Chapter 193 The One-Eyed Owl
Chapter 193 The One-Eyed Owl
When the weekend came, Ken Kaneki was notified by Kisho Arima to go to CCG to get the investigator's certificate and clothes and other items.
"Mr. Arima, I'm going to see Takatsuki-sensei this weekend. I made an appointment a few days ago."
"Izumi Takatsuki?"
"Sure enough, Mr. Arima has seen her too."
"Ah."
"Can I go and pick up my stuff tonight or tomorrow?"
"I'll get it for you first, and you can come to my apartment to get it when you're free."
If it was before, Kaneki Ken would not have dared to let Kisho Arima pick up the items on his behalf, but since he found that Kisho Arima had become "soft-hearted", he reluctantly restored some friendly relations with him.
Even if it doesn't reach the previous level, at least it won't let him run away.
Ken Kaneki was thankful that the other party's "gentleness" saved him from letting Mr. Takatsuki's pigeons go. He checked the time on his phone and went out to find Senior Tsukiyama.Then, he managed to see a radiant and energetic Yue Shanxi.As Mitsui Naoka said, this person seems to have a flashlight on his body, ready to attend a dinner party at any time.
"You look...excited..."
"I'm so happy."
Yue Shanxi never hides his joyful side, his brows and eyes are wrinkled and bright.
Kaneki Ken was taken aback when he took his hand, and quickly retracted, "Stop playing knight games, let's go."
Yue Shanxi said happily: "You wait for me at the door for a while, and I will drive you there."
Kaneki Ken waited for him at the agreed school gate.
An hour later, Tsukiyama Xi drove Kaneki Ken to the address given by Izumi Takatsuki.
A small high-end apartment.
Kaneki Ken informed Takatsuki Izumi downstairs in advance: "Mr. Takatsuki, I brought my friends here, and they are downstairs at your house."
In the messy apartment, after receiving his call, Izumi Takatsuki said loudly: "Wait for me for 5 minutes, I'll tidy up the room!" Snacks and books were left in the corner by her.
This move is astonishingly fast!
After finishing all this in a hurry, Izumi Takatsuki ran downstairs to pick up the two people.
After meeting, she was surprised to find that the purple-haired young man from last time came with Kaneki Ken.
In front of a luxury car, Tsukiyama closed the door for Kaneki Ken, and said gracefully, "Hello, Mr. Takatsuki."
Takatsuki Izumi looked at him with a half-smile, "Hello, Yueshan-kun."
She took away her sponsorship fee last time, and now she still has the face to come to her house as a guest?
brazen!
Xi Yueshan stepped forward, shook hands politely, and was very cordial, "I am familiar with all the works of Mr. Takatsuki. I didn't fully enjoy the farewell last time. I didn't expect to see Mr. Takatsuki again."
Takatsuki Izumi ignored his hypocrisy and greeted Kaneki Ken behind him: "Kaneki-kun!"
Kaneki Ken smiled back, much lighter than before, but it looked especially precious against the white hair.
Like flowers blooming in the snow.
Takatsuki Izumi thought of this very artistically.
"The white-haired Kaneki-kun is much more handsome." Takatsuki Izumi avoided Yue Shanxi's obstruction and walked to Kaneki Ken, "Ah, this way it fits my setting better, Kaneki-kun is simply the best I have ever seen Personality."
Kaneki Ken said: "Mr. Takatsuki, you said it was just a reference."
Izumi Takatsuki walked around him and said with satisfaction: "Of course, your real identity will not be revealed, nor will it affect your real life."
She warmly invited Jin Muyan—and by the way, Yue Shanxi—to her home.
Takatsuki Izumi's apartment is on the tenth floor.
Taking the elevator, the three of them entered Takatsuki Izumi's home, and Ken Kaneki was immediately overwhelmed by the messy scene in front of him.
What a mess of characters.
