The Gojo Clan

The Three Great Families.

As the foremost of the Three Great Families, the Gojo Clan naturally had a barrier in place.

Although...

After Satoru Gojo was sealed, the Gojo Clan could no longer really claim that position.

He had barely arrived.

Someone came out to ask him, "What are you doing here?"

"I want to see whoever's in charge."

Kaneki's tone was level.

The fact that someone appeared as soon as he arrived made it clear that the Gojo Clan had tightened security considerably since Satoru Gojo's sealing.

"No..."

The moment the man said "no," Kaneki flashed forward and struck his neck with a knife-hand chop.

His head tilted.

Then he passed out.

At the sight, someone immediately shouted, "Enemy attack!"

Kaneki made no attempt to stop him, letting him call out everyone in the Gojo Clan.

Now...

Things were no longer as they had been.

With multiple cursed techniques at his command, he had nothing to fear!

After raising the alarm, the guard activated his cursed technique against Ken Kaneki.

He flicked a finger.

And fired a cursed bullet straight at him!

He compressed his own cursed energy to its utmost limit, forming a pointed, cone-shaped bullet before firing it.

It had tremendous penetrating power!

A sharp whistle cut through the air.

Kaneki shifted sideways, and the pointed cursed bullet skimmed past his body.

A series of piercing sounds followed.

The tree behind him, so thick it would take several people to encircle it, was pierced clean through.

The pointed cursed bullet lost some momentum, then flew farther and pierced several more trees before finally stopping.

"So this is one of the Gojo Clan's other cursed techniques..." Kaneki raised his eyes to the man. "Not bad."

Unfortunately...

It still needed time to charge.

The man couldn't help freezing for a moment at the sight of Kaneki's scarlet kakugan.

But only for a moment.

He fired two more cursed bullets at him, only for Kaneki to dodge them with ease.

Seeing this...

He took another stance, preparing to fire more cursed bullets.

"Stop..."

A steady, commanding voice drifted out from within. "Keita."

Kaneki looked toward the voice.

A middle-aged man in a kimono was slowly approaching him with a group of sorcerers.

These sorcerers...

All appeared quite capable.

"If this man wanted to kill you..."

The middle-aged man looked at Gojo Keita and said, "You would already be dead."

With that...

He turned to Kaneki.

In Ken Kaneki, he seemed to see a shadow of Satoru Gojo.

The same white hair.

The same disregard for everyone else.

The only difference between them was their eyes.

Kaneki looked at him and asked, "Are you the acting clan head who took over after Satoru Gojo?"

At those words...

Gojo Shinji frowned.

That tone was exactly like Satoru Gojo's.

"I am the acting clan head."

"Mr. Kaneki."

An elderly voice came from behind the crowd, and the moment it sounded...

The crowd immediately parted.

They cleared a path for the old man to walk through.

An old man in a white kimono slowly approached him, leaning on a cane.

"You know me?"

Kaneki looked at him in surprise.

"The clan head investigated you before he was sealed." Gojo Yūkurō stopped amid the crowd. "I read your file back then."

"I never imagined..."

"That you were a sorcerer."

Then he looked at Ken Kaneki and asked, "What have you come here for?"

"I want the corpse of someone who awakened Limitless."

Kaneki had barely spoken.

Before the acting clan head could answer, Gojo Shinji rejected him outright. "Impossible."

"I'm sorry..." Kaneki looked at him. "But I didn't come here to negotiate."

He had some manners.

But not many.

As his words fell...

A figure hurtled toward him, accompanied by a howling rush of wind.

The next second!

Kaneki vanished.

He appeared like a phantom behind Gojo Shinji, whose punch had hit nothing, and lightly tapped his back with an index finger.

Gojo Shinji's body stiffened.

Whoosh!

He spun around so violently that he whipped up a sharp rush of air.

Another swinging punch hit nothing, and he looked grimly at Kaneki, who was sitting on a tree branch.

"Projection Sorcery."

At that moment...

