Happy Ramadhan Kareem to all of the other muslims out there!
This one's going to be an another long ride so... Brace urself.
Chapter 16
The Terror of 8 PM, Part II
Tsukiyama finally arrived on the sixth floor. He was looking for the source of the loud noise from before, loud enough to make the ceilings shook. He wanted to prove himself right that Jason was the one who caused the commotion.
The sixth floor was where the cafeteria located. It wasn't like the other floors down below which was like a maze, full of corridors. The tables and the chairs were splattered around, shards of broken plates and silverwares scattered on the floor.
A pair of purple eyes were searching for any signs of his selfish subordinate.
'He's supposed to be here...' Tsukiyama mused. The Gourmet gazed around the dark cafeteria, and suddenly was interrupted by the sound of Miza's called out to his name.
"TSUKIYAMA-SAN!"
"!"
"GRAAAAAA!"
The tall ghoul saw Yamori was fighting an investigator all by himself. But what really surprised The Gourmet was the sight he was seeing over Yamori's form. Jason was using his kakuja.
"Miza-chan," Tsukiyama turned towards the short ghoul, "Take everyone towards the next floor and help Kazu's team." He ordered.
"What about you!?" Miza asked his captain back.
"I'm staying here to stop the troublesome guy. I don't want him to ruin this floor and collapse the whole building. You better hurry up."
"Roger that. Be careful." Miza said before she left and became the temporary leader of the herd. Once Tsukiyama saw them climbing the stairs, the purple head used his ear set to contact Touka.
"What is it?"
"Jason's going berserk on the sixth floor. I'm going to stop him."
"What!? It's too dangerous!"
"Can't be help. If he keeps this up the whole floor will collapse." Suddenly Tsukiyama remembered a certain someone who could stop all of this in one go, "Has Kaneki-kun arrived yet?"
"I don't know. He hasn't contacted me."
"Then contact Uta and Itori to make haste. I will need their back-up."
"Roger that."
Having ended the conversation, Tsukiyama released his proud purple kagune that shaped like a knife. He was also curious to see what kind of an opponent he would face that could make Yamori to use his kakuja form.
"STAY PUT AND LET ME DEVOUR YOU!" Yamori roared.
The human who was able to put up a fight with the S rated ghoul kept on avoiding the incoming attack that destroyed the floor below him. His movement was clean, simple, efficient, and quick. Tsukiyama could see that this unknown investigator was no ordinary one.
"Well... Now how do I join this without getting myself killed in the process, hm?" Tsukiyama wondered. It wasn't like he was afraid, but indeed fighting alongside Yamori during his kakuja form was similar to suicide. That guy wouldn't care who he killed during that time and he wouldn't feel guilty at all. In other words, there were two enemies busy killing each other in front of him.
"Hm... I guess I'll have to wait for back-up..."
But the situation told him the other wise. The floors cracked in all over places and it was shaking greatly. It seemed like Yamori was also getting wilder by each minute.
"Merde!" Tsukiyama loudly cursed, "Does he don't understand the meaning of self-control? This is why he doesn't get a team. Kaneki-kun had told him so many times not to use his kakuja form whenever he got to raid!" Tsukiyama let out an exaggerated sigh. But The Gourmet couldn't let his pride be smeared by this. He didn't want to be seen useless by his leader later on.
So with enough bravery and confidence in his fighting skill, Tsukiyama joined the fight when he saw the open chance for him to attack the single human from behind. The human almost got his back stabbed, but it seemed like he knew it was coming. He moved his body to the right and used his quinques as the shield for the purple knife.
When Tsukiyama finally made contact with the lone investigator, he saw a smirk was plastered on his bearded face. The Dove didn't look that old, more of a young adult. The Gourmet didn't realized he was distracted over the face of the strong human, and almost got his stomach stabbed. Quickly as possible he jumped backwards as far as he could.
"Hhh... Even though I already busied myself with Jason, here comes The Gourmet. You centipedes are a pain in the ass..." The human shook his head. That guy seemed to be a laid-back type.
