4. My childhood friend is One-Eyed Owl 2
They quickly cleaned up the aftermath. Eto was searching for meats that suit her taste while Yorimitsu searching for good weapons. After thinking for a while, he chose two quinque.
One of them was a purple quinque that its handle has many segments which could bend and stretch like a whip, its head was a huge pentagram cube that could easily crush the enemy's bones, to put it simply, it was a bigger meteor hammer.
It wasn't that Yorimitsu wanted to cos as Rem from Re: Zero, he just wanted to make himself familiar with all types of weapons. Compared to this meteor hammer, he was more interested in another green glaive-shaped quinque. This quinque will, without a doubt, become one of his main weapons, at least until it was getting destroyed in a future fight.
After he chose his weapons, he began to look at the bodies that were lying on the ground which made Eto speak warily. "Yorimitsu, we already speak before the fight, the quinque is yours, and the food is mine. How dare you break our promise."
"Do I look that untrustworthy?" Yorimitsu sighed and scolded Eto as a glutton ghost in his heart. "I just want to see whether I can use their clothes or not. And also making yours too."
"Ah, that...sorry" The face under the robe become embarrassed before spoke in a low voice. "And thank you too."
"Oh, you also know to say thank you to other people?"
"Are you complimenting or scolding me?"
"Both" He stripped the clothes on their bodies before walking back in the direction of his home. "I will make new clothes, it should take a while to finish it, you can come and see if you wants."
"Really?" Eto smiled. Look like everyone had a time when they are a pure child, even a twisted person like Eto was no exception.
After going back to his home, he started to work with this job, bringing out a sewing kit and started to sew up the damaged parts, and adjusting it to fit the girl's size.
"I don't know what is more impressive. You have a sewing kit, or you know how to sew the clothes." She spoke while watching Yorimitsu working with the clothes. These kinds of mending kits looked like something that every family have in their houses. But in this underground ward, object from human society was a luxury. It wasn't something that a child-like Yorimitsu could own.
"Legacy from my parents." He answered. His father was the king of this ward and have everything that was needed for living, his mother just grabbed some of them when she left with him. And after living alone, he had learned all the skills that a bachelor should learn.
"Finished, let's see whether it fits you or not." He gave her blood-stained clothes. Eto did not even flinch, she threw away her rag and tried on her new clothes, although it was just a tattered rain coat it was already much better than her old robe.
"It's bigger than it should be." She said then asked the boy who turned his head away. "Why are you looking at the wall?"
"No...nothing" He said, his face looking more flushed than usual. He did not expect that the girl would be this bold and strip off her clothes in front of him like this. Although she still wrapped her body with a bandage and the eight-year-old girl's body had nothing to looked in the first place, seeing a girl take off her clothes was still something that he could not calmly face it.
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The two cooperated in a fight many times after that day because Eto simply found that going out with Yorimitsu had many benefits. She could get most of the food, get new clothes, and have fun from bickering with each other.
They met each other more and more frequently, from once a week to once every three days, and it wasn't just for benefits anymore. Sometimes, they were simply talking or playing with each other. Within just three months, Yorimitsu became the first friend in Eto's life.
One of the most important reasons was Yorimitsu was the same as herself, just being only one-eyed ghoul other than her was enough to get her attention. It could end in two ways, either she was interested in him as a toy and killed him, or become friends because of their similarities. Eto couldn't beat him in the first place, so it become the latter case.
After becoming closer to Eto, she began to tell some personal information, although not about V and the story about her parents he still learned many things from her mouth like her preference and her hobbies.
Moreover, now he could determine the precise timeline of the story. She revealed that she was eight years old so it was around fourteen years before the story started.
"Training again?" Eto asked after she saw Yorimitsu swinging quinque that he plundered from investigators. She was used to this picture after three months. She always saw him training most of the time she came to meet this friend. "Why are you always training? I mean...I understand that the stronger the better, but why are you so persistent with using quinque, why not use your own kagune?"
As a one-eyed ghoul, she knew that her kagune strength was by no means weaker than normal ghoul's although it had only one-sided kagune. No matter one-eyed or not, they will become a monster after they evolved into kakuja. Moreover, Yorimitsu had an electric ability which was one of the strongest abilities that the ghoul could have obtained. This made her very curious why Yorimitsu did not put much effort into developing kagune as he should have.
"It's because I'm afraid...well, It seems I have to tell you about my family first." The boy spoke. He was concerned about her opinion of him after she knew he has a Vashuu bloodline, but after a period of time, he thought they were close enough to tell this truth, not to mention he could not be considered to be a member of that clan.
"My family was a ghoul that come from a foreign land. While traveling they were many cases of cannibalism in our family so our kagune become stronger and stronger. But that also left a hidden danger that if we have RC factor, our kagune might be out of control and transformed into a monster called Dragon. I don't know a specific condition but since there were many examples, I do not dare to develop my kagune to the extreme."
