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Seventh
You couldn't help but feel excited! You'd always be able to keep everyone safe now, no matter what! Threat level, location, even statistics that you could admittedly only half understand...

Threat level. Big brother's safety is-

No, no, no no no. Why is it so low? No one else's numbers are that low so why is only Kaneki in danger? You can feel your heart start to violently thud as a thousand scenarios cross your mind. Is he about to leave Anteiku and go look for you? No, it hadn't seemed like anyone had found you missing yet. Everyone was busy with work and wanted to give you time to read until later.

"We need to go back to Anteiku." You gather up Kyuubei before he can question you and set off the way you came. Practice can wait, but you don't want to see another person's death. Just willing the manifestation of a single green panel comes naturally to you in this panicked state, telling you how far away Anteiku is and keeping focus on Kaneki.

Sprinting out of the abandoned alley and breaking your way back into the crowds is an easy impulse as sheer desperation snakes up from your tightened throat to your brain. You ignore the myriad of looks that strangers of all kinds grant you, garnered from your own freakish actions and mannerisms. A frightened young girl clutching at her chest.

"Hinami I would like to request that you stop running and explain your current panic to me," Kyuubei says. "It's very unwise to act rashly in your situation."

You don't care about those people or their eyes. Where as in the past you would have been shy and hide behind your smiling mother's skirts, you no longer have such a luxury to fall back on. Your mother was killed for existing wrongly and you are just something of the same existence.

Only that's wrong now.

That's definitely wrong now! Fueguchi Hinami is no longer just a ghoul that eats people to survive! Anyone in Japan who watches television could easily tell you what a magical girl is. A hero that fights monsters, an ally of things like peace and justice!

Someone sighs.

A young girl that protects the innocent. Kyuubei saw fit to make you one. Kyuubei was the one who gave you this chance, gave you the ability to be more. Even though common sense would say to not allow ghouls to be heroes, Kyuubei would always stay with you and patiently explain everything.

Your big brother hasn't done anything wrong. Nothing is his fault and it would be horrible to kill him for that. He's certainly an innocent person that would never hurt anyone.

"Go left here, Hinami."

You push past the throng of people, distance yourself from the city's unending crowds, and finally let your lungs inhale like the greedy things they are. Along you way you had unknowingly untransformed. Or perhaps you had done so earlier and just couldn't remember.

The grit and harsh sensation of asphalt digs right past your leggings and into your knees. You force your trembling legs to get up. Kyuubei must have escaped from your grip earlier, hanging from your shoulder.

You can't let what's left of your family be perse-cuted for things other ghouls have done. This was what you wished for.

"Are you listening now?" Kyuubei softly questions in the same tone as always. You rub away the stinging in your eyes.

"I'm sorry. I just-," You start in a hitched voice. "I saw something awful!"

Kyuubei nods. "Unfortunately common. Not long ago there was even a girl whose power allowed her to see death dates."

Your heart drops. "That's just too sad to imagine!"

"Similar tales are normal for those whom gain the power of pre or retrocognition, abilities concerning time, and the rare wishes leading to mindreading," He continutes listing down possibilities. "May I ask which skill your wish has granted you? Otherwise I won't be of much assistance in comforting and teaching you."

Your chest trembles due to breathing, but somehow your newest friend manages you make you laugh. There's no doubt that Kyuubei had tried to make a joke just then. Or he was going back to that strange clinical attitude that your father also had with patients. Ghouls had a slightly different idea of bedside manner.

Kyuubei was always adamant about his honesty though.

"I can't see the future or anything. It's more like, like it tracks everyone I know and tells me all about them." You sit back down beside Kyuubei. Kaneki's page hasn't changed at all and he's still waiting tables. You're close by too.

Your companion shifts toward your leg and leans on you. Kyuubei's reward is a scratch behind his cat-bunny ear.

"It says how safe they are, and some other stuff too. Touka's kagune doesn't work right because of trauma? I think that means she got really hurt," You lick your lips and remember the context clues you learned about. "And how close people are to me. Strangers are ordered in how near they are to me or those important to me. And I know how safe people are."

Kyuubei stands up the moment you finish explaining your power.

"A highly unique support ability. I apologize for not considering such a possibility, coping with the sudden influx of information must have been difficult." The mascot looks around the new alley you find yourselves in.

The sound of foot steps and murmurs are much closer than the other one.

"Hinami," Kyuubei returns to your position and stares back at your own curious gaze. "Another magical girl must have felt your earlier burst of magical energy. I recognize her and will recommend meeting her now, but if you feel uncomfortable talking to her then I will request that she introduce herself another time."

