Thread: The Intersection of Heart and Stomach [BurdgeBug x Viktoff Samson]

Watching the male ghoul and the golden haired woman he was wooing wasn't easy for Koji as he kept looking away. There were even attempts to keep himself busy by approaching some of the regulars. Between questions, short strings of conversation and a brief offer of free refills at a certain table, Koji snaked his way into a distraction as he readied another round for his not-so-sober human pals. In a way, seeing these college students smile in celebration after a year of weekend and even week nights of stress drinking somehow brought a warmth to Koji's smile. His dorky bookworm companions were really coming into their own with confidence and strength that they used to lack. It wouldn't be until Koji delivered this fresh round of inhibition killing delight that he'd catch the duo leaving out of the corner of his eye. There wasn't enough time to consider if he should just stay out of it or at least grab his mask. A small female ghoul employee had been in the back on break, and Koji didn't even have the time to consider calling out to her to cover the bar for just one moment. The clunky sounds of his black boots sounded off as he followed them after the briefest of delays. Surely the patrons of the establishment were thoroughly preoccupied with their growing buzz and the nuanced thumping that came from the nearby night club. Kohl's head tilted as his wavy brown bangs hid his eyes. The darkness of the alley could barely even draw shadows on his sharper jawline and peculiar grin as his steps became deafened by a subtle technique. Left foot, right foot, his imposing height entered just behind the duo as the grossly predictable scene occurred and played out. However, Koji was regretfully unseen by his prey. Scum he's been dying for an excuse to get rid of, and this display of bold predation in Hayato's territory was the perfect one. Giving this swine even a chance to blabber up any sort of second chance or even defend himself wasn't going to come to fruition tonight. Not with the most notorious cannibal in the ward closing in. Had Koji been a hero, he could have slipped into their conversation and tried to persuade this foreign beauty to go home with her friends. He ought to have been capable of at least spinning a tale about the degenerate she was talking to in order to make her at least second guess he following decisions. And even worst case, he could have confronted them before the bite. Ghouls can be fast, but Koji was out of this world in this area of note. Just as the teeth of the ghoul found her neck, the predator's eyes opened to find Koji's own pair of black kakugan distorted by his bangs. Yoink. Koji comically expressed himself as he caught the ghoul by the neck and the momentum of the action caused the ghoul's spine to pull upward and become disjointed. The end result was a quick and arguably clean death for what should have been an epic battle to the death with their kagune. Dropping the ghoul's head, the blackness faded from Koji's eyes as he dropped his smile and attempted to catch the woman so that she wouldn't fall. It was his hopes that she wouldn't howl to draw attention to the situation. But, then again, he didn't know what to do if she'd lose consciousness from the bite. There was a perfectly disgusting ghoul corpse to much on and hide, after all.