"Bonsoir Messeiur, you and I have the same problem here. We both need to tame the big guy." Tsukiyama grinned after he bowed elegantly.
"'Tame'? Uuh... Sorry. Then we're not on the same page-Tch!"
"RRAAAAGGH!"
Yamori's sudden attack disturbed the nameless investigator's talking. He was wielding two swords on both of his hands, and he used both of them to cut the extended blackish-red kagune from Yamori's arm. Then the man lowered his body to cut through Yamori's shielded legs. Surprisingly, the cut was deep enough for the kakuja to fell on his knee.
"GAAH!"
'Not good.' As soon as Tsukiyama saw Yamori wasn't in a pretty good situation, he quickly ran ahead to stop the deadly attack that would surely end the kakuja's life. Tsukiyama thrusted his kagune towards the man's back before he was able to use his sword to cut down Yamori's head. The man didn't have any choice but to protect his back with his quinque. Thankfully The Gourmet was able to stop him.
"Dude, I need to kill this guy. If you want to tame it then do it by yourself. Only if he survives though," The nameless investigator gave Tsukiyama an irritated, annoyed look, "I'll play with you after this so can you just wait?" He seemed to be seriously didn't have the mood to play with two ghouls at the same time. Tsukiyama could understand that, and he felt underestimated.
"I don't like you already," Tsukiyama grinned, his kagune was still in touch with the quinque sword and he pushed his own harder out of anger, "But sorry. Jason is a part of us. We don't want to lose a precious member like him." He said. That guy was also a precious member for his leader, and Tsukiyama wouldn't want anything ridiculous happen around the mad bull as long as he was around.
"Argh... Damn it. You're seriously a pain." The nameless man groaned.
"!?"
Before he realized, Tsukiyama received a hard kick attacking his stomach. No kidding, the pain was real. His power over his kagune decreased greatly, thus the chance for the bearded man to attack Jason reopened once again. Wasting no more time, the Dove swung his sword towards Yamori's scalp.
Thankfully, Yamori had the time to use his armored right arm to shielded himself from the attack. Meanwhile the arm that had its kagune cut was already regenerated and the blonde man used it for attacking the man's side.
"Shit-!" The human cursed as the attack's force landed on his glistening quinque sword. He was sent pretty far away towards the counter of the cafeteria and he could feel the sharp pain over his upper left arm. That would surely leave a bruise.
Jason who had managed to get back on his feet yelled over the purple head who was struggling to sit right up.
"Get the fuck away from my battle or I'll kill you, fucking gourmet." Yamori warned spitefully as he cracked a finger.
"That's not nice..." Tsukiyama scoffed, "I saved your head by several seconds, Jason-kun." Tsukiyama chuckled bitterly. But he still found the current situation strangely amusing. Maybe it was because he was pretty much a man who didn't care about everything too much.
"I didn't ask for your help. Get your disgusting being out of here." Yamori gritted his teeth in annoyance.
Tsukiyama could guess what kind of eyes the kakuja had behind those red kakuja mask that covered the most part of his face. The purple head inwardly smirked when he remembered the latest dinner he had with Kaneki. The eyepatch ghoul called himself a monster when the current guy who stood before him was way monstrous than him. What irony.
"I can't do that. It's the other executive members responsibility to stop you to wreck too much havoc. You know that yourself." Tsukiyama said as he stood back up and let out a sigh. He didn't want to argue about this any further with the stubborn ghoul.
The kakuja growled menacingly. He didn't like anyone talking back at him right now, and he felt like spilling some more blood wouldn't hurt. The man grinned madly as he cracked his finger again, "You asked for trouble, fucking Gourmet."
"Shit."
"That's enough, Jason-kun."
When Tsukiyama turned his head around, a smug smile formed on his masked face. Uta and Itori were both finally arrived to help.