"Would she listen to you?" You ask. It's not that you don't trust Kyuubei, but if another magical girl really wanted to meet you...

You try to imagine the soft and tiny Kyuubei fighting a colorfully garbed girl and honestly cannot.

"Yui is a highly cooperative person. She has never attempt to damage myself or initiated fights with other magical girls. She is very fond of dress up games, however, I do not hold this against her considering her age." Kyuubei once again draws a short giggle from you.

That had definitely been a joke!

[] Hinami decides that she had enough excitement today. She'll meet miss Yui another day.
[] There isn't any harm in meeting a senior magical girl. Hinami brushes herself off and prepares to meet Yui.
 
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[X] There isn't any harm in meeting a senior magical girl. Hinami brushes herself off and prepares to meet Yui.

Hrm...

If she's as interested in fighting Ghouls as Witches she could be a problem.
 
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[X] There isn't any harm in meeting a senior magical girl. Hinami brushes herself off and prepares to meet Yui.
 
*Flails about theorizing*

Blue Truth: Yui is the source of the Gunpowder Smell.
Alternative Blue Truth: Yui is the girl petting the cat.
She was indeed petting the cat. For that you can have the red truth of Yui being younger than Hinami, because Kyuubei already lampshaded that and thus it's not a spoiler =v
 
[X] There isn't any harm in meeting a senior magical girl. Hinami brushes herself off and prepares to meet Yui.
 
Anymore votes? I'd like to update by the end of today after all.​
 
[X] There isn't any harm in meeting a senior magical girl. Hinami brushes herself off and prepares to meet Yui.
 
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Your Quest Master requires additional votes. Also I am now on a laptop again so best prepare your bungholes for RAPIDLY MADE UPDATES!
 
[X] There isn't any harm in meeting a senior magical girl. Hinami brushes herself off and prepares to meet Yui.
 
The meeting is not what you expected. You had, within a few minutes, imagined a calm mentor type with a more girlish soft side. Your favorite Takatsuki Sen character was like that. It wasn't to say you hadn't noticed the way Kyuubei had mentioned her age though. You had definitely noticed that this new magical girl was probably young as opposed to old, if adult people could even be magical girls at all. There had only been one that came to mind.

Certainly not an adult.

Butterflies and nervous dance in your stomach the moment you hear quick foots steps getting closer. You tell yourself that backing out now would be much too rude,

Then you realize how tiny she is. An almost blonde brown haired child skips into your neck of Tokyo's alley ways, and at first you shift in discomfort, only noticing the feeling radiating off of her when you spot the silver ring on her left index finger. Even from here you can see the gleam of her ring with the small red gem glowing in the shade. Not real red though. It's like the fake pink-purple red you always find in crayon boxes.

She smells nice even in the dust and faint mold-trash of the alley. It's different from the normal smell of a human being, and it doesn't make you hungry at all.

The fact makes you quite a bit calmer just in itself.

Which is good, because your fellow magical girl sees fit to sprint down the cement path the moment she spots you. The speed she gains can only be compared to that of a ghoul. You can hardly even hear the sharp clacks of shoe against ground. Warm hands grasp onto your own before you can stop them.

"HIIIIIiii! My names Nekozawa Yui and you can totally call me Yui-Senapi if you want, oooh or you could also call me sensei! How long have you been a magical girl, hey, what's your name actually," Yui jumps up and down in perfect tempo. There is a distinct feeling that, somewhere, a volcano is about to erupt. "Oh man wait until dad finds out I met a new person!" The little girl's grin prevents any flinch from happening.

You feel tired and invigorated all at once. Yui isn't a calm Touka aged girl who will walk you step by step in being a defender of humanity, but such an open and pure display of happiness is more than soothing. The world seems a bit brighter.

You say, "My name is Fueguchi Hinami and I'm twelve. I've only been a magical girl for today. Please treat me well senapi!" At the end you bow your head the best you can. Miss Yui is still bouncing.

She isn't anymore though. Her mouth is shaped like a little 'o' as she blinks in quick succession.

"Oh my gosh," Hands that were shaking your own quickly shoot up to Yui's cheeks. "Hinami-chan are new! Super new! But I'm only nine which makes her my senior in life, and still junior in magical girl duties. That's amazing, a senpai-kohai!"

"Only nine?" You murmur. She was younger for sure, but you hadn't expected her to be just nine years old.

Your young senpai giggles, echoing down the brick corridors, "I've been a magical girl for two years now too! See, Coobie said that that makes me super old in puella years? I think he's lying to make me feel better." The two of you glance at Kyuubei to see his response. His tail twitches but the rest of him seems lost in thought.

