Chapter Fifteen - Asylum

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“It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...” 
― S.E. Hinton, Hawkes Harbor

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"The rest of the Aogiri Tree are here!" A CCG officer barks out commands for his teammates as they get ready to fire shots at the ghouls.

You watch at one side in amazement at Noro's strength as he kills the CCG officers off one by one. Somehow, Noro's kagune could dance through the ammunition fired, like a flame in the midst of shooting stars.

However, you watch as Amon appears to be moving, his arm reaching out for a dropped quinque. You snort and eye another ghoul attempting to block him.

"Too slow!" You grumble, getting extremely bored by the lack of excitement run on by fear, and then jump off the roof, landing safely on you feet. You kagune pierced through your skin, forming small spikes on your hand and fingers.

"Amon-kun~" you tease as your hand reaches out and holds onto the quinque. Amon looks up, a glimmer of hope in his eyes, and upon sight of his tarnished body, you stick your tongue out the way Suzuya does.

"Sorry~ I told them not to play so hard~" you pat his cheek, watching his look of happiness through salvation turn to astonishment and then anger. He spits a mix of saliva and blood at you, and you open your mouth, drinking it in.

"Amon-senpai, your blood is... Disgusting." You frown and then your kagune cuts through your skin like a blade through the palm of your hand. Amon widens his eyes, unable to believe what he was seeing and you relished in that feeling. That the humans were so pathetic to actually think that the royalty had ceased to exist in eons ago, and the only ghouls now were restricted to only four types.

What pathetic beings humans were.

"Onii-chan! Don't play with them! They're nice people!" You holler out a seemingly sweet command, and Tatara bows in acceptance, his grin widening under iron mask of his. The officers barely have enough time to even react before Noro comes swiping down on them, his kagune catching and feeding on each and every one of them before they can escape.

"You betrayer! You-!" Amon shouted, his hand reaching out in an attempt to attack you with his suit but you merely stabbed it with your kagune from your boot, and pinned his hand down to the ground. With a look of admiration mixed with sarcasm on your face, you cock your head to the side and shrug your shoulders.

"What do I have to say? A ghoul's gotta do what a ghoul's gotta do to survive. Mado knew about me, which was why he had to go. I almost killed him, but Touka did it for me instead. Although, I pity the poor man for not knowing all along that I was the one who stabbed his wife right in the heart, and then engulfed her entire tasteless body." You describe the entire scene so vividly for Amon that he attempts yet another time to attack you, his fury getting in the way of his judgement but you merely shift to one side and your kagune stabs his other hand down.

" The Bin Brothers. They were... Friends... And you killed them. Supposedly, I am to hate you for that, but I still like you. I don't suppose you'd ever figured out why your father didn't eat you right? Because of my one look at you when I was only five, with those innocent lips going 'I like him'." You shoot Amon down with your words of mockery, letting him know that his survival amongst the dead was just a joke, a child's play on the Tokyo stage between ghouls of higher power.

As you watch Amon's spirit get defeated quickly, you let Noro take over once he's cleared out all of the little pests.

"Tatara-onii-chan~" you whine, leaning into your older brother's warm embrace. Since you were the head of the household, you didn't have to call him using such honorifics any more, reverting back to the more intimate and affectionate calling that you did when you were three before you got punished for it. The blood on your jacket melts into his coat, the glorious and pristine white tainted with the blood of pesky beings.

Tatara hugs you and then his kagune whips out of his back, cutting into the walls of buildings so rapidly you can't even see here you're heading. You can't deny it, but you know that your brother's skills have improved yet again.

As you watch the CCG scrambling to retreat and count the number of casualties, you laugh uncontrollably at the thought of the humans not even knowing what had hit them. Under the disguise of the one-eyed king, an old friend of yours, you had taken or injured their best men, excluding Arima of course. Who would've expected the eto, that small little innocent looking child covered in bandages would've been so dangerous, like a snitch right under their noses, even though of course, you were the legitimate snitch.

With the success at hand, you know that it wasn't long before one day, the royals would reign once again.

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Math. Why you math. Argh. I had this math paper today and it was like ' oh yeah, yeah, this reminds me why I ain't gonna touch math in University'.

And I still have an additional math paper tomorrow.

Yay.

Sense my enthusiasm.

I just wanna be a ghoul man.

Someday...

[ all will be edited only after October 7th when exam period ends ]