"Oh, that's too bad." Eto sighed but deep in her eyes, she revealed coldness and killing intention after hearing this story. "But since you were coming from a great family, how did you become an orphan in this ward?"
"That's because of my father." He sighed. "I heard that he had a conflict with his family and intend to overthrow them but lose so he can only flee to the underground. The last time I met him, he doesn't look like a sane person."
"That's it," Hearing this, a chill in her eyes dissipated. She looked at Yorimitsu with complicated eyes, then as if decided something. She sat on the floor and beckon to let him sit next to her. "Since you tell me about your family, then it would be unfair if I kept mine a secret, wouldn't I?"
"Fell free to speak." He knew that Eto was going to reveal her past to him (although he already knew it.). If this was a game then there should be a hint displayed that her affection toward him has risen up.
Her story wasn't different from the book. Yoshimura Kuzen, her father, was working for V as an executioner when he met her mother, Ukina. They quickly fell in love and had Eto, but it turned out that Ukina was a reporter who investigated organization V so V gave Kuzen an order to kill his lover.
Kuzen had to do as they said in order to protect Eto. Next, he entrusted Eto to Noro in the 24th ward with her mother's diary, and Eto knew all of these past events from that diary.
"That sounds cruel. I'm sorry to let you think about this again." He rubbed her green hair and spoke in a warm tone. Eto who hadn't felt this kind of touch for a long time fell into a trance before hurriedly pushing his hand away after she woke up.
"So what do you think of him, Kuzen, I mean,"
"I hate him." The green-haired girl spoke without hesitation. "Although I understand what he did back then he's also a man who killed my mother so I will never forgive him, both him and that organization."
"Never forgive your father sounds a little cruel, maybe you will change your mind ten or twenty years later. But we have a common goal now." He gave her a wry smile.
"What is it, destroy V?"
"Of course!" He affirmed. "I don't like their attitude. They rule Tokyo under an iron curtain, creating a situation between humans and ghouls. If this situation continues, it will be only destruction at the end of this road. As their family, I think it's my duty to end them."
His words weren't groundless. Looking at the end of Tokyo Ghoul: Re, there were many technologies that were newly invented such as synthetic ghoul food or medicinal that use RC cells to cure disabled people. There weren't any shadows of these inventions before the fall of V, so it should be their handwriting to prevent humans to develop technology that let people live with ghouls.
This world was too dark and desperate. Ghouls hunted people for a living, and CCG killed ghouls to protect their loved ones. There was no one wrong, it was the world created by V that was twisted. Everybody's family was killed by ghouls or investigators, hence, let society live in a state of guerrilla warfare for a long time, and will not end no matter what.
Yorimitsu knew that the problem would not disappear just because of the absence of V, there would still be a rift between humans and ghouls but he was sure that any future would be better than the current situation.
"Look, Eto. We are special. We are an existence that lives between both worlds. We can understand both humans and ghouls, so who will act as a bridge between two species if we weren't doing it?"
Eto looked at the boy's smile, somewhat tempted by what he said, and reached her hand out. "Although I still have a doubt about being the bridge, I agree that we both have a common enemy. So at least until we destroyed your family, let's work together."
"With pleasure." He smiled and reach his hand to shake hands with the girl. At this moment, a pact between two one-eyed has been made.
"..." After that glorious moment, they looked at each other silently.
"What should we do next?"
"Training?"
"You've already done that all the time, say something new."
"How about playing a game? I will introduce you to playing Shogi."
"Sounds good."
The future revolution still looked hopeless.
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With a long-term goal, the two become much more motivated. They went out to hunt the investigators' team almost every two or three days as long as they didn't have any injuries.
Eto gobbled meat almost like crazy no matter ghoul or human meat and trained with Torimitsu to let herself familiar with the fighting style of investigators. In just five months, her kagune began to grow wildly and entering the semi-kakuja state.
As for the boy, he tried to challenge stronger investigators and chose the team with a stronger enemy. From second-class investigators to first-class. From first-class to associate special-class.
His action was really risky, but he also had safety measure which was Eto as his backer. With her strength and speed, she could snatch him from the enemy's clutch and run away in an instant.
Although his fight always ended with devastating loss, fighting with a strong enemy meant he could copy their movement. Moreover, it also built up his experience. In the past, he just copy the enemy's movements and knew how to performed a certain set of actions. This period of time helped him knew 'when to use it'. Which were almost two completely different concepts.
Sometimes Yorimitsu wanted to fight with the zero squad which was composed of half-human. If it were them then he should be able to see the movements of quinque users with ghoul-like physic.
In a blink of an eye, two years had passed.
With non-stop fighting, his martial arts and kagune improved by leaps and bounds. He now could fight with first-class investigators without losing, and his kagune also evolved into a half-kakuja. Its lethality became much higher, as well as the maximum voltage that could be released.
So with his strength that improved after two years of training, it was time for him to reunion with his crews at Sabaody Archipelago...no! It was time for him to move out of the 24th ward to the surface of Tokyo.