Psycho Investigator
There was a psychopath in the ranks of CCG which everyone was continuously complaining about, and for once it wasn't Juuzou Suzuya. This psychopath was one which committed terrible acts of violence against both human and ghoul, again not Juuzou Suzuya, one which made a shiver travel down everyone's spin due to the eerie atmosphere they carried.
Shinohara strode down the spacious halls of Twentieth Ward Headquarters as he wondered just how he was supposed to deal with someone described in such a way. The new eccentric had been transferred to his branch specifically because of the oddities the psycho carried, Shinohara had become well known in CCG, not only due to his rank, for how well he handled a troubled child like Juuzou, he only hoped that he would do well with the new Investigator.
Entering into a small meeting room Juuzou and Shinohara saw no one, they searched all about but saw no one, that is until Juuzou ducked his head down to peer under the meeting table where a girl lay. Shinohara crouched down alongside his partner to look on the strange figure.
"What're you doing under there for?" Juuzou called curiously as he noticed she was tracing the bottom of the table with a pencil.
"Art." She answered, "like how DeVinci painted the ceiling of that church that one time. He had to do the top part like this, suspended in the air, this is the best I could get what with having to wait on you people." She answered.
"You can't draw on the table…" Shinohara scolded lightly with a nervy smile, he didn't want to upset the girl on their first meeting after all.
"I'm not." She then gave a sharp tug and a large piece of paper was removed from the bottom of the tables surface, she was quick to slide herself out from under the table, where she took to her feet before Shinohara and Juuzou even saw her move to do so. "Amon-san already told me not to!" She grinned to them in an almost proud way.
Juuzou began to inspect her then, long black locks that flowed all the way to her ankles, streaked with thin strips of aqua. His eyes moved back to her feet, her legs were covered by mismatched leggings, one vertically striped pink and blue, the other being solid pink. From what Juuzou could see the girl's shorts were oddly made, as they were blue checkered and appeared to be frilled at the ends. Finally, he began to inspect her pink hoodie, it didn't look like she was wearing a shirt underneath, as the zipper was only zipped to just below her breasts leaving much of her small chest exposed, he noticed small pink devil's wings peeking out from behind her shoulders, he guessed they were attached to the back of the hoodie and he began to wonder why they were pink when usually stuff like that was colored red.
"What's this?" The girl questioned as she leaned toward Juuzou with an almost disturbing expression on her face, "don't even know my name yet and you're already eyeing me up? Think you wanna piece huh?" She stuck her tongue out along with a hiss, Juuzou found himself being taken aback by her ominous vibe which felt thick and humid as it clung to his skin.
"Ah~ no, not at all!" He exclaimed returning a lesser grin than the one she'd worn earlier, "you're just weird looking is all!" She spat at that.
"Same goes to you, Clown Slippers!" She retorted while pointing at his bright red house shoes.
"Now, now you two." Shinohara intervened quickly, "it's a pleasure to meet you," he said as he looked to the girl, "I'm Yukinori Shinohara, this here," he patted Juuzou on the shoulder roughly, "is my partner Juuzou Suzuya." The girl pursed her lips as she inspected them for a moment, then she crossed her arms as another smile crept onto her lips.
"I'm Mon Mura, it's nice meeting you too, Big Guy!" She traveled to the window and propped herself on its edge as she began to inspect the art piece she'd been working on.
"Oh-ho! I wanna see!" Juuzou exclaimed as he came closer to the creepy girl before him, she turned the large paper to his eyes and he took a sharp breath.
The art before him depicted horrible things, cannibalism, torture, agony, in the piece only one ghoul was present, its eyes dark with kakugan, it's pure white ukaku spread wide as it glowed with brilliance, Juuzou could tell that the creature was acting as an angel as it looked on the humans below devouring and maiming one another. It was beautiful, but disturbing at the same time so much so that looking on the image caused Juuzou to have instances of good boy time run through his mind as he looked on the similar tortures the people in the portrait were going through.
"Why would you draw something like that?" Shinohara questioned in awe of the work, Mon pulled the paper away from the two.
