Thank you thank you! Naki asks warm whatever’s left of my heart after the last few chapters.
“You chose the best blood wine, bro.” Naki throws his arm across Tsukiyama’s shoulders. “The best.”
“Thank you.” Tsukiyama feels giddy. He hasn’t been drunk in a while – well, since he snuck into Mirumo’s cabinet and tested every bottle and Matsumae discovered him throwing up on the floor when he was all of fifteen – but buzzed is always a nice feeling.
“How’d you get to be so shmart?” Naki giggles. “I wish I was like you. Big bro would have liked you.”
No, Yamori would not have liked Tsukiyama, and Tsukiyama would not have liked the blood flecks on his immaculate suit, but that was then, and this is now.
“Are you happy, Naki?”
“Yesh!” Naki throws back his head and laughs. “Because with this – thish stuff – I feel like I can talk to Big Bro. And Miza.”
“Miza’s alive,” she calls over, sourly.
“And you!” Naki hugs Tsukiyama, who starts laughing.
“Wait, have any of you played Never Have I Ever? We should,” Tsukiyama calls over the guests. Hinami declines, to his relief, and Nishiki is wrestling Yomo to bed, and Kaneki and Touka are off – well – Tsukiyama giggles.
Soon it’s just Miza, Naki, Koma, Irimi, and Tsukiyama playing. They discover that Naki’s a virgin, Miza wants to change that, Irimi has never killed anyone older than sixty, and Koma has also eaten himself to heal, much like Tsukiyama did after their lovely married couple let him have it.
“Like old times!” Naki babbles, though to what old times he’s referring to, Tsukiyama has no idea.
“To love!” Tsukiyama raises his glass.
“All the love here tonight.” Naki dissolves into giggles, and they all cheer.
He finally spills his wine over his white suit, and Koma leaps to his feet. “I win!”
Tsukiyama hands over money. “Damn, I was rooting for you, Naki.”
Naki just laughs, and soon they all do, too.
Mercy and Magic 