Akame: "Green, you're all right! Thank goodness..."

Green: (clasps Akame's hand) "It was a close one, but the thought of you, Akame, gave me limitless strength..."

Akame: (blushes) "Green..."

Reality...

Green: "If I can just imagine that scene, I can keep running!"

Currently, as what happened earlier, Green was running away from Daniel, Merraid Oarburgh's head butler. The glasses wearing teen kept imagining that scene, him oddly enough able to keep running for extended periods of time. It was even giving Daniel a hard time in catching up.

With Gin...

Having been separated from Akira and Poney, Gin had run out into the hallway. But the blonde girl gritted her teeth in frustration as Merraid Oarburgh stood in her way. Bringing her blade over her head, she goes for an overhead slash.

Gin: "Get outta my way, bitch!"

Merraid: (lustful grin) "You can call me, Mera."

The Oarburgh raised her umbrella for defense. Surprising Gin, the umbrella was able to hold it's own against her sword, not even making a dent in it. But what Gin could tell was how strong Merraid is. Letting out a "tch," Gin jumps back, getting away from Merraid.

Merraid: "You're probably thinking you can defeat me to open an escape route for yourself, but...that's the wrong strategy."

Dragging the sharp tip of the umbrella across the floor, she points it in front of Gin. She unwraps it's flaps, Gin's view of Merraid's body being obstructed.

Merraid: "When an assassin is driven into a corner, she mustn't fight. She should flee without any hesitation..."

The Oarburgh stands there for a moment, making Gin confused. It wasn't until Merraid begun to spin her umbrella rapidly, Gin realizing what it was as she jumps into the air.

Gin: (thoughts) 'Hypnosis! Not good!'

Merraid: (grin) "Wrigglers."

The beetles from before then burst out from the umbrella, Gin gritting her teeth. She began to furiously slash the air, any oncoming bugs coming towards her being cut down.

Gin: "As if I'd let some bugs be the end of me!"

Merraid: "Sadly for you, the will indeed be your end."

Now close enough to the blonde, Merraid thrusts her arm forward, using her fingernails to slash at Gin. Gin dodges, using her hand on the floor to slide under Merraid's arm. As Gin skids back, Merraid had a grin as Gin's blood dripped from her finger nails.

Merraid: "Most people are wary of my umbrella and can't help but be given pause...I didn't expect you to charge right for it."

Gin: (pops open medicine bottle) "Like they say, 'desperate times call for desperate measures.'"

Merraid: "Had you been a good little girl and let the hypnosis take effect, you could've lived a little longer. Assassination isn't the kind of career for someone impulsive like you. If you let your heart control your body, you'll end up dead."

Gin: (sips medicine bottle) "Says you." (thoughts) 'All right, this is okay. When it comes to the Oarburghs, I have to be on my guard against poisoning. Even if it's a new strain of poison, this should be able to counter it's effects.'

Merraid: "I'm not using poison. And I don't lie to girls."

Gin: "Hah! We'll see about that! Now. Out of my way!"

Bringing her sword to her back, she leaps into the air and goes for a slash, Gin thinking she was victorious. But she then notices blood dripping out of her eye, feeling it's warmth go down her cheeks.

Merraid: "The match is already over."

Back with Akira and Poney...

The fight between the assassins of the Empire and the Oarburghs had went on for a few minutes. Shattered ice crystals were all over the floor, all from Cassandra using her chakrams to cut down the ice weapons Akira had created. Gilberda was wiping some blood off her cheek as Poney and her had been getting locked in clashes of fists and kicks against each other.

Cassandra could feel Akira's ice cold glare on herself, the boy letting out a chilling breath as she could feel the room get even colder.

Cassandra: (thoughts) 'I've been able to follow the path of his bullets. Even if they can turn in midair, they won't hit me, but his ice weapons are real troublesome.'

Gilberda: (thoughts) 'The moment he fires, it's over. I'll kill him before he can get the second shot.'

Akira: (thoughts) 'Tsk. This is annoying. I've used quite a bit of ice and I've depleted about half my stamina. I don't have what it takes to do this right now, but even still...I guess I'll have to use those experimentals.'

Discreetly going into his pockets, Akira had pulled out a smoke bomb, an experimental item from the Empire. Flicking it against the gun's metal handle, it creates a spark. Quickly, Akira throws it down onto the ground, the room exploding into puffs of smoke.

Cassandra: (thoughts) 'So he intends to fire at us through the smoke, but...'

Gilberda: (thoughts) 'He thinks that'll be enough to take us out? Don't get ahead of yourself.'

The two Oarburgh members await for Akira's oncoming bullets, but they didn't feel or hear anything. No shot was fired off, the smoke only kept growing.

