Infinity, progressing from Arasaka

"This distance?! Ah—"

Scream.

The ghoul with the feathered dagger had barely moved when the black and purple spiral knight's javelin pierced her back without any resistance, bursting through her lungs and exiting from her chest.

She fell from mid-air.

Ouch!

It crashed from a height of more than ten meters onto the pile of building materials, sending steel bars flying and cement dust filling the air.

Da da—

Without haste, Vera finished off each ghoul corpse with a shot to the head.

Incidentally, she took out her phone and dialed a number.

[110] (PS: In Japan, the emergency number for incidents and accidents is also 110)

"14 Nakano Ward, Ghoul Incident, Location..."

After Vera reported her location and headed towards the construction site of the building, she suddenly stopped at the entrance.

"Ha, you filthy crawlers, you've come all this way, why are you hiding?"

quite a while.

A group of hooded, black-robed, masked, and grotesque figures appeared in the dark stairwell.

He doesn't look like a good person.

"The Chinese parasol tree."

Vera raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Instead of staying in your 'Goblin Lair' in the 24th Ward, you've come to the 14th Ward. Ha, expansion, huh? Those petty 'ghouls' are your recruits... The problems with Japan's Ghoul Countermeasures Bureau these past few years are indeed huge. They haven't discovered or suppressed this. Ghoul disasters around the world have been suppressed to a low ebb, but ghoul disasters in Tokyo are still happening one after another."

A condescending tone.

"Baka! A lone dove that's lost half of its quinque is still so arrogant!"

Immediately, several of the more irritable Aogiri Tree ghouls couldn't hold back any longer, and with a hiss, Vera's vision was filled with bizarre and varied fleshy organs, including Kokaku, Rinkaku, and Oogaku.

Holding the quinque hand cannon, a barely perceptible smile appeared on her lips.

Great, the materials have been delivered right to my doorstep.

"Black Rabbit and Gecko, the bosses, sent us to recruit new members, but this woman killed them all. As long as we kill her, our mission will definitely be a success! Even if she's a top-tier member, without Quinque, she must be exhausted after fighting for so long. Let's go!"

"Don't let her get her melee quinque back!"

A group of ghouls roared and leaped out.

Just now.

Clang—

They were outraged when they suddenly discovered...

Several palm-sized projectiles flew over the unfinished door frame and landed in front of them in the blink of an eye.

laugh!

The burst of white mist instantly filled half of the building.

"This is..."

The leader of the Aogiri Tree ghouls took a deep breath and exclaimed, "Oh no!"

He stared in horror at his predatory organ, the protruding kagune slowly dissolving. A feeling of weakness washed over him; his back and waist ached, and his head throbbed. In that moment of disorientation, when he looked again at the location of the female dove, she was gone!

"What the hell is this?!"

"My power, my power, my power—"

Some of the weaker ghouls were already staggering. Some reacted instantly and tried to escape the range of that damned spray, but it was too late!

Boom!

With a soft cracking sound, the floor tiles split open, and in an instant, the tall figure in the white dove uniform coat shot up.

The dull thud of flesh colliding.

With a thud, the leader of the Green Paulownia Trees slammed his back against the wall, causing the wall surface to crack and scatter gravel.

"Wow!" It felt like he had been hit by a car. His Rc cells were suppressed, and the leader of the Green Tree coughed up blood and froth mixed with chunks of flesh.

"Do you think I wouldn't have noticed your spying and made such a basic mistake? The reason I threw the Quinque was to lure you in... Unfortunately, the 'Azure Tree' that came only had you small fry; no SS-rank executives took the bait. What a pity..."

Vera's soft voice drifted over.

“You…” The leader of the Green Paulownia Tree was stunned. “Despicable!” he cursed angrily.

She ignored it completely.

"S-rank, Rinkaku. Decent."

Then, with one hand, he raised the barrel of the short gun and fired a single shot. The mask shattered, the skull was ripped off, and a spray of white and pinkish-white flesh erupted out, leaving no chance of survival.

A ghoul tried to escape, but his kagune tentacles were as fragile as a reed and were broken by Vera.

Someone struggled to launch a feathered attack, but she merely turned her head to dodge it. It was too slow, too weak. With their Rc cells suppressed, the physical abilities of these ghouls had deteriorated far too much. Soon, bang! bang bang bang!

Rc cells, special cells found in ghouls, need to be kept active by consuming human flesh and are the source of ghouls' superhuman abilities.

