Ah, ah, sure enough, I got scolded so badly. Tatsumi hung his head, his face full of lingering fear.
"Don't blame the General. In that situation, you didn't take the opportunity to run away. What exactly were you doing standing there foolishly?" Nahash also said. Originally, he had thought about pleading for Tatsumi.
However, after knowing what Tatsumi did, Nahash had no intention of pleading for him, and even wanted to scold him just like the General.
"I... I just." Tatsumi couldn't say anything either. After all, it seemed that he really forgot to run away at that time.
"Okay, okay, calm down." Chikushi said at this time.
"Sister Chikushi~" Tatsumi was moved instantly, looking at Chikushi as if she were an angel.
"However, little Tatsumi, you also need to pay more attention. If it weren't for the General, you might have died there!" Chikushi said again.
"Eh? Okay!" Tatsumi nodded, promising not to make the same mistake again.
"Also, don't just look at how the General is always scolding you. Actually, as soon as she heard the roar of that Teigu, she rushed out of the base immediately. You know the distance between here and that location, right?" Chikushi said, narrowing her eyes.
"Eh?" Tatsumi hadn't thought about these things before. After being reminded by Chikushi, he realized that there was quite a distance between here and there, and considered how much time the General had spent.
In an instant, Tatsumi's eyes turned slightly red, and he felt a pang of guilt. The General, whom he had always feared, actually cared about him this much.
"So, you need to work harder in the future!" Nahash said at this moment.
"Yes!" Tatsumi said firmly. His expression was full of determination. At this moment, he finally felt that the trace of fear he had for the General had vanished!
Koujo Shizuka watched Tatsumi from the side, observing the expression on his face, but ultimately decided not to say, "The General would do this for anyone."
Well, as expected, letting Tatsumi remain in this state of guilt would be more conducive to his growth and prevent him from acting foolishly in future missions.
"By the way, how should we deal with those two captives?" Nahash asked. To be honest, he hadn't dealt with captives before; in the past, he would have just killed them, so there wouldn't have been so much trouble.
"Just take away their Teigu and let them live here," Koujo Shizuka said.
"Eh?" Nahash was a bit puzzled.
"They are companions of the General's sister; the General won't kill them." As she spoke, Koujo Shizuka's expression dimmed. After learning the captives' identities, she understood what was going on.
"I see..." The expressions of Nahash, Poney, and Chikushi were not very good either, because Akame was once their companion too.
"Then, Chikushi, go and help that purple-haired girl treat her wounds," Nahash said.
"Mm, okay." Chikushi nodded.
The next day, at the dining table, besides Kaede and her subordinates, there were two additional special personnel.
Well, they were their captives, the two members of Night Raid.
"Hmph! Don't think that by doing this you can make me tell you about Night Raid." Mine crossed her arms and turned her head away. Truth be told, when she woke up, she had been prepared to suffer inhuman torture and humiliation.
However, the reality was not as she had expected. Although no one paid attention to her, no one tortured her either; they even let her and Sheele eat at the same table as them.
Why on earth was this happening?
In the end, Mine concluded that they must be playing an emotional card, trying to build a good relationship with them, and then get them to voluntarily tell her about Night Raid.
"You're overthinking it. Not killing you is only because you are Akame's companions. If you died, Akame would be sad, and I just don't want to see Akame sad," Kaede said directly, without considering Mine and Sheele's feelings at all.
"Exactly, your status is just that of captives; don't think too much," Tatsumi also nodded and said.
"Ha? You trash, how dare you talk to me like that?" Mine didn't yet have the self-awareness of being a captive; seeing the person she considered trash talking to her, she naturally started to retort.
"Trash?" Tatsumi was stunned, then reacted, glaring at Mine, "Who are you calling trash!"
"I'm talking about you! If you hadn't failed to hold off that Teigu yesterday, I would have killed that Teigu User long ago!" Mine said.
"Your strength isn't much better! I can deal with you all by myself!" Tatsumi was dissatisfied. In his eyes, Mine's strength wasn't that great; if not for Sheele's cover, she would have died long ago!
"Ha! Do you want to try it out!" Mine suddenly became angry.
"Let's try then!" Tatsumi was also provoked into anger by Mine.
"Bang!"
"Uh..." Mine and Tatsumi turned their heads simultaneously, looking at Kaede, who was slamming the table, and their movements stiffened.
"Eat your food properly." Kaede just said one sentence, and Tatsumi sat obediently on the bench, not saying another word.
Mine also looked at Kaede, who looked exactly like Akame, her eyes filled with complex emotions, and sat down.
"Okay, okay, calm down!" Sheele, sitting next to her, said while picking food for Mine.
"Ugh!" Mine couldn't possibly vent her dissatisfaction at Sheele, so she just picked up her cutlery and took a bite, immediately widening her eyes.
"It's quite delicious~" Mine looked at the dishes on the table with some surprise, only then noticing that it could be considered a full-course feast, right?
"Is it good? This is what Shizuka and I made," Chikushi said from the side. "I'm quite confident in Shizuka and my cooking skills."
"It's just so-so." Mine said with a blushing face and then stopped talking, starting to focus on eating.
"Sorry, Mine is just like that," Sheele said to them. "The meal is very delicious; thank you for the hospitality."
"You're welcome..." Although they said that, everyone present was looking at Sheele.
"Eh? Is something the matter?" Sheele asked, blinking.
"Nothing..." The group replied, all confirming that this girl was a bit airheaded; she didn't even have the realization that she was a captive here...
"General, are you not eating?" Tatsumi suddenly noticed that the General, who usually ate like a whirlwind, hadn't touched her food today.
"Oh, I won't eat today. You guys eat," Kaede looked at the blood-soaked food on the table, shook her head, and said. She really didn't have the stomach to eat these things.
"Eh?" Koujo Shizuka poked Tatsumi at this moment and shook her head at him.
Tatsumi fell silent. At this moment, she remembered Koujo Shizuka's words from back then and couldn't help but grit her teeth. Was it all because of him...
His determination to become stronger solidified once again; he couldn't let the General suffer because of him anymore!
While they were eating, standing on the mountaintop next to the Imperial Capital was Esdeath, who had returned from suppressing the foreign tribes.
At this moment, Esdeath stood there, looking at the Imperial Capital below, a smile appearing on the corner of her mouth.
"Imperial Capital, Kaede, I'm back!"
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