"I never expected to meet you under these circumstances, legendary Superhuman."
Higuchi Orochi could not help flicking out his tongue to lick his dry, serpentine eyes, as though doing so could ease his discomfort a little.
The distinctive Akatsuki cloak, the red demonic eyes bearing three black tomoe, and the two tear troughs on his cheeks-this man was the human Superhuman who had appeared in the abandoned mall.
"Hmph. I've been looking for you all along, Tokyo King of Monsters, 'Teacher'..."
Uchiha Itachi snorted coldly and leaped straight down from one side of the roof ridge, landing without a sound to confront Higuchi Orochi face-to-face.
Uchiha Itachi glanced at Yamanashi Inaba, who lay on the ground, unable to move.
He had saved Yamanashi earlier not only out of a momentary sense of compassion, but also because he wanted to use her as bait to lure the snake out of its hole.
He had not expected things to go so smoothly. He had thought the recent turmoil might alert this monster and send him fleeing, but in the end, he had still caught a trace of him.
"What an honor! To think a legendary Superhuman would know of an insignificant monster like me."
"No need to be modest. Establishing a monster organization like this in Tokyo is quite an accomplishment," Uchiha Itachi praised him flatly.
The Superhuman actually knew about the monster organization. Even the local Metropolitan Police Department had only vaguely sensed that something was wrong, yet the Superhuman seemed to know more than the police did.
It had been less than a month since the Superhuman first appeared, so where had they left a clue? Had it been that incident with the True Faith Society after all?
"Higuchi Orochi, why did you give yourself a human name? And a