If he hadn't known exactly what Rize Kamishiro meant by those words, it would have been all too easy to misunderstand her.
By "someone who belongs only to me," she actually meant "food that belongs only to me."
Put simply, Rize Kamishiro wanted him all to herself. She didn't want any other ghouls eating the flesh on Amahane Byakuya's body.
But the problem was, he hadn't really done anything. He had only shot at a target with a gun loaded with special bullets.
Once he started using a Quinque, the ghoul scent on him would be even more obvious.
"Did you hear me?"
Just then, Rize Kamishiro gently poked Amahane Byakuya's cheek with her finger and repeated, "Did you hear me?"
"I heard you, but whether another ghoul bites me isn't exactly up to me."
Amahane Byakuya sounded rather helpless.
"Aren't you pretty strong? Just don't let them get their way."
Rize Kamishiro said calmly, "Anyway, I'm the only one allowed to taste your body."
"...That's a little overbearing."
Amahane Byakuya couldn't help remarking.
"Oh, and I want a little taste today, too."
Rize Kamishiro said.
"No. Last time was already a special exception. I let you have your way once."
At her words, Amahane Byakuya's scalp tingled. Just thinking about the feeling of having his earlobe held in her mouth...
"Come on. I won't taste your ear this time. I'll try this instead..."
As she spoke, Rize Kamishiro took hold of Amahane Byakuya's right index finger. "I'll decide which part of you to enjoy when the time comes~"
"...Fine."
Amahane Byakuya agreed after all.
With Amahane Byakuya's permission, Rize Kamishiro immediately closed her teeth gently around his right index finger, savoring its flavor.
Simply tasting him like this came nowhere near the flavor of the chunk of flesh Rize Kamishiro had torn straight from Amahane Byakuya's shoulder before. That had been mind-blowingly delicious.
Rize Kamishiro was doing this precisely to build up her desire. Once it had accumulated until that final moment, she would enjoy it to the fullest.
It also took the edge off her craving a little, though that relief was only temporary. Afterward, she would only crave him even more.
Rize Kamishiro brushed the loose strands of hair away from her face with one hand while holding Amahane Byakuya's finger with the other. The pose was rather suggestive.
Amahane Byakuya felt terribly awkward throughout the whole thing. After all, plenty of customers around them were watching.
Not only that, but even Touka Kirishima, who was serving customers, kept casting concerned glances his way.
Of course, that was because Amahane Byakuya and Rize Kamishiro doing this in the café could easily affect its image. That was what concerned Touka Kirishima.
Still, this was just barely tolerable. If Amahane Byakuya and Rize Kamishiro went any further, Touka Kirishima would have to consider going over to give them a warning.
"All right, that's enough."
When Rize Kamishiro still refused to release his finger, Amahane Byakuya had no choice but to speak up.
Only then did Rize Kamishiro reluctantly let go of Amahane Byakuya's finger. Her hand instinctively stroked her cheek, and an almost feverish flush spread across her face, as though she were still savoring that delicious taste.
Even such a small taste left her feeling more satisfied than any human she had hunted before.
That was actually because both Amahane Byakuya's physique and the Hashirama cells inside him had grown stronger since Rize Kamishiro first tasted his flesh. Both had undergone a qualitative transformation from Level 1 to Level 2.
Put simply, Amahane Byakuya's flavor had undergone a qualitative change as well. Even his skin alone tasted irresistibly delicious to a ghoul.
Amahane Byakuya suddenly suspected that, at this rate, he would sooner or later become a "succubus" in the eyes of ghouls...
That was hardly a good thing. Ghouls would genuinely chase him down to take a bite, not shower him with the romantic attention that being a "succubus" might suggest.
After a while, Rize Kamishiro had more or less finished savoring the aftertaste.
"That bookish boy just now said he wanted to invite you to Sen Takatsuki's fan meet, didn't he?"
Rize Kamishiro suddenly changed the subject.
"Yeah. Why?"
Amahane Byakuya immediately knew that the "bookish boy" Rize Kamishiro meant was Ken Kaneki.
"Nothing. I'm just a little interested now, too. I want to see what kind of person that author, Sen Takatsuki, is."
Rize Kamishiro said.
Sen Takatsuki's works were very much to her taste, since almost all of them were graphic and disturbing. Those gruesome scenes were her favorites.
That was why she had started taking an interest in Sen Takatsuki herself.
"Sure. You can come with me when the time comes."
Amahane Byakuya said.
Ken Kaneki would just have to suffer a little when the time came.
Just imagining how Ken Kaneki would feel upon seeing him arrive with Rize Kamishiro was enough to make him uncomfortable.
But there was nothing he could do. He would just have to look out for Ken Kaneki more in the future to make it up to him.
"Touka, Miss Kamishiro seems to have been behaving herself much more these past couple of days."
Just then, Kaya Irimi, who was at the front counter, began chatting with Touka Kirishima about Rize Kamishiro.
Kaya Irimi was also a waitress at the Antique Café. She looked like a tall, mature woman with the air of a sophisticated older lady, but her true identity was the SS-rated ghoul "Black Dog."
"She really has settled down. That boy is probably Miss Kamishiro's prey, but it's been days, and she still hasn't done anything to him. That's nothing like her usual habit of feeding so frequently."
Touka Kirishima couldn't help musing, "And seeing how they act around each other, it doesn't look like she simply wants to eat him. Is Miss Kamishiro just that good an actress?"
"Didn't Miss Kamishiro tell you before that she liked that boy? Could that be why?"
Kaya Irimi asked.
"She said at the time that it was a lie. Besides, it's really hard to imagine someone like her falling for a human. It's already a miracle she hasn't eaten every last one of them."
Touka Kirishima shook her head slightly.
"You never know. Whatever else Miss Kamishiro may be, she's still a girl. It wouldn't be strange for her to be too shy to admit her feelings, or to fall for a human. I've heard of plenty of humans and ghouls falling in love."
Kaya Irimi said.
Yoshimura Kuzen, standing nearby, could also hear Kaya Irimi and Touka Kirishima's conversation. Outwardly, however, he showed no change in emotion, his kindly smile remaining on his face. What was going on inside was another matter...
After all, Yoshimura Kuzen himself was a ghoul who had fallen in love with a human.
Just then, Kaya Irimi suddenly asked with a smile, "Speaking of which, you're at that age now too, Touka. Is there a boy you like?"
"No way. Every boy in my class is childish."
Touka Kirishima replied casually.
Clearly, she really didn't have a boy she liked. That was why her response was so relaxed and natural.
Kaya Irimi immediately reached a conclusion. "I get it. So you like mature guys who are older than you, Touka~"
P.S. Fourth update done. As always, please send some gifts~
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