"Still no leads..." Louis sighed after hearing Banjō's answer as they spoke in a corner of a bustling street.
Creating a world where humans and ghouls could coexist was nothing more than a selling point. Kaneki would ultimately fulfill that promise for him; Louis only wanted to use it to recruit more humans and ghouls to accomplish things he could not do alone.
Saving the people he wanted to save and giving them the lives they wanted.
That also meant resisting the V Organization lurking in the shadows to some extent, or keeping tabs on the CCG and even the Washuu Family. But he could not openly discuss any of those things.
According to the information Ganshi had revealed, Aogiri Tree was searching for Kanou and Rize Kamishiro to expose the fact that the CCG's upper ranks were all ghouls. Capturing either one alive would give Aogiri Tree an enormous bargaining chip.
"I don't care about all that... There are only a few people who matter to me..." Louis could not help sighing again.
His biggest headache right now was undoubtedly the operation against Anteiku. The CCG would commit a massive force to that battle, and the White Grim Reaper, Kishou Arima, would join in as well. It was simply not a battle they could win.
Even everything he was doing now merely paved the way for what came after the operation against Anteiku. None of it helped with the operation itself.
The best way to deal with that battle was to avoid it.
"Do I still need to work on gathering information..." Louis thought it over. Before the operation against Anteiku, the Manager, Yoshimura, along with Koma and Irimi, had known well in advance that they would be surrounded, yet none of them had fled.
If it was merely