Amaya was unsure how long she had been unconscious, but soon she found herself waking in a cold room. She lay on the floor, the metal ground beneath her icy cold. Others were in the room too, some awake and some either unconscious or dead, but it was too dark to tell just yet. Her head was pounding from whatever Matsunaga had injected her with, but it seemed to be wearing off all the same. After a minute of getting her bearings she got to her feet, looking around for a door or window of some kind, but found that the room they were in had none. She didn’t like the situation one bit, and liked it even less when she started to hear a group approaching from outside the room they were in. Whatever they were saying, she couldn’t understand a single word of it, realizing they weren’t speaking Japanese, but Mandarin. Amaya felt naked without a weapon in that moment, only in a shirt and pants, her shoes taken from her at some point in her journey when she was unconscious. She took a step back, wincing at the sudden bright light that flooded the room when the two metal doors making up one wall opened.
“Get them out and start sorting them, the entire shipment is for fighting.” One of the men in a white trench coat spoke to the others with him, all in the same attire he was, but she couldn’t understand a single word.
Two men entered what was a metal shipping container, starting to herd the people inside out, and it was only once Amaya moved past one of them on her way out did she recognize the heavy metallic scent of blood on them. Ghouls.
She forced herself to stay calm as they were herded into a large room, the smell of blood overwhelming inside, already the sorting process starting. One by one the ghouls in white approached each human, saying something to each one. Amaya noticed that some understood what the men were saying, one man reluctantly holding out both of his arms for the ghoul to inspect before the ghoul gave him an order. The man looked terrified as he went to the door on the left behind the ghoul, disappearing from sight. The ghouls repeated this over and over, saying something Amaya couldn’t understand, but figured was an order to see their arms for whatever reason. The sounds of screaming began shortly after, echoing loudly from the rooms before them, making everyone freeze where they were. When it was her turn, a ghoul approached her, saying the same order she couldn’t understand. “Hold out both your arms.” Amaya decided it was best to just do as the others were, even if she couldn’t understand what they were saying, holding out both of her arms. The ghoul looked them over, for what she wasn’t sure of, then he motioned for her to go to the door on the right.