Chapter Summaries

Su Xiao followed Akame into an underground passage but lost her trail at a fork and discovered a sealed laboratory instead. He survived its poisonous gas and escaped with a Purple-quality Imperial Arms Modification Blueprint.

• Su Xiao found a tunnel beneath the Imperial Capital headquarters and pursued Akame through it, using his new ability to sense enemies he had injured.
• He found Akame's blood and torn undergarment, then chose the wrong branch and reached a dead end.
• Su Xiao spotted a rusted metal door bearing the Empire's flag and spent an hour cutting an opening through it.
• He entered a hidden laboratory, triggered Kanyat Poison Gas, and rushed in to grab a glowing parchment before retreating.
• Su Xiao identified the parchment as an Imperial Arms Modification Blueprint for combining biological and item-type Imperial Arms with Super Dangerous Beast essence.

After Night Raid escaped with the Imperial Arms, Su Xiao returned to Esdeath’s mansion and blamed the loss on Akame. At Night Raid’s headquarters, Najenda gathered the surviving members to assess their heavy losses and discuss what they learned about Su Xiao.

• Su Xiao retreated through the poisonous tunnel, emerged beneath Flower Street, and told Esdeath’s soldiers that Night Raid had escaped with the Imperial Arms.
• Su Xiao reported that Akame had taken the weapon, then returned to Esdeath’s mansion, ate, washed, and went to sleep without opening Brand’s Treasure Chest.
• Najenda met with the surviving Night Raid members, including the grieving Tatsumi, and identified Byakuya as Esdeath’s trusted subordinate.
• Leone described how Su Xiao’s rapid, bone-deep slashes and tracking ability had nearly killed her, warning the others not to flee into sparsely populated areas.
• Leone told the group that Su Xiao’s blade carried a painful, electrically resembling poison, and her fear showed how deeply the encounter had shaken her.

Najenda’s group assessed Su Xiao as a dangerous opponent and prepared to seek help, while Akame vowed to use Murasame against him next time. Su Xiao gained Heart Meditation and inspected three unusable Imperial Arms before going to meet Esdeath at the Imperial Palace.

• Akame, Leone, and Mine reported Su Xiao’s abilities, and Najenda ordered groups of fewer than four to retreat from him before leaving to seek assistance.
• Akame picked up Murasame and decided she would use its power against Su Xiao when they met again, despite the backlash.
• Su Xiao’s morning meditation earned him the passive skill Heart Meditation: Lv.1.
• Su Xiao inspected Water Dragon Possession: Black Marin, Two Great Axes: Belvaac, and Military Music Dream: Shriek, finding that he could not use any of them because their affinities were incompatible.
• Su Xiao traveled to the Imperial Palace to meet Esdeath about an important matter, and someone entered the conference room as he waited.

Su Xiao waited with Bolurs and Will as the new Imperial Arms users gathered, including Kurohime, Akame’s sister. Kurohime asked Su Xiao whether he had killed Akame and offered him a cookie in exchange for the story of their fight.

• Bolurs entered the meeting room and sat nervously with Su Xiao.
• Will mistook the meeting room for an interrogation room, then returned with his sack of fish and took a seat.
• Kurohime arrived carrying snacks, refused to share them with Will, and sat beside Su Xiao.
• Kurohime asked whether Su Xiao had killed her sister Akame, and Su Xiao replied that he had come within a few centimeters.
• Kurohime offered Su Xiao a cookie and asked him to tell her what had happened the previous night.

Su Xiao joined Esdeath’s newly formed Hunter Unit, then began tracking covert contacts outside the Imperial Capital. After following a chain of intermediaries for two days, he reached a castle that was likely the Revolutionary Army’s headquarters.

• Esdeath tested the new Hunter Unit members in close combat, then took them to meet the Little Emperor and held a meal at her home.
• Esdeath formed the seven-member Hunter Unit to target Night Raid and gave its members several days off to learn the Imperial Capital.
• Su Xiao visited the Third Dark Division, where he had become commander after the Three Beasts’ deaths, and began monitoring a grocery-store owner.
• Su Xiao followed Mrs. Anqi after she exchanged hidden signals with the store’s manager, then tracked a man she met outside the Imperial Capital.
• After changing targets repeatedly over two days, Su Xiao reached a remote ancient castle he suspected was the Revolutionary Army’s headquarters.

