Garou Ga Kill

Chapter 16: Invitation

Invitation

Garou's days continued to pass without change, he kept his simple routine every day. But with the passing time, he started to grow more and more frustrated. He couldn't find a single worthy opponent to give him a challenge.

Thanks to that, his skills and strength barely increased. His training helped to keep himself in shape but couldn't improve.

Garou knew that he needed to have life and death battles to improve but didn't know where to look. He heard about the imperial generals being the strongest warriors but looking at how powerless the soldiers and warriors he saw so far, he didn't feel motivated to seek them out. He didn't want to find more trash thinking themselves to be a great warrior when they are in reality a little stronger than an ant.

What Garou didn't know is that his exploits got the attention of both the revolutionary army and the empire's strongest. The revolutionary spies spent the past few weeks digging information about him and his origin. Similarly, Esdeath's soldiers and servants were looking to his whereabouts. The revolutionary spies found Garou's location first but didn't dare to approach him recklessly as they couldn't find anything about him aside from where he had been staying. On the other hand, Esdeath's soldiers took much more time to find him as their only lead was a red-haired man.

In the imperial palace, Esdeath was kneeling in the crown hall in front of a young boy, who was sitting on the throne, beside him the prime minister eating his meat without care for the world.

"General Esdeath, You have done a splendid job in defending the empire and erasing threats. We wish to give you a reward for your achievements" The young boy spoke with a proud voice, trying his best to be a fitting emperor.

"I thank your majesty for your generosity. If I may, I have two requests for you" Esdeath spoke with a humble smile.

"Please speak General, as long as your requests within our capabilities they shall be granted" The young emperor said.

"First, I wish to form a special team of Teigu users, they would be directly under my command and answer directly to me" Esdeath said.

The young emperor wondered a little then asked "Why are you requesting this? Don't you have 3 elites with teigus under your command."

"True, but the three proved to be inadequate lately as they got defeated by an unarmed commoner" Esdeath answered honestly.

"An ordinary citizen defeated them? How could that be?" The young emperor asked, surprised by what he heard.

"According to many eyewitnesses, a single red-haired man defeated them with his bare hands. Thus I decided to create a new team, it won't be sufficient to use soldiers who couldn't defeat an unarmed man! For this reason, as well, I sent the three on a mission. If they failed it, then only death awaits them" Esdeath spoke with a cruel smile.

"General Esdeath wishes to create this team so she can eliminate Night Raid once and for all. Having a small agile team of elites is the best course of action" The prime minister added from the side.

The emperor hearing his minister words nodded his head and said "Your first request shall be granted, you can ask for any soldier to join your team. Also, we will send people to get the best of the best of the empire's soldiers to join you. We hope to see the best of results."

"I will not disappoint you" Esdeath spoke with confidence.

"But I'm still curious general, who is the man who defeated your three beasts?" The emperor asked

"We don't have much information about him. Our spies only managed to find out that his name is Garou and he has been staying in an orphanage since he arrived to the empire's capital weeks ago. According to those who interacted with him, despite being few, they all agreed that he looked like a country bumpkin as he was looking around curiously. But he possessed immense strength and skill, allowing him to defeat the police and my soldiers effortlessly ." Esdeath replied.