Several years ago

You arrived home after school finished early, your parents had just prepared lunch with your favorite meal, as usual your father was busy on the phone talking about some confidential stuff which you did not understand, all you knew was that he worked for a company called CCG that protects the world from ghouls, your mother used to work in the company as well but after she got pregnant with you she quit, her specialty was the lab but that's all you knew. Your mom placed the bowl in front of your face and smiled warmly

"How was school today?" she asked while you grabbed the fork and started stuffing your mouth with the dish

"It was... ok..." you replied sadly and she gently stroke through your hair

"Don't give up so easily, you will make a precious friend one day that is 10 times more worth than a handful of normal friends... just keep looking for the right person, he or she will change your life, I promise" you grimaced on her comment because she always cheered you up like this but it was easier said than done in your opinion, everyone in school was different, they looked down on you because your father was quite famous, normally this should make things easier to make friends but in your case it only made things worse. You ate up and walked over to your dad to ask him to help you with your home work, he was still busy talking to someone on the phone that he ignored you, this made you really sad and mad at the same time because he hardly had any time for you, he was home often but still he was always on the phone, you watched as he stood up from the sofa and walked out on the balcony, you turned around and uttered something out of frustration before you slammed your room door and planted yourself on the bed.

You had fallen asleep and woke up to a noise that sounded like something broke, you glimpsed at the clock on you desk and saw that it was 20:17 pm already, you pushed yourself up from the bed and walked towards the door, you turned the door knob to the side and walked out slowly rubbing your eyes

"Mom... what happened?" you mumbled as you made your way towards the kitchen to check on her. You slide open the door and walked inside, your feet stepped into something wet and sticky that made your eyes look down to the floor to see in what you had stepped but once you confirmed what it was your body started shaking from horror, it was a pit of blood and not few of it, you followed the trail that was spread all over the place until you heard a whimpering coming from behind the sofa, you were scared to look but your feet walked towards it automatically, once you arrived the sight of your mother made your heart stop, her shoulder was pierced completely through and also her torso, blood was everywhere and she was on the brink of death coughing up blood, you kneeled down to her level and lifted her head on your lap to make it easier for her to breath even if you knew that she won't make it

"M-Mom! what happened??" you cried out with tears starting to stream from your eyes as you started to brush the hair out of her face to not let her cough even more

"(first name)... you have... to... escape..." she tried as hard as she could to speak with the strength she had left

"M-Mom what are you saying?? Who did this to you?? What about dad?? Where is he??" more tears were streaming down as you desperately tried to stop the bleeding on her torso with a blanket that lied on the sofa

"It's useless.. I will die.. soon.. my body is broken... I can't even feel my lower half anymore.. you have to leave me.." you shook your head

"NO! I won't leave you! I'm going to save you! please mom you have to hold on!! don't give up now! I-I  will call an ambulance!" you placed her head down gently on the ground as you stood up to make for the phone that was standing on the side board not to far away, your mother grabbed your wrist and stopped you

"(first name)! you have to... get out of here! they will come for you to... they will kill you... you have to... run" you did not listen to your mothers words and gently freed your hand

"Don't worry mom! I will be right back!!" you rushed over to the side board and grabbed the phone dialing the emergency number, the first free tone sounded and hope rushed through your veins but as quickly as it came the more quickly it was gone as someone slapped the phone out of your hands and it landed on the floor, you reached down for it but a large pair of feet crushed it underneath them, you froze in place as fear infected your whole body, your head lifted itself slowly to see who the attacker was but once you meet with the mysterious persons face your body shook even more that your blood froze, the sight of a scary clowns mask filled your tinted orbs and you were unable to move, a hard kick to your guts set you flying across the room and you heard your mothers begging towards the attacker to stop, you cough out heavily as you felt blood making it's way up your throat, he walked over to your mother and grabbed her by her collar lifting her up, something from his back started to shoot out of his skin that was his kagune with which he pierced your mothers heart, you screamed out loudly as you saw her eyes looking your way and the life in them disappeared