"We need you to pull in your trump card now, big bud," the brunette said, "How about we take care of the human over there, while you go up and help out Kazu instead?" Although Itori wasn't sure that was enough to change Yamori's current clouded state of mind, she was still persuading the man to stop making things worse.
Yamori was not amused at all. He didn't like this. Nobody could ever stop him to enjoy his fun. Nobody could ever tell him what to do. Nobody, nobody could ever make him stop. He wouldn't let them. He wouldn't let the weak reign over his freedom of pleasure.
"Nobody gets in my way... NOBODY!"
Yamori dashed towards the two ghouls who were about to stop him. He was going to kill his subordinates for real. No hesitation. They could feel raw bloodlust aura emitted from Jason's body.
Having no choice, Itori released her kagune to fight. Along with Uta, both of them fought together to make Yamori unconscious. Mere anaesthetic bullets wouldn't be able to pierce through Jason's kakuja armor. It needed a strong impact from the other strong ghouls' kagune.
"Dammit Yamori! Wake the hell up!" Itori grunted under her trembling kagune that protected her from Yamori's.
Uta finally released his rarely used kagune. The glistening blackish-purple color was decorating its skin. The raven haired man used it to pierced through Yamori's upper arm. Blood was gushing out from the hole, staining the floor with its thick crimson color.
"GAAH!"
"Sorry, Jason-kun. But we have to stop you no matter what." Uta apologized. His black sclera eyes were still calm yet looked serious.
"YOU'RE JUST A FUCKING PEST!"
Jason pulled in his pierced arm away from the Uta's kagune. Immediately after that he used his leg to kick the skinny man's ribs. Uta with his high agility managed to avoid it.
The wounded arm didn't seem to slow hin down. Yamori decided on Uta as his next target. His surroundings seemed to be blinded. He even forgot the other two ghouls existence.
But not the unconscious investigator.
"Fuck... Is this a joke?"
Tsukiyama turned his head over the source of the voice.
"Oh my God. You're not dead yet? Unbelievable!" Tsukiyama cursed under his breath.
The nameless Dove slowly stood up. He cracked his back, flexing his muscle. He was surprisingly relaxed and that attitude really irritated The Gourmet so much.
"Oy, who are those two!?"
"..."
"Oy, Gourmet!"
"Are you asking me?"
"Who else, stupid?"
"'S-stupid!?'" That did it. That arrogant son of a bitch needed to learn not to mess with the noble Gourmet. "Don't speak to me as if we are close, vermin." Tsukiyama grinned madly as he released his kagune again. His patience had reached its limit. He was going to shut this man's mouth for good.
"Uta-kun! Itori-kun!" Tsukiyama shouted from his position, never letting his eyes go from the standing Dove.
"Yeah, Shuu-chan!? Woah!" Itori almost got her head chopped off there. "Kinda busy here!"
"One of you should go upstairs and back up Kazu-kun's team, didn't you hear the message from Touka?"
"We know that but-"
"Itori. Go." Uta said, "I'll take care of Yamori-kun."
Itori seemed hesitant for a moment but she decided to trust her friend. Even though the aged ghoul was strong, Kazu needed someone up there. Itori could bet were lots of casualties already, and she wouldn't want more dead ghouls piling up.
"Okay. Good luck."
With that the dark haired woman ran upstairs to back up Kazu's team. However, she was sure her team could handle it. Silently she put her faith onto the other A-rated ghouls up there.
Suddenly, the three ghouls stopped themselves altogether. They experienced the same thing. Touka was calling. They all heard the news, and it couldn't make them all feel anymore relived.
"Not half bad I suppose." Rize smirked after she delivered a hard blow on Hachikawa Chu arm with her red tentacle. She secretly cursed when she felt there was something shielding the man's arm, thus making her unable to chop it off.
"You can say that after you make me bleed a single drop."
The special investigator's gauntlet shaped quinque fired yellow crystal-like projectiles towards Rize's chest. She didn't see that coming, but her reflect saved her and the beam grazed her shoulder.
