"Ah!"
"Help!!"
"There are youkai!!"
Screams echoed in the village; people being captured one by one were shouting.
"Tch! Really want to eat these guys."
"That Master said to bring them back to see first; best not to make a move."
The Demons gathered together, looking at the people locked in cages and communicating.
"Che, anyway, not many guys can become qualified Demons. Sooner or later, they will serve as our food."
"Yeah... Hahaha!!"
Almost determining the fate of this group of people, they issued mocking sounds.
"Mn? Was there something just now?"
One of the Demons felt a black shadow flash before its eyes and became puzzled.
"Illusion, right?"
"Didn't detect any strange aura."
"Hey! Look quickly, what is this?!"
At first, the other Demons just thought it was being paranoid, but immediately after, they witnessed strange black characters emerging on their bodies.
"[Eliminate]!"
SHINK!
With that cold word and the sound of sheathing the sword, this group of Demons lost their lives almost at the same time; they didn't even see who attacked them.
[Presence Concealment] (A+)
That was the ability Akame possessed after becoming a Heroic Spirit. As long as she wanted, almost no one could detect her aura.
"You are... the one in the village during the day..."
CRACK!
The wooden cage was opened by Akame. The villagers inside were all rescued; among them, some people who recognized Akame were pleasantly surprised.
This expert had bought some rice and flour in the village during the day; they didn't expect to be saved by her tonight.
"Leave this village with your belongings as soon as possible."
Glancing at the youkai she beheaded, Akame also heard their conversation just now.
Calling themselves Demons, not individual entities, but a group ruled by someone.
Such a group couldn't be solved by just killing small fry.
Since they came here with orders to capture humans, failing to return to report for a long time would definitely attract the attention of the mastermind.
Akame couldn't stay here for a long time. When the villagers faced the other party's revenge, it would inevitably be ten deaths without life.
Therefore, she advised these villagers to pack their things and leave quickly to find another place to settle down.
"But..."
But some villagers couldn't make a decision so quickly. After all, some had lived here since their ancestors; asking them to leave like this would definitely cause concerns.
"Next time you encounter such evil ghosts, there may not necessarily be someone like me to save you again."
Without persuading much, Akame just said this sentence and left.
But just as she walked to the village entrance, she found a boy in white clothes blocking there.
"!"
An unusual sense of dissonance touched her; Akame drew Murasame immediately to bear guard.
"Killing those Demons in an instant, you are not a mediocrity."
White eyes looked at the human in front, and Hakudoshi issued praise.
Fortunately, he hadn't left too far, so he detected the disappearing Demons here immediately.
"Not a Monk, nor a Miko, let alone a Youkai... But this skill doesn't look like something ordinary humans can possess. You are a Servant, right?"
Knowing the existence of Muzan well, Hakudoshi took out a long Naginata.
"If I can bring you back, it would be worth at least 100 humans... no... the value of 500 people."
The Naginata had emerald green dragon scales; Hakudoshi waved it.
"..."
Without speaking, Akame just assumed a stance, and then her figure disappeared just like that.
"Has the aura been completely hidden?"
His eyes constantly observed the surroundings, but failed to find any clues.
BOOM!!
Rotating the Naginata, youkai aura was erupting; that was no ordinary Demon.
Hakudoshi, transformed by Muzan, had turned into a body of Youkai Demon, possessing power he never had before.
A roar erupted; youkai power turned into substantial black slashes rushing towards the surroundings. That was Hakudoshi's Blood Demon Art.
CRACK!
Trees on the road were all devoured and annihilated into wood chips; several deep gullies were left on the ground.
WHOOSH!
The Naginata swung backward horizontally; Hakudoshi captured that approaching figure.
WHOOSH!
'So fast!'
The Naginata passed through without real sensation; that was just an afterimage.
SPLURT!!
Shoulders were cut with an opening respectively; Hakudoshi realized at this time that the opponent was standing sideways in front.
"That human... not only dodged all of Hakudoshi's slashes but even counterattacked."
Kagura, carrying Kanna hiding in the distant high altitude, was stunned seeing this scene.
"But just that can't kill Hakudoshi."
Arriving recently, Kagura didn't see the previous scene, but she knew very well that Hakudoshi, as Naraku's incarnation, had tricky regeneration abilities. Just cuts causing wounds couldn't do anything to him.
What's more, the current Hakudoshi had obtained new power.
CRACK!
But immediately, Kagura saw Hakudoshi suddenly cut off his own shoulders.
That decisive attitude was truly shocking.
"Have you discovered it?"
Akame looked back at Hakudoshi's action and muttered in a low voice.
"So that sword has Cursed Poison? I was saying why those Demons were easily killed by you; so it's like this."
Losing both arms, unable to hold the blade, Hakudoshi retreated a distance.
He looked at his arms already covered with curse marks and calmed down.
Although he possessed strong regeneration ability and immortality, it wasn't absolute. Poison... as long as it was strong enough, it could kill him too. Just like Naraku found it hard to avoid this point.
"Hmph, pity, failing to kill me with two cuts."
Although losing hands, it didn't matter; he could regrow them after a little rest.
The situation wasn't that dangerous for him. As long as he noticed the risk of this woman's sword, finding a way to avoid it would suffice.
"No... it's already over."
"What?"
Hearing Akame's faint voice, Hakudoshi was stunned. Then his face changed drastically, looking down at his chest.
Next to the button of the clothes, there was a tiny cut, just like being grazed by a blade tip.
Already feeling the threat of death, he tore open his upper garment, and then saw the curse marks spreading from the shallow cut had already crawled all over his body.
'That... Woman!! The two cuts on the shoulders were just a feint!! The real attack is here!!'
Face stiffening, Hakudoshi didn't expect it to be like this.
Feigning cutting the shoulders, but actually stabbed the chest with the blade tip.
The opponent could actually achieve such an attack in an instant; Hakudoshi didn't detect that stabbing strike at all.
It was just like being lightly pricked by a toothpick. Too slight, so slight that only a bit of skin was scraped off his chest.
But even so, the poison attached to the opponent's sword was still triggered.
And after the Cursed Poison spread throughout the body... the only thing he could hear was Akame's final words.
"[Eliminate]!"