Cassandra: "...You think he bailed on us?"

Gilberda: "...Maybe...for just a kid, he's pretty level-headed."

Outside, Akira was with Poney, the two making their escape. For some odd reason, Poney was having Akira ride on her back, but then again, in terms of running speed, Poney was faster than him.

Akira: "Looks like we were able to make a break for it. Now we gotta make it to the rendezvous point."

Poney: "Yep! We can't hold our own against those two. ...Have you no pride as a guy though?"

Akira: "...I thought this felt wrong, but right now we're trying to escape. So shut up and go faster." (looks behind) "...Shit."

Poney: "Hmm?"

Gilberda: "Heeeeeeeeeyyy! Hold it right there, you shitty little brats!"

Poney: "They're catching up with me!?"

Gilberda: "Once I cancel all my limiters, this is a breeze for me!"

Clicking his tongue in annoyance, Akira whips out Prometheus, firing off three quick shots. Cassandra, who rode atop Gilberda's shoulders, responded with throwing her chakrams to block Akira's shots. But the icy blue-eyed teen used the Shingu's special ability to curve it's shots, the bullets going around and through the large opening of the chakrams.

One of the bullets had curved down and hit Gilberda's knee, but it didn't slow her down, the girl only letting out a grunt of pain.

Gilberda: "Makes sense. You aimed for shots Dora would have a hard time deflecting and shot me...I expected that, so I tensed my muscles...but it still hurts..."

Poney: "She got off with just an 'ow'!? She's still running!"

Akira: "Hey! Stop wiggling around so much, idiot! Do you want me to drop these chakrams on you!?"

Cassandra: "He stopped my chakrams by catching them...he's good eyesight and reaction time."

Gilberda: "I knew it. We need to get closer. Here goes my last spurt!"

As Poney kept running, now on the city's walls, she looks to her right to see a forested area. That area was also in the general direction of the rendezvous point.

Poney: "We're going this way, Akira!"

Akira: "So long as you lose them!"

Gilberda: "You're not getting away!"

Jumping off the wall and landing on the side of a tree, Poney thought back to the Gravekeeper she fought back in the tomb. He had the abilities of a grasshopper and was able to hop off the walls at insanely high speeds. While she wouldn't be able to match that speed, she was able to mimic the movements, her moving at her highest speed as she bounced off the trees and heading deeper into the forest.

Gilberda and Cassandra couldn't follow, Cassandra's weapons making them too heavy to follow, so they stopped along the wall. In the forest, Akira and Poney had gotten away with a considerable amount of distance.

Akira: "Nice job, Poney. I don't see or sense them anymore. Looks like we lost them."

Poney: "The chief carried me on his back to safety! So I'll do the same!"

Akira: "Heh. So even in death, you're still watching over us, huh, Najasho?" (thoughts) 'I wasn't sure how we were going to get out of that one, but...get out alive everyone. You have to.'

Back with Gin...

The blonde girl had thrust her sword forward, Merraid side stepping to dodge it. The Oarburgh noted that Gin's strike was weaker.

Merraid: "What's the matter? You're not putting any power behind it."

Blood was dripping out of Gin's eyes, the girl panting heavily. She could feel herself getting weaker and dreary.

Merraid: "It's just about time."

Gin: "I knew it...you poisoned me...earlier."

Merraid: "It's not poison. And I never lie to girls."

Gin then drops her sword to the floor, her now puking up blood as she looks down. Her stomach then explodes, large amounts of blood spilling out as she heard a buzzing noise.

Merraid: "I planted insect eggs inside you."

Gin's eyes widen as she feels the insects hatching from their eggs, now making their way to different areas of her body, trying to escape as they eat her out from the inside.

Merraid: "I keep the eggs under my fingernails, so that when I strike my enemy, I can deposit them. They're already hatching. Soon, they'll consume you from the inside out and come bursting free in a rush."

Bugs begin to burst out from Gin's arms, leg, and her stomach areas. 

Merraid: "This is goodbye. Let's hear your final words."

Gin: (weakly) "Fi...nal?"

Merraid: "Yes. You're going to die now. Without question."

Grabbing her sword, Gin begins to weakly walk forward towards Merraid. At this point, Gin was only going off of willpower, the desire to see him again. Raising her sword over head to go deliver a final blow.

Gin: "...I'll kill you..."

But before she could bring down her weapon, more insects burst out from her shoulder. Gin's eyes were now lifeless, her falling over as she succumbs to her wounds.

Merraid: "When faced with death, people usually call out the name of a loved one. You truly are lovely for continuing to attack right up to your last breath. You made a marvelous incubator. It took only a small swarm of my little children to fill you up."

Gin: (thoughts) 'I'm sorry...Akira...I...I...'