Gao Yu took the train to where Kiyoko was.
As soon as he got off the train, he saw Kiyoko among the crowd.
Kiyoko’s appearance was particularly eye-catching among the crowd.
She already had a mature, elegant face, and combined with her cool expression, her aura rose another level.
Her suit accentuated her figure to the fullest.
Gao Yu’s eyes subconsciously looked toward her hand, and sure enough, she was firmly holding a white briefcase.
As long as she wanted to, she could pull out Zebizu at any time and fire a shot.
“Gao-kun.”
Kiyoko walked over with a dashing stride, a hint of a smile appearing on her face.
“Big Sis Kiyoko, have you been waiting long?”
“Not long. I just arrived too.”
Kiyoko shook her head, and Gao Yu did not say anything more.
The people nearby had strange expressions.
Kiyoko had actually arrived long ago and had probably been waiting for nearly half an hour.
She said she had just arrived?
They looked at Gao Yu with admiration.
This guy really had something.
Damn it, we want a big sister to wait for us too!
There were too many resentful gazes around them, so Gao Yu chuckled.
“Sis Kiyoko, let’s go. Let’s get something to eat first.”
Kiyoko nodded.
Gao Yu had previously said that he had something he wanted her help with.
At an ordinary family restaurant, Kiyoko solemnly placed her briefcase down, pressing it against her waist on the inner side.
There was absolutely no chance of an accident.
“Sis Kiyoko, have you been tired from work lately?”
The steaming dishes were soon served.
Gao Yu put a piece of grilled meat into her bowl.
He had invited her out so late at night, and Kiyoko also considered him her younger brother, so he had to provide some emotional value in return.
Kiyoko was very beautiful, so Gao Yu was naturally happy to oblige.
Although he liked to lie flat, he would certainly put effort into maintaining a relationship when someone was willing to come to him.
“How could I be tired or not tired? A CCG investigator’s job is just like this. You have to be ready at any time.”
Kiyoko happily accepted Gao Yu’s feeding, her cheeks becoming even softer.
Gao Yu was handsome to begin with, and hearing him call her Sis Kiyoko over and over again simply felt good.
Who could refuse emotional value?
Refusing it only meant that there wasn’t enough of it.
“However, things have been much quieter lately. Ghoul-eating-human incidents have decreased by a certain amount, and there haven’t been any ghouls above S-rank either.”
Ghouls looked almost identical to humans on the surface, making them difficult to investigate when they hid in the shadows.
Kiyoko had much more free time and was in good spirits, but she still did not dare to be careless.
No one knew when some high-ranking ghoul might suddenly go crazy and come out to slaughter people.
Gao Yu thought for a moment and said, “Could there be some kind of conspiracy, with the ghouls secretly planning something?”
Kiyoko sighed.
There were simply too few CCG investigators.
Every year, too many investigators died while hunting ghouls.
Saying that they were severely understaffed was no exaggeration.
It wasn’t as if there hadn’t been incidents where everything seemed peaceful on the surface, only for ghouls to suddenly carry out large-scale killings.
But what could they do when there weren’t enough personnel?
The CCG was doing everything it could to avoid investigators dying tragic deaths.
It had explicitly announced that once a person’s identity as a ghoul was discovered, they would be stripped of their civil rights, and no laws would apply to ghouls anymore.
The purpose was to prevent newcomers from recklessly charging in.
They only needed to find an opportunity to kill the ghoul and avoid getting themselves killed in the process.
“Alright. Take care of yourself, Sis Kiyoko.”
Gao Yu once again put some food into her bowl.
Whenever Kiyoko ate something she liked, her delicate eyebrows would rise.
After observing her for a while, Gao Yu had already figured out exactly which foods on the table she liked.
“Gao-kun, you don’t have to keep putting food in my bowl. Eat some yourself too.”
Her small bowl was filled to the brim with Gao Yu’s handiwork.
Even Kiyoko felt embarrassed, so she returned the favor by putting food into his bowl.
When Kiyoko said it was dangerous, it really was dangerous.
After all, she was a Special-Class investigator, and most of the missions she carried out involved directly facing S-rank or higher ghouls.
“I don’t want to see Sis Kiyoko get hurt. If you encounter a ghoul you can’t defeat, Sis Kiyoko, you must run.”
Gao Yu did not care about other people, but Sis Kiyoko was different.
