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Mum... Mum...

Rize-san...

It's been awhile, Kaneki-kun.

What happened? You're all beat up.

What a laugh.

The master is here.

What have you counted to?

Five hundred... and fifty...

...nine... Five hundred...

Go ahead and fill this bucket.

Yamori ordered me

to count down from one thousand, seven digits at a time.

I didn't understand the reason at first,

but I came to realize it was to keep me as sane as possible.

I clung to those numbers.

And then, Yamori took my arms and legs.

Again, and again, and again, and again,

and again, and again, and again.

And again!

...and again.

Each time my fingers regrew, I...

...realized what a monster I'd become.

Hmm?

Good morning.

Rize-san. Y-You're alive?

What does that matter?

Hey, what was your mother like, Kaneki-kun?

Huh?

Earlier, you were calling out for her.

Is it her?

I'm home!

Welcome home.

- Is that you, Kaneki? - Hey, Mum!

You're pretty cute.

- How do you read this? - What are you two doing?

I often had her look at the kanji I couldn't read,

and she'd write in the readings while teaching them to me.

Where's she going?

To work.

What's this place?

It's my father's study.

What was he like?

I don't know.

He died before I was old enough to remember.

But, thanks to the books he left behind,

I came to enjoy reading.

Weren't you lonely all by yourself?

No. I had Dad's books,

and Mum was always kind to me.

Hm...

She was a really great person.

She worked, and did the chores,

all without looking upset about it, or inconveniencing others.

She was equally kind to everyone.

I was proud of my mother.

Ken.

It's okay for you to lose things.

Kind people can be happy like that.

Rather than be someone who hurts others, be someone who is hurt.

Kind people can be happy like that.

That was what she taught me.

So wonderfully kind.

And that's why these things happen to you.

You're good, Kaneki-kun.

Do you understand why I'm so interested in you?

I don't know if you're aware of it,

but the speed you recover at is abnormal.

Thanks to Kanou's experiment.

That doctor is using Rize to create ghouls.

One-eyed...

Rize's scent...

I'm talking about you, Kaneki-kun.

Are you familiar with the Chinese red-headed centipede?

I want to put this thing in your ear.

You don't mind, right?

No. No. Stop.

Please. I'm begging you.

No. No.

Stop! Sto...

Shit yeah! This is hilarious!

I want to kill you!

I want to eat you!

I want to kill you! I want to kill you! I want to kill you!

Mind if I kill you already?

Mind if I eat you already?

Maybe I'll kill you now!

Maybe I'll eat you now!

Kill me. Kill me.

Please, kill me.

Rather than be someone who hurts others, be someone who is hurt.

Have you honestly lived your life believing that?

My mother... taught me that... so...

You're living the way she told you to? What's with that?

How boring.

Don't you think that's rubbish?

Was your mother really such a kind and wonderful person?

What's that?

- She's paying an allowance. - To whom?

My mother's older sister.

She said she didn't have much financial leeway,

so she was always sponging off my mother.

Mum took part-time jobs during the day,

and worked as a cleaner at night.

She did odd jobs from home in her off time.

Even though she was working all the time...

Mum? You okay?

I'm okay.

And?

And so...

It was death from overwork.

I was left all alone.

I no longer had a place in the world.

Hey, Kaneki! How long are you planning to goof around for?

That's right. I had only one...

One place where I belonged.

Kaneki.

If you were a ghoul, would you eat Yoshikawa in Class 2?

The one you like.

I-I wouldn't eat her.

And it's not like I'm crazy about her or anything.

Hide was my only emotional support.

He's an important friend to you, I see.

But... Now you'll lose that precious friend, too.

Huh?

And it'll be all your fault.

All disadvantages exist because of a lack of skill of the man involved.

The person who taught me this was a real cunt,

but I'm grateful for it now.

Kaneki-kun.

I've come to understand you quite well over the past few days.

Your body is tough, of course,

but your spirit is surprisingly tough, as well.

So, I came up with a little idea.

A man and woman who are in love!

Which will you kill?

Choose!

I let them take care of you in preparation for today.

Well?

It gave you hope that someone would save you, right?

You thought these guys would be your rescuers!

So, which'll it be?

If you don't choose, I'll kill them both.

Maybe I should rephrase that.

Which do you want to save?

Why me?

Why do I have to choose?

Look. Choose quickly.

I can't choose something like that!

It'd be like I was the one killing them!

Make your choice! Make your choice!

Make. Your. Choice.

Make your choice!

The man, or the woman?

Left, or right?

Choose!

I can't choose!

If you're gonna kill someone, kill me!

