Chapter VII: Washuu princess & Clown prince
The Rose raid had started three hours ago, Special Class Ui Koori cornered the Tsukiyama patriarch who surrendered with ease yet the heir has escaped along with another Rose ghoul. The rest of the raiding group went to Lunatic Eclipse Building to capture the escapees. Kijima and Hairu's squads are the first one to take action; they killed as many ghouls as they can. Nimura eyed each ghoul that is coming their way with mild interest. Ah! He is so bored. Ghoul flesh and blood covering the whole floor as they die one by one to where the Kijima and Ihei's squads are running havoc. Nimura can hear the screams from each ghoul that had managed to get into Kijima and Hairu's way. He snickered at how these peasants can waste their life for a single person. MM must be very lucky to have these loyal ghouls but too bad he'll die along with these fools.
"Furuta! Don't slip on the blood!" He heard Kijima shouting towards his direction. How Nimura is so tempted to shove his quinque inside Kijima's mouth to shut him up.
"Y-yes" Furuta says in a nervous tone that he muster to fake. Suddenly he wished that he should have brought his favourite quinque along with him! This customize quinque is too dull. He lazily swings his arms and he managed to cut two ghouls. Their blood splattered on his shoes, he dodges the upcoming ghoul on his way when he slipped again. For some unknown reason, he and some of his relatives from the garden always slip onto anything when they fight.
"Damn it Furuta!" Kijima shouted again at the younger investigator. His frown deepens once he eyed the boy who slipped on the floor once more.
"…." Ihei snorted but she can relate on Furuta's current dilemma. She slipped a lot too whenever she is in between a fight but good thing she is still alive. "I must kill these bastards to earn Arima's praise!"
Once they reached the floor below where the Tsukiyama heir is hiding, Ihei met the female ghoul that she tried to capture when they lure the Rose hunting group. Ihei and Matsumae fought one on one, Furuta observing the scene with his boss and other low class investigators from Ihei's squad.
"Hello again" Ihei greeted politely but the ghoul did not find any amusement from it, her detachable kagune killed Ihei's underlings while Furuta, Kijima and Hairu were the only ones who stays alive.
"…" Matsumae observing the investigators and is having a hard time finding an opening against the female investigator. Luckily, she found one when Ihei slipped on the blood accidentally. She stabbed the skilled woman but the child is really a tough fighter, despite the hole that is located on her body, she still stood up and took another quinque from where the corpses of her underling resides. Matsumae felt despair running to her veins but her friend sacrificed his life for her to kill the woman. Matsumae almost dismembered Hairu's head if the scarred dove did not get in her way.
Furuta is observing the scene from where he is standing, he is amused at how MM's bodyguards are desperately fighting Hairu, although he must admit that Hairu's defeat which almost resulted to her death somewhat surprised him. He doesn't have the urge to attack but his boss had found his way at death's door too. Matsumae killed Kijima using his own Rotten Follow Quinque. Furuta almost snorted at the stupidity of his own boss. Observing the scene before him, Furuta calculated the time he needed to get rid of Matsumae before he contacts Special Class Bowl Cut and had asked him how many minutes do they need before they can come over to their location.
"Special Class Ui, This is from Kijima's squad. How many minutes do you still need for you to arrive?" Furuta politely asked the older man via his earpiece. He is still observing Matsumae, faux tears well-up in the corner of his eyes. Once Ui confirmed that they at least need fifteen minutes or so before they could arrive. Furuta's dark coloured eyes found their way on Kijima's rotten follow Quinque. Looks like, I have enough time to get rid of this woman.
"Hmmm" Matsumae did not bother to move but she heard that the young man clad in black asking when the back-up will exactly arrive. If I can kill him and that princess before the backup can arrive then I can go to where Master Shuu is located and he doesn't need to worry anymore. Matsumae thought to herself. She then attacked the young-looking investigator that is clad in black uniform because he looked rather weak.
"Waaaaahhhh scary" Nimura cried and yet he bend backwards to avoid the Koukaku of MM's bodyguard. Matsumae was surprised at the sudden movement from the young investigator.
Matsumae's hand found its way on the thin air instead of the young man to which she foolishly deemed as an easy target. She has to admit that she was surprised at the young man's choice of action. Another skilled fighter I see— Matsumae's eyes glared at Furuta's direction. "So you can fight too but you waited for them to die first" She said in disgust.
"My boss said that I should standby. I just followed what he said" Furuta answered the ghoul, he shrug nonchalantly afterwards. Then he saw how Matsumae is disgustingly looking at him. He doesn't like the way she looks at him.
"You are a selfish bastard" Matsumae glared with disgust. Humans are really worst. She did not even bother to distance herself from the selfish brat which is a huge mistake on her part.
