"S-sis! I'm so scared... I don't want to live... like we did before... sob..."
"Find Dad. We'll do everything we can to find him..." Kurona Yasuhisa wiped the tears from her eyes hard, her voice bitter.
Now, she would not let her new family be stolen from her again!
Never again! Never again did she want to live like an orphan. At CCG Academy, the two of them had worked desperately hard to earn their teachers' affection and attention. They had made a deal with Akihiro Kano to build a family again, but in that dark, lightless laboratory, they had never received the love they longed for.
There had been nothing but experiment after experiment. To preserve their semblance of a family, the sisters had swallowed their revulsion and eaten human flesh. Wanting Akihiro Kano to pay more attention to them, they had catered to his wishes, deliberately suppressing their emotions and making themselves as cold as possible.
They had barely kept going like that each day, until that man arrived.
At their first meeting, Nashiro Yasuhisa and Kurona Yasuhisa had been shocked. They had never imagined that the CCG's second-strongest fighter had collaborated privately with Akihiro Kano. They had also been afraid; his cold-blooded ruthlessness was infamous among ghouls.
Sure enough, Huiqi had wanted to kill both sisters at their first meeting, merely to ensure his own safety. Yet in the end, he had never acted. Perhaps he had felt a sudden stir of compassion?
Their second meeting had been in the Underground Laboratory. The sisters had stood behind Akihiro Kano, watching the surveillance feeds as Ken Kaneki and the others broke in. They had thought it was time to prove themselves again and make Akihiro Kano value them more.
But as they left, they had heard those words: