[ID: Matching edits of Nishiki Nishio (left column) and Kimi Nishino (right column), each looking at each other and holding out a hand, edited onto the following pride flags: aromantic, alloaro, Nishiki on the aromantic heterosexual flag and Kimi on the aroflux flag, and them both on the bi flag. End ID]
[ID: A Tokyo Ghoul manga panel that shows Nishiki sitting on his bed, shirtless and drinking a canned coffee, with Kimi laying beside him under the covers. End ID]
Featuring: Straight AlloAro Nishiki, Aroflux Bisexual Kimi
Word Count: 500
At first, Nishiki was just using Kimi to blend in. He didn’t care how far their relationship went so long as it was seen as normal from other humans. He wasn’t attracted to this plain-looking girl in the beginning, but after spending some time with her, things changed. Well, somewhat. He began to find her physically attractive, and when they grew to know each other more, they slept together. But he never found her romantically attractive.
Nishiki would have been willing to fake the romance and the love if it meant he could keep their relationship and his secret of being a ghoul. But… it was never really required? Kimi didn’t seem to mind that he wasn’t romantic towards her.
Sometimes, when things felt right, he would do something romantic and over-the-top to "prove" that he was a romantic boyfriend. Like something right out of a romantic drama. And each time Kimi would laugh at him, making him feel like romance was definitely something he was not understanding. But she seemed to enjoy it nonetheless, and her laughing wasn't mean-spirited.
Despite romance being rare in their relationship, it was working out well. They spent time together, talked a lot, and slept together.
“Hey, can I ask you something?” Kimi asked one night, after they had done it. She was lying comfortably in his bed, and Nishiki was sitting up and drinking a coffee.
“Sure.” Nishiki shrugged.
“Are you aromantic?”
Nishiki gave her a weird look, not understanding the foreign word.
Kimi chuckled and repeated it. “Aromantic. It means someone who doesn’t experience romantic attraction like others do.”
Nishiki’s eyes widened, suddenly dawning on him that not only did he not feel romantic love for Kimi, but he hadn’t for anyone, ever.
“I’m aromantic too.” Kimi quickly added. “Specifically, aroflux. Sometimes I’m romantically attracted to people, but it comes and goes and fluctuates.”
“What about sex?”
“You can still be sexually attracted to people and be aromantic. I am. Or some aros can be on the asexual spectrum, and have little to no sexual attraction.”
“How did you know?”
“When I dated my first boyfriend. He was definitely an alloromantic, and he didn’t understand how some days I wasn’t into him romantically. We didn’t work out.”
Nishiki was silent, trying to think back to all the people he was attracted to.
“I’m, um, also bisexual.” Kimi added.
“Oh, huh.” Nishiki said. “Well, I at least know I’ve never been into another dude.”
Kimi chuckled. “You might not be aro. I could be wrong. Only you can figure that out. I just... wanted to tell you that it's a possibility. I know that you’ve been forcing yourself to do romantic things. It’s sweet that you try, but you don’t have to. I really don’t mind it. And I get it. Romance can be really weird and unappealing sometimes. Either way, arospec or alloromantic, I still want to stay with you.”
Nishiki nodded in understanding, unable to help the small smile sneaking onto his face.
Kimi wanted to be with him. It was nice to be wanted. To have someone be willing to stick with you, even though you ended up being different than most people were. Even if this difference that Kimi realized was his sexuality, and not him being a ghoul.
[ID: Tokyo Ghoul manga panels featuring Kimi with tumblr posts edited onto them. Each tumblr post has an aroflux red border around it.
Image 1: Kimi is sweating and has a stressed look on her face as she holds a stack of documents. The tumblr screenshot is from @/cool-wears-a-trenchcoat and reads “Being Aroflux. Somebody: Are you okay? Me, panting and sweating: My romantic orientation has fluctuated five times in two days. Yesterday I wanted to have a soulmate, today I am disgusted that I even thought romantic attraction was a thing that i experienced. Me: So basically, just another normal day. How are you?”
Image 2: Kimi in the forefront and looking behind her at Nishiki, who is speaking and gesturing to her. Kimi has a neutral look on her face. The tumblr screenshot is from @/neblumum and reads: “Me: Romantic feelings? Aroflux: Romantic machine broke. Me: alright have a nice day.”
