[He's not used to keeping things from Hide. The guy had a sense for when people were keeping things (or bullshitting him, conversely), and Kaneki had seen that years and years ago, late enough to know that it was easiest for him to keep things by completely avoiding him. It's how he had managed to (he thought) keep his secret early on, avoiding him when it was at its worse, trying his hardest to keep the mask in place when he did manage to go to school, go out afterward.
The more he thinks about it, the less he's surprised that Hide had managed to figure it out. His lies were always written on his face for the other guy—open like the books he read, as Hide said once or twice before. He's more surprised he'd jump to that (previously unbelievable) truth, but... Kaneki knew the strength of Hide's natural intuition, even without knowing the pervasiveness of it.
So how long would he able to keep this to himself?]
It seems like more people are being motivated to do this "because I have to." To get back home for them, anyway.
[Doesn't sound like he includes himself. Considering his thoughts on what was happening back home for him, one couldn't blame him.]
Either it's normal of them to drop newly-initiated strangers off to complete missions like this, or something big is happening that they have to deal with that while we're here. Neither way really instills much confidence.
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The more he thinks about it, the less he's surprised that Hide had managed to figure it out. His lies were always written on his face for the other guy—open like the books he read, as Hide said once or twice before. He's more surprised he'd jump to that (previously unbelievable) truth, but... Kaneki knew the strength of Hide's natural intuition, even without knowing the pervasiveness of it.
So how long would he able to keep this to himself?]
It seems like more people are being motivated to do this "because I have to." To get back home for them, anyway.
[Doesn't sound like he includes himself. Considering his thoughts on what was happening back home for him, one couldn't blame him.]
Either it's normal of them to drop newly-initiated strangers off to complete missions like this, or something big is happening that they have to deal with that while we're here.
Neither way really instills much confidence.