The hot summer breeze on the rooftop tangled with the cold air, forming tiny, strange currents.
Ring, ring, ring... An ordinary ringtone sounded in the room, indirectly saving someone's life.
His throat dry from all his cursing, Louis carried a glass of water onto the balcony. He glanced at the caller ID, thought for a moment, then brought the phone to his ear and answered. "Hello..."
It was Nagachika calling...
"Ice Mask's facial sketch... has been released..."
"Pfft!" Nagachika's bombshell made Louis spit out a mouthful of water.
Wiping the water from the corner of his mouth, Louis immediately ran through everyone who had seen his face. "Who supplied it?!"
"Uh..." On the other end, Nagachika looked at the sketch in his hand. His mouth twitched, and he finally sighed. "Relax. The person in the sketch looks even more abstract than you did when your face was disfigured... No one could recognize you."
"The person who supplied it... was a Ghoul Investigator from Ward 20, Juuzou Suzuya."
Him? Only now? And he gave them a fake?
Louis raised an eyebrow. He couldn't begin to explain how that guy's brain worked.
"Forget it... As long as everything's fine." Louis curled his lip. "Anything else?"
The other end fell silent for a few seconds before Nagachika slowly spoke. "How's... Kaneki?"
"Kaneki... Huh... You're that well-informed?" Louis paused. What had happened in Ward 18 early that morning had already reached Nagachika, an investigator's assistant in Ward 20.
He's no ordinary guy...
"Senior Takizawa told me..."
"Wow, that guy's even more of a mole than you."
"Achoo!" Take Hirako suddenly sneezed in the meeting room. He sniffed, then raised the sketch in his hand again and angrily confronted Juuzou Suzuya.
"Are you sure the thing in this sketch is human? No, wait... a