"Tch. That wouldn't be enough." With no pause, Hachikawa fired his quinque continuously to corner the S rated ghoul. This forced Rize to dodge and counter every single beams that could kill her. Her regeneration ability wouldn't be enough to take all the damage and they could immobilize her for minutes.
Once she found a slight opening, the binge eater grinned and not letting a precious second late to retaliate. She was quick on her feet and jumped high in the air. She span her body around, stretched out her kagune, and pierced three pillars of red tentacles onto the ground and trapped the man in between.
"GOT YOU!"
The binge eater used her one last tentacle to attack the trapped man. It'd be a direct hit and would surely hurt. Naïvely, Rize was already thinking about how she could devour the human below her.
However, his current situation didn't change his stoic face. This didn't faze him at all, and he was confident he was still way superior than the ghoul. The man pointed out his quinque gauntlet straight to Rize's face. "Don't you fucking dare underestimate me, insect."
"!"
The minute Rize saw the yellow glow from within the holes on the gauntlet, she immediately turned her body away to the side and had to break her 'cage' that trapped the Dove. The quinque steel crystals shot through her strains of hair and successfully made a nice damage on her shoulder. The kagune on her hips vanished like ashes because of the shock, and her red glasses fell off to the asphalt and the lens cracked.
"Shit-!"
Rize landed herself quite far away from the man. The wound on her shoulder was quite big. Half of the flesh were torn away and she could tell her collarbone was cut apart.
But that wouldn't be a big of a hassle for The Binge Eater.
"Ah... my glasses." Rize growled as she straighten her body up, "You better pay for that." She scowled. The wound on her shoulder slowly healed up, it became as good as new.
"My, my... You've become so weak, Binge Eater." Rize could tell the man was grinning judging from his tone. That almost disgusted her. "Past five years of absence took away your power, I see. You're not even worthy to be an S-rated ghoul. Have you eaten enough? Hahahaha." He said sarcastically.
Five years of absence.
"Heh. These past four years of attempt to erase you didn't count?" She scoffed, sweeping away the fact.
"You're pretty pathetic."
That one statement insulted her. Pathetic? Getting insulted by a mere human, she felt her pride was sullied, "...What did you say?" Who does he think he was? This suddenly boiled her blood up to the point where she wanted to pull out the guts out from the man's stomach alive.
"You who were absent for five years suddenly appeared with your trouble-maker organization. Before that you were an independent monster who walks around eating your fucking snacks with that bottomless pit of yours." The man laughed as he shrugged his shoulders, "I guess in the end, you're just weak and had to ask them to feed you instead? HAHAHAHA!"
That fire burned her heart. He was taunting her, she took the bait.
Rize didn't want to be weak. She believed she was strong. It wasn't like she was ashamed and wanted the fame of being a dangerous ghoul in the town back. If she was weak, she would just be a hindrance. She wanted to be useful. For herself and most of all, for Kaneki.
"Shut up... You know nothing." Rize was ready to take another dance to defeat this man. But as soon as when she was about to release her kagune back on, Touka's voice halted her from within the ear set.
"Leader has arrived!"
"!" Rize uncontrollably smiled wide. She felt her heart beating faster, she felt way more excited. This is what she had been waiting for. "About time..."
The Dove who had been waiting patiently for The Binge Eater's counterattack cocked his head up as his patient was decreasing. Then he saw the ghoul was muttering to herself between all of this chaos. He felt a divided attention and he didn't like that.
"What the fuck are you muttering about?"
Rize turned her head around. Her eyes seemed more sinister yet true happiness was painted on her face. The Dove shivered seeing this, yet it wasn't obvious.
"He has arrived."
"Who?" The Dove position his quinque to be on guard, "Who are you talking about?"
"Your absolute death."
At that exact moment, Hachikawa felt a tremendously threatening aura behind him that could slit his back wide open. He knew right away, this was the moment where he must turned around and fired the gauntlet on his arm on whoever was standing behind his back.
When he fired the quinque steel crystals, they were ricocheted by a quick movement of... something. A curtain of smokes covered his vision, preventing him to look on who was able to make him... anxious.
