Super God: If I punch you, you will die

Kiyama took a packet without hesitation and then took a bite.

"That's great, I just casually handed a small piece to the guy next to me."

Sanhuang naturally took it, chewed a few times, and nodded. "This is a bit spicy. I prefer it not to be too spicy, but it tastes good."

It's really rare for Sanhuang to say such a long thing.

Mushan continued.

"Actually, I never thought Lin Yan was a 'ghoul' from the very beginning! It's impossible for such a terrifying monster to infiltrate our Shangjing University."

Sanhuang nodded seriously. In fact, she was becoming more and more convinced that Lin Yan was not a ghoul, so she crossed out the name 'Lin Yan'. It was undoubtedly a good thing to be able to eliminate suspicion about Lin Yan from the list in the handbook.

0194 Lin Yan: Just a little rascal [Please subscribe]

It has always been like walking on thin ice, with endless darkness, and all ghouls are like this, whether they are evil ghouls or ghouls who live a low-key life. The only difference is that the latter want to live a peaceful life and coexist peacefully with humans, and cannot reveal their identities.

There are significant differences between the two.

Touka once had a fierce battle with investigator Mado.

Mado is Mado Goe.

Kureo Mado is Akira Mado's father. He is obsessed with quinques, hates ghouls, and has a keen intuition about them. He is a senior investigator in the CCG and ranks sixteenth in popularity.

In his youth, Mado Kureo was a third-class investigator in the CCG. During the first "Owl Extermination Operation," many investigators were no match for the "One-Eyed Owl." Team leader Marude Sai left behind the most capable prospective Special Class Investigator—Mado's wife, Mado Miyako—to cover the retreat. Upon returning, he saw his wife's face mutilated beyond recognition and went insane, vowing revenge against the "One-Eyed Owl."

During the second "Owl Expulsion Battle", Mado Kureo was nervous when facing Yoshimura Kōzen, who had been transformed into a kakuja. Just as Shinohara Yukinori was about to come up and help him fight, Arima Kishou rushed forward with two Yukimura swords and defeated Yoshimura Kōzen.

He later killed many ghouls, including teaming up with Shinohara Yukinori to capture the "corpse collector" Kirishima Arata, but only achieved the highest level.

She helped Amon Kotaro when he first became an investigator, and they once chased a ghoul named Applehead together. During the chase, she expressed her desire to examine Amon's quinque, which Amon refused. Amon, believing that this gentle old woman couldn't possibly be a ghoul, found himself in danger, but Mado arrived in time, instantly killing the ghoul and stating that Amon's immaturity was part of her plan. Later, at the investigators' conference, she exchanged harsh words with Marude Sai, saying she didn't want to waste her time, to which Marude Sai simply laughed it off.

During his investigation of Ward 20, Mado mercilessly murdered Hinami Fueguchi's parents and turned their kagune into quinques, demonstrating that ghouls' display of human-like emotions was repulsive. Touka Kirishima, seeking revenge for Hinami's parents, ambushed Amon and his group. Amon arrived just in time to rescue her, and while Touka was subdued, she escaped. Undeterred, Touka lured Mado under a bridge. Mado, realizing it was a trap, went to the bridge to hunt down the rabbit-like Touka, severely injuring her. However, a berserk Hinami ambushed him with her kagune, severing his right hand and defeating him. Because Hinami refused to kill, Touka killed her. Before dying, Touka said she wanted to at least personally bury the "one-eyed owl." Afterwards, Touka removed Mado's glove and discovered a ring on his finger, indicating that Mado also had family.

In the anime, during the "Antiques" extermination battle, when Suzuya Juuzou was fighting Yoshimura's Kakuja form alone, Mado Kureo appeared in Shinohara Yukinori's memories, prompting Shinohara Yukinori to change his mind and support Suzuya Juuzou's attack, thus turning the tide of the battle.

When Yomo Renji was fighting Arima Kishou, he also remembered Mado Kureo's past capture of Kirishima Arata.

Dongxiang stopped what she was doing and asked Fangcun.

Yoshimura Kozen is Takatsuki Sen's father, the manager of Anteiku, the manager of the coffee shop, and a powerful SSS-rank ghoul.

Originally a cleaner for a ghoul organization, she was known by the CCG as the "Non-Killing Owl"; she had a daughter, Takatsuki Sen, with a human.

He is kind-hearted and unwilling to harm humans. He does not kill investigators when they fight, so he is known as "the Owl who does not kill".

However, Yoshimura helps the weak ghouls, which is why the manager opened a coffee shop.

"Are you referring to the investigators as suspicious individuals? Or 'ghouls'? Humans?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but I often feel a strange gaze upon me. I hope you'll take this to heart, okay?"

