It was one in the afternoon.
Inside Anteiku, a "Closed today" sign hung on the front door.
"Where's the manager?"
Touka Kirishima sat at the counter and asked somewhat distractedly.
"He's sorting out information at his residence."
The one answering Touka Kirishima was a handsome employee with short silver hair.
He was Renji Yomo, Touka Kirishima's uncle and an employee at Anteiku.
"Is the manager really planning to hand over the information?"
The speaker was a male employee named Enji Koma, with slicked-back brown hair and a large nose.
As he wiped down the café's tables and chairs, he said:
"From what you've said, that information is going to be handed over to the authorities to wipe out Ghouls, right?"
"I'm not very smart, but making us hand over information to wipe ourselves out... doesn't that sound a little unreliable?"
At this point, Enji Koma's face filled with worry as he said:
"Once the information is handed over and the Ghouls are wiped out, will those of us left really be safe?"
"Who knows?"
Touka Kirishima crushed the glass beside her in one squeeze.
With a crack, she looked at her completely unmarked palm and said:
"If I do what that monster said, the manager and all of us will be killed."
"Touka..." Renji Yomo looked worriedly at Touka Kirishima, whose face still held traces of fear.
Although he did not know what his niece and Kureo Mado had encountered after following the manager out, it was clear that, in Touka Kirishima's eyes, the enemy was a monster that even all of Anteiku together could not stand against.
If Touka Kirishima's opinion alone was not enough to prove anything, then the actions of Yoshimura, who was still organizing the information, and Kureo Mado, who was helping him, were enough to