Back at the Café, Levi had finished his coffee, or, what was left of it anyway, and both he and Erwin got up to leave. They had a lot to do today, and hardly any time to loiter around a coffee shop. "That damn brat… Why do our uniforms have to be white again?" Levi grumbled under his breath, still trying to scrub the coffee stain off the front of his jacket. Finally, after 45 minutes of insistence scrubbing, he officially had given up trying to get it all out.
Erwin smirked, "quit worrying about it. You might have blood all over it by the end of the night anyway."
Levi scowled but his thoughts turned away from the stain when Erwin's phone rang. Levi's eyes darkened, one of the younger investigators assigned to this area of the city must have found another body. That's the only reason someone would call Erwin while he was working.
Erwin hung up after a quick conversation, "A few blocks south of where they found the college student, another body was found, this time a young girl, maybe around sixteen or seventeen."
"Where her eyes gouged out as well..?" Levi asked, even though he already knew the answer.
Erwin nodded. Though it hadn't been released to the general public, the string of murders that had been occurring over the past few months all had something in common. Whatever ghoul that had been preying in this ward would always take both of the eyes. They still didn't know whether it occurred before or after the death of the victim and hardly anything had been found out about the attacker, other than the fact that it was a ghoul. Because of a lack of progress in the investigation, the Main Office decided to send in two of their top investigators.
Erwin Smith and Levi Ackerman have been working together for quite a long time, about ten years now, since Levi was eighteen and Erwin was twenty-five. Both have ascended in rank since then but their partnership had continued. Levi was now a Rank One Investigator and Erwin had risen to the title of Special Class Investigator.
A half an hour later, Levi and Erwin were standing over the body of the girl, a few blocks away from Café Maria. As expected her eyes were gone and large portions of her body were gone from where the ghoul had taken their fill.
"Absolutely disgusting…" Levi muttered as he placed the white cloth covering the victim back over her. "Were you able to find any kagune secretions or anything else the ghoul left behind?" Levi asked one of the younger investigators sent to pre-examine the scene and block it off from the public.
He shook his head, "no the area is clean, nothing, not even a hair."
"And what about the witnesses who found the victim?", Erwin asked.
"They were college students who were taking a short cut to class.", the investigator replied. "None of them saw anything other than the body. I don't think this murder occurred within the past few hours though. It probably happened sometime last night around 9 or 10 pm so the ghoul who did this is long gone by now."
Erwin strode over to Levi who was busy lighting a cigarette, "Let's see if anyone who lives in the surrounding neighborhoods heard or saw anything." It was doubtful but it was protocol.
Levi nodded as he blew out a puff of smoke. He turns his attention to the young investigator, "We'll leave the victim to you. Call us if you find anything that mind help in finding out who the bastard is, no matter how small."
The investigator saluted by crossing his right arm over his mid-section, the customary salute for the CCG, "sir!"
Levi tossed his quinque over his shoulder and turned his attention back to Erwin. "I want to find the one who did this by the end of the month."
"That's a bit of a stretch, even for you." Erwin smirked.
"I don't care."
"I swear you'll be the death of me one of these days," Erwin chuckled.
"That's the dream," Levi turned and began making his way to the closest neighborhood. "I'll take the ones to the south, I'll meet you back here in an hour. Call if you find out anything." At that, both of the detectives made their separate ways and began their investigation.
