Night Raid Reborn

Chapter 44: The Ultimate Nightmare Begins

Akame was still being torn to shreds by Torosu's unrelenting finger beams.

TJ then tried to blindside Torosu with a kick by Torosu dodged it while simultaneously blasting Akame away but, before she could crash into a rock, Leone caught her.

"You okay?" Leone asked.

"I'm good. Thanks." Akame coughed.

TJ flew towards the sky and looked down at Torosu.

"You're done you monster!!" TJ screamed.

TJ then fired an enormous energy beam at Torosu.

Torosu underestimated the beam as he tried to deflect it but was being driven into the ground by the attack.

TJ began putting more power into the attack driving Torosu into the ground even faster.

"I won't let you hurt anyone else!!" TJ shouted.

As Torosu inched towards the ground he placed his hands on the ground and pushed the beam back at TJ with his feet.

But right before TJ was hit, Akame and Leone destroyed the beam just in time.

"Holy crap... Thanks Aunties!" TJ chuckled.

"Of course, TJ."  Akame smiled.

"No problem, kid." Leone waved.

"Hmm, that little brat's power has taken a sizeable jump."  Torosu thought. "Somehow that little thrashing I gave him seems to have only made him stronger. Of course!... He must be a Tuffle child! It makes sense, that damned plebian race. A Bunch of lowlife fucking scum of the multiverse."

"I see you've gotten stronger TJ." Akame said. "I'm so proud of you."

"Yeah maybe." TJ replied. "But I put everything I had into that attack, and it didn't even faze him."

"Damn it, Chelsea!" Esdeath then grabbed Chelsea by her shirt. "Do I need to spell it out! Every time a blood Imperial Arms user comes back from near death, they get that much stronger. We can use that to our advantage. Now! Before Torosu reveals his last transformation. I need you to blast me! Don't think about it, just do it. It can't work if the injury is self-inflicted! It has to be you!" 

"But you're so much stronger than me." Chelsea protested. "I doubt I'd even scratch you."

"Don't worry about that." Esdeath assured. "I'll lower my defenses for you, okay? Just attack me with everything you have. Then I'll use the little zulian girl's healing ability."

"No Esdeath... We don't have to do that." Chelsea said. "Besides, we just have to hold out a few more minutes until Tatsumi recovers."

"Look, I want Tatsumi to be here fighting alongside us just as much as the rest of you, but we can't waste this prime opportunity that's right front of us."

"No, this just won't do." Torosu concluded. "It's time I wipe these damn bastards off the universe. After this, I will wipeout the entire Tuffle race and the head to this little earth. Not that I ever put much stock into those stupid fucking rumors, it's just better to be safe than sorry."

"It would be a relatively simple matter for me to kill you all in my current form, but other than do that, it would be much more satisfying for me to leave with a visual even more terrifying than death." Torosu said.

"What?" Leone said. 

"I don't like the sound of that at all." Chelsea said.

"Consider this my parting gift to you, a nightmare beyond even the horrors of hell itself; witness my true ultimate form!" Torosu said as he started his transformation into his final form.