Akame Ga Kill - Garou

Garou did not want to waste anymore of his time talking. The human monster exploded with speed moving toward Najenda. The assassins were shocked by Garou's sudden action, but they still reacted fast enough. Susanoo stood in front of Najenda protectively, while Gato threw his axes toward the dashing Garou from the right side. Simultaneously, Mine who was standing on top of the nearby mounting shot an energy bullet to Garou's left side. From behind, Tatsumi dashed after Garou intending to strike him from the back.

In mere moments, Garou was in front of Susanoo, with an energy bullet heading to his head from the left, a flying axe to the neck from the right and an armoured buffoon right behind him. Garou was not worried in the slightest, he extended his hand and caught the axe midair, he then proceeded to throw it in the direction of the bullet flawlessly. The axe split the bullet which left two large craters on either side of Garou. It flew directly toward the source slightly faster than the energy bullet. Mine who saw the axe heading toward her ducked immediately, narrowly avoiding a fatal injury, but losing some hair in the process

Without decreasing speed he continued on, unhindered. In an instant he was in front of Susanoo and threw a thunderous right hook that broke the sound barrier. Susanoo blocked the strike with his weapon, but was blasted backward several meters by the powerful shockwave. Garou was not done yet, but Tatsumi caught up with him. Tatsumi thrust his spear toward Garou's back, but at speeds Tatsumi couldn't even see, he spun to face him. With an enhanced variation of the Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist he sent a casual chop down slicing the spear in two. Then maneuvering the hand upward he plucked Tatsumi in the forehead. This casual strike sent the boy flying, then in a display of raw speed Garou appeared midair behind him. With a single seemingly light karate chop to the shoulder smashed Tatsumi into the ground where he lay, unmoving in a small crater.

Susanoo, seeing Tatsumi defeated, didn't sit still. He attacked with his mace. However, Garou turned back and grabbed onto its mid swing stopping Susanoo in his tracks. Behind Susanoo, Najenda jumped to the side and punched with her cybernetic arm. Garou looked at the approaching piece of junk and lazily swatted it with a casual backhand strike. Najenda's eyes widened as her metallic arm was shattered to pieces upon contacting Garou's arm. She cursed internally and jumped back to create some distance.

Garou then realized someone was attacking from his blind spot. He grabbed susanoo by his horns, lifting him off the ground and swinging him like a bat into the oncoming Akame sending them both flying.

Garou looked back at Najenda, she was staring at him with visible fear. The way he took out her subordinates one after another so quickly and destroyed her arm reminded her of Esdeath, but a much stronger and more brutal version, she couldn't help but step back in terror. He smirked and began to walk closer to her while still holding the mass. Suddenly, a few knives came toward him from the side, Garou without looking swatted them away and continued toward Najenda. Lubbock stood with wires surrounding him and shouted "Don't get… Ack!"

Garou didn't even give him time to finish, he closed the distance at speeds so great that he appeared to teleport and landed a gut punch. Lubbock coughed up blood as his consciousness faded away. Garou then looked up at the increasingly horrified Najenda with a sinister smirk

Garou then headed toward Najenda, but to Garou's displeasure, he was interrupted again. Sai manipulated all the water in the area and sent flying blades made of water toward Garou, who deflected and dodged them effortlessly.

Sai looked at Najenda and said hurriedly "If this continues, we will be defeated here! We should retreat for now and figure out how to take him down later."

Najenda's mind started working again after hearing Sai, her eyes hardened as she ordered "Sai, Gato, Leone and Susanoo keep him busy. Tatsumi get Lubbock and retreat. Akame go get Mine"

All Nightraid's members followed their leader's orders without delay. While Najenda retreated to summon her tamed flying beast to carry them and leave this place.

Garou snorted when he heard them. They wanted to retreat on his watch? It won't be that easy. He was about to go after Najenda again when water started surrounding him. Garou narrowed his eyes and looked at Sai. He began to get annoyed by him, this was the second time he interrupted him. Sai smirked seeing Garou's face not realizing the danger he was in, he spoke "Where's you smile? The fun is just about to start."

"Be careful, He is extremely dangerous and vicious" Leone said as she got closer. She still remembered her beating from the last time.

Gato stared at Garou with red eyes, to him Garou was the reason he couldn't avenge his brother. He hated Garou second only to Kurome. Susanoo retrieved his mace and came back to encircle Garou alongside the others.

"Do you think a group of weaklings can stop me? Once I'm done with you, it will be that bitch's turn" Garou said.

