Inside the study at Nishiki Nishio's home.
After Hideyoshi Nagachika left the study, Nishiki Nishio shut and locked the door.
Seeing this, Ken Kaneki swallowed nervously. "Um... Nishio, what... what are you planning to do...?"
"What am I planning to do?" Nishiki Nishio smiled. "You don't need to be so nervous. I won't hurt you. And of course... I won't hurt Hide, either."
Hearing Nishiki Nishio say that, Ken Kaneki naively believed him.
Just as Ken Kaneki thought Nishiki Nishio was about to say something else, Nishiki Nishio spoke to the empty air beside him instead. "Mr. Itachi, come out!"
Ken Kaneki was confused at first, but when someone suddenly appeared in the study, he froze completely.
When he saw Itachi's face, Ken Kaneki took two steps back. "You... you're that CCG..."
Itachi nodded. "Ken Kaneki, we should have made contact long ago, actually. The reason you escaped from the S-Rank ghoul Gecko last time was that I took control of your body!"
Hearing Itachi's words, Ken Kaneki finally understood what had happened to him that night.
While he was in the hospital, he had asked a doctor about it. The doctor's answer had been, "Most likely, your extreme stress caused a massive release of adrenaline, triggering your body's self-preservation mechanism."
His body's self-preservation mechanism hadn't kicked in at all. He had been controlled-controlled by the man before him with those strange eyes.
"Um... thank you for what you did back then. If it weren't for you, I might have been killed!"
In the end, Ken Kaneki chose to thank him.
That was indeed the truth. If Itachi hadn't controlled his body to fight Gecko, Gecko really would have killed him outright.
What Ken Kaneki didn't know was that even if Gecko had caught him, he wouldn't have died so