"I was in a fight a while ago and spent a few days unconscious, so I missed your calls," Louis explained. All of Nagachika's questions stemmed from that incident.
Nagachika had already guessed that was the reason, but he still couldn't help being surprised.
"A few days... was it that dangerous?" Having calmed down, Nagachika sat cross-legged. "Anyway, why are you still wearing that mask? I can't even tell if it's you..."
"Actually... I wore it because I was afraid you wouldn't recognize me." Louis thought for a moment, then dissolved one corner of the mask, exposing his eye and half his forehead.
"Uh..." The horrifying scars instantly made Hide's expression turn grim.
To make their conversation easier, Louis covered the exposed area again.
"Are the fights over there... always that brutal?" Nagachika's tone had changed.
"Honestly, just surviving is an achievement..." Louis shrugged. In a fight to the death, one side was bound to end up dead or crippled.
"Oh, right. What did you call me about before?"
"Oh, that..." Hide stood and took down the photograph Louis had noticed on the wall earlier.
"Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa were originally CCG trainees. They mysteriously disappeared a while ago, and the investigation turned up nothing."
"I also followed up on the name you gave me, Nanao Yasuhisa, and found that his CCG file was strange too. There were hardly any records about him."
Nanao Yasuhisa had been the president of the trading company Sphinx, but at some point, a ghoul had broken into his home and killed him.
Yet that was all the information said. There was almost nothing else. A company president had been murdered, and the case had barely been investigated.
So Nagachika had dug up more information.
Almost all the CCG's files from that period were