Even if I transform, I will never be captured.

Akame remained silent as she stared at the Imperial Arm named Murasame that had fallen before her eyes.

One minute ago, or thirty seconds ago?

In short, because of a word from "God," the sky changed from noon to night, and Gozchi, seemingly unable to withstand the pressure, launched an attack on "God."

"You think you can fool me with a mere illusion-type Imperial Arm? Watch me shatter your illusions!"

The god spoke, his indifferent voice as if everything in the world were just bubbles.

"--madness."

[God] raised his hand, and the matter around him, like particles of light, gathered together to form a spear, the tip of which shone with a golden light like hieroglyphics.

Holding such a spear, [God] thrust it down.

That's all.

Yet it gives people a feeling of spatial collapse and overwhelming pressure.

An invisible force emanated from the tip of the spear. It was unseen yet undeniably real, and wherever it passed, the space trembled as if it were syrup, giving one the illusion of a tower collapsing.

The torn air transformed into wind pressure that raged everywhere, and the resulting shockwave, centered on Gozchi, pressed down toward the ground.

In response, Gozuchi, wielding his Imperial Arms and leaping into the air to pounce on the "God," merely wore an arrogant smile on his lips.

"These mere illusions cannot affect my mind at all. Watch me cut them off with a single stroke!"

Then he died.

First, the wind pressure crushed his body into a pulp, then an invisible force swept over him. The 'strongest man in the empire' couldn't even delay this force for a millisecond before he completely disappeared into the air.

Immediately afterwards, the force landed on the ground.

—Without even making any extra sound, it was as if the gods of mythology were cutting and shaping the earth, cutting through mountains to form canyons, and sinking the ground to form sinkholes.

The lake overflowed, the earth groaned, and countless lives were lost in this attack.

The "god" floating in the air remained expressionless.

Because God doesn't feel sad about crushing a few small insects.

Bill, the still-alive head of the Imperial Intelligence Department, slumped to the ground, crawling backward on his hands and knees, making terrified "ah ah" sounds.

[God] shifted his gaze over there.

His gaze was as if he were looking down at an insect writhing in the mud from a high place, showing no pity whatsoever.

And so, Bill died too.

They were scared to death.

And all of this happened in less than thirty seconds.

Just then, Akame suddenly felt her vision blur.

One second, the "god" seemed to be one with the moon; the next second, he appeared before her.

"—!"

The cold touch on her cheeks told her that the other person was holding her face and lifting her head.

Akame is by no means a coward. In fact, she dared to fight dangerous species when she was 10 years old, and her inner strength far exceeds that of ordinary people.

But when she met the gaze of the god's golden, vertical eyes, which shone with divinity, her body froze in fear.

That's the fear that arises from the complete upheaval of one's outlook on life, values, and worldview.

She had heard many stories about God.

In the story, the gods are merciful, punish evil and promote good, and save the world. But in the girl waving scales before him, Akame only felt that she had come to judge the world.

But at that moment, God suddenly smiled, a smile that no amount of beauty in the world could describe, and everything in the world seemed to be filled with radiance because of this smile.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."

No longer with that indifferent tone, at this moment, the girl transformed from a "god" back into a "human".

"Well, I never expected that I would become like this after borrowing this ability, but it feels surprisingly good."

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The girl's beautiful lips curled up slightly, and the smile on her face made Akame feel as if she had been stripped naked.

In short, it was an extremely aggressive smile.

The sight of such a smile on the silver-haired girl's face struck Akame as somewhat incongruous and strange.

Because when she first saw the silver-haired girl, the girl was so intellectual and elegant, and a girl with such a spirited personality shouldn't be showing such a smile.

However, Akame didn't know much about this silver-haired older sister, so she didn't think much of it. In fact, something else was more on her mind.

"Why...why did you kill my father...Lord Gozchi?" Akame was still somewhat afraid, but she still mustered up the courage to ask.

“Because he blocked my way.” The girl answered matter-of-factly and without hesitation, causing Akame to widen her eyes.

However, that's all.

Akame now doesn't believe, like Esdeath, that the law of the jungle is a given.

However, in the previous battle, she clearly saw that it was Gozchi and the others who had the intention to kill first.

The person who wanted to kill was killed instead.

Then there's nothing to sympathize with.

In any case, Akame doesn't have any deep feelings for Gozuchi.

The reason she asked that question was because of their previous conversation, which led her to believe that the girl killed Gozchi because of her red eyes.

"Um... I was going to talk to you for a bit longer, but I have other things to do now, so I'll have to leave now!"

The girl pinched the cheek of the young, red-eyed girl, stood up, flapped her wings, and floated into the sky. A faint voice came from the sky:

"By the way, my name is Satella, and we'll meet again someday."

"Satella...?"

Akame etched that name firmly into her heart.

The next second, the world returned to normal, the sun rose again from the sky, and accompanied by the sound of footsteps, Akame's companions also rushed over from afar.

"Akame, what just happened?"

Where is Father?

"I think I saw someone fly away from the sky."

"..."

Faced with her companions' questions, Akame simply shook her head and said, "I don't know either. My father disappeared when I first arrived, leaving only this knife behind."

Akame decided to bury this secret in her heart forever.

……

……

the next day.

Inside the Imperial Arena in the capital city.

The Empire's arena is somewhat like the arena for the World Martial Arts Tournament in Dragon Ball. In the center is a rectangular ring, and outside the ring, separated by a lawn of three or four meters, are the spectator stands that surround the ring.

"Crackling and popping!"

"Bang! Ouch!"

The fights on the ring were extremely intense and fast-paced, with many battles ending in less than a minute.

Because every battle here is a fight to the death!

In this corrupt country, human life is the cheapest thing. You don't even need to sign a death warrant because no one thinks there's anything wrong with killing someone in the ring.

On the contrary, whenever someone's neck was slit and blood splattered in the air, the onlookers would erupt in deafening cheers.

The excited smiles on their faces reveal just how sick this country truly is!

In a preparation room not far away, a pair of icy blue eyes watched the fight on the ring through the window.

After a while, he looked away slightly, a bored expression on his face.

"Congratulations on winning the first game."

A black-haired girl with her hair tied back walked over and said to Esdeath with a smile, "I watched your match, it was very exciting."

"boring."

Esdeath turned her head away, her indifferent attitude causing the black-haired girl's smile to freeze.

However, she quickly changed the subject, asking with some interest, "By the way, what about your companion? She also participated in the martial arts tournament, right? Where is she now?"

Why should I tell you?

Esdeath frowned, looking somewhat annoyed. "Speaking of which, we don't even know each other, do we?"

"Hey! Hey!"

The black-haired girl immediately cried out with a hurt expression, "My name is Mela! I even paid for your hotel room a few days ago!"

"It seems like that's the case..."

"Now can you tell me where that silver-haired girl went?"

Esdeath tilted her head slightly, looking a little annoyed, but still replied, "She disappeared four days ago."

"Hey, she's been gone for four days, isn't that terrible? Haven't you gone to look for her?"

"Ha, why should I look for her? What does her disappearance have to do with me?" Esdeath became even more displeased as a vague suspicion arose in her mind: "Maybe she's already dead."

Are you cursing your own companion?

"Then can I just say she got lost?"

"It feels even more unreliable now."

"Ugh, get out of my way!"