Furuta's lips pursed into thin line, he quickly jabbed his fingers into Matsumae's eyes and he end up destroying them. "What? It was you who actually killed them" He said coldly, his soft features twisted into mild disgust as he removed the excess fluid on his fingers.
"If I only I can hit him—" Matsumae muttered softly, her ghoul senses trying to figure out where the damned monster is. She tried to kill him but he dodge without giving too much effort. He is quite fast and his agility—he can also dodge at point blank. Matsumae had realized.
He stepped into Kijima's body to kill Matsumae using the Rotten Follow Quinque. "I am sorry, MM-san" He whispered to the corpse of Matsumae as the Rotten Follow took the ghoul's life.
His bloody hand found its way on Matsumae's Kagune and he tore it free, he deliberately smashed it on the poor ghoul's face. Furuta squats near Ihei's head. He pats it softly.
Dodge— he wants to tell her but instead he just watched Matsumae to almost murder Hairu. He saw his reflection on Hairu's spilled blood; his eyes are not of the same colour. One is bright crimson and one is dark colour. He knows there's no going back now because soon enough everyone is destined to die. "If equilibrium were to be achieved albeit in a twisted way that'd be good enough" He says as his eyes soften, He removed his gloves and he soothes Hairu's fluffy hair, the woman stirs that almost scare Nimura but before he can kill Hairu, Ui's group had arrived.
Once Ui's squad had arrived on the scene the severed head of Hairu's underlings greeted them. Ui clenched his fists into ball. The whole place reeks with the scent of blood. He wonders if there is even any single survivor. His squad found a survivor, he walk to where Nimura Furuta is sitting and crying, he is covered in blood and perhaps he broke a few bones by the looks of it. He questioned him what happened and once satisfied; he sent the injured investigator to one of the vehicles so he can get a medical attention. To his delight even Ihei survived although she too is not in good shape.
Later on, Aogiri stole corpses of the investigators; no one knows how they found out where and when the transport vehicles will travel. Unknown to them; Furuta, who is holding his smartphone while singing was the one who contacted Kanou and gave the locations of the transport vehicles to Aogiri.
Meanwhile back at the main branch building, Kishou Arima clenched his fist, his nails digging into his palm. The children from the garden of zero squad were crying once the news about Ihei Hairu's condition had reached them. They were beyond angry too when they found out that her body was almost stolen like many of the dead investigators. Kishou checked for the list of the surviving investigators to check if the other child from the garden survived, he is somewhat glad that Furuta survives but Hairu— he pursed his lips. How the hell Hairu got herself almost killed if Furuta was with her? Could it be that Furuta— Kishou thought to himself but he shook the suspicions he have for his younger brother. He eyed Shio, Yusa and Rikai. He wants to show them the world but now Hairu is almost gone.
"Hairu" Shio cried his eyes out, the boy wipe his unending tears.
"…" Rikai and Yusa soothe his back. They too are sad about the news and somewhat wondering why Souta did not save Hairu if he was there with her.
"Furuta just—" Shio muttered, the boy's eyes are swollen from crying, his cheeks are red and so does his ear.
Kishou heard the three young investigators. He too is starting to suspect Furuta but a huge part of him foolishly believes that the child did nothing wrong that maybe the Rose ghouls are really though fighter but a huge part of him thinks that is quite impossible knowing that Furuta too is a genius like him when it comes to swordmanship. It might be a coincidence but then again this is not the first time a ghoul group had barged into their raids. Clowns did the same thing back then. Rumours spread like wildfire about what the Clowns' No Face had told the dark skinned quinx in the past. Someone is leaking CCG's information to other ghoul groups. Could it be that his younger half-brother is the perpetrator behind these traitorous actions against CCG? Probably. Furuta hates the Chairman so he has all the reasons to stay disloyal. Hirako stood in front of him. His expression is still blank but Kishou knows him.
"What are you going to do about that?" Hirako Take quietly asked him. His blank expression scares the hell out of him sometimes.
"We do not have any proof" Kishou answered him and he pinch the bridge of his nose.
"What if we're correct?" Hirako continued, still not showing any expression. "This never happened before and someone is definitely leaking information about our operations. The Auction raid and now this"
Kishou's head is starting to ache. Souta why you are doing this? Kishou Arima told the garden children to go home first. Hirako eyed him one more time before he drag the trio out. She might be aware— Kishou stood up and he left the Bureau to meet his partners in crime.
A few hours after Ihei's condition, Kishou went to an abandoned building where his friend stays. Kishou knocked on the door and a chuckle came behind him. His cold silvery eyes glared at the shorter individual. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Eto just shrug nonchalantly somehow it reminds him of Souta. The short girl eyeing him in delight, she beckons for him to come inside and told him that he doesn't need to worry because Tatara is the only one present. Kishou accepted the offer.
