Chapter 45
Butterfly Dance
While Rize was playing the hunting game, Furuta Nimura was quietly standing at the top of a construction site.
As Rize drew closer, a hint of hesitation flickered in Furuta Nimura's eyes, but it quickly vanished.
"Rize, this is all my love for you."
Meanwhile, the ghoul's kagune had somehow become firmly attached to the rope binding the steel bars, awaiting Nimura Furuta's command.
After running for a while, Kaneki fell to the ground again. Looking at the kagune next to Rize, his eyes were filled with fear. He took out a pen from his pocket and stabbed it at Rize without thinking.
"Snap!"
Kaneki's pen snapped in two, while Rize stood frozen in place, seemingly unable to believe that her prey dared to fight back.
Then they saw Kaneki's stumbling figure and chased after him again.
"Baka baka, I'm such an idiot! She probably thought running into me was a trap!"
As Kaneki ran, he recalled the scene of meeting Rize and cursed himself.
Kaneki felt immense regret when he thought of Hyuga Gen, whom he had summoned.
"Hyuga-kun, please don't come any closer! Please don't! My phone, that's right, my phone!"
Only then did Kaneki remember that he still had his cell phone with him, so he quickly took it out and dialed Hyuga Gen's number.
But before he could even dial the number, he was pierced through by Rize's blood-smelling kagune.
Immediately afterwards, Kaneki felt a chill in his stomach, as if something cold had pierced through his body.
"Pain! Excruciating pain!"
Before he could react, another tremendous force struck him, sending him flying against the wall before he slowly slid to the ground.
"Cough cough cough! Why do I have to suffer like this? Why?"
As Rize walked towards him, Kaneki, whose consciousness was becoming increasingly unclear, thought his last thought was that Hyuga Gen must not come any closer.
Just as Kaneki was about to close his eyes, a small bolt of lightning suddenly appeared on the empty ground.
A white light suddenly appeared between him and Rize, then expanded instantly, followed by a whirlwind.
Immediately afterwards, Kaneki saw the white light transform into a white sphere in a short while. With a deafening roar, the sphere exploded, and the dazzling white light illuminated the surroundings as if it were daytime.
After the white ball disappeared, two figures appeared in the place where it disappeared; they were Hinata Gen and Akiyama Rinko.
Faced with such a sudden situation, Rize was filled with vigilance, but after smelling the familiar scent around Hyuga Gen, her vigilance turned into greed.
Saliva involuntarily trickled from the corners of his mouth.
"It's finally here! My delicious food! Where should I eat it now?"
Furuta Nimura, who was about to order his men to cut the ropes, stopped them when he saw the two people who suddenly appeared from the white light.
"Oh? Interesting, an unexpected turn of events?"
"Is that Hinata-kun?"
Kaneki was taken aback when he saw Hyuga Gen, then used the last of his strength to shout:
"Run! That woman is a ghoul!"
After shouting, he completely fainted.
Hyuga Gen, clutching his phone which showed Kaneki's call, looked at the unconscious Kaneki and couldn't help but sigh.
"Why didn't you wait until I took her home? I thought you were waiting for me at that place you told me about, but I'm not familiar with that area."
"If Rinko hadn't heard the commotion here, I probably wouldn't have gotten here by the time you were taken away for surgery."
Although Akiyama Rinko's spatial teleportation speed is very fast, it's not so easy to get there without specific coordinates.
Rinko Akiyama walked over to Kaneki, glanced at him, and then shook her head regretfully at Gen Hyuga.
"His internal organs are shattered; if they aren't replaced as soon as possible, I'm afraid..."
When Hyuga Gen heard that Kaneki needed an internal organ transplant to survive, he couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness.
Although he could use the demon chess piece given to him by the butler to revive Kaneki as a lower-level demon, Gen Hinata did not want to give up his familiar's position so easily.
Moreover, Kaneki is a man, and taking him as a member of her family would really go against her principles.
Therefore, the only way to save Kaneki at this point is to replace his internal organs with Rize's, just like in the original story.
Thinking of this, Hyuga Gen glanced meaningfully at the top of the construction site, and after seeing no movement for a long time, murmured:
"Aren't you going to do anything, Furuta Nimura?"
If I remember correctly, the incident in the original manga where Kaneki became a ghoul was orchestrated by Nimura Furuta.
I don't know why the steel bars are still falling down. Did they stop the operation after seeing me and Rinko?
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore.
Then he turned to Rinko Akiyama and said:
"Rinko, just cut off her limbs and the kagune behind her, spare her life."
Upon hearing this, Akiyama Rinko silently drew her katana, Ishigiri Kanemitsu, and aimed it at Rize.
"Hahaha, ahahaha!"
Rize burst into wild laughter, as if she had heard a joke.
After laughing, Rize's gaze towards Hyuga Gen became even more intense.
"I don't find your boastful tone annoying at all. What kind of experience can your fat and muscles possibly give me?"
"I wonder how much better it will be than the food I had for those two people this week! Ah, I can't wait!"
In the end, Rize suddenly launched an attack. Four sharp, tail-like kagune flew up from behind her without any trajectory, stabbing fiercely towards Akiyama Rinko and Hyuga Gen in front of her.
Despite seeing the kagune so close to her, Akiyama Rinko remained completely calm.
"ha!"
With a sharp shout, Ishikiri Kanemitsu instantly drew his sword and slashed directly at the flying kagune.
Along the flashing slash line, there were four sharp, tail-like kagune.
But the light blade passed right through as if it hadn't touched anything, and then the blade struck Rize's arm before she could react.
The slashes flowed continuously, simultaneously striking Rize's other arm and the kagune behind her.
At the same time, he lowered his arm and swept it across Rize's lower body.
The next moment, Rinko appeared behind Rize, crouching down as she slowly sheathed Ishikiri Kanemitsu.
"The Unfettered Blade Style, Butterflies in Full Dance!"
"ah!!!!"
Rize, standing still, finally realized that her limbs, including the kagune behind her, had been severed, but it was too late.
"How is that possible?"
Rize could only watch helplessly as her limbs left her and she fell to the ground, her body torn to pieces. The intense pain made her cry out in agony.
Only a few seconds had passed.
This scene terrified Furuta Nimura, who was watching from the top floor. He immediately abandoned his beloved Rize Kamishiro and had his subordinates carry him as they fled into the distance.