Chapter 8

In a silent room where only the sound of typing could be heard, a woman had been looking through the screens of her many laptops that she had brought with her on this trip. Garcia had been hacking the CCG's database for hours now, hiding in the hotel room seems to be the safest place to be at the moment. The others were doing their part in playing 'the ignorant agents' with the CCG's personals. So far, the plan was going smoothly without any mishap.

Based on her findings, the CCG were still in war with an organization called Aogiri Tree. And it had been going on for years now and after an operational raid on the 24th ward, their activity had quiet down. After working with the FBI for year now, Garcia knew that it was a bad sign. 'Calm winds before a storm'.

She also found some interesting files, Quinque steel. It seems that they were harvested from a ghoul's organ known as kakuhou and they functioned like the ghouls' kagune, the ghouls' primary weapon. She feels sick after reading this, for the CCG treating these beings like animals and hunting them like trophies.

As she searched through the files of all known ghouls, she came across Kaneki's. The white hair and eye-patch was very hard to miss. She went pale as she continues to read, apparently he is a SS-rated ghoul and a half-Kakuja. Not that she knew what a Kakuja was but the way the file was highlighted it must mean that it was very dangerous. For someone who had been a ghoul for 2 years to get this strong was pretty fast, especially for someone this young.

In his file, he is the only ghoul to ever escape from the special class investigator named Kishou Arima, CCG's Reaper, alive, other than another ghoul. According to this, no ghoul ever lived after facing that man.

But what got her attention was that there were notes regarding Kaneki, it seems that the CCG knew that he was an artificial half-ghoul. The higher-ups seem interested in him and he had been labelled to be captured alive for studying. As Garcia continues to read, she begins to feel bad for that young man for if they managed to captured him, he will be in a world of pain. But there were other matters at the moment and that was to find that if the CCG knew who it was that experimented Kaneki in the first place. She was in luck as she found it.

The suspect was a man named Akihiro Kanou, someone who once worked as a Ghoul Forschung Gesellschft in the CCG. There were links that this man had been working with Aogiri Tree and may be in partnered with the One-Eyed Owl, a SSS-rated ghoul that have survived many from the CCG's reaper and have spread havoc across all of the wards in Tokyo.

Things really got messy from there on out, Dr. Kanou's intentions were unknown and so was his whereabouts. Since the discovery of Kaneki's identity a year ago during the 24th ward raid, all trails went cold and no investigators managed to find any clues to the man or what Aogiri had been up too.

This are all important information, and very top secret. With how the securities and firewalls, this information is not out to public. Things really are messed up with the government with the ways how CCG having more power and manipulated how the country should operate.

Personally, Garcia held no grudge against ghouls for she had read about their biology from the database and how they could not digest human food. She knew that sometime when someone is desperate, they will do anything, no matter who or what. With the CCG killing them simply just for eating something that they could only eat is just too 'specist'. Other than making a new word for this situation, she has to tell the team about this.

Just as she was about to call Hotch, someone had knocked the door to their room. There shouldn't be anyone back yet at the moment and she wasn't informed of anyone coming to greet her. She was scared that someone might have tracked her signaled from infiltrating CCG's database. As she came close to the door, she noticed that there were men in drench cloths and were wearing sunglasses through the small hole on the door.

At first she was confused as what kind of people would wear sunglasses indoors, then she remembered the incident happened from the warehouse. Before she could make a sound, a hand suddenly covered her mouth.

"Don't speak, they will know that you are here once you talk." A young man's voice whispered by her ear. Garcia kept silent, she was afraid to be in this kind of situation. But the voice sounded familiar, but then it was tinted with a bit of coldness than what people usually had. "Get back to the room and clean the place up, I'll guide you out of here once you're done."

She didn't have time to look at the newcomer when he suddenly pushed her back to the room she once came from before the door was knocked. Somehow, something in her tells her o do what he said. And so while she packs, there were shouting and things smashed heard from behind the door. Quickly picking up the pace, she was almost sure that she heard someone's bone break and there were a lot of Japanese swearing. Not that she knew any of them, but she doesn't want to end up like whoever was that when whoever comes in here.

By the time she was done, the door was opened and it was Kaneki waiting for her. By the door, Garcia could honestly state that it was one of the most gruesome states a crime scene could be: sofas, windows, tables, chairs were broken, bodies were littering everywhere and blood were splattered across the walls that seems impossible.

"They are ghouls working for Aogiri and somehow they have found you. You and your friends are not safe here anymore. I know a place you guys could lay low for a while and I know they will protect you for the time being. Let's go, I don't think I could hold myself for any longer than this without going into 'that' again." He said, before helping Garcia carry some bags and climbed from the window and to the fire escape. Garcia looked around the room for a bit to calm herself down before following his example. She still doesn't understand some stuff that he just said but for now, she will go with it. She hopes that everything will be alright once the team figures everything out. Oh how things became complicated when they took this case.