AKAME ASSASINATION (27)
"What's going on down here." After bicker for a while Angel and Justine finally decided to pull up and check out what was happening.
"Who's the old fart?" Justine asked.
"Old?" Donovan raised a brow, "I'm only 27."
"Like I said, old."
"You're Donovan Blight right?"
"!"
Everyone around was caught off guard by what Jericho had said,
"He's a Blight?" Teddy exclaimed
"You're joking." Angel's face curled.
"He's still old."
Donovan sighed, "Are you guys suppose to be my back-up or something?"
"We're not your back-up, we're on a personal mission." Angel answered.
"What do you know about Saikyo Akame?" Jericho asked cutting off Angel.
"?" Donovan shrugged, "I know a lot about him, so do you, no?"
"Important things."
"Like where he is? That I couldn't tell you."
Jericho marched forward, her strides were slow and simple. She reached out her hand and grabbed Donovan by the collar.
"Tell me what you know about him." She was calm but her eyes whispered something about death and vengeance, Donovan could see this.
"For one I know he's out of your league."
"Meaning?"
"If he chose to get a bit serious he'd kill all of you." Donovan leaned his head slightly as he stared at the trio standing behind Jericho. "I was hoping for people who were much stronger… but still."
Jericho gripped tighter. "Do you know any of his abilities?"
"?"
"Anything useful?"
"…"
"So you're useless." Jericho let go tossing him back, "Fuck!"
"Mhh seems things aren't so well for you." Justine said.
"Shut up, just shut the fuck up!" Jericho walked passed him as she went on to punch the trunk of a tree.
Angel walked up to Donovan, "So what's up with you?"
"I'm paralyzed from the waist down." he shared freely with no hesitation.
"Should you be sharing that with us?" Justine stepped in, "I mean we could mug you right now."
"True, but then I could kill you all later."
"!"
"Noted."
"There is someone you should look out for though." Donovan yawned, "Light skin, averagely long somewhat purple hair and he's shirtless currently."
"There are sex workers out here?" Justine's eyes widened.
"Ew, stop it." Angel shoved him, "Who is this exactly?"
"Just some kid who was probably with him."
"With who?"
"Akame."
Jericho turned her round and stared at him, "Was he an elemental?" She asked.
"Lightning user."
"!" She walked close to Donovan shoving Angel and Justine out of the way, "Where did he go?"
"He went in tat direction towards those clusters of trees. He was with a girl. Short, black with traditional clothes probably from the Massai."
Jericho let go of him and began moving back up the slope, "When did they leave?"
"Probably 2 hours ago."
"Iman, wait!" Teddy shouted heading up the slope, "Do you even have a plan."
"I do."
"Are you just saying that to make me feel better or do you actually have one."
"…"
"Iman!"
"I do!" She shouted turning back, "Of course I fucking do. And it's a real simple one."
She walked back to Teddy and with her index finger extended towards his chest she simply said, "To fucking kill him, and you can choose to either help or not."
She hurried back up and got into the car.
PAT!
Justine gave him a pat on the shoulder, "Don't even worry about it buddy."
And Angel passed both of them headed up to the car. Justine looked back.
"Yooo, we really gonna leave him like this?" He asked.
"Well he's not in a hurry to go anywhere is he now? Get in the fucking car or I'm leaving you here."
Jericho shouted.
"Jeez, yed ma'am." Justine saluted as he walked up the slope glancing back a bit. He could sense there was something more that Donovan wasn't telling them and he would've been right.
'The electric shock he invoked wasn't actual lightning but rather transmuted lightning so it wasn't enough to completely kill that thing that attacked. However, simply because it was transmuted It was able to fry half my nervous system in such a way I've never seen before. It goes well beyond the limited scope of regular transmutation.
From his fighting style to the flow of his F.E, you can obviously tell he's a beginner but at the same time the level at which he's growing isn't comparable to anything I've seen before. I might've made a big mistake challenging him, I must've evolved him beyond his original capabilities.'
Donovan though all this as he leaned on the bark of that tree, he's had plenty of time to come up with a strategy on how he would carry out this assassination. Yet the deeper he goes the more he realizes that perhaps he hasn't looked at the whole scope, and perhaps those around Akame might be more dangerous than the man himself.
'Is going through this trouble really worth it though?'
If you simulate a fight in your head and you run that same simulation 10 times. If you can't win 10 out of 10 times then its not worth the effort. This is the Blight motto, if you can't beat an opponent all the time even at their peak don't fight them.
'However, you could say that boy moved me today. Even though It was out of his league he still tried fighting that thing. So I suppose I should go on fighting… just a little bit though.'
He made up his mind to continue the hunt as Jericho and the gang sped of in their hammer on the search for Gil and the girl.
TO BE CONTINUED!