"Perhaps it's because I've been exercising very diligently and working very hard recently," Yakuchi Kei said, speaking nonsense with a straight face.
"Is that so? Your body is truly strange. If I were a scientist, I'd want to dissect it to see what its structure is like," Kamishiro Rize said with a faint smile.
"Alright, I've fulfilled my promise to you. Can you get off me now?" Yakuchi Kei asked at this point.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Let me clean up the residual blood first." Kamishiro Rize still showed no intention of letting go of Yakuchi Kei .
She then licked away the blood around the wound.
When she bit off a piece of flesh from Yakuchi Kei , it naturally bled quite a bit.
However, Yakuchi Kei 's wound quickly healed and stopped bleeding, with a self-healing speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.
Kamishiro Rize could see with her own eyes that Kei 's wound was self-repairing; this regeneration speed was not even inferior to that of an ordinary Ghoul.
If Yakuchi Kei 's flesh and blood weren't genuinely delicious, she would find it hard to believe that a human could possess such regenerative abilities.
Even just licking the blood around Kei 's wound was delicious enough to make Kamishiro Rize unforgettable.
It wasn't until not a single drop of blood remained that Kamishiro Rize finally released Yakuchi Kei .
After a while longer, Yakuchi Kei 's wound had almost completely recovered.
"By the way, are you going to go hunting for humans everywhere again starting tomorrow?" Yakuchi Kei , sitting on the bed, asked Kamishiro Rize.
"I do have that idea. Although it's easy to encounter danger that way, it suits my personal style," Kamishiro Rize said with a faint smile.
"…" Yakuchi Kei was somewhat speechless.
It seemed Kamishiro Rize was still quite willful and rebellious, still thinking of wandering around at such a time.
To be honest, he didn't want to continue using his body as a promise to restrain Kamishiro Rize, after all, being bitten still hurt quite a bit, and this behavior was like self-harm.
Kamishiro Rize's lips curved slightly, "But if you can still satisfy my needs, I'll also obediently listen to you."
Apparently, the previous sentence was just a prelude; this was her true intention.
"Stop messing around, I don't have masochistic tendencies, and I don't want you to bite me every now and then." Yakuchi Kei refused.
Moreover, the system had no reaction this time.
But even if the system continued to give rewards this time, he might not be willing, unless it gave an exceptionally large amount, such as at least one or two hundred Fusion Points or more, which he might reluctantly consider.
"Then how about this: just let me drink a tiny bit of blood occasionally," Kamishiro Rize lowered her demands.
Yakuchi Kei 's blood was also very delicious and could also serve to fill her stomach; it wasn't necessary to eat meat.
If she really couldn't get enough to eat, there were still plenty of human corpses at the Anteiku.
However, for Kamishiro Rize, it was never a question of whether she could eat her fill, but rather whether her appetite could be satisfied.
"Alright, but only when I'm willing," Yakuchi Kei reluctantly agreed.
...
The next day.
In these days, Yakuchi Kei and Kamishiro Rize often visited the Antique Coffee Shop.
They often saw Ryoko Fueguchi and Fueguchi Hinami in the shop.
Especially Yakuchi Kei could feel Fueguchi Hinami's gaze secretly staring at him for a long time, presumably because he had Kiguchi Asaki's scent on him.
However, there was no way he could say anything to Fueguchi Hinami, whom he didn't know at all, so he just pretended not to notice anything.
Every day, he would come here to read and drink coffee; otherwise, he had no other forms of entertainment, mainly because he had no other hobbies or interests.
He would leave and go home when it was about time.
Just then, Touka Kirishima also got off work early.
Because she was going to accompany Ryoko Fueguchi and Fueguchi Hinami to do something.
Even as she was about to walk out the door, Fueguchi Hinami looked back, and her gaze happened to meet Yakuchi Kei 's, causing her to immediately shift her eyes away in panic.
"…" Yakuchi Kei smiled helplessly.
If Fueguchi Hinami had been bolder and dared to come over and ask him directly, he would certainly have been happy to answer.
Subsequently, Yakuchi Kei and Kamishiro Rize packed up their belongings and left the Antique Coffee Shop.
However, when they were halfway there, Yakuchi Kei suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd.
It was Ōmori Yakumo, the Gecko, whom he had encountered not long ago.
Ōmori Yakumo's physique and appearance were too distinctive; Yakuchi Kei easily spotted him.
"You must have seen him, right? That's the Gecko you mentioned earlier," Kamishiro Rize said at this point.
"Yes, you go back first. I have something to take care of," Yakuchi Kei said.
"Okay, be careful," Kamishiro Rize said before leaving first.
She naturally wasn't too worried about Yakuchi Kei ; even she hadn't been able to succeed back then, so a guy like the Gecko was far from capable.
At this moment, Yakuchi Kei immediately headed in Ōmori Yakumo's direction, but Ōmori Yakumo was quite far from him and turned into a small alley in the blink of an eye.
...
Meanwhile, Ōmori Yakumo turned into this alley because he smelled a familiar scent.
"You've really made me search for a long time; I've finally found you," Ōmori Yakumo said with a cold smile, looking at the three women in front of him. "That Kiguchi Asaki guy colluding with a CCG Investigator really made me lose face."
The three people in front of him were, of course, Ryoko Fueguchi, Fueguchi Hinami, and Touka Kirishima.
These days, Ōmori Yakumo had been active in the 20th Ward, searching for the Big Eater, Kamishiro Rize, and also looking for Kiguchi Asaki's wife and daughter.
Although he had never seen Kiguchi Asaki's wife and daughter, he smelled Kiguchi Asaki's scent on the young woman and little girl in front of him, which basically confirmed their identities.
As for the other young woman wearing a work uniform, he would simply kill her as well.
"Who are you?" Touka Kirishima immediately asked with a wary expression, sensing that the other party had ill intentions and also had the scent of a Ghoul on him.
She didn't recognize the other party and had never seen him in the 20th Ward.
Ryoko Fueguchi's face, on the other hand, suddenly turned pale.
She hadn't met the Gecko, but she knew that her husband had told her and Hinami to come to the 20th Ward to lie low precisely because he had gotten entangled with the Gecko.
The other party mentioned her husband's name and was also a Ghoul, indicating a high probability that he was the Gecko.
She had heard from her husband that the Gecko's strength was terrifying; he was an Aogiri Tree executive-level existence, and his methods against his own kind were extremely cruel…
Even Fueguchi Hinami, who wasn't entirely clear on the situation, was scared by Ōmori Yakumo's fierce appearance and hid behind Ryoko Fueguchi.