Anime: Ashura from Killing Akame

"Tatsumi, wake up."

"Wake up Tatsumi."

"Tatsumi..."

In a daze, Tatsumi heard someone calling him from outside.

This voice is Esdeath.

What's wrong with me?

He just felt dizzy and his eyelids were too heavy to open. He felt as tired as if he had been staying in an Internet cafe for three days without closing his eyes and his body was overdrawn.

"Tazmi!"

"Snapped!"

The voice suddenly became anxious, Tatsumi opened his eyes instantly, and then was hit hard on the face by a big bitch.

When Esdeath saw Tatsumi wake up, her frown relaxed quietly, and her face showed joy but also a hint of vigilance.

"Tatsumi, is that you?" she asked uncertainly, her eyes fixed on Tatsumi's face, trying to find the answer from his eyes.

"Um......"

Tatsumi stretched out his hand and gently placed the Five Finger Mountain on his face, looking dazed.

"How much strength did you use?"

He asked somewhat helplessly, feeling somewhat speechless about this sudden slap.

Do you know how lethal that loud big bitch can be to a boy who is already unconscious?

Tatsumi felt as if his face was on fire, burning with pain. He rubbed his cheeks with his palms, trying to ease the pain.

"...70%."

Esdeath looked at Tatsumi's aggrieved expression and couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

"Tatsumi, I'm sorry, I worried too much." Esdeath explained with a hint of apology in her voice.

Tatsumi looked at Esdeath's nervous and guilty expression, knowing that Esdeath did this because she cared about him, so he didn't blame her too much.

"I am fine."

Tatsumi shook his head gently, indicating that he was fine.

Then, he sat up, looked around carefully, and tried to recall what had happened before.

This is the snow mountain?

What happened before?

"Where are we?"

Tatsumi asked in confusion.

Esdeath felt relieved when she saw Tatsumi's appearance.

Tatsumi is back.

Then Esdeath lowered her head, stroked the snow-white spot on the torn collar with her hand, and shook her head with confusion in her eyes.

"I don't know. Maybe we are already dead and this is the afterlife."

Her heart was crushed, and Esdeath couldn't think of any way to heal it.

The only possibility is.

Already dead, no longer in the original world.

"The afterlife?"

Tatsumi was stunned and began to call the system in his mind.

"Tongzi, are you there?"

[Yes, host]

"what happened?"

He only remembered that he was fighting Esdeath when a demon named Kazan suddenly appeared in his mind.

After rejecting the other party's instigation, his head sank and he passed out.

I was completely unaware of the series of events that happened afterwards.

When I opened my eyes again, I was in the snowy mountains, and Esdeath in front of me was still talking nonsense about the afterlife?

[Host, please don't be impatient. Let me tell you everything in detail.]

[Things happened like this, and then like that. Anyway, it was like this and like that. It’s very complicated to talk about, so complicated that it would take three days and three nights to finish.]

"Stop, make it short."

Listening to the system's nonsense, Tatsumi's face suddenly turned dark and he interrupted it in time.

[Okay, host]

[You are possessed by the ghost Kazan]

"Gone?"

【Didn’t the host ask me to keep it short?】

"What about the details? What happened after I was possessed?"

【In the long story】

"..."

Something is wrong, something is wrong with this system, there is a big problem.

Tatsumi's intuition told him that there was definitely something wrong with the system.

"Don't you have any host protection mechanism? Are you going to watch me being possessed by Kazan?"

In novels, the system always has some kind of protection mechanism to prevent it from being forcibly detected by external forces.

Why is my system so useless? Apart from providing a little experience, it has no other function.

[Host, I am just a part-time worker. If there are any functional issues, please report them to the technical department.]

“Feedback, feedback is a must!”

[Host, there is no feedback channel]

"? Then why did you say it out loud?"

【Just a formality】

"..."

Tatsumi sighed.

I always feel like a dumb person eating bitter herbs, unable to express my pain.

After sorting out his thoughts, Tatsumi asked again.

"You arranged the ghost hand for me. Why did Kazan appear? Is it related to you? Will such a thing happen again in the future?"

"And what about my protagonist halo?"

"And where am I now?"

[The host has raised a question and is connecting to the database to find the answer...]