Image 3: Three panels of Kimi and Nishiki on dates: eating lunch on their college campus, looking at bracelets and necklaces on sale, and at a festival together. The tumblr screenshot is from @/a-spam-oeuvre and reads: “Monday: I don't like anyone now but I think I could in the future. Tuesday: ok but what if I actually do like this person not just platonically???? Wednesday: if someone doesn't take me on a romantic picnic right now I will die. Thursday: ok maybe I just want a picnic not the romance part. Friday: aw this fictional couple is cute but I don't want that for me. Saturday: if I see any ounce of romance I will barf right now Sunday: 💕🥰❤️😍💖.”
Image 4: Nishiki smiling kindly and Kimi looking away with a blank look on her face. The tumblr screenshot is from @/AutomaticSkyLark (deactivated) and reads: “anyways i forgot that the main reason i dont date ppl is that im aroflux and always flux out of having any romantic attraction anywhere from 3 to 14 days woops lol.”
Image 5: Kimi laying on her stomach with a surprised expression, and Nishiki glancing at her questioningly. The tumblr screenshot is from @/purple-grey-black and reads: “That aroflux feeling when you are starting to experience romantic attraction randomly like I didn’t sign up for this????”
Image 6: A close up of Kimi embracing Nishiki lovingly, her eyes closed and smiling. The tumblr screenshot is from @/tarynnwa (deactivated) and reads: “Aroflux things. Me last night: I never want a relationship, I don’t know why anyone would, I’m so much happier alone. Me this morning: *wakes up and desperately wants to cuddle.” END ID]
Like I said in my last post, I’ve been putting more and more aspecs into my writing lately. This fic in particular is being written extremely scattered, so i have no idea when it’ll be posted, if at all. But I wanted to at least share the aspec bits I have written!
This time, it’s Hide’s segments!
(Word Count: 2200)
(Warnings for a brief scene of romance and lots of internalized aphobia/amisia)
[This takes place shortly after Dragon, while the ghouls are all still staying at the CCG]
“Um, Hide? Can I talk to you for a second?”
“Of course!”
“So, um, I was thinking about what you said...” Kaneki began.
“Which one?” Hide asked. So much had happened over the past few weeks, Kaneki could have been referring to literally anything.
“A-about... you liking me.”
“Oh.” Hide could feel his face heating up. He’d almost forgotten about his confession.
“And, I think I’d like to try? As long as that’s okay with you?”
Hide lunged and hugged him. “Of course it is!”
Kaneki hummed contentedly and hugged him back.
-
It was 3am, and Hide was awake staring at the ceiling.
He had forgotten the reason why he stopped dating in high school, why all of his relationships ended badly. Something was different about him — about his sexuality. Kaneki had just confessed and they became a couple, and already Hide could feel his feelings changing. Most people would write it off as anxiety, but Hide knew better. He’d felt this feeling before, and he knew what was happening. His romantic feelings were fading.
Hide groaned and ducked his head into his knees. “I was hoping I would be fixed by now.”
He had given up dating after he broke two people’s hearts. Two people that he had loved romantically, and even when his romantic feelings faded he still cared about, but the relationship became too much for him. Too many expectations, too many things he didn’t understand, and he had to end it. After not even a few months, going from passionate to repulsed, he unintentionally broke their hearts. And then they broke his when they screamed at him, accusing him of never loving them in the first place.
He had hoped that taking a long break from dating would fix whatever was wrong with his sexuality. He had loved Kaneki for so many years, with none of it fading, even when Kaneki went missing time and time again. Hide thought it would stay forever. But now that they were in a relationship, it was fading.
“Maybe I can hold on, and it’ll come back.” Hide said, trying to ignore the fact that he said the same thing in his prior relationships, and it had never worked before.
-
“I love you.” Kaneki whispered, nuzzling him before kissing him on the cheek.
Hide pulled away. “I can’t.”
“Did I do something wrong?”
Hide shook his head. “It’s not you. It’s me.” He grimaced. “I know that sounds cliché, but its true.”
“What’s wrong? I can fix it.” Kaneki reached out to take his hand.
“It’s nothing you can fix!” Hide snapped, yanking his hand away.
“Hide…?”
Hide stepped back. “S-sorry!”
“Wait, Hide!”
“I’m so sorry.” Hide ran off.
