The silence in the room broke with Kaneki’s voice.
K: I… I was physically and psychologically tortured by Yamori.
T: W…what?
K: I woke up in a chair, he was wearing his mask and had his pliers in his hands. He told me to count backwards from 1000, I didn’t know why, later I realized that it was to maintain me concious. Then he injected me some medicine through my eyeball, it made my body fragile as a human one. Yamori cut my fingers and toes away, and you know how fast I heal… so he took them again, and again, and again…
Touka’s face came back to horror, she couldn’t believe what she was listening.
T: Stupid… stupid bastard… stupid bastard…
K: There is more
T: There… there is more?
K: I saw Rize in my head, she tortured me at the point I started breaking my own beliefs, my old me. Yamori put a centipede on my ear, then he made me choose between a couple who loved each other, I had to choose who live and who will get murdered. I couldn’t choose. I couldn’t kill anyone. So he killed the girl. As I watched him do it and listen to the guy screaming for losing his beloved one. Rize was still torturing me manipulating my memories, and then finally accepted it. I wasn’t a human anymore, I was a ghoul. And I realized that I could use that to protect everyone I cared about. I still don’t know why my hair changed its color though.
Touka was crying, why that had to happen? Why to Kaneki? The sweetest boy on earth has been tortured to insanity.
T: That was our fault, we couldn’t protect you, we didn’t… we… I… I wasn’t strong enough…
K: Stop.
T: Kaneki…
K: Stop, is not your fault. Is nobody’s fault. It just happened. That’s why I didn’t want you to come with me. I wanted you to be out of this kind of life, I wanted you to be safe, in the human world, studying for college, having a degree, a well-paying job, having a good life… even if that meant to leave you…
Touka couldn’t resist it anymore and hugged Kaneki while crying.
T: I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY I DIDN’T KNOW I DIDN’T KNOW! ALL THIS TIME I HAD THIS HUGE RESENTMENT OF WHAT HAPPENED BUT I DIDN’T KNOW! OH GOD KANEKI, YOU DIDN’T DESERVE THAT, YOU ARE… YOU ARE… YOU ARE THE SWEETEST BOY I’VE MET, YOU DIDN’T DESERVE TO BE TORTURED LIKE THAT… YOU ARE… you are…
K: It’s okay Touka-Chan –he hugged her back- you don’t have to be sorry or worry anymore
T: You are the person I love –she whispered-
Kaneki’s heart started beating fast.
T: You are the person that I fell in love with. Even if I didn’t want to accept it, I do. I fell in love with the stupid Kaneki…
Kaneki smiled…
K: Touka-chan, there are something I must tell you
T: What would that be?
Touka didn’t stop hugging Kaneki, she was closing her eyes, she felt safe.
K: The only reason I wanted to be back is you. You made me change the way to used to think. I didn’t realized before how much I appreciated you. That appreciation with the time turned into love, and I regret being so far away from you. But with my luck, when I wanted to be back, something happened, I can’t remember everything, but I know I had an fight with a Dove, and he kicked my ass, it seems that he almost killed me, and he destroyed my eyes…
T: Kaneki… Kaneki…
Kaneki took Touka’s shoulders, she stared at him. Kaneki opened his eyes, slowly… and they were there, his eyes grew back up, and the first thing he saw was Touka’s face with tears in her eyes
K: I love you, Touka-chan –he said, smiling-
T: KANEKI!!!
She screamed his name, it was a scream of joy and happiness. He was his Kaneki, the same as before, he was back.
T: YOU’RE BACK, YOU’RE FINALLY BACK… KANEKI!
K: You don’t have to cry anymore, Touka-chan
Touka got closer to Kaneki, and gave him a kiss. Their first kiss. His lips feel soft, and he thought that her lips tasted something like a strawberry candy, something sweet. Then she lied down her head on his chest.
T: I missed you…
K: I won’t go anywhere again, I won’t leave you alone, Touka
Touka never was so happy. Never felt so safe. A new era has started, and she wanted to be Kaneki the only one who take her hand as the time passes.
