"I'm sorry, I can't give this to you."
The shop manager put away the inhibitor. For him, it was extremely important, and for the entire Anteiku, it was crucial. He couldn't hand it over.
The green-haired girl maintained her posture of reaching out to the shop manager, while the shop manager tightly held the inhibitor in his hand.
In an instant, the atmosphere inside the coffee shop became tense. The staff and the tall man behind the green-haired girl stood up, confronting each other, as if they were about to fight at any moment.
"Hmph!"
After a moment of stalemate, the green-haired girl retracted her right hand, turned, and left. The tall man followed behind her.
Once the two of them were out of the coffee shop, the people inside felt a little relieved.
"Hoo--"
Touka was the first to exhale a long breath. She was afraid that a fight would break out just now. Although she didn't think they would lose, a fight would mean that this coffee shop would be exposed. The CCG investigators would soon find out that they were ghouls. At that time, they would no longer be qualified to operate openly in Tokyo, unless they underwent plastic surgery. Otherwise, they would have to wear masks all the time, especially her. She was still in school and had friends there. Once exposed, her identity would be completely ruined.
"Manager."
The green-haired girl and her follower left, so now everyone's attention was focused on the inhibitor in the manager's hand.
"Is what he said true about this thing?"
This inhibitor had too much of an impact on ghouls.
Even the strongest ghoul, even an SSS-rated one, would be finished with just one drop. That was too exaggerated.
"I don't know, but since he gave me this thing, it means he knows our identities, and all those words were deliberately said in front of us."
The manager looked at the syringe in his hand.
"I think it should be true."
"How about we find someone to test it on?"
"But who should we test it on?"
Ghouls had been around for so many years, especially after the CCG ranked them. Ghouls had basically formed a fixed social structure. Almost every ghoul had a bunch of enemies. Rashly turning a ghoul into a normal person was no different from telling them to die. The stronger the ghoul, the worse they would be after losing their power, because their enemies were all monsters of the same level.
So, although there might indeed be ghouls who wanted to become normal people, they wouldn't dare to try it with all ghouls around them.
"How about I do it?"
Touka took the initiative to speak.
"Touka?"
Everyone in the shop looked at her in surprise.
"If others go out, it will be very troublesome, but I don't need to worry, because I have the manager and everyone's protection. As long as I'm careful, there won't be any danger at all."
In the entire Anteiku coffee shop, Touka was the weakest. In terms of ghoul ranking, she was only A-ranked, while the others were either S or SS, and the manager was even SSS.
In this situation, even if she became a normal person, she would still be protected by these big shots.
"Touka-chan, aren't you afraid that we might not be able to resist eating you after you become a normal person?"
"I don't think that's possible at all. I trust everyone very much, especially with the manager here."
Touka smiled at the others in the shop, and they all smiled back.
"Touka, are you sure you want to try it?"
The manager confirmed with Touka again.
"Yes, I want to try it."
She had good friends at school, and she really wanted to live a normal life, even if the price was losing her power, she was willing to accept it.
"Then let's try it."
Touka walked up to the manager and held out her right hand.
"Just touching it is enough. Drop a drop on the back of my hand."
"Okay."
The manager nodded, opened the syringe in his hand. There was something like a thruster on it. He pressed it slightly, and a needle popped out, squeezing out some liquid, which slowly formed a droplet on the needle.
Under everyone's nervous gaze, the droplet slowly grew larger until it couldn't bear it anymore and dripped from the needle onto the back of Touka's hand.
The liquid that landed on the back of her hand spread out and disappeared instantly, as if it had never appeared.
"It disappeared?"
"No, it's absorbed. I can feel a warm sensation inside my body."
Touka pursed her lips, her face a little pale.
"Touka, are you okay? Your face looks terrible."
Touka shook her head.
"I'm fine, I just feel warm, other than that, I don't feel anything."
But a few seconds later, her eyes widened.
"What's wrong?"