"Eh? I went to an awful lot of trouble for it." She began to explain, "do you know how many people I had to perform these methods on just to see how their bodies would writhe? I performed a number of autopsy's as well, actually the people I was using were still alive, so I guess it's a biopsy then right?" She gave another grin, Shinohara hesitated before speaking.
"Mura-chan, you shouldn't- "
"STOP!" She shouted suddenly, "don't ever call me by my last name, Idiot!" She ordered with as she kicked her heel against the wall just below her perch, Shinohara waved for her to calm down.
"Forgive me!" He exclaimed quickly as he realized that the girl was just waiting for a reason to erupt, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you!" A smile was quick to take to her lips again.
"So long as you didn't mean to its okay~"
"A-ah right… As I was saying: you shouldn't do such things to humans." He continued quietly, she cocked her head to one side with an audible crakc.
"So it's only bad if it happens to humans?"
"Well, no that's not- " Her head cocked to the opposite side with yet another crack.
"It's okay if it happens to ghouls, is that what you're saying?"
"No that's not- " She straightened.
"That's awfully shitty of you! Ah but wait, I kept interrupting you didn't I? 'It's not okay for any of these things to happen to anyone' is what you're trying to tell me right?"
"Yes! That's exactly it!" He exclaimed as he was beginning to become irritated, just then Mon hopped from the window ceil, and stepped as closely as she could to Shinohara without touching him, she looked up at him with the eyes of a demon ready to destroy a human's soul for pleasure as its purpose.
"Say it. Tell me that right now." She hissed, "I wanna hear those words come out of your mouth." Shinohara stared sternly back down to her, meeting her challenge as he did so.
"It isn't okay for you to do those things to any living creature." He stated deeply and the girls smile widened.
"You lie!" She shouted, taking him by surprise. "When you said 'any living creature' your mind only went to two species, humans and ghouls, and that's the moment that gave you away! I saw your eyes darken at the thought of you taking up for ghoul's, meaning you don't give a shit what happens to ghouls, which is basically you saying something as arrogant as: no other living thing matters except for humanity!" Shinohara stepped back and then Mon's grin widened in malice, "there it was again! When I said it that time your pupils contracted meaning that it's not true! Not all human life matters to you does it? No, only your life, oh the pupils dilated that time, you just thought of your friends and your family didn't you? So then I guess that means you don't only care for yourself then huh? That's nice." She stepped back, "but stop trying to fool yourself into thinking you care about humanity as a whole because you clearly don't, you want to, but your hearts just not big enough right? It's fine, it's fine, most smart people don't even care about their family, so I guess you're on the socially acceptable level of stupid, congrats!"
There was no way that Shinohara could take such a girl under his wing! Mon was on a totally different level than Juuzou, as he thought on it he looked to his partner, whom stared up at him owlishly, no she was nothing like Juuzou, sure he was a bit out there and his morals left much to be desired, however he was ultimately a person who could be caring, in his own weird way, and kind.
"What's this then?" Mon questioned as she perched herself in the window again, crossing one leg over the other. "Comparing me to your little partner now? I could tell by the way you looked from me to him and then your eyes softened a little. Have you decided to give up on taming me like the other six?" She cackled at that, "how disappointingly predictable!"
"You're jumping the gun a bit aren't you?" Shinohara's question caused the girl to blink, "it's true what they say, your human observation skills are amazing, but now you're just throwing out assumptions." Shinohara crossed his arms, "I can't give up on someone when I haven't even tried to help them, we'll be having outings three times a day, you, me, and Juuzou." Mon's shoulders slumped.
"Whyyyy? All you're gonna do is complain at me for being the worst human being ever!" She cackled as she began to fold her art work, once, twice, three times. "It's always gonna be the same, boring." She then removed a box of matches she'd had hidden in her hoodie and set the paper on fire, she dropped it in a nearby ash tray which was nearly spilling over with ash.
"Waaa, why'd you do that for?" Juuzou questioned, and Mon grinned at him.
