"Could the rumors be true!?"
The sounds of swallowing rose one after another, and fear instantly engulfed every maintenance worker present.
They froze in place, their faces drained of all color, leaving only utterly terrified bewilderment... After all these years on the job, trains really could eat people?
Before the others could recover from their fright, Kirishima Bupai had already shot toward the source of the sound like an arrow loosed from a bow, his figure becoming a blurred black afterimage.
The foreman and several other bolder workers reacted a moment later and scrambled after him.
The sight before them made everyone gasp!
In the shadow of the carriage's enormous maintenance door, a humanoid demon held a young maintenance worker off the ground by the throat.
The demon's skin was a sickly dark purple, covered in twisting, writhing blue stripes, and a cruel, bloodthirsty grin hung on his hideous face.
"Oh, it's you... The one who ruins other people's bento. Ripper, the Bento Terminator!"
Kirishima Bupai looked as though realization had dawned on him. He recognized this bastard: Ripper, notorious for brutalizing bento.
At that moment, blood with a sickly sweet tang was gushing from the maintenance worker's torn shoulder and neck, running down Ripper's arm and dripping onto the ground.
As his fingertips tightened, only broken cries could squeeze out of the maintenance worker's throat, and his eyes were nearly unfocused.
"Ugh... ah..." His dying groans grew weaker, making everyone's hearts clench.
"Tch... He should know something. In that case..." Kirishima Bupai let out an extremely faint click of his tongue.
Without even giving the demon another glance, he had already rested his right hand on the scabbard at his waist.
Swish-!
An arc of light like a cold moon instantly tore through the dim lighting.
There was no