Recap
"X..." Yuki muttered, removing Nike's grasp on her wrist.

"COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND FACE ME!" Yuki shouted fiercely, her face turning into a lion's.

"How dare you do that to Yuta...! I will kill you... I WILL KILL YOU, FUMIKO!" Yuki grabbed her school bag and eyed the shadows dangerously.

"Aw~! How'd you know it was me? Hehe~!" Fumiko revealed herself from the shadows and pulled off her black mask decorated with a red X mark, her short brown hair hovering over her shoulders.
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"You know, not only were you really annoying, but now I'm really starting to boil some hatred for you right now! And the funny thing is that I just met you today and I hate you so very much!" Yuki's grin was crooked and her eyes were dulling to lose its shine.

"Yuki! We need to get out of here!" Yushin shouted, still desperately holding onto Yuta.

"......" Yuki's eyes were only on Fumiko, watching every small movement she made.

"I'm sorry Yushin, Yuta, Nike... But I can't back down and leave now...!" Yuki gritted her teeth, her eyes narrowing.

"Please take care of Yuta; Yushin, Nike!" Yuki exclaimed.

Spreading apart her feet, Yuki prepared herself into a fighting position. Her eyes glared dangerously and her senses heightened.

"What the hell do you think you could do...?" Nike muttered.

"Hehehe~! I can't wait to rip apart your lovely body and leave my 'X' mark on your pretty face! And after that, I will kill these three for always interfering my hunt!" Fumiko hysterically laughed, placing back on her mask.

"Hmph! I'll never let you leave your mark on any of them!" Yuki declared with a snarky look, a sudden sensation of relief washing over her body.

"Time for the beauty to sleep~!" Fumiko giggled, dashing towards Yuki in a spiral fashion, bouncing off the walls of the alley.

"Hmph!" Yuki sharpened her gaze and her instincts.

"Yuki! Watch o-" Nike shouted, his sentence being cut off short. A bolt of lightning shocked his throat, threatening his words to falter into silence.

"GAAA-AAAHHH!" Fumiko screeched, causing the need for the two conscious boys to cover their ears.

*Thud*

With the sound of ripping flesh, slowly with a small squishing noise, a hand fell down from Fumiko's cloaked sleeve. Her cut opened wrist squirted out blood and painted across the brick walls like graffiti. She scrambled backwards, grumbling incoherrrent curses while violently striking a laser beam of hatred towards Yuki and her unreadable expression.

"Y-you, Yuki..." Nike paused. "You're a ghoul investigator?!"

"Yuki..." Yuta whispered, his eyes barely opened to squint at the scene before him.

"......" Yushin bitterly stared at Yuki, conflicted.

Within Yuki's clenched fist, a bright vermillion-red light emerged in the alley. The glow of her chosen quinque, a katana, showed to make Yuki look more threatening with the red glow hitting against her face.

With one clean swipe through the air, the blood on her sword flew off and in front of Fumiko in a taunting manner. Fumiko growled in response, her temper rising and clearly caving into the taunt.

Yuki had an upper hand in her fight with Fumiko's regeneration ability not fulfilling its duty. Still, she couldn't bring down her guard. Especially since she also had to defend others.

"You'll pay for that!" Fumiko yelled, lunging forward, her scaly and long kagune reaching out towards Yuki's head.

Yuki whipped her wrist around in different rotations to wield her sword into a dance without using the movement of her legs. With every small action to block Fumiko's attacks, she did not waste a single bit of energy. Her stamina was plentiful to drain out Fumiko's.

Fumiko drew back once Yuki took the opportunity to thrust her sword towards her face. However, by dodging the blade, the katana had only scratched the surface of her mask.

"It's my turn to take offense!" Yuki exclaimed with a stern tone and killer eyes.

She jumped off the wall as a leverage to push herself towards Fumiko at a faster speed and swung her blade straight across her chest and made cuts on every muscle on her arms and legs to prevent and handicap Fumiko from any major movement to attack or escape.

"Gwah!" Blood seeped under Fumiko's mask and ran down her neck.

"Yushin! Nike! I need you two to take Yuta out somewhere more open! It would be foolish for her to attack there!" Yuki shouted, throwing off the wig she was wearing since it began to irritate her scalp and work.

"What?! And leave you here?! No way!" Nike scoffed.

"Don't underestimate me again! That was an order as a protector of the law and people! Now go!" Yuki repeated more firmly.

Fumiko tried standing up again, but Yuki reacted quickly and kicked her powerfully to the wall. To add on, Fumiko released one more of her kagunes and directed it towards the retreating boys. Her tentacle like weapon came flying at them, shocking Yuki in this split second.

Nike and Yushin turned around once hearing the wind susurrate to thier ears and were unable to react quickly enough in time.

"Ugh!" Yuki grunted as she simultaneously cut off her tentacle, releasing a scream from the girl and slashing through her torso again.

