Scorpio (Tokyo Ghoul Touka x Male Reader)

Dangerous thoughts

The youth sighed as he lifted another box of documents onto the shelf above, he was a young man working part time at the CCG as a bookkeeper. He'd been placing documents in boxes and boxes on shelves for a few months now, he categorised each case file while memorising where each was located. It wasn't uncommon for investigators to come looking for case files regarding individual ghouls, this was usually when they had spotted a ghoul and wanted to research it before assembling a small team to attack.

The young man turned to see a tall man with glasses standing in the doorway, waiting to have gained the young mans attention. He was his most reoccurring visitor as the man would often come down here, he would never announce himself however. He'd rarely speak even when spoken too, any questions regarding his personal life or even pleasantries would be brushed off impersonally.

"Evening Associate Special Class Investigator Zuno-ryoku. How are you today?" He asked the young man calling him by his full title as so often requested, he knew that the Higher class investigator was not especially vain in his persistence of his title, in fact he wasn't sure the taller man could be vain.

"I'm fine." Was all Zuno-ryoku responded with after waiting at the door for an unknown closed amount of time. He walked in as his eagle eyes scanned the boxes for a particular case file. "Missing persons file, the three senior investigators and single junior investigator." The young man knew what he was looking for, the four missing investigators had been the talk of the section for a while now. Zuno-ryoku had a habit of working on cold cases no one else was interested in, his brain seemed to absorb information and retain even the most trivial facts.

The strange mans mind demanded constant challenge for it to maintain its brilliance, Zuno-ryoku was well known for solving difficult cases no one else was able to out if boredom alone. The young man handed the investigator the box containing any and all information retaining to the missing personas case.

Zuno-ryoku took the box without a word of thanks and swiftly took it to his office upstairs, he had already finished any and all work assigned to him for that day so he had time to indulge his favourite past time.

The case file was surprisingly small, containing barely any information. Four investigators went missing in the same day was highly concerning of course, but the fact they disappeared without a trace was more so. Last known information on them was that one of them rushed out in a panic and a second followed him a few minutes later in a calm state. The junior investigator and his trainer were patrolling their usual stomping ground in the 19th ward, the junior investigator was being shown the ropes following a lead.

Thankfully there was a tracker on the patrol car of the senior investigator with the junior one, the tracker led investigators to the twentieth ward where it had been parked up next to an old alleyway leading to an underpass. On the underside of the pass was a second alley where the investigators found the cars of the second two investigators, yet there was no sign of the investigators in between. There had been heavy rainfall since the day they went missing so any forensic evidence was long gone.

Zuno-ryoku took the time to read up on all the missing investigators using not just the CCG database but also the polices for any past criminal activity and his academic grades, nothing that indicated anything as to his missing person. The other three however turned out to have worked together in the owl operation ten years ago, so they probably were close friends too. The first investigator who ran in a panic also had a missing son who disappeared the same day he had done, a little more digging showed that the child had applied to join a school not far from the underpass. The school also had an open day the same day they disappeared, one quick phone call later revealed that the son had attended the first part of the day, yet had disappeared at lunch.