I do not own Tokyo Ghoul, this is fan fiction only.
Other Franchises will be included.
As much as Ken hated to admit it, there was more to this than a simple bunch of people making drugs to trick people due to the fear they have of ghouls, there was more to this, the damage on the victim was too specific to concentrate on certain areas of the victim's body. This screamed to Ken that this was someone who knew more about the human body than some street drug dealers with basic chemistry knowledge that most have been learned at one of the local high schools.
If their goal was to deprive the ghouls and drive them into madness due to starvation, it was clear that these people cared nothing about the people around them, a hungry ghoul was not something anyone would want, not even ghouls. For starters what benefit would that give them? There was only one that Ken could think of, to drive Ghouls into becoming so desperate that they start to kill each other and feed on their fellow ghouls, and he knows exactly what would happen if they do that.
Ghouls would become more and more powerful if they drove them to that extreme, and instead of fearing several hundred thousand or even a million ghouls, they would have to be content with an almost ghoul that surpassed all of the ghouls that died put together, and that is when it hit him, they were trying to weaponize ghouls for some nefarious purpose.
If it was to starve them to a slow death, then it wouldn't make any sense, ghouls even the most vicious of their kind would never let themselves starve like that, so to make them desperate and to make one ghoul so powerful that it could be used as a weapon by the group that made the drug. Even this was insane for many reasons, ghouls are driven by hunger, but who isn't? Humans are also driven by their hunger and desires.
The way they sold the drug showed that these people whoever they are have little to no care about the sanctity of human life, which is sort of ironic coming from a person that many would have considered a monster. The more he studied the papers in the folder the clearer the image became, he would need to find out more about the drug and the person who made it, it was clear this was done not in a street drug den, but rather in a laboratory with professional equipment.
The folder even did something he didn't expect someone had done a chemical analysis of the drug, and from what chemicals the drug was made, it had to be a professional lab because no ordinary person would have access or be able to purchase half of the chemicals that were used in making the drug.
As he thought of it, there was only one way to find out what the hell is going on, so he decided to go to the place that sold the victims that disgusting drug and see what these crooks told their victims, as he walked towards the place he knew that it was pretty much in an almost stereotypical location, in the dark alley behind a laundry business, how cliche could they be?
As he walked near them, he saw the man holding a bottle with pills and he was shouting, almost like he didn't care who would listen. "Come one, Come All, the amazing repellent that can keep anyone safe from being devoured by the Ghouls is here, and available for a price. Come buy this miraculous pill and never be afraid of those damnable ghouls ever again."
The man looked quite a suspicious person, he was dressed in some clothes made mostly of leather, and he was also wearing a trenchcoat and glasses. "If you believe these pills are such a wonder drug why don't you try them out yourself, then we will know this stuff is safe to use." He said using some tricks he learned by making it sound like it came from someone else. Who knew ventriloquism would be this useful.
As he took a pill from a bottle he had in his hand, he tried to take it but Ken swiftly walked over to him and took the pill and smelled it, sure enough, the pill he wanted to swallow in front of these people was no better than a sugar pill, a placebo. "Nice try buster, but I happen to be one of the city coroners, so I can tell this is just a sugar pill, if you believe so much in your product why don't you try the real pill? or is it that you got something to hide?"
Ken knew had made the man nervous as he was sweating bullets, and his heartbeat was going so fast it made Ken think the man was having a panic attack. "I don't have to do a damn thing you say, doctor, you've never been able to make a way to protect these innocent people, so as long as this quack is here no pills will be sold, so everyone leaves, and return when this fraud is not here!"
As the supposed customers were leaving three thugs that worked for the drug dealer tried to stop Ken probably thinking that they could get rid of him. Little did the fouls know that the one they are messing with was far stronger than the common ghouls that most people know of, and so when they tried to stave him, the blades bent almost like they hit someone wearing the armor of a tank.
"Now that they are gone, we need to talk, I got plenty of questions, and you will answer them, or I will have to ask you in a not-so-friendly way, so what will it be boys? Tell me what I want to know and maybe, just maybe get out of this with your miserable lives?" The drug dealer honestly thought that pulling out guns and firing on him would work, but much to their shock the pullets hit Ken and simply fell to the ground as they failed to penetrate his skin.
