Pursuing Najenda (5K)

Finally, we can officially acknowledge the results of their training under Mahiro over the years!

Just as they were preparing to ambush the bandits on the only road leading northwest, they unfortunately encountered them.

That was a bandit group of over a hundred men!

"Hehehe... Lucky, lucky! I never expected to meet so many beautiful women in such a remote and impoverished place. What a stroke of luck!"

The bandit leader, carrying a large, handguardless sword, walked towards them. His lewd gaze swept over the women's bodies, and his repulsive look sent shivers down their spines.

The bandits following behind also had their eyes light up when they saw so many beautiful girls, and immediately said:

"Boss, shall we just stick to the old rules and do it the same way as before?"

"Of course! Chop those three men into pieces and feed them to the pets. Don't let any of the women escape; sever their Achilles tendons and capture them!"

However, their words made the women's fists harden.

"Lord Yotsuba Clan, may I kill them?"

Pony is like a wild animal on a leash; if the leash is untied, she'll charge and wipe out this bunch of bastards!

"I want that big sword."

Little Silver's focus was different; she took a liking to the long sword that the bandit leader was carrying.

But their words made the bandit leader burst into laughter.

"Kill us? Do you know who we are? We are the Hiranami Gang, the ones who scare even the smallest children to death!"

"Little girl, you'd better surrender and become our bus—"

Bang!

Before the bandit leader could even finish speaking, he fell off his horse with a thud.

A small but not insignificant hole appeared on his forehead, from which a trickle of bright red blood slowly flowed, staining the soil crimson.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it."

Tsukushi, holding the still-smoking Prometheus gun, playfully stuck out her tongue.

"It's alright, I also thought this guy talked too much nonsense, let's take them down!" Mahiro said.

"Yes, Yotsuba Clan!!!"

The response from the group was deafening.

A one-sided, overwhelming, and bloody massacre quietly unfolded on this land.

Chapter 141 Pursuit of Najenda (5K)

"Commander, there's an emergency ahead!"

The large convoy of horse-drawn carriages that had come out of Great Plains Town suddenly stopped halfway.

The horses pulling the carriage seemed to have encountered something extremely terrifying; they all neighed loudly, and suddenly their hooves reared up, almost throwing the people off the carriage.

After the horse's hooves landed, it dared not take another step forward!

"What's wrong?!"

Commander Sabatini got out of the carriage to check on the situation, but as soon as he lifted the curtain, a foul, nauseating stench hit him.

On the road ahead, blood stained the soil, and even the wind carried a strong stench of blood.

This stands in stark contrast to their side, like a dividing line between the human world and purgatory.

"... Commander, over there..."

Someone pointed shakily to the pile of roadblocks ahead.

Upon seeing this, Commander Sabatini's pupils constricted sharply, his whole body trembled, and he revealed an expression of fear.

The roadblocks that blocked their way were actually made of piles of bloody human heads!

Many people vomited upon seeing this scene.

Who on earth could have killed so many people and left them here?!

"Captain, those heads look like those of bandits who have been entrenched in the Hiranami Mountain..."

"What?!!!"

Sabatini was alarmed and immediately sensed that something was wrong.

He had heard of that band of mountain bandits. They were said to be all fierce and powerful people from the north, and the Revolutionary Army had tried to recruit them many times, but they had been refused each time.

Unexpectedly, that band of over a hundred mountain bandits was actually killed and their bodies are now lying here!

"Turn the carriage around and return to Great Plains Town!"

Commander Sabatini issued the order without hesitation, but it was too late.

"Hmph, we've been waiting for you for a long time, you members of the Sabatini Traveling Entertainers Troupe!"

Several figures emerged from the hillsides on both sides. They initially thought it was an army to wipe out the bandits, but unexpectedly, the people blocking their way were a group of children who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, with the oldest being no more than sixteen or seventeen.

Everyone felt relieved.

"Why are you stopping us? Sabatini's performance in Great Plains Town is over." A pretty young woman in her early twenties stood in front of them and said with a smile.

However, Nahashu suddenly drew his Water Dragon Sword and charged forward first.

The speed was so fast that the girl didn't even see Nahashu's movements before she felt a chill on her neck, followed by a gush of blood. She had died instantly from having her carotid artery severed.

Nahashu, standing to the side, casually flicked his wrist, wiping the blood off the blade, his expression as calm as if nothing had happened.

"Amuria!!!"

The troupe members screamed the name of the dead girl.

They never expected that these children would suddenly turn on them and kill people!

The man, wearing a top hat and resembling an English gentleman, holding a cane, asked timidly, "Who... who are you people? This should be the first time we've met!"

"The Sabatini Troupe, you use the Empire's parades and performances to gather intelligence for rebels and foreign tribes; you deserve to be executed."

The remaining Pony and his men immediately surrounded the carriages.

