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The scalding blood gushed out like a waterfall bursting its banks.

The One-Eyed Owl let out a painful roar, staggered backward, and for the first time, disbelief appeared in its monstrous eyes.

Strength, speed, defense...

In front of this man, everything she was proud of was meaningless.

The opponent is like an omniscient and omnipotent weapon master who can always come up with the most perfect countermeasure before you can even make a move.

This is not a fight.

It was a one-sided, humiliating weapons demonstration.

"That's about it, I'm tired of it."

Lynn murmured, seemingly losing interest in this defensive counter-attacking game.

He threw away the greatsword in his hand, which turned into specks of light and disappeared in mid-air.

This time, his left hand did not conjure any weapons.

Instead, he simply faced the rapidly regenerating SSS-class monster with his bare hands.

"What...what does he want to do?!"

A young investigator cried out.

Marude didn't answer; his heart was pounding in his throat.

Abandoning those unpredictable weapons, are they going to use their flesh and blood to fight against an SSS-class Kakuja?!

However, the next second.

Everyone saw what this man's most terrifying "weapon" was.

Lynn's figure vanished in an instant.

He appeared to the side and rear of the One-Eyed Owl, in an absolute blind spot.

A precise chop to the joint of the Hell's shell.

"First node, stripping."

Click!

A large piece of the Hellfire armor fell off.

The one-eyed owl roared in pain and turned to sweep across.

Lynn's figure disappeared again, reappearing on its other side.

Another punch landed on a completely different structural weak point.

"Second core, crush."

Click!

In his eyes, this seemingly invincible body of the Heracles was nothing more than a sophisticated model composed of countless energy nodes, structural weaknesses, and RC cell pathways.

All he had to do was disassemble these "parts" one by one.

Peel, crush, dismantle!

The One-Eyed Owl's massive body was gradually disintegrated under his ghostly figure.

It attacked frantically, but couldn't even touch the hem of Lynn's clothes.

And every time Lynn makes a move, he inevitably takes a "part" off it.

The true form of Takatsuki Sen, who was hiding in the core of the Kakuja, had her pride as a "King" shattered at this moment.

fear.

The instinct to live, originating from the deepest part of life, overwhelmed everything.

The One-Eyed Owl let out a deafening roar, unleashing all the remaining kagune in a devastating attack that hurtled toward Lynn.

A feint.

Its massive body, propelled by the explosive force, transformed into a pure white afterimage, frantically fleeing towards the huge hole in the top of the prison!

I watched that figure flee in panic.

Lynn stopped in her tracks.

He looked up at the increasingly smaller white dot of light, as if admiring an interesting painting.

Until that point of light was about to disappear into the night.

With a light leap, his toes barely touching the broken steel bar, he vanished silently from the spot like an arrow released from a bow.

All that remained was a devastated battlefield and a group of CCG investigators who had been completely petrified.

"..."

"..."

"Win...win?"

After an unknown amount of time, an investigator broke the deathly silence with a dreamlike voice.

Marutei suddenly came to his senses.

He looked at the ghoul remains scattered on the ground and the huge hole leading to the outside world, and his body swayed.

He instinctively reached into his pocket for his cigarette pack, but his fingers trembled so badly that the pack fell into the pool of blood.

He didn't pick it up; he just leaned against the broken wall to prevent himself from kneeling down.

then.

"Ah……"

A low, suppressed laugh escaped from his throat.

"Hehe...haha...hahahahahaha!!!!"

He laughed and laughed, but then he started coughing violently, as if he was going to cough up his lungs.

His subordinates behind him were terrified and at a loss for what to do by this sudden loss of control.

Marutei's laughter stopped abruptly.

He stood frozen in place, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the hole in the prison roof.

A crazy idea burned through every nerve in his body.

We...did not survive.

We... won!

We defeated... that one known as "Doomsday," the "One-Eyed Owl"!!!

"Communicator!!"

Marude Sai turned around abruptly and snatched the encrypted line from the communications soldier's hand.

"Connect me to the CCG headquarters! Now! Immediately! Right now!"

He spoke into the communicator with all his might, his voice hoarse, shouting out a declaration that would be recorded in the history of the CCG.

"Report! This is Commander-in-Chief of the Kukria Front, Saito Marute!"

"The defense of Kukria has been a resounding success! The core combat force of the 'Bronze Tree' infiltration unit has been completely annihilated!"

"The One-Eyed Owl... has been single-handedly defeated by our Special Investigator, Lynn! We are currently pursuing him!"

"Repeat it again!"

"—The era of the One-Eyed Owl...will end tonight!!!"

Communication hang up.

The deathly silence at the scene was completely ignited.

“Lynn and others… he really… single-handedly drove away ‘Owl’…”

A young investigator threw down the quinque he was holding, slumped to the ground, and muttered to himself.

"Did you see that, Yamada! Did you see that! That guy was chased away! We've avenged you!"

An old soldier held his comrade's body, weeping uncontrollably.

"The times... are truly changing... The Black Reaper, no, our god... Long live the Warden!"

Another investigator looked up at the huge hole, his eyes shining with an unprecedented light.

As Marude listened to the suppressed cries and cheers around him, his tense nerves finally relaxed.

He walked to the pool of blood that had already congealed in the distance and looked at the unconscious Mado Kureo.

"What the hell are you all standing there for?! Medical team! Go check if that bastard Mado is dead yet!"

"Everyone, take stock of the wounded and clean up the battlefield!"

After the order was given, the surviving investigators seemed to have found their backbone and began to move forward despite their exhaustion.

Marude Sai walked up to a young investigator, patted his blood-stained shoulder, and spoke in a hoarse but firm voice.

"When we get back, I will recommend each and every one of you for commendation."

"I guarantee that all the sacrifices and all the achievements will be fully recognized and will not be omitted."

He looked up at the huge hole in the top of the prison.

A sliver of light pierced the pre-dawn darkness from outside the hole, slowly shining in.

Marude's gaze swept over the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something extremely absurd and ridiculous, his lips twitched, and he forced out a hoarse, dry laugh.

"Ah……"

He turned around abruptly and roared at a communications soldier who was still in a daze beside him.

"Hey! Get me the Ground Self-Defense Force outside!"

"Make them bring in all the body bags we ordered from the warehouse!"

Marude Sai grinned, a smile more like a grimace, pointing at the ghoul corpses scattered on the ground.

"Those bags weren't meant for us."

"Now, it's time to make the most of them!"

……

Above the Tokyo night sky.

A colossal, pure white figure was flying at supersonic speed.

Takatsuki Sen desperately squeezed out the last bit of RC cells in her body, pushing her speed to the limit.

The wind whistled in my ears, and the city lights below were stretched into blurry streaks of light.

But she felt no freedom whatsoever.

Because that aura always exists.

Right behind her, neither too close nor too far, like a shadow following her.

The aura was neither fierce nor murderous; it simply followed her calmly and unhurriedly.

This composure, this indifference, terrified and humiliated her more than any relentless attack.

She can't escape.

This realization shattered her last hope.

at last.

Above a completely destroyed and long-abandoned industrial area.

Takatsuki Sen's power was completely exhausted.

The massive shell of the Kakuja could no longer be maintained and melted away like ice and snow.

A petite girl, wrapped in bandages from head to toe, fell helplessly from mid-air and crashed heavily onto a pile of ruins.