Anime: Ashura from Killing Akame

"what happened?"

Seeing Tatsumi suddenly stop, Mine asked in confusion.

Tatsumi said nothing, but pointed toward the alley.

Although it was daytime, the alley seemed dark and had little light coming in due to the tall buildings on both sides. Most people would subconsciously not pay attention to such places, and where there is light there is shadow, so this neglected area happened to become a paradise for perpetrators.

Marin's hearing was not bad, and she quickly heard the noise coming from inside.

Her expression froze for a moment, then she regained her composure: "Let's go in and take a look."

"it is good."

The alley was not long, and the two of them could see the scene inside clearly as soon as they stepped in.

Two young men, one fat and one thin, were beating up a little girl with pink hair.

The pink-haired little girl cried and cried. Because she was too weak to resist, she could only put her hands in front of her body to minimize the damage.

She was so lonely and helpless, like a lone boat in a storm, shaky and precarious.

The two perpetrators noticed Tatsumi and Mine coming in and subconsciously stopped their actions.

However, when they saw Marin, a look of undisguised disgust flashed across their faces.

"Hey, you, why are you hanging out with this half-blood guy?"

"And why are you wearing a mask in broad daylight? Do you have some secret that you cannot reveal to others? You are so sneaky, are you a spy sent by a foreign race?"

The thin young man pointed his finger at Tatsumi and questioned.

Tatsumi looked at the pink-haired little girl huddled in the corner, shivering. After going through so many things, her character had long been tempered, and she was calm and just asked calmly, "Bullying a powerless child, it would be shameful if it got out."

The thin young man's face flushed when he heard this, and he retorted: "She is a mixed-race of a foreign race. Now the foreign race is attacking the country. Who knows if she is a spy who came to the imperial capital to steal information? She deserves to die! I am torturing her!"

"What's wrong with being mixed-blood? Did they offend you?" Marin asked angrily.

She could no longer control her facial expression, her teeth were clenched, her eyes were glaring, and she was obviously extremely angry.

Seeing what happened to the pink-haired little girl, Myne recalled her own childhood.

At that time.

Like the pink-haired little girl, she also suffered discrimination and unfair treatment because of her mixed race.

Throwing rotten eggs and fruits was considered light punishment. Some people with malicious intentions even threw stones at her head!

"What are you yelling about, you half-blood! I seriously suspect that you are also a spy sent by a foreign race to steal intelligence. Huzi, go call the Imperial Capital Guard!"

The thin young man glanced at the angry Marin, not caring at all, with a sneer on his face.

The fat young man named Hu Zi took a step forward and ran quickly past the two men.

"Tatsumi..." Mine tugged at the corner of Tatsumi's clothes nervously.

"Don't worry, I'm here, everything will be fine. I want to see how the Imperial Capital Guard handles this matter."

Tatsumi gave Mine a reassuring smile, which gradually calmed Mine's uneasy heart.

Yes.

With Tatsumi here, it doesn't matter even if the Imperial Capital Guard comes.

Main remembered Tatsumi's current identity, the imperial capital's imperial teacher, who possessed the same rights as the emperor.

Thinking of this, Main was completely relieved and stared at Tatsumi with her pink eyes without blinking.

It's really reassuring to be with Tatsumi.

"Hmph, when the Imperial Capital Guard arrives, I'll see if you can still remain as calm as you are now."

The thin young man still sneered. In his opinion, a mixed-race person of a foreign race and a person who wore a mask and dared not show his true face and stayed with a mixed-race person of a foreign race, these two people were not good people at first glance. Maybe they were spies sent by foreign races. If so, then he had done a great deed and would definitely be rewarded!

Thinking of this, the thin young man suddenly became happy.

"Big brother, big sister, you guys go ahead, don't worry about me." The pink-haired little girl took advantage of the time when the thin young man's attention was not on her and trotted over to the two of them. Although there was still lingering fear of being bullied on her face, she still spoke to them sincerely with a worried look on her face.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, Tatsumi is very powerful."

Myne squatted down, stroked the pink-haired little girl's head to comfort her, and said confidently.

"Does the Imperial Capital Guard discriminate against you as much as he does?"

Unlike Mine, Tatsumi saw more.

Without the connivance of the Imperial Capital Guard, these people would not have been able to do such a thing in broad daylight and have the audacity to ask the Imperial Capital Guard for help.

"Well...ever since the war started, we, the foreign races and mixed bloods, have been treated like this every day."

"Big brother, big sister, please leave quickly. That group of people is unreasonable and won't listen to explanations. Many mixed-race children like me have been arrested and tortured!"

The pink-haired girl looked at the thin young man with some fear and spoke weakly.

"This is outrageous and disgusting!" Marin said indignantly.

If we weren’t in the imperial capital, Mayin would really want to kill these brainless guys!

What's wrong with being a mixed-race person? What's wrong with being a child?

Why should we be treated differently like this!

Why should these unrelated children be held responsible for the actions of other ethnic groups?

Marin felt helpless inside and felt the deep malice from this world.

"It's okay, I'll take care of it." Tatsumi patted Mine's shoulder and comforted her.

The current situation faced by ethnic minorities in the imperial capital made him think of the "equality of all" in his previous life.

It is precisely because of identity inequality that racial discrimination and subsequent unfair treatments occur.

It seems that it is not easy to govern a country well and unite the people for common development.

The current imperial capital is very similar to what China was like before it was unified, full of distrust and discrimination.

It is hard to imagine how those great men managed to peacefully unify the 56 ethnic groups.

Tatsumi didn't have to wait too long, and soon several footsteps were heard outside the alley.

Hu Zi walked in with two middle-aged men wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Capital Guard.

"It's them, the half-blood guy and the masked man. They're sneaking around. I seriously suspect they're spies!"

Hu Zi took the initiative to convict the two men and made up all kinds of nonsense.

"Please come with me."

One of the middle-aged men just glanced at Tatsumi and Mine, and without even asking the reason, he took the two back for interrogation.

"Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey? Or are you blind and can't see that she is being bullied?"

Seeing that the Imperial Capital Guard was acting so overbearingly and unreasonably, Marin didn't tolerate them and started scolding them directly.

The middle-aged man's face suddenly darkened, and he frowned, with a bad look in his eyes, threateningly: "Do you know what the crime of insulting the Imperial Capital Guard is?"

"I don't care about you..." Mine wanted to curse, but was stopped by Tatsumi.

Tatsumi reached out and took off the mask, revealing his true face. Looking at the middle-aged man who was becoming increasingly horrified, he said calmly, "Do you know what crime it is to accuse the Imperial Capital's Imperial Master?"