"Kishou, what do I owe such a surprise visit? Did you change your mind? Here to kill us?" Eto laugh merrily, she skipped to where Tatara is patiently waiting for them. The ghoul nods his head towards the two half-ghouls.
"Who gave you the information about the transport vehicles of the dead investigators?" Kishou Arima cut the roundabout talk for he has no fetish for it
"Who do you think is it?" Eto sat into one of the soft sofas beside Tatara who left them only to take a few files and a coffee mugs.
"Have a seat" Tatara motioned for the white reaper to settle himself across them.
Kishou settled himself stiffly, he stare coldly at his partners in crime "You almost took Hairu's body"
"Apparently a young dove fought some of ours just to spare Ihei Hairu's body from being taken away. About the other bodies, we don't have it because Kanou has it" Tatara muttered from where he is checking the files.
"Kanou was the one who alerted us, Aogiri. You have an idea who is the traitor but you want to confirm your suspicions, Kishou" Eto munches the cookie on her hand. She swings her feet in the air.
"I don't have time for this" Kishou is uncharacteristically annoyed at Eto's mind games
"What will you do? Tell V? Tell your father?" Eto ignored Kishou Arima's annoyed sigh.
"…." Kishou and Tatara eyed the short girl
"Tatara, the files please" Eto had motioned for her right-hand man to hand over the files to the white reaper.
Kishou accepted them and one by one he read it. There's nothing off about the files, he just read the Clowns' bio data along that their photos until his eyes widened in horror at the last person in the list. It made him want to punch someone to death. "Furuta" At first, he couldn't recognize everyone because all the photos in the bio data of each clown are wearing their respective clown mask except for the last person in the last page.
Name: Souta "Nimura" Washuu-Furuta
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Species: Half human- Half Ghoul (Failed experiment)
Birthdate: 29th of February
Height: 175cm
Weight: 66kg
Blood type: AB
Relatives:
Chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu- Father
Yoshitoki Washuu- Paternal Half brother
Kishou Arima- Paternal Half Brother
Rize Kamishiro- Paternal Half sister
Numerous half siblings and relatives
Affiliation:
[SUNLIT GARDEN]- Alumnus
[V]- Special Investigator
[CCG]- Rank 1 Investigator
[Kanou]- Partner in crime
[GHOUL RESTAURANT]- Former Member
[CLOWNS]- Information broker
Kishou slightly crumpled the file. "Where did you take this files Eto?" Kishou gritted his teeth but the two ghouls felt the danger that he is emitting.
"Where should I take it I wonder~" Eto answered him in a sing sang voice
"Don't mess with me"
"Oooooohhh scary"
"I have to admit that your younger brother is good at hiding and cleaning everything on his tracks. It took us lots of sacrifices to gather those information although those are nothing but incomplete. Knowing the Clowns" Tatara answered truthfully. He somewhat felt sorry for the white reaper.
"The real question is, what will you do about that rascal, Kishou~? He'll become a problem for us. He is friends with powerful ghouls" Eto Yoshimura licked her fingers after eating her snacks. "He committed lots of crimes Kishou. The deaths of those investigators were nothing for you but he was the one who intentionally let that Rose ghoul to almost kill Hairu Ihei. I am sure that she will not be the last casualty from the garden graduates"
"V assigned him to numerous assignments" Kishou says truthfully.
"You are blind. Your brother is definitely involved in numerous drastic events and tragic events too like the steel beam incident that changed Kaneki Ken's life and heavily injured your paternal half-sister, Rize Washuu. A few witness said that there was a clown that was laughing on top of that building on the day of the accident but later on, all the witnesses were killed Kishou. Your faint smiling younger half-brother is a demon" Eto took another cookie and she chew it. She grinned from ear to ear upon leaning too close to him. "He might be rebelling against your aloof father. I couldn't blame him though~"
Kishou mumbled; he did not bother to pull back from the offending woman. "You hate your father too. End up selling Anteiku's information to CCG just to hurt him. Furuta is selling CCG's information to ghouls to defy the chairman"
"For me to be compared to a Washuu, I find that insulting" Eto settled herself back from where she was sitting awhile back. A hateful glare was sent on the white reaper's direction.
"It won't take long for your brother to dirty his hands with your father's blood" Tatara said as a matter of fact. Both Eto and Kishou snapped their head on his way. The former is smiling as if she won a lottery while the latter paled at the idea, a deep frown adorning his handsome face.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I never thought of that. So what will you do now Kishou? He's searching for the one-eyed king. It won't take long before the offending rascal will find out the truth. Get rid of him, Kishou. You have to get rid of him now." The one eyed owl muttered in a dangerous tone, her eyes glinting dangerously. "But you see… Tatara— Kishou here doesn't care if their dad is to be killed. He'll even support that rascal's plan on murdering their dad because he has a soft spot for the children from that garden"