All right. I understand.

Watch closely.

This one? You all right with this one?

No good? Well?

Make your choice! I said, make your choice!

She's gonna die, Kaneki!

Come on! Come on!

Choose! Choose!

Well? Well?

Well?!

Well?

Choose me, Kaneki-san!

- Haru... Haru's going to die! - Come on!

Choose me! Me!

Choose, Kaneki!

She went and broke.

It's all your fault.

It... It wasn't me.

No... It was...

It was my fault.

Why're you saying something you already know?

Just like this, you always blame yourself.

You just blame yourself, but don't change.

You don't try to change.

It's all your fault. Isn't that obvious?

Whose fault is it that this happened?

Was because of coincidence? An accident? Luck?

There's no such thing as luck.

Just the interaction between various different situations.

And who is creating those situations?

Who is it?

It's you.

All disadvantages exist because of a lack of skill of the man involved.

Isn't that just how things are?

This all happened because you were an idiot who'd led a sheltered life.

You were an idiot.

You were tricked by me,

messed around with by a doctor,

and made into a monster.

It was all your fault.

"Rather than be someone who hurts others, be someone who is hurt."

That's why these things happen to you.

If you were strong, and had been able to kill Yamori,

you could have saved those two.

If you'd chosen the man, the woman might have been spared.

Back then, too...

Had you been strong...

Ryouko-san...

Stop! Stop it!

And from here on...

Touka-chan?

Hinami-chan?

And the one most precious to you...

Hide!

You monster.

N-No way... I'm...

Why didn't you open up to me?

You couldn't make a decision, again.

That's why... this... happens...

Do you get it?

This is the life you've chosen to lead.

The future you've chosen.

Why do you cry?

Why do you wail?

You chose to be hurt rather than hurt others, didn't you?

How wonderfully kind.

But it was as if you chose and abandoned both.

It was the same for your mother.

If she had ignored her bothersome sister's begging,

she wouldn't have died from overwork.

Shut up.

Your mother was such a fool.

If she truly loved you, she should've cast aside her idiot sister.

- Stop it. - Even you...

- must have wished she would, right? - Stop.

Mum...

Mum...

Why?

Why did you leave me all alone?

I was lonely.

I don't want to be alone.

I...

I wanted you to make a choice!

I wanted you to live for me!

Even if it meant leaving your aunt for dead?

Even if it did!

- Even if she had to hurt someone? - Even if she did!

Even if she had to take another's life?

Even then!

Good boy.

That's right, Kaneki-kun.

There are times when you must throw away one thing to protect another.

Your mother couldn't do that.

That's not kindness.

It's weakness.

She lacked the strength and resolution to cast things aside.

Can you still remain one of the victimized?

Can you forgive guys like Yamori?

No.

I can't forgive him!

If Aogiri gains more power,

there'll eventually be heavy losses in Ward 20, as well.

I won't let that happen.

Your precious Hide-kun,

and your buddies at Antique, may end up like those two just now.

If anyone wants to rob me of my place,

I'll show no mercy.

Do you have that kind of power?

I do.

You mean you'll accept me as part of you?

No. That's not it.

I need to become greater than you.

Even if that's the wrong choice?

I'm not the one who's wrong.

What's wrong is...

...this world!

Glad to hear it, Kaneki-kun.

To live is to feed on others.

Eat.

I'm a ghoul.

Kaneki-kun.

It's been a blast, but now it's over.

The doves are invading this place.

It's my job to fight them, you see.

Aogiri's goal is to erase anyone who gets in our way.

The humans have to go, of course, but that includes ghouls as well.

Ghouls who oppose Aogiri's doctrine.

That place you were working at...

Antique, was it?

That place is also

on our list to eliminate.

Kaneki!

Let me take them from you!

In the end, let me devour you whole!

What a laugh.

Honestly, you're such a boring man.

You really are the best!

Let me take them from you!

Try and eat me.

You taste awful.

You... You ate me?

You taste like rotting fish guts.

I won't let go!

After everything you did, you thought that would hurt me?

I'll kill you! I'll kill you!

I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!

I'll eat you! Messily! Until you're dead!

I'll eat you alive!

Kaneki!

Now...

...it's my turn.

Kaneki!

Kaneki!

What's a thousand minus seven?

I'll ask again.

What's a thousand minus seven?

What's a thousand minus seven?

Nine hundred and ninety-three!

Nine hundred and eighty...

...six! Nine hundred...

and seventy...

...nine!

Nine hundred and seventy-two!

You tried to eat me...

If I eat you...

...you can't really complain.