In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

And just as she gritted her teeth and was about to use more strength, two dragon claws suddenly appeared in her pupils and gradually enlarged.

……

Chapter 71: End

"Boom!"

Matsumae used the armor shield wrapped around his left arm in time to block Xia Yan's iron finger attack.

Xia Yan frowned slightly, looking at the shield at the front of his moved fingers. There were only two shallow dents on it. He suddenly lifted up one leg.

Iron-breaking kick!

Xia Yan kicked Songqian's shield with his toes. In an instant, there was a "crack" sound and a shock wave passed through his body. Even Songqian's arm, which was wrapped in armor, was broken.

But her shield was only kicked with a row of small holes like dragon toes - it failed to completely penetrate the enemy's armor!

"It's harder than I thought."

Xia Yan was a little surprised when he saw this. Even with the multiple strength buffs he had now, he still couldn't penetrate her shield with one blow. She was really too tough.

At this time, Matsumae also realized his embarrassing situation, and hurriedly tried to pull out his kagune spear from Xia Yan's hand to distance himself from him.

But Xia Yan also discovered her intention. With his five fingers clenched, the difference in strength between the two was already quite large, so how could he let her escape?

Just as Songqian gritted her teeth and wanted to abandon the kagune covering her right arm to escape, she suddenly saw a figure rushing out from behind Xia Yan, and his kagune stabbed towards Xia Yan's back.

"For the honor of the Tsukiyama family..."

stop!

Matsumae was about to stop her companions from their reckless cover, but before she could utter a word, Xia Yan, who had been wrestling with her spear with brute force, suddenly converted her strength into the soft force of the movement, pulling the spear and her body to the left.

Just as Matsumae stumbled and lost his balance, Xia Yan followed the force of the rotation and quickly spun around, kicking the ghoul in the neck with a whip kick.

"Tear~"

Before Matsumae could react, the scarlet leg blade on Xia Yanwujia was like a hot knife cutting butter, and it cut off the head of the ghoul named Wulu without any hindrance.

I heard that if the executioner's knife is fast enough, the beheaded prisoner won't even feel any pain. I'm afraid this ghoul is feeling the same way now - if he was still conscious at that moment.

Immediately, Xia Yan didn't plan to waste time with Song Qian, who was staring with wide eyes at the moment. He probably didn't expect that after one trip, the two companions he had been with for many years would disappear in the blink of an eye.

Full power gods and demons, flow!

Assuming that the total amount of mental energy that erupted from Yijian and wrapped around his entire body was 100%, then Xia Yan would now concentrate 70% of this mental energy on his right arm, and then add the instantaneous full-strength divine and demonic output:

Iron finger pierces!

"Boom!"

Xia Yan used his right arm as a spear, and this time he really pierced through Song Qian's extremely solid shield head-on. His right hand did not stop after piercing the shield, but also pierced through her chest and pierced her heart.

"puff!"

A mouthful of blood spurted from Songqian's mouth, and the pale purple veil on her face slipped away, revealing her beautiful face, her rapidly dimming eyes, and the barely perceptible last words she murmured before dying: "Master Xi..."

Xia Yan, who had just pulled his right arm out of her chest, raised his wrist and then lowered it again.

He had no ruthlessness or fondness for humiliating his enemies, nor did he need to deliberately add another blow to destroy the opponent's body. Just watching the murderous fragments floating out of her was enough.

Then Xia Yan loosened his grip on the long spear, letting Song Qian's body slide down, and turned and left.

The test of the use of the armor has been completed, and several high-level fragments of the Yueshan family have been obtained. It’s time to end it.

"boom!"

Xia Yan did not take off his armor, and let his feet crush the ground, making a loud roar. He slaughtered the miscellaneous ghouls of the bronze tree at an extremely fast speed with great noise.

……

……

There's not much to say about what happened afterwards. The Bronze Tree and some family ghouls brought by the Tsukiyama family, although they were basically cannon fodder, still caused considerable trouble to Yukinoshita and the other two under the siege of large numbers.

