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linkspooky · 7 years ago

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Two men, Without a Head

“Once, they carried zero atop their shoulders. Yet after losing their head, that has all come to naught.”

There’s a lot to decode in this cover page. Let’s start with the first and most obvious, the caption.

It’s a caption that clearly relates to Ui at least. Not only is Arima the leader which he aspired to be like whose now dead, but also Hairu herself died specifically by decapitation and losing her head. It is also quite literally that same head that brings Ui over to Furuta’s side and clouds his judgement. Saying “Ui lost his head” is not even symbolic by this point.

Yet there is a symbolic meaning to it of course too, as we know the root of the issue is that Ui himself feels like everything he’s done up until this point has been for naught. It’s literally what is stated inside of the caption.

Ui’s advice towards Kuramoto when he brings up Take’s betrayal is that they have to use their heads and keep themselves above personal feelings in order to protect what they still have left.

Which is directly contradicted by what he says afterwards, how can he do the logical thing and just focus on what’s left for them to protect when he has absolutely nothing at all?

All of Ui’s desperation comes from this feeling, not only from Hairu though she plays a big part in it, but from this feeling that everything he has done before has gone awry and led to nothing. That he fights for nothing. As Tokyo Ghoul has pointed out not once but twice, this is the meaning of true despair.

Having all that you fought for amount for nothing is the fear of most characters. Whereas their hope then is that their actions will be able to leave a lasting impact on the world, most often through the people they love and leave behind.

This caption is as relevant as ever, especially when Ui is referred to as “Young Hope.” Not only that but when he was told just a few chapters ago that Hope is important but he will never get what it is he wants.

In a way then when he’s told the truth Ui ignores it, and his only hope remains in trusting somebody who is a known liar.

There is no sense in that at all. In a way, Ui fell right for Furuta’s temptation into throwing away his own ethics. What he threw away though was not his abidance to the CCG’s rules, but rather his own ability to determine right and wrong. A sense of ethics is a personal thing, it has a lot to do with how you see the world through your own head.

If you lose sight of your senses, then you can’t execute justice. Ui is aware of this, but he willfully throws that away. “Losing sight of good sense” effectively means being blind.” That is essentially how one would operate without a head. That is how both Take and Ui are left in the fight, they are the carriers of Arima’s legacy but they’re both blinded about it in their own way.

Look at the respective ways they are drawn in opposite directions. Ui is shown smoking and with his hair covering his eyes, whereas Take’s eyes are shown, but his gaze is cast downwards and there’s no pupils detailed in his eyes. Both of them are blind, and looking in the opposite directions because they carry two opposite interpretations of Arima’s legacy.

Ui is shown smoking with his eyes obscured by his hair, which matches exactly how he was shown mourning Arima when the news first broke. It’s made clear, what blinds Ui in this case is grief. Take’s is less clear, but from the fact that he’s looking down, and considering his own thoughts in regards to Arima’s legacy.

Even after Arima has died and left everything solely to Take, Take cannot bring himself to live up to that role. He sees himself as a subordinate still not an heir. The same way Ui can be said to futiley be attempting to revive from the dead, Take is working for the praise of a dead man who will never give it to him.

Even though Arima clearly trusts the judgement that Take has on his head, his reason for following Kaneki is not because he believes in Kaneki’s ideals but rather Arima’s choice of him. The question is obviously how long is this going to last then? Is Take simply going to chain himself to Kaneki’s side until the new world is achieved, afterwards?

The common interpretation of Arima’s choice of leaving Take behind with Zero squad was that Take would find a purpose through them, because like Arima Take dwells on the same sort of emptiness. He understood him in a way that Ui possibly wouldn’t. Yet we see Take make the same mistake as practically everybody else in this arc, rather than trying to move forward and find his own meaning after this point Take simply clings to the role that has been given to him by the person he looked up to.

