"Souls, I need more souls-"
Inhuman roars echoed without end as a pale figure rampaged through the city. Whenever he caught a surviving human, he extracted and devoured their soul. The soulless bodies fell stiffly to the ground, all bodily functions ceasing once their souls were stolen. They were utterly dead.
The Menos Grande codenamed Seven Four Nine roamed Higashino City, now a spectral ghost town. Driven by his instinctive hunger for souls and the orders from his superiors, he destroyed and slaughtered without restraint.
Seven Four Nine glanced over the human corpses he had left behind, his face showing not a trace of emotion. He muttered anxiously, "Not enough. Still too few. This won't be enough to win in Mutual Cannibalism. I need to devour another hundred souls!"
Seven Four Nine suddenly raised his head in confusion and looked around. "Strange. Why did it suddenly get so quiet? Did the other Hollows leave?"
Under orders from above, thirty Menos Grande, including him, had attacked Higashino City. First, the city's leader had refused to submit to the Heavenly Path Palace. Second, they were gathering resources for the next Mutual Cannibalism Hunt: a death match involving a hundred Menos Grande, with only the final ten survivors becoming victors and full members of the Heavenly Path Palace.
The Heavenly Path Palace consisted of three tiers: peripheral members, full members, and core officers. Each rank had different responsibilities, and the hierarchy was strict. Subordinates could not disobey their superiors' orders. That was an ironclad rule established by the Heavenly Path Palace.
The peripheral members at the bottom generally handled the miscellaneous tasks assigned from above, taking on virtually all the dirty work and hard labor. Full members governed their allotted territories, upholding the Heavenly Path Palace's authority and its rule over the towns