Your new, friend maybe, coworker pouts.

For a few moments the two of you stand in silence, just breathing and waiting for the other to break the quiet. The other girl is clearly energetic and friendly, but even you found strangers to be scary at her age. You still do. Neither of you know much about the other.

"Uh, so. What is your favorite color, Yui-senpai?" You ask. Hesitating, but ask. This is called an ice breaker, isn't it?

Yui perks up. "It's definitely red! I used to like yellow more because my favorite flower is yellow, but then my soul gem was red and so that's my favorite color! A lot of cool things are red colored too."

"I like soft cream colors." Like the shawl mother bought me.

"Ooooh, that's a good choice! I was on the way to get lunch with my dad when I saw a super cute cat that was that color," She pauses then, smile growing wider, and you recall the momentary scene of a girl petting her cat. "Hinami-chan can come with us for food if she wants. I mean you."

Oh. Oh no. Your throat grows tight as you realize that Yui, despite being a magical girl, has no idea that you aren't a person. Not the same kind as her. Her foot taps cracked cement tiles, but all you can do is feel your hands grow faintly clammy as you internally flounder. Magical girls fight to protect humans and ghouls eat humans. Kyuubei has said that Yui doesn't start fights, but he failed to mention how she would react to finding out that her new friend is a monster.


A hopeful part of you whispers that Yui might not care. Kyuubei wouldn't just leave out an important detail. Something else brings up all those instances of doubt and that Yui was seven years old when she signed up to fight true evil.

You look at Yui's own hopeful eyes. A light blue that is nothing like red, matched with the light brown of her hair. It's not dyed hair either, it's more like a foreigner's hair color. Touka has told you a lot about bullies in school. It was strange that humans could be so mean when ghouls were waiting for the chance to murder them. You do sort of remember seeing something like that in a park once, years ago with your mother, where two girls talked badly behind a third's back. Because she wasn't fully Japanese.

You have a pink wig on your head and a medical mask on your face. You forget the last time you were able to play with other kids.

Your own hands start to fidget against the fabric of your skin as you start to stammer. Thoughts have scramble your mind in less than a two seconds.


There is a big assumption you're making, that Yui doesn't have many friends. Maybe she has a lot. Maybe she's as lonely as you are. So desperate for any friend that she won't even care if her new friend is a ghoul. What you do know is that Anteiku is the safest place you can be. That all of your remaining important people are there.

"I should actually be going home right now..." You say it quietly. Like you don't want to say it at all. Yui's eyes dull, her mouth twists down just a bit in a serious version of the way she pouted at Kyuubei just moments before.

The dull lighting in the alley looms over her for the first time and all you can do is watch her disappointment grow. It's not fair of you to just away from this, like this, but nothing you know of is fair except for Kyuubei.

Yui kicks the ground and tugs her hair. "I guess it's really sudden and all, so s'okay. You did just meet me and stuff, and my dad is an adult who you don' know too," She looks to the left of your face. "We could meet up alone later though! I know a lot to help you with. With magic stuff."

Do you want to meet up with Yui again?
[] Yes, but tell her that you are a ghoul.
[] Yes, but don't tell her you are a ghoul.
[]No, and tell her that you are a ghoul.
[]No, and don't tell her you are a ghoul.

What do you do when you get back to Anteiku?
[] Full spy mode again! You can totally find a way back in without being noticed! Yeah, just reading books I promise! Yeah...
[] Go in the back door and pretend you were going to the bathroom if you get caught.
[] The front door. No one will- yeah, you got nothing for this one. They probably already found out.
[] You can do the smart thing and use your powers to perfectly do things perfectly! Yay magic!
[] Go straight to the manager and confess your bad deed of sneaking out. Pray for forgiveness.
[] Go straight to Kaneki and ask for help in lying.
[] Go straight to Touka and ask for help in lying.
[] ...Actually maybe you should go out to eat with Yui and her dad.
 
[X] Yes, but tell her that you are a ghoul.

[X] Go in the back door and pretend you were going to the bathroom if you get caught.
 
[X] Yes, but don't tell her you are a ghoul.

This is Tokyo Ghoul after all. Who knows what this girl would do to Hinami.

[X] Go straight to Touka and ask for help in lying.

Ghouls have to know how to deflect suspicion and not blab the truth. :)
 
[X] Yes, but don't tell her you are a ghoul.
[X] Go straight to the manager and confess your bad deed of sneaking out. Pray for forgiveness.
 
[X] Yes, but don't tell her you are a ghoul.
[X] Go straight to the manager and confess your bad deed of sneaking out. Pray for forgiveness.
 
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