With that you can draw a clear parallel to Kaneki. Those who are empty inside will disappear and die if they have nothing to chain themselves down to. Ui and Take therefore show similiar behaviors. Ui chains himself to Furuta, and Take to Arima’s legacy. Both of these things though, eat up Ui and Take entirely and make them unable to think for themselves. Ui thinks only in terms of getting Hairu back, and Take thinks only in terms on how she should act in accordance to Arima’s legacy not in how he should act as Take Hirako, the man who was good enough to be trusted by Arima.

Remember the first and foremost thing about Arima’s character was that he hated who he was, he hated his existence as a garden child and how many lives he was forced to take as only a child.

Just like Yomo then, his true comfort comes from the fact that even someone as terribly weak and unable to change things as himself was finally able to leave something behind. There’s a reason that Yomo was musing about this exact same thing when fighting Arima himself. In Tokyo Ghoul, hope manifests in the form of the people you leave behind being impacted by your actions, that no matter the amount of tragedy in the world, the kind actions you take in raising others will not go to waste.

It’s a very parental idea of hope too (no coincidence that Touka is pregnant in that arc and Goat’s future seems to be directly paralleled with the safety of that baby). So clearly, what Arima would want for those kids is for them to escape living the life that he had of constantly having to fight and kill ghouls. Yet, we see how Take uses them in the formation of Goat.

They’re still fighting ghouls same as ever. If their only hope under Arima was to fight ghouls and become strong enough to survive because the caged world had written off half ghouls like them as not worthy of living, and their main use under Kaneki has been to fight under him because all of their hopes for a future has been pinned on Kaneki this time rather than Arima than has anything truly changed about their situation?

Zero squad is doing what zero squad has always done, which is kill ghouls. Even becoming terrorists and joining a rebellion has not changed that. Take also does nothing to curb this behavior. He does not lecture them about treating ghouls like rankings and targets to earn achievements, or even about involving themselves in a fight they don’t have to. His only reprimand is at Shio for not taking the fight seriously. Yet it makes sense Take would lead them this way, their decision to defect with Kaneki has made them terrorists. If they do not fight, they will die. Take probably does truly want them to escape the conflict, but the only way to escape is to fight your way out of it even though that will inevitably cause more conflict? It’s a paradox, esentially caught between a rock and a hard place.

Take is facing enemies that are only here to kill, that cannot be reasoned with. It’s logical that his response then would be to eliminate them first in order to protect the children that he’s in charge of.

Yet at the same time if Take conducts himself like this, then he’s trapped by his thinking the same as anybody else in the 24th ward is at this moment. The only thoughts are being put towards survival, and not the future. Take’s not thinking about how he’s going to ensure these kids have a good future, he can only afford to ensure their survival in the moment.

Which is where we get another of Goat’s main foibles. If Goat is ideologically attempting to create a better world, then they have to be better than their opponents. Yet as of the moment their only concern is survival so we see Goat imitating the CCG in a way, Kaneki can only bring to order Goat to fight to kill when they are fighting other ghouls, we see employment of child soldiers on both sides of this conflict. Kaneki’s avoidance of confronting the CCG and using every muscle he possibly can makes sense from a perspective of survival. Confronting the CCG is more likely to be deadly than confronting ghouls, and he has to use everybody that is capable of fighting to protect those that are not. Even if Kaneki were to let the zero squad go they would likely just be hunted the same way by the CCG so he might as well use them. The problem with this methodology of thinking is that of course, it only gives the kids a chance to survive not to live.

Ironically if there is anybody present who is lecturing the Ihei for only caring about fighting ghouls and not realizing the context of the situation during the first goat meeting, it’s the only Arima present Yusa.

Ihei and Arima were probably not given the same name as their distant cousins for a coincidence ut to invite a comparison. Ihei takes fights the least seriously and showboats the most and therefore puts them self in the most danger. Yusa seems to have the cooler head and be the one most aware of the situation.

