"..." After answering the phone, Louis waited for Hideyoshi Nagachika to speak first.
They had agreed that if he brought up the blood test right away, it meant someone was listening in.
Fortunately, that did not happen.
"Have you had dinner?"
"Not yet..." Louis relaxed a little. Answering that he had not meant his end was safe too.
"With your appetite, you'd better eat early." The sound of rustling papers came from Nagachika's end.
"Your blood test results are back. Your rc cell count is slightly higher than an ordinary person's, but it's still within the safe range. In other words, you barely qualify as human."
"That's good..." Louis nodded. The result was more or less what he had expected. As long as the blood test confirmed he was human, even if he was taken into the CCG, they would have no authority to do anything to him as long as he did not reveal his crystallization ability.
If a ghoul revealed their kakugan or kagune, ghoul investigators had the right to use any means that would not cause massive collateral damage to eliminate the target. But the reverse also held true.
Of course, that only applied to ordinary CCG members. If he ran into someone from the Washuu Family, there was no telling how things would turn out.
"Any progress on Kanou?" Louis asked after a moment's thought.
Hide provided him with intelligence, while he acted as a blade, doing the things Hide could not. It was a simple partnership.
And both of their current objectives pointed toward Kanou Akihiro, who had gone into hiding.
"There's very little useful information... Kanou used to perform ghoul autopsies for the CCG, but he suddenly left a few years ago. The reason is unknown."
"But the Ward 20 branch has started looking