"U... Uaah... AAAHHH! IT HURTS! It hurts..." Fumiko cried and fell to her knees and then her entire body slammed onto the ground.

"... If you didn't murder those female victims out of jealousy of their looks, then maybe you wouldn't have been caught and killed in such way as now!" Yuki scoffed— A whole new attitude taking over her appearance.

"Y-Yuki...?" The boys muttered, unsure of who they are seeing in front of their eyes. Their feets were frozen at the entrance of the alleyway.

"I was never told in reports of what the ghoul's name was! Not even the news mentioned the name of the symbols left on the bodies! But you, Fumiko! You were the only one who mentioned about the name being 'X'! Haha! You even tried directing a distraction saying it was some perverted male! You gave yourself away after I gave it some thought darling~!" Yuki sadistically grinned.

"But anyone could have said it and the name of it and been passed on to my knowledge! So why determine it was me?!"Fumiko retorted back.

"Hm? It's simple!" Yuki giggled cheerfully.

"I just had a killer instinct~!" Yuki brought down her sword and stabbed it into the fleshy heart of the girl.

"Huh?" Yuki frowned, pulling out of her blade from the body.

"H-ha-hahh... M-Melody...?!" Fumiko teared up, pushing her friend's body further from her to view her face.

"F-Fumiko... I'm s-sorry...! But I c-...can't just sit back and wa...tch...!" Melody pipped up, blood flowing out of her mouth and tears brimming her big eyes.

"N-no! Don't die! You can't leave me!" Fumiko screamed in panic.

"What's this? Isn't Melody a cute girl too? How come you didn't make her your victim?" Yuki cocked her head to the side.

"Is it perhaps... She accepted your pathetic foulness...?" Yuki slowly grew on a smirk upon her facial features, a snicker sneaking past her soft lips.

"...!" Fumiko flinched, holding onto her cold and limp friend. "W-what about it?!" She growled.

"D-don't worry Fumiko... I still love you even after you've changed... You are my very...very best friend...." Melody smiled painfully and tears rushed down her cheeks and chin.

"N-no! No! Don't leave me alone! I'm sorry for dragging you into this! I love you too! So don't go!"

"*Yawn*..." Yuki watched the two in pure boredom, rolling her eyes at the dramatic scene.

Melody smile genuinely and purely by heart and closed her eyes. The sounds of her friend crying drowned away and her heart died out young to never beat again.

"Ug-uwaahh!" Fumiko cried, bringing the corpse closer to her body in the melody of sorrow and ultimate pain.

"Maybe this encouraged you to die as well!" Yuki exclaimed, twirling her sword and pointing it at Fumiko.

*Crash*

The sides of the building crumbled against the impact Fumiko made. She pierced the walls with her kagune in attempt to strike Yuki dead. However, with Yuki's instincts were pumping through her veins, she dodged the attack.

"Ugh!" Yuta grunted and held onto his side.

"Yuta! You're alright!" Yushin exclaimed in relief.

"Yeah... My regeneration is always so damn slow!" Yuta grinned foolishly.

"Hey boys~~! Go run along to the nearby park! I had ordered you to retreat to an open space remember?" Yuki plainly said, cutting off all of Fumiko's piercing needles with one full wallop.

Still, with the fury of losing her best friend and Yuki's sadistic yet annoying attitude, she wasn't willing to give up on her fight. Fumiko was determined to murder Yuki for the suffering she had just went through.

"If I lost my one and only best friend! THEN I'LL GO KILL THOSE THREE IN RETURN!"

Fumiko jumped off the walls and up to the roofs of the buildings, taking Melody's limp corpse with her.

"Tch!" Yuki clicked her tongue and ran after the escapee towards the park.

"You three tried ruining my hunt last time... You took the girl before I could rip her to shreds! She bullied Melody and was pretty! She deserved to die! She never deserved to be blessed with such looks!" Fumiko shouted and grabbed the attention of all three boys as she glided down from above them.

*Clash*

"You are the one doing something beyond forgivable than bullying, you fool!" Nike bellowed, his bright blue and greenish kagune exploding from his tailbone while blocking Fumiko's red one.

"Nike! Careful! Fumiko is more dangerous as ever!" Yuta shouted, his teeth gritted as his wound mended up bit by bit.

"You guys are nothing but a nuisance!" Fumiko growled, aiming another one of her tentacles past towards Nike and to Yuta and Yushin.

"Yuta! Stay behind me!" Yushin exclaimed, his bright blue kagune bursting out in a flash.

*Slash*

"Y-Yuki!" Yuta shouted, shocked at her timing.

Right when Yushin had released his kagune, Yuki has jumped in front of him to slash through Fumiko's fleshy weapon while also dodging Yushin's own weapon.

She flipped through the air and flipped backwards a few times once she hit the ground. Her moves and ability took the boys to another level of surprise.