【Connection failed...】

【Continue to connect...】

【Connection failed...】

【Forced connection...】

【Connection failed...】

[Ding, due to multiple failures in connecting to the database, the system has suffered backlash and the backup defense mechanism has been activated]

[Ding, insufficient energy. To replenish energy, the system is forced into hibernation.]

[Sleep time: 71:59:59]

A series of prompts came down.

The system was broken, and all that was left for Tatsumi was a countdown panel that appeared out of nowhere in front of him. The numbers kept jumping, showing the remaining time.

And a big question mark appeared on his forehead.

"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Esdeath noticed that Tatsumi was in a daze for a long time with no expression on his face. She couldn't help but feel worried, thinking that there was some sequelae.

She walked gently to his side, pressed her body against him, and hugged him tightly. Her body temperature passed through the thick clothes, trying to bring a little warmth and comfort to Tatsumi in this icy and snowy place.

"Huh? No, I'm fine."

Tatsumi came back to his senses and was awakened by the sudden hug. He felt the softness and warmth of Esdeath's body, and his mood, which was puzzled by the system's strange operation, improved a lot.

"Can you tell me what happened before?"

Seeing that the system was not working, Tatsumi decided to ask Esdeath.

"do not you remember?"

"Well, I have no memory of that time."

Esdeath leaned her head on Tatsumi's strong shoulders, her hands gently covering her chest, her eyes revealing complex and confused emotions.

"A man who calls himself the ghost god Kazan has taken your body. That man is very powerful, so powerful that I have no power to resist..."

"and then?"

Tatsumi stared at the blood-stained collar around Esdeath's chest. The glaring red color made his doubts even more serious.

"Kazan pierced my chest and crushed my heart."

At this point, Esdeath frowned slightly, and the confusion in her eyes deepened: "Logically speaking, with that fatal injury, I should have no hope of survival."

"But......"

She stretched out her slender fingers and gently touched the falling snow in front of her.

The snowflakes fluttered down from the sky and landed on her fingertips, bringing a cool and real touch.

She closed her eyes and felt it carefully.

The snowflakes melt gently on your fingertips, turning into drops of cool water, the touch is so delicate.

"This is such a real feeling, it doesn't feel like the afterlife at all."

"There is another possibility. We are not dead. Kazan used some special means to resurrect me."

Esdeath opened her eyes, combined the current situation with the strength beyond common sense that Kazan had demonstrated, and finally came to a conclusion.

"Anyway, I'm glad you're okay."

Tatsumi hugged the soft body in his arms tightly, and his mood went up and down like a roller coaster as Esdeath told his story.

In the past, he always believed that he had the system and the halo of the protagonist.

Cricket Kazan, cricket ghost god.

Ridiculous, ridiculous~~~

Unexpectedly, this guy had no moral principles, forcibly took over his body, and killed Esdeath...

It would be so painful if the heart was crushed.

No wonder there was such a big pool of blood on Esdeath's chest.

The ancients said: Only when you lose something do you know how to cherish it.

Although Tatsumi did not witness Kazan's crime with his own eyes.

But just from Esdeath's one-sided words, one can imagine the feeling of powerlessness.

"The system is still too complicated and I can't control it."

Tatsumi sighed secretly in his heart.

He didn't know the specific situation or what the truth was.

But his intuition told him that all this must be related to the system that pretended to be dead and silent.

After all, the power of the ghost hand comes from Asura, and Asura is given by the system.

Suffering backlash and forced into hibernation?

Ah.

Only a fool would believe such nonsense.

In Tatsumi's opinion, the system's operation seemed more like a deliberate avoidance of the topic.

"Wait, could it be that Tongzi discovered my previous lie and is holding a grudge, and is secretly taking revenge on me?"

A thought suddenly popped up in Tatsumi's mind, and he recalled how he tried to fool the system when he first traveled through time.

By the way, Ashura's power was also obtained from the novice gift package obtained by tricking the system.

hiss......

He suddenly had a bold guess.

Could it be that from the very beginning, the system saw through his lies, but did not expose them, but instead deliberately played along with him and distributed novice gift packs?

Planting a dangerous seed.

Everything we do, everything we do, is just to wait for the seeds to germinate today?