Snacks, books, messy computer cables, express boxes, instant noodle bags are everywhere... The curtains are drawn, the light is dim, and there is not an incandescent lamp above the head, but a simple chandelier, and the orange light envelopes this small area. The "kennel".
It's enough of a scene to instantly disillusion any reader.
Ken Kaneki swallowed, and asked, "Takatsuki-sensei—do you usually live alone?"
"Yes."
Izumi Takatsuki dragged three small sofas over, "Sit down, the place is narrow, I've wronged you."
Yue Shanxi's eyebrows twitched, and he saw some dirty marks on the small sofa, how lazy this woman is!
Jin Muyan pulled him, motioning him not to say anything disgusting.
After Kaneki Ken and Tsukiyama Xi sat on two small sofas respectively, Takatsuki Izumi ran over with a stack of papers and put them on the coffee table. She was about to serve each other two glasses of water, but regrettably found that her drinking water The machine is out of water.
Kaneki Ken couldn't bear to see a woman embarrassed, "I don't need to drink water."
Takatsuki Izumi took the opportunity to put the paper cup back, sat on the sofa opposite them, opened the pen cap, and prepared to record the conversation later with a water pen.
"How old is Jin Mu-jun?"
"eighteen."
"What kind of flower do you like?"
"I don't know much about the varieties of flowers. Cherry blossoms are very beautiful."
"That's right, boys are not very interested in flowers."
Izumi Takatsuki made a joke after the atmosphere got better, Ken Kaneki said something more, not to neglect Tsukiyama, "You can't say that, Tsukiyama-senpai knows flowers very well."
Yue Shanxi just accompanied Kaneki Ken the whole time, and said with a smile: "I know a lot about the flowers used to decorate food."
Kaneki: "..."
How could such a good sentence become so cruel in Yue Shanxi's mouth?
Takatsuki Izumi looked at Yue Shanxi with great interest, "Does Yue Shan like food very much?"
Yue Shanxi confessed: "That's where the fun of life lies."
So Izumi Takatsuki unwrapped a few packs of snacks and put them on the table, "Take it if you like it. I don't have many other things here, but I have the most snacks!"
Kaneki Ken glanced at Yue Shanxi, whose smile froze, and reached for potato chips.
Takatsuki Izumi also ate.
The two exchanged the recent snacks, but Yue Shanxi, who claims to love food, didn't touch a single snack.
Izumi Takatsuki bit the chocolate bar, and asked with a click: "Apart from reading, do you have any other leisure activities?"
Kaneki Ken replied: "Let's go out to exercise once in a while, or eat hamburgers with friends."
Izumi Takatsuki said enviously: "It's so good. I always go to dinner alone, and few people accompany me. My editor keeps urging manuscripts when he sees me. I really have a psychological shadow on him."
Ken Kaneki was surprised, "Takatsuki-sensei should be very popular, why don't you have any friends?"
Izumi Takatsuki flashed his beautiful green eyes, "Probably because I'm too withdrawn."
She put down the snacks, and suddenly took Kaneki Ken's hand, not caring that the other's fingers were stained with potato chip powder.
"Jin Mu-jun, I think we get along well!"
"Uh?"
"let's be friends!"
"Takatsuki-sensei... I'd love to be your friend, but your chocolate bar box fell on the floor."
"Ah, this box is super expensive!"
Takatsuki Izumi picked up the box and found that it was dirty and could only throw it into the trash can with a bitter face.
Kaneki Ken silently looked at the crumbling trash can, his hand was pulled by the person next to him, and his fingers were wiped by the napkin.Yue Shanxi didn't think he was a particularly clean freak, but Takatsuki Izumi's every move challenged his nerves.
"Kaneki, go wash your hands."
"……it is good."
Ken Kaneki asked about the location of the sink, and Izumi Takatsuki pointed to the small bathroom behind, "It's over there."
Without Kaneki Ken in the living room, Yue Shanxi's expression turned cold, and his eyes were full of disgust for Takatsuki Izumi.
Izumi Takatsuki didn't pay attention to his reaction, and ran to the box next to him to find a drink.