These kids are in the exact same predicament as Arima and Hairu were in. With the exception that they are still alive now, and they can still be saved from this world of violence.

If there is hope for the future, if there is something left to protect it clearly lies in them and not in Hairu’s revival or a dead Arima’s praise.

Yet we see, how truly headless Take and Ui act in regards to thee children.

Take fails an Arima dodge once again and has a single scratch on his cheek. A clear parallel to Arima’s scratch of the same nature in V14.

The tunnel that Touka and the others are fleeing to is called E14, obviously enough.

The ultimate twist of V14 was that Arima was not fighting to kill Kaneki, but rather to capture him and secure his legacy as the one eyed king. This is confirmed pretty much by Tatatara’s flashback.

What makes it more apparent is Hajime who is not the least bit emotionally invested in the situation simply spells it out bluntly as it is.

Ui is still a member of Zero Squad, he’s thinking through the lens of a former Zero squad member. His pride is quite obviously part of what’s motivating him in this chapter.

Uis is given an opening to strike Yusa down, but he kicks him away and lectures him instead. It can be interpreted either as a deliberate sparing which means Ui still considers himself a part of Arima squad and doesn’t want to destroy them on some level, or it’s a power play. Ui is showing how superior he is to Arima squad in this moment of mercy. Why they should have followed him instead of Take.

Even though Ui started out the conversation by calling out Take, Take himself has yet to respond to it at all. Rather he only tells the children in front of him on how to deal with Ui as a threat.

Ui and Take are the two pillars of support Arima relied on for the Arima squad, and they both carry out two separate ideas on what Arima’s legacy truly was. Ui believes it lies in protecting the CCG, and Take believes it lies in protecting Arima’s chosen successor Kaneki Ken. The two of them are both then, wrong in their own ways. They are blinded by the way they regard themselves as Arima’s legacy.

The clear difference in the situation though is Ui is acting out of partial ignorance because he was not told and not trusted by Arima. Arima’s support lied in two primary people, but he gave the truth entirely to one of them. It makes sense then that his legacy would become so lopsided as a result.

All Take has to do is try to explain the truth to Ui to stop this fight. Sure, it might not work but Take isn’t even bothering to try at this point, because he can’t face Ui. Neither then, can Ui really face Take with all the grief and pain Ui was left with with Take’s decision to abandon him.

The two of them can’t face each other, so instead they make the children that they were responsible for fight it out for them.

That in itself is truly acting without a head. Hajime even says so, that they will die simply because Ken Kaneki is not with you. Why does he say that? Is it because Ken Kaneki was going to protect them? No, it’s because their entire purpose for fighting is simply because they need to protect Ken Kaneki. Those who have nothing to protect can never fight for their last. Except this time Ken’s nowhere even near this scene. So we see Zero squad two times over, in what’s meant to be one of the most critical fights of their lives, not taking things seriously and nearly dying, first with Yusa then with Ihei.

Of course the entire chapter as a whole is called “he laughs”, with the he being ambiguous. As Hajime says (LOL) similiar to Furuta, it could just be Hajime. The frames of the chapter however, are conspicuously decorated with crosses.

It could be Donato, but remember Uta/No Face has these same cross shaped tattoos in abundance and is the clown with a specific connection to Take, and the one that’s already been mentioned as conspiciously absent for showing up to fight against Take and Zero squad in the clown raid.

I believe this fight is so perfect an oppurtunity for the clowns to interfere that we are not going to see a natural conclusion come between Ui and Take where one wins advantage over the other. Rather, I believe the clowns might interfere in order to make one of them finally flip like a switch after both of them have been obscuring and downcasting their eyes for so long.

After all if Take could simply part with a sentence towards Ui’s way, Ui’s entire worldview could be shattered and rearranged. Yet it’s likely Take will never do it because it’s in his way to never betray his true emotions. I doubt the clowns could let such a perfect setup like that go uninterrupted.