When the smokes ceased out, the Dove saw a black mask. The mask was engraved with red lines and only covered the eyes with one hole on the left one. He saw a red glow emitted from that hole.
The smokes gradually lifted up, and it revealed a man with long thigh-length black hooded jacket. He was wearing a plain white cloth underneath it that seemed to be a wifebeater. His legs were covered with jeans and a pair of black boots. And he didn't forget the red long extended flesh behind his hips. Hachikawa saw this, obviously a ghoul being, didn't look so weird at all.
Yet his anxiety hadn't left his heart.
"Are you the 'absolute death' that bitch was talking abou-AGH!"
Before he could react, Hachikawa received a hard shocking blow on his abdomen. He didn't see the ghoul moved. His eyes behind that round glasses couldn't follow what the fuck did just hit him. But he knew by then, it was the kagune. Even that kagune he saw didn't move its muscle.
"Fu...cking shi-GUAAKH!"
Didn't stop there, the hooded man stomped his feet onto the Dove's stomach once again, hard enough to make the asphalt below him made a web of cracks. The grey head coughed some blood but his soul hadn't left him. At least not yet.
"I am. And if you call her a 'bitch' again, I'll make sure this boot stomps your fucking testicles." Said the hooded man threateningly as he looked down. Then, he lifted up his face to see if the woman he was talking about safe. "Are you okay, Rize?"
Rize clicked her tongue, "I'm fine. About time, Kaneki." She seemed to be mad.
Kaneki gave an apologetic smile, he felt relieve nevertheless. "Sorry, I was searching the damn jacket," he paused, "what do you want me to do with this?" He asked. His boot was still on the man's stomach. The human under his feet was groaning in pain and struggling to break free like a worm.
"Do whatever you want. Kill him already." Rize shrugged her shoulders.
"Haha, alright."
Kaneki was going to take his single red tentacle kagune towards the man's heart. He wanted to give a quick death. Even though what the Dove said to his woman angered him so much, he couldn't waste his time on this guy alone. He needed to go to find another first-class investigators. And if he was lucky, he could meet a special-class.
"DON'T FUCKING UNDERESTIMATE ME!"
Hachikawa hadn't give up just yet. He pointed out his gauntlet towards the ghoul on top of him, and fired the crystal projectiles to his face.
"Foolish." Kaneki only needed to use his kagune to protect him from the crystals. When he thought that was it, Hachikawa fired his gauntlet senselessly. He couldn't move and that was the only thing he could do. But Kaneki destroyed all of the projectiles like mere flies.
Until it was the time for his gauntlet to cool down again.
"You done?" The leader asked coldly.
"Fuck... Fuck you. FUCK YOU CENTIPEDES!"
Kaneki smirked. His habit to crack his finger repeated again. "Woof. Bark all you want."
"CAPTAIN HACHIKAWA!"
A female voice came from behind him. It seemed to be this human's subordinate. It irritated the leader once again.
"Get away from him!" She yelled out as if that would work.
Kaneki could feel an incoming blade coming to slice his neck. Without looking back, Kaneki grew one more of his red tentacle kagune and used it to disarm the weapon from the woman. No more wasting time. He moved his kagune so fast and stabbed the woman right after her quinque flew away.
"Nuisance." The leader said in annoyance and pulled out his kagune from her body roughly as he threw the body away like a rag.
Hachikawa widened his eyes. This ghoul. He was stronger, way more powerful than he thought. He didn't like to admit this. But if it was only possible, he wanted to report this new threat to the main building. He couldn't let this monster live. But what could he possibly do in this kind of situation?
"Who... Who are you?" Hachikawa asked. He was close to terrified.
Behind that mask which covered his eye, Hachikawa could only see the ghoul's sadistic grin. One eye. That one visible red eye reminded him of the Owl he first encountered years ago...
"I am the Centipede." The leader said his alias as he thrusted his kagune towards the beating heart.
