Christmas Eve Murders

Chapter 7

Meanwhile, in the cafe known as :re, Touka is about to close down her cafe for the night. She looked at the clock, and it's 1:00 AM, passing midnight for Christmas to start. Before she can lock the front door, Vincent stops her.

"Excuse me, sir, but it's Christmas, so I have to close down for the holiday," the ghoul said with a sad expression.

"Oh, I won't be long," the hitman said.

"What do you want with her?" Renji Yomo asked upon seeing this commotion.

Yoriko still runs through the streets to get to the cafe where her friend is now working. She hopes she is not too late to rescue her from that sociopathic hitman.

Back in :re, Vincent gets into a fight with Yomo, who unleashes his kagune which is the ukaku where two black wings sprouted on his back. Even if he is a powerful ghoul, the former overpowered him as he lands a shot on his back with a new gun. Afterwards, he shoots him two times in the head, killing the ghoul.

Now he has his focus on Touka.

While making her run, Yoriko discovers a bureau investigator dead, and she knows Vincent must have done this. On the top of that, his gun is missing from his holster, realizing the hitman must have got his gun after having lost his weapon she tried to crash his delivery car on the road to stop his rampage.

Having no other choice but to fight, the female ghoul has her eyes turn from human to ghoulish. She rushes to fight him with hand to hand combat which he does the same. They exchange blows in their attacks. Even when she does a kick, he blocks it. Next, he grabs her ankle and tosses her aside. This isn't over for the ghoul as she activated her kagune which is the ukaku, only her right wing is small and her left wing is large.

She charged at him, but the hitman is too smart for this as he shoots at her shoulder to stop her flight towards him. With her down, he aims his gun at her.

"Let her go," Yoriko demanded, and they noticed her.

"Yoriko?" Vincent asked, and she is holding a gun. Touka couldn't breathe. As much as she wanted to, she never planned on seeing her ever again. Well, that is all ruined thanks to the sociopath going after her. "Why? What are you gonna do about it?"

"I'm glad you ask me that."

The human's response is to shoot him by his face to knock him down.

"Yoriko..." Touka never thought she will be rescued by someone from her past. She is then caught in surprise to realize she now knows her true nature.

"I know now you're a ghoul, yes, but can we talk about this later?" Yoriko helped her get up from the floor. "Vincent is trying to kill you."

"Why would he want to kill me?"

Just then, their enemy is trying to get up from the ground.

"I'll tell you about it while we try to run away from this creep," Yoriko grabs Touka's hand and they run for their lives.

"Yoriko!" Vincent tries to shoot at them, and they managed to avoid getting shot.

They run outside the cafe and the two best friends went by the alley as Yoriko attempted to shoot him, but he manages to dodge upon going to the alley from the other side.

"To answer your question, Nishiki, Kaya, Hinami, and Sasaki, or is it Kanaki have all been killed by him because he was hired by someone to kill the ghouls connected to the raid in Anteiku, and I feared you're the last one he is going to kill," she replied to the question.