Brand looked towards the mansion, where Akame and Leone remained silent for a long time, which made him somewhat worried.
"I don't know, but they should be out soon."
Just as Hao Yun finished speaking, the gate of the mansion was kicked open, and two guards escorted a little girl who looked flustered as she ran out.
Brand frowned slightly, wondering what had gotten into Akame and Leone this time, that they had actually let the mission target escape.
"Leave this person to me."
Lubbock, who stood in the air relying on the silk threads, had a playful look on his face.
"Okay, but don't waste too much time."
Brand casually replied and walked straight into the mansion, wanting to see what Leone and Akame were up to.
"Young Miss, you go first, I'll go stop him!"
A guard gritted his teeth and rushed out to cover their retreat.
The other guard was filled with dread. If the young lady's entire family were killed, then what awaited him was nothing short of hell.
"Young Miss, run! They're the Night Raid Squad!"
The terrified little girl, upon hearing the words "night raid," was so frightened that her legs gave way and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
Without thinking twice, the guard grabbed the young lady and quickly ran towards the warehouse at the back of the manor.
"Cat catching mouse? I like it!"
Lubbock chuckled and looked at the two fleeing men. As for the guard who was responsible for covering the rear, he had been strangled by silk threads and was hanging in the air.
Inside the mansion, Akame, who was about to kill her mission target, was stopped by a young boy.
"You are not the target of the mission, get out of the way."
The boy was Tatsumi, who had been taken in by a noble family. He gripped his sword with both hands and looked at Akame with a slight tremor in his body.
He knew instinctively that he was no match for the girl in front of him.
"Who are you, a robber?"
Akame's gaze fell upon the noblewoman not far away. She drew her long sword and vanished from Tatsumi's sight in a flash.
When Tatsumi turned around, the noblewoman had already been cut in half at the waist.
"You...you..."
This scene left Tatsumi speechless with shock.
"Save...save my daughter..."
The noblewoman, who had been cut in half at the waist, was not yet dead. She raised her hand and pointed with difficulty out the window.
Tatsumi looked up and saw two guards protecting Miss Aria as she fled towards the back of the manor.
Seeing the guards killed and the young lady in imminent danger, Tatsumi gritted his teeth, smashed through the window, and jumped out.
"Don't be afraid, Miss Arya, I'm here!"
Tumbled to the ground, and Tatsumi, wielding a short sword, forced Lubbock back.
"Another one sent to their death."
Lubbock stood with his hands in his pockets, his feet on the silken thread, looking down at the three people below.
Hao Yun, who was sitting on a bench watching the excitement, couldn't help but smile when he saw Tatsumi make a cool entrance.
Zha Mi, Zha Mi, I'd like to see how you'll kill the person you're trying to protect.
Brand entered the mansion, glanced out the window, and then spoke to Akame.
"Leone, you guys are too slow."
"I got so into having so much fun that I forgot about the time."
Leone, his hands stained with blood, walked towards them from a distance, laughing loudly.
"Let's go, be careful not to attract the Imperial Capital Police."
Brand turned and walked downstairs.
"Huh? It's that simple country boy."
Leone felt a slight headache upon seeing Tatsumi protecting Aria.
A few days ago, she was wandering around the streets when she happened to meet Tatsumi, who had failed to find a job. Seeing that he looked dazed and confused, she couldn't help but go up to him and talk to him, and then swindled all his money.
Leone is somewhat embarrassed to encounter this now.
"You are not allowed to harm Lady Arya!"
Tatsumi stood before Aria, steadfastly protecting her.
In the past few days, he had found this noble lady to be very kind and good to him. Now that she was in danger, he would protect her even at the cost of his life.
"Very good, you stay here and don't let them catch up!"
The guard grabbed Arya's arm and ran towards the warehouse.
"ah?"
Being suddenly left behind caught Tatsumi off guard.
"Still so stupid."
Leone glanced at Tatsumi and appeared in front of the warehouse.
After slapping the guard to death, Leone picked up Arya with one hand, a sinister smile on his face.
"You really can run fast, you've wasted so much of my time."
"No...don't kill me! I can give you money, lots of money!"
Terrified and panicked, Arya had tears in her eyes and looked very pitiful.
"Release Lady Arya!"
Upon seeing Leone, Tatsumi was momentarily stunned before angrily drawing his sword and charging forward.
With the troubles at the manor resolved, all the members of the Night Raid Squad gathered around.
Mine glanced at Tatsumi, snorted, and raised the Romantic Cannon to fire.
"Wait, don't do it yet."
Hao Yun held down Ma Yin's hand, preventing her from firing.
"Red Eyes, don't kill him yet!"
Leone spoke up at this moment, grabbing the noble girl with one hand and slapping the longsword out of Tatsumi's hand.
"You country bumpkin, do you even realize you've been scammed?"
"Of course I know. You swindled all my money and left me alone in the tavern, leaving me to sleep on the streets. If it weren't for Arya's family taking me in, I'd still be sleeping on the streets right now!"
Tatsumi gets angry when this is brought up; the money Leone swindled from him was money he had painstakingly saved up.
He and his companions had agreed to make a name for themselves in the capital. He had originally planned to use the money he earned from killing dangerous creatures along the way to get a position as a guard captain or a military officer.
Who would have thought that on their very first day in the capital, they would be completely swindled out of everything?
"How stupid! Don't you know the reputation of this noble family? They really enjoy torturing and killing outsiders. Am I right?"
Leone grabbed the girl's hair and tugged at it forcefully a few times.
The intense pain caused the girl to scream.
"Don't hurt her, come at me!"
Tatsumi got up from the ground and glared fiercely at Leone.
"What a stubborn person."
If I hadn't cheated him out of his money, I wouldn't have wasted my time explaining to him.
Leone scratched his head and turned to walk towards the warehouse.
"Silly boy, if you don't believe me, then come with me."
"No! No, Tatsumi, I won't let you see!"
Arya's expression turned panicked, and she tried her best to stop Tatsumi from getting closer.
"Now you're scared? You dare to do it but not dare to let others see?"
Leone sneered and kicked open the warehouse door.
Airflow carried a rotten, strange smell from inside the warehouse.
Putrid smell?
Tatsumi frowned, ignored Aria's obstruction, and walked to the warehouse.
"Sa...Sayo!"
With a gasp, Tatsumi stared at his friend, who was completely naked, his hands bound, and hanging in mid-air. His mind went completely blank.
"Ahem, Tatsumi, is that you?"
Chapter 347 Tatsumi
This warehouse, resembling a prison, has various instruments of torture hanging on its walls.
Inside the iron cage in the room lay more than a dozen corpses.
The wounds on the bodies showed that these people had all suffered inhuman torture before they died.
"Taz...mi, cough cough!"
In the corner, in a cage, a person with festering skin and a foul stench leaned against the cage, making faint cries.
"Iyeas!"
Tatsumi was devastated; he never imagined that his reunion with his long-lost friend would be in such a place.