Chapter 31: Hybrids curse

Temporarily locked inside a makeshift interrogation room in the heart of CCG is hardly a punishment for his crimes, he thought. Looking at his audience somewhat tickled him a bit. The youngest clown grinned manically, not even bothered that none of the crowd outside the room seemed amused. They won't lock him here for good, not when they desperately need the data that he knows. They even asked him a few things awhile back and now they are deliberating of what they'll do to him and his clowns.

"Furuta" The bastardized one-eyed king started. He is sitting outside the interrogation room wherein they locked Furuta; a thick fiber glass is the only thing separating them along with this room's walls. Kaneki told them not to lock the Washuu king but the rest disagreed especially after they saw how dangerous Furuta could be.

"Yes?" The man in question meekly answered.

"There's one thing we want to ask you before we tell you our decision"

"Have fun asking."

"What do you and Akihiro Kanou wants to do with that Dragon? Is there a way to stop the dragon's children? We might release you—" He stopped from talking because the other king throws his head back and he started laughing.

"The whys of things hardly matters and we both know that you will still release me because you need my help. Stop them you say? Why don't you try to stop them then? Are you not the one-eyed king" Souta mocked, while Ken gritted his teeth in return.

"…"

"Come on, you are all too predictable" Furuta stretched his legs lazily.

Currently in the middle of an important meeting with the rest of the remaining executive of Aogiri Tree, high rank members of GOAT, CCG, Kaneki still couldn't believe that this crowd of people will join hands one day. Even the faces of the clowns are all present.

"Why should we believe you?" Marude eyed the younger man suspiciously once he saw him carefully moving his hands, what he did to Kaiko somewhat scared him and he couldn't think of anything but to keep an eye on Yoshitoki's little brother.

"You won't believe me and yet you'll believe the words of my nonsensical half-brother Kishou." Furuta snorted.

"It's none of your concern, Clown bastard" She refuted in a calming tone, smile adorn her lips to match Nimura's own.

"Oh why is that? Is it because you cannot have fun with Kishou-san anymore while I am here?" Calmness adorns his face, opposite to the hostility to his voice. He darted his attention to the woman who is carrying his brat, concealing his malevolent side.

"Oho someone is jealous" Eto leered at the Clown sitting across her. The hostility between the two hybrids sent shivers into the spine of others.

"Can't you shut your mouth even for a day?" Hairu asked harshly; she's also invited in the meeting along with all the children from the garden because they hope that these children can provide more details for them. Surely, she does not get along well with Nimura but she'd rather side with him than the green haired bitch-witch. Furuta and Arima-san are both smitten to the green haired witch— Bitterly, she thought. Not understanding why the two half-brothers will even like Eto Yoshimura when there are so many females out there who are ready to kill just to have their sole attention and affection.

"Mind your own crap, Princess" Eto snapped, she hates it when she is being compared with Rize. Furuta smiled at Ihei who nodded at him in return. "On the contrary it was actually you who is jealous. Obsessed with Kishou, no? Ah! Did you dream that he'll fuck you someday if you give your best? That's it, right?" She moved her head to the left to avoid the flying teacup.

"Why you—" Hairu grabbed her tea cup and she threw it towards Eto who dodges it with ease.

"Embarrassed aren't we, Ihei?"

"Will you please focus on the matter at hand?" Ui Koori glared at the owl before him.

"It did not ring well that the woman you loved is dreaming of Kishou Arima all this time, no?"

"…" Ui was grabbed by Hirako in the arm before he can stand and hit the half ghoul.

"What?" Hairu stared at Eto and then at Ui. She covered her mouth and she blushed.

"He dreams of taking you home. Can you believe that? Someone is willing to fuck an airhead like you." Eto smirked in a childish manner that somewhat made her look younger than her age.

"Please don't listen to her!" Ui groaned and his cheeks turned red.

"Why not tell her already the reason why you agreed to Furuta's Koryugi operation?" Sen taunted the bowl cut investigator who in return stiffened. His eyes darted on Furuta as if waiting for him to mock him too but the man-child seemed not in the mood to do so.

"Eto!" Ui and Hairu screamed at the mischievous man.

"Can we just focus on more important things?" Kaneki talked at last.