Su Xiao infiltrated the Revolutionary Army’s camp to learn the layout and strength of its Headquarters, intending to provoke a decisive war with the Empire. He broke Terry’s resolve and learned that the Headquarters held about twelve thousand people, though most were away and due back the next day.

• Su Xiao watched the Revolutionary Army’s Headquarters and planned to frame the Imperial troops for an attack so the Revolutionary Army would hasten its war with the Empire.
• Su Xiao slipped into the military camp and abducted Terry, a middle-ranking officer, to question him away from Headquarters.
• Terry resisted and tried to bite through his tongue, but Su Xiao used Terry’s family portrait to frighten him into cooperating.
• Terry revealed that roughly twelve thousand people were attached to Headquarters, with more than nine thousand away until the following day and about two thousand permanent troops remaining.
• Su Xiao pretended to head toward the camp to verify the information, while Terry shouted for him to stop.

Su Xiao learned the Revolutionary Army Headquarters’ defenses from Terry, killed him, and infiltrated the castle to reach the Imperial Arms Vault. He incapacitated the guards by the basement stairs and stood before the vault’s metal door, which required something other than a key to open.

• Terry told Su Xiao about the Imperial Arms user and the vault after asking him to give his money to Terry’s family; Su Xiao agreed and killed him.
• Su Xiao waited for a patrol shift change, climbed into the castle through an open window, and avoided a patrol in the corridors.
• Su Xiao broke into a young woman’s room, knocked her unconscious, and carried her toward the basement.
• Su Xiao used a fast-acting anesthetic to incapacitate the twelve guards by the basement stairs.
• Su Xiao reached the huge metal door of the Imperial Arms Vault and realized that opening it normally required more than a key.

Su Xiao infiltrated the Revolutionary Army’s Imperial Arms storage room and stole all five Imperial Arms, including a biological one. As he tried to escape, he ran into Najenda and attacked her before Susanoo burst through the ceiling.

• Su Xiao used the Girl to open the Morsenia Eternal Gate and uncovered metal-wire alarms guarding the storage room.
• Su Xiao carefully disabled the wires and stored all five Imperial Arms, including the biological Imperial Arm sealed in a test tube.
• After escaping the basement, Su Xiao realized Revolutionary Army soldiers were approaching and rushed up the stairs to fight his way out.
• Su Xiao recognized Najenda and killed the soldiers shielding her before slashing her in half as she shouted to summon help.
• Susanoo, the humanoid biological Imperial Arm still in its tuning phase, shattered the ceiling and landed nearby.

Su Xiao killed Najenda while infiltrating the Revolutionary Army Headquarters, then escaped through its troops and defeated Jerry Yates, who pursued him. After reaching a town near the Imperial Capital, he prepared to synthesize Imperial Arms using his modification blueprint.

• Najenda found Su Xiao in the basement and ordered Susanoo to hold him back before she died; Su Xiao claimed her Treasure Chest and fled.
• Su Xiao broke through the Headquarters’ soldiers using Shelter and escaped into the forest as the Revolutionary Army sent Chelsea to track him.
• Su Xiao let Jerry Yates follow him away from the troops, then killed him and took his Imperial Arms.
• Su Xiao evaded pursuit, reached an inn in a nearby town, and prepared to synthesize three Imperial Arms with his modification blueprint.

Su Xiao began synthesizing eight Imperial Arms into a new weapon, but the process left the metal sphere exposed for more than eight hours while he slept. Meanwhile, Chelsea continued tracking him, and the Revolutionary Army prepared to attack the Imperial Capital, bringing war closer.

• Su Xiao embedded Beast Transformation-Armed Giant, Fenrir's Essence, and seven other Imperial Arms into the modification blueprint, achieving 96% compatibility for the main materials.
• Su Xiao started the synthesis, which formed a metal sphere that could not be stored and would take eight hours and five minutes to finish.
• Su Xiao rigged alarms and bombs around the room, then fell into a deep sleep from exhaustion.
• Chelsea struggled through Su Xiao's traps, decided to rest, and fell asleep before she could continue tracking him.
• The Revolutionary Army's leader ordered an immediate attack on the Imperial Capital after the army returned empty-handed, setting a major war in motion.

Su Xiao discovered that the Imperial Arms Bubutney was a loyal, powerful support mount with healing abilities and exceptional speed. He left the town riding Bubutney and learned that the seemingly foolish hound would viciously attack anything that threatened him.