"My kagune, I can't use it anymore. I can feel that I've lost control of my kagune, as if it never existed. I can't deploy it at all now."
Saying this, Touka couldn't help but grab a cup and squeeze it hard.
"My strength is gone too. I can't even break this cup with my strength now."
"So, you've become a normal person?"
The manager said as he took out the parfait he had just made for Aester.
"Want to try some?"
"Yeah!"
Touka took the dessert from the manager's hand, scooped out a small piece with a spoon, and slowly put it into her mouth.
Everyone in the shop watched her, waiting for her evaluation.
Touka slowly tasted the dessert in her mouth with her tongue, and couldn't help but shed tears.
It was sweet. Although she had never tasted sweetness before, this must be sweetness! Touka began to gobble up the dessert.
Seeing Touka's actions, they understood that Touka could eat normal human food now.
Moreover, what surprised them the most was that after Touka became a normal person, not only could she eat normal human food, but they, as ghouls, couldn't smell any fragrance from Touka's body.
288. One-Eyed Ghoul Eto Yoshimura
Ghouls superficially eat humans, but actually, they eat the RC cells contained in human flesh. If human flesh doesn't contain RC cells, then ghouls will feel disgusted and want to vomit after eating it.
And if the concentration of RC cells contained in the eaten person's body is higher, then the meat will smell more fragrant to the ghoul. So when ghouls devour each other, they will feel that the other person is very fragrant. And if an ordinary person smells particularly fragrant, then the concentration of RC cells in this ordinary person's body is also very high, and it may even activate RC cells and become a ghoul.
Wang Xiaoming's inhibitor is to devour and suppress all RC cells in the body, and at the same time form antibodies in the body. Once new RC cells enter, the antibodies will directly devour the new RC cells and suppress them directly.
In this way, even ghouls will have no interest at all when they encounter people who have been exposed to the inhibitor.
"I can't smell any fragrance at all, it even makes me instinctively not want to eat you, Touka. This suppressant might be more powerful than I imagined."
The manager looked at Touka in surprise, and the others in the shop understood what was happening.
"Now, although Touka has become an ordinary person, her safety should be guaranteed."
"That's right, Touka is now someone that ghouls despise, so there's no need to worry about her being targeted by ghouls."
"Hey, what do you mean 'someone that ghouls despise'?"
"Hahahaha!"
The small coffee shop was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while.
Outside the coffee shop, the green-haired girl who had left the coffee shop, along with the tall man behind her, followed Wang Xiaoming and Amon all the way.
She needed the suppressant that Wang Xiaoming gave to the manager. If that suppressant was really as Wang Xiaoming said, then she must obtain it.
If the manager wouldn't give it to her, then she would directly ask Wang Xiaoming for it.
Wang Xiaoming, who had left the coffee shop, kept walking on the main road, and Amon kept following behind him. There were many people on the road, so they had no chance to attack.
The two of them kept following behind, waiting for an opportunity to attack Wang Xiaoming, but Wang Xiaoming had no intention of taking a side road at all, and kept walking on the main road, which made the two people following behind a little numb.
The most important thing was that Wang Xiaoming, who was being followed by them, knew that they were following him, and even turned around and smiled at them in the middle.
Now that you know I'm here, shouldn't you take a side road and try to shake me off? Why are you still walking so seriously after smiling? Are you really just taking a walk?
According to the usual routine, when someone discovers they are being followed, they should immediately become nervous, then take a side road to avoid them, trying to shake off the other party, only to be blocked from the front and back in the alley.
The green-haired girl was very annoyed. She couldn't wait to get the so-called suppressant. She felt a little anxious even waiting for a second, but now Wang Xiaoming didn't care at all, which was very annoying.
The green-haired girl was not a simple person. She was the early BOSS of this world, Takatsuki Sen, whose real name was Eto Yoshimura. She was a hybrid of human and ghoul, and also the leader of the ghoul organization Aogiri Tree. That was an organization she built with her own hands. There were many powerful ghouls in the organization. She was a one-eyed ghoul, and unlike ordinary ghouls, she was even more powerful.