"You are the last person who'll tell anyone that." Souta said at last. He seemed triggered at Kaneki for some unknown reason.

"I—" He closed his eyes and breath in and out as is calming himself because won't lose his temper if that is what Furuta is trying to do. "What everyone wants here is to have a decent talk." He promised Hide that he'll be kind to Furuta no matter what.

"I certainly can understand that you are too excited to go to your room and make lovey dovey with your beautiful wife" Souta arched dark eyebrow and his lips curved into a grin. "Can't blame you, she is pretty even I have to admit that." He then winked at Touka who just rolled her eyes at him. "But still not as perfect as Rize." He smirked upon seeing Kaneki flinching from his seat.

Touka composed herself, in normal days she will definitely hit this bastard's head onto the table for mentioning Rize but she contemplated that hurting him won't get them anywhere. Touka darted her full attention at the man, still trying to remember if she ever met him before. Why do I have the feeling I met him somewhere. She tried to think if where she met him before. Then she suddenly gasped. "You!" She rudely pointed at him.

"Me?" Genuine confusion is well-written across his face. Nimura's dark eyebrows furrowed.

"You are that guy who told me where I could find the Science building's direction at Kamii University!" She can clearly remember now that day wherein she accidentally met this guy. He did not look different from that time except he looked chubbier during his younger years, but now he is slender and well still good-looking.

"…" Kaneki clenched his jaw; this is the first time he ever heard about Touka meeting Furuta at Kamii University. Wait—Kamii?! Why was he at Kamii that time?! Kaneki contemplated Furuta's connection to the Great Wheel Act that was based at Kamii too that time. "Don't tell you were also part of—" Furuta's smile confirmed his suspicion.

"Could it be that you were the one who told Nico to give Doctor Ogura's business card to us?" Nishiki remembered what Ogura said the moment they met up with Ken's group. He eyed the dark haired king whose smile did not leave his youthful face.

"I have only given that business card to the individuals that I can trust" Ogura, one of the head doctors of the Great Wheel Act said upon meeting up with Ken several months ago.

"It's quite useful, no?" Souta cheekily answered to the older man. "I got that from Kimi-chan and whatnot—" He stared at the blinding light of the meeting room and darted his full attention on Kaneki's beautiful wife later on. "Well that's quite odd, looks like we are meant to be Touka-chan." Souta joked.

That's it; Kaneki will not allow Furuta to say anything anymore. Insulting others is already unforgivable but flirting with his wife is another thing. He stood up and he grabbed the taller man's shirt "Say no more" His fist connected at nowhere, gloved hand caught it, threatening to break it too.

"Ah how brutaaaaaaal" Furuta chuckled. "Kishou-san will be so proud of you, Associate Special Class. There is no doubt to it, especially how his chosen heir is nothing but a huge laughing stock." He added to annoy the other king.

"Unlike you, Arima-san is a noble person" Kaneki observed Furuta. Damn he resembles Rize-san so much and I should have suspected that they are blood relatives.

Souta eyed him for a second before he burst into laughter. "Noble Person? Are we talking about the same Kishou of the Arima-Washuu branch family?" He buries his face on top of the table and he holds his stomach, laughing. The people around him just sighed in frustration.

"Don't insult Arima-san, Furuta" Yusa Arima clenched his fists.

"Oh, poor little Yusa. Do you always believe in a person who sent you to your own destruction?"

"Leave Yusa alone!" Rikai shouted. The normal passive girl showed so much emotion that amused their older demi-human relative.

"Souzu Rikai is in love? And with Arima Yusa no less, I ought to give you one advice. First love dies and even if it stays alive— kill it to keep you from turning into something akin to the monster I was turned into. Also, I am curious what form your love will be as time passes by." He winks at the teenage girl.

"Furuta, can you stop being an asshole for even once?" Shio said; his angelic face twisted in anger. "We are trying to reach out and you—" He tried again only to see how Furuta's face contorted in a gruesome smirked.

"Bohooooo… Are you about to cry, little Shio?"

"That's enough" The door was slammed open revealing Kishou Arima standing behind Hideyoshi Nagachika. Marude beckons for the two of them to sit. Nagachika sits beside Touka just in front of Kaneki while Kishou sits beside Eto who is sitting across Furuta.

