To Inspector First Class Koutarou Amon,
I am a fourteen-year-old girl who lives in one of the Wards of Tokyo, and I hope you can read this. You see my Japanese isn't very good because I'm not allowed to go to school, because you call me a monster.
I don't know any humans, really. Since the day I was born, my mother and father taught me to pretend to be human, but also to fear you and your kind, since you hunt and kill us. I don't really even know what humans are supposed to be like, but I want to tell you what I think is a monster.
When my mother died, there was a single line about her murder in an article in the newspaper, mentioning only that the Doves had 'rid the Ward of one more horrible Ghoul threat and that everyone could breathe a little easier that night.' When your partner was murdered a few nights later, everyone called him a hero. The man who killed my parents was your partner in the CCG, and he laughed while he ripped my mother to shreds using a Quinque he'd made from my father's Kagune. He laughed and then chased me, intent on hunting me as well, and adding me to his collection…. And you call me a monster?
I have never killed anyone. Can you say the same? Me and my family survived only on eating the flesh of those your society had already discarded: victims of suicide. I've never eaten the flesh of a living human person, and I never will, because that is horrible and cruel. How am I any different from you? Do you eat meat? What do you think the cow calls you?
I read in the newspaper today that the CCG will be installing Ghoul Detection Devices in all government buildings starting this fall, and that means I won't be able to teach myself from the books at the library anymore, and it also means this will be the only letter I will ever send you. You can throw it away and forget my words, like all my friends say you will, or you can change your mind about the meaning of the word monster.
If some day we stand face to face, will you be armed with a weapon made from my dead parents? I want you to know I will run, but I won't fight you, because that's not who I am. You may call me a monster, but my name is Hinami.