makyun:

Scene shifts to the strategy room at Rushima.

“Currently engaging in combat…”
“Support…”
“This is the Qs Squad… We’ve located a cave, we will be infiltrating…”

Transmissions enter one after another. This seems to be taking place before Mutsuki was found.

Special Class Marude is inside the room and is pointing a gun towards Yoshitoki. There are also a number of people behind him.

Yoshitoki: …Maru, what happened to commanding?
Marude: Well, just finished the first part.
Yoshitoki: …
Yoshitoki: What are you planning to do with ‘that’? This is no laughing matter.
Marude: Yoshitoki-san…

Marude: It’s not like I fell at the mercy of that useless reading material.
(prob refers to Eto’s book)
Marude: It’s just that the book claimed that the ‘Washuus are cooperating with the Ghouls’… That they’re ‘wrong’.
Marude: I’ve let myself get washed by ‘Washuu’.
Marude: Taking meals, all those actions. There’s nothing suspicious no matter where you look.
Marude: There was nothing suspicious at all. But with the exception “of one thing”.

Marude: There was information that there was ‘something done’ to the ‘gate’.
Marude: A system where it won’t do a false reaction to a Quinque… and also to certain individuals.
Marude: I asked someone who was familiar to look it up.

Marude: The times when this ‘system’ reacted.
Marude: …It reacted to the ‘Garden Graduates’ of the Zero Squad which Arima Kishou started.
Marude: Qs Member Shao Jinri. And also when you Washuus pass thru.

Marude: The Washuus aren’t ‘just cooperating with Ghouls’… They are ‘Ghouls themselves’.

Yoshitoki turns around but his expression doesn’t change.

makyun:

Arima: Do you know what happens when a human and ghoul bears a child?

An image of Itori appears: “Most of them lose their lives…”

Kaneki: A One-Eyed Ghoul… They’ll become a half-ghoul…?
Arima: …Not all of them. A case like the One-Eyed Owl is rare.

Arima: The children born do not differ too much from a human.
Arima: Not all of them have a kagune, and they’re capable of eating normally.

Arima: What makes them different is that they have high physical capabilities and that they will ‘die early’.
Kaneki: Wha…
Kaneki: What’s with… that…?
Kaneki: Just for what purpose…

Arima does a small smile.

Arima: …Who knows. I don’t know the reason but…

Arima: Perhaps they wanted to become human…
Arima: Washuu (V).

makyun:

The color cover is Arima showing only half of his face.

Blood continues to splurt from Arima’s neck as hetumbles backwards. Kaneki panics and rushes towards him.

Narration:
In this world, blood constantly continues to flow.
Both Ghouls and Investigators both lose something of the same value, a red life.

Kaneki: What….
Kaneki: ARE YOU DOING?!

Kaneki holds Arima’s body as he cries.

Arima: …I’ve always waited.
Kaneki: Arima-sa…
Arima: Listen… Kaneki Ken.

Blood flows out from Arima’s mouth.

Arima: …I didn’t have much time left. The timing was… just too early…
Arima: Me… and Hairu too…
Arima: And also Furuta… The investigators who came from the ‘Sunlit Garden’.
Arima: We are “not human”.
Kaneki: !?

Arima: …We are failed ‘half-humans’ who bear mixed blood.
Kaneki: Half… humans…? That’s…
Arima: My right eye.
Arima: You’ve probably noticed it but it can barely see anything/reflect any image.
Arima: “Glaucoma”, a common disease.
Arima: …Yes, “among old people”.
Kaneki: Old… people…?

Arima: We who came from the Garden decay faster.
(decay here can also mean to be forgotten)
Arima: Even my other eye has started to lose its function. My lifespan was almost over.

Arima: We all have either ‘parent as a Ghoul’.
Kaneki: …

Kaneki: (…Arima-san… Doesn’t tell jokes…)
Kaneki: …

harostar:

So does that mean the “Special Bloodlines” have some ghoul heritage? It doesn’t state that hybrids cannot reproduce, merely that they age faster. So they could very well have had children prior to dying, and those kids inherited the enhanced physical abilities?

…..if so, that means the Kuroiwas and Amon have ghoul blood.

makyun:

Yoshitoki: I’ve always thought that the Special Class Marude that I know wasn’t this thoughtless/foolish…
Yoshitoki: Me, along with Arima. We’ve all known each other for a long time, correct?
Yoshitoki: It doesn’t make sense for you to notice something like this. If you want, you can check the inspection records of Arima and the rest after this operation.
Marude: …Well it’s true that this alone won’t reallly determine anything.
Marude: …But this is just a word from an old friend.
Marude: And I hate using this word but…

Marude: This… is intuition.

Marude shoots and Yoshitoki falls onto the ground.

In another room, Matsuri hears the gunshot.

Matsuri: !?

Back to Marude and Yoshitoki, the bullet pierces Yoshitoki’s forehead. Just in case, Marude talks to the people who are carrying Quinque cases.

“Special Class Marude…”

Marude: …

They all continue to look at Yoshitoki’s body on the ground. It remains motionless and blood flows out from his head.

Marude: …This…
Marude: …Let this please just remain a ‘murder’…

Yoshitoki gets up, both eyes with activated kakugan.

Yoshitoki: I’m disappointed, Maru.

Marude: (What the hell. Shit.)
Marude: (…So it was just a lie…?)