She established Aogiri Tree with the goal of changing this world, just like the Akatsuki organization in Naruto. Her wish was for world peace... no, it was to allow ghouls and humans to coexist peacefully, to change this world where humans and ghouls killed each other.
Eto Yoshimura's idea was to elect a One-Eyed King to rule both humans and ghouls at the same time. In this way, the conflict between ghouls and humans could be eased.
It seemed like a very inspiring dream, but the final result, like the Five Village Alliance, didn't actually change much. The world ushered in a short period of peace because there was a mobile nuclear bomb pressing down on it, but once the mobile nuclear bomb was gone, everything would return to its original state.
Moreover, she hadn't considered the most important thing, which was, she was creating a One-Eyed King in Japan, had she asked America, Japan's daddy?
Would America allow you to have internal unity in Japan? Aren't you too naive?
If Japan was really full of ghouls and humans, or if Japan used bio-technology to transform people, giving them the powerful strength of ghouls, see how America would make trouble for you.
Wanting to change the world, such a naive dream, might be a little possible in a doomsday world, but in a human society with integrity, her dream is simply daydreaming.
Wang Xiaoming was very clear about the identity of the green-haired girl behind him. After all, Tokyo Ghoul wasn't particularly old, and Wang Xiaoming still remembered the main plot and tasks. Just like before in the Anteiku coffee shop, he knew that there were ghouls in the Anteiku coffee shop. He naturally knew the identity of this green-haired girl.
It was precisely because he knew that he would say so much in the coffee shop, and then deliberately hang the other party after coming out.
Seeing that the time was almost up, and not wanting the other party to completely explode, Wang Xiaoming led Amon and started walking towards the side road.
Wang Xiaoming's sudden action of entering the side road made Eto Yoshimura's eyes light up.
He finally wants to shake me off!
So, Eto Yoshimura led her subordinates and followed into the side road.
What they saw was Wang Xiaoming waiting for her with his arms crossed.
"Following me all the way, it must have been hard, after all, you are also a busy person, following me all the time, it's a waste of time."
Seeing the surprised expression on Eto Yoshimura's face, Wang Xiaoming opened his mouth with a smile.
"It seems that you have a lot of information."
Eto's expression was a little gloomy.
"After all, I'm going to investigate a strange country, so I must find enough information before coming. Wars are always fought with information."
"Then, how much do you know about me?"
"Eto Yoshimura, half-human, half-ghoul, One-Eyed King, SSS-rated Ghoul, and in league with Kishou Arima, looking for a new One-Eyed King, is that enough?"
Wang Xiaoming threw out all of Eto Yoshimura's secrets in one sentence, making Eto Yoshimura and her followers dumbfounded.
"One-Eyed King!"
Amon opened his mouth wide again in surprise. He felt that coming out with Wang Xiaoming today was simply too terrifying. He suddenly learned so many terrifying things, the darkness of the CCG, the ghouls in a coffee shop, and now even the strongest ghoul, the One-Eyed King, had come out.
What's next? Are you going to tell me that the strongest investigator, Kishou Arima, is also a ghoul?
Amon felt that he needed a strong heart, otherwise he would die of excitement sooner or later.
Wang Xiaoming didn't care about Amon's open mouth, he looked at Eto with a smile.
"So, what does the One-Eyed King want to do by coming to me?"
Being taken the initiative by Wang Xiaoming, Eto was very unhappy, but there was no way. Her information was so clearly grasped by the other party, she was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of information, and since the other party was an American, Eto didn't dare to say anything.
But she still had to get the thing.
"I want the suppressant you just mentioned, can you give it to me?"
"You want that, you can just say it directly."
In Eto's surprised gaze, Wang Xiaoming took out a syringe and threw it over directly.
"Is one enough?"