"So you showed up at last, brother." He pressed his palms together and he leans his chin on it.

"We should move forward and you may settle your family dispute later" Marude scoff. He is getting impatient with these brats especially Furuta. They've been like this since the start of this meeting. Chairman Washuu, did you not teach your brat about manners and respect?! Marude cussed quietly at the dead man for failing to educate his own son

"There's nothing we need to settle" Hsiao muttered "He's not even—"

"Your family? None of us here is family to begin with, little Jin Li. Not even I and Matsuri over there or I to any of you."

"Matsuri is your nephew" Marude said bluntly "Those garden brats are Washuu too like you so they are related to you by blood"

"Hmmmm nice try"

"We already know about your ancestry so quit annoying us, brat"

"None of that really matters if they can only see you as a thing to use whenever it is convenient for them, Special Class Marude." Furuta said as a matter of fact.

"You must stop" Kishou said, the stoic white reaper glared at his brother. As if trying to have power over the younger man.

"You have no say in this matter, Tsuneyoshi's precious puppet. Be quiet as I settle things. Anyway that is what you are good at— to stay obedient and quiet." Furuta mocked and Kishou clenched his fist, Eto soothes his arm. What the fuck? Stop flirting in front of me! Furuta thought to himself upon seeing Eto and Kishou.

"Chairman Washuu would never do such thing—" Marude said as if he is trying to convince himself more than he is trying to convince the others.

"You are not convinced of your own conviction either." Souta observed.

"They do not need to hear about our internal strife." Matsuri stared at him coldly.

"Ashamed that your family's little secret will backfire to your ugly face?" Furuta leered at his own nephew

"Wrong" The last male pure Washuu defended

"So what is it then?" Furuta demanded "Should I tell them about the darkness behind the Washuu name?"

"What makes you think that they'll believe you? Everything that comes out of your mouth are nothing but lies" Matsuri slammed his hands onto the table and he glared at his uncle.

"You have no right to talk not when you stay your hands still for years."

"The Washuu clan gave you everything, you ingrate—"

"Ingrate as what you call me, I'd rather not be part of your delusional tactics. I am fucking tired of playing the role of the main family's dog."

"You were the one who killed grandfather and everyone in the Washuu clan"

"What of it, Matsuri?"

"Grandfather is an honourable man and he wants to help—"

"I beg to differ. Your grandfather is just an old disgusting pervert who forced himself into his own blood relatives, children and human women to continue the accursed bloodline of the Washuu clan"

"You are a hypocrite. I cannot imagine that the one-eyed owl will sleep willingly with you, a Washuu. She despised us all"

"My sexual activity has nothing to do with you. Instead of worrying about mine, why not worry about yours, my gay little nephew. Poor beautiful Iyo was forced to marry someone who'll never like her romantically or even sexually and by the way she is alive."

"Will you repeat that?" Matsuri's already ugly face contorted into something uglier however Furuta's words surprised him.

"Your grandfather is an old disgusting pervert"

"The other one—"

"You are ugly"

"That's not it! The other one"

"My gay little nephew?"

"Souta Furuta!"

"Iyo Washuu is alive" Furuta smirked after he got into Matsuri's nerves.

"Yoshitoki is different from Tsuneyoshi you should have spared him" Arima tried again so he can stop Matsuri and Souta from clashing.

"Chika will be a great Tsuneyoshi in the making and so is Matsuri over there that is why he deserves to die just like everyone else in your little family"

"You are twisted child" Matsuri snapped, he knew Nimura Furuta is not someone to trifle with but to learn that the once favored child was the one behind the their family's massacre somewhat made him want to rip the child into half.

"The Washuu clan and V do not care whoever they will hurt in the process as long as they can sit on that throne, they will never want for sustenance." Furuta stated as if it is the most obvious thing.

"What are they talking about?" Marude whispered to the closest person sitting next to him.

"I am talking about how this world really work, Special Class Itsuki Marude. Knowing that Chika failed to inform you of how this world really works" Souta snapped, he isn't amused at how ignorant these humans and ghouls are and yet they are acting as if they know everything when the truth is they know nothing not even a pinch of truth.

"And do you think killing the whole clan changes anything?" Matsuri pointed accusingly at the younger Washuu.

