Tokyo Ghoul 81

Translation: Shahz/ Sohma Riku

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Box 1 (tittle) [Subordinate]
(bb) Amon-senpai…. Congratulations on your promotion!
Box 2 (bb) Some people retire while they are only a first-class investigator,
To be installed as a top-class investigator when you're only 27... that's so like you...!!
(bb2) Thank you, Seidou.
Box 3 (bb) Seidou! I got promoted too!
Congratulate me.
(bb2) Like I care!
(bb3) Juuzo is a second-class now, just like me...
Box 4 (bb) Well done, everyone.
Box 5 (bb) Before I proceed with the debriefing, I'd like to introduce someone.
The newest member of the 20th ward's squad.
Box 6 (bb) Please come in.

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Box 1 (bb) From today on, she will be assigned to 20th ward's branch. This is second-class investigator, Mado Akira.
Box 2 (bb) Oh….!?
Box 3 (bb) I will be join the investigation as the subordinate of top-class investigator Amon.
It's nice to meet you.
Box 5 (bb) This is quite a surprise... Akira-san, right...!?
(bb2) Houji-san, it's been a while.
Box 6 (bb) Wh..why are you in the 20th ward…..
(bb2) Oh, Takizawa! You look good.

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Box 1 (bb) Seidou、
you two know each other?
Box 2 (bb) ...... in the “same class”.
Box 3 (bb) ….Akira was first in class, Seidou was second.
...better not mention that.
Box 4 (bb) I’m Suzuya Juuzo!
It's nice to meet you, Mado-san.
(bb2) The pleasure is mine, second-class Suzuya.
That's a nice cross-stitch.
Box 5 (bb) Previously, she worked under the command of Arima's team at the main office in the 1st ward.
Arima himself guaranteed she's really capable.
(bb2) Let's unite our efforts and get the job done
We will be counting on you, Akira.
(bb3) Yes, I’m looking forward to work with everyone.
Box 6 (nb) She was in top-class Arima's team…..
Box 7 (bb) Then, let’s start with today's debriefing session.

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Box 1 (bb) We haven't received a definite report yet that ties the “Binge Eater” case to that person, but
(bb2) right now we are thoroughly checking all newspapers articles that were published between September and November last year,
around the time that the "Binge Eater" disappeared.
Box 2 (bb) We are making a list of all cases and incidents that could possibly be related to the "Bing Eater",
and thoroughly investigating all details case by case.
(bb2) Nakajima and his team from the 20th ward's branch offered us their help,
and thanks to them we're done with about 30% of the total investigation.
Box 3 (bb) If I'm not disappointed in my expectations, we'll be able to find an answer in time.
The only problem is time….
(There are piles of data.)
Box 4 (bb) Takki, tell us about the "Gourmet" case.
(bb2) Yes.

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Box 1 (bb) Officially, we are in charge of the "Gourmet" case, but
we received confirmation he's been active outside the 20th ward lately.
(bb2) Right now we know that "Gourmet" frequents the 7th, 8th and 18th ward.
We are gathering more information, with the help of each ward's staff.
If we lend our hand to the each branch officer ward we could also
Collecting information at the same time
Box 2 (bb) In the 7th ward, we also found the "ghoul restaurant" we had been searching for.
(bb2) We will invade the place tomorrow.
(bb3) Yes, I'm not sure if it's relevant to the "Gourmet" case,
Box 3 (bb) but I wonder why is “Gourmet” is going to other wards lately.
(bb2) Maybe there was a predation target that suited his taste in each of those wards...
(bb3) No.
Box 4 (bb) The main dish is an other ward.
Box 5 (bb) ...what?
Box 6 (bb) Explain yourself, Akira.

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Box 1 (bb) Was the sudden drop in the total number of victims the result of some incident?
Perhaps he was recuperating from an attack by his own kind.
Box 3 (bb) Then, according to this data,
at its peak, the number of victims got close to its usual value again.
Right after that, it drops for a second time.
(bb2) He started to restrain his hunting around January this year.
It overlaps with "Gourmet" 's first appearance in the 18th ward a few days earlier.
Box 4 (bb) Is that the summit of your intuitive reasoning?
Second-class Mado.
Box 5 (bb) If you don't mind a little intuition, please hear me out, second-class Takizawa.
Box 6 (bb) If you compare the graph to the map,
it's clear that his action pattern has changed remarkably.

