"The act of taking lives is sin. From the moment we are born, we are constantly taking other things from each other. Life is a continuous cycle of sin; life is sin itself. I understand this deeply..."

On the streets of Kyoto, Yoshimura Kōzen stopped Washu Tsunekichi, who was trying to transfer.

They were surrounded by numerous figures wearing black dog and demon ape masks.

"Owl!" Washuu Tsunekichi glared angrily at the aged figure.

Although he was just an old man, his frail figure exuded an unparalleled sense of oppression.

What angered him even more was that these were just former dogs of the Hexiu family, yet they dared to attack them.

Yoshimura Kōzen calmly looked at Washu Tsunekichi, opened his scarlet ghoul eyes, and huge, red-glowing spikes began to emerge from his back.

"I am evil, and so are you..."

As he spoke, he completed the transformation of the Hell.

His towering figure, like a giant wall, inspired awe and fear.

"Come on, let's fight each other."

As Yoshimura Kōzen finished speaking, the great battle instantly broke out!

"Owl!!!"

……

Hokkaido.

Tatara led a group of ghouls to surround a building.

The display of long guns and short cannons had already terrified the ordinary people still on the street, causing them to scramble and flee.

Without further ado, he waved his hand and launched the attack.

"Kill them!"

"oh!!!"

……

Tokyo, the headquarters of the Washuu family.

"The One-Eyed Owl!"

Seeing the huge figure rushing into the manor, Washu Yoshitoki immediately dropped the sniper rifle in his hand.

I never expected that even the One-Eyed Owl would appear.

Ordinary conventional weapons are not very useful either.

"Have the investigators not arrived yet?! What are they doing?!"

"No, Special Commissioner Marute is still detaining them under the pretext of a meeting."

"Damn it!" Yoshitoki Kazuya angrily smashed through the wall.

I never imagined that a bureau chief like him would have less influence than Marude Sai!

"Kill them all!"

As he watched the ghouls below break through his defenses one by one, he could no longer contain his rage.

They chose to engage in hand-to-hand combat directly!

He activated his ghoul eyes, entered ghoul mode, and jumped down!

Now that things have come to this, there's no point in hiding it anymore!

Let's focus on surviving first!

Behind him, a group of pureblood cultivators and cultivators also entered the state of ghouls and jumped down.

In an instant, more than a dozen enormous creatures appeared on the battlefield!

"Wow~ That's awesome, there are more than half of the kakuja in Japan."

"One...two...three...eighteen..."

Mercury, wearing a bronze mask, counted the ghouls as he looked at them, occasionally letting out a piercing laugh.

There were a total of 18 Hells, more than those who appeared in the later final battle.

"Why does this guy change so much as soon as he puts on the mask?" Arima Kishou glanced at Mercury, who seemed to have a completely different personality, and took out his personal Quinque.

Without a word, they charged straight in.

The elite squad that followed behind Arima Kishou also instantly grabbed their Quinques and rushed over.

None of them ever imagined that one day they would be fighting alongside ghouls!

"Come on, I can't fall behind, hehehehe."

Before he finished speaking, his figure had already transformed into a blur, rushing directly to the center of the battlefield.

The bullets that hit him turned into fine salt and fell to the ground.

The first of the two He-Hers had just raised his bony-spiked arm, intending to crush the tiny creature.

But Mercury struck him directly, and before he could even react, half of his body exploded.

His grotesque eyes still held a trace of shock, and his massive body crashed to the ground, twitching twice before losing all life.

One move, instant kill.

The pupils of the surrounding Kakuzō were suddenly shrunken, and even the two Kakuzō who were fighting Arima Kishou paused subconsciously.

"Hehehe... No matter when you watch it, it's always so exaggerated."

Looking at the fine salt drifting around, Yoshimura Eto looked at him.

Could it really be true, as Arima said, that physical attacks are completely ineffective?

Mercury, however, seemed to merely dust himself off and looked at Washuu Yoshitoki.

This guy's ghoul form is different from everyone else's; he's clearly a leader.

"What the hell is this thing!" Kazuki looked at him warily.

Their plan to use the powerful ghouls to launch a counterattack was instantly disrupted.

Even Arima Kishou wouldn't be able to kill an SS-rank Kakuja so easily!

Oh, right! And Arima too!

"Arima! Are you really going to betray the Washuu family?!" Washuu Yoshitoki looked at Arima Kishou.

This guy was someone they had personally trained, and now he's betrayed the family!

"Betrayal? I was never loyal to you from the beginning." Arima Kishou pushed up his glasses and instantly severed one of the Kakuja's arms.

"Pfft—"

Another ghoul fell, and the ground beside his body was soaked in blood.

The Quinque "Narukami" in his hand hummed and trembled, and the dripping from its blade was not blood, but the remnants of kagune that had evaporated into mist.

"You are inherently flawed beings."

Before he finished speaking, he charged directly at another of the Hellmen.

"kill--!!"

With a roar, Washuu Yoshitoki spread his arms and his ghoul form suddenly expanded.

His back split open, and dozens of metallic bone spurs burst forth like thorns, then shot out in an instant!

It instantly wiped out the surrounding bronze trees and friendly ghouls.

"Do you see that? This is true power! We were born to rule this crumbling world! You bastards, traitors, and degenerates, what right do you have to stand before us and point fingers!"

Mercury tilted his head, his mouth stretching from his mask to his ears.

"Wow...that's amazing, a hedgehog that can bloom."

As he spoke, he appeared behind Washuu Yoshitoki, his palm pressing against the scale-covered back of the opponent's Kagura form.

"But you're focusing on the wrong thing, shit."

Washuu Yoshitoki realized something was wrong and hastily activated his kagune to form a thick shield.

But the shield melted into fine salt the moment it touched Mercury's palm, penetrating his skin and flesh, and precisely gripping his core kagune.

"You piece of shit, you dare to drop a missile in Chiba City? You don't think you can die so easily, do you?"

At that moment, Mercury was like a giant mosquito, biting onto Washuu Yoshitoki's back.

"Ugh—!" The intense pain caused Washu Yoshitoki to let out a beast-like roar. His ghoul form trembled wildly, and countless spikes shot out from his body, trying to pierce through the guy.

But before those sharp spikes could even touch the hem of Mercury's clothes, they turned into flying salt, leaving not even a scratch.

"Firearms attacks are ineffective, and so are kagune attacks... What kind of monster are you?!"

Washuu Yoshitoki's voice was full of anger, and he could clearly feel the kagune slowly breaking as the other person clenched his fist.

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