But at this moment, Uruka Minami still felt a bit uneasy in her heart. If Arima-kun thought it was still too early to start dating, he might reject her.
"Sure."
As expected, Arima Kishou responded almost without any hesitation.
Minami immediately felt a bit surprised. So starting to date was such a simple thing?
She suddenly felt like she was in a dream.
A few months ago, as a ghoul, she and Arima-kun, who was a ghoul investigator were still enemies, and now they were starting to date.
"What's wrong?"
Arima saw that Minami was staring at him in a daze and immediately asked.
"It's nothing… I guess I'm just really happy."
Minami said with a joyful smile.
"That's great. You two are finally starting to date."
Eto had heard everything clearly from the start and immediately chimed in.
Come to think of it, Minami-chan and Arima were already living together, and they hadn't even started dating, that was the actual strange part.
"Eto-sensei, you and Uchiha-kun must've been dating for a long time already, right?"
At this moment, Minami suddenly asked.
"Yup, we're already engaged. Just thinking about when to get married now."
Eto replied with a smile.
But in reality, Byakuya and Eto hadn't even officially started dating.
To be exact, they'd never verbally confirmed they were in a relationship.
Because they'd already been living together for so long, they felt more like an "old married couple" already, and both sides knew each other's feelings, so there wasn't much point in saying the words out loud.
"That's amazing…"
Minami exclaimed in admiration.
"Byakuya, when do you think would be a good time for us to get married?"
At that moment, Eto directly asked Byakuya.
As if she were pressuring him with the question.
"I… haven't really thought it through yet…"
Byakuya smiled awkwardly.
"You haven't thought about it even now? That's not okay."
There was a slight dangerous undertone in Eto's smile.
"I'll think about it soon. I'll think about it right away."
Byakuya could only say.
He hadn't expected Eto to suddenly bring up something like marriage.
Although they really could get married now, he wasn't mentally prepared yet.
"Then Arima-kun and I will definitely attend your wedding when the time comes."
Minami said immediately.
"Great, you're very welcome."
Eto said.
This topic quickly came to an end, since they were originally here to study and not to chat the entire time.
Whenever Eto didn't understand something, she would directly ask Byakuya, and the latter could usually answer and give her a round of explanation.
At the same time, he was also reinforcing his own knowledge.
In this way, their study efficiency together was very high.
But while studying, Byakuya was also starting to seriously think about the timing of getting married.
Originally, he hadn't thought much about this issue. But since Eto suddenly brought it up just now, and emphasized it seriously, naturally he had to think it through carefully.
After thinking it over, he roughly decided; after the exams were over.
Right now they were preparing for exams, and it wasn't a good time to be distracted by marriage.
And once the exams were finished, it would be a joyous occasion with two happy events at once, wouldn't that be great?
Also, of course, he'd have to tell his future father-in-law, Yoshimura Kuzen.
1st Ward, TSC Headquarters.
Although this was a new organization formed by combining the "CCG" and "Aogiri Tree," the majority of the original "CCG" members had not resigned.
After the previous "Dragon War," they were now capable of at least accepting ghouls.
Of course, there were still some investigators who harbored deep hatred toward ghouls, they all chose to resign.
Naturally, no one blamed them.
After all, these investigators who hated ghouls so much were almost all people who had been deeply hurt by them in the past, their loved ones brutally killed by ghouls, some even having their entire families destroyed.
No one could forgive ghouls on their behalf.
As for the Mado family, they chose to be among those who stayed.
Right now, Byakuya and Eto were at headquarters, catching up with the Mado family.
"Speaking of which, when we first found out that Eto-san was the 'One-Eyed Owl,' we were completely shocked."
Mado Kasuka said with a tone of amazement.
After all, back then she had nearly died at the hands of the "One-Eyed Owl." If it weren't for Byakuya saving her, she definitely wouldn't have survived.
She never expected that Eto-san, whom they had always treated as Byakuya's wife, was actually the infamous SSS-rated ghoul "One-Eyed Owl"!
"Could it be that the Grand Chairman Uchiha already knew Eto-san back then?"
Mado Kureo also asked with a smile.
"More or less, though at that time Eto and I weren't very familiar yet."
Byakuya responded with a faint smile.
He didn't plan to explain too much, especially not the tragic outcome that would've happened to Kasuka in the original timeline.
But Eto was much more straightforward, "That's right. Back then I felt like this guy Byakuya had betrayed me, and I wanted to chop his hands off. But if he hadn't been there, I probably…"
She trailed off halfway, but even though she didn't finish, Kasuka and Kureo still understood the meaning behind her words.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
If Eto hadn't brought it up, it would've been fine. But now that she did, it made Kasuka remember that she definitely would've died there at that time, the power gap between her and the "One-Eyed Owl" was simply too great.
Kureo also thought that if Kasuka had really been killed back then, he would've completely lost it. Even if it meant dying, he would've taken revenge on the "One-Eyed Owl."
At that moment, Eto added another sentence.
"Of course, if it were the current me going back to that time, I definitely wouldn't have done such terrible things. So I apologize to you on behalf of that version of 'me.'"
In the end, the one who understood Eto best was, of course, Eto herself.
She knew very clearly what kind of thing she would've done to Kasuka if Byakuya hadn't been there.
Hearing such a sincere tone, Kasuka and Kureo were both slightly stunned.
This.. Eto-san… was actually genuinely apologizing to them.
They knew in their hearts that, with Eto's strength as an SSS-rated ghoul "One-Eyed Owl," even if she didn't apologize to them, there was nothing they could do about it.
"No, no, Eto-san didn't actually harm me at the time."