"Die!"
With an angry, childish shout, a bloodstained hand shot out of the body bag, straight at Louis's face.
Bang!
A crystalline mask protected Louis's face. The surprise attack left a crack, but did no other damage.
"It's me." Seeing the body bag swell, Louis hurriedly switched back to his own voice to warn her, while checking the crack in his mask.
"Huh?" Aoi, who had been about to attack, stopped at the familiar voice. Her head emerged from the body bag, bloodstained hair plastered to her face as she stared blankly at the person right in front of her.
His scent... had gotten a little strange.
Just now... she'd used her bare hand, hadn't she? It had been too fast to even see clearly...
Although his attention hadn't been on her, cracking his mask barehanded while severely injured and weakened already put her beyond an ordinary S-Rank ukaku ghoul.
And she was two years younger than Hinami. With only one type of ukaku, she still had this much talent.
"You're..." Aoi emerged from her daze as well, looking at the person before her and sniffing repeatedly to make sure.
A familiar, incredibly tempting scent emanated from the black ukaku, but mingled with the scent of kagune, it became exceedingly strange.
"This is implanted kagune. It's treating you, so don't go biting it." Noticing that she was staring at his back, Louis warned her.
"Uh..." Aoi hurriedly looked at her wounds. She had resisted too fiercely and had been beaten badly for it.
Yet around those warm black flames, her wounds had almost healed. Only weakness and hunger remained, because her body hadn't received any nourishment.
"No wonder..." Aoi looked back at the face she had just attacked. He wore the familiar Ice Mask. Reuniting with someone she knew should