• After waking to find a strange creature beside him, Su Xiao tested its obedience and identified it as the Imperial Arms Space-Tearing Evil Hound Bubutney.
• Su Xiao examined Bubutney's abilities and found it could greatly increase its speed, restore allied health, and heal its owner.
• Su Xiao rode Bubutney and ordered it to charge, but the eager hound rammed them into a wall.
• Su Xiao discovered Bubutney could shrink into a portable ice-blue core and stored it before leaving the inn through a window.
• After leaving town, Su Xiao summoned Bubutney and rode toward his destination, discovering that it tore apart creatures that approached him.

Su Xiao returned to the Imperial Capital after finding Terry’s village burned down and discovering that Terry’s family had likely died. There, he learned that Dr. Stylish and Lan had been murdered, and joined Kurohime’s search for the killer.

• Su Xiao rode Bubutney to Terry’s village, where they found a burned survivor who blamed the Incinerate Corps before Bubutney killed him.
• Su Xiao found Terry’s family’s home reduced to ashes and left the gemstones in the charcoal before riding Bubutney back toward the Imperial Capital.
• Su Xiao concealed Bubutney and moved through several locations in the Imperial Capital to disguise where he had been.
• Kurohime told Su Xiao that Dr. Stylish and Lan had been killed in their homes and showed him a scorched Tarot Card left at the scenes.
• Su Xiao kept the Tarot Card and joined Kurohime’s citywide hunt for the killer while waiting for something.

Su Xiao tracked the scent on a Tarot Card to the Night Raid Unit’s headquarters and helped Esdeath plan a surprise attack. As the Hunter Unit and Night Raid prepared to clash, Su Xiao encountered Carl, a Phantom Troupe Contractor, and faced him in battle.

• Su Xiao used Bubutney to track the Tarot Card’s scent, discovered the Night Raid Unit’s defenses outside the Imperial Capital, and returned without alerting them.
• Esdeath ordered the Hunter Unit to attack the Night Raid Unit, assigning Kurohime to surround the rear and Su Xiao to hold off Akame.
• The Hunter Unit entered the forest and triggered Cross Tail’s alarm, prompting Akame to gather the six Night Raid members and prepare to test the enemy before retreating if needed.
• Su Xiao stayed behind when he encountered Carl, a Phantom Troupe Contractor, who summoned Tarot Cards and predicted Su Xiao’s death.

Su Xiao battled Carl, the Phantom Troupe’s eleventh member, whose twin pistols unleashed rapid elemental spells. After breaking through her defenses and enduring her barrage, he closed in on her, leaving Carl astonished by his resistance to magic.

• Carl surrounded herself with turbulent fire, wind, and water, then loaded Tarot Cards into her twin pistols and challenged Su Xiao to a fight to the death.
• Carl fired elemental spells to keep Su Xiao at a distance, but he rushed through them and cut through her Water Shelter, injuring her.
• Carl blasted Su Xiao with six spells in succession, but his Magic-Immune Constitution reduced the damage enough for him to survive.
• Carl explained that defeating her would give Su Xiao her rank and remove her as a rival for the Main Quest key.
• Su Xiao charged through Carl’s flood of spells, using Mana Detonation to trigger them early, and reached her side.
• Carl stared in astonishment as Su Xiao stood before her despite her relentless barrage.

Su Xiao killed Carl after surviving his barrage of spells with help from Bubutney, then sold the Phantom Troupe Invitation Number he obtained. In other worlds, Brigade members learned that Carl was dead and the number had been sold, and one of them became interested in the person who killed him.

• Su Xiao used metal wires to bind Carl, then survived Carl's self-destructing pistol with the Shelter skill and Bubutney's healing.
• Su Xiao stabbed Carl through the throat and head, killing Contractor 10025 and gaining 15 Mana from Spirit Eater.
• Su Xiao obtained Carl's Scarlet Card and Phantom Troupe Invitation Number, then sold the number for 5% of the World Source.
• A cigar-smoking man in a desert learned that Carl was dead and his number had been sold, and wondered who had killed him.
• A heavily muscled man in a technologically advanced city heard that No. 11 had died and said he wanted the killer to join the Brigade.
• A blood-red-haired woman learned that the number had been sold and became interested in the killer, while Xiao Liu urged her to hunt the surviving Contractors.