"Did it not? For your information, I did not kill the whole clan. V killed them or some of them— Chika included but there were survivors from the branch families like Iyo, while I killed Chairman Washuu. I enjoyed it by the way." Furuta airily muttered. "You should have seen his face as I slowly drilled those quinque inside his body. It was funny. It was really entertaining to the point that I regret that I did not even record it." He folded his arms in front of his chest and his left leg folded over his right leg.

"You are a mentally unstable ambitious rotten brat!" The last Washuu pureblood screamed.

"Quit with your insult. It hardly impressed me." Furuta sighed in exasperation.

"Grandpa is your biological father!"

"Tut tut tut…He was just a sperm donor to an unwilling human woman" he waggles his index finger as if reminding the older Washuu.

"Even if that is just the case, He never deserved—"

"He deserved it and you know it too" Souta narrowed his eyes as if threatening his nephew.

"You don't even know what you really want! If you are angry with my grandfather you should have talk to him and there's no need to kill him or anyone—" Matsuri hissed.

"Where is the fun there?"

"This isn't about fun! It is about fixing your relationship with your father!"

"Wow! Why not say that to yourself instead of me or tell that to Takatsuki-sensei oh but your fathers are all dead"

"This is not about me or anyone— this is about you!"

"I shouldn't have killed him then?"

"At least you are getting my point" Matsuri nodded his head in approval

"I should have bottled him up and let you talk to him instead of bothering me with trivial matters." Furuta's lips quirk up. "Maybe I will ask someone to perform the Orgel on him. Ah no, I will do it once I take over Kanou's lab. Will that suffice you?"

"Are you even listening to me or can you even hear yourself?!"

Furuta stood up and he gripped the older Washuu's chin and he forced him to look at him in the eyes, as he glared hatefully at Matsuri. "Washuu blood runs into our veins too but we were treated nothing but things, forced to work as slaves and die for your whims. You treated the branch families as your pets for your own entertainment and now you want me to pity all of you? Tsuneyoshi is no different whether he is my biological father or not." Furuta snarled. The individuals present in the room minus the Clowns, Kishou, Eto, Kimi and Hide were surprised to see Furuta's façade slowly slipping off and showing a small part of who the real Souta Furuta is and how dangerous the man truly is.

"The Washuus are—" Matsuri had a hard time staring into that Furuta's eyes that is filled with malicious intent as Matsuri tried to defend the clan once more but Furuta waved a hand to dismiss his claim, throwing Matsuri back into his chair and settling himself back to his seat. You hate grandfather because he was the one who— Matsuri realized it then what really triggered Nimura Furuta's hatred towards Tsuneyoshi.

"You are living a proud life but no matter how you patch it up; you are nothing but murdering cannibals. That is what the Washuu clan is." The Washuu king sneered.

"We are trying—" Matsuri argued back "We are trying to live a normal life"

"Is eating your dead comrades a work of a normal person?" Furuta challenged. "Is that what you call living a normal life?"

"What?" Akira snapped her neck towards the bickering Washuu descendants.

"You are aware of it, am I correct Special Class Marude?" Souta asked. "You have an idea how the Washuu clan was collecting their food. You followed my older half-brother or so I heard from a V agent" Single eye glinting with malice, half of Furuta's face was covered by his soft raven coloured hair.

"…" Marude clenched his jaw and fists, Unable to look at the others. He found out the atrocities the Washuu clan did behind their backs but Yoshitoki was dear to him and he wished not to reveal it anymore but Furuta is purposely revealing his family's dark secrets one after the other.

"Is there anything you want to share?" Urie asked Furuta although he is looking at Marude.

"The Washuu clan members were eating the remains of the fallen doves. V was ordered to gather the bodies in the cemeteries" Souta's grin grew wide.

"Liar" Urie hopped on top of the table and he pointed his koukaku kagune against Furuta's throat. However, the man did not even move or was threatened.

"It's true. V agents were ordered to steal the dead bodies of fallen investigators to be the Washuu family's meal. That means your friends and family who were dead before the Washuu massacre became tasty steak for the Washuu clan." Furuta revealed once more.

"?!" Urie was unprepared; the next thing he knows is that his kagune was dissolved into mist. He looked down and saw three sharp knives were drilled in his body, which hit his kakuhou.