"Now where were we? First I need to know who made that drug? Where did you get it? and everything you know about the group that actually invented the drug." A large muscular man tried to punch him, and he told him to go fuck himself on a tree and that they got no reason to tell him jack-shit. As he threw the second punch Ken simply evaded the strike, grabbed the arm, and swiftly broke it. The thug was screaming as he held his broken arm close to him. "Now are you going to tell me what I want or are we going to have to get nasty?"
The man walked closer to Ken and began to laugh like an absolute maniac, "Well not fair that you get to ask questions without answering at least some of our first, so how about it, how is it that you managed to block all those blade attacks, and even shrug off blasts from high caliber guns?" Ken simply smiled and looked at the man finding it rather funny that he was trying to intimidate him since his first tactic failed.
Ken simply told him that during his youth people gave him a rather colorful nickname, and that was the Red Knight. "Your little attacks don't even tickle, my skin is tougher than armor, you could say you got yourselves to blame, had that victim of yours not ended up back in my workplace, I probably wouldn't know anything about it." The man began to laugh again and it made Ken think he knows something he is not telling the men around him, cause even they found it creepy.
"So that is how you found out about our pills, but you are mistaken, you see these pills are not poison, they actually are pills that can make people stronger, it is just that the pills are so powerful that they sometimes end up causing the person to die if their bodies can't take it. You asked me to show you what happens if I take the real thing, since you answered one of my questions, why don't I show you what these pills can do!"
He immediately took out a bottle with these red pills, and as he opened the bottle he swallowed a handful that was inside the bottle, but his body began to change, grow in size and strength so much that he cause the glass bottle that had the pills to shatter due to the strength of his grip. "You were mistaken about several things, we were not lying, if a person survives the effects of these pills they never have to fear anything like the ghouls, but sadly like I said not all of them survive, but here is a bonus for you, even if they die, doesn't mean they are completely useless. This pill will turn the bodies of those that die into actual monsters."
His face began to change his skin got darker, and his eyes became like those of a ghoul, his nails grew like they were the blades of a scalpel, "You know what is best, those people in that morgue you work in, are probably going to be killed by the very bodies they are doing those autopsies on, too bad, normal humans have no chance of surviving this at all."
Ken suddenly realized what this freak was saying, that somehow the bodies of the dead victims could end up causing the people at the morgue harm. "Well when you said that I suddenly realized that I need to get back to my workplace and deal with the situation you so kindly told me about, maybe we can continue this discussion another time."
The man laughed and looked at Ken, "Oh, I can't have you leave, I am dying to test my new strength on a Ghoul of your caliber, yes Red Knight I am aware of who you are, most of your kind actually fear you, so I can't miss out on this delightful chance for some field testing, as for you, please, by all means, ask as many questions as you like, since you are not going to survive to tell anyone."
The man began to try and stab him with his hands and even if he managed to get close Ken was quick to counter those attacks, however, his clothes were getting ruined by the idiot's finger blades. Ken knew that his wife would be upset with him for ruining the clothes she lovingly chose for him.
"A lot tougher than I thought, but all you been doing is evading, can you honestly think you can win this fight, shouldn't you get a little serious, since you said you wanted to save the lives of those stupid co-workers of yours." He could have called him names and insulted him till the cows came home, but the minute he insulted the people he worked with, it was an insult to his friends, and that is not something he would allow.
"I am called Red Knight, but have you ever seen a night without his trusty weapon? I guess you are right, I need to get serious, and it doesn't matter if I ask you anything because apparently, you had no intention of telling me more than you already did. It's not like you will tell me who made those pills even if I asked. Just remember you are the one that asked me to take this fight seriously."
Immediately from his back came nine-bladed tails, and that is when Ken's enemy went from attack to evade, as each blade used the techniques of his family, and he managed to cut off both his arms and legs, before sending one blade right through his ribs and through his heart. He didn't have a chance to take some DNA samples for study because he needed to get back to his workplace if what this creep told him was true.