The fight between Kazu and the the first-class investigator already lasted for more than 15 minutes. His team, which had two A-rated ghouls, helped him in a way but his position was certainly not good.
The sleek-haired man fought Kuramoto Ito, a first-class investigator. This Dove's movement was hard to read. His mouth kept on smiling like he actually enjoyed the fight. Like a snake, he was also agile. It's not like Kazu disliked it. He strived to be stronger and he loved challenge. That's why Kazu always searched for strong enemies. This man worth it.
The other rank 1 investigator that came along with his enemy fought one of his strongest units, Junpei. The one who helped him back when he was enjoying his quick meal. The other two Doves who also came alone, they were bad news. His team was barely keeping their ground.
Tsukiyama's team were already came but half of them advanced towards the next floor. But Miza was here and her help was a great addition for the team. But still these investigators weren't weak. The strongest units wouldn't be able to stall for too long. It wouldn't take that long for all of them to be annihilated. The other reinforcements better came fast.
"Damn, a seriously tough one aren't you, Myrmidon?" Kuramoto Itou laughed bitterly. Myrmidon, Kazu's nickname. An S class that had always been with Mukade since Itou's last remember. His past record was unclear up to this point but the CCG knew that this raven haired man was strong enough to hold the S rank.
Behind his mask, Kazu's face stayed stoic. He was that one member who had it hard to receive jokes. He rarely laughs, rarely smiles. A typical serious person. Yet fighting was his passion.
"Not much of a talker? WOOPS!"
Kazu's kagune almost hit the Dove's neck.
"4th close cut. Again." Kazu counted his close attempts to kill his target. By doing this, he calculated how many times it'd take him to stab his sharp kagune into Itou's veins.
This time, Kazu extended his koukaku kagune longer and broader. A glistening black broad sword enveloped his arm. It wasn't looking like that before. It didn't exactly have any particular shape like Tsukiyama's huge 'knife'. But this time, the Myrmidon was getting way more serious.
"This time, I won't miss." Said Kazu intimidatingly. His eyes turned into the authentic black sclera and red iris, shining from behind his mask.
Without giving his opponent any chance to reply, Kazu dashed towards the human. He used his strong legs to jump high towards the ceiling and like a spring, he jumped down from above in high speed.
Itou's long koukaku quinque, Senza, protected him from the new form of Kazu's kagune. However, he didn't feel the major difference. The power behind that new kagune wasn't any different than before. It was heavy, yes, but not anything the first rank investigator couldn't handle with.
So what in the world did this kagune sword could do to him?
"And I thought that thing would be scary but I guess... Not?" The fox-face said with a grin.
"Is that what you think?"
"!?"
Senza was being cut slowly. Kazu's kagune was turning sharper than before, the kagune was sinking inside the shaft. It was capable to cut the quinque steel. If that quinque was cut down, the whole body of the weapon would disappear. That was what he learnt after fighting so many investigators in his life.
"Shit-!"
In panic, Itou pulled back his quinque away from the ghoul. He managed to keep his weapon in tact, but in return his action made him slow enough to react for the next incoming attack from The Myrmidon. Kazu used that opening for his chance to lend a direct attack to his opponent. The black sword on his arm slashed the man's chest, barely. It ripped his shirt and his tie in half, red blood dripped from the light cut.
"...One hit. Again." Kazu muttered. His killer movement's rhythm didn't stop. The raven haired ghoul rotated his body around to deliver a hard swing from the sword. His aim was the neck. His favorite spot to end someone's life.
Itou hadn't given up yet. He could read the next attack that was aiming for his neck. So with his long Senza, Itou blocked the blade from separating his head. But honestly he was hesitating. He was afraid that kagune sword would really cut his Senza again this time. Nevertheless, it's better than getting killed.
"Holy shit you're getting serious, huh?" Itou laughed awkwardly. He was scared, but there's no way in he'll he would show that to his enemy.
"My mission is to kill every single one of you and blow this whole building up. My men are also in a hard situation, that's why I don't have any time to play with you for too long." Kazu said replying the Dove for the first time.
