[There's a significantly long pause before Maka answers, finally grabbing at the book and was trying to reach and distracting herself by flipping through it. She does not look directly at Kaneki as she answers:] The headmaster of my school. I guess he's a little like a friend of the family, too, my dad was his second in command.

[To put it in more...normal terms besides "his living weapon." Maka turns up the book to show him the cover "The Mankey's Paw and other tales."]

This one was new to me. [The monkey's paw was...a very dangerous artifact in her world.]