The same way we saw two clowns spark Urie’s last bit of growth, acceptance of himself and stopping himself from deferring the blame for his father’s death from everyone else, we might see the same with Ui and Take’s currently stagnated selves.

Drawn on Ui’s head there is also a tarot number. If you read the crosses with a strictly religious reading, remember that 4 - the emperor is a card that has to do with the power of masculine patriarchical systems. There are also, only four crosses in the borders if you don’t count the ones on the bottom that are drawn in pattern instead.

The catholic church is a pretty well known system of religious patriarchy, all priests are male, the cardinals are male, the pope is male. Beyond that though, Arima has been regarded as a god multiple times in the manga.

If there’s anything this fully illustrates the illusions that Ui buys into. The masculine system of patriarchy represented by the CCG is something he has fully and desperately conformed himself into. Now we see it’s also him who latches on first to Furuta’s hyper masculine and hyper toxic regime.

It’s almost interesting how characters who do not fall for Furuta’s regime are all traditionally masculine, Kuroiwa, Bujin, even Urie after being accepted by the Kuroiwas and having his masculinity reaffirmed. Whereas all of the characters who are taking place in this raid are nontraditionally masculine men, Ui who is pampered beautiful and feminine in his looks, Mutsuki who is a trans man, and even Juuzou at the end.

It suggests that to Ui at least part of his inability to process his grief for Arima is because he held him in such high regard to the system. To Ui, Arima was the system, he was his ideal of a hero. His want to conform to the CCG so badly is mixed up with his misperception of Arima. Simply put, if he were to understand who Arima really was, and that Arima’s masculinity was not something to be envied it’s likely Ui’s view on the world would flip. To Ui, Arima might as well be the god that he based all of his ideas around. (He’s even called an Arima devotee by Matsuri).

Ui’s view then is on a different level of unhealthy than to Take who views himself exclusively as a subordinate. Ui is looking for a god to worship, as he finds himself lost entirely in his idealism. Whereas Take can be faulted for thinking with far too much survivalist’s logic, Ui is the opposite and is letting his own emotions and his want to believe in things cloud his judgement entirely. Ui is overwhelmed by emotions and things like ideals whereas Take is acting entirely without the two things mentioned above.

Which is exactly why I said, the situation is precarious enough that the clowns would see it as the perfect opportunity to interrupt.

#tg meta #ui koori #take hirako #fight report round one #get back to your corners boy #we still got thirteen more rounds to go #meta #arima kishou #discussion #yusa arima #ihei shio #zero squad

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kenkamishiro · 7 years ago

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re:quest [tension] - chapter 3

Sorry for the delay. I ended up being pretty busy over the last few weeks, plus having other translations take more priority (like the actual manga chapters and the omakes). Hopefully the next chapters won’t take as long for me to finish.

For those who haven’t read “tension”, the short story about the CCG art festival, you can read chapter 1 here. Enjoy!

(Thank you @tokyo-ghoul-out-of-context and @kanekikenunot for proofreading.)

“Urie.”

Urie silently clicked his tongue as he heard someone call him from behind. Even without looking back at the person he immediately knew who it was.

“...(Annoying prick.)”

He turned around and sure enough, it was his classmate Kuroiwa Takeomi. Between Takeomi’s tall figure and upstanding visage, it was his honest-looking eyes that grated on Urie’s nerves the most, because they were just like the eyes of his father, Kuroiwa Iwao.

Iwao was a distinguished Special Class investigator whom his superiors and subordinates had the utmost trust in. There wasn’t a single person in the CCG bureau who could speak ill of him. That wasn’t the case for Urie, however, since Iwao had only become who he was today at the sacrifice of his own father.

Urie’s father had also been an investigator. As a Special Class he led his own group of subordinates, one of whom was Iwao. Back when the One-Eyed Owl had shown up, Urie’s father had ordered Iwao and his comrades to retreat, and he had stayed behind by himself to act as the rearguard.

And as a result, his father who had once enveloped Urie in warmth, came back home to him as a cold slab of meat.

