Ken Kaneki adjusted his glasses, their lenses gleaming, his expression as solemn as if he were performing a sacred exorcism:
"Delicious holy water. I went to a shrine specially to get it and had a master bless it."
Kaori Miyazono blinked her pretty eyes, utterly bewildered. "????"
Drinking water... that had been blessed?
Kousei Arima looked at the faintly yellow liquid in the bottle, then thought of certain ancient, utterly absurd Eastern folk remedies for warding off evil. His face went from red to white, then from white to green.
With a trembling hand, he pointed at the bottle in disbelief:
"...Don't tell me this is virgin boy's urine????"
"?????"
An autumn breeze swept through the park's cherry trees.
The smile on Kaori Miyazono's face froze completely at that moment.
Miyuki Shirogane, Hachiman Hikigaya, and Houtarou Oreki all sucked in a sharp breath, their feet involuntarily carrying them a full three meters backward.
In that instant, the atmosphere plunged into an absolute deathly silence ten thousand times more terrifying than facing a space beast.
"..."
"Aaaaaah! Kaneki, you idiot, what the hell are you doing?!!!"
Kousei Arima lost it. He hurled the bottle to the ground as though it were burning his hand, seized Ken Kaneki by the throat, and shook him wildly. "Who offers a girl this stuff the first time they meet?! You've ruined my entire youth!!!"
"Kousei, calm down! This is all for your safety!"
Ken Kaneki's eyes rolled back as he was strangled, but he still desperately tried to explain. "If she's a monster disguised as a human, drinking this bottle of pure-yang virgin boy's urine will definitely reveal her true form on the spot! This is the ultimate defensive weapon I got up early to prepare specially!"
**"Get lost! Keep that ultimate weapon and drink