A/n: Thank you for all the support!!!

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"Why are you here?" I asked her. 

She looked behind me and it seems, she noticed Touka behind me.

"Are you still playing the piano, Kousei?" she asked me. 

I quickly went inside my apartment with both girls behind me. "I still play, yes."

She quickly went beside me and said, "Hey! Can we play classical music at my apartment tomorrow?"

I don't know what to say. She kept on tugging my shirt. "I have a job and practice, Kaori. Why don't you try it here and wait for me, here?"

She really felt happy. She's still the girl that lights up my world. 

"Hey, you? Who are you?" Touka asked her. 

I quickly went beside her and whispered, "She's a dove for your information. Be careful."

Her eyes widened. "I guess I'm leaving for a while Kousei. I'll return to the coffee shop for now. Good luck."
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"Why did you really go here?" I asked her. 

"Can you help me?" she told me while I go at my bedroom. 

"Help you? With what?" I asked. 

"I was given my first mission and I don't have any partner. They said that the ghoul I should be investigating should only be an A class Ghoul. I have heard that you had been fighting S Class ghouls and so...!" she stopped when someone butt in. 

Akira had just got back in my apartment. Her arms were folded together. "You know that Kousei cannot be used by anyone. He's exclusive to Arima Kishou. He's too important to him that he doesn't use him that much already even if he is his strongest weapon."

I sighed... this girls... 

"Get out of my room and fight somewhere else!" I shouted at them. 

Suddenly, the two of them looked at me angrily. 

"We're not fighting over you. We're angry that you can't even tell us who you actually like! Me or Kaori?" Akira asked me. 

How can I choose that? Both of them are important to me.

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Emi and Takeshi are seriously laughing at me when they saw me as a part time barista in Anteiku. Emi's eating cake at that time when they called me out to have a little date with them and stop working for a while. I couldn't even eat human food this days around. My RC cells are too high and I don't even know how to fake that I'm eating them. I remember that when I arrived in Anteiku, manager showed me how I could hide the truth about me but I couldn't just do it. 

"Are you not eating, Kousei?" Emi asked me after I sat in front of them. 

I looked at them and smiled, "Nah. I'm on a diet."

Kaneki and the others seemed to laugh at what I just uttered. Seriously. I'm on a diet. I couldn't even eat the same pace like I did before and I hadn't been in any mission for weeks. I wonder what my real father is doing right now?

"Kousei," I looked up who called me.

I wonder why Kaneki called me.

"What is it, Kaneki-san?" I asked. 

"Come with me," he told me. 

I looked back to my old friends and I just said I'll be out for a while. Both of us went inside the staff room. He gave me a foil that contains a flesh and told me, "Eat this. You're starving, aren't you?"

I couldn't believe he noticed that I am starving. "You might attack them if you don't eat."

"Thanks, Kaneki-san," I said to him as he get out of the staff room. I opened it and ate the flesh he gave me. After I ate it, I went back to where they are eating. 

Both of them were happily chatting together until they asked me, "You changed your style, Kousei. You seemed to have gone darker than before."

I grinned. "Some things change, do they? People change. So are the music they play."

Suddenly, Emi asked me, "Why did you return to help a ghoul, Kousei? I didn't see her face at that time when I was attacked but why?"

Takeshi was the one who answered for her, "He is a CCG Investigator, Emi. I heard from father that CCG does had a surgeon that puts the quinque inside their bodies. They're like ghouls but they are still humans."

Then, he looked at me, "Are you like that?"

I scratched my chin. I don't know what to say.

Emi looked at me worriedly. Both of us caught her sad eyes, of course. 

"What's wrong?" I asked. 

"My father died by becoming a CCG investigator. Worst thing is, he didn't die fighting. Last thing we heard, he was involved in a research in a CCG Detention facility but he was killed by another CCG officer due to it that he knew a classified secret. I wonder why he should be killed, though," she told us. 

I just sighed. "I'm fine. I don't go to missions that much recently."

Takeshi looked at me from head to toe. "You seemed to like black than blue now, Kousei."

I smiled. Black symbolizes my change, anyway.

They were the only customers we do have inside the coffee shop at that time when in my shock, I felt that there were two dangerous ghouls who entered the shop. All of us looked at who entered.

It was my first time to have Ghoul Customers in this shop. More on, members of the Aogiri Tree. 