Why did he let him die?

These emotions were rooted deep inside of Urie and refused to fade away. How many times had he thought about Iwao dying a tragic death just like his father had? No, a death even more horrific than that?

What an irony it was then, that Urie would meet that man’s son, Kuroiwa Takeomi, at the CCG Junior Academy as a fellow classmate, and as a top student like him, no less. That was why Urie put in all his effort so that he would never lose to that man. He wanted to stand at the top, looking down on Takeomi’s bitter face.

Yet, Takeomi never lost his cool. Just like a great and ancient tree reaching up into the heavens, the simple man took everything in stride without reacting, no matter now cruelly Urie treated him. And this pissed Urie off, seeing this part of Takeomi that gave off the impression that he had lived a happy life. It was like he was shoving into Urie’s face the fact that he had a father and mother, and had grown up being loved and cared for.

You just need to start thinking as if you drank sewage, just like me. Then you won’t be able to look at me with those eyes.

These were the thoughts that arose out of Urie when he faced Takeomi.

“...what? (Don’t talk to me.)” Urie asked him curtly. He wanted to ignore and pass him by, but he didn’t want to show Takeomi that he gave a shit about him.

“Are you also going to join the art festival?” Takeomi asked.

Urie raised an eyebrow in surprise. “I like the approach the CCG is taking for the art festival, so I was planning on joining it in the first place. (Don’t just come up to me in the middle of hallway and act like we’re buddies.)”

Urie was a painter who would often paint pictures with a palette in hand. Though he had heard about the strange turnout for the art festival, with Arima as the special adjudicator and the Zero squad participating, he had been planning to join from the beginning. The Washuus played an important role in adjudicating the art festival, so this was his golden opportunity to get his name out there.

“So you knew about it? To be honest, my entire squad was asked to participate.”

“...the Hirako squad? (You too?)”

Takeomi was a member of the Hirako squad, led by Hirako Take. It appeared that Ui had asked Hirako to participate in the art festival. The vice squad leader Itou Kuramoto heard them, and said that he would join as well. The rest of the squad soon followed after.

“I don’t have any experience with art, though. That’s why I came to you to see if I could get some advice, Urie.”

It had been pretty easy for Urie to hear stuff about Takeomi in his academy days, but he had never heard of him having a hobby.

“...I see. (Of course I’m different from a musclebrain like you.)”

It wasn’t that Takeomi was modest, but that he had absolutely no idea what to do. Urie had no intention on helping Takeomi either way though.

“Frankly speaking, the art festival isn’t something you can prepare for in a day. And if you don’t even have a clear goal, I don’t know how I’m supposed to help you. Anyways, the first thing you should do is to just make something (that completely lacks any kind of artistic skill). It doesn’t matter if it looks bad. How does that sound (though it’s nothing but a waste of time)?”

Urie had no words for someone so clueless about everything. But even if Takeomi did know, Urie wasn’t planning on giving him any advice.

“You’re right. I’m sorry I asked you without thinking,” Takeomi said, admitting his mistake with honesty.

You should feel more sorry for talking to me without even trying in the first place, Urie thought.

“...instead of using a delicate tool like a paintbrush, why don’t you make something out of wood instead (you musclebrain)?” Urie suggested, his words laced with poison.

He turned his back on Takeomi. “Good luck and do your best (with your crayon scribbles).”

Urie could gain an overwhelming victory over Takeomi when it came to art. And if he could gain that victory, he might be able to get a step closer to promotion. Urie grinned, imagining Takeomi’s terrible artwork. The art festival looked like it was going to be even more entertaining now.

And he began to snicker.

“...I wonder what Urie-kun is finding so funny,” Mutsuki murmured. He had just stepped out of the conference room when he had come across Urie. Urie’s face looked the same as ever, but Mutsuki felt there was something different about him.

