“Look at me, Daddy!”
Masanori twirls around, showing off his black bobbed wig. “I’m YOU! Uncle Uta helped me.”
“You look just like Daddy,” Hairu says with a grin. She’s Rapunzel, and Ui is Flynn Rider.
“Yay!” Masanori claps his hands.
Ui is too happy to speak, so he hugs his child instead. “Now, be safe out there.”
“I will!” Masanori hurries outside to join the other GOAT children.
“Trick or treat!” Masanori first rings Touka and Kaneki’s door.
“Yes?” Touka, dressed like a fortune teller, falls back. “It’s a CCG investigator! AHHHHH!”
Masanori giggles. “No, it’s just Masanori!”
Kaneki, having been forced into a purple dragon costume, hands Masanori sugar tubes.
“Thank you!” Masanori skips to Ayato and Hinami’s next.
“Rawr!” Ayato is dressed like a pirate; Hinami, a yellow parrot. They hand Masanori chocolate.
Naki is Frankenstein and Miza his bride.
“Oo-oooooh.” Miza zombie walks towards the children, and they shriek.
“What tasty children!” Pennywise Itori greets them next, with angel Yomo and devil Uta behind her.
“Watch out, I’ll use my quinque,” teases Masanori. “Wait, Uncle Yomo, are those your ukaku wings.”
“With some help from Uta,” Yomo says uncomfortably.
Nishiki is dressed as a spider and Kimi a butterfly, connected by a web, and they hand out homemade cupcakes to thrill the children.
The Quinx mansion is next, and Saiko greets them as Gintoki. Hsaio as a ninja and Shirazu as a shark appear behind her, followed by Aura as perhaps a ghost – a white sheet, as any rate – and Higemaru as some monster of his own devising. Urie and Mutsuki join as Cookie Monster and a cat, respectively.
Cinderella Yoriko and Prince Charming Takeomi hand out more baked goods, and then it’s on to the Tsukiyama’s.
Chie as a bat hangs in a tree, snapping as many pictures as she can.
“Greetings, mortals!” Tsukiyama thrusts open his front door, dressed in rich wizarding robes. Kanae as an elf holds up ring pops.
Arima opens his door, mortified. He’s dressed as a black goat, and sexy witch Eto looks all too pleased with herself.
The children plod over to Hirako’s, where the three Musketeers pretend to attack as a giant Shiba hands them Kit-kats. Hajime appears to chase off the Musketeers, complete as Superman.
Kurona as a vampire and Seidou as a greek god provide Masanori with his favorite gift yet: caramel, the sticky stuff Mommy and Daddy don’t often buy after he smeared it across the entire kitchen.
An enormous version of Maris Stella answers the door at Akira and Amon’s, and the Suzuya Squad as Robin Hood and his merry men – including Hanbee as Maid Marion – swoop in to deliver Skittles.
When Masanori turns around, he sees all the parents gathered. “All right, off to our last stop.”
“Where?” Masanori asks.
“You don’t think your other uncle would miss this, do you?” Hairu asks lightly.
The adults are still wary as they enter the jail. But their reserve soon gives way to laughter when Haise Sasaki greets Kaneki in Furuta’s voice. “Hi, me! We look cute today!”
“I hate you,” Kaneki says.
“I love us,” says Haise. He showers the children with chocolate, and Masanori thinks himself the luckiest kid alive.
Mercy and Magic 