211. Akame Ga Kill : War Between Paradise City and Empire. (1)

When the war finally broke out, Paradise City was essentially surrounded by the Empire army... and as predicted, they were vastly outnumbered. Aika reported there are easily 200.000 Imperial soldiers surrounding them from all directions, despite the whole Paradise City size actually comparable to Imperial Capital.

Naturally, unlike the previous days, the residents of Paradise City had already been evacuated to the shelters that were prepared to prevent the worst from happening. Every facility closed, no more concerts,  and the citizens were grouped in a single big bunker underneath the city that had been prepared beforehand.

The entire Team 2 had headed to the frontline to face the Empire's army outside the city, and engage with all Teigu users from the Empire, except for a few like Uta, who refused to kill people and chose to come with civilians in the bunker.

*Slash*

*Slash*

...!!!

"Keep moving! For Archer, keep shooting the enemy from afar!"

"Yes!"

Keeping their defense tight near the gate inside the city, Arturia and the 7000 Paradise City defense army wiped out the enemies that were attacking at the city's main gate. Since in Paradise City there's only 1 main gate to enter through, the Empire army naturally concentrated its strength the most on it to force itself to enter the city... as they found it's practically impossible to break through the city wall that keeps regenerating and attacking on its own.

Thus, there's only a limited number of Empire soldiers who could enter through the gate; hence, their overwhelming numeric advantage was naturally gone when they were about to enter Paradise City, and this was easily exploited by Arturia (Saber).

Arturia (Saber) then let the Paradise City defense soldiers themselves take care of any Empire soldiers that forced in through the main gate, so they could have the sense of direct participation in defending the city.

If not because of that, there's no need for Paradise City to form their army in the first place-- but that would be a bad thing for the future of the world. After all, chat group members couldn't stay forever in this world, and they wanted native people to take care of themselves.

Besides, a very safe 'camping' strategy with very low chance of casualties on their side, there's only at best less than a hundred Empire soldiers could enter the city at the same time, yet several thousands of the Paradise City army are ready to ambush and outnumber them inside.

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"For the Empire! Destroy our enemy!" (Empire Army soldier)

"Shut up! Die! You Empire soldier scum!" Paradise City Army soldier)

*Slash*

...!!!

Both the Empire and Paradise City armies fought relentlessly on the front lines for their own beliefs. Although in terms of experience, the Empire's troops, especially Esdeath's subordinates, were experienced elites, the Paradise City troops were still able to match them properly because their numbers and equipment were far superior to the Empire's inside the city.

"For the sake of a better future, we need to protect our Paradise!" (Tatsumi)

""Ohh!!"" (Paradise City Army)

Since many of the newly established Paradise City Army soldiers were victims of the Empire's cruelty and unfairness, they were truly working hard to defend this place, their Paradise, to the point that they were willing to lose their lives here.

After all, although it's only been a few weeks since its establishment, it has been proven that Paradise City is truly a paradise for natives to this world; a city that is willing to treat its citizens fairly and care about them.

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As for the rest of the Empire's army that couldn't be squeezed into the small entrance gate, they naturally surrounded the Paradise City from all other directions, attempting to break the wall by using heavy artillery like a dozen giant catapults launched on each side. Hundreds of giant stones smash into the wall of the city every minute, and yet they are still unable to break the wall at all!

"Keep attacking! The city wall will eventually be torn down!"

"Shoot!"

"3... 2... 1... Launch all the catapults!"

...!!!

*DUAR* *DUAR* *DUAR* *DUAR*

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"Damn it! Commander! The wall keeps regenerating! It's impossible to break in!"

"Keep it up! This damn wall is definitely not going to recover forever, especially when it got attacked from all directions!"

"Yes!"

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Fortunately, despite the onslaught, the giant wall of the city kept standing and regenerating its shape, because the wall itself was under the control of Crocodile, who was focusing on holding the city wall from getting destroyed no matter what.

