"There's no time... no time... left... Manager... I have to protect everyone!"
In the sewer, Ken Kaneki's injuries were too severe to heal, and his body trudged onward like a walking corpse.
"Killing... eating flesh... no, I don't want to... Manager."
Ken Kaneki never stopped moving. Even with his consciousness in tatters, instinct still drove him to try to take another step.
Yamori and Rise, who had once changed his life, gradually surfaced in his mind, their voices echoing loudly inside his skull.
The two had been tormenting Kaneki's mind all along. Here in the sewer, with its darkness, endless corridors, stench, and dampness, compounded by excessive blood loss and his inability to eat, Ken Kaneki had even begun to hallucinate.
Rise's and Yamori's faces appeared on the pitch-black surface of the water.
"Mine... all mine... fucking mine!" Three different voices tangled together in Kaneki's mind.
Kaneki screamed in terror and stumbled backward, his face deathly pale. Yet Yamori and Rise crawled up his legs like maggots and wrapped themselves tightly around him.
Bang! Bang!
In agony, Ken Kaneki slammed his head against the wall, desperate to drive Yamori and Rise out of his sight. His already exhausted body grew even weaker.
Unable to replenish himself and plagued by repeated hallucinations, Kaneki lost his reason once again and went berserk. The rinkaku behind him plunged into his surroundings like spider legs, filling the sewer.
"What's with that getup? Decorations?" A figure appeared in the dark sewer. Hideyoshi Nagachika looked at Ken Kaneki with concern.
An illusion... it has to be an illusion... Hideyoshi Nagachika should be at school right now. Ken Kaneki stared at Hideyoshi Nagachika in the distance.
"What's wrong? You're really worrying me."
"That's one seriously cool outfit. You changed so much-trying to give Hollywood a surprise?"
"When