Su Xiao strengthened Dragon Slayer Flash by devouring an Imperial Arms, then watched Kurohime and Akame fight. Kurohime fell to Akame’s cursed blade, and Su Xiao arrived as she warned her sister to run.

• Su Xiao discarded Carl’s corpse in a river and rested while the Hunter Unit and Night Raid Unit battled.
• Su Xiao used Supreme Edge to devour the City-Burning Iron-Melting Fire Blade, strengthening Dragon Slayer Flash and retaining Rc Cell Rhythm.
• Su Xiao reached Night Raid’s Headquarters and watched Kurohime fight Akame while conserving his strength.
• Kurohime exhausted herself using Eight Houses and admitted that having her companions beside her was enough.
• Kurohime’s legs went numb during her clash with Akame, and Murasame pierced her chest.
• Su Xiao approached the dying Kurohime, who recognized him and warned Akame to run.

Akame unleashed Murasame’s curse-fueled ultimate form and fought Su Xiao, who outlasted her and wounded her with a feint involving a real concussion grenade. Akame struck Su Xiao with Murasame before her power faded, and the curse poison began spreading through his left arm.

• Akame laid Kurohime’s body down, then cut her own palm with Murasame to awaken the power recorded in the cursed blade.
• Akame’s strength and speed surged, but Su Xiao focused on defense and held her off while her transformed state weakened.
• Su Xiao tricked Akame with several harmless objects before blinding and disorienting her with a real concussion grenade.
• Su Xiao wounded Akame’s shoulder, but she used a phantom formed from killing intent to strike at him with Murasame.
• Su Xiao dodged the phantom’s attack but suffered a small wound on his left hand, and the curse poison began spreading toward his forearm.

Su Xiao survived Murasame’s curse poison by using Blue Steel Shadow to destroy it, then killed Akame and hid her body with Kurohime’s. As battle cries signaled the arrival of the main force, he set off toward Esdeath.

• Su Xiao endured Murasame’s curse poison as Blue Steel Shadow fought it inside his arm, while Akame weakened from her ultimate technique.
• Su Xiao pierced Akame through the heart and killed her, earning World Source, a Purple Treasure Chest, and progress on the Sky-Sweeping Turbulence quest.
• Su Xiao confirmed that Blue Steel Shadow had eradicated the curse poison after consuming 276 Mana.
• Su Xiao buried Akame and Kurohime together to conceal their bodies and the Imperial Arms.
• Hearing battle cries from the surrounding forest, Su Xiao collected Bubutney and headed toward Esdeath.

Su Xiao retreated with Esdeath as the Revolutionary Army launched a massive assault on the Empire. Back in the Imperial Capital, he prepared to open treasure chests while waiting for the war to begin and an opportunity to complete his Main Quest.

• Su Xiao met Esdeath and Will at the rendezvous point, and they learned that Bolurs and Lubbock had died while Kurohime had not arrived.
• Esdeath gave Su Xiao the damaged Cross Tail Imperial Arms after he asked about it.
• An officer reported that forty thousand Imperial troops were facing hundreds of thousands of Revolutionary Army soldiers, so Esdeath ordered a retreat to the Imperial Capital.
• Esdeath mobilized the army to defend the Imperial Capital, while Su Xiao remained on standby as a Hunter Unit member.
• Su Xiao found an abandoned residence, secured it, and took out two Blue Treasure Chests and one Purple Treasure Chest to open with Flame of Luck.

Su Xiao opened Brand's, Najenda's, and Akame's treasure chests, then used Supreme Edge to have Dragon Slayer Flash devour Eight Houses and Murasame. After finishing his preparations, he used a Scarlet Card and reached into the blood-colored vortex it created.

• Su Xiao opened Brand's and Najenda's Blue Treasure Chests and received only Paradise Coins.
• Su Xiao opened Akame's Purple Treasure Chest and obtained Paradise Coins, three small Soul Crystals, and Fate's Son's Favor.
• Su Xiao decided that neither Murasame's curse poison nor Eight Houses' summoning ability suited Dragon Slayer Flash.
• Su Xiao used Supreme Edge to grind Eight Houses and Murasame into fragments, raising Dragon Slayer Flash's Edge Value by 30%.
• Su Xiao rejected both blades' abilities and used his remaining Scarlet Card.
• Su Xiao reached his hand into the blood-colored vortex produced by the Scarlet Card.