Welllllllll I have five favorites! Since Suzuya Juuzou is a human, weâll discount him, and also Mutsuki Tooru, since his status as a Quinx is widely known. That leavesâŚ
1. Yomo RenjiÂ
âIâmâŚa ghoul.â
You catch your breath. Of all the things for this beautiful strong man to tell you, for all your reassurances, for the night you just spent in his apartment, you feel betrayed.
âSoâŚyou eat people. People like me.â You try to remain calm.
âThese days I eat suicide victims rather than kill.â He closes his eyes. âThat wasnât always the case.â
âAnd the families? Who will never find their loved oneâs body?â You gulp. You love Renji, yes, but this is horrifying.Â
âI canât atone for that,â he says simply.Â
âHow can you accept this?â You hiss. âFind a better way. Youâve taken one step by not killing. Now take more. There are morgues and donors who would help.â
âAnd get CCG to kill me?â he challenges. His voice trembles with anger. Anger at himself, because he wouldnât entirely be undeserving of arrest.
You dissolve into tears. âIâm sorry, Renji, itâs just so much to take in. Iâm not breaking up – I just need to think about this some more.â You try to smile. âI donât know what I want. I want to right the wrongs of the world, but I donât know how to do that with or without you.âÂ
2. Karren Von Rosewald
âYou participated in that auction? You harbored human traffickers? Ghouls who keep slaves?â  You glare at your girlfriend across the table on the Tsukiyama family porch.Â
You turn your gaze to the roses she just gave you. âKarren. That breaks my heart.â
Karren frowns. âYouâre not mad that I eat people?â
âYou donât have a choice about eating people, though Iâm sure thereâs better ways than murder. I can handle that. But this – the debauchery youâve encouraged – this hurts, Karren.â You let out a sob. âThis isnât about ghouls versus humans; I dontât care about that. I care how you choose to live as a ghoul, and – and youâre better than this.â
âIâm sorry, [Name].â She leans across the table to take your hand. Tears shine in her own eyes. âI never wanted to hurt you.â
âI know, but that only helps so much.â You wipe your eyes, and she hands you a handkerchief.
âI can let you think it over. If you donât want to see me againâŚI understand.â Karren lowers her head.
âI donât know. But I can say Iâll never turn you in,â you whisper.
And thatâs the hope that Karren will cling do. Her eyes light up, and you feel your stomach stir with longing for this ghoul.Â
3. Furuta NimuraÂ
âIf this is a joke, this isnât funny.â Your heart races, but no, his toothy kagune slides out from his back.Â
âI was born like this. I just had surgery to make it official, right?â He smirks. Furutaâs trying to play calm in his office, but one wrong word could send a swarm of investigators over to disrupt his plan.
He could always kill you if you got in the way. But Furuta isnât sure he can, and that frightens him.Â
You stretch out a hand to touch his rinkaku. It is magnificent, you muse.Â
â[Name]-chan.â He grabs your arm. His eyes are desperate, vulnerable in a way that Furuta would never appear to anyone except you.
âDid you ever want to eat me?â you ask dully.
âItâs why I got close to you,â he says. âYou smell delicious. But Iâm not dumb enough to eat another CG agent. And thenâŚI couldnât for other reasons.â
The words I love you hang in the air.
Youâre reeling. You know Furuta does love you, in his Fruity way. Heâd never expose his deepest secrets otherwise. And yetâŚand yet youâve been raised your entire life to hate him.
âMay I have time?â You ask.Â
He nods. He hates feeling helpless. You could turn him in, and he wonât kill you. Fuck, Nico was right – he does have it bad.Â
Furuta isnât sure he can handle being rejected again. As soon as you leave his office, he presses his kagune against his mouth to suppress his screams.Â