resembling a scroll painting of hell, caused the doctor's adrenaline to surge, and his expression grew increasingly terrified.

"Oops, I accidentally went too far."

Xiaolin, his body spotless, slowly walked towards the doctor from the sea of ​​blood.

Their leisurely stroll was exactly the same as when they had attacked the mountain bandits yesterday, a stark contrast to the doctor who was disheveled and covered in bright red blood.

"Doctor, actually I hate you the most."

"……Aha?"

"But I never expected you to survive to the end, which is what I find puzzling. So I want to conduct an experiment: if you hadn't survived to the end, could the future have been changed?"

The scene he saw was missing two people.

One is Esdeath, and the other is Leone.

Esdeath can be understood as someone who refused to submit and ultimately chose self-destruction, but Leone is definitely not that kind of person.

There are only two reasons why she didn't show up.

First, she was shrouded in an even thicker fog on the stage; second, she died twice and could not be resurrected.

But whichever it is, he needs to conduct the experiment.

Kobayashi smiled and said to him, "Doctor, thank you for helping me bring out the Imperial Arms."