He did his best to get to the morgue as quickly as possible, even throwing caution to the wind and running at full speed, from what he heard the creep say things are going to be something straight out of a horror movie, as he got closer to the Morgue he eventually saw some of the people that work with him at a local cafe, they were whispering that Mirata had stayed behind to finish some autopsies, apparently trying to earn points with the chief coroner, which to some guys said that it sort of sucks for them but made little difference since the chief was happily married.
As he walked over to the table and told them if they had enough time to gossip they had time to go to the nearby hospital and call for a hazmat quarantine zone to be placed around the city morgue, nobody gets in and nothing gets out. "Chief, what is going on that got you so worked up?" Ken told them that the drug that killed those people was more akin to a virus than anything else, they need to secure the area around the morgue while he went in and tried his best to save Mirata, and get her to help him with the cremation of those bodies, they can't be allowed to remain as is, or they will spread the contagion.
They quickly saw that he was not kidding one bit, and promised Ken they would do as he instructed them, as each took off to one of the major hospitals to send an alert of a possible bioweapon being released. He quickly borrowed a bike from one of them and took off towards the Morgue, and sure enough, the air felt stale like usual but he could hear someone working deep inside the building.
He made it into the building to find that Mirata had barricaded herself in one of the cold storage units that had been empty, and the noises were the dead victims coming back to life as mindless monsters who were trying to bash their way into the cold storage unit, and some even were trying to bash their way out of the morgue, it seems Mirata slammed the button to activate the buildings containment protocols. Ken's clothes were already ruined so he decided to use his bladed tails to cut the creatures to pieces and as soon as he took care of the last one he took a deep breath and opened the cold storage unit.
"Mirata, get a couple of hazmat suits and follow me, we need to cremate these bodies in case the drug that is still in their bodies spreads to those around the area. I sent word and the others should have called for a quarantine zone to be placed around this area, so we need to work hard, are you feeling alright?"
Mirata looked at Ken it was easy to see she had been crying and had very afraid for her life, "The suits are right over here, Chief, I can't tell you how happy and grateful I am that you can when you did, I see where your wife fell in love with you, you came like a knight in shining armor." Ken told her that they need to do this as quickly as possible, the warning of the effects that the drug had on dead victims would have been spread to every single nearby hospital and clinic to make sure they get rid of any victims of the new drug.
"If we work fast enough, we might evade a tragedy or worse become something like that show you like to watch, what is that show called?" Mirata helped Ken finish putting on his hazmat suit as soon as she finished putting her on, except that for some reason she was having trouble closing the top portion of her suit and was giving Ken an ample view of her cleavage. She thanked him for helping her zip up and as she helped Ken she told him it was called the walking dead.
It was an old horror show that she got hooked on watching when she was a little kid since she used to watch it with her father and brother. "Personally I don't like those types of shows myself, some people tend to think Ghouls are the same as the monsters in those shows, sort of insults what I would call my pride as a ghoul. Come on the sooner we get these bodies loaded, the sooner we can get the remains cremated. We might have more of these bodies delivered later from the other hospitals. So we got to get these done as quickly as possible, don't forget to label each box with the name of the person, in case the families wish to bury the remains."
Ken did the carrying of the body parts that were too big for Mirata and with the two working as fast as they could they quickly cremated and labeled every single body that died from the new drug, and sure enough, the hospitals did in fact send two dozen bodies from of people that died due to the drug, the thing is they kept had already cut the bodies into pieces as part of their storage practices which prevented the dead bodies from reanimating.
It was something Ken always was against them doing because it contaminates the bodies and would cause a lot of evidence to be destroyed, but in this case, it was a good thing they did that, turns out the penny pinchers at these hospitals had saved most of the people in their hospitals if not the city by doing this to save money on body storage costs.
Mirata was so much in shock that Ken told her to relax while he talked with the health officials, and told them exactly what he found out, they were not that willing to believe him, till he displayed the image from the security cameras, and once they saw this was no joke they realized that they had to do everything they could to stop the production and distribution of that drug, or else this could lead to the end of all life on the planet.
Ken warned them, these things don't discriminate between animals, humans, or ghouls, they consider them all the same thing, food. He told them that this sort of drug more than likely was not done by some street drug lab and that more than likely a professional lab was used to create it since from what he saw and heard from the guy who attacked him, this drug was very much chemical to turn people into bioweapons. He suggested focusing on corporations whose labs do defense department contracts.
