Elsewhere, Black Tiger, who had not come under attack, made his decision almost instantly. He summoned his tail kagune, braced it against the ground, and launched himself clear of the icy mist.
"What the hell is this stuff..." Listening to the screams rising one after another from the icy mist below, Black Tiger began to lose his nerve. He was about to vault over the wall and flee, but just as the thought formed, a shadow fell over him.
Bam!
The impact and the crack of breaking bones rang out together.
Black Tiger felt a surge of terror and despair. The pain in his body failed to rekindle his fighting spirit, all because of what he had glimpsed a moment earlier.
It was a thick, dark-red tail kagune. That distinctive kagune, shaped like a whale's tail-of course he knew what it meant.
The icy mist gradually faded, and the ghouls of Ward 6 slowly regained their sight. They huddled together, keeping watch over their surroundings while watching the center of the melee.
Only a few blurred figures remained standing there.
"That just now... that really sounded like the boss!" Only then did they begin discussing it.
"Quiet, all of you!" Ito snapped. Watching the figures fighting within the icy mist, he broke out in a cold sweat. It was not because he thought their boss would lose. Quite the opposite-the moment Shachi's voice rang out, he knew victory was assured.
What truly unsettled him was that he had just acknowledged an outsider as their new boss in front of their old one...
"I'm dead..." Ito's face turned ashen. He seemed to have already pictured his fate, utterly bereft of hope, leaving the other ghouls with him bewildered.
Bam...
As they entertained all sorts of guesses, a figure fell from