"Huiqi! Come back, it's too dangerous!" Kōtarō Amon called anxiously.
"You should go. I'm taking full responsibility from here." Huiqi glanced at Kureo Mado and the others, then said something that stunned them all.
"But..." Kusaba wanted to say more, but Huiqi gestured for them to leave.
"I'll report your contributions. I'm handling this now. You understand, don't you?"
"Fine, fine... since the highest-ranking Ghoul Investigator in Ward 20 has spoken, we have no choice but to comply."
Kureo Mado looked at Ryouko Fueguchi with regret, seemingly wishing he hadn't wasted so much time talking instead of killing her outright.
The tension gradually subsided, leaving only Huiqi, Hinami Fueguchi, and Ryouko at the scene.
"What a sweet, well-behaved daughter. It would be such a shame for her to die so young." Huiqi's voice was like a demon's whisper, every word piercing Ryouko Fueguchi's heart and seizing upon her greatest weakness.
At Huiqi's demonic words, Ryouko immediately wrapped both arms tightly around Hinami Fueguchi. She watched him anxiously, her body trembling slightly.
"What are you going to do?! Spare my daughter, and I'll agree to anything... all I ask is that you spare Hinami."
"What can you offer me? Or are you willing to tell me everything about the café?"
Huiqi spoke after careful consideration.
On his way there, he had already decided to extract as much value as possible from the ghouls before they died. Yet only after arriving did he discover that they were the mother and daughter from the café.
If this mother and daughter were ghouls, the people in the café probably were too. And Ken Kaneki was able to work there...
How interesting... aside from that one-eyed ghoul, Sen Takatsuki, even an anomaly like the artificial ghoul Ken Kaneki could be accepted by other ghouls.
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