Did Yoshimura Kozen truly not know? Or was he hiding things from Touka to protect her?

"Should I tell Ying not to come here for the time being?" Lin Yan asked, actually asking on purpose, just wanting to know Dong Xiang's attitude.

"Who knows?" Touka still had some issues with Lin Yan, and actually, she didn't have much affection for Kaneki Ken, and even disliked him.

A deep-seated disgust.

Lin Yan couldn't help but gasp. It seemed Touka really disliked Kaneki Ken. That Kaneki Ken was truly a lifelong single, a testament to his own abilities. Speaking of which, although Lin Yan had possessed Kaneki Ken's body, their personalities were completely different, so they were entirely different, practically without any similarities whatsoever.

"I'm afraid that if I tell him about the suspicious person, it might pique his interest, but if he gets implicated because of my silence, it could have irreversible consequences."

"Since the store manager has said that, why don't you distance yourself from him for now?" Dong Xiang thought to herself, wondering how much she disliked him now, and how much she would like him later.

She said somewhat impatiently.

"These things happen all the time. The manager will warn everyone to be careful when he spots someone suspicious or senses something's off. And every time he says that, trouble usually follows. Time to get to work!"

"Oh!"

While Dongxiang appeared to be serving the customers, she was actually preoccupied with other things. She wore a fake smile, but her mind was wandering, and the image of another person was appearing in her mind.

Even if you did that for me, I wouldn't be happy!

That was Touka's friend, tears streaming down her face, shouting loudly at Touka.

Things have gone back to a week ago.

"Touka, do you want to go somewhere together during the next holiday?" This is Kiyomi High School, and Kirishima Touka is a second-year student.

This is her identity in human society.

Here, Touka Kirishima sleeps and goes to school just like any other human, completely indistinguishable from other human girls.

All of these actions made her an outcast in the typical ghoul world.

After all, humans deeply abhor ghouls. Once a ghoul's identity is discovered, the only outcome is annihilation, and they might even suffer a horrific death. In the human world, a ghoul is like a lamb that has strayed into a pack of wolves, constantly facing mortal danger. Therefore, the constant tension puts a heavy burden on the body, and one must be extremely cautious in daily life, lest any clue reveal their ghoul identity.

Touka Kirishima has a good friend named Yoriko Kosaka, who is like the winter sun and the spring breeze, always by her side, accompanying and encouraging her. Touka Kirishima truly cherishes this friend.

0195 Kosaka Yoriko [Please Subscribe]

Touka's best friend, and attends the same school as Touka. They always eat lunch together at school, and she worries about Touka's small appetite, so she shares her lunch with her. She is skilled at cooking and aims to become a chef.

As an adult, Yoriko becomes a baker and is later proposed to by Takeomi Kuroiwa.

Soon after, the two held their wedding amidst congratulations from the CCG members; this news was later used by Mutsuki Toru to threaten Kaneki Ken and Kirishima Touka.

After Furuta Nimura took over, Yoriko was detained by Mutsuki Toru, but later, due to Kaneki Ken's berserk mutation, Yoriko was rescued by Kuroiwa Takeomi in the chaos.

After the Battle of Tokyo, Yoko ran her own bakery and had a son with Takeomi Kuroiwa.

"Why do you ask so suddenly?"

"Because it just popped into my head!"

"What are you talking about?" Touka pouted, pretending to be unhappy. That look, combined with her face, was really cute.

"Touka, you're always so serious about your part-time job, so I think it would be nice to change your mood once in a while." Kosaka Yoriko is indeed a nice, gentle, and kind girl. Hearing this, Touka looked up. Recently, Kosaka Yoriko seems to have been paying too much attention to her.

Did Yoriko Kosaka discover some clue?

or--

Every time Touka faces Yoriko Kosaka, she has to think about many things, so even occasional happiness comes at a price.

Kosaka Yoriko was indeed very worried about Touka. It seemed that Touka hadn't yet recovered from the shadow of that decisive battle, which was truly worrying. Especially since Kosaka Yoriko genuinely cared about Touka and had the most sincere feelings for her, hoping that Touka could be happy and joyful.

Kosaka Yoriko believes that the person who fought Touka deserved to die and was not worthy of Touka being so deeply mired in the shadows and unable to extricate herself.

However, Dong Xiang could not forgive herself. She recalled the scene countless times: the ring on the dead man's hand. He was a married man, a man with a wife, a man with children. Whose husband was he, and whose wife was he?

The man's death means a woman has lost her husband, a child has lost their parents, and even a couple has lost their beloved child. Humans aren't plants or trees; how can they be without feelings? Touka's emotions are understandable.

Touka is not a heinous killer.

She is not a cold person.

She is even so vulnerable.