As a result, they all suffered some minor injuries, except Xia Yan, who was fighting the toughest enemy and his clothes were slightly dirty.

Among these people, only Yukinoshita could secretly heal her with his mental energy, and now her injuries have indeed recovered completely.

As for Zhenhu Wuxu and the other one... Xia Yan had no idea how to explain his abilities to them, so he had no choice but to let them down.

Afterwards, Xia Yan collected the spoils on the scene. In addition to the fragments that only he could see, he also secretly took a few submachine guns brought by the ghouls and threw them into his personal space.

Apart from that, the only things that could be considered spoils of war were the hundreds of bodies, including the corpses of 1SS and 2S-level ghouls.

These corpses were taken to the CCG headquarters, and their kagune would be made into Quinques. Whoever killed the ghoul would have the right to dispose of the Quinque made from his kagune.

Xia Yan didn't know what would become of his identity as a senior investigator after he left, nor did he know if he could get three high-level Quinques for free the next time he came in.

And now, it was the next morning.

The CCG20 District Branch gathered people for the meeting early.

The investigators were sitting there like a bunch of ordinary employees, and only a Quinque box placed on their desks could prove their identities.

The branch chief of District 20 was now explaining the basic situation on the stage. Behind him was a huge projected map of the Tokyo area. District 20 and several nearby districts were marked in red, indicating that these districts were the active locations of the Bronze Tree.

This time, the topic was still about the reasons for the Bronze Tree's overactivity in these areas over the past month, as well as their motives. However, the trigger for this topic had changed to...

"Xia Yan, Zhen Hu, do you have any idea why the bronze trees are coming together to ambush you?"

"Sh ...

"Maybe I destroyed one of their strongholds before, and they came to take revenge on me?" Xia Yan started to lie again.

"That's possible, but Xia Yan, the three high-level ghouls you fought this time don't seem to be members of the Bronze Tree. At least, our intelligence has never found any of these three cadres from the Bronze Tree."

Seeing this, the branch chief seemed to turn his main questioning to Xia Yan, "What do you think about this?"

"Sigh~, I don't know what's going on with this."

Xia Yan, who fully understood the cause and effect of the incident, or rather, knew that it was caused by him and all the blame could be put on him, said so.

He could even guess a little about the purpose of Bronze Tree wandering around these areas in Tokyo.

……

Chapter 72: On the Eve of the End

"One-eyed Owl" Yoshimura Aite, "White Death" Arima Takamasa.

These two "camp leaders" representing ghouls and humans are in the same group. They all have the same goal, and this is probably why the bronze tree is lingering around Area 20 - they want to create a new "One-Eyed King".

Regardless of their reasons and thoughts for doing so, if they want to sit on the "throne" in their minds, then they need two necessary conditions:

One is the identity of a half-ghoul.

The second is strong strength.

Half-ghouls are children born between ghouls and humans with mixed bloodlines. Because pregnancy is too difficult - pregnant female humans cannot provide the nutrients needed for half-ghoul children in their wombs, and pregnant female ghouls will digest the half-human children in their wombs as nutrition.

So apart from Kazuo's family, the only known naturally born half-ghoul is Yoshimura Aite.

Half-ghouls are so rare that it is naturally impossible to find a suitable heir to sit on the "throne", so they can only resort to a trick, that is, to artificially create half-ghouls by transplanting ghoul khaki into humans.

What is needed is qualified ghoul kuri package transplantation technology. Bronze Tree's target is Dr. Ghana, who transplanted Kamishiro Rize's kuri package into Kaneki Ken in the original work.

This then leads to the second condition for the "throne". If an artificial half-ghoul wants to gain powerful strength, it is not enough to just find a random ghoul and transplant the Kakuha.

As the "donor" who provides the Kakubo, it must be a ghoul with sufficient talent and qualifications. The most suitable candidate for this "donor" is:

The gods are great!

...ahem.

It was obvious that this woman who just wanted to have an ordinary dinner no matter where she was, now had nothing left.