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Box 1 (bb) The 18th ward, the 7th ward and the 8th wards. He goes back and forth between those 3 sections.
He hasn't done any hunting in any other wards.
(bb2) We presume that the 20th ward is "Gourmet" 's territory, but
by nature, he's the type to roam around each ward and carefully criticize the game that has taken his interest.
Box 2 (bb) But lately, it feels like he narrowed his action radius.
It's like he's trapped by "something".
His obsession with meals is also not as extravagant as before.
Box 3 (bb) A local search doesn't get him dainty food he wants.
(bb2) So, it's against his aesthetics。
Box 4 (bb) His meals in those 3 wards are "improvised".
His true target is a completely DIFFERENT KIND OF PREY.
He may be involved in a long-drawn-out fight with a tough opponent.
Box 5 (bb) The ingredient he is looking for is...
Box 6 (bb) probably somewhere in the 6th ward.

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Box 1 (bb) He sticks to using the 18th, 7th and 8th ward as his hunting ground.
Because he doesn't want to alert his target.
(bb2) Ever since the attack by "Aogiri", the 22nd and 23rd ward are on full alert.
So, the chance he's hiding in the 6th ward is extremely high.
Box 2 (bb) I see, so it may be wise to also include the 6th ward in our investigation.
(bb2) Ho..
Houji-san...!
Box 3 (bb) A prey who's smarter than "Gourmet"...?
If it'd be true, that's be interesting.
Box 4 (bb) Mado-san's daughter... Mado Akira...
(bb2) That’s why I never liked you, Mado-san!
Even at the academy, you were always like this!
(bb3) That just shows you never matured.
(bb4) Shut up!
Box 5 (nb) Who would have thought,... that my first subordinate is the daughter of my former superior ...
Box 6 (nb) I'll put my personal feelings aside and treat her like any other investigator...

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Box 2 (bb) Akira, please reorganize this data.
(bb2) Sure, I'm on it.
Box 3 (bb) ......say, Akira.
As a top class investigator I'm your superior.
(bb2) …would you address me in honorific language, please?
Box 4 (bb) I'm the type of person who does away with useless formalities as much as possible.
(bb2) ...huh?
(bb3) Using honorific language is a waste of time and energy.
Even if I shorten my words, it still takes a lot of time.
Box 5 (bb) For example,
saying “Would you please get me...” or “Get me...”.
At my conversation speed, the first would take 0.9 second and the latter 0.3 second.
That's a difference of 0.6 second.
(nb) Would you please get me... 0.9/sec
Get me... 0.3/sec
Box 6 (bb) Let's say I would look to you for help 10 times a day, I could save up to 2000 seconds every year.
Adding up all our work conversations, it makes a big difference whether or not I speak in honorific language.

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Box 1 (bb) If I have a special reverence for someone,
it shall not be applied though-----
Box 2 (bb) Top-class Amon, we now have lost 38 seconds.
Let's not worry about trifling matters and focus on the "Rabbit" case.
Box 3 (bb) Tomorrow we'll pay as visit to the 7TH WARD's "GHOUL RESTAURANT" that Takizawa mentioned, it smells like information.
(bb2) Because the other team has its own plans, we'll have to wait until they're done, right?
(bb3) ......... why are you making the decisions...?
Box 4 (bb) Does she think I'll go easy on her, because I was her father's subordinate?

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Box 1 (bb) Hmm...
Akira-san is... a complicated girl. She's really easy to understand at some points, but...
Box2 (bb) Well, I suspect that Time-loss conversation was ultimately just a joke. It's just like her father, always omitting stuff that is theoretically regarded to be nonsense.
Amongst ourselves we referred to that as the "Mad Joke".
(bb2) ...it's not how a subordinate is supposed to behave, but...
Maybe she's just testing you.
That being said, she's an excellent investigator.
Box 3 (bb) Your relationship is a little complicated.
There's the stuff with her father...
Box 4 (bb) ......I want... I want to teach Akira about all sorts of things,
(bb2) just like how Mado-san did with me in the past...
Box 5 (bb) No everything goes well right from the start.
Everyone is an amateur at first.

