"Mom..." "Mom..." "Miss Rize..." "Kaneki." "haven't you?" "That's hilarious." "The master is here." "How far did you count?" "Five hundred... fifty... nine..." "Five hundred... fifty... two..." "I want to fill this bucket." "Five hundred... thirty..." "Yamori ordered me to count out loud backward by sevens from one thousand. --is something I now realize was to keep me as sane as possible." "Five hundred... thirty... one..." "is something I now realize was to keep me as sane as possible." "I was clinging to these numbers." "Five hundred..." "I was clinging to these numbers." "Yamori took my hands and feet... and AGAIN..." "Five hundred..." "and again... --Five hundred..." "I knew that I had become a monster." "three..." "I knew that I had become a monster." "Good morning." "Miss Rize?" "You're alive?" "does it?" "what kind of person was your mother?" "You said "Mom" a moment ago." "Is that her?" "I'm home!" "Welcome back." "Kaneki?" "Mom... aren't you?" "What are you doing?" "aren't you?" "What are you doing? and carefully write down the pronunciation next to it for me." "Where is your mother going?" "To work." "Where is this?" "My dad's reading room." "What was he like?" "I don't know." "He died before I can remember." "I just know that I came to love reading because of the books that my dad left behind." "all by yourself?" "and my mom was very nice to me." "She really was a terrific person. and treated everyone equally kindly." "My mom was my pride." "Ken... it's okay to feel loss." "Nice boys like you can be happy with just that." "Mm-hmm." "It's better to be hurt than to hurt others." "Nice people can be happy with just that." "That's what she taught me." "huh?" "Which is why you're going through all this." "you're a fine one." "Do you know why I'm so particular... toward you? but your regenerative powers are extraordinary." "All thanks to Kanou's experiment." "He made you a ghoul using Rize." "Kaneki." "Do you know about the Chinese red-headed centipede?" "I want to put this in your ear." "do you?" "N-No..." "Don't..." "Please..." "I beg you..." "No...!" "No...!" "Don't!" "Don't!" "no!" "How fascinating!" "I want to kill you!" "I want to eat you!" "Wanna kill you!" "Wanna kill you!" "Wanna kill you!" "Is it okay if I kill you now?" "Can I eat you now?" "You want me to kill you?" "!" "You want me to eat you?" "!" "kill me..." "It's better to be hurt than to hurt others." "Have you really lived your life believing that?" "That's what my mom taught me." "So I..." "You obeyed what she told you to do." "What is that?" "How dull." "Don't you want him to go to hell?" "Are you sure your mother was as nice and wonderful as you think?" "there?" "An allowance." "To whom?" "My mom's sister. and ask my mom for money. and work at home during her free time." "Mom never stopped working." "Mom?" "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "And then?" "And then..." "She overworked herself." "I was all alone after that." "I had no place to live anymore." "Kaneki!" "How long are you gonna stay home?" "!" "yeah..." "There was just one place where I could go... would you eat Yoshikawa in Class 2?" "The one you like so much?" "I wouldn't!" "And I don't like her that much." "Hide was the only moral support I had." "isn't he?" "huh?" "Huh?" "And it's all your fault." "All of the disadvantage in this world stems from a person's lack of ability." "I'm grateful to him." "I've come to understand something well these last few days. too." "So I devised a little plan." "A man and woman... who love each other...!" "You will choose which one I kill!" "I let these two look after you until now." "right?" "right?" "which one?" "I'll kill them both." "How about I rephrase that?" "Which one do you want to save?" "Why... me...?" "Why do I have to be the one to choose?" "hurry up and choose." "I can't choose something like that!" "wouldn't it?" "!" "Pick one!" "Pick one!" "Pick one!" "Pick one!" "The man?" "The woman?" "The right one?" "The left one?" "Pick one!" "kill me!" "All right." "Very well." "now." "This one?" "How about this one?" "!" "No?" "!" "I say!" "Kaneki?" