"What do you even want from me?!"

The woman with a blue mask that covers half of her upper face spoke quietly, in front of the threatening three ghouls with their exposed kagune.

"We have couple of questions for you.", the skinny ghoul replied, "Better answer them honestly."

"We'll appreciate if you cooperate." the shorter ghoul added.

The woman eases her body from tensing, she plans from escaping the ghouls.

"Are you," the large ghoul asks in a polite manner, "a part of Crystal Anteiku?"

No reply from the woman.

"Well then," the large ghoul adds, "Are you the part of Homeworld Aogiri as well?"

Still no reply. The woman's only thoughts is to run, no planning in kill the ghouls unless they started attacking her first. Even in that situation would make her angry, she mostly feels panic.

She might have no other choice if the ghouls in front of her, with kagunes out, continue to threaten her.

"Hey, answer him!", the skinny ghoul yelled, "Are you even tone deaf?!"

"I'm not," the woman eerily spoke while adjusting her rolled up sleeves, "One of them."

"Nah, you're fucking lying!", the short ghoul tensed and his kagune startles a bit, "It's obvious you're a damn ghoul, you must've been one of them!"

"You have a mask, only ghouls who are the part of clans have one. You must be a part of Aogiri…" the skinny ghoul takes a one step forward, "Tell us girl, who do you work with?"

"No one. I work for no one." the woman clenched her fists, "Who the hell even are you people?!"

"Oh, you know," The skinny ghoul pouts, "We're just ghouls with an objective to find further information about you."

"How do you know that I was the one who're looking for?" the woman asks.

"Our boss knows your scent, which is why we know too.", the skinny ghoul answers.

'Their boss?', the woman thought, 'Wait, don't tell me their boss is…'

"Ugh! We're supposed to interrogate the shit out of her!" the short ghoul groans in frustration, losing his patience "Let's just finish this damn business already!" He quickly dashed to the woman and swung his kagune to her to attack.

The woman's tongue clicks, 'One of those ordinary ghouls, great.'

The woman swerves the attack by leaping off, then counterattacks using her bare hands to scratch her foe's torso deeply. The ghoul screams as the woman slashes his torso again, but way deeper that the woman can feel his insides. He coughs out blood while stumbling down and curses under his breath.

"That idiot!" the large ghoul protests, "Did he listen to boss when she says our target was a triple S type?!"

'She…' the woman thought while swings her arm to wipe off the blood with air, 'Their boss must be her.'

The two other ghouls go to the woman, using their kagunes to attack.

The woman quickly dodges with the first kagune strikes. The two ghouls aren't synchronizing together in combat, but their cooperation is what makes the woman exhaust.

'No, not today. I won't kill them.'

With their striking efforts, hand-to-hand combat, the woman managed to dodge every attack in ease. The woman starts to pant from repetitive attacks, that gives the two ghouls an opportunity.

"That bitch must be a high speed-type!" the skinny ghoul protests, "Lets ditch the task what boss told us."

The large ghoul responds, "So you're saying we'll just kill her as we can?"

The skinny ghoul nods, as a signal for the larger ghoul to dash in the speed of sound, giving her a surprise attack. The woman crouches down from the attack and slashed his legs, causing the larger ghoul to sluggish his movements. While the woman is distracted, the skinny ghoul moved his kagune behind the woman to backstab, but the woman sidesteps but the kagune slashed through the side of her waist.

The target stumbles to the ground, gripping her wound to stop from bleeding while the two ghouls are standing before her. It was a big opening for the two ghouls in killing her on the spot, but they decided to back off.

"Fuck this job.", the skinny ghoul protests.

The large ghoul nods in agreement, "Then I'm ready for boss's sermon."

The two ghouls flee from the alleyway, leaving their target and their dead teammate.

'Crap, I haven't eaten anything good for almost a month.' the woman groans, 'No, I'm not going to die like this, not on this awful place.'

Her eyes widened in thought, 'Or might be captured by the CCG-'

'No, stop overthinking…' She furiously shakes her head, and coughs, 'Unless...'

She turns her head behind to the dead ghoul, and her hunger triggers.

'For the sake of this,' the woman slowly goes to the dead ghoul, 'Stupid wound I had...I have work tomorrow…'


A.N; Reviews and criticism is appreciated.