The dim corridor fell silent in an instant. Even the faint sounds from the rooms on either side abruptly vanished.
The silence brought on by their stunned minds erupted a moment later. As they struggled to process the information, they finally blurted out the thing that shocked them most.
"Human?!"
Pairs of scarlet kakugan opened in the darkness. The bloody scent of kagune bursting through flesh instantly filled the corridor. They stared at the intruder who called himself human, their eyes brimming with murderous intent.
"Why is that..." Louis touched his face. He had not dispelled the cold air masking his scent, yet merely saying he was human had immediately given them the courage to fight him.
Just moments ago, not one of them had wanted to stand at the front.
"Hatred and anger can give people courage beyond their limits. That's also the very reason they joined Aogiri Tree..."
A petite figure emerged from the darkness and quietly came to Louis's side, tilting her head up to look at his face with hollow eyes beneath her bandages.
"If you call yourself human here, they'll eat you until there isn't even a bone left."
"Well, that's certainly an enthusiastic welcome..." Louis turned to look at her. Here, Eto was essentially the only one who could threaten him. He only needed to devote a small fraction of his attention to guarding against the others.
"Eto... he said he's human! There's no way we can work with a human!" The ghoul beside them still refused to back down, his eyes filled with nothing but a thirst for revenge.
"Ah, well..."
Bang!
Louis saw only a flash of fire in the distance, a bullet hurtling straight toward his forehead alongside the muzzle flash. A second later, wisps of white smoke rose from his