Akira Mado's 'disappearance' can be said to be a play directed by the CCG, and Lancer, as one of the main actors, naturally had to be responsible for some of it. After leaving the coffee shop, he rode his motorcycle and wandered around the entire city of Tokyo. During this time, many ghouls who thought they were lucky and came out to prey were naturally targeted by Lancer, and the outcome was self-evident: all were subjugated.
Soon, as the survivors left, a piece of news gradually spread among the ghouls.
The 'Death Throes'was looking for a ghoul investigator named 'Akira Mado', and he threatened that if he didn't find her in one day, he would continue to kill.
Large amounts of intelligence leaked, and the ghouls who were already on the CCG's subjugation list due to their considerable strength were extremely unlucky and were directly targeted by Lancer.
Several S-rated ghouls were subjugated in one day, and several small ghoul organizations were declared disbanded. This efficiency was even more terrifying than before. Some ghouls even wondered how long the Tokyo ghoul population could last if Lancer continued to kill like this?
Meanwhile, the investigators in the 20th Ward, under Kureo Mado's command, began conducting searches, which also terrified the ghouls in the 20th Ward.
Undoubtedly, the people at 'Anteiku' were unaware of this matter. After all, the CCG and they were only in a cooperative relationship. Touka, being a ghoul, naturally learned through some channels that Lancer was mass-killing ghouls.
Her mood about this was very complicated.
Undoubtedly, Lancer was hunting her own kind. According to normal logic, the two sides would stand on opposing ground eventually, and she also knew that with her own hard strength, and with her combat power significantly weakened due to not eating normally for a long time, she probably couldn't even withstand one of Lancer attacks. However, she also knew that if Lancer guarantee in 'Anteiku' before was true, then for the survival of ghouls, those who preyed heavily on humans only had two paths: submission or death.
Moreover, the experience of the Fueguchi mother and daughter before made Touka Kirishima have no favorable feelings towards her own kind who shared a similar bloodline.
An investigator could protect a mother and daughter who were in an opposing position out of compassion, and he did not violate them in the slightest during this period, but her own kind, who should theoretically resist together with them, tried to violate them. Are such guys really worthy of being called their own kind?
Touka Kirishima had always longed to be like a normal person.
Because if she were, her father and mother would not have been killed, her brother would not have left, and she would have been able to associate with her friend like a normal girl, instead of keeping a distance like she was now.
Therefore, Touka Kirishima's mood was somewhat complicated, but just as she finished her morning class and was preparing to leave school, a deep roar of an engine came from afar. Then Touka Kirishima saw a black streaking light flash past her eyes. When she tried to find the other party, she found that the other party had almost disappeared from her sight.
'That motorcycle is Lancer?'
Perhaps out of curiosity, or wanting to confirm something, she also ran towards a nearby alley and chased after the direction in her memory.
She ran wildly for several minutes but still couldn't find Lancer figure, but just as she was about to give up, a sound of collision came from a distance.
When she rushed over, the scene she saw made her somewhat unable to let go, because standing in front of Lancer was a woman pinned to death, and she also recognized her. She was a regular customer at 'Anteiku'.
And Lancer didn't seem surprised at all by Touka Kirishima's appearance. After all, the commotion caused by her arrival was not small. How could Lancer not notice it with his strength?
After hanging up the phone, Lancer finally looked at Touka Kirishima.
"The branch's disposal team will be here soon. You better leave."
"Why..."
"You should be very clear. The reason I killed her is naturally because I found enough clues. According to the intelligence I collected, the other party was involved in a human disappearance case, and she has already confessed."
While speaking, Lancer took out his phone.
"Don't kill me! Please! Don't kill me!"
As the play button was pressed, the other party's somewhat tragic scream was heard. Touka Kirishima couldn't help but frown at this, while Lancer expression remained calm.
"Speak. Give me the information on 'Nutcracker'. Tell me everything you know."
"I don't know! I really don't know anything! I only know the other party..."
"In other words, you don't know anything about the fact that you once took people to her nightclub and they all disappeared?"
With Lancer cold voice, the voice begging for mercy also abruptly stopped.
"I don't know. I really don't know! Please let me go! I will do anything! Even like that mother and daughter, I will..."
"Puchi~!"
The recording abruptly stopped, and Touka Kirishima's expression also became extremely subtle. Although she hadn't completely believed that Lancer would kill innocent people, the disappearance of 'Akira Mado' had already happened, so who knew what the other party would do?
And at this moment, Lancer suddenly asked a question.
"Do you know why I didn't kill 'Black Dober' and 'Devil Ape'?"
"Why?"
"The number of innocent people in their hands numbers in the hundreds, and the number who died indirectly at their hands is uncountable. The two have been on the CCG's kill list for a long time, but the reason they are still alive is not because of the 'Owl's' protection, but because of their own choice. Now, leading the two major organizations, 'Devil Ape' and 'Black Dober', they manage the 20th Ward, which is why the number of cases in the 20th Ward in a year is even less than what it used to be in a week. This is the reason why their existence is implicitly tolerated –––––– their existence is more valuable to the CCG."
Lancer words made a lot of sense, but Touka Kirishima felt a little incredible. Why did Lancer tell her this? She felt that the current Lancer was somewhat strange?
In any case, Lancer didn't look like he was going to attack her, so she simply threw the question back.
"Tell the 'Manager' this for me. As for me, I probably won't be able to go to the store for a while."
However, Lancer did not explain why he wouldn't go.
Was it because the upcoming mission was heavy? After dealing with the human trafficking case that Nutcracker was involved in, the final and most important recapture battle for the Aogiri Tree's stronghold was about to begin. Did he not have time? Or had Lancer already sensed something?
It was clear that Touka Kirishima did not know the twists and turns of the matter, but she knew that all of this was abnormal, very abnormal, but with her limited strength and restricted sources of information, she couldn't guess more. She stood in place, lowering her head without saying a word.
But at this moment, Lancer patted the back seat of the motorcycle.
"The disposal team is here. I'll take you away."