While ghouls might not be directly involved in the myths and legends, they still belonged to the supernatural side of the world. They were all well aware of the conflict between the three factions of devils, angels, and fallen angels. Furthermore, everyone knew that Kuoh City belonged to the devils.
Using the power of fallen angels in the devils' territory? Was this an act of war?
If the devils found out, the consequences would be unimaginable. After all, it was already a great mercy for them to be able to live peacefully in a city controlled by devils. The devils would usually turn a blind eye to minor offenses, like bullying or petty theft.
But cooperating with fallen angels was crossing the line.
Touka and her companions just wanted to live in peace and not get involved in any trouble, especially a conflict between two major supernatural factions. For people like them, they would be nothing more than cannon fodder in a war.
"Cooperation? For a weak race like us, the only way to survive the coming events is to align ourselves with the strong! The Fallen Angels have already promised us that when they rule the world, they will give us ghouls a special place to raise humans. Then we can eat whatever we want, whenever we want!" Jason said with a look of ecstasy. He clearly longed for that life.
Currently, if they wanted to eat humans, they had to either prey on some unlucky person who wandered into a back alley or steal a corpse.
"Even as ghouls, we have our pride! We want to eat meat and drink blood without restraint, even in broad daylight!"
"You're crazy!" Touka and her group couldn't understand this at all.
"Crazy? You're the crazy ones! What's so great about this boring life! And bring out your manager! I know who he is, the strongest SSS-rank ghoul! If he joins us, all the other ghouls in this city will surely follow."
War requires manpower. The manager of the "Antique" coffee shop, Yoshimura, had a lot of influence.
"You should leave. We will not get involved in this mess," an old man said, emerging from the kitchen.
He was a man with calm eyes and a peaceful expression, yet he had a strong, powerful presence. Even Jason was startled when he appeared.
But he quickly regained his composure by drawing power from the light spear given to him by a fallen angel. He even became more excited when he saw the old man.
According to the information given by the fallen angels, Yoshimura had a special constitution. They could extract a specific gene from his ghoul sac to mass-produce more powerful one-eyed ghouls. Once fully grown, they would be on par with a mid-ranking devil.
As he spoke, Yoshimura's unique kagune emerged. His feathery kagune instantly covered half of his body like armor, resembling a bird's feathers. His hands also transformed into sharp blade-like kagune.
Truthfully, in terms of kagune ability alone, he was stronger, but his enemies had the power of fallen angels. That was a divine power. It was uncertain whether his kagune could even withstand it.
The fight started quickly. The experienced Yoshimura planned to take care of Jason first.
In the next second, he charged past the counter, his feathered blade aiming at the man's head from above.
In response, Jason easily blocked the attack with his light spear, even tearing a piece of his kagune off. At the same time, the ghoul in the mouth-patterned mask launched a sneak attack. Yoshimura reacted by raising his hand and slicing the ghoul in half at the waist. However, this injury was meaningless. His upper and lower body quickly reconnected with growing flesh, and at the same time, a light spear was stabbed into Yoshimura's side, causing him to spit up blood.
"Manager!" Touka and the others cried out, wanting to help, but they were held back by the other two.
Just then, a bell on the coffee shop door suddenly rang. The door was open?
Everyone in the room instinctively turned their heads to the sound.
A figure, half-illuminated by the moonlight, appeared in the dark hallway outside.
As the wind blew the clouds away, the silvery moonlight slowly disappeared from his body, and the lights inside the store filled in, illuminating the man's figure. It was as if the darkness vanished with his every step.
This perfectly timed entrance made everyone in the coffee shop forget about fighting. This scene was seared into everyone's mind like a brand.
"Who is this guy?"
"He looks like an ordinary human."
"If he's a human, that's even better. I can take him back and eat him. I'm a little hungry after all this fighting."
"Luo Guang-kun? Is that you?!" Touka's face was filled with shock as the light from the store illuminated his face.
As his classmate, she could never forget such a dazzling existence.
"Touka... Is he your classmate? This is bad. We might not be able to protect him."
Luo Guang ignored them all and walked straight toward the ghouls with their kagune exposed. He took a single glance and immediately understood what was going on. But when he saw the light spears in the ghouls' hands, he looked surprised.
"Is that... the power of light?"
"You're in the way! I'll eat you first!"
A ghoul in a black robe transformed into a shadow and lunged at Luo Guang. He was annoyed by the human's handsome face.
Touka's heart skipped a beat. She wanted to act but was too slow to react.
In the face of the attack, Luo Guang simply raised his hand, meeting the ghoul's blade-like kagune.