Chapter 217: Human or Ghoul
Chapter 217: Rize Kamishiro’s Split Personality! Human or Ghoul?
Rize Kamishiro was about to speak, but Ren’s single command, "Shut up!", stopped her. She obediently clamped her lips shut, her eyes fixed on Ren, unable to utter a word.
Seeing everything that had happened, Kasumigaoka Utaha’s jaw dropped. She couldn’t comprehend how the female monster could be so obedient to Ren.
Ren slowly walked towards Rize Kamishiro. The four Kagune behind her swayed slightly, but Ren reached out to touch them directly, unafraid of being pierced. He kneaded and squeezed the appendages. They felt like scales and had the warmth of flesh, similar to the slightly hardened flesh of a Titan.
"Retract your Kagune," Ren commanded. The four Kagune obediently retracted, and Rize Kamishiro’s eyes returned to their normal human state. Transformed back into her human form, her bloodthirsty mental state was replaced by rationality.
She stared blankly at her hands, the realization hitting her: she had just turned into the man-eating monster from her memories. An inexpressible feeling was stuck in her throat.
"Don’t be so pessimistic," Ren said, offering a form of comfort. "At least you only killed a monster, and you haven’t really eaten anyone yet."
Rize Kamishiro raised her head, seemingly with something to say. "Speak," Ren said, lifting the Dominator command.
"Kill me," Rize Kamishiro immediately pleaded. Even though Ren’s words were true, she had already succumbed to her desires and the memories of Ghouls. If there was a first time, there would be a second, and countless more.
Countless images of the pleasure of hunting and devouring large meals flashed through her mind. The urge to eat people surged uncontrollably. Rize Kamishiro had realized that she was changing and could not turn back. She was destined to become the Great Ghoul Rize Kamishiro.
"Killing you would be a bit of a waste," Ren said. "This Ghoul body could be used as material for Echidna." Ren wasn’t planning to kill her. Being pretty was one thing, and she hadn’t committed any major mistakes yet. At most, her mental state was a bit off, or in short, she was about to develop a split personality.
More importantly, Ren thought of Echidna’s research. He wondered what kind of individual the four powers—Sin Apostle, Giant, Evil Spirit, and Ghoul—could create when combined. And what kind of individual would be created by continuing to combine other powers in the future? This was not only Echidna’s thirst for knowledge, but Ren also developed curiosity.
Rize Kamishiro was still trying to understand the meaning of "experiment material" when a black energy surged into her body. The next moment, black wings and a black halo appeared, and a Sin Apostle was born.
Rize Kamishiro’s mind instantly became completely clear—clearer than ever before. What became even clearer was her realization of her new identity. Not human, not a Ghoul, but a Sin Apostle. A strong sense of fullness arose; even though she hadn’t eaten anything for three days, she suddenly felt full.
"From now on, you are my Sin Apostle," Ren announced. "With the Power of Sin, you no longer need to worry about the Ghoul’s man-eating characteristics. I will send you to Echidna first, and she will explain the situation to you."
The Power of Sin was capable of easily satisfying even massive beings like Godzilla.
Rize Kamishiro was still in a state of clarity and bewilderment when Ren collected her into the Chaos Realm. Utaha, who hadn’t dared to breathe, was completely stunned. She had seen the entire process! Ren commanded and controlled the monster with words, black mist emerged from his body and surged towards the monster, and the monster turned into a fallen angel. Finally, with a wave of his hand, Ren made the monster disappear as if performing a magic trick.
After dealing with Rize Kamishiro, Ren walked to the dead Parasite and its host. He had learned from dominating their memories that Parasites, unlike Ghouls, were not an alienation but had appeared all over the world. He could not tolerate this kind of disgusting parasitic organism. He directly activated the Dominator to cover the entire globe.
The Parasites’ thoughts were easy to distinguish; in the blink of an eye, he located all the Parasites. There were only about 500,000 of them worldwide. "Let’s capture them first," he said, his eyes sharpening. The Source of Space activated. In an instant, all the Parasites and their infected hosts on Earth were forcibly pulled into an alternate dimension he created.
Then Ren clapped his hands, directly compressing the alternate dimension. In his hand, there was an odd, cubic, illusory yet solid box. This was the space containing all the Parasites. "I won’t kill these little pests for now," Ren thought, not in a hurry to kill them. The Parasites’ cell proliferation and precise cell control capabilities might also be something Echidna could research.
Among these 500,000 Parasites, over 400,000 had parasitic hosts. Considering that the sudden disappearance of 400,000 people worldwide might cause panic and accelerate the Cognitive Doomsday, Ren casually dominated everyone in the world to automatically ignore these people. Although some of them had families, he could only silently apologize in his heart.
He glanced at the corpses on the ground, also collecting them into the compressed alternate dimension, and then erased the traces of the alternate dimension. Clap! With a snap of his fingers, Utaha saw the damaged street restored. Two or three people appeared on the street, along with an occasional passing car.
The female monster was gone, the monster’s corpse on the ground was gone, and the damaged street was gone. It was as if everything that had just happened was a dream. A gentle breeze blew by.
Utaha felt a cold chill inside her skirt. A cold, damp sensation spread across her lower body, and her skirt occasionally dripped. This indicated that everything that had just happened was real. She immediately realized her terrible state was about to be seen by others.
"Put this on first." A soft voice was in her ear. Ren had already tied his discarded jacket around her waist, the drooping part perfectly covering her skirt from the hem to below her knees. At the same time, it also covered her embarrassing situation.
"Tha... thank you..." Blushing, Utaha’s voice was as small as a mosquito’s.
"Are you going home by yourself or should I take you?" Ren asked, maintaining a helpful attitude.
"I..." If it had been the previous Utaha, she would have certainly chosen to go back by herself. But after experiencing something that shattered her worldview and exploded her sense of shame, clutching Ren’s sleeve tightly, she said in a weak voice, "Please take me back!" Only with Ren present could she feel a sense of security.
"Alright." Ren chose not to peek into her memories but instead asked, "Where do you live?"
"XX Apartment Building, Room XX."
"This place..." Ren found it somewhat familiar. Wasn’t it the opposite side of the same floor in the same apartment building as Adashino Benio? He activated spatial movement in broad daylight, not worrying at all about being discovered. The two disappeared directly from the street. Someone happened to pass by their location, but no one noticed the two who had vanished.