Chapter 117 - 114: CCG shocked, Ryoma Rocked!
When Yoshimura Kuzen was blown out of the building, his massive figure twisted mid-air, stabilizing with a subtle shift of his kagune. A master of the Ukaku type, Kuzen was among the very few ghouls capable of limited aerial mobility. Only he and his daughter, Eto, had demonstrated such control— proof of his status as an apex predator.
Just like Kanzaki Ryoma had said... the time had come. And Kuzen, ever precise, used the momentum to retreat from the 11th Ward's crumbling "Aogiri Tree" stronghold.
But one question lingered in his mind.
How did Ryoma recognize him?
On the surface, Kuzen looked unharmed. In truth, beneath the armor of flesh and kagune, his aging body had taken a hit. It wasn't Ryoma's Gunbai that had injured him but the combined assault of Special Class Investigators Shinohara Yukinori and Kuroiwa Iwa using the proto-Arata armor. He had endured, but his regeneration, weakened by decades of not having a proper human flesh, was no longer as swift. The damage was internal, subtle... yet real.
Back at ground level, a ripple of shock spread among the investigators.
"What the hell was that?"
The One-Eyed Owl, who was feared even among SSS-rated threats had just been blasted through a reinforced concrete structure. And the one that did it— holding that oversized black fan... was only a First-Class Investigator.
"What kind of Quinque is that?" someone gasped.