PS: This chapter is mostly dialogue.
Lying on the floor, Megumi kept signaling to Ken Kaneki with her eyes and mouth.
She had only one thing to tell him: abandon her and let her child live.
Time ticked away...
"Hey, hey, hey! Hurry up and choose! I can't wait anymore. Does the kid die, or does the mother? Personally, I think killing the mother would be better, right? They say a mother's love is selfless."
Yamori shook Ken Kaneki by the hair with his right hand and pointed at Megumi with his left.
At Yamori's mention of mothers, Ken Kaneki's pupils shifted repeatedly, but he still couldn't bring himself to speak.
"Answer me! Answer me! Answer me!!! Give! Me! An! Answer!"
Yamori's patience wore thin. He glared viciously at the mother and son, releasing his grip on Kaneki's hair and closing his hand around his throat instead.
"Choose what?! What am I supposed to choose?! If you insist on a choice, then just kill me!!" Ken Kaneki shouted hoarsely.
"Heh heh heh. Fine, fine..." Yamori's expression turned chilling as he walked over to Megumi. "Watch closely, kid. See how your beloved mother dies."
Even Nico couldn't bear to watch this and spoke up to stop Yamori's sick game. Killing a mother in front of her child was simply too cruel.
"Huh? You're giving me orders? You damn tranny! In that case, I'll slaughter the kid first!"
Yamori abandoned his attack on Megumi and, without hesitation, grabbed the child by the neck with his other hand, slowly tightening his grip around Mitsuto's throat.
Crack... crack...
His neck creaked under the unbearable pressure. In Yamori's powerful grip, Mitsuto's legs flailed in the air. No matter how hard he pulled with both hands, he couldn't pry those fingers loose.
"This way, he won't