"Don't get too close Kuki Urie because I hate body contacts unless you are a beautiful woman." Nimura sighed; gloved hand combed his raven coloured hair.

"You—" Urie just like most of those who are sitting on the table were surprised to see Furuta's quinque knives neatly drilled his body and immediately finding his kakuhou. Silently, he wished to punch Furuta but ruled out to stay still.

Matsuri stood but was stopped by Marude. They have no need to anger the already annoyed half human.

"Hmmm?" Furuta's mask of indifference slipped revealing something baneful and dangerous. He loved how Matsuri flinched by merely staring at him.

"Control your temper, Nimura" Kishou warned his brother upon sensing how agitated Furuta is, but not surprised to see his brother's skill.

"Do not speak to me as if you are concern about my well-being" He hissed at Kishou. "We both know you never ever care" Madness is all what they could see in Furuta.

"That's not true because Arima-san cares!" Hairu argued. "Heck, maybe even Tsuneyoshi loved you till his last breath and maybe loved you once even Rize upon a time! Still you wasted everything because you are a bastard who cares for no one but his own little world."

"Shut the fuck up, stupid pink freak!" Nimura snarled.

"Calm down Furuta and there's no need for you insult Hairu" Ui glared.

"Stay out of our business, gullible Bowl cut!" Nimura warned.

"Little Furuta, have you ever thought that maybe V might have done something that forced your father to do what he did to you and to everyone whom he hurt—" Kaneki muttered while slowly they are unveiling the truth behind Furuta's anger towards the world.

"It astounds me at how you are willing to overlook upon the evils of others Kaneki Ken but this is not about who was wrong and who was right. It is about how our choices lead us all here." Nimura's clenched his fist. How the fuck did you know about that huh?!

"You could have been wrong about the Chairman the same way Takatsuki-san is wrong about the Manager. He must have had his own reason why you were abandoned, judging by your tone and reactions alone, we cannot trust your own insight about it because you never know your father to that extent same as Takatsuki-san"

"Pffttttt- ahahahahahahahahahaha" Furuta laughed for a moment and then he wipe the corner of his eyes. "If there is someone to blame on Takatsuki's rampages, it would be her father so it is befitting that he died in behalf of his only child." He eyed the Anteiku crew and Eto to check for their expressions and he knew that Eto has nothing but unadulterated hatred for the man who abandoned her to live his life peacefully while she was cast away.

"There are some things that are beyond words sometimes it is harder to explain things to those whom you cared most because you are scared of hurting them beyond what you already did. Yoshimura-san and Chairman Washuu clearly loved their children more than anything else. Staying away is clearly the only choice they have to protect their children"

"Kaneki… Kaneki... Kaneki… tut tut tut… Let me guess, Kuzen told you about how he kept a porcelain teacup for Eto to use if she were to visit him and you pitied the man who never give a single glance on his own daughter." Souta's expression showed nothing but hatred and it somewhat mirrored Takatsuki Sen's own. "Oh dear since when will you ever learn to never trust adults?" He purred under his breath.

"What do you really want to say? Why can you just you say it directly?!" Frustration is visible across Ken's face. Tired of Furuta's mind games, he screamed at him.

"The greatest thing to harm those who hurt you is to destroy their home." He chuckled once he caught Kishou staring at him. That's right Kishou; this is not all about her. With that in mind, Sou did not dare to look away.

"…" Kishou eyed his brother uncomfortably. There's something that is telling him that this is not all about Eto. No, this is not just about her. His brother and his friend are both trapped in the same scenario that gave birth to twisted individuals who wants nothing but to destroy the things that they cannot change.

"CCG protects human-kind" Ui tried to protect his pride. True, Tsuneyoshi is a scary man because of his great insight which was inherited by Furuta himself but the senior man did nothing but to protect humans from their own kind. That is quite remarkable for Ui.

"You destroyed CCG because you hate seeing your own father looking at the others while he did not even recognize you, am I correct?" Kaneki's expression darkens.

"You really think that I usurp the Washuu clan's power for such pitiful reason?" Genuine surprised coloured his tone. "So in the end you never told them?" He then asked his brother. "Tut tut tut how much did you keep from them?"

"What do you mean?" Shio asked the black sheep of their clan.