They introduced themselves as Kirishima Ayato and Takatsuki Sen. Sen seemed to be a strange girl behind him. She seemed to be bandaged all over, too. 

They didn't stare at anyone but just to me and Kaneki. This is bad. 

Emi and Aiza are both here. They soon noticed the heavy atmosphere. "What's wrong, Kousei?"

I finally told them, "Emi,  Aiza, leave at once if you don't want to get involved in something messy."

Kaneki stepped in and grinned, "Why are you here?"

The strange girl smiled, "Kaneki-san! You should have joined us!"

He snickered. "Not in a million years. I don't even know how you look like."

Kaneki looked at me and he seemed to have asked me to get my friends away but before I was able to get them out, another ghoul went in. It's my first time to see them. I know Ayato since Touka told me about him. 
Why are they in Anteiku, anyway?

"Where are you going brats?" the yellow-haired ghoul wearing a white suit asked me. 

I took the two of them behind me and they seemed to feel afraid already. "Don't get them involved. They're innocent humans," I said to him. 

"And what are you?" he sniffed and said, "Yeah, you're a half. A disgusting half!"

He was about to give me a big blow but I noticed that Manager was able to hold his hand, stopping him. "Why don't we all have a nice cup of coffee?"

I felt so relieved as he took his hand away and entered the coffee shop as he mutter, "I hate the ceasefire the One-Eyed King imposed."

What is he talking about?

One-Eyed King?

Tsukiyama also entered the coffee shop and looked at me. "Ah!!! Pianissimo!! Pianissimo!!!" 

I pushed my old friends out of the coffee shop before they get deeper into the world I don't want them to see. "Wait, Kousei!!! Why did you push us out?" asked Takeshi. 

"Just go," I told them. 

"Kousei," I heard Touka call me. 

I looked back. "What is it?"

"Just show them what you are. If they're real friends of yours like Watari, they wouldn't feel afraid of you," she said to me. 

Takeshi got curious and so, he grabbed me out of the coffee shop. I just followed the two of them until I stared at myself. I saw my reflection at a transparent glass. 

Looking at myself without the kagune at my back, I felt like I was staring at the human me. 

I still miss being human, sometimes. I looked up and noticed that snow is beginning to fall.

We just kept on walking until we reached a dark path that night. We all stopped walking and in that way, Aiza Takeshi asked me, "What does that girl mean and why are you pushing us out?"

I don't know how I'll answer him. I began to feel wet tears go down my eyes. If they learn that I have become a ghoul, how would they react?

"There are secrets that can't go out. Forgive me, I can't tell you," I answered him. 

I walked away and turned a different direction than them but what shocked me was when I heard them screaming behind me. When I looked what happened, that's when I knew that Ayato is holding them. Ayato's kagune is just like Touka's but his is bigger. 

His ghoul eyes looked at me intensely. "How can I trust his plan if I see the prince like this? Ne, Prince Kousei... Should I kill them? I couldn't believe that the One-eyed king had a son. Don't you know that he is grooming you for your future participation in Aogiri Tree? He's going to destroy CCG using you."

I stood my ground and shouted, "Let them go! They're innocent humans! They shouldn't know anything about me!"

"Should I just kill you or attack you so that you would be forced to show them what you are now, huh? You're the Ghoul Eater, right?" he shouted as his grip in both Takeshi and Emi's throats get tighter. "I guess I'll just eat them."

I have no choice. I have to get the truth out to save them.

My right eye was quickly replaced by my ghoul eye.

I released one of my kagune. Using my right tail, I pierced his abdomen. He didn't die from that attack. He was only injured but that's enough for him to bleed profusely. "You have already forced me. Leave them."

Takeshi and Emi stared at me after they were released from Ayato's hold. Both of them looked shocked. I know they wouldn't recognize the Kousei that is in front of them now. I walked closer to Ayato and collared him as I release all of my kagune behind me. "How did you know who my real father is?"

"Only the Executives of Aogiri Tree and the Anteiku knows everything about you!" he screamed at me. "You're a prince. We consider you a prince in our organization as you are the son of the One-eyed King!"

His words shocked me. 

Isn't my father associated in CCG and not Aogiri Tree?

I released my hold on him and he just looked at me. I'm crying once again. 

Which side should I be on?

Is Arima Kishou, my real father... the One-Eyed King?

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A/n: Don't forget to vote and comment! To you, who should he join?