"Stop thinking about running! It's nothing but a waste of effort. Can you outrun lightning?"
Raiden Mei did not kill her outright. Instead, a trace of interest appeared on her face. This ghoul was not merely far stronger than ordinary ghouls.
She actually had two kagune...
When she had tried to kill that girl earlier, she had used a rinkaku. Yet now, another kind had appeared on her back.
—Ukaku!
This was a relatively rare occurrence.
Under normal circumstances, each ghoul possessed only one kagune. A ghoul's offspring would randomly inherit one parent's kagune, but... in extremely rare cases, they inherited both parents' kagune, becoming a ghoul with two types of kagune.
There was another possibility as well... Through cannibalism, the number of kakuhou could also increase.
So-called cannibalism was when a ghoul ate another ghoul of the same kind.
And Tendo Sakurako before her possessed both an ukaku and a rinkaku.
Based on the location of the kakuhou, kagune could be divided into four types: ukaku, koukaku, rinkaku, and bikaku. In theory, they followed the cycle of "ukaku < koukaku < rinkaku < bikaku < ukaku..."
Roughly speaking, bikaku countered rinkaku, rinkaku countered koukaku, koukaku countered ukaku, and ukaku countered bikaku—a cyclical relationship of mutual restraint.
Of course, this was not absolute. Each had its own advantages...
Looking at the girl before her, Tendo Sakurako lightly bit her lip. She felt that today might truly be the end for her. Yet even though she knew she was no match for her, she still refused to sit and wait for death.
She spread her wings, and in the next second, a dense barrage of crystal shards shot toward Raiden Mei. However, before those shards could reach Mei, they were destroyed by an invisible web of electricity.
Tendo Sakurako had not