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Prologue: Starting with a loud bang (2)

The 4th Ward was in flames.

A burning hell not even the worst warzones could create, a scorching reality of the war between humans and Ghouls.

I had long ditched the jacket, feeling the heat of the flames slowly eroding the buildings I was passing unbearable with the warm cloth and I felt the adrenalyne rush of before returning in my veins.

The walk to reach the next section of fights was a short one, turning the corner I saw few investigators and enforcers dealing with a minor number of Aogiri Tree's members, yet they were suffering the volleys of RC shards from the Ghouls snipers in the roofs.

Douhi ached in my hand, burning fiercely as it craved some immediate action, and I complied to its desire.

Hiding my figure behind the corner, I placed Yukimaru's case on the floor and picked Douhi on both hands, my left eye scrunching to use the crude scope on the medium-long range Quinque.

I took a breath, calming my mind as I released the first shot. The unfortunate Ghoul shrieked in pain as the fire bullet consumed her upper chest, starting from her right arm joint and then reaching her masked head.

My aim moved quickly, turning to the second unsuspecting sniper and... I sighed as the following blazing hit scorched the shorter individual's chest.

The yelps seemed to finally catch the attention of the snipers as they stopped on helping their comrades in the brawl to find whoever was picking them one by one.

I grunted, knowing that another shot would have revealed my position.

Cocking Douhi one last time, I finally managed to get an headshot, killing instantly the second to last of the four snipers.

I saw a red blur in the rooftops, approaching quickly with furious steps.

Yukimaru revealed itself, its form hidden by the shadow created by the building and, as the murder-seeking Ghoul jumped over me I pulled a sharp swing with the Muramasa Katana, severing his torso from his legs.

Having studied Ghoul Biology, I didn't limit myself from picking Douhi and blasting the head off from the convulsing upper body.

The struggle on the streets had ended as I approached the group of survivors.

They just took a glance at the cases in my hand, ignoring how young and under-clothed I was.

"Your work?" I nodded as the supposed captain cackled in glee. "A delightful life-saver. We heard that the battle for the ward is intensifying with Aogiri deploying the Owl while we got Arima reinforcing soon."

The White Reaper was coming. This wasn't a mere clash anymore, this was going to turn in an even worse bloodbath.

I paused to consider the losses we were going to take to protect the civilians.

I had to make another step against the rules if I wanted to reduce the victims as I knew only one way to deal with this kind of urban warfare.

"Rally the men, we are going to regroup with the others." The captain nodded and started to bark orders as the other enforcers lined up.

"Listen up, maggots!" The officer exclaimed loudly. "We got some crappy situation around us and we need to get to help the other poor bastards!"

I almost flinched at the cussing but I knew it was a necessary factor. To channel the men's anger and hatred on the remaining groups of Aogiri in the Ward.

The column didn't waste time as we marched toward the closed battalion of Enforcers, from the loud and static messages they had been pinned by multiple Ukakus' sniping.

I grimaced when we finally arrived just near enough to see what was going on.

Ten Ukakus were attacking the CCG forces from their high ground, while another small contigent kept the humans from focusing their fire on the snipers by attacking from another side.

"Four or five men to be ready to pick the Ukakus on the roof when I call them and.. we go around."

The captain blinked at the plan before chuckling in realisation. "You heard him, men? We are going to squish those bugs!"

A chorus of glee filled my ears as I led the force around the building, sneaking onto the backs of the hiding Ukakus.

I nodded at the captain, shots loudly banging as several Ghouls fell dead from the roof and onto the streets.

The enforcers behind me didn't need further words as they stormed against the unexpected remaining force of Aogiri in that section of the Ward.

It was a brief moment of rest as the battalion I was leading mixed up with the previously stuck one.

We were at least one hundred men as we continued this little stroll to regroup, picking on the few Ghouls trying to ambush the quite large column.

Then we came to an halt as we found our path barred by a single Ghoul.

Tall, the Ghoul looked calm and positively intimidating as he waited for us to do something.

His white, long tunic matched his hair and his Bikaku was a blood-red that didn't felt like something nice to fight against.

Yet I knew we couldn't stop, behind the white-haired man there was the biggest struggle as I could see a full-fledged Kakuja being fended off by a single man.

Arima was there but there were too many little fishes outnumbering his small force.