"Walk... tall.. never give up... hope... you.. must ... live... live a happy... life..."her dying last words made your heart shatter and you screamed out painfully, he tossed her lifeless body aside and started laughing like a maniac, he turned his back towards you as he bend down to the floor and brushed over the pit of blood that was left behind on the floor bringing his tinted fingers up to his mouth licking them clean

"Such a beautiful aroma... what a shame that she was not worth keeping alive... just like you" you felt the strong killing intent that was coming from him and you knew that you were next, you noticed a pack with flour lying on the floor next to you, if you used this as a smoke screen you could by a few seconds to rush towards the door, your hand reached for it and pulled it to your body as you listened to the sick bastards words, you slowly got up as silently as possible with the package and once he turned around you tossed it towards him, the content exploded at the impact and the white dust covered his vision for a few moments which you used to run. You made your way towards the main door always turning around to see if he was following you, you reached the door but you tripped over something that was blocking the way, your knees collided with the floor and you whimpered in pain as you turned around to see over what you had tripped, your eye color vanished from your orbs as you saw the death corpse of your father lying on the floor covered in blood, you screamed out desperately and jumped back to your feet ignoring the pain everywhere in your body, you rushed to the front door and opened it, you stumbled out running towards the stairway and rushed down as fast as you could with your shaking legs, your apartment was on the 9th floor and the way down was far to long.

You almost reached the bottom when suddenly the glass window behind you shattered and someone entered through it, you fell to the ground and looked in the direction of the person who walked towards you, his face was also hidden by a mask so he had to be a ghoul as well, his steps shattered the glass that was spread all over the floor, your arms were lightly cut from the glass impact just now, his steps came closer and you pushed yourself up from the floor to continue running before he would reach you, he noticed your actions and rushed towards you in a lightning speed and grabbed your neck pressing you back down to the floor, he cut off your air with his strong hold and you gasped out, his mask was scary as well with many holes in it and a beak like the one of a crow, he strangled you harder probably with the intent to kill you, your hands were wrapped around each of his wrist to make him stop but it was useless he was to strong how could you win against a ghoul when you were just a (age) year old kid... you felt your vision fading slowly and you knew resisting death would be useless since it would happen anyway, you accepted the fact since you had no reason to live on, everyone you loved was gone, your mom was send to her death in a brutal way that made her suffer till the end and your farther probably died quickly since he had a fatal wound on his head that probably killed him right away... where would you go form here if you survived? there was no place to go.. you had no friends or any related family so it would not make any difference if you just died here and now, no one would know.. no one would notice you were gone...

Your hands loosened around his wrist until they let go entirely, the ghoul who strangled you noticed that you accepted your fate and he seemed shocked for some reason, your eyes closed more and more until you felt the grip on your neck loosen, you were confused why he did not finish you, this was the perfect opportunity... instead his hands let go and he stood up, he looked down on your motionless body until he seemed to have something else in mind, he bend down to the floor and picked up a shard of the broken glass and walked back towards you, he pushed your head to the side and placed the shard on your right cheek, you felt the sharp tip cutting your skin, he run the shard down and cut a clean cut on your upper cheek that was around 3,5 cm long, blood started streaming down and he tossed the shard away, he stopped the blood with his gloves and rubbed it into the fabric of his gloves, he stopped once his hands were fully covered in your blood, he stood up from the floor and turned his back towards you

"Run, before I change my mind!" he warned you and with that he disappeared, you sit up and scanned the area for him but he was gone, you touched the cut on your cheek and noticed that the bleeding had almost stopped, did he actually mean to save you? no that could not be possible he took part in killing your parents so why would he show sympathy towards you? You slowly got up and continued running downstairs until you reached the exit, you had no idea where to go so you just kept running through the dark cold night with no destination set.

End of Part 2