They all understood why Ken Kaneki wanted a corpse with Limitless.

"Attack him together!"

Gojo Shinji snapped, "We can't let Limitless fall into an outsider's hands!"

With that...

The other sorcerers prepared to attack with their cursed techniques.

"I suggest..."

Red light flickered in Kaneki's eyes as shikigami emerged one after another from the shadow beneath his feet. "You don't make any sudden moves."

"This is..."

Gojo Shinji exclaimed, "The Ten Shadows Technique?"

Sensing the amount of cursed energy within Kaneki, which rivaled Okkotsu's, Gojo Yūkurō raised a hand to stop the sorcerers from activating their techniques.

Nine kinds of shikigami had appeared.

He didn't dare gamble!

Not on whether Ken Kaneki would summon the tenth shikigami.

-Mahoraga.

Seeing this, Kaneki let the shikigami around him sink back into the shadows. "That's better."

"If we actually fight, I can't guarantee you'll survive."

If a fight broke out...

He really couldn't keep everyone alive.

Gojo Yūkurō said, "Even if you take the corpse, you won't be able to obtain Limitless. The Six Eyes are a prerequisite for using it."

"I know."

Kaneki looked at him. "But I'm different."

"I can use Limitless even without the Six Eyes."

At those words...

Everyone from the Gojo Clan present froze.

Kaneki pressed his advantage. "We're not enemies. I do want Limitless to increase my strength, but it's also to unseal Satoru Gojo."

Unseal Satoru Gojo?

Then...

Gojo Yūkurō stared at Kaneki for a long while before sighing and asking, "What do you need?"

"The corpse of someone who awakened Limitless."

"Acting clan head!"

Gojo Shinji addressed him as acting clan head rather than Elder Yūkurō, reminding him not to forget his position.

The Gojo Clan's acting head!

Gojo Yūkurō looked at him and slowly said, "The clan head investigated him, yet did nothing to him. Doesn't that tell you everything?"

Satoru Gojo hadn't begun his investigation just a day or two before being sealed.

He had started long before that.

The fact that Ken Kaneki could stand before him now was indirect proof that he was friendly.

Otherwise...

Satoru Gojo would have killed him long ago.

Even if he wasn't, Yūkurō would shoulder all the blame himself.

Then he slowly said to Ken Kaneki, "Come with me."

With that...

He led him toward the Gojo residence.

He walked very quickly.

As though avoiding someone, barely even using his cane.

In less than ten minutes...

He brought Ken Kaneki to a pitch-black cavern protected by a barrier.

They entered.

The candlelight around them provided illumination.

Before long...

They reached an otherwise empty coffin, in which lay a corpse that closely resembled a Sokushinbutsu.

It was very well preserved.

Judging by its eyes, the corpse must have been the previous head of the Gojo Clan.

He had the Six Eyes.

Dull and lightless.

They looked somewhat dried out, too.

Gojo Yūkurō bowed before opening the coffin.

Seeing this, Kaneki took a blade from his shadow-the cursed tool made by Kugisaki's grandmother.

He stepped forward.

First, he cut off half a finger.

Finding that he couldn't use it, he immediately confirmed that it was indeed Limitless, then chose to cut open the skull and remove the brain, preserving the corpse as much as possible.

Otherwise...

He would have simply taken the head.

On the way here, he had spoken with Yūkurō at length.

The corpses of those who awakened only Limitless, without the Six Eyes, weren't specially preserved. They were buried in the ground.

Even digging them up might not help.

They might have become nothing but dry bones.

So...

He could only set his sights on the previous clan head, which was also why he needed to preserve the body as well as possible.

From beginning to end.

He had never mentioned that the Gojo Clan had Gojo Kongxu, who had awakened Limitless.

Clearly.

This old man was on Satoru Gojo's side.

Otherwise.

Satoru Gojo would never have personally chosen him to serve as the Gojo Clan's acting head.

He had just removed the brain.

Before he could stitch the corpse back up, he heard hurried footsteps rushing in.