"You trusted Kishou with everything you've got and yet he couldn't even tell you everything or at least half of his knowledge. What a pitiful souls you are."

"Stop poisoning our minds because we'll never trust your words" Rikai warned the older hybrid.

"Yet they think of me as pitiable thing" He turned his head towards his clown friends who shared the same insane nature as him. He then stood up.

"Because you are pitiful" Yusa countered.

"Where the hell are you going brat?" Marude inquired as Furuta already is a step away from the door.

"You no longer interest me and so is this gathering." He answered although he did not even dare to move from his place once Kishou grabbed his arm.

"Sit down"

"I will not listen to your whims, puppet."

"Don't you dare insult Arima-san!" Ihei Hairu screamed at Furuta and she grabbed the front of his black turtleneck shirt.

"So it is fine to insult me. Really, what kind of unjust fixation you have there with you, little sister?"

"Arima-san is a respectable person unlike you who did nothing but to lie to everyone, attention hoe!" She flinched once Nimura called her little sister. She remembered the time wherein she used to play with him too, but he started to change one day after his mother's death.

"Is Kishou aware that you visited me before? Did you tell him that you told me that he is fucking Eto and that you want me to do something about it because you are jealous of her?" Souta snapped. Shio gasped when they heard what Hairu did. "Did you tell him that it was actually you who told me this place or that I actually visited her a few days ago?"

"You bastard!" Hairu is more irate than she ever was against Furuta, but her half-brother ignored her once more.

"Now then, Kaneki Ken let's go back to our business and let me clear things for you in case you happened to be fooling yourself into something else. Remember the ruckus you made at Kanou's former laboratory?" Souta arched one dark eyebrow and then he stares into Amon's direction. "Koutarou Amon-san, would you be so kind to tell us what did you see that time at Kanou's lab that triggered to search for Kaneki Ken?"

Amon was startled when everyone stares at him. "A half kakuja. We fought Kaneki Ken's half-kakuja form when we raided Kanou's laboratory"

"See that my dear Kaneki, they were searching for you because of how you stupidly caught their attention and Anteiku just so happened to be in the way" Souta's expression darkens yet his lips quirked up in an insane grin, all his masks was peeled off in the moment that Kaneki tried to reason out in behalf of that cruel man.

"That's not true because I—"

"I was so amused when I was told by my friends over here—" He pointed at Itori and Nico who both smiled at their audience. "That eye patch-kun wants to take down Aogiri tree alone. The problem with you is your ego and how you think that this is all about you. That maybe you can do great and feel great if you do something on your own but when your cards were blown into your face, you'll push everyone away and keep telling yourself that you are lonely. You are an idiot who never learned his lesson no matter how many tragedies befalls on you that's how I always predicted your plans because at the end of the day Kaneki Ken trusts no one but himself. All you wanted to protect is your pathetic self while lying about wanting to protect everyone. You're a great tragedy. An endless entertainment for the clowns" Souta perked up

"You could have done something different other than killing—" Kaneki snapped while still in-denial.

"It was you who killed those people and ghouls. I merely helped in creating the dragon and you are nothing but an offering to the dragon, you dragon-wannabe. You killed more than I ever did. You made a choice of eating the Oggai, ghouls and even the civilians to save yourself." Furuta snickered "The Washuus, V, CCG, Ghouls and even humans— we are thieves, liars and murderers. Why do you think it is so easy to manipulate all of you?"

"Because you are a crafty bastard" Ui answered the younger man but Furuta shook his head and his grin spreads into his lips while Koori's lips quirk down.

"I am not the source of evil. People sin out of their own blind ambition, lust, lack of willpower and most often, out of their own foolishness without any instigation, deception or temptation on my part."

"Still you do not need to kill your Father and you do not need to maim Rize either because she's your—"

"Still in love with Rize even though you have a pretty wife now?" Furuta taunted. Fuck you! Quit talking about Tsuneyoshi and Rize!

"Furuta—" Kaneki stares into Furuta's dark coloured eyes. He inhaled and exhaled as if calming himself. "I am the sort of human wherein you can see anywhere. Just loves reading but on that faithful day with Rize, I was sundered from the human world and everything changed, Even though I was hurt and I hurt others… I simply can't overlook the fact that I gained something despite losing something at the same time. That is why I will never hate you or Rize-san. Yes, I am angry at you but to me everything that happened is necessary. I would have not met the others and have my own family if the steel beam incident never happened."

