"Little Black, Little White, we have guests. Treat them well." Kanou Akihiro glanced at the surveillance feeds on the screen and spoke calmly. "Remember to be polite."
"Yes, Dad," Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa answered in unison.
"..." Louis watched the two leave, looking as though they had been brainwashed. After a moment of silence, he looked at the people appearing on the surveillance feed. He hesitated, but finally couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you don't want to run? I brought you the news ahead of time."
Kanou Akihiro shook his head. "I've become everyone's target. If I leave this place, I won't have the resources to build another laboratory. All my experiments will grind to a halt."
"So I don't want to hide anymore. I might as well use Aogiri Tree's resources to accelerate my experiments."
Perhaps he had already thought this far ahead when he let Little Black and Little White out of the laboratory, exposing them to others.
"Then why send those two to greet them? They can't hold that group off." Louis glanced in the direction the Yasuhisa sisters had gone.
"Once I have Aogiri Tree's resources, I can make as many Little Blacks and Little Whites as I want. Just like Kaneki, they aren't impossible to replicate." After saying this, Kanou Akihiro turned back to look at Louis.
"With Aogiri Tree coming, I have to show them some 'finished products.'"
"..."
"So you're saying you don't want them anymore, right?"
"If you don't want them, give them to me."
A bitterly cold crystalline mask clung tightly to his face, an eerie chill spreading throughout his body. In the darkness, a figure resembling a frozen corpse slowly opened his eyes, pale blue light spilling from his pupils.
In the corridor leading to Kanou Laboratory,