On the floor across from the hotel, Aoki Tsuna stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the crowd outside the entrance, still shaken by what had happened.
Among them were plenty of influential people, but when danger struck, they were no different from ordinary folks.
Behind Aoki Tsuna, Hiya Kyohei was playing cards with Otu.
After losing several hands in a row, Hiya Kyohei yelled in frustration.
He'd been acting strangely lately. Sometimes he was calm and collected, sometimes he was extremely irritable. He liked to clutch his head and mutter to himself, like someone with schizophrenia.
Aoki Tsuna didn't care whether this vampire was crazy or not. As long as he could help them fight for their lives on the twentieth of next month, that was all that mattered.
Otu tossed his cards aside and stood up, walking over to the window to look down.
Standing beside the towering Aoki Tsuna, Otu, who was built like a mountain of muscle, made him look like a dwarf.
Otu was the Wild Boar Monster who had fought Fang Cheng at the Aoki Family home.
He watched the scene below for a while, then said, "Looks like they failed."
Aoki Tsuna said nothing.
Otu continued, "If you'd let me join that vampire, we might've succeeded."
Only then did Aoki Tsuna shake his head. "Killing the Yuguang Family's little princess now would be pointless."
Otu raised a hand and poked Aoki Tsuna in the chest, displeased. "There's only one princess among the monsters. That little dog from the Yuguang Family doesn't count as anything. Watch your words."
Pain throbbed in Aoki Tsuna's chest. Otu's fingernail had probably drawn blood.
But Aoki Tsuna's expression didn't change. He asked quietly, "Aren't you enemies with the Ghost Clan princess?"
Otu grinned, baring a mouthful of