"Acting like a saint again, Associate Special Class?" Furuta's expression darkens

"She forgot about you, which is why you are angry. That's it, isn't it?" Kaneki muttered and yet he saw none of the regret he was expecting from the other king. This man has become the monster that everyone is so scared of turning out to be.

"Everything will come to naught" Souta stares at the Eto instead of staring at Kaneki. "Ever since I was a child, I have known that living, dying, creating, consuming are all valueless, meaningless. It's all pointless. Everyone will die anyway. It'll be gone one day. Outsiders don't know how it feels like to live in that house. Never in my entire life am I thankful that I was even born"

"This world—" Kaneki started once more upon hearing Furuta's honest words. "This world is not wrong. It just is and even if eventually everything will come to naught, I'll still strive like every single day of my life Furuta for everyone I care and for myself too."

"..." Hairu said something incoherent. You were just lonely and you thought Rize will at least never forget about you but she didn't keep you in her memories so you got angry with her and yourself— Hairu realized and she felt sorry for Furuta, her half-brother turned so rotten for the sake of love and attention that he craves; despair and nihilism became Furuta's friends after Rize's disappearance which only worsened when they ostracized him.

"The dragon's main purpose is to disrupt the balance and to unravel the lies V covered for eons, am I correct smug bastard?" Eto concluded. You hate V and you swore vengeance, it never matter if you destroy everything and yourself in the process. What a pitiful bastard because in the end you are a piece of trash. Furuta's smile answered her suspicions.

"Shall we have another topic? It's about Arima Kishou! Are you not interested?" A crazed grin has replaced his genuine smile.

"Nimura—" Kishou was startled, Furuta appeared behind him, hugging him from behind and resting his chin on top of the reaper's head.

"Hmm?" He removed one of his gloves and he bit his palm. Later on, he rubbed his bloodied hand on Kishou's lips, a single kakugan glows, the same position of where Eto and Souta's kakugan is located.

"?!" Everyone were shocked except the clowns and Kimi who knew what transpired on Kishou after his supposedly death.

"One eyed ghoul" Eto was dumbfounded.

"Rize's kakuhou saved him" Furuta spat

"I—" he removed the offending hand but his brother's hand muffled him once more.

"Be quiet. I am doing this for your sake too" He snapped at his brother. "Kishou Arima got an upgrade under Chairman Washuu's order using his own daughter's kakuhou few weeks prior to Rueshima Island raid. Like Kanou, he wants to know how strong a demi-human whose Washuu blood runs into their veins if a Washuu kakuhou was shoved inside them and if that will halt their rotting" Furuta revealed.

"What—" Ihei was too shocked to comprehend if Furuta lied to them or not.

"That's the reason how and why he is well and alive, Kishou I mean. Daddy made him a prototype. He was planning on strapping all the demi-humans to the experiment table while allowing his researchers to use us as lab rats" Nimura muttered, he refused to let go of his brother just like how he refused to let go of this chance to torment Kishou by revealing the truth. "I was informed of it as part of my job as a Special Investigator of V to ensure the Washuu clan's future and to maintain the balance"

"He is planning on turning us into—" Yusa couldn't believe what he just heard from the clown.

"He even wrote the recommendation letter of me ascending as the Bureau Chief while Yoshitoki will be ascending as Chairman" He eyed his nephew who is too dumbfounded at the information that he heard. "Yes Matsuri, the recommendation letter is authentic and you will never inherit anything. He'd rather give CCG to his unwanted child than to give it to his useless grandchild." Nimura smirked. He likes rubbing into Matsuri's face that he is better than him. He smiled, almost too innocent for a man who's bathing in the blood of his own father.

"…" Eto carefully soothes her belly where their baby resides.

"Did Tsuneyoshi really want us to—" Hairu carefully asked.

"What would I gain by lying about that information, Ihei? And nothing matters knowing that some of you are no longer demi-humans. Am I right Shio, Rikai and you too little Yusa? You were infected by Dragon's poisonous children. You are pure monsters now like Kaiko. You are murdering cannibals like everyone in the Washuu clan."