Humans are always very complex; the most unfathomable and incomprehensible thing is the human heart.

"Let's find a place to go have fun together! Okay?" Kosaka Yoriko said again, hoping that Touka would be happy.

"what?"

"Is there anywhere you'd like to go? Like an aquarium or an amusement park, or something like that!"

"I don't have any places I want to go."

Touka had no interest in anything; her low spirits resembled depression. Even a powerful ghoul could be so sentimental and easily hurt—something perhaps unimaginable to ordinary humans. After all, in the eyes of most humans, ghouls were bloodthirsty, brutal monsters, inhuman and incapable of possessing the same kindness and compassion as humans.

"Are you going on a date this weekend?" Kosaka Yoriko asked with concern, her voice as gentle as ever.

0196 A Lucky Journey [Please Subscribe]

"Hmm? Is it a date?"

Kosaka Yoriko seems to have misunderstood the relationship between Touka and En. In fact, Touka didn't have any feelings for the opposite sex at this time. Her heart was filled with self-blame, and she didn't have time to pay attention to other people. Moreover, Touka disliked Kaneki Ken, so she naturally disliked En as well.

"Ah!? You've misunderstood!" Touka was even quite agitated. She never expected that Kosaka Yoriko would have such a misunderstanding, especially since Kosaka Yoriko was smiling so ambiguously.

Perhaps Kosaka Yoriko knew that Touka and En had no special relationship, but she was just trying to distract Touka.

"That guy and I aren't like that! Okay, okay! I'll go, I'll go! That's fine, right?"

"But……"

"Stop talking! Decide where you want to go right now!" Touka accidentally saw the rabbit phone charm from the Zakku-C series. "The zoo."

"what?"

"Let's go to the zoo."

Touka wasn't a naive child who wanted to see animals; she just thought the openness of zoos was more suitable for handling emergencies, which made her feel a little more at ease. Places like aquariums were definitely out of the question, as many things would be restricted.

"A zoo is a great idea!"

"I'm right, right?"

"Hmm! Maybe we can even see baby animals, and the zoo has a plaza, so let's go there to eat our bento boxes!"

"what?"

"Don't worry! I'll make the bento!" Kosaka Yoriko naively thought that Touka really wanted to go to the zoo. Finally, she had developed a new interest in something, which was a good thing for maintaining a good mood, hence her excitement.

"How about we meet at the station? What time would be best? How much are the zoo tickets again? Touka, is there any animal you'd like to see? Let me know if you have any requests for the bento box!"

Kosaka Yoriko's face beamed with an innocent smile, her eyes practically sparkling. This was something Touka couldn't understand; it was just a zoo, why was she so excited? It was like she was a little kid who had never been to a zoo before.

Perhaps infected by Kosaka Yoriko's smile, Touka also smiled.

She finally smiled.

Touka couldn't resist reaching out and tapping Kosaka Yoriko's head, causing Kosaka Yoriko to cry out in pain. The two of them burst into laughter.

Having such a friend is truly a blessing.

"I'm going to the zoo with Touka! Hehe, I'm so excited!"

The next morning, the first thing I saw was Kosaka Yoriko looking excited. She couldn't wait to show the electronic map to Touka, just like a little child.

"Oh, there's such a thing! Look, look! My dad even printed out the discount coupons for us!"

"Oh, that's very particular."

"My mom said the same thing!"

Is Kosaka Yoriko really that happy? She immediately shared with her family that she was going to the zoo with Touka. Family is the most important person, and the fact that Kosaka Yoriko shared this with them shows that she values ​​Touka's situation. This is true friendship.

"Mom told me not to get too excited, so as not to cause you trouble, and not to make too many lunchboxes. Because when I came to my senses, I realized that the menu I had drawn up was enough for about five people."

"Five people?"

"Huh? Are you going to the zoo?" someone asked.

0197 Cooking [Please Subscribe]

"Oh, yes."

"Bringing a bento to the zoo? Does Kosaka know how to cook?"

"Kosaka is a great cook! I've eaten her cooking before," a classmate said.

"Really? Why did you eat it?"

“We went to the same high school. I ate her in a cooking class. She was very skilled in the kitchen. Back then, everyone in the class relied on her, right?”

"No, my cooking is nothing special," Kosaka Yoriko said modestly. However, with such praise, her culinary skills must be quite good. Touka was genuinely a little annoyed; she couldn't enjoy Kosaka Yoriko's cooking.

"That's right, because Yoko wants to be a chef when she grows up!"

The others admired Kosaka Yoriko and it took them a while to disperse. Touka was a little shy and nervous, but Kosaka Yoriko spoke up directly.

"I was so nervous just now."

"What do you have to be nervous about?"