As has been stated before, Crocodile himself was connected to the leyline of the planet under the city directly, hence allowing him to regenerate the city wall endlessly as long as the planet still provides energy.

"Crocodile-san, are you okay?"

Looking at Crocodile, who looks pale and sweats a lot in the commanding room (due to constant pressure to maintain the wall of the whole city), Aika, the only other person in the room, asks him with genuine concern. As the one who directly controls the wall of the city, Crocodile naturally can't go to the front line, and the same with Aika, who directly leads the war alongside him.

"It's not okay... but I am still holding in, Aika-san."

However, both of them were smart and had been prepared for this situation.

A few days before this war happened, Kayaba had already launched its first small high-technology satellite into the sky of this world, similar to the Black Bullet world, thus giving them a clear vision of what was happening around the city via a holographic monitor.

"Hahahaha! I just didn't expect the consumption to be huge, but thanks to the fact that I am taking energy directly from the planet, energy has never been an issue!"

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In fact, Crocodile also makes a deal with the system by using points to temporarily boost his mental and physical strength to handle the current situation; otherwise, Crocodile fears he wouldn't even stand a chance after 10-minute bombardments from hundreds of catapults spread across all directions.

Without a doubt, Crocodile plays the most crucial role in this war by holding the city wall; otherwise, if he can't hold on.. Paradise City would have been overrun by a hundred thousand Empire soldiers by now!

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"That's good. But how long can you withstand their attack? I will ask the chat group system to recover your state when it's necessary." Aika stated seriously.

"All day! Don't worry about it, Aika, and it's not like I just let them attack! I also could fight back!" Crocodile stated deliriously, holding his sanity and physical state on the line to defend the city he personally developed. 

"[Sand Tsunami Graveyard!]"

At the same time, on the outside of the city, the part of the sand wall of the city suddenly expanded from all directions-- capturing anyone close as a counterattack from Crocodile.  This made the Empire soldiers who got too close to the wall try to flee in panic, but there was no way for those soldiers to escape from it.

*BOOM*

Because the area was too dense and crowded, any sudden movement from the inner area was practically impossible, and soldiers who were too close to the wall had nowhere to escape, trapped and trampled by their fellow soldiers who also wanted to escape.

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"Help! The sands! Arrrgh!" (Empire Soldier A)

"Let me escape! The sands are dragging me in!" (Empire Soldier B)

"Stop stepping on me! Aarrgh!" (Empire Soldier C)

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die! AAAAAAAAHHH!" (Empire Soldier D)

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Just in that single move, Crocodile easily killed thousands of soldiers in a few seconds, instilling a deep fear and despair in the rest of the Empire's army.

This war has never been fair since the very beginning for the Empire; that's it. Like in the fight against the Scorpion army, any strong chat group member can easily wipe out most of the soldiers... if not all of them, with their absurd hax or ability.

The only threat to Paradise City was those dozen Teigu users from the Empire and Revolutionary army, but with the help of summoned servants and chat group members themselves, they were also not a problem at all.

Thunderstorm roaring on the battlefield, Itachi's huge Susanoo easily plowed through the Empire's armies, and various servants sent by Manaka destroyed the sky and earth without worry, using their abilities.

For example, Kurome, the sister of Akame in Jaegers, and Susanoo from the Revolutionary Army, currently fought the Uchiha couple (Itachi and Kazehana), and they were easily defeated

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"Paradise city... You guys are terrifying." Susanoo commented while gasping for air. He has been fighting Itachi intensely for half an hour by now and has never had any sort of upper hand against him.

"Give up and come back with me. We promise to treat all prisoners fairly." Itachi persuaded him calmly.

As a good 'guy' in the original plot, Itachi doesn't want to destroy this humanoid Teigu, not to mention this Teigu's name particularly has the same name as his most used sharingan ability.

Hearing Itachi's persuasion, however, Susanoo thought it was a mock for him and gritted his teeth, "No... I can't give up... for the better future of the Empire!" 

"I told you it's better to give up."

"Never!"

