Their commission was suspicious.

"Tazmi, do you know her?" Iyeas asked curiously.

"Didn't you get swindled out of all your money by a despicable woman as soon as you arrived in the capital, then stay at the tavern until closing time, and finally get picked up by us? How come you still have acquaintances in the capital?"

"She's the woman who swindled all my money!" Tatsumi said with some heartache.

“Alright, this stalemate is getting rather troublesome. And judging from this guy’s silly appearance, he doesn’t seem like the type to do anything bad. I feel like there’s some misunderstanding. Since we still have some time, let’s take a little time to explain things clearly,” Leone said, putting her arm around Akame’s shoulder.

"Young man, why would you risk the lives of your three companions to protect the people behind you?" Leone asked with a serious expression.

“This isn’t wartime. If you’re going to talk about money, then take the money. Why kill an innocent person?” Tatsumi said as the one being questioned.

"Oh? An innocent person? It seems you have a deep misunderstanding about that young lady."

Upon hearing Leone's words, Aria, who had been hiding behind Sayo with a tense expression, suddenly looked somewhat frightened.

“Well then, young man, let me show you the true darkness of the capital.” Leone said as he walked toward the warehouse behind Arya, which was chained up with a large iron chain.

The kick, imbued with immense power, shattered the iron gate, revealing the true contents of the warehouse.

“Take a closer look. Compared to being scammed out of money, this is the real darkness of the capital.” Leone said as she walked to the front of the warehouse.

After seeing that Akame really didn't intend to attack Aria immediately, Tatsumi, Yuu, and Ieyasu couldn't suppress their curiosity and also came to the broken iron gate.

After the three men saw the contents of the warehouse, cold sweat instantly broke out on their faces.

Countless hanging corpses and gruesome-looking instruments of torture were displayed in this warehouse.

Besides the numerous chains, there were also strange-looking large jars and the like.

In the iron cage next to it, there were several mummified corpses, long dead but with an indelible look of despair on their faces.

“They lure outsiders to their home with sweet words, then subject them to all sorts of tortures they enjoy and play with them until they die. That’s the nature of this family,” Leone said in a deep voice.

……

"The little traveler who collects souls, carrying a big bamboo basket..." Chen Luo hummed a children's song as he squatted beside the nobleman, whose body was intact but long dead, and extracted his soul from his body.

Orange juice has already spread throughout the entire capital city; as long as you drink water, you will definitely absorb the doll's mark.

The dollification was completed instantly at the moment of death.

Preserving a person's soul temporarily after death is not a difficult thing to do.

Chen Luo came to retrieve their souls personally, partly because it was convenient, and partly to avoid wasting their already minimally damaged physical bodies.

While we're at it, let's also study the characteristics of the corpses that have been tainted by the Murasame curse.

Chen Luo wanted to see if he could research this curse, and also see if he could use the power of breaking out of the cocoon to continuously build up resistance, eventually reaching a point where he was completely unafraid of the curse poison.

"Hmm? So many people come to my bar, and so many customers, yet you're the first person to use the bar door as a shield." Chen Luo's gaze drifted to the far distance.

"I wonder if Fran has arrived yet. If she's late and the toy gets killed, then it's not my fault." Chen Luo muttered to himself as he continued humming as he went to find the noblewoman's body.

"Stop singing, it sounds awful." The Lawbringer couldn't stand it anymore.

"Nonsense, it sounds great, don't you think, Suigintou?"

"Yes, Father is the best. I love listening to Father sing." Although Suigintou doesn't understand whether a song is good or not, she firmly stands by Chen Luo's side.

“Little sycophant…” The Herald of Knowledge suddenly realized that his position seemed to have been somewhat shaken.

But it's not a big problem.

……

"Trying to take this opportunity to escape? You're being too presumptuous, Miss!" Leone, after transforming into a beast, grabbed Arya's head with her giant claws.

"Die!" Faced with overwhelming evidence, Arya's face darkened. She knocked away Leone's loose grip and raised the Soul Lamp in her hand.