Therefore, Xia Yan had some idea of ​​how big a butterfly effect his actions would cause.

The bronze tree would linger around here, probably because it was trying desperately to find some clues about Kamishiro Rize in the place where she was before she "disappeared".

After all, although Kamishiro Rize's own fighting ability was a bit weak, she was plotted against and was so embarrassed that she couldn't even hit the falling steel bars.

But how good are Kamishiro Rize's qualifications as a ghoul?

Just look at how Kaneki Ken performed after having her kukome transplanted into him.

It took a long time for Gecko to be promoted to a half-Kagure. As long as Kaneki Ken awakens, he can rely on ordinary Kagure to solo.

Poor brother-in-law Kirishima Ayado, he practiced physical skills to make up for his weaknesses, and followed the Bronze Tree to fight everywhere, but in the end, after Kaneki Ken finished defeating the gecko, he immediately went on to smash half of his bones.

A ghoul's physique is strong and flexible, and he can quickly regenerate broken bones, broken fingers, and blood spores, and he can show his potential with just a little training. He also has a large number of scales and blood spores.

These are the potentials shown by the transplanted Kamishiro Rizekyu bag.

So it’s no wonder that the bronze tree is so obsessed with her.

However, I believe that after a period of time, if they still cannot find Kamishiro Rize, they will give up and look for other excellent "Kakubo donors" as substitutes - such as the manager of the Antique Cafe.

He has the strength to become an SSS-level ghoul, and as his daughter, how could Yoshimura Eto not know the potential of her own father.

——This time, the father and daughter smiled.

Unfortunately, no matter what the Bronze Tree wants to do, it probably has little to do with Xia Yan now. After all...

"Wow!"

Xia Yan and other investigators stood up from their seats in the meeting room of the District 20 branch and left one after another.

It was obvious that in this round of dungeon, Xia Yan had no intention of confronting the bronze tree again. Under his antics, the CCG meeting naturally could not discuss anything and was adjourned.

Xia Yan and Xueshita, on the other hand, rarely separated from Mado Wuxu and the other two and acted on their own.

After all, they were different from Yukinoshita, who was wearing fake bandages and pretending to be injured. They were truly injured, so it was naturally not good to trouble others to act with them. Besides...

The CCG branch in District 20 is located on a nearby commercial street.

“Crepes…”

Xia Yan looked at the store in front of him. He didn't expect that he would see this kind of food that he had only seen in anime in a random store. After thinking about it, he raised two fingers and said, "Boss, two pancakes with sausage and egg."

half an hour.

Xia Yan came to the bench in the park next door and handed the cream crepe in his hand, which was obviously not very down-to-earth and did not have sausage, to Yukinoshita.

"Thank you."

Yukinoshita took the crepe and relaxed a lot compared to her initial tense demeanor. She sighed, "Is this the end of it?"

During the previous ambush by the Bronze Tree and the Tsukiyama family, Yukinoshita also made up her mind and took the opportunity to harvest many low-level ghouls who had lost their ability to resist.

Now, not only has she completed the main storyline's enemy-killing requirements, but she has also met the requirements for the Osmanthus chapter's mission of killing 10 ghouls.

Now they just have to wait for the 48-hour survival period to expire so that they can go back.

The time calculation of the mission starts from the time Yukinoshita wakes up in this world.

Xia Yan took out his cell phone and took a look. There were only less than two hours left.

So they are both in a relatively relaxed state now...

Thinking of this, Yukinoshita suddenly raised her eyebrows, tightened her grip on the crepe slightly, and turned to look at Xia Yan who was sitting next to her, "Have you completed your mission...?"

——She seemed to have only cared about herself all the time, and she didn't even know what the reincarnation mission of this guy next to her was, who had been trying every possible way to take care of her and even found a temporary teacher for her.

With this guy's strength, I guess his mission won't be the same as his own. After all, it's too easy for him. Is he... okay?

"Don't worry, my mission is also completed."