Goodbye, Miss Rize

"Byakuya, do you know which scene in The Black Goat's Egg I really love? The one where the black goat tears out all the innards of the men fleeing in every direction. No matter how many times I read that part... it always thrills me!"

Rize Kamishiro slowly approached Amahane Byakuya, step by step, letting out a strange, giggling laugh.

She casually pulled the hair clip from her hair. Veins bulged around her kakugan, making her look somewhat vicious.

Her long purple hair fell loose, but wearing it down like this made Rize Kamishiro look even more beautiful.

Having already received his system reward, Amahane Byakuya could no longer be bothered to keep up the act.

Facing Rize Kamishiro with her true nature exposed, he showed his true self as well.

Just as Rize Kamishiro was about to start toying with Amahane Byakuya and hunting him down, she suddenly heard him tell her calmly, "Honestly, you look prettier with your hair clip off."

He was not being sarcastic with Rize Kamishiro. He genuinely thought so.

With her hair clip off, especially if she took off her glasses too, Rize Kamishiro was at her most beautiful. That was what Amahane Byakuya truly thought.

Hearing this, Rize Kamishiro froze for a moment.

Normally, he should have been fleeing in a terrified panic, yet the person before her looked perfectly calm.

This disappointed her greatly. She wanted to see despair, terror, and disbelief on his face and in his eyes, not such a composed, indifferent response. It instantly killed all her interest.

The excited, vicious expression on Rize Kamishiro's face turned cold. "What nonsense are you talking about? I'm going to eat you."

"I know. But those are two separate things. You wanting to eat me doesn't stop me from telling you you're pretty."

Amahane Byakuya smiled faintly.

Rize Kamishiro had not yet released her kagune, which was why he still had the leisure to chat with her.

"Your calmness makes me sick. Aren't you afraid of dying?"

Rize Kamishiro's expression grew colder. As her words fell, four dark red rinkaku kagune burst from her waist, their tips razor-sharp. Of the four types of kagune, rinkaku had the greatest destructive power.

"Just like this, I'll use them to gently stir around inside your belly, Byakuya~ Hehehe..."

Rize Kamishiro waved her four rinkaku kagune, still trying to frighten Amahane Byakuya. Otherwise, this "game" would be far less entertaining.

Yet Amahane Byakuya's expression remained unchanged.

Seeing this, Rize Kamishiro finally ran out of patience.

"Whatever. You're rather boring, but your flesh is much tastier than anyone else's. That should make up for the disappointment."

Rize Kamishiro spoke coldly, then lunged straight at Amahane Byakuya.

She refused to believe this boy could remain so calm when faced with death.

The moment Rize Kamishiro actually moved to attack, Amahane Byakuya simply ran.

As his fusion progress advanced, his Body Flicker Technique had received a corresponding enhancement, allowing him to teleport a little farther than before.

He used the Body Flicker Technique to teleport onto a nearby low building.

"Goodbye, Miss Rize."

Before leaving, Amahane Byakuya even waved goodbye to Rize Kamishiro.

As soon as he finished speaking, he teleported again onto the roof of another, taller building. Combined with his already impressive movement speed, he disappeared from Rize Kamishiro's sight in no time.

He had never intended to fight Rize Kamishiro. Without a Quinque, dealing with an S-rated ghoul would still be rather troublesome.

Besides, Rize Kamishiro's S rating was merely the danger rating the CCG had officially assigned her. It was based on how dangerous she was, not solely on her strength.

For example, no matter how powerful a ghoul was, if they had never harmed humans, the CCG would not assign them a danger rating.

Rize Kamishiro possessed the purest Washuu bloodline, giving her terrifying potential. Her kakuhou and kagune in particular were absurdly powerful almost regardless of who received them as transplants.

Rize Kamishiro herself had few opportunities to demonstrate her strength in the original story. After all, she had been captured right at the beginning and used as a donor for artificial half-ghoul experiments.

Amahane Byakuya disappeared so quickly that by the time Rize Kamishiro reacted and tried to pursue him, she could no longer catch up.

"Tch!"

Rize Kamishiro bit her thumbnail in frustration.

Amahane Byakuya's goodbye had infuriated her. The delicacy that had practically been in her mouth had flown away just like that.

Still, the abilities that boy had just displayed caught her attention.

An ordinary human should not have been capable of moving like that.

And he had reacted so calmly earlier, as though he had known all along that she was a ghoul.

Putting these factors together, Rize Kamishiro felt certain that Amahane Byakuya was no ordinary person. He probably was not a Ghoul Investigator either. Could he be...

While Rize Kamishiro was pondering this, she suddenly noticed a strange shadow on the ground beneath her feet.

When she instinctively looked up, she saw several enormous steel beams falling straight toward her.

Distracted by her thoughts, she had absolutely no time left to dodge.

BOOM!!!

The already immensely heavy steel beams, accelerated by gravity from high above, smashed Rize Kamishiro's body almost to a pulp.

"Why... did..."

Rize Kamishiro lost consciousness.

Even so, she did not die.

People across a wide area heard the tremendous crash. It sounded almost as though something had exploded.

Amahane Byakuya, who had not yet gone far, naturally heard it too. He realized almost immediately what had happened, and a system notification promptly sounded in his mind.

[Ding! The host has activated a mission. God-tier choice initiated!]

[Choice one: Ignore the "Falling Steel Beam Incident" and go home to sleep. Reward: 1 fusion point!]

[Choice two: Go back and rescue Rize Kamishiro, preventing the events that follow the "Falling Steel Beam Incident." Reward: 10 fusion points!]

[Choice three: Return and lie beside Rize Kamishiro, pretending to be unconscious, and voluntarily undergo Akihiro Kanou's artificial half-ghoul experiment. Reward: 50 fusion points!]

P.S. I was supposed to be able to sign the contract today once I reached 20,000 characters, but the reviewers were too slow, so now I'll have to wait until next Monday to finish signing. Also, there will be a fourth update later to make up for yesterday's third update, which I didn't post on time.