"You... you are an assassination squad sent by the Empire?"

Upon arriving at this conjecture, the entire Sabatini Troupe turned pale with fright.

"You guessed right, the mission is to bury you," Little Silver said coldly, staring at them.

"Commander... Commander, they're just teenagers, and there are more of us. If we all attack together, we definitely won't lose!"

One of the bald, burly men said menacingly.

"Commander, let's fight them!"

The thirty-odd people behind him were emboldened, believing he was right and that they couldn't just sit and wait to die!

"Alright, we haven't fulfilled our promise to change the country, how can we die here! My comrades, follow me and we'll break out!"

Upon hearing the leader's declaration, the other members raised their weapons and shouted in unison.

"The empire is now utterly corrupt!"

"The people have not yet escaped the suffering of poverty!"

"The rule of those parasites who covet wealth and power has not yet been overthrown!"

"Damn empire! How can we fall here?!"

"Yotsuba Clan was right after all... They looked just like ordinary people, so they really were spies for the rebels!"

Akame murmured softly, her crimson eyes suddenly turning cold. She slowly drew the Murasame from her waist and charged out.

"Target: The Sabatini Troupe; annihilate them all!!!"

"Go! As Lord Yotsuba Clan instructed, leave only two alive, and kill all the rest of the rabble!"

Nahashu's calm expression instantly turned into extreme coldness. He twirled the Water Dragon Sword in his hand, and with a sudden swing, two heads fell to the ground.

Although these people were spies gathering intelligence for the Revolutionary Army and their abilities were no less than those of ordinary soldiers, they were far inferior to the assassination squad trained by Mahiro.

Like wolves among sheep, screams of agony rang out one after another.

"That despicable empire, actually letting... let you children do... do such a thing!"

Sabatini gripped his cane tightly in anger, his heart filled with sorrow as he watched his companions die one by one.

"Further words are pointless, just die!!!"

Little Silver excitedly brandished the large sword he had obtained from the bandit leader and charged towards the rebel army.

The long, curved, and wide blade resembles Ichigo Kurosaki's Zangetsu.

Even without any weapon training, Little Silver could wield this rugged broadsword quite well using only brute force. Combined with the power of the Thousand-Layer Garment to manipulate the earth, she could even rival the killing speed of Kurome.

Pony and Cornelia were at the biggest disadvantage. They specialized in hand-to-hand combat and could only take down one person at a time. Moreover, their prey was often stolen by bullets fired by Tsukushi.

Mahiro a finger throughout the entire fight, his gaze fixed on the battle, his lips twitching incessantly.

He originally intended to capture two people alive and then try using hypnosis to extract their identities, but he didn't expect that these people would actually introduce themselves.

Is it really that stupid?

If he had been a little more stubborn, perhaps he wouldn't have died so quickly.

"Never mind, it's all the same. After all, we can get other information out of them."

Soon after, the battle was over, and the area around the carriage was littered with corpses. Of the more than thirty members of the troupe, only the troupe leader and a girl with pigtails at the back of her head survived.

"Why... why not just kill us outright?"

Having witnessed the deaths of his comrades, Sabatini knelt on the ground in grief.

He had spent several years gathering like-minded companions, only to have them all wiped out by the Empire's spy forces...

"I'm not killing you because you deserve to die, but because you still have the information I want on you."

A voice, completely different from before, rang out, causing Sabatini, who was immersed in grief, to slowly raise his head. The image of the young man who had not made a move until now was reflected in his glasses.

The assassins who had killed the troupe members huddled together around the young man.

It's obvious without even thinking that this young man is the one leading this assassination squad.

"You corrupt official, I'm going to kill you!!!"

The girl's face was contorted with rage as she Yotsuba Mahiro, as if she wanted to take him down with her!

Even with her hands bound, she used her teeth as weapons, trying to tear a piece of flesh from Yotsuba Mahiro's body.

But it's not that easy.

"--cough!"

With a single reach, Mahiro easily grabbed the girl's neck, slowly lifting her up until her feet left the ground, like a fish leaping onto the shore, struggling incessantly.

"Hmm, you're quite pretty. What's your name?"

Mahiro examined the girl he was holding in his hand, a faint smile appearing on his handsome face.

But in this situation, his smile looked like that of a villain.

When the other girls heard Mahiro that question, their hearts skipped a beat.

Could it be that Lord Yotsuba Clan is interested in this woman?

We haven't won Yotsuba Clan- sama's love yet!

Who on earth left behind such a scourge of a prisoner!

The girls kept glancing at their companions, and finally, under their watchful eyes, Green weakly raised his hand.

He did it.

As a result, he was subjected to a barrage of Green from the girls, almost to the point of killing him.

"Bah! Don't even think about getting anything out of me, you corrupt official! No matter what you do to me, I will absolutely not yield!"