As he was done and Mirata finished taking a bath and getting a change of clothes from one of the nurses that were with her, she handed Ken a change of clothes since his clothes were practically shredded. After he managed to change into the new clothes he thanked the nurse and he told Mirata that to give her a chance to calm down and let her deal with the trauma she went through, Ken would let her stay in his home with his wife, having another lady to talk with about this would be a great help to her.
Mirata asked why would his wife be such a help, to which Ken said that Rize was among many things, a clinical psychologist by training, she was quite knowledgeable about the human psyche, after all, she had to be to blend in with humans for as long as she has. Ken accepted a ride to his home and they both talked about what just happened, that this was something straight out of a B-Horror movie.
That made Mirata feel a little better asking if they had enough room for her, to which Ken told her they actually have many guest rooms, so there was plenty of space for her to actually be able to have a room to herself, and living with others would help her deal with the stress of what happened.
As they arrive at the home, Mirata is amazed by how large and comfortable his home is. The front yard had several large fruit trees and the back yard actually has an extravagant flower garden. Why did he have the fruit trees in his front yard he sometimes picks some of the fruit and tries to eat it, but because he is a ghoul, the fruits taste absolutely horrible to him.
He often lets them let some of the children in the neighborhood pick and eat some of the fruit, and the stuff they don't eat they actually provide to a local food shelter. As a result, they have slowly become one of the most beloved couples in the neighborhood. Which in turn keeps them safe from being falsely accused by the CCG and keep them safe. Mirata asked why was that important, and Ken told her the CCG actually hunts and kills any ghoul that is a threat to humans.
Mirata told him that is ridiculous, Ken has helped the police and other law enforcement agencies to capture and convict criminals, and even at the moment, he did his best to inform the health officials of what is a dangerous drug that turned corpses into things that make Ghouls almost seem kind by comparison.
As they entered the home something was strange it was very quiet and they slowly walked towards the kitchen when Ken heard some strange noises coming from somewhere deep inside the house, he told Mirata to wait in the kitchen and she might make something for her to eat. She told him that she would make them some coffee to help him relax.
Ken went to each room and he began to hear the noises get louder and louder as they got to the main bedroom, the scent coming from the room was not something that Ken was expecting, and upon entering the room he saw shocked at what he saw, his wife Rize and her co-worker Touka were both naked and were going at pleasuring each other so passionately that they didn't even notice him, as he quickly turned around and closed the door not wanting to say a thing.
He walked back to the kitchen and saw that Mirata was drinking her cup of coffee and she already had made a cup for him. As he drank his coffee Mirata asked him what went wrong, to which he told her that he pretty much found that his wife and her co-worker were going at it like a pair of pornstars in an adult movie. This made him think that his wife was cheating on him, but Mirata told him that many girls she knows are bi-sexual and they could be doing this for some other reason.
As Mirata talked about how she often tried to find a lover back in her hometown, but it didn't work because her lover would often demand that she either stop studying, or she should focus all her energy on being the homemaker, the housewife, and just clean, cook, and keep the home tidy while focusing on having babies, which even Ken told was an archaic way of thinking, that had no reason to exist in the present day, that was practically medieval.
Mirata laughed and said that is one of the reasons why she often liked talking with him, he is willing to let people live like they want to, and without judging them, to which he simply said that he was simply following the golden rule. "Chief I know what you saw is not what you expect but there could be another reason, we've just gone done taking care of a bunch of reanimated corpses, maybe someone used another type of drug on them, we might need to check it out."
Ken didn't like this one bit as he tried to get a mask for both of them, and they both entered the bedroom where Rize and Touka were still going at it until somehow Mirata tripped on a pair of shoes that was near the bed and caused the mask to come loose and fall from her face, and as soon as she tried to get away she appeared under the effects of whatever was in the room and she started to make out with Touka and Rize, but unlike then she was perfectly aware of Ken, so she stopped as she quickly stripped off her clothes, and she used her belt to lasso Ken and drag him with her towards the bed, and the last thing Ken felt was the mask on his face being taken off.