-
Hide tried to busy himself with CCG work, which Marude was more than happy to provide. It was boring, but gave him time to think, which he really needed. And after a while, he needed someone to talk about it with.
“Hey, Marude-san…” Hide began. “What are your thoughts on queer people?”
Marude laughed.
Hide winced and continued on his work. Maybe they could just pretend he never said anything.
“So you’re saying you’re queer too, huh?” Marude asked. “I guess I shoulda known, the way you talk about that one eyed bastard.”
Hide perked up. “Too?”
“Hm?” Marude looked at him. “Yeah. You’re far from the only queer person I know.”
“Really?”
Marude gave him a look. “Nagachika, you really think everyone is straight, in the entire CCG, all these years I’ve worked here?”
“Well, no, but…” Hide trailed off.
“So what are ya, then?” Marude asked. “I noticed you said queer and not gay.”
“I’m pansexual.”
“Which one is that?”
“It’s kinda like bisexual. Usually people use it to mean more gender-blind, whereas with bisexual there’s usually some internal difference with attraction to each gender. But not all people use it that way.”
Marude hummed and nodded. Hide was glad he accepted it at face value and didn’t try to pick it apart.
“But the past few days, I’m beginning to think I’m something else…”
“What, like you’re just gay or just straight?”
“Not like that.” Hide shook his head. “Like, an additional label.”
“Transgender?” Marude guessed.
“Not trans, but you’re on the right track on how trans is an additional label on a different axis.”
“Then what label are you thinking about adding? I’m at my limit of vocab here!”
“Aromantic.” Hide said, deciding to keep it as simple as possible.
“And that is?”
Here it comes…
“Not experiencing romantic attraction.”
There was silence. Hide braced himself.
“Romantic?” Marude asked. “So, wait. Separate from sexual stuff?”
“For me, yeah. But some other aros don’t experience sexual attraction either.”
Marude hummed. He seemed to accept it, but Hide couldn’t tell what he was thinking beyond that.
Hide sighed. He was glad Marude was being so accepting, and it was really nice to hear someone not put romance on a pedestal for once, but at the same time Hide wanted some validation for his fears.
“For so long now I’ve prided myself on being loving. And now knowing that I can’t… What am I now?”
“So was everything fake?”
“No. Yes? It’s complicated.” Hide groaned.
“Look, kid. You feel how you feel. You can’t force it or change it. And that goes for everything, not just sexualities.”
“I know.”
“You’re a sweet kid. It’s overbearing to me, but I appreciate that in a world so cruel, people like you exist. And from what I’ve seen, the care you show isn’t fake.”
“The non-romantic love? That’s not fake. But the romance? The crushes and flirting? It’s not fake but… it disappears. Way sooner than it should.”
“Disappears?”
“I think I’m, like, a subset of aromantic? I get crushes but they fade after I’m in a relationship. Way sooner than it should. I’ve been in love with Kaneki for years, but now that we’re a couple, that romantic attraction is gone.”
“That’s certainly a dilemma.”
Hide scoffed. That was an understatement.
“So what do you wanna do about it?” Marude asked.
“Huh?”
“Break up, or keep it up?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then just talk to him.”
“Huh?”
“I can’t give you any advice on the romance aspect, but you two have been through things much worse than relationship drama. Just talk to the guy. Can’t be any scarier than what you’ve gone through.”
“I’d beg to differ.” Hide muttered.
Marude rolled his eyes. “Even I know he’s not gonna get pissed and eat you.”
“Of course not! That’s not what I’m afraid of!”
“Then what are you afraid of?”
“I don’t want to hurt him.” Hide whispered. “Or make him think I hate him.”
“Just communicate with him. You can’t work it out all alone. You both need to work together, or else how do you even expect your relationship to work?”
Hide sighed. “...I guess you’re right.”
-
Akira huffed as she sat down next to him. “How do people deal with it?”
Hide gave her a look. “Deal with what?”
“Crushes!” Akira said, as if it was obvious. “They’re so distracting.”
Hide chuckled. They certainly were.
“I thought one was bad enough, but now I have two! Ugh!”
“Oof. That’s rough. I’ve been there.”
“Hey, you’re allo-romantic, right? How do you deal with crushes?”
