Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-112.203.223.211-20160419100130/@comment-27247962-20160419105617

Arima suffered a scratch from fighting Kaneki at V14. The scratch didn't heal right away, although just being a scratch.

I doubt Arima is the OEK.

If we look at it storywise, it would be too obvious/anticlimactic.

Next up is Arima's character which isn't suited to be called 'king'. The OEK is someone who leads his troops, not someone who obeys unquestionably or is loyal to a fault.

Now about the bellies that's still not clear! I've interpreted it in a lot of ways already and added some new interpretations to the list.

For now the idea i'm going with is this:

I believe the OEK to be the same as the OEG that rampaged 100 years ago. Humans had to come together to defeat it (here starts the interpretation/speculation), but it wasn't killed. Just like Rize and Yoshimura, it was kept as harvesting material.

Some humans took the OEK with them, created an organisation and experimented with the OEK's body to create new soldiers who are far superior to the ones that fought the OEK that time. Probably first we the intention of creating an organism that could stand against such a threat if it were to pop up again in history. But I think the power that manifested itself through the transplantation brought along some less pure thoughts: greed, power, domination. (V or the early foundation of it).

The humans trained in Sunlit Garden are also the humans that have been experimented on with the OEK's body material (kakuhou or maybe some other parts to prevent those humans from losing their humanity, but still show amazing prowess).

One of my groundreasons for this belief, is that Kanou referred to himself as an excellent "assistent"! Not an excellent researcher. Which automatically suggest that there is a person that was able to mix humans & ghouls. This might even be capable of performing a much more succesful way to mix both races.

To conclude this interpretation with 'in your bellies'. It is referring to the OEKmaterial inserted in soldiers of the Sunlit Garden. Most likely literally 'their bellies'. Furuta is bred, is from the Sunlit Garden. Someone who's bred, is been bred for a certain purpose, which doesn't exclude the possibility of experimenting with all kinds of material to create a breed that is capable of reaching that purpose.

That's my overall prediction of the meaning.