Cid - Teleports via speed

The ghoul grins, putting its sharp fangs on full display, then pounces toward her.

“N-no…”

Tears roll down her cheeks.

In that moment, she realizes she’s going to die.

“I told you… Flee…,” booms a low voice.

In an instant, the ghoul is torn to shreds. Corpse chunks rain down as blood sprays across the room.

“Y-you’re…” Marie’s heart throbs upon seeing that familiar figure with his ebony blade.

It’s a man wearing a jet-black longcoat—Shadow.

“The rampage has begun… Behold, the town is stained with blood…”

“The town…?” As she covers herself up with her sheets, Marie peeks outside.

“…Oh god.”

She doesn’t know when it happened, but the streets are wet with blood.

There are grisly corpses and rampaging ghouls everywhere. Many of the sex workers don’t make it out in time, and they’re attacked the moment they step outside.

“L-look out…!”

Marie’s coworker numbers among their ranks, and Marie lets out an unthinking scream.

The next moment, though, the ghoul attacking her is hacked to pieces.

“The rampage has begun… And now, the storm of blood rages…”

A man in a black longcoat is standing behind it.

“Huh?!”

Marie looks across her room, but there’s no one there.

“Flee, before it’s too late…”

Then, a scream rings out from down the street.

In the brief moment it snatches Marie’s attention, Shadow vanishes again.

“The rampage…blood…flee…”

She can hear his voice, but she’s not sure where from. The bodies of dead ghouls go flying through the air.

Now that she takes a better look, she realizes that the grisly corpses along the street are all ghouls, too.

She can’t see Shadow himself, but she can tell that the creatures being eviscerated are starting to get farther away.

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Volume 3, Chapter 1