“Huh? Allo-romantic?” Hide asked. He thought he was pretty well-versed in sexuality terms, but he hadn’t heard that one before.
“It means people who aren’t on the aromantic spectrum.”
“You’re aromantic?” Hide asked. He had known she was asexual for years, but he never knew what her romantic orientation was.
“Demi-romantic.” Akira explained with a nod. “Got my first crush at 20 on a friend, and now a double-whammy of crushes #2 and #3 at 25.”
“Huh.” Hide whispered. He was 22, and it was pretty incredible to imagine only having a single crush in that much time.
Akira-san is aromantic…
“Do you know a lot about aromantic terminology?” Hide decided to ask.
“I wouldn’t say I’m an expert, but I have been researching it these past few weeks. Why? What do you want to know?”
“I’ve been wondering if I fall somewhere on there…” Hide said.
“Really?”
“I’ve actually been wondering since high school, but its come back full force now.”
“What makes you think you are?”
“I get a regular amount of crushes, I think. But they, like… fade…?”
Akira hummed in understanding and nodded. “I do recall seeing a few terms like that.”
Hide’s eyes widened. “Really? More than one? Like what?”
“Um, off the top of my head I remember Aroflux, that fluctuates. Hold on.” She pulled out her phone and typed into it.
“Maybe, but that’s a bit vague…” Hide said.
“I know Grey-romantic can be used as an umbrella term.” Akira added. “Ah, here we go! Fray-romantic means you’re only romantically attracted to strangers, and it fades as you get to know them!”
“That’s close, but it’s not that quick. Well, maybe I can use it anyway.” He knew that a lot of queer terms had a lot of grey area to them.
“Oh, and there’s also Lithromantic, that fades at reciprocation!”
“Reciprocation...?” Hide asked, his eyes widening. “That’s… That’s it…”
“Ha, really? That’s awesome!”
“I got crushes and tried to date them, but once I was in a relationship my feelings would disappear. I tried to push on and fake it, but it didn’t work out and we had to break up. Eventually I just gave up dating entirely.”
Hide sighed and held his head in his hands.
Akira frowned. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s Kaneki.”
“Kaneki?”
“We just confessed to each other and started officially dating, and I can already feel it fading.”
Akira frowned, not sure what to say.
Hide laid down. “Who’d want to date me? A person who can’t love them back.”
Akira scoffed, laying back to join him. “What about me, huh? Someone who takes forever to like you back, and even then isn’t capable of sexual attraction.”
“You like Amon-san and Takizawa-san, right?” Hide guessed.
“Yeah. So what?”
Hide turned on his side to face her. “Well, Amon-san doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to care about that. And I don’t think Takizawa-san does either. If they really love you, then I’m sure they’d be willing to find a way to meet in the middle.”
Akira sighed, considering his words. Then she gave some of her own, “You know, you and Kaneki are really close. We can all tell. And I know Kaneki, too, and how he is. I’m sure he’d accept your aromanticism. Maybe you could even be in a non-romantic relationship with him.”
Hide blinked. Akira chewed her lip. They were both silent, thinking on each other’s words.
“You really think someone would be okay having a relationship without sex?” Akira asked.
“Of course.” Hide replied. “Do you really think someone would be okay with having a committed relationship that’s not romantic?”
“Of course.” Akira replied.
-
As he talked, Hide walked around the room, taking in the tiniest of details. And then he came across small pride pins, clipped to her bag laid in the corner.
“Is that what I think it is?!” Hide cried out.
“Huh? What is what you think it is?” Kimi asked, turning around.
“That!” Hide pointed to the pin that had gradients of greens and blacks. “Is that an aromantic pin?”
Kimi’s eyes widened. No one had ever recognized it before. Hardly anyone even recognized her bisexual one. “Yeah. I’m aromantic.”
“Wow.” Hide muttered. “And I know the bi one, but… what’s this other one?” He pointed to the one on the other side of the aromantic pin, the one with stripes making a gradient from pink to green.
“It’s aroflux.” Kimi said. “I fall in the grey area of the aromantic spectrum.”
Hide untensed his shoulders. “You know… I think I do, too.”
“Really?”
“I’m Lith-romantic, I’m pretty sure.”
“Neat! It’s always exciting to meet more aromantics!”
“You know others?”
“Nishiki-kun is arospec too. And I’ve helped a few other people question.”