"Ah, the drink is gone...Jin Mujun must be thirsty after eating potato chips..."
"..."
When Yue Shanxi heard this, he couldn't wait to stand up, "I'm going to buy a drink, you tell Jinmu."
He couldn't stay in this room full of all kinds of smells!
When Ken Kaneki came out, Izumi Takatsuki told him, "Mr. Yueshan went to buy a drink."
Kaneki Ken had no accidents, even without this incident, it would be difficult for Senior Yueshan to endure in this place.
After all, he doesn't smell good now, so he can't cover up other peculiar smells for gourmets.
He shrugged mentally.
Ken Kaneki and Izumi Takatsuki talked for another half an hour about the setting of the new book. He felt very fresh about this kind of exchange and creation. It is one thing to like to read it, but it is another to really understand how a book is composed. .
"Ms. Takatsuki is really amazing, a little story can make up a plot."
"It's Jin Mu-jun who stimulated my inspiration!"
Izumi Takatsuki recorded his thoughts excitedly, and felt that he finally didn't have to procrastinate the draft this month.
"Ring Ling—"
The bell at the door proved that Yue Shanxi had returned.
A few minutes later, Yue Shanxi went upstairs with a bag of drinks, and he was greeted by two people talking dryly.
Yue Shanxi asked with a sense of accomplishment: "It's all ice, what drinks do you want?"
Kaneki Ken: "Coffee."
Izumi Takatsuki: "Coffee."
The two have the same taste in summer!
After Izumi Takatsuki got his own jar of iced coffee, he said to Ken Kaneki, "I have a lot of old drafts in my room, are you interested? For example, the first draft of "Black Goat's Egg" contains a lot of content that was trimmed by the publisher. .”
This sentence hit Kaneki Ken's itchy spot, "I really want to see it."
Takatsuki Izumi abducted Kaneki Ken into his room right in front of Yue Shanxi.
Turning around, she said harshly: "You are not allowed to come in, I only invite Mr. Jin Mu."
Yue Shanxi: "..."
He also wanted to go in, but the gentleman's style firmly warned him that he was not allowed to enter women's rooms without permission.
Depressed, Yue Shanxi carried the remaining drinks in the bag to the refrigerator in the living room.
Opening the refrigerator, he saw a lot of takeaway lunch boxes as expected, "Such a sloppy woman!"
But such a woman makes Jin Mu so happy!
Yue Shanxi put the drink in the refrigerator, and found that there was still a bottle that could not be plugged, so he opened one of the refrigerated fruit drawers.
Then--
His pupils narrowed, and he saw that it was filled with fresh frozen flesh and blood.
"This is……"
Yue Shanxi's fingertips touched the lines on the meat, not pork, beef, mutton, nor chicken, duck and fish...
His rich experience allowed him to discover the truth immediately.
This is - human flesh.
The S-level gourmet felt a chill in his heart, he didn't realize that Takatsuki Izumi was a ghoul at all!
Suddenly, a voice appeared from behind him.
"Is Mr. Yueshan very interested in my refrigerator?"
Takatsuki Izumi, who was supposed to be in the room, appeared behind him at some point.Wearing a suspender skirt, she was as petite and cute as a little girl next door, and said playfully, "Actually, I prefer human food to rough meat."
Yue Shanxi: "..."
Izumi Takatsuki approached step by step, with a sick smile on his face, "I have no intention of revealing my identity yet, can Yueshan-kun hide it for me? If not, I can only make Yueshan-jun the food in my refrigerator part of it."
She licked her fingertips, and He's eyes were full of cruelty, "Gourmet meat must taste good, after all, my juniors like it so much."
Ken Kaneki's left eye is Kazuya, and Takatsuki Izumi's right eye is Kazuya, and both have a human eye.
This is the symbol of the one-eyed ghoul!
Yue Shanxi shuddered to the extreme, this woman turned out to be the legendary one-eyed owl!
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