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Box 1 (bb) It's simple enough to keep her in check by means of your age difference or the hierarchical relationships, but
But you can't win her trust like that.
Box 2 (bb) It's not a problem if you want your subordinate to use honorific language.
But someone who doesn't criticize his own behavior is a mere fool.
(Juuzo is one of those idiots though.)
Box 3 (bb) By having a meal and a drink together like this,
you can bond while avoiding any life-or-death situations.
Box 4 (bb) That's also how you and Mado did it, right?

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Box 1 (bb) It's a trail that'll make you grow.
Besides, Akira still doesn't have much field experience.
(bb2) Don't worry, you can do it.
Box 2 (bb) First of all...
Ask her out for dinner, after she's done a good job.
(bb2) Dinner... really...?
(bb2) That’s right, so the time has finally come that you'll experience the pains of being a superior yourself?
Ha ha ha.
Box 3 (bb) The “Ghoul restaurant”...
Box 4 (bb) We assumed that a good number of "ghouls" were involved in this
(sq) Fura Taishi
Top-class investigator
In charge of the 7th ward
(bb2) and our assault team really wanted to show some fight, but...

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Box 1 (bb) When you raided this place, all you found was this disastrous scene?
(bb2) Yes.
Box 2 (bb) Damn it... we thought we finally hit the jackpot, but we're back to zero.
All we get is to clean up their mess.
Box 3 (bb) ...is it alright for me to look around a bit?
(bb2) Sure, I don't care.

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Box 1 (bb) -----about 50-60 “ghoul” corpses...?
All murdered...? That's pretty gruesome.
(bb2) With this number of bodies, there is no way they were just brought here to be killed.
Did an "irregular" slip in when the show started...?
Box 2 (bb) ...in that case, the person who raided this place has some connection with the restaurant.
(bb2) Yeah.

Box 3 (bb) ...it's just a "hunch", but
Box 4 (bb) I have a feeling that "Gourmet" is somehow linked to this case.
(bb2) And it was probably the work of a few conspirators.
Box 5 (bb) It would be hard to give rise to this much misery on your own.
Maybe a former friend sneaked him into the restaurant,
and then they slaughtered every single "ghoul" of this restaurant.
Something like that?

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Box 1 (bb) No, “Gourmet” didn't do this.
Box 2 (bb) Look.
Box 3 (bb) The marks on the damaged parts that look like someone cut him with a coarse rasp were made by the "kagune" of a "rinkaku".
(bb2) These kagune-inflicted injury patterns are different for every "ghoul".
Like you match the rifling* to a gun, you match each of these patterns to a "ghoul".
*The spiral grooves inside the gun barrel. Like human have fingerprints, every gun has different grooves, making it possible to match them to a gun.
box 4 (bb) It's still possible he was involved, but "Gourmet" has a "Koukaku".
He isn't the killer.
(bb2) The raider was probably…..
Box 5 (bb) .....a "ghoul" I met before.

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Box 1 (bb) ...he split a quinque right in two...?
No matter how strong ones "kagune", is this even possible?
Box 2 (bb) ----If this "ghoul" can do something as extraordinary as this,
it's plausible that he exterminated this many "ghouls" all by himself.
(bb2) ...a "ghoul" you've met before... who is he?
Box 4 (bb) It’s the “eye-patch ghoul”.
Box 5 (bb) ...I believe he has clues that will lead us to "Rabbit".
Box 6 (bb) And eye-patch ghoul...?
Box 8 (bb) -----but, these restaurant fellows... where did they get this quinque?
(bb2) It's possible that a ghoul investigator was beaten at his own game.

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Box 1 (nb) It seems that "ghouls" have the skills to annul the biometric authentication of a quinque...
(nb) It's been only two days, but I've learned a lot about her.
(bb2) It's the proof how far they have merged into the shadows of human society.
It's our job to shine light on those places.
Box 2 (nb) Akira lacks experience, but she hides it behind a high potential...
(bb) ...Akira.
Box 3 (nb) I'll be every bit as good as her.
(bb) Would you like to grab dinner with me, after we're done with our reports?
I'll be done in about 10 minutes...
(bb2) The answer is "NO".
(bb3) I'm sorry, but I don't eat after 9PM.
(In the end, I'm still a girl.)
Box 4 (bb) I appreciate the invitation though.
(bb2) I'll leave my report over here.
It's time, so I'll be leaving now.
Box 5 (bb) Amon-san!
Would you like to grab a meal with Nakajima-san and me?