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Pick one!" "Pick one!" "Well?" "!" "Well?" "!" "Well?" "!" "Mr. Kaneki!" "Haru is..." "Haru is going to die!" "Kaneki!" "didn't she?" "It's all your fault." "N-Not me..." "No... it's... it's my fault..." "How are you just now getting it? but going on blaming yourself won't change anything." "You don't try to change." "It's all your fault." "isn't it?" "Whose fault is it that things ended up like this?" "Coincidence?" "Accident?" "Fate?" "There's no such thing as fate." "It's simply a combination of one circumstance with another." "And who is it that creates those circumstances?" "Who is it?" "It's you." "All of the disadvantage in this world stems from a person's lack of ability." "isn't he?" "This whole thing started because you're such a fool to the ways of the world." "and I tricked you." "and we got turned into a monster." "It's all because of you." "It's better to be hurt than to hurt others." "Which is why you're going through all this. those two would have been spared." "the woman might have been spared." "If only you had been strong at that moment." "Mrs. Ryoko..." "S-Stop--Stop!" "Then there's what's to come..." "Touka..." "Hinami..." "The one you hold most dear..." "Hide!" "You're a monster." "N-No..." "I'm..." "Why didn't you open up to me?" "you failed to choose." "And so... this... happens..." "You see?" "This is the way of life that you chose." "This is the future that you chose." "Why are you crying?" "Why are you sobbing?" "right?" "You're nice and wonderful. you're really forsaking both." "Your mother was the same way. she wouldn't have died from overwork." "Shut up. she should have abandoned her foolish sister." "Stop it." "wasn't it?" "wasn't it?" "Mom..." "Why...?" "Why did you leave me all alone...?" "I missed you..." "I hate being alone..." "I wish..." "I wish you would have chosen me...!" "I wish you would have lived... for me!" "Even if it meant forsaking your aunt?" "Even if it meant that!" "Even if it meant hurting someone?" "Even if it meant that!" "Even if it meant taking her life?" "Even if it meant that!" "Good boy." "Kaneki." "There are times when you have to give up on one thing to preserve the other." "Your mother couldn't do that." "That isn't kindness." "That's just being weak." "She didn't have the strength-- the resolve to turn her back." "Can you still remain on the side of being hurt?" "Can you abide someone like Yamori?" "No..." "I can't! as well." "I won't allow that to happen." "and your friends at Anteiku might also go through what just happened." "Anyone who tries to take my place from me will get no mercy." "Do you have that kind of strength?" "Yes." "Are you saying you accept me?" "No." "I'm not saying that." "I can always surpass you." "Even if that is the wrong choice?" "I'm not the one who's wrong." "What's wrong... is the world!" "That will do..." "Kaneki." "To live is to devour others." "Eat." "I am... a ghoul." "Kaneki... our special fun time has come to an end." "The doves are closing in on this place." "you see." "Aogiri's goal is to eliminate anyone in their way." "as well." "The ghouls who stand opposed to Aogiri's cause-- was it?" "They are also one of Aogiri's... targets for elimination." "Kaneki!" "Let me take from you!" "let me devour all of you!" "Hilarious." "You really are an inconsequential man." "all right!" "Let me take from you!" "Devour this." "the way it works" "Who is that inside of me?" "That's foul." "Wha--?" "Y-You... bit me? Almost like the intestines of a fish on the verge of spoiling." "without seeing a thing" "I'm not letting go!" "something like that hurts?" "I hold my breath" "Kill you..." "I'll kill you!" "I'll kill you!" "I'll kill you!" "I'll kill you!" "I'll eat you!" "I'll make a sloppy mess of you!" "no not even the truth" "I'll eat you!" "I'll make a sloppy mess of you!" "I'll kill you!" "can be unraveled now" "I'll chomp you to death!" "Freeze unshakable it shook me" "I'm gradually growing transparent and vanishing" "Kaneki!" "Don't look for me; don't look at me" "I don't wish to hurt you in a world of someone else's imagining" "Remember who I am" "vivid self" "Now... it's my turn." "stung by the memory of smiling so innocently I can't move!" "Unraveling the world" "Kaneki!" "Kaneki!" "Kaneki!" "I've completely changed;" "I couldn't change back" "The two entwine; the couple penshes unshakable" "I won't defile you" "I'm gradually growing transparent and vanishing" "What's one thousand minus seven?" "Don't look for me; don't look at me" "Before the future comes completely undone" "I'll ask again." "What's one thousand minus seven?" "think back on who I am" "What is one thousand minus seven?" "vivid self don't forget me" "N-N-Nine hundred... ninety-three... don't forget me" "N-Nine hundred... eighty..." "The change over me has me paralyzed in an immutable object paradise six..." "Nine hundred... seventy..." "Remember who I am" "Nine hundred seventy-two... --Nine hundred sixty... five..." "You tried to devour me." "Nine hundred sixty... five..." "So you have no room to complain... is there someone inside of me?" "do you?" "Layout:" "Katsuya Yamada"