The Thin Grey Line_ Tokyo Ghoul

Chapter-19

Haise is running.

His heart is jumping in his ribcage as he run passed countless trees of the forest. The surrounding is dark with only the moonlight as a source of light. There are also bodies everywhere. The smell of blood around him make him suffocated. He don't know where or how he is here. The only thing he know is that «he had to get out of here» and that «he is scared».

As Haise keep running while trying to figure the way out of this forest,  one of the "dead" bodies next to him suddenly grabbed his ankle, make him fall face fast to the muddy ground. As he turn his face, he realizes that the one who had an iron grip on his ankle is a deceased ghoul. The ghoul is looking at him two holes where the eyes should be.

Haise scream and kid the ghoul face, struggled, anything to  get out. Finally the ghoul neck snap letting him go. He jump and limp away. But around him, others bodies had also wake up. Coming closer to him surrounding him. All of them are missing some parts of their body.He go wild, screaming, fighting his way out of the crowd. But some grab is arms, legs, and body.

One of them forced Haise head to face it bloody face and what shock him.The rain that suddenly start pour down make his vision a little blur but he know that creepy grinning face and he won't forget it.

“ This is your doing. Give me back my organs!” Yamori said. And all other deceased ghoul climb onto of of him demanding their
flesh back.

Suddenly with a bright flash, all those ghouls turned dust and he's free from their weight. As he look up he saw his father standing in front of him.

“ Dad” Haise cry.

“Dad you came! I'm s...”

What he's about yo said was lost as his father pointed IXA  at him.

“ D-ad  it's me..why?”

“You are not my son. My son is dead. ” Arima said.

“ You are just a monster wearing his face and for that you have to die”

With that he stepped forward and moved to impale Haisae on the tip of his blade. The Blade met flesh and began to rip it asunder.

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Haise shot up from the bed. His body covered in sweat and his breath ragged. As he slowly realized it was a dream, he started to calm down. Flopping down on the bed again, he tried to wrangle his erratic heart beat and heavy breathing back under control. It had been while since he'd had a dream like that.

Looking at the clock beside his bed «4:30» he know that there's no way he can sleep again. He get out of the bed and grab his jacket along with the apartment's key. He extra carefully keep the noise down, not to wake up his apartment-partner, as he get out of the building.

The air of Tokyo is cold but it doesn't bother him much. He walk slowly to his destination along the almost empty streets of Tokyo in the early morning. As he walk, his thought slowly slip back to the last 2 years.

The last two years had been hard for him as he struggle to accept who he became. It pains him a lot to admit  that he had became a being that his father hunt. A being that eat his once kin, human. But he cannot denied what he had became when he know that he had already slaughtered and devoured many. Just because their stupid teenage curiosity, his life changed upsidedown. He just hope his best friend survived that day.

With the help of his rescuer and his now family,he had also finally came to finally accept what he was is not a monster, a being like human who had feelings and hope, who are also trying to survive in this world.

It's not easy for him or the others. At first he was in denial, then anger and then depression. But they show him kindness, patient and love. Without them he's sure he would still be a predictor or even prey.

Haise is brought out of his thought as he stand before the doors of his destination.

He open the door of Anteiku and get in. After he change his clothing , he start his morning routine by cleaning the café, readying it to open.

When it was about 5:30, their manager
Yoshimura-san came down from his room upstair.

“Oh, Kaneki-kun you are early again. ”

//“Ken” he had said “Ken Kaneki” he had said in the past. Cause in his mind ‘Haise Sasaki’ is the human son of Arima and he was dead the moment Dr Kanou performed those surgery. And also he was scared to lose the affections and kindness that he gain if he admit that he is related to CCG. //

 

“ Morning Mr. Yoshimura” Haise, now Kaneki, smile and greet the man.