“What is it, Tooru?” Suzuya Juuzou called out from behind him, pushing his head out of the conference room into the hallway. Juuzou, who was in charge of the 13th ward, had come to the bureau for the evaluation meeting of the Auction Cleanup Operation.

“Ah,” Juuzou said. He nodded understandingly as soon as he noticed Urie. “Did you invite him?”

“Oh, no I didn’t. I think Urie-kun’s cutting down on sugar…”

“He’s not eating sweets at all?”

“Yes, he’s trying to bulk up.”

Hearing Mutsuki’s words, Abara Hanbee appeared behind Juuzou. “That is quite unfortunate,” Hanbee said. The other members of the Suzuya squad, Nakarai Keijin, Mikage Miyuki and Tamaki Mizurou came out from the conference room as well, having finished the preparations for the conference.

In truth, Mutsuki and the Suzuya squad were actually going to go to a famous cupcake shop known for their delicious cupcakes. The original plan had been for Hanbee to go alone and buy the cupcakes, but Suzuya had said that he wanted to go see the cupcakes in person and pick them out himself. Which was why everyone was accompanying him.

“Plus a little while ago, he was forced to eat the bucket pudding that Sensei made for us.”

“He actually ate that?” Nakarai asked.

Mutsuki nodded and gave a wry smile. “Sensei even divided it up so that it wouldn’t be difficult for us to eat.”

He remembered what had happened that night. Everyone involved with the investigations had returned home at the same time and were eating dinner together, when all of a sudden a bucket pudding materialized onto the dining table. Saiko looked excitedly at the fascinating-looking pudding, and Shirazu was sitting next to her with his sleeves rolled up...while Urie was looking at it with dead eyes.

“I’m jealous, the Chateau gets so many homemade sweets,” Juuzou said with a grin. Sometimes it was easy to forget that he was a genius investigator with a great number of achievements.

The cupcake shop was a bit of a walk away from the CCG. A fragrant scent that could fill his stomach up to the brim spilled out from inside the shop. The display window was lined with beautiful cupcakes decorated with all sorts of animals and flowers. This was beyond art.

“S-something feels out of place…”

It was because among the dozens of female customers, they were the only group of men that were surrounding the cupcakes. They were met with piercing gazes, but Juuzou didn’t seem to care.

“So pretty! It looks just like a toy,” Juuzou said. He poked the icing on his cupcake with his fork.

“Suzuya-san, these are NGC 4038 and NGC 4039.”

“Mikage-senpai, I don’t get what you’re trying to say,” Mizurou, Mikage’s junior, quipped in response to his enigmatic words.

“In other words, Mizurou, the Antennae Galaxies.”

“That’s way too hard to understand.”

“Maybe if I say it’s Corvus, you’ll figure it out.”

“Is that another one of your constellations?”

Mikage showed no sign that he would explain, so Mutsuki promptly looked it up on his phone. He found a beautiful picture of the Milky Way in its splendour.

He showed Mikage the photo. “It’s this, right?”

“It is,” Mikage answered, pointing to the phone.

“I see. This is art without a doubt,” Hanbee agreed as he looked at the photo. He then looked up at Mutsuki as if he had realized something. “Come to think of it, the festival of the arts is coming soon...what is everyone at the Chateau planning to do?”

Art festival. Those words entered Mutsuki’s ears.

“I’m not really an arts person, but the other members look like they’re going to join.”

Shirazu and Saiko from the Qs squad had been the ones to tell Mutsuki about the festival. They had been brimming with excitement about it. Urie hadn’t confirmed anything, but there was a good chance that he would join considering his hobby.

“Is Haise going to as well?” Juuzou asked, his cheeks ballooning out from the cupcake he had spent more than enough time admiring.

Mutsuki was worried about what would happen if he told Juuzou, but he decided to be honest. “Sensei said that he wanted to make a gingerbread house, but he didn’t think that that would be considered art.”

Juuzou’s eyes began to sparkle. “I want to eat it.”