The flames in the soul lamp burst forth instantly, and countless soul flames continued to burn resolutely toward Leone despite the rain.

"Be careful, that's a weapon. It contains a special flame that will cause excruciating pain to anyone who gets burned," Sayo quickly warned, having understood Arya's true nature the moment she saw the warehouse.

"Huh? In excruciating pain?" Leone was taken aback.

Leone's beast intuition gave her no indication that anything dangerous was approaching, so she did not dodge the flames at all.

"Hahaha, die! Let me see the power of this torture device!" At such close range, with such a large area of ​​flames on him, Arya was looking forward to seeing what kind of ugly behavior Leo would display.

You should know that Arya was in so much pain that she couldn't even stand up straight after just a tiny bit of it.

"Leona!" Akame cried out in concern as she saw Leona engulfed in flames.

"No, it's okay, don't worry. I feel... completely no pain, it's even quite comfortable." When Akame arrived next to Leone, Leone looked in amazement at the flames burning on her body without causing her any harm.

Leone even felt her mental and physical strength slowly recovering, and the irritation caused by the rain wetting her fur was swept away.

"H-How is this possible?" Arya stared incredulously at Leone, whose body was engulfed in flames.

Arya thought for a moment that she had been deceived.

Then it summoned a tiny flame and touched it gently.

"It hurts so much! It hurts so much! Ahhhhh!" But just from being touched by a little flame, Arya cried out in heart-wrenching pain, and even lost her grip on the Soul Lamp, which fell to the ground.

This preferential treatment left Leone and the others completely stunned.

Leone even began to doubt whether she was a normal person.

"Come on, Akame, why don't you try it? It feels really good." Leone stretched out his hand, which was meant to be fire, to Akame.

Just as Leone's hand was about to touch Akame, Akame felt a surge of danger.

Just as Akame was about to draw her sword and cut off the other's hand, she remembered that it was her companion Leone, and forcibly suppressed her impulse. However, because of this, Akame's arm was stained with a little flame due to her inability to dodge in time.

"!!!" The excruciating pain instantly turned Akame's face deathly pale.

"Akame, what's wrong?" Leone asked with concern.

"Don't come any closer!" he said, taking a step back.

"Ok?"

"I know what that lamp is! I remember now!" Akame said after a moment, suppressing a cry of pain.

"Huh?" Leone was taken aback.

"Do you recognize this minister?"

“That’s not a servant’s weapon at all! That’s an Imperial Arm!” Akame shook her head and said.

"Teigu?" Upon hearing this name, not only Leone and Tatsumi, but even Aria, whose face contorted in pain, turned her attention to Akame.

One of the seven elite assassins of the former Imperial Dark Guard.

“That’s right, a Teigu. The most ferocious, bizarre, and mysterious Teigu in legend—the Soul Lantern. I heard my father mention it when I was in the Anbu.” Akame looked warily at the Soul Lantern that Aria had thrown on the ground.

"This is not only an Imperial Arm, but also the most excellent and terrifying instrument of torture. Legend has it that no one can keep a secret in front of this Imperial Arm," Akame said after taking a deep breath.

Chapter 872 Fran's Angry Remarks

"Is this really a torture device? Why don't I feel any pain at all?" Leone looked at Akame strangely.

Are you sure you haven't misremembered?

"I'm not mistaken. Judging from his characteristics, he is definitely the legendary Imperial Arm - Soul Lamp. An extremely terrifying, extremely dangerous, and extremely mysterious Imperial Arm."

"Then why don't I feel pain?"

"That's because... Legend has it that this Imperial Arm can extract the souls of evil people, imprison them in the Soul Lamp, subject them to eternal torment, and then use the soul's suffering as fuel to extract Soul Flame to fight enemies. That's the kind of flame on your body."

"The reason you feel comfortable is because you are a good person," Akame said seriously.

"Huh? I've already been friend-zoned? Akame, you're quite the joker." Leone was a little incredulous.