"Because of your reactions to it! You were horrified by it right? So horrified that you couldn't let yourselves openly admit how beautiful it was, that means that it's a true piece of art! If I burn it up and then mix the ashes in with paint, then it'll rub off on the next piece and make it even more grim, more excellent!" She exclaimed with wide gestures, "just like painting with the blood of a dead person traps their soul inside the canvas! It makes it haunting! Creepy! Something people hate to love!" She laughed heartily, and Shinohara gritted his teeth, how was he supposed to deal with someone like that? A tug came to Shinohara's sleeve.
"I wouldn't mind if you gave up on her." Juuzou whispered as he looked at the girl with glossy eyes, could it have been that his subordinate was just as disturbed as he was?
Eating out in public didn't stop Mon from describing her hobbies in gruesome element to Shinohara and Juuzou, soon they knew of every autopsy, and biopsy, in detail so chilling it made Juuzou stiffen a bit, but that wasn't even the worst of her pastimes…
"Self-experimentation is my favorite thing to do!" Mon exclaimed gleefully.
"Heeeh? Self-experimentation?" Juuzou repeated as he was reluctantly interested in the subject, he didn't like Mon, not at all, but he had to admit that she had very interesting hobbies.
"Yep! I experiment on myself all the time!" She clapped her hands together, "I drink the blood of dead ghouls," Juuzou and Shinohara tensed at the same time, "eat their flesh, don't look at me like that I do the same thing with humans! Then I document changes in behavior, and mental state in my journal." That girl was too horrifying! She was clearly out of her godforsaken mind! Why the hell did they dump her off on Shinohara?!
"That's completely unacceptable!" Shinohara growled through gritted teeth, "you can't just go around cannibalizing people! It's horrible what are you a ghoul?!" She shook her head.
"Come on they're mostly dead when I do that stuff anyway! Have I made you suspicious of me? I'm not a ghoul, the tests all come back negative since I take them monthly to see if eating ghoul flesh would turn me into one of them, buuuut, I've been doing this for years now and I'm still completely human!" She then pointed at her head, "though my mental states changed substantially! I can tell when I look at my other notes, man those articles that tell about how eating human flesh taints the mind were right!" She studied Juuzou quickly, "ah! You just thought: 'you mean she knows that she's a crazy bitch?' Right?" Juuzou blinked, she'd read his mind! "Of course I know I'm like this! I'd be stupid to think I'm sane!"
"You need to stop the self-experimentation." Shinohara ordered.
"Even the ones when I sleep?"
"Wh-what do you…" Shinohara saw her preparing to explain and he braced himself for something horrible.
"At night time I play different genres of music to see how it affects my dreams!" She said as she smiled and tilted her head to one side, Juuzou blinked again.
"Is… that all?" She nodded, "well that's… Unexpected…" She leaned forward so that her torso rested on the tables surface, her facing coming within inches of Juuzou's.
"Hmmmmm? Is it too weak for your taste? Want me to tell you another gruesome one?!" Juuzou could smell blood on her breath, the heat from her mouth bursting on to his face. He leaned away and averted his eyes, unfortunately, when he lowered his gaze he saw her extensively exposed cleavage, his eyes lingered on the area for a moment and no longer, but since Mon was so quick, it was a moment too long. "What's this? Taking a peak at my tits?" She shouted loudly, causing the entire café to look at the investigators, "you really do want a piece don't you?!" She cackled, "or maybe you wanna try cannibalism!"
"Sit down!" Shinohara ordered as he pushed her back into her seat, "and be quiet!"
"Oooooh, I've upset the OLD MAN!" She screamed as she stood, "taking business ranking too seriously OLD MAN?! Thinking you're ACTUALLY MY BOSS?! You don't even come close! I can see your ego growing every time someone addresses you formally! Just another CURRPOT INVESTIGATOR PRETENDING TO BE PURE! At least I KNOW I'M EVIL!" He voice was rage-ridden, crazed, her expression went calm suddenly as she scooted her seat in and began to leave, pausing to whisper to the two. "Piss me off again and you'll be my next meal."
As Juuzou and Shinohara watched Mon storm off, the two were only left with a sense that things were going to get a lot more complicated for them.