"The unholy offspring of that monster that escaped, the one that I helped Long Fang to hunt down, it attacked me. I shot it, but my powder was wet and didn't take the spark. It hit me, attached itself to my face, and... laid some sort of egg, inside my chest." Jacques looked down at his clenched fists, a pained expression on his face.
"It was... well, I'd rather not speak of it. I couldn't describe it anyway. Never went through anything like it before." He glanced at the new man that had joined them.
"Yes, a young man named Kanji. I don't know what happened to him. I was taken ill myself and heard nothing of it."