Black Heart (Akame ga Kill! x Male Reader)

Chapter 30: Abrupt Ending

Leone: I'm getting a piece of him first!

Mine: Wait!-

Too late. Before she could object any further, Leone had taken off into a full sprint in the direction of (Y/N).

(Y/N): I'll take the blonde. You can rough up pinky a little bit. But I get the final blow.

Budo: You have a personal grudge against her?

(Y/N): You could say that.

Budo: I see...

While Budo readied Andramelech for combat. As he had multiple times before, he weaved out of the way before narrowly avoiding a swipe from Leone, who had activated Lionel and transformed.

(Y/N): I wasn't expecting you to take the first shot from the pipsqueak like that. You're quite eager to die, aren't you?

Leone: It doesn't matter which one of us does it. The only thing that matters is you being killed!

(Y/N): Easier said than done, obviously.

Leone: I guess it's time I stop talking then!

(Y/N) sheathed his sword and cracked his knuckles. Leone laughed at this decision.

Leone: Are you seriously gonna fight me bare-handed?

(Y/N): It'll give you a fighter's chance. Oh, who am I kidding, we both know how this will end.

Leone: Yeah. With me ripping your heart right out of your chest!

(Y/N): Oh, really? In that case, let's see you try.

No more words needed to be exchanged. Leone ferociously swung at (Y/N) with malice behind every strike. Despite her best efforts, however, she was unable to land a single hit. Her adversary provided her with no openings nor opportunities for a counter strike as he hadn't done anything but avoid her strikes.

Leone: Are you seriously that arrogant thinking you can beat me without a kick or punch?!

(Y/N) gave Leone a tight-lipped smile, which only served in pissing Leone off further as she growled and grit her teeth before once again charging (Y/N). She was so fixated on getting her hands on him that she didn't notice the small string of black energy that pierced her abdomen, making her clutch the rather small wound as blood dripped from the wound. It wasn't very large, but it was big enough to make Leone acknowledge it.

Leone: Gah!

(Y/N): Does that answer your question?

Leone grit her teeth as she clutched her wound. She had been through far worse and would be damned if she let something so little overcome her.

Overcoming (Y/N) however? That would prove to be... difficult, to say the least.

On the other side of the coliseum, Budo and Mine continued their shootout to the death with their attention fixated on killing the other. So far, it had been a rather even contest, but a stray lightning bolt was about to change that.

Mine: Ah!

While not landing a direct hit, the bolt managed to strike the stone underneath her feet that was the colosseum's stone seats. From their respective crosses, Tatsumi and Chelsea called out to their fellow assassin.

Mine: Don't worry about me!

That would have the exact opposite effect on the two as they watched helplessly.

Underneath(?) the colosseum, Najenda and Susanoo faced off against one half of The Empire's Strongest.

Esdeath: Is this your Imperial Arms?