Chapter 8

"Sorry, but you're mistaken… I'm not a ghoul," Isaac tried to clarify, but the other didn't want to listen.

"My instincts never lie…First Class Ghoul Investigator Amon, get ready!" the middle-aged man said to the younger man.

"Yes, Mr. Mado!" Amon said. Both of them opened their briefcases and suddenly weapons appeared. The middle-aged man named Mado had a weapon, that looked like a moveable giant centipede, only instead of legs, sharp blades were on the side. The weapon of the young man named Amon looked like a handle with a red glowing cylinder at the end.

After taking his weapon out, Mado immediately controlled it towards Isaac. From the flight trajectory, Mado wanted to cut the legs before finishing him off, so Isaac didn't hold back.

When the weapon was about to cut him, he punched it with quite a bit of force, so that it was repelled and now flew to Amon."

"Be careful, Amon! I can't control my quinque" Mado shouted and tried to control it so that it misses. Amon was ready too, so when the quinque was about to hit him, he defended with his cylinder-shaped weapon.

Amon breathed a sigh of relief and immediately readied himself for the upcoming battle but when he looked towards Isaac's position, nobody stood there anymore.

"Tsk, he escaped," Mado said.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Mado. It was my fault…"

"It's not your fault. I just underestimated his strength… Seems like the 20th ward has another bigshot again…"

"Phew, that was irritating. That they would mistake me for a ghoul… But at least I now know about the differences… While both the humans and the ghoul had those cells in them, the ghoul had much more. And the physique seemed to be a bit different too." Isaac thought, "but it seems that ghouls and humans are enemies…I should investigate further, before deciding what to do."

After that, Isaac looked for a room and started to look into the situation here.

After finishing, it could be summarized like this: Ghouls aren't able to eat normal food, because they can't derive nourishment from anything other than humans because of a unique enzyme they possess. Their tongue works differently, so food tastes revolting for them and after consuming normal food the get a strong sense of nausea. For ghouls a human body is enough to last for 1 – 2 months, but a few ghouls murder and eat only for fun.

But it's not like humans were defenseless. An organization named CCG exists, where people are specially trained to fight against ghouls. For example, Mado and Amon, the two Isaac met last night.

After reading all of that, Isaac was able to understand why the two wanted to kill him. For the CCG, all the ghouls are enemies and if they find one, they kill him on the spot.

"Their weapons, quinque, seemed to be similar to the kagune ghouls possessed, so there was probably a connection," Isaac thought to himself.

After checking all of that, Isaac thought it's time to look around for a bit and explore the area. It was already late, so few people were on the streets.

Isaac waked to a konbini. (A 24-hour supermarket in Japan.)

Because Isaac didn't have much hunger, he bought two melon pans. After buying it and walking around, he was able to hear faint noises near an alley. He sneaked near it and was surprised by what he saw.

In front of 2 corpses, a slim young man with glasses and messy hazelnut colored hair was holding a short and scrawny young man with black hair against a wall. Above them a slender and attractive teenage girl with bob-length purple hair and long bangs that covered the right side of her face until the chin was sitting on top of the building above them. She wore a skirt and white blazer, which looked like a school uniform.

But besides this strange happening deep in the night, the most noticeable were the black eyes of the hazelnut haired young man and the one black eye of the black-haired young man.

"This is Rize's turf, Nishiki," the girl said to the man with the hazelnut colored hair. Right after that, she suddenly jumped down from the building, but instead of gravely injuring herself or dying, she just landed as if it was the most normal in the world.

"Touka… Did you know? That binge-eater died," Nishiki said to the girl.

"So that means this is your place now? Don't be stupid. Overseeing the 20th ward is Anteiku's job," the girl named Touka said.

"Huuuh? I don't want to hear any bitching from the spineless, timid lot at Anteiku's. This place used to be my feeding ground until Rize showed up! Now that she is dead, it's mine again! Is there a problem?!" Nishiki said, releasing the boy and turning around to Touka.

"The feeding grounds Rize took will be distributed to the weaker ghouls. It's not for you to decide!! And anyway… You lost this alley because you were weaker than Rize," Touka said with a smirk, "You've only got yourself to blame. Dumbass!"

"Being insulted by a smart-mouthed little punk like you really pisses me off!", Nishiki said, going towards Touka.

"Oh yeah? Well, I hate assholes who think they are better just cause they are older."

"SHUT THE HELL UP!!!"

Nishiki kicked towards Touka, but she ducked and counterattacked before appearing behind Nishiki.

"You're going to have to cut deeper than that…"

"Really?" Touka asked.

"!!!"

Suddenly a lot of cuts appeared on Nishiki.

"Should I go harder next time?" Touka murmured, gazing at Nishiki with her black eyes.

"You bitch!!" Nishiki shouted and ran away.

After Nishiki ran away, Touka looked towards the corpses, until she heard a voice behind her.

"What the hell are ghouls? What is this? They kill humans, they kill their own kind… No morals, no order… This is just… This Life sucks!!!" the boy, who was held by Nishiki, said.

"How could I? I'm not going to do it!" the boy said hysterically.

"If you don't have the courage to eat… I'LL GIVE YOU A HAND!", Touka said, picking some flesh from the ground and suddenly forcing it into the boy's mouth.

"Eat it!" Touka commanded. After the boy swallowed, she let him lose whereupon he threw up. But instead of running away, he ran to an arm and frantically stuffed it into his mouth. It was as if he had lost his mind.

Isaac observed all of this from a corner but thought that it probably wouldn't be bad to try to talk to them.

"Who?" Touka said and turned around in panic when she heard a sound behind her. There she saw a handsome young man with long hair who looked like he could be a college student. "Who are you?"