The same night when Aiko was defeated and transported to Cochlea, somewhere far in the mountains another intense battle was brewing up.
A few hours ago, it was the time of dusk. The faint natural light was fading and the yellow glow of the bulbs were lighting up the dark courtyard.
Inside a small cage was an emanciated body of Shinji. His body was squeezed inside the cage, being as an armadillo he looked. Aizara waited by the side of the cage.
Soon the tap of shoes were heard. Aizara straighten herself. It was he looked at the curled body of Shinji.
"Is he been properly trained?" he inquired.
"Yes" Aizara replied swiftly.
"Look up" he ordered Shinji.
Shinji lifted his head, his eyes met. But could still see the spirit of defiance. Not only it was sharp it also beared bloodlust against him.
"He is still resisting. Are you still giving him bone only? Reduce it to nothing" he told and move back into the mansion.
Aizara was puzzled but she nodded either way. She opened his caged, tied her vertebral kagune to his collar and drag him through the courtyard to outside the property.
It was an open field outside the walls. She tossed him aside.
"Stand up. Don't you hear" she shouted.
But Shinji didn't move. His body was covered with scar. Poor nutrition and psychological stress had severely allowed down his regeneration.
Aizara released her kagune to whip him. But before the lash could land, he jumped away. He stood some distance away from her to her right. She looked at him with rage. But Shinji's eyes were downcast.
By a sudden surge of unknown power, he snapped the kagune strap binded at his wrist. And pull out his four spider kagune.
"So you want to fight, come I will teach you how foolish you are" she spoke.
Viciously she lashed her kagune at Shinji. Each time Shinji would evade it. Shinji's lack of offense gave her the impression that she was winning. That Shinji had no plan to curtail her onslaught and it was just a matter of time before her attack connects.
And that opportunity gleaned. Shinji stood motionlessly as the whip came closer. But when it was about to hit his face, his upper right kagune hit it. At the point of impact, her kagune detached and fell apart as pieces of white block.
"Your kagune is sturdy and flexible, but it is held at the joints. One small hit at the weak point at the whole column disintegrates" Shinji atlast spoke. He rose his head, his kakujan fully manifested.
Aizara faced tense upon listing to that comment.
"Do you think you are better, I will show you your place" she shouted and started lashing again.
Shinji evaded each attack and break her bikaku multiple times. She was tiring up, her attacks weren't connecting and a sense of loss was looking over her.
At one point, Shinji leaped into the air. Using his four spider legs, he stabbed her hands and feet, pinning her down to the ground.
He looked at her face, it was covered with sweat. Her kakujan rather than showing the ferocity of a ghoul, gave the impression of an inner fear. And that fear was genuinely true.
Shinji sank his teeth into her flesh, and ripped apart chunks. She let out screams upon screams as each chunk was separated from her body. She struggled, her feet and hands tried to break until they stood limbless.
During that post twilight hours, when the stars were shedding their light. In that grassy field, Shinji sat over the carcass of Aizara. His hands and face covered with her blood and her body severely mutilated.