With that, Kaneki shot towards the four beowolves at a speed that caught everyone watching completely off-guard.
The artificial half ghoul took note of this and immediately jumped on the opportunity. He jumped towards them once he deemed himself close enough and landed a solid right hook on the face of the closest beowolf to him, which caused a loud cracking sound to ring through the air.
The force from his attack being so great that it caused the pitch-black beast to rear back in pain, holding its now cracked bone mask with its giant clawed hands as it did so.
By the time he landed back onto the ground, the three other beowolves had regained their grip on the situation and lunged at him from all sides. Their long claws aimed directly for his head, but unfortunately for the beasts, that was what he was expecting them to do.
In response, Kaneki jumped directly at one of the weaker-looking beowolves, using its face as leverage to launch himself further up into the air to gain some separation from his opponents.
Turning his body in mid-air so that he would be facing his enemies, not wanting to have his back to them upon landing.
When he finally did land, he immediately shot towards the beowolves again. Doing so at a much slower speed in an attempt to throw the pseudo-werewolves off, and surprisingly enough, it worked.
They were expecting him to get there sooner than he actually did, which caused them to hold up their arms up to their heads to protect themselves a little before he was actually upon them, leaving their lower bodies completely wide open to him.
That was when he decided to go full speed and send a left uppercut right into the stomach of the closest beowolf with enough force put into it to launch the wolf into the air slightly, which was immediately followed up by a spinning hook kick to the jaw that sent the wolf flying towards the treeline.
It didn't take too long after the wolf - the one that he now dubbed beowolf #2 - went flying into the trunk of a nearby tree, which effectively disabled it permanently, for the other three wolves to try attacking him again.
Beowolf #3, the one to his immediate right, and #4, the one to his left, slashed at him with their claws while Beowolf #1, the one with the giant crack in its face standing directly in front of him, attempted to chomp down onto him with what teeth Kaneki hadn't punched out already.
He ducked under the claws of beowolf #3 and backflipped over the claws of beowolf #4. Knowing that the jaws of wolf #1 were fast approaching him, he turned his head towards it and expertly weaved under its jaws.
The artificial half ghoul sharpened his fingers into a point and slammed the tip into #1's stomach, his hand piercing the hide of the beast with very little resistance.
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Back over on the sidelines, everyone under the age of 17 currently had their jaws firmly planted on the floor as they tried to get past the fact that the rather scrawny-looking young man dressed in all black, the same one they found lying in the middle of a forest completely unconscious, was fighting four beowolves at the same time… and winning.
"I gotta admit, Short-stuff packs a wicked punch."
Yang began, clearly impressed by how well Kaneki was faring.
"Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you there,"
Weiss replied, watching the scene unfold with a look of shock.
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Kaneki pulled his arm from out of the beowolf's midsection, a viscous black liquid now covering his arm up to his elbow. He was just about to fling the substance off of his arm when he noticed a familiar scent radiating from it.
' No, it couldn't be... '
Kaneki thought while staring at his aforementioned arm, completely missing the fact that the being he just jabbed his arm into evaporated like water next to him.
Unfortunately, the artificial half ghoul was never able to try and confirm his idea, because before he could try and do so, he noticed an incoming claw from the corner of his eye. Knowing that he wasn't going to be able to dodge the attack, he simply raised his arms over his head and took the attack, but no claws slashed his skin. Instead, he found himself being raised in the air and thrown towards a nearby tree. He slammed into the trunk of said tree at great speed, causing a loud cracking sound to come from either his bones or the tree he hit snapping.
"Kaneki!"
Ruby exclaimed worriedly, stepping forwards to try and help the snowy-haired young man, but was stopped when she heard him say.
"Don't worry about me,"
the young man in question told her as he stood back up slowly, a smile creeping onto his face as he felt his RC cells start mending the broken vertebrae in his spinal cord back together.
"I've been through a lot worse than that."
Beowolf #3 and #4 didn't waste anytime in charging at him again, but unlike last time, Kaneki was prepared for the attack and side-stepped the horizontal slash of wolf #4. He then retaliated by grabbing said appendage by the forearm and slamming the palm of his hand into its elbow.
A loud snapping noise came from the arm, which was immediately followed by affected party's literal howls of pain.
The half ghoul didn't waste any time admiring his work, he immediately jumped back and away from wolf #4, just narrowly missing getting hit by #3's incoming claws by a few centimeters.
'They may be strong, but I can predict their actions easily,'
Kaneki thought, smile still gracing his lips.
