"Thanks."
During the brief wait for the elevator, Vera accepted the coffee handed over by the front desk administrator.
The CCG headquarters provided free tea, coffee, black tea, green tea, and soda. But with the exhaustion of the morning shift, more people still chose coffee.
The floor where Countermeasures Division II was located.
Holding a corrugated paper cup in one hand, Vera pushed open the doors to Division II's reception hall and immediately spotted her little adjutant.
Sitting on the sofa in a standard office-lady skirt suit, with blonde hair, blue eyes, her hair pinned up, and a cold expression, she was carefully reading a briefing.
"District 20, Second Class Investigator Mado... Missing family members, perhaps?"
Hearing Vera's voice, she turned her head, hurriedly rose to her feet, and gave a slight bow. "Associate Special Investigator Russell, thank you for taking care of me these past two months. Just call me Akira." Mado Akira had also noticed Vera's gaze on the section of the briefing related to recent developments in District 20.
"I'm just worried about my father... Ever since Mother was killed by 'Owl,' the father who cared so much about family changed. He began hunting ghouls like a madman... I'm afraid he'll act impulsively..." she replied.
There was nothing wrong with admitting it. Vera was her direct superior. As for her father, Kureo Mado's obsession with exterminating and slaughtering ghouls was known to everyone.
"'Jason,' the white-suited 'Gecko,' has been sighted in District 20..."
Vera naturally reached out, took the briefing from Mado Akira, and read it aloud.
Mado Akira's father. She thought of that middle-aged man with his hunched back, his unnervingly uneven eyes.
A vengeful man who had lost his wife to a ghoul attack.
And as for this "Gecko" Jason, a Half-Kakuja, and—what was 1,000