“Nishio-senpai is too?! You’re in a relationship with another aromantic?! That’s amazing!”
“Tell me about it! It was just a coincidence! He didn’t know he was aromantic before I told him about aromanticism! Although, in hindsight I guess it explains why we fit so well together. We both have very complicated feelings on romance, that our previous partners never were able to grasp.”
Hide felt warm and happy, a sense of comfort and kinship coming over him. He often had a lot of internalized dislike of his aromanticism, but it was really nice to talk to someone who was similar — someone else who was on the aromantic spectrum.
Whenever he talked to other people — other allo-romantics, was the term Akira had used — they never grasped what he was trying to explain and always blew it off. As much as he liked people and socialized, he always felt a heavy disconnect from them.
And it suddenly dawned on him. He knew three arospecs so far, and Kimi had implied more.
[ID: Alternating icons of Kimi Nishino and Nishiki Nishio from Tokyo Ghoul, using official art from their manga profiles edited onto pride flags. In order, there’s: Aromantic Kimi, Aromantic Nishiki, Alloaro Kimi, Aroflux Kimi, Alloaro Nishiki, Bisexual Kimi, Bisexual Nishiki. END ID]
[ID: Two gifs featuring colored manga panels of Tokyo Ghoul:re characters, with the background flipping through pride flags.
Image 1: A close up of Nishiki, in a side profile as he rests a hand against his cheek and smiles fondly. The flags flip between: aromantic, allo-aro, and aromantic heterosexual.
Image 2: Kimi from the chest up, wearing a lab coat and speaking. The flags flip between: aroflux, allo-aro, and bi. END ID]
[ID: Icons of Kimi Nishino from Tokyo Ghoul against aroflux and bisexual flags, using a manga panel colored using aroflux and bisexual colors. The manga panel shows Kimi on the right side from the chest up, wearing a white lab coat over her shirt. She has a neutral expression and has her mouth open, speaking. There is an empty speech bubble in the lower right.
Icon 1 has an aroflux background and speech bubble. Kimi’s hair is pink-red and her shirt is green, using the inner pink and green stripes in the aroflux flag.
Icon 2 has a bisexual background and speech bubble. Kimi’s hair is pink and her shirt is purple, using the colors from the bisexual flag.
Icon 3 has a bisexual background and aroflux speech bubble. Kimi’s hair is aroflux pink and her shirt is aroflux green.
Icon 4 has an aroflux background and bisexual speech bubble. Her hair is bi pink and her shirt is bi purple. END ID]
I’ve been putting more and more aspecs into my writing lately. This fic in particular is being written extremely scattered, so i have no idea when it’ll be posted, if at all. But I wanted to at least share the aspec bits I have written!
Here’s Touka’s segments!
(Word Count: 1100)
(Warning for a brief scene of romance)
[This takes place shortly after Dragon, while the ghouls are all still staying at the CCG]
“So, how long have you loved him?” Touka asked.
Hide glanced away.
“Oh, come on! You made me tell you mine! Now it’s your turn!”
Hide sighed. “I don’t really know. I’ve cared about him for so long. I’m… not really sure at what point it became romantic.”
“Then how long have you known?”
“I guess... Since he left the 20th Ward for those 6 months?” Hide replied. “I just... couldn’t stop thinking about him. I so badly wanted him at my side, to hold him and kiss him and have him here beside him.” Hide chuckled. “Almost normal crush stuff, right? Except so much worse, because he could have been in trouble and I had no way of knowing.”
Touka frowned, humming.
“You okay?”
“Huh? Y-yeah. I just...” Touka glanced at Kaneki. “I just...want him to wake up.”
Hide had a feeling she wasn’t telling the entire truth, but he didn’t press. “Me too.”
-
So often, Nishiki would be hovering around Kimi’s work areas. He’d find any excuse at all to visit her. And whenever she wasn’t immediately busy, he would pull her into a kiss. Kimi would always berate him, yet she always kissed him back.
Touka groaned. “Get a room!”
“Maybe we should.” Nishiki whispered to Kimi.
“How about after she does her job?” Touka deadpanned.
“She’s right.” Kimi gently pushed Nishiki back. “This is important. But once I’m done with this, I’ll be free for the rest of the day.”
“Deal.” Nishiki leaned in again to kiss her. This time, Touka actually gagged aloud in disgust.