"From what I've gathered; Nike, Yushin, and Yuta tried stopping you from hunting your last prey, but they couldn't get a grasp of who the ghoul was exactly until you revealed yourself now. Fumiko... I don't think you've always been a ghoul for you to just now kill off girls now~!"

"W-what...?!" Fumiko hissed, taken aback.

"Now! I think I've been playing around for too long! It's time for me to get serious~!" Yuki roared, throwing her katana straight at Fumiko's face with incredible speed.

"AAAAHHH! UGH! URGH!" Fumiko screeched and clutched her face in pain.

Her mask shattered into halves and red wine spilled out from her forehead. She fell down to her knees and gritted her teeth bitterly as she held her friend's body closer to her's. Quickly, Fumiko tried escaping, bolting up to try to dash away.

*Stab*

"Arg!" Fumiko grunted.

Yuki triggered a button on the handle of her blade and a thin red line traveled past Nike. The now 25 feet long blade stabbed Fumiko's torso before she could escape off any further. Blood dripped onto the grass of the park.

With a straight face, Yuki dragged the handle to the right and the blade followed along the same direction. This caused the blade to cut through Fumiko's chest, creating a cliff where her bosom could easily rip over and rip apart like a slice of bread.

Fumiko began crawling on the ground, desperately trying to reach over to Melody's beat up body that is barely just a few feet away from her.

*Squish*

"A...ah... No..." Fumiko cried as Yuki appeared in front of her, her bright red blade reflecting into her fearful orbs.

"I guess we couldn't be friends for long, Fumiko." Yuki smiled bitterly yet sweetly, which frightened the said girl.

"N-NOO—"

*Slash*

With one swift and clean blow, Yuki cut off Fumiko's head, her blood gushing all over the concrete and grass. Even Yuki couldn't avoid the shower of red wine.

The three boys' breath wavered at the scene before them. Their knees weakened and their eyes were as wide as a plate.

With two small cuts, Yuki engraved a small X-mark onto Fumiko's hand. Her black bang covered half of her face when she walked over to the three boys. A smile was no where seen within the group.

"Y-Yuki..." Nike bit his lip.

"I'm letting you three run away." Yuki's cold tone said.

"E-ehh?!" They all gasped, shocked.

"I won't report that you are ghouls since you also tried helping me. You three aren't bad if you tried protecting the last victim. That is, as long you become stupid and commit crimes." Yuki sighed, crossing her arms.

"Does that mean we won't see you ever again...?" The three simultaneously said, their voices dropping a tone.

"I finished high school. I'm actually older than you three, so that makes me your senpai!" Yuki smiled in a goofy manner, shocking the three.

"Don't let our parting bring sorrow forever! Look up and live on! Don't ever fall apart— You guys have each other..." Yuki said— Memories of her younger days flashing through her mind.

"Yeah..."

*Punch*

"O-ow! That hurts~!" Yuta whined, the other two joining him.

"Oh please~!" Yuki giggled.

"Our fates are already tied together! We are bound to see each another day!" Yuki brightly smiled despite the gore remaining on her physical and inner self.

"Yeah. Although we'll miss you, we will meet again. We will never forget you, Kaneki Yuki."

"I won't forget you three goofs too! I mean, you three were my first suspects! Hahaha!"

"Wait what?!"

"Nothing~!" Yuki stuck out her tongue. "Now run along little boys~! Before my coworkers get here!"

"May we be graced by your presence in the future." Yushin smiled.

"Bye~! We love you, Yuki!" Yuta cheered.

"Ah, alright. Goodbye Yuki! No one can ever replace you from our group!" Nike grinned, walking over to Yuki. "Don't forget who you really are." He whispered into her ear.

"... Farewell— Nike, Yushin, Yuta! I really enjoyed our time together!" Yuki giggled, waving goodbye to the three.

As the group of boys disappeared from sight, Yuki's smile dropped into a frown of bitterness. A small buzz of electricity was heard in her pocket. Pulling out the object, she placed the head piece communicator into her ear.

"Yuki! Are you alright?! I lost connection with you! I had an obstacle to deal with, so I couldn't meet you up earlier!"

"..... I'm alright Amon. Where are you headed?
I can hear you running." Yuki asked, her voice immediately taking on its usual pitch.

"I am headed towards Mado's location! We were separated after his lead on Rabbit!"

"And where exactly did he lay out his plans?" Yuki said, turning around to stare blankly at Fumiko's corpse.

"At some old tunnel or sewers! I'll send over my coordinates to you!"

"Alright." Yuki said, disconnecting the call with one press of the button.

"Why did she have to look human when I killed her..." Yuki mumbled, her eyes void of life.

Pulling out her phone, she contacted the company of Fumiko's corpse and whereabouts. Seeing that they were going to arrive immediately, Yuki ran off to trail after Amon.

A/N
Thank you for reading this chapter! I hope you enjoyed it and go ahead and comment and like!

7/24/18
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