If anyone could get their teeth into anything, it was Juuzou.

“I think Sensei’s still trying to make up his mind.”

“Tooru. Convince Haise for me.”

“M-me?”

Hanbee lowered his head. “Please do it without fail.”

“I’ll prepare a report of the pros and cons of Sasaki-shi participating for next time,” Nakarai said, cutting off a path of retreat for Mutsuki.

“You’ll be better off if you don’t go against him,” Mizurou whispered to Mutsuki.

“Aim for the stars since you were born,” Mikage whispered incomprehensibly on the other side of him. There was no way of getting out of this.

“I-I understand.”

Sorry, Sensei, Mutsuki apologized in his mind.

What had actually happened with the gingerbread house was that Mado Akira, the Qs’ mother figure, had told Haise to stop fooling around, which had resulted in him giving up. “Nothing I can do about it,” Haise had said, smiling weakly, but there was a look of sadness on his face.

Akira might change her mind if Juuzou asks for it, since the two of them have fought before, Mutsuki thought. Juuzou had requested it for his own sake, but if it helped Haise it wouldn’t be a problem. Or I could also help make the gingerbread house.

“Is everyone in the Suzuya squad also going to join the art festival?”

“We are planning to review and submit a number of expressive drawings drawn by Suzuya-senpai,” Hanbee said. Juuzou sometimes drew pictures of animals, and Hanbee would file them accordingly.

“The other ones are me and Mikage-senpai,” Mizurou said as he drank his coffee to cleanse his palate of the too-sweet-cupcake.

“Is Mikage-san making something space-related?”

“Nope, it’s something else. Mikage-senpai, show it to Mutsuki.”

Mikage took a memo pad out of his pocket and ripped off a page. Placing the paper on the table, he began to fold it. The rectangular paper became a square, the creases and valleys folded in a fluid motion.

Two minutes later it was complete as Mikage produced a five-pointed star. It was simple, but it was beautifully made.

“It’s space-related…”

“This is good, the cosmos are coming,” Mikage muttered without thinking, pointing at Mutsuki. And here Mutsuki thought that it wouldn’t be related to space.

“Mikage-senpai’s really good at origami, huh?” Mizurou asked.

“Uh, yes, I see, origami…”

Mutsuki had been roped into Mikage’s groove and unconsciously thought of it as space-related, but if he stopped to think it about it, it was nothing more than origami.

“Besides that, I can also make dinosaurs that were destroyed by the meteorites, the Rose Nebula that is shaped like a rose, and ornamental balls that vividly resemble supernovas.”

The line between space and origami for Mutsuki was beginning to blur.

“If I can fold origami a hundred and three times, I can make it, but I have not been able to reach that point yet.”

“What are you even saying?”

“The cosmos are not coming, Mizurou. Origami is what space is.”

Art sure exists in all kinds of forms.

I can’t keep up with their conversation, Mutsuki contemplated. The type of art that Mutsuki was most familiar with was paintings for sure. Though one of the biggest reasons for that was because Urie painted on a daily basis.

The smell of oil paint would ooze from Urie’s room and even from Urie himself, and Shirazu and Saiko would often call him stinky without a moment’s hesitation. But to Mutsuki, it felt like that familiar scent exuded Urie, exuded his coldness and prickliness. Was he thinking that way because he had experienced Urie’s solitude during the Auction Operation?

Mutsuki let out a short breath and decided to think about something else. Come to think of it, how are Saiko and Shirazu doing? Maybe I’ll ask them when I’m back at the Chateau.

But before I do that, I’ll have to ask Haise about the gingerbread house, Mutsuki thought as he watched Juuzou enjoying his cupcake.

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#Tokyo Ghoul #Tokyo Ghoul:re #Tokyo Ghoul:re[quest]#Translations #my translations #Urie Kuki #Mutsuki Tooru #Suzuya Juuzou #Suzuya squad #Kuroiwa Takeomi

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