"What is Lord Ice Mask holding?" Aoki stared at the sphere clasped in Louis's hand, baffled. He was too far away to sense its power.
Louis had ordered all of them to stay back until Ghoul Eater came out.
The implication was clear: aside from Ghoul Eater, no other ghoul could do anything to him. That was why they were so confident in their third-in-command's fighting ability.
Louis had defeated every squad captain in the Viper Guard. None of them had lasted more than three exchanges against him alone.
"What is that..." Ghoul Eater frowned. This was his first time seeing Ice Mask fight, and he had never seen an attack like this.
But even he felt a twinge of dread at the sharp crystal shards compressed inside that strange sphere.
On the battlefield, the half-kakuja Executioner was also visibly taken aback by the strange sphere gathering in Ice Mask's hand. But having already lost control, he hesitated only briefly before charging again.
"Here he comes..." Louis narrowed his eyes. Just as he prepared to release his attack, a pitch-black shadow shot toward him from the left, even faster than the half-kakuja Executioner.
Louis abruptly shifted his left hand, aiming the glowing sphere squarely at the black shadow ambushing him.
Bang!
A dull blast rang out. The recoil forced Louis a step backward as the crystals were released in an instant, spraying countless sharp shards into the shadow at tremendous speed.
It was a kagune, pitch-black with no other color discernible. Countless sharp crystal fragments pierced and tore through it.
But it was only one of his opponent's kagune. Its purpose was to disrupt Louis's attack rhythm. The rapidly approaching Executioner was the greater threat; his dark-purple steel blade was already upon Louis, seemingly intent on cleaving him in