A month has passed after that incident with Akira at Kanou's laboratory, at least it was a relief dad's research notes were taken by him. I'd rather it be in hands of someone human than with Aogiri Tree. With their ghoul supremacy and they probably use the enzyme solution to hide identity of ghouls from the CCG. I visited a certain small local coffee shop named "Anteiku" when I noticed a short attractive woman in her mid twenties blocking my sight of the entrance, her unstyled long green hair looked like she just made it out of bed uncombed. She was dressed in the blue one piece dress over her yellow sweater, her sense of fashion was nothing short of sloppy, making me cringe as I almost spat out the water I was drinking.
"Takatsuki Sen-" Those words automatically mumbled out of my mouth,.
"Hi Tetsu-chan" She greeted, tilting her head turning her head to meet my gaze. Her voice was child like. "She was actually waiting for me?" I thought.
"Takatsuki san how did you know my name?" I asked.
She grinned and replied "hmmmm...simple I remember you from the day of the book signing event"
"No way I thought, how easy for me to run into my favourite author on my street and waiting at the coffee shop I frequently visited on a routine basis" I thought. Takatsuki Sen was one of favourite horror novelists, I remember the restless nights of sleep from nightmares after dad used to read chapters to me as bedtime stories. A simile curved on my lips feeling the nostalgia of childhood.
"Do you want to catch coffee together" Takatsuki asked.
I replied without hesitation "Yes" I opened the door for her like a gentleman and entered Anteiku together as we were awkwardly greeted by the waitresses and staff. The black haired female waitress dropped her cup in surprise upon meeting Takatsuki.
"Oi, Irimi call the manager" The waitress quietly whispered next to her ear.
We sat down next to a window seat with a perfect view of the road outside and ordered a cup of coffee for the two of us. I calmly looked outside the window smiling at view as moments later the waitress came over with two black coffee placing it on our table. Takatsuki had a few sips of her coffee as she suddenly leaned over pressing her soft lips against mine.
"Is that any way to greet someone you just first met? Takatsuki san" I said in a nervous, blushing as I gave her a rough shove separating our kiss. "People are watching!"
"Normally no" Takatsuki replied, as she slowly approached me as her lips was near the proximity of my ear she grins and whispers "but Tetsu-chan you're special we need someone like you to join us"
She leaned backwards to her seat placing a contact card with her name and phone number printer on it on the table sliding the card to my direction with her index finger. "Give me a call, will you?" She said "We need your talent…"
She again lean forward, her lips approaching my ears whispering "to exterminate CCG" as my eyes widened with anger.
"Just a word of warning Takatsuki san..." I grinned "leave CCG out of this or I'll make sure you regret it"
The whole coffee shop fell into dead silence.
This was a fight between me and her, she wanted my father's research notes on the enzyme solution having Dr. Kanou mass produce this enzyme in order to hide ghouls right under CCG's noses, infiltrating their organization from the roots. The temporary effects of the ability eating human food were a perfect disguise for a ghoul supremacy terrorist organization, just enough to hide from the CCG.
Her faces says otherwise, she knew exactly where to pull my strings and pinpoint my weaknesses being protective of CCG and humans, unless they were criminals.
"It'll be a shame to ruin this aesthetically pleasing peaceful coffee shop don't you think?" I said breaking dead silence in the coffee shop, drinking a sip of coffee narrowing my eyes.
She weirdly chuckled in response, as she left her seat she sang "I'll see you around Tetsu-chan" Waving her hand as she went out the door.
Apparently there will be an attack between CCG and Aogiri Tree at the 20th ward one week later on this day. I am pretty good at reading the people's emotions, quickly understanding their desires and awarenesses. The way Takatsuki chuckled meant that if the coffee shop were to be destroyed she wouldn't care.
A week came in a flash.
Cold air howled across the battlefield, heavily stenched with the corpses of ghouls and humans piled upon the snow, drenched in red with the mix of ghoul and human blood. I quietly observed the senior investigators effortlessly taking down the one-eyed owl, childishly swinging his legs off the edge of the roof. Lying in wait for the one-eyed owl narrowing my eyes.