“Oh come on!” Nishiki snapped. “You’ve gotta know how we feel! Kaneki was out for 2 weeks! For us, it was years! I know you felt the same way!”
Touka bristled, but said nothing.
I know how they feel…?
Because Touka didn’t. She had missed Kaneki, sure, and it had hurt so much seeing him unconscious for so long, and so many times she was worried he wouldn’t come back to her. But kissing, specifically? That wasn’t something she had missed or desired. Why would she?
Yet Nishiki and Kimi made it sound so obvious.
-
Touka stared at the quiver of green arrows in the corner of the room. The arrow tips had a certain shine to them, like it was made of kagune.
“Is that a quinque?” Touka asked, gesturing with her head to it.
“Hm? Oh, yeah. I recently started going outside, and Nishiki-kun managed to convince the investigators to give me a quinque.”
“A bow and arrow?” Touka asked.
“Yeah.” Kimi went over to the other counter and picked up a high-tech bow made of quinque steel. “I’m glad the CCG had bow and arrow quinques. They fit me pretty well.”
“Fit you how?” Touka asked.
“I’m glad you asked!” Kimi smirked. “I’m on the aromantic spectrum. I’m an aromantic archer! An aro with arrows!” She drew the bow back and posed.
Touka blinked at the use of so many foreign words. She was bad enough at Japanese, nevermind English. “What?”
“Aro-mantic. Arrows. Get it?”
“Vaguely.” Touka replied. “I get the wordplay, I guess. But what does aromantic mean?”
Kimi set her bow back down. “Oh, it’s a romantic orientation. People who don’t experience romantic attraction like the majority of the population does.”
“Romantic attraction?” Touka nearly scoffed. Romance was just a societal concept, wasn’t it? It wasn’t an inherent feeling like sexual attraction was! ...Right? Although the more she thought about it, the more she remembered how disconnected she felt from kids her age when it came to romance. It was like they all understood some joke she didn’t. It was almost like… they were experiencing something she didn’t.
She would definitely need to research this later.
If she ever got access to a computer.
Ugh. Damn Doves.
Touka supposed she had no choice but to ask Kimi, then.
“So you’re this… aromantic?” Touka asked.
“I’m in the grey area of the spectrum, but yeah, I am.” Kimi nodded. “I found out I was arospec back in my final years of high school. Archery was kind of claimed as aromantic culture for the puns, so I tried it out on a whim and I ended up really liking it. I even joined an archery club, although by now its been a while since I’ve practiced.” She set the bow back down.
“It sounds… like I might be aromantic too…” Touka admitted. “I know I have sexual feelings for people and that I’m bisexual, but… I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a romantic crush on anyone.”
“Ah.” Kimi sat down. “I’m bisexual and aroflux. I experience sexual attraction to all kinds of people and it's stagnant, but my romantic attraction always comes and goes and fluctuates.”
“Interesting.” Touka whispered.
“So it’s definitely possible for you to be aromantic and bisexual!” Kimi said.
-
“The Rabbit incident.” Hide said.
“Yes.” Touka whispered. “I only managed to kill one investigator. Amon swooped in and put up a pretty good fight for being unarmed. And then Mado showed up and got a hit on me.” She gestured to her arm.
“She had gone alone, against Anteiku’s orders.” Kaneki added.
“And Yoshimura wanted me to learn my lesson, so he was gonna let me live or die on my own.”
“That’s horrible.” Hide whispered.
“I was hardly going to die from a sliced arm.” Touka said.
“But I couldn’t accept that. So I went to help her.” Kaneki continued.
“And that’s when he said it.” Touka said.
“I’d be sad if you died.” Hide quoted.
“Huh?” Kaneki asked.
“That’s when she first fell for you.” Hide said.
“O-oh.” Kaneki started blushing.
“Well, I guess that’s not quite the right word.” Touka said. “I didn’t fall in love, but... That’s when I first realized that Kaneki actually cared about me. I didn’t have much of that. And certainly no one that spelled it out like that. It meant a lot. It really did.”
“Touka-chan.” Kaneki whispered, pulling her into a hug.
“Don’t cry on me, you sap.” Touka said teasingly, but embraced Kaneki back.
“And that’s also the first time she called me by my name.” Kaneki added.