Aura Kiyoko chuckled.
“That won’t do. If I run, more people will inevitably die at the hands of ghouls. I have to kill the ghoul.”
“But if something happens to Sis Kiyoko, I’ll be sad.”
Gao Yu’s serious expression left her speechless, and she gently put down the chopsticks in her hand.
“If Sis Kiyoko isn’t there to hold them back, the ghouls will kill even more people. Only if Sis Kiyoko stays alive can she protect humanity.”
Ghouls in Japan were the most arrogant in the whole world.
He really didn’t know what Japan’s departments were doing.
Were they just sitting around eating for free?
Even the CCG’s founding family, the Washuu family, was a ghoul family.
It was simply speechless.
Kiyoko said softly, “If I die, there will be another Special-Class investigator to replace me.”
“But that won’t be Sis Kiyoko.”
“…Gao-kun.”
The feeling of being cared about was strange and comfortable.
Naturally, Kiyoko was no exception.
“I’ll do my best to make sure I don’t die.”
“That’s good.”
Gao Yu was uncertain what changes his arrival would cause.
The butterfly effect had already demonstrated all the changes that could be triggered by an outside event.
In the original story, Kiyoko did not die, but both of her legs were crippled, leaving her practically disabled.
After coming here, Gao Yu definitely did not want such a tragedy to happen.
But he had to make Kiyoko understand that she could not die, because someone did not want her to die.
“Gao-kun, do you want to become an investigator?”
Kiyoko’s expression turned serious.
“Gao-kun, being an investigator isn’t a simple job. Fighting ghouls head-on has an extremely high casualty rate.”
“You can’t become an investigator just because you want to. You need to undergo systematic training and pass an assessment before graduation.”
Gao Yu explained, “Sis Kiyoko, I don’t want to become an investigator. I just want information on the locations of ghouls. I want to hunt ghouls.”
The speed at which he absorbed energy from heaven and earth was not fast enough.
Hunting ghouls and absorbing the energy dissipating from their bodies would undoubtedly allow him to evolve faster.
It was true that he liked to lie flat, but lying flat did not mean doing nothing.
That would just make him useless.
He could understand the inner conflict of Touka.
She was suffering greatly.
A race that ate humans trying to live together with humans would often end in tragedy.
She knew this, yet she was still taking steps toward Gao Yu.
Gao Yu was not an idiot.
Naturally, he wanted to evolve the ability to alleviate her food problem as soon as possible.
He already had some clues about the direction of his evolution and was moving in that direction.
Kiyoko asked doubtfully, “If you don’t want to become an investigator, then why are you so determined to hunt ghouls? Gao-kun, hunting ghouls requires sufficient strength. I’m afraid you…”
Kiyoko hesitated.
Gao Yu did not look like someone who possessed much strength.
“There isn’t really a reason. I simply want to hunt them.”
Gao Yu thought for a moment and said, “As for becoming an investigator… I don’t want to work.”
Kiyoko’s expression froze, her head filled with question marks.
“You won’t become one simply because you don’t want to work?”
Gao Yu said with a smile, “Working is impossible. The property my parents left me is enough for me to live on. I don’t want to work myself to death.”
“Heh…”
Kiyoko’s lips twitched slightly.
Her younger brother seemed to be a little lazy.
“But I still can’t let you get involved. It’s too dangerous. Even I could die at any moment, let alone you, Gao-kun.”
Kiyoko decisively refused.
She could not possibly let Gao Yu fall into danger.
“I’m actually pretty strong.”
Her cool gaze swept over Gao Yu, especially lingering on his arms and broad shoulders.
Sufficient strength was often reflected in arm strength and shoulder width, and Gao Yu had neither.
Gao Yu knew that words alone were not enough, and he had no intention of persuading her with words.
“Sis Kiyoko, can you let me go to the Ghoul Investigator Training Academy to train for a while?”
Gao Yu’s main purpose was to go there once, have Aura Kiyoko acknowledge his strength, and allow him to obtain ghoul information so he could hunt them.
Afterward, if Kiyoko encountered a difficult situation, she could simply call him.
“This…”
Kiyoko carefully thought about it and felt that it was possible.
If Gao Yu could develop a certain level of combat ability through training at the Ghoul Investigator Training Academy, allowing him to protect himself until investigators arrived when attacked by ghouls, then that would be pretty good.