"I'm not joking. It didn't hurt you because you're a good person. This Soulfire has two effects. One is that it heals the spirit of a good person and gives them motivation. If the Imperial Arms user's stamina is strong enough, it can even break the rule that a person cannot use an Imperial Arms. Because of the Soulfire, it can continuously restore mental strength."

The limitation of Imperial Arms is that two or more Imperial Arms cannot be used simultaneously.

The reason for this is that using even one Imperial Arms already requires a great deal of energy, and using multiple Imperial Arms at the same time would further deplete the user's physical and mental strength.

In the world of Akame ga Kill!, there aren't many good ways to train mental strength, but there are ways to train physical strength.

When one has sufficient physical strength, replenishing one's mental energy with Soulfire does indeed allow one to use multiple Imperial Arms simultaneously.

"That's amazing?" Leone was astonished.

"That's how powerful it is. The reason it's called the most mysterious is because it involves the soul. Besides that, when facing bad guys, the Soul Fire transforms into the most terrifying curse. Even a touch will make them experience the most painful feeling in the world. They'll enjoy the agony of their souls being burned." Akame subconsciously touched her arm.

Although Akame is now helping the Revolutionary Army kill bad guys, she used to be an assassin for the Empire's secret service, killing many innocent people.

"That's why this Imperial Arm is called an instrument of torture," Akame concluded.

"Being considered a good person by a lamp... feels pretty strange. So now it's proven he's a bad person, do you believe me now?"

"This……"

Who knows if this is a fantasy story you made up on the spot?

Although Tatsumi wanted to say that, upon closer reflection, it seemed that they hadn't really lied to their own position.

Anyway, the three of us can't beat the two of them.

“I believe you,” Sayo was the first to stand up and say.

Since the Soul Lamp was taken from Chen Luo, no one would be surprised how magical it is.

“That makes sense, after all, it’s Lolo’s stuff. Speaking of which, where is Lolo?” Iyeas, who had spent more time with Chen Luo, immediately believed it as well.

"Didn't he tell us to retreat first? But is he alright now?" Tatsumi asked with some concern.

"Don't worry, even if he can't beat us, he can run away," Shayou said.

Would someone who can casually pull out an Imperial Arms and give it to you be weak?

Shayou didn't believe it.

"That means Arya really did do those heinous things," Tatsumi said, glancing back at the warehouse.

"..." Arya wanted to refute, but facts spoke louder than words.

But Arya didn't want to give up her hope of living so easily.

"Something interesting seems to have happened here," a childish voice rang out.

When everyone heard the sound, they instinctively looked towards the source and saw a little girl who looked to be under 10 years old slowly walking over, holding an umbrella.

When Arya saw Fran, she felt as if she had grasped a lifeline.

Arya grabbed the Soul Lamp beside her and ran toward Fran, who was walking toward her.

"Don't come any closer! If you do, I'll kill her with this lantern!" Arya rushed in front of Fran, knocked the umbrella out of Fran's hand, and held up the Soul Lantern close to Fran, speaking to Akame and the others.

“Wow, using a little girl as a hostage, you’re incredibly despicable,” Leone said incredulously.

But Leone remained completely calm.

With Arya's small arms and legs, in the time it takes her to raise the Soul Lamp, Akame and Leone could have rushed up to her and killed her 10 times over.

"Umbrella..." Fran looked helplessly at the umbrella that had been knocked away.

Suddenly I hate rain, and I hate flowing water.

This is a characteristic of vampires, so Fran is very unhappy now.

"Shut up!" Arya raised the lantern, keeping it a certain distance from Fran.

That way, we can just smash it down in a little while.

"Move this lantern away from me." Fran looked at the lantern with displeasure and then glanced at the sky with disgust.

"I told you to shut up, you're annoying!" Arya no longer hid her disgust for Fran.

Fran's face instantly darkened.

"I'll say it again, move this lantern away from me, then let go of me, I need to get my umbrella." Fran's voice carried a hint of coldness.

"I told you, shut up!" When Arya's disgust for Fran reached its peak, she slammed the lantern she was holding down hard.

Just as Akame and Leona were about to make their move...

"boom!"

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the soul lamp fell to the ground.