As the last effort, Susanoo, the humanoid Teigu, decides to use his trump card against Itachi since none of his attacks so far have been capable of breaking Itachi's defense.

"[Ame no Murakumo!]"

*Slash*

...!!!

The humanoid Teigu immediately generates an immensely powerful transparent sword. He wanted to use it to slice through Susanoo's armor directly... but naturally, it gets blocked by Itachi's Totsuka sword that also gets enhanced with Haki and strengthening magic.

*CLANK

...!!!

Unfortunately, the current Itachi is much, much stronger than ever; he has a healthier devil body, and using points, Itachi has constantly improved himself to protect his loved ones. Since Susanoo, the humanoid Teigu doesn't seem to give up, Itachi decides to just finish him off.,.. as there are still a lot of Empire soldiers who need to be taken care of on the battlefield.

"M-monster..."

*DUAR*

...!!!

Just in a single counterattack, the Susanoo, humanoid Teigu of the Revolutionary Army, got his core destroyed by Itachi Susanoo, empowered by Haki. After that, Itachi quickly retrieved his core and put it in his inventory as his spoil of war. Remembering that Susanoo has superb housework skills, Itachi decides to resurrect this Teigu later under his control (free butler) to help Kazehana take care of housework. 

After all, Kazehana isn't known for being a woman who can do housework, and so far in their relationship, it's always been Itachi who does that!

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Seeing how easily Susanoo gets destroyed by Itachi, Kurome (Akame's sister), who is currently facing Itachi's wife (Kazehana), curses loudly as she is also in a desperate situation.

"T-That trash humanoid Teigu!"

Like how Itachi easily handled his opponent, Kazehana also easily handled her.

While her Teigu allowed her to enslave up to eight enemies killed with her Teigu and gain a numerical advantage, Kazehana's mastery of her wind ability easily kills multiple opponents at once and effortlessly.

Although Kurome has better swordsmanship than Kazehana, she couldn't even get close to Kazehana, who constantly protected herself with a wind barrier.

*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*

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"Stop hiding yourself!" Kurome desperately wanted to cut through Kazehana's wind barrier, but it was of no use. She couldn't even get closer to more than 1 meter to her.

"Don't worry, little sis. We won't kill you, your sister begs us not to do that." Kazehana teased her while keeping up her wind barrier with ease, "But we are going to imprison you for a while."

"S-Stop underestimating me, you slut!"

*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*

...!!!

"Ara~ quite rude mouth you have, sister."

*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*

...!!!

"Shut up!"

"Well, since my husband is done. It's time to end this facade. [Dragon Slayer Magic: Roar of Wind Dragon!]"

Like her husband, after a long time in the chat group, Kazehana has also improved her abilities significantly. Since she is a Sekirei master of wind, Kazehana decided to get wind dragon slaying magic from the Fairy Tail world... which works very well, boosting her wind mastery.

"Aaaaaahh!"

Instantly, Kurome, who was in front of Kazehana, was blown away to the sky along with dozens of soldiers around her, creating a small storm that caused tremendous damage to the area.

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And just like that, Kurome and Susanoo are easily captured by chat group members, and the same scene also happens with other Teigu users who also face chat group members or servants.

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With all the development, just under 1 hour of confrontation with Paradise City, the Empire army has lost more than half of its size, and all of its Teigu users either got captured or were killed.

Realizing this cruel fact, countless ordinary soldiers of the Empire felt their legs go weak, and the discordant sound of fear was mixed in it. Some of them even lost their will to fight and fell to the ground or decided to abandon the battlefield.

Unlike fighting against the Gastrea creature, the Empire soldiers are still human; they are still capable of feeling fear and despair upon seeing no hope of winning in this war.

At this time, the reason why the Empire army is still insisting and struggling to attack Paradise City-- as that they believe in General Esdeath's plan, which, in summary, destroys the city from the inside, waiting for her to return, turning the desperate situation around.

Unfortunately, they don't know that their plan was discovered by the chat group a long time ago and is bound to fail as well.

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