CRc gas, developed under CCG's project, can somewhat inhibit the formation of hexons and the activity of Rc cells. Vera slightly improved it and increased the dosage. The first use was obviously good.

Vera then pierced through the weakened ghouls one by one, scattering blood, flesh, and limbs...

As the CRc gas dissipated, countless pieces of shattered flesh mixed with clothing and cloth covered half of the floor. A dozen ghouls fell to the ground as headless corpses, their blood and brain matter splattering throughout the room.

"It should only take a minute and a half, that's about right."

After doing all this, Vera checked her clothes and found them to be generally clean.

Dust and gravel were inevitable, but at least I wasn't splattered with blood.

Then, a buzzing sound came from within—

The police car, sirens blaring, sped to the gate of the construction site enclosed by corrugated steel sheets. The screeching of brakes and the tires leaving black tire tracks on the ground prompted police officers in uniform and CCG investigators in plainclothes and overcoats to jump out of the car and race towards the third floor where Vera was.

Upon entering, "Ugh—!"

The CCG investigators were alright; every scene of ghouls eating people was just as gruesome. But the police officers on night duty almost all changed drastically. Their SAN threshold was much lower than that of the investigators, and many of them began to feel nauseous and vomit.

"Russell, First Class!"

A sharp-eyed, blonde woman in a formal suit, pencil skirt, and high heels strode out from the CCG investigators' ranks. Glancing at the horrific scene around her, she forced a smile and said, "You've acted recklessly again. This is individual heroism..."

"Oh, it's Mado. I know what I'm doing. Aren't you and your colleagues from the 14th Ward all stationed and patrolling around here?"

"But I'm your adjutant, you know you should take me with you..."

"You're too weak. At least for now, just be a good administrative adjutant."

"!!!"

"Alright, stop looking at me like that. Honest advice is hard to hear but good for you. Unless you're working with special agents, most investigators will only slow me down. And I'm not the kind of person who would just stand by and watch my subordinates get into trouble."

With that, Vera waved her hand, signaling her CCG colleagues and the police in Ward 14 to cordon off the scene. She then pointed to the alley over there, indicating that her kagune should be retrieved intact. After that, she walked towards the ghoul with the winged kagune that she had pierced with her spear.

"Cough cough..."

Covered in dust and blood, her mouth and nose bleeding, her spine pierced by that long, black, purple-patterned spear, and having fallen from that height, the female ghoul was on her deathbed. Looking at Vera approaching, she stammered, "Why..."

"what why?"

Vera was somewhat surprised.

"You say you're upholding justice... but why, why don't you come to our aid when we're being bullied, unable to eat human food, and don't even know what cake tastes like...? Why hasn't the justice that belongs to us come..."

Da da.

Vera's adjutant, whose surname was Mado, also came over at this moment. Her expression was complicated; there seemed to be pity in her brows, but her eyes were filled with hatred and loathing.

She looked at Vera, seemingly waiting for Vera's response.

"You guys are unlucky."

That was Vera's answer.

What about your parents who died unjustly, your tragic childhood? What can heal you? Well, go and heal them. But you're a ghoul. You've killed and eaten people. I'm a law enforcer. So, in your next life, remember to be reborn as a human.

"Goodbye."

Vera drew her long gun, Quinque, raised it, and fired!

Puff!

This time, Vera seemed to have forgotten to dodge the splatter of blood.

"Ugh, my coat is dirty..."

After walking a few steps, she sighed and tugged at her pure white coat, which was stained with a bright red hue.

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P.S.: My dad came back today and went to the train station to pick someone up, so he was a little late. He'll be back before midnight tomorrow, as usual.

Chapter 077 Enforcers

Tokyo 24 wards.

A tunnel space dug deep underground.

The room, which could be tentatively called a room, was dimly lit and filled with a strong smell of blood.

The freezer door was half-open, and chunks of meat, cut into pieces, were stuffed inside, still bloody. Freezers containing what appeared to be human or ghoul corpses were scattered haphazardly in various corners of the room.

"Aite, latest intelligence: none of the people we sent to District 14 to recruit new members survived. The new members in District 14 who were originally preparing to join the organization were also slaughtered."

A man with white hair and red eyes, wearing a white high-necked long trench coat and a half-face scarlet mask, turned around and shifted his gaze to a petite figure sitting on top of a refrigerator with her legs wrapped around her waist.