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Chapter 1: Simple but effective
Touka Kirishima was confused and angry and everyone working at the coffee shop could see it clearly.
An ugly combination to deal with so early in the morning, yet Anteiku's staff was glad that the reason and target of this murderous mix was sealed off away from them to actually put them in the crossfire.
But compared to her usual outbursts, that morning was.. different.
It had just been a day since Kaneki Ken had left them to form his vigilange group and cutting contacts with his old friends.
Touka was hit the worst, betrayed that her worry and concern was so quickly disposed by the now white-haired half-ghoul.
When she arrived at Anteiku, the girl was greeted by the manager with a curious, amiable tone.
It wasn't the same as the usual greeting, something felt off the very moment she stepped inside her workplace.
Her suspicions proved true when Yoshimura decided to reveal what had happened the previous day while she was dealing with her recovery.
She was happy that Hinami had decided to stay, avoiding further damage to her emotional self, but also dumbfounded and irked by how the manager had decided to deal with the human and her foolish brother.
Hearing Ayato's name brought her some unpleasant memories... like when he tried to kill her and how he ate part of her Kagune.
She was still hurting because of the latter, her combat prowness severely reduced and making her quite restricted to hand-to-hand engagements only.
Then her mind settled with debating how to deal with the human.
Killing him would be simple, even if he had made a full recovery before the struggle she would have emerged victorious without much of an issue.
..Yet there was a major detail she had to take under consideration: the human had saved Hinami... while bashing Ayato on his head.
Two things that she appreciated and softened her resolve to just end his life.
Maybe he could be like a second coming of Ka- NO! No more talking about him.. not yet at least...
She sighed and waited few hours, serving several clients and thinking about something else.
Touka had to ignore the curious and shocked stares from Enji and Kaya, both barristas quite surprised by her unusual attitude towards the issue inside one of the spare rooms.
As the flow of clients started to lessen up because of the workhours coming around, the girl finally made the much needed step and asked to see how Hinami was.
Yoshimura nodded, for some reason amusement played in his face and that confused the Kirishima
She entered the room slowly, peeking at first to sight the human and her brother as to know where they were.
Her eyes widened in silent shock as the sight before her was... absurd beyond any belief.
Hinami giggled a little as the black-haired human whispered furiously at a silent Ayato.
Sure, her brother was glaring at the other male with utter hatred, yet the fact he had been tied properly and that his diet had been drastically reduced to limit his regeneration and strength had left him quite powerless at the 'humiliting' match.
Yes match, as the three (read as 'two' as the younger Kirishima was merely staring at the board) continued to play at Monopoly.
Her eyes moved to the game and.. she blinked in surprise as the human had only four cards while the Fueguchi had around twenty of them.
Touka blinked, she had never taught the younger ghoul to play this boardgame.
Heck, she was average at best at that game in particular.
Then the girl jumped a little with the happiest face she could muster. "Yatta! I won!"
The human facepalmed and looked in defeat, Ayato's expression seemingly fixed to his deadly glare.
She made another step inside and Hinami turned to look at her in surprise, her ears picking her almost silent movements. "Neesan! This game is nice and-" She smiled widely. "Do you want to play?"
And lose against you? Good way to bring out how much I sucks at those games...
Yet she smiled a little and she settled close to the younger girl.
The smile turned a tiny bit forced as her sibling turned at her, at first in surprise but then resuming his hateful glaring.
"Is he your brother?"
Touka froze and stared at the human, no words leaving her mouth as his eyes darted from her to him.
"You do look like him." He pointed at the similar colour of their hair. "And.. he seems to be glaring you with an intesity higher than when he looks at us."
He sighed as she continued to keep silent and he decided to ask to Hinami the most quietest way he could!
"I think your neesan hates me." The older girl's ears twitched but she didn't reply at my not-so-quiet questioning.
Hinami blinked and stared at the blue-haired girl with a confused look. "Touka-neesan, Tabi-kun isn't that.. bad."
I was a bit surprised at the last bit and I shook my head at the betrayal. "Hina-chan, I told you I couldn't let you take Victory Road-" She giggled while she interjected herself about that particular case. "Yet you reliquished it quite easily when you went bankrupt."
I put my hands in my face, covering my ashamed face. "Shame to me for losing against you."
She pouted and crossed her arms close to her chest. "I think it was more than fitting."
Blinking at the challenge, I met her smile with one of my own. "Next time I'm going to kick your metaphorical ass."
She giggled again and 'Touka' seemed surprised with the whole exchange.
"Look, lady, if you continue with the silent treatment I might have to do something in retalation."
For the first time ever since I had met Ayato, the boy was now looking at me in a challenging way while his supposed sister merely frowned at the declaration.
Yet she kept quiet and.. I decided to press the situation.
"Understood.." I took a breath in and released my retalation. "Touka-neesan."
For the first few moments there was silence. Hinami was staring in silent surprise at the supposed punishment, the tied-down Ghoul looked.. disappointed and the young woman.
She twitched a little before saying.. "No."
I smiled. "You spoke!" And she groaned at the oddly familiar situation.
"You remind me of someone I detest."
My smile widened and poked further in this little opening. "Even through you detest him, you still remember him. I think he is smart to actually burn himself in your memory."
She almost chocked at the mere idea and her kakugan showed. "Don't."
"Okay!" I said with a smug smile, Hinami watching the exchange in confusion but also amusement. "Touka-neesan-Guh!"
Thus that day I, Sakimoto Tabito, learned why female Ghouls were more dangerous than the male ones.. their punches stung worse..
Kaneki Ken stared silently at the planimetry of the Ghoul Restaurant, his eyes studying every single detail about it.
It was an ambitious plan but it could be done if carefully executed.
The reason behind this assault? Kanou.
Or someone who knew where the doctor who caused him to become an half-ghoul was.
When Tsukiyama had pitted him in the arena-like against the monstrous human being, he had been unaware that the man had been human.
A quick visit to Itori confirmed that the Restaurant had started to use enchanted human as pawns in their plays and that someone had been gaining the most from this.
Madam A was the first one that started to use enchanted 'scrappers' and had some monopoly over the distribution of those.
It wasn't difficult to pinpoint a connection between the mad scientist and the member of the Restaurant, thus an attack to capture her was needed.
He groaned to himself as he let his fingers crack, like his warden would do.
Such a tragic twist to his already broken life, what a shameful display of pain.
For a moment his mind wandered to the past and he reminded himself how he would have been happy to have Hinami around to keep himself from going over that fine line that kept his sanity on check.
A shame, what a shame..
Now he focused on the manpower about the mission.
Banjou had conducted a successful recruitment of those unwilling to join Aogiri and have a shot in a proper organisation.
His group was still small but he didn't lack the resources thanks to the confusing Shuu Tsukiyama.
He had tried to make sense of the flamboyant man.. but nothing about him made sense.
What a confusing, mad world.
AN
Slow and steady, slow and steady...
But also this prelude to the little storm I'm preparing. I mean, Tabito cannot stay at Anteiku and he has to return to the Academy.