"Then my mission is to protect this base and most of all, killing ghouls. Especially, your group. I'll take you on as long as I can even if it costs my life." Itou grinned again. His fox-face was getting irritating for The Myrmidon. He didn't like that grin-no, people who smile too much. For example, Gourmet.
"So be it."
Kazu raised his feet up and kick the man's side. However his attempt failed when it met Itou's arm instead. But The Myrmidon didn't stop there, his arm with the kagune equipped swung dangerously towards the blocking arm. Itou who couldn't risk his weapon getting snipped like a stick for real, he tried to dodge the attack by ducking his head. Fortunately, it did only cut his light brown hair a bit.
"Crap, I think the table turns n-!?"
When Itou ducked his head, his face was met with a denim-clothed knee punching his nose hard. He didn't see that coming. It was too fast. The Dove jerked back with blood gushing out from his nostrils. This time, The Myrmidon could see the golden chance to end the obstacle's life.
"Die."
When Kazu unleashed his final attack, he was stopped by a random bullet shooting his left shoulder. This caused him to stop and looked around to see who was the one who attacked him.
"G-Genji..."
"Kuramoto-san! Are you okay!?" The rescuerer asked in panic. His gauntlet-shaped quinque was letting out smokes from within its muzzle. The fresh bullet definitely came from him, Kazu deducted. Thanks to that bullet, it immobilized Kazu's left arm which his kagune was equipped on.
"Tch, isn't this dove is supposed to be busy with the others?" Kazu began to check his surroundings. His team was busy fighting the strong investigators and Junpei was still busy with his own opponent. That means, this guy came deliberately to save his leader. Kazu was too focused fighting the fox-face that he forgot the existence of the other humans that came along with the man.
The numbness on his shoulder didn't last long. He could feel his muscles were commandable again. The moment he regained full control over his arm, another bullet flew to shoot him. This time, it was aiming for his head. Easily enough Kazu only used his kagune to shield him from the bullet. The bullet parried away and made a hole on the white wall.
"...They're late." Kazu muttered, implying about the reinforcements that was supposed to come and help him.
Yet the moment he thought about that, he could hear additional noises coming from afar. Away from his place, where the majority of his team members were fighting. It was them, Uta and Itori teams had arrived.
"Tch, more ghouls coming!?" Genji widened his eyes in disbelieve. Just four of them wouldn't be enough to keep them all from coming. They couldn't possibly let the same mistake happened like last time. These ghouls were going to blow up the whole building, turning those within into ashes. Just like four months ago when they raided the main base in ward 18. Reinforcements were coming, but they always failed to enter because of the ghouls who kept them off the area. The same thing... might happen tonight.
Having seen that favour was starting to come on his side, Kazu confidently pointed his blade upon his new enemy. He was standing in the middle of two Doves. The other one was slowly regaining his strength and slowly stood up from his place. Kazu was ready to finish this alone. Even if he had to.
"Come at me, human." The Myrmidon taunted with his index finger.
Genji growled. His knuckles turned white when he tighten his grip onto his weapon. The rank 1 investigator started up his quinque again, charging another deadly shot of quinque steel bullets.
The unlimited bullets were loaded. He was ready to fire. He pulled the trigger, and The Myrmidon was ready to take them on. Either dodge it or parry it, bring it on. However, that very moment when the bullets were fired, Kazu could feel a killer intent behind his back. Immediately he turned his head away from the flying bullets and was greeted with a furious fox-face look, accompanied with the Senza who held up high in the air.
Unavoidable damage. Couldn't be help. That Kuramoto Itou was too fast. If only Kazu could equip two kagunes at the same time, taking care of the two wouldn't be difficult. Kazu was ready to take another damage. He decided to take care of the fox-face first. Getting another shot that could paralyze him is nothing than getting his back cut in half.
As fast as he could Kazu shielded himself from the quinque. However, he was also ready to feel another expected pain on his shoulder.