"We wouldn't allow you to touch the boss even if it costs us our lives!" Leone said with determination.

"Big words from an ant. How about this... by the end of the day ...." Garou paused for a moment and looked at them then his smirk widened as he pointed at Gato as he said cruelly "...that axe will find a sheath in her body."

The assassin's eyes hardened hearing his words, they won't allow Garou to have his way no matter what. Sai used the water to attack Garou from all directions and block Garou's vision, so his teammates' attack became more effective. Garou rotated around destroying the water attacks around him. When he was done, Susanoo was upon him with his mace again. Unlike the last time, Garou dodged the mace and sent a downward chop that shattered both of Susanoo's arms like glass from below the elbow.

Susanoo looked up in shock at Garou, who narrowed his eyes in return. Garou proceeded to punch Susanoo's head with enough force that the head exploded to pieces just like his arms and created a huge shockwave. Under the horrified eyes of the Nightraid's assassins, Susanoo's headless and armless body fell on the ground with a thud sound.

"YOU BASTARD!!!" Gato charged angrily toward from behind Garou, he swung his axe with all of his might. Still, before it could connect, Garou's fist slammed his face, breaking his teeth and nose. Gato's body flew and slammed into the rocks, his body was planted in the rocks as he was knocked out cold. Leone gritted her teeth and used her single arm to carry a huge rock and threw it with all of her might toward Garou.

Garou laughed as he redirected the incoming rock toward Sai with one of his hands while the other punched the rock shattering it to pieces. The result was small stones moving as if they were a shotgun blast. Sai tried to block, but he could only prevent a few as the rest pierced his body. He screamed in pain as he fell down.

Garou looked at the shocked Leone and said "Am I the only one getting deja vu here? You again are the only one still standing before me"

Leone clenched her fist, she knew this battle was futile, but she refused to go down without trying at least. Just when she was to make one last desperate attack, she noticed Akame approaching them at full speed while carrying Mine on her back. Mine was pointing her gun at Garou.

Leone took a deep breath and steeled her eyes, jumping at Garou. If she could take all of his attention and get hit by Mine, then even if she died, it would still be worth it. Sadly for her, Garou noticed the change in her behaviour and the direction she looked at for instant. He knew another sneak attack was coming his way. But he kept smiling without showing any sign of noticing it.

When Leone got closer to him, Mine shot her energy toward his back. The bullet was travelling with amazing speed, adding the relatively small distance separating them, it was near Garou almost instantly. Mine smiled as she shot, she was sure she was going to hit Garou. However, her smiling face turned into a horrified one almost immediately.

Garou suddenly rotated around with abnormal speed. The bullet, which was about to strike, moved with him as if it was a single body then separated from him and continued toward Leone. The shot cut her remaining arm from the shoulder or more accurately, vaporised it completely. Leone fell on ground as Garou turned to look at the shocked Akame and Mine, he raised his hand which had lines of thin smoke coming from it.

"How could you? How cruel of you!! Shooting your own friend. You assassins really are a merciless group of bastards, aren't you." Garou jeered mockingly.

"DAMN YOU!!!" Mine cursed out loud.

"YOU BASTARD!!" Tatsumi shouted as he crawled out of the crater. His helmet on his forehead was shattered and his left eye was visible. His shoulder plate was crushed like a tin can and his right arm hung limp at his side, dislocated and rendered useless by his broken clavicle.

Everyone turned toward the voice, he was about to rejoin the fight in his weakened state, but Najenda stopped him. She couldn't allow another one to fall under the hands of Garou. Before he had the chance to act she swooped down on her flying beast and snatched him up.

The beast descended down as Najenda observed the sight with anger. Susanoo, Gato, Sai and Leone were all taken down by Garou. She had no doubt that if Akame, Mine and Tatsumi were to attack him now, then they would fall just like the rest. She took a deep breath then looked at Susanoo's body and said "Activate Trump card 'Magatama Manifestation'"

She fell on her knees as she felt her life force seeping away. On the ground, Susanoo's body started floating, and the shattered pieces started reattaching themselves. Afterward, Susanoo went under a transformation, his upper body became more muscular and he lost his shirt, while his eyes turned golden and his hair to silvery purple hue. His mace became a long heavy sword.

"So this is your trump card? I guess it is similar to Koro's trump card. Perhaps it's a meager increase in speed and strength, or maybe you have something else to show me?" Garou said with a smirk upon seeing the transformation.