"Urgh..." With half his bones broken, Ayato lay sprawled in a pool of blood, his eyes wide, vomiting mouthfuls of blood every so often.
His body was constantly repairing his injuries, but the agony of being on the verge of death was all too real.
"With your strength, killing Touka would have been easy..." Kaneki wiped the blood spattered across his face, his expression blank. He was already covered in the blood of all sorts of ghouls.
"The real reason you joined Aogiri Tree... that's why I spared your life."
Whoosh!
Kaneki stood up. Having finished, he was just about to leave when he looked up and saw a thick kagune covered in sharp teeth crashing down at him, forcing him to leap away.
Kaneki raised his head and looked at the distant ambusher, but that single glance brought a flicker of panic to his previously icy face.
An unremarkable Grinning Mask and a long braid. He couldn't sense any killing intent, yet this ghoul made Kaneki's heart tremble.
I can't win...
That thought kept echoing in Kaneki's mind.
Whoosh! But the person wearing the Grinning Mask didn't attack him. Instead, he wrapped his kagune around the dying Ayato Kirishima and forcibly carried him off. When a ringtone sounded from inside his clothes, he moved again, leaping from the high ground and using his kagune to descend rapidly.
"Aogiri Tree..." Looking at the man's clothes, Kaneki realized that Aogiri Tree still had many formidable ghouls, far stronger than Yamori and Ayato.
Boom!
As he was thinking, an explosion rang out, and the ground beneath his feet began to shake. Then came a second and a third. The relentless explosions sent the entire building shaking and collapsing.
"Kaneki..." Nishiki Nishio helped Touka up, urging Kaneki to evacuate.
Kaneki came over to