"Sorry for the wait!"
Suddenly, what's coming wasn't bullets. Instead, it was what he had been waiting for. However Kazu didn't look that happy. Maybe it was just his calm demeanor took over but probably it was because his friend was too late.
"You're late, Itori."
Itori's bikaku kagune was hanging over her face, protecting herself from the bullets she took. The bullets were sinking inside the mutated flesh but Itori didn't feel numb at all.
"Sorry, Yamori's going berserk down there." Itori explained.
"Yamori? He's using his kakuja?"
"Apparently. A stranger Dove managed to drive him to the corner. Uta and Shuu are handling things over. Let's just hope they can do it. But anyway..." Itori turned her voice low. She lowered her kagune, revealing her red eyes towards her opponent, "You humans better give up. Can you possibly defeat so many of us?" She drew out a wicked grin.
"...Shit." Itou cursed. When he looked back, he just realized.
The ghouls were too many. He saw both Rin and Ishida were cornered. Another group of ghouls were already here, and they couldn't possibly defeat all of them. Not if these S ranked ghouls were present.
"Genji, Rin, Ishida." He said over to his earset, "We're retreating."
"It's no use."
"...What?"
"It's no use I said." Itori repeated herself. "Our order is not to let every single humans here survive. Soon this base will crumble. Try to run if you can. My team has already placed all of the bomb upstairs. It's our win." The brunette chuckled.
"...Then so be it." Itou gave a bitter smile. "We'll fight until the end. What we've done here was not for nothing!" He raised Senza again, ready for another fight. This time, he was sure he wouldn't survive for that long. He could only hope for a miracle.
"Yamori-kun,"
Dodged.
"Snap out of it. We don't have time for this!"
Jumped.
"We need to end things quick but you're making it harder for us!"
Dodged, kicked.
"Snap, the fuck, OUT!"
With all his might, Uta used his kagune to hurt Jason's armored body. He gave consecutive punches of kagune over his stomach and hurt real good. The only thing the raven-haired needed to do was to make Yamori unconscious. But boy, it was hard.
"RRRAAAAAA!"
"Tch." Uta jumped backward, leaving the floor he was standing on destroyed into pieces. He needed to end this soon, but he never thought fighting Jason alone like this could be difficult.
"Uta-san! Are you there?"
"Touka-chan?" Uta immediately recognized that voice that came from his earset.
"Uta-san, a sniper is there just right on the other side of the window!"
Uta turned his head towards the gigantic window. The moon was there, the only source of light on that vast floor. Even though it was small, he saw a hooded figure was on top of a rooftop on the building beside of him.
"I see him."
"He will shoot a sedative bullet to weaken down Yamori! Try to get Yamori's back facing the window!"
"Understood. Thanks Touka-chan."
"Wait, Uta-san," Touka spoke before Uta went back to focus on his battle, "Itori-san had placed all the bombs. After you're done with Yamori, please escape as soon as you can."
"..." Uta looked back. He saw an ongoing battle between The Gourmet and the unknown investigator. The investigator that managed to bring out Yamori's kakuja. Considering the situation, this wouldn't be as quick as he hoped for, "Got it."
A/N: Okay I'll stop here. The next chap will be the final part. Well now you know why the update takes so long -_-" It's really hard to think about the action, what they're doing etc. And because it was hard, it made me lazy to think about it again. But at one point I decided to just "Fuck it let's finish this chap I don't wanna keep my followers waiting!". I probably should change the genre of this story into action and drama instead I guess lol.
OH YES MORE IMPORTANTLY.
I bet you guys don't want to read the action too much and more curious to know about the past and stuff and the "AUNTY WE MEET AGAIN~" part (because I'm also excited to write that part more ahahaha...)
So, do you want me to skip a lot of things later in the next chap? I mean shortening each character's scenes and end things quick. What do you think? Pls tell me in the reviews.
Oh yeah, you can check out Kaneki's temporary mask on my deviant art. The link's on my profile.
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