It'll be something we deal with when it comes up. From the pace of things here, I don't think it'll be any time soon.
[Mixed emotions on that front, but he isn't really in a dire need to get home. Or in any need to get home at all. Back to a world where all that waited for him was the Reaper, the guilt and fear cloying on his tongue in the taste of blood?
No. With both of them whole and hale and alive here, he was already finding this to be a far better replacement. And... without ghouls, without the fear and the hysteria... It was a better situation than he could've asked for in an "afterlife." If there was such a thing.
Regardless. It's time for Kaneki to broach a subject which felt inevitable, though he feels Hide might not enjoy it, just as he hadn't enjoyed several of his.]
Hide... If violence breaks out for whatever reason, will you... try to keep out of it? Or just... call me.
[The words look stilted after he's thought them; they felt that way as he processed them, but it was difficult. It was an absolute imperative that Hide remain safe, though the methods by which intersected with things he did not want his friend to see. But if it was necessary—he would, even if it left a bitter taste in his mouth.]
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From the pace of things here, I don't think it'll be any time soon.
[Mixed emotions on that front, but he isn't really in a dire need to get home. Or in any need to get home at all. Back to a world where all that waited for him was the Reaper, the guilt and fear cloying on his tongue in the taste of blood?
No. With both of them whole and hale and alive here, he was already finding this to be a far better replacement. And... without ghouls, without the fear and the hysteria... It was a better situation than he could've asked for in an "afterlife." If there was such a thing.
Regardless. It's time for Kaneki to broach a subject which felt inevitable, though he feels Hide might not enjoy it, just as he hadn't enjoyed several of his.]
Hide...
If violence breaks out for whatever reason, will you... try to keep out of it?
Or just... call me.
[The words look stilted after he's thought them; they felt that way as he processed them, but it was difficult. It was an absolute imperative that Hide remain safe, though the methods by which intersected with things he did not want his friend to see. But if it was necessary—he would, even if it left a bitter taste in his mouth.]