'These things really are just nothing more than wild animals, aren't they?'
The snowy-haired ghoul shot towards his right and circled around the two beowolves. Their beady red eyes followed him like he expected and it was clear that they were waiting for him to attack them again, but he wasn't going to do that just quite yet. He wanted to make sure of something before then.
Knowing that he couldn't be seen doing what he was going to do, he jumped into the nearby trees and licked some of the black liquid on his arm off, doing all of this while running just deep enough into the trees where he could see his enemy but they couldn't see him.
It tasted absolutely disgusting, or more specifically like someone blended the smell of shit and the taste of rotting fish gusts together, but he noticed something off about it immediately. He could actually swallow the liquid without wanting to puke his guts out, and once the liquid crawled down his throat, he felt absolutely invigorated.
'So these things are like ghouls? '
Kaneki's bloodthirsty smile only growing larger by the thought.
'They may taste even worse... but at least I have another food source other than humans.'
Not wanting to look like he jumped into the woods for absolutely no reason, he broke a low-hanging branch off a tree and chucked it at the two beowolves. They reacted just like he predicted they would.
The two pseudo-werewolves immediately began focusing on the branch, probably thinking that it was a serious attack on his part, completely missing the fact that he had jumped back out of the brush and was now running towards them.
As the wolves turned their bodies to evade the incoming branch, Kaneki jumped up towards beowolf #3 and planted his right foot into its shoulder, before putting all of his strength into a kick to the back of the wolf's head with his other foot. The resulting kick ending with the wolf's head flying clean off of its shoulders.
Unlike last time, the rinkaku ghoul took note of what happened to the beowolf once he killed it,
'So they evaporate upon death? That means I'm going to have to eat them when they're alive to actually to be able to consume them. '"No reason, right…" Ruby trailed off as she returned her attention back onto Kaneki, who was just finishing the last beowolf off.
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Back with the group of six watching the black-clad young man fight, everyone, and that includes Ms. Goodwitch and Professor Ozpin, were still trying to get over the fact that he literally kicked a beowolf's head off.
"Oh come on! How is that even humanly possible?"
Weiss exclaimed in her stupor, despite already knowing that it was in fact not humanly possible for someone to kick a beowolf's head off without dust.
By this time, Ruby had almost managed to stop fully worrying about Kaneki's well-being, but she was finally able to after seeing him decapitate something with a mere kick, which prompted this response from her,
"I don't know, but I do know one thing. That. Was. So. Awesome!"
"I have to agree with Ruby, That was pretty impressive."
Blake chimed in from out of the blue, nodding her head in agreement.
"Just impressive?
Yang repeated disbelievingly.
"That was- Oh wait."
Before saying what she was going to say, the blonde-haired teen walked over her little sister and placed her gloved hands over the fifteen year old's ears.
"That was freaking badass!"
With that, Yang removed her hands from her sister's ears, who immediately asked,
"Hey! Why'd you have to cover my ears?"
"No reason~"
the blonde bombshell answered innocently in a sing song voice that would've failed to convince an infant of her innocence.
"No reason, right…"
Ruby trailed off as she returned her attention back onto Kaneki, who was just finishing the last beowolf off.
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Said black-clad young man was now standing over the last of the four beowolves, his face stony as ever as he shoved the bottom of his boot into the wolf's now broken bone mask.
"I know that you probably don't know the answer to this, but do you know what euthanasia is?"
Kaneki began emotionlessly, while cracking his index finger once more.
"It's the act of putting something down if they're suffering through a pain they won't survive,"
he continued as he applied more pressure on the Grimm's face, eliciting pained whimpers from the pseudo-animal,
"and I'm guessing it's safe to assume that by doing this, I'm making you suffer, right?"
The snowy-haired ghoul put a little more pressure on the beowolf's mask, causing the pseudo-werewolf to let out even more strangled whimpers of pain.
"So, I'll do you a favor and put you down just here and now,"
he began as a full-blown bloodthirsty smile crept its way onto his lips
"I mean, I wouldn't want to make an animal suffer now, would I?"
With that, he lifted his boot up from the wolf's bone mask and stomped down onto it with all of his might. The mask gave way instantly and his foot went through straight through the beowolf's head, killing it.
The resulting mess would've been a gruesome sight to behold if the body hadn't disintegrated literally a second later, but it wasn't like he could complain too much about that, though he did kind of wish that he could've gotten a second longer to admire his handiwork.
It definitely would've helped to quell the surge of emotions that was currently running through his veins.
He still couldn't quite believe it.