JOJO: Madness of Multiverse

"Don't dodge, Touka-san," Shinobu said with slight sternness.

"Although the medicine applied to the wound hurts, it will help you recover quickly from your injuries."

To be honest, at this moment, even Shinobu felt some sympathy for her.

Jotaro's attack was really too heavy. On the outside, there didn't seem to be much problem, but internally, her cells were severely damaged.

When the medicine was applied to the wound, the stinging pain quickly drilled through the skin and into her body, causing Touka to cry out.

It felt like being stabbed by countless needles, making her instinctively flinch.

"It hurts… hurts…"

Shinobu shook her head and said, "There's no way around the pain."

Besides treating Touka's injuries, Shinobu also gave her a full physical check-up.

All of Touka's body data was below healthy standards, which made Shinobu give a bitter smile and remind, "From now on, you better eat less human food."

Nezuko blinked and asked, "Why?"

"You don't know?" Shinobu suddenly remembered, after Nezuko woke up, it seemed no one had given her a proper introduction to ghoul knowledge.

Nezuko's understanding of ghouls mostly came from what others said, not comprehensive.

"No wonder you still tried to feed Touka student food even knowing she was a ghoul." Shinobu explained,

"To ghouls, human food is a harmful substance, it's bad for their health."

Nezuko exclaimed in surprise, "How could that be? I saw Touka-chan eating like a human, so I thought…"

Touka gave a bitter smile and said, "Ghouls, to avoid exposing their identity and to blend into human society, inevitably need to eat like humans."

"In reality, we just pretend to chew and then swallow the food whole. To avoid harming our health, we induce vomiting afterward."

Shinobu looked at Touka deeply and remained silent.

The data on paper showed that after eating human food, Touka had not induced vomiting. Otherwise, her physical condition wouldn't be this bad.

Because ghouls and demons had similarities, Shinobu truly could not bring herself to like this kind of creature.

But with recent research and deeper understanding of ghouls, she couldn't help but feel sympathy for the other side.

'If it's like this… can they really be blamed?'

Now, she wanted more than anything to help them, to help ghouls like Touka.

She smiled and said, "Don't worry, Touka-san, one day, you'll be able to eat just like humans."

"In the true sense of the word." She added another sentence.

Touka froze. 'Was that really possible?'

Nezuko firmly said, "Shinobu-chan is amazing at medicine. She'll definitely think of a way."

Shinobu said, "According to my research, humans and ghouls share the same ancestor. After all, in this world, not just ghouls, even human bodies contain trace amounts of Rc cells."

"A very small number of people even exhibit adverse symptoms from Rc cell overproduction, forming kagune cysts."

"Next, I plan to research this in depth."

She turned around, flipping through the documents behind her, and murmured, "The reason ghouls can't eat normally is due to excess Rc cells in their bodies."

"Lowering the Rc value in ghouls to human standards is certainly difficult. But creating food that maintains Rc cells shouldn't be that hard."

Nezuko didn't understand anything about this, but she grasped one key point.

"As long as food is made that ghouls can eat, does that mean they'll be able to live like humans?"

Shinobu pondered and said, "In theory, yes."

"No."

Jotaro's deep voice suddenly rang out. He pushed open the lab door and slowly walked in.

Touka quickly pulled on her shirt, earlier, she had removed everything for medicine application.

Nezuko asked confusedly, "If ghouls don't eat people, humans can live peacefully with them, right?"

Nezuko's thinking was still too naive. Jotaro glanced at Shinobu and said, "Just as you said, if humans and ghouls share a common ancestor, then they naturally possess similar genes."

"Desire for power and wealth is inevitable."

"The stronger one is, the easier it is to obtain those things, no one would deny that."

Shinobu said, "Jotaro-san, do you still think this world should be ruled by ghouls?"

Jotaro's eyes flickered, and he said, "It's not that I think that way, but there are too many strange points that can only be explained this way."

"Solving the food problem of ghouls to avoid their harm, it's impossible no one has thought of that."

"But in this world, even though ghouls have existed for many years, this problem still hasn't been resolved."

His face darkened. "It's not that no one wants to solve the problem. It's that someone is preventing it from being solved."

"And those people may very well be ghouls themselves."

Jotaro leaned against a chair, arms crossed, and said coldly, "If we want peaceful coexistence between humans and ghouls, not only must we solve their biological flaws, we must also eliminate those obstructive ghouls."

Shinobu had witnessed how smart Jotaro was before, but she still wanted to know how he reached that conclusion.

"Very simple." To her question, Jotaro explained calmly, "Ghouls not only possess great power, but can also move like humans."

"Such creatures, once gathered together, will inevitably seize wealth through primitive means at incredible speed."

"As long as one leads, others will follow. Once they've plundered human wealth, it'll naturally lead to internal power struggles."

When Jotaro said this much, Shinobu already understood most of it.

What comes next would definitely mirror the development of human society, wealth and power concentrating in the hands of a few.

Jotaro raised one finger and explained, "To consolidate their own status, ghouls in power naturally wouldn't want other ghouls to grow stronger, suppressing them becomes inevitable."

"Compared to humans, those of their own kind pose a greater threat."

Shinobu smiled and said, "A ruler's mentality, huh? Use humans to control ghouls, then use ghouls to control humans, they just hide behind the curtain and profit from it all."

"Thinking about it this way, all the strange things in this world now make sense."

Jotaro was filled with anger inside. Those bastards played him like a fool.

One day, he would drag them out, and not let a single one go.

Nezuko, who didn't understand anything anyway, she simply believed that trusting Jotaro was enough.

"Jotaro-san, what are you planning next?"

Jotaro closed his eyes and said, "Naturally, investigate the CCG."

If his speculation was correct, then the CCG was the organization responsible for restricting ghouls. There were too many suspicious points, he had to get to the bottom of it.

But in order to skip the annoying academy training and join the CCG sooner, he had to deal with the Gourmet first.

'That investigator said something like that, right...'

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[In a Certain Underground Research Center]

The white-haired Dr. Kanou, staring at the fully nude Kaneki Ken inside a container, murmured, "I hope you can become my finest work."

Having gained experience from the Amatsu sisters, this time his transplant work was even more skillful.

He sighed and said, "It's just a pity, I didn't get as good a donor as last time."

Behind him stood a petite figure wrapped in bandages, her face unclear. From the voice, one could tell it was a woman.

"Doctor, if you join us, we can get you a better donor."

Kanou turned his head, intrigued, and asked, "What kind of ghoul?"

She said softly, "The Owl."

Kanou's pupils shrank, clearly tempted, but he didn't immediately agree.

"My research requires a large amount of funding and test subjects."

The bandaged woman said, "We'll take care of that for you."

Kanou said, "Test subjects aren't something you can just grab off the street. To ensure high success rate, I want ghoul investigators, the stronger the physique, the better."

The woman whispered, "Don't worry."

Kanou said nothing more. As long as he could continue his research, joining the ghoul side meant nothing to him.

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