"Captain, take the men and go around to join Arima-san's efforts." The man blinked in surprise at the orders.

"You aren't coming? I don't think he is-" "The more time we waste talking, the more from our side will die. Go."

A doubtful nod followed as I watched the column turning the corner on the right to reach and regroup with the Reaper's small battalion.

It took just a minute for them all to disappear from sight, leaving me several meters away from the silent Ghoul.

"A foolish move. You should have attacked-" "And lost precious time for us turning the tide? And also lose the numbers that could conquer us the edge of this battle? No."

He blinked as his red eyes stared at the case containing Douhi and I voiced the fact I had noticed it.

"You knew him?" His eyes turned cold. "The one that was before the Quinque."

He didn't reply but I knew I had hit a very sore spot as his Bikaku moved quicker, erratically even.

I smiled and let Douhi's handle go as the case fell to the ground, surprising my opponent even more.

I decided to humour his silent question. "You have let pass them all without attacking them. I think it's more than respectful to not use him in this fight."

Something cold fell on my hair and soon I saw snow starting to fall all around us. What a fitting weather for the situation..

"I can't even understand your unique decisions. Yet I will make sure your death is a quick time because of your last choice."

It was immediate, akin to a hellish hound pouncing at his prey as the man burned the distance incredibly quickly as his Kagune rushed at an insane pace towards me.

Yukimaru glimmed white and red as I striked in time to cut the approaching Bikaku and halting its offensive.

Not losing any of the momentum gained, I ran at the man as I had to still see how much his Kagune took to regenerate. It was rare for a Ghoul to be able to restore their wounds so quickly, some would even need to cannibalise their kin to actually unlock that very hideous thing to fight against.

My face turned grim as the Bikaku had recoiled quickly and was moving to slam onto my rushing form.

I jumped up high, letting the Kagune slam on the ground below me.

The Quinque stabbed onto the red tail, forcing it on the floor for few moments as I had a little plan to get some hits on the man.

His Bikaku was versatile, quick and incredibly adaptive. A powerful Quinque if someone got hand over his Kakuhou.

Yukimaru was red by the blood it had spilled as it was removed from the Kagune, my legs straining as I rushed through the extended Kagune at the tall Ghoul.

I considered his calm regarding this action of mine and I braced myself as I prepared a feint.

I was there, few moments from hitting the Aogiri supervisors as I saw his arms move, trying to intercept me.

He blinked in confusion as he saw I was grinning at this and his eyes widened a little as I jumped over him, spinning around with the eager blade and cutting both of his hands off.

I didn't need to think twice as I started to fiercely demolish the man's chest, Yukimaru drawing more and more blood, slashing and cutting through him without restrictions

Few seconds passed and I frowned, staring intensily at the gore I had caused and the impassive look on the individual face.

"Your plan, albeit simple and childish, was.. correct." I felt something hard colliding with my chest, pushing me away from him and onto the groudn. "Yet that Quinque isn't strong enough to cause the damage you seek to achieve."

I couldn't formulate any plan because of the pain surging from my head, a concussion from the unexpected punch, but I still tried to grab Yukimaru and I was so much lose from- I felt my hope of surviving this fight dying down as I saw the the Ghoul's feet stepping on the blade and cracking it in two.

I stared up, onto the tall Ghoul's eyes as he waited to make a kill out of me.

"Your name."

A blink, then two as a confused expression formed in my tired face.

"R-Ryouga. Ry-Ryouga Kaizo. F-Failed Academy student."

He frowned at the last bit and then turned around, walking away. "Tatara."

That was the last thing I could remember before blacking out. His name.

Hopefully the CCG had repelled the Owl...

AN

Explanations regarding OC vs Tatara: I noticed that as I was writing Kaizo was slowly turning too much OP for being a simple rookie. Tatara beating him so quickly and effortlessly is supposed to set a serious limit to the starting capacities of the protagonist.

He is on Juuzou's levels right now and so he can do very little if fighting with someone too much strong or resilient to medium-to-low level Quinques.

I was thinking of putting this every Saturday, completely removing my free days.. (Ragnarok is coming for my sanity!)

Lastly feedback is always appreciated and... today is the International Day of Women, so boyos you better be giving gifting something good for your girl friends and your female relatives (chocolate or maybe even some videogames for dem real Gamer grils) or you will be in the gulag list of this Bukharin! xD