A New Life

"Hey, Hey… Kaneki, are you okay?" My field of vision suddenly brightened. Sitting in front of me was a blond boy with a confused expression.

What did he say?

My surprise was still visible in my facial expression. I was able to understand a little better where I was as my vision suddenly brightened.

I was sitting in a Cafe, right by the window. As I continued to look around in amazement, the blond boy called out again.

"Kaneki, are you okay? Your face looks a little pale." I turned my eyes back to the blond boy sitting across from me, taking a few sips of his drink in front of him.

K-Kaneki?

Is he calling me?

"Hmm, I was just a little distracted. Sorry." Huh? Did I say that? It doesn't sound like mine.

Wait a minute, wait a minute…

I'm pretty sure I've seen this blonde boy somewhere. And the name he called me. Could this be a coincidence?

I'm just going to test one thing.

"Hide." He was looking into my eyes with a surprised expression as I called him by his name. He replied while still taking a sip of his drink.

"What happened, Kaneki?" Hide, was waiting for an answer from me as he looked me in the eyes with a confused expression.

"C-Can we just get out of here?" I asked while looking into Hide's eyes.

"Huh? But you didn't show me the girl you like more?" Hide replied with a slight scowl.

Huh?

Huuuuuh?

It must be a joke, right? I'm still in a dream, right?

Mr. Demon Lord!

Mr. Demon Lord!

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

Did he really send me into such a scary world?

"Dear viewers, we must continue our broadcast with breaking news. It was confirmed by CCG that Ghouls living across the border crossed the border illegally last night. Therefore, we ask our citizens not to go out in the evening."

A news sound came from the television behind me. When I heard the news, I knew this was really that place.

But there was something strange about what the news told. What did he mean by the Ghouls living beyond the border?

Weren't ghouls already among humans?

"Oi… Kaneki, are you really okay?" Hide, was looking me in the eyes with a serious expression.

"Do you think the news is telling the truth?" I asked the most ridiculous question I could think of, but the most accurate way I could verify it.

"Of course, I don't want to believe it either, but since it's been approved by the CCG, we should be careful too. Too many Ghouls are starting to cross the border these days." Hide was watching out the window of the cafe as he tapped the table in regular rhythms with the index finger of his right hand.

That's right, Touka.

Turning my head immediately to the right, I looked over everyone to recognize the faces of the people inside the cafe.

Even if I continued this for close to a minute, I could not reach any results. None of the faces looked familiar.

Moreover, this shop didn't even look like Anteiku.

What is going on in this world?

*Sigh*

As I continued to look around the table I was sitting at, I heard the sound of the shop door opening. I involuntarily turned my head in that direction.

*TrinnTrinnnng*

I saw that person's face as my pupils opened to the point that they almost popped out of their sockets.

"Rize?" I said in a low voice, but Hide was the only one who heard me. He was looking at me with a surprised expression.

"Hehe… I guess you don't have to say it anymore. It's very obvious from your facial expression." Hide was poking me with his left foot while talking sarcastically.

I was unaware that Hide was talking to me while I still had a confused expression on my face.

She is indeed here…

I was completely clueless about what to do. I could feel sweat dripping from my forehead to my chin.

"Hide, shall we go now?" I called out to Hide as I felt like my heart was about to burst with fear.

"Agh… OK." Hide slowly got up from the table he was sitting on as he slid his bag onto his back.

I got up from the table to follow Hide and we walked with Rize as we made our way to the exit of the cafe.

Me and Hide were walking out of the cafe when Rize passed me and sat at the table we had just left.

Just before leaving the door of the cafe, I turned my head to the table where we were sitting and saw that Rize opened a book and started to read.

"Kaneki, let's go." I was back in reality as Hide called out to me.

On our journey from the cafe to home, the only thing that stuck in my mind was whether this would still be a dream.

After continuing on, we had to part with Hide part of the way.

I was still thinking about that view until I got home.

As I came to the front of the house, many memories started to come to my mind that would surprise me again. The incessant memories were so many that it almost made my head explode.

I quickly climbed the stairs to the front of the apartment and took the key to the apartment from the right back pocket of my trousers. My hands continued to tremble as I tried to insert the key into the lock compartment of the apartment.

My breathing started to get erratic within seconds, and I could feel sweat dripping from my forehead.

Huffff… Huffff…

I tried to take deep breaths and calm down.

The shaking of my hand from stress and anxiety finally stopped. After I regained my composure a little more, I managed to unlock the apartment by inserting the key into its hole. The entrance was dark.

From the moment I walked in, the slight smell of dampness permeated the whole room. I finally had a quiet space to reconsider all my experiences.

I didn't even bother to turn on the lights, I started to think after I lay my tired body on the bed.

It all started with me jumping off that roof…

I'm wondering if I hadn't jumped off that roof would I still be here?

While a thousand and one interesting questions were circulating in my head, today's tiredness began to fall on me.

This apartment, dark and completely closed, was very old according to the memories I saw, and he lived here because the rent was cheap.

Anyway…

*Sigh*

I must make a decision soon.

Did I really have to be here?

*Guurrrppp*

My whole body felt my stomach vibrate with hunger. All these thoughts made me feel very hungry.

I went to the bathroom to clean my hands and turned on the bathroom light and approached the fountain.

I opened the fountain and put my hands under the water.

When I looked into the mirror right in front of me, I was really inside Kaneki Ken's body, not my own.

This is black hair and brown eye color.

After I finished washing my hands, I rinsed them with a towel. After turning off the bathroom light, I went to the refrigerator to have a snack and opened the door.

It was an old refrigerator, you could tell by the sounds it made when I opened the door. The ingredients inside could deteriorate faster than ordinary refrigerators.

After taking out an instant noodle, I prepared the kettle to boil water. While waiting for the water to boil, I went to the television to learn the rest of the news of the day and turned on the television with the remote.

"Dear viewers, Today we continue our news with three consecutive murders of Ghouls. Three murders in a row in a building under construction in Koto. Will the state no longer find a solution to Ghouls crossing borders? Should we or our children be killed by a Ghoul? ?" The newscaster had a seizure as a result of the events, and they had to cut the broadcast because he couldn't offer more.

*Fussssssshhhhh*

Just as the sound of boiling water reverberated through this small apartment, I turned the TV off and walked over to the boiling water and unplugged the kettle.

After pouring the hot water on the noodle, I sat on the bed with noodle again.

After I finished my meal and left it in a corner, I quickly went to bed with the tiredness of the day and closed my eyes to sleep.

Thus ended the first day of my new life.