Chapter 30: Bitter Taste
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Pg 1: Kaneki jogs outside. A news report states that several days ago near Kasahara elementary a ghoul investigator was murdered.
Pg 2: Cover page of Rize and Kaneki
Pg 3: Kaneki sits in a waiting room and listens to a TV. The TV states that it had been 10 years since the last time the main office lost a ghoul investigator in the 20th ward, therefore they are making plans to investigate the “Rabbit”. Two women comment to one another that it’s scary and Kaneki looks away.
Pg 4: Inside the doctor’s office, Dr. Kanou tells Kaenki that it looks like there aren’t any problems. He asks Kaneki if he’s been taking the medicine and Kaneki says that he has.
Pg 5: Kaneki wonders if Kanou can’t tell that anything is amiss even though he has a ghoul’s body. He wonders if his RC levels are the same as a normal human and thinks that Touka told him that a ghoul has an RC ten times that of a human. Kaneki wonders if they measured his RC value or if Kanou found everything out and is just hiding it. Kanou tells Kaneki to return in a month.
Pg 6: Kaneki asks Kanou if he was able to meet with Rize’s family. Kanou says that they had a peaceful funeral but they didn’t want to talk to him. Kaneki wonders about Rize’s family.
Pg 7: The scene changes to Kaneki and Hide in class together. Kaneki thinks that Rize’s family would be ghouls and they might have a grudge against him. Hide says that they have a grudge and Kaneki turns to him quickly. Hide tells him that a ghoul investigator was killed so ghoul specials have been all over TV.
Pg 8: Kaneki asks Hide what he meant by talking about a grudge. Hide says that he took a guess about the criminal. He points out a picture of an investigator that was killed prior. Hide says that the ghoul probably killed him as revenge for something and the clear lead is the investigator from the main office, Mado.
Pg 9: Hide shows Kaneki a wanted picture for Hinami. Kaneki asks if the child killed an investigator and Hide says that he thinks that the daughter and the Rabbit are two different ghouls. Hide says that he thinks that the daughter was able to escape from the scene when the mother was captured.
Pg 10: Hide says that if the daughter was strong enough to take out the investigators then she would have done it when the mother was captured. Hide says that therefore the Rabbit likely helped the daughter carry out an act of revenge. Kaneki thinks that he is scared of Hide and remembers Nishio telling him that he’s dangerous.
Pg 11: Kaneki thinks that he can’t show any faults in front of Hide or he’ll be able to tell that he’s a ghoul. Kaneki asks Hide why he’s making inferences. Hide shows him a book about ghouls and tells him that he thought it was super interesting.
Pg 12: Hide tells him it’s Ogura’s new book about ghoul dismantling. He says that it’s the most supreme volume for studying ghoul psychology and biology and so he wants to read it. Hide tells Kaneki that the ghoul investigations that it describes are interesting. Kaneki thinks that lots of things influence Hide and recalls times where Hide wanted to learn Kung-Fu from seeing a television show and listening to a song and wanting to learn English.
Pg 13: Hide says that he is thinking about investigating the daughter by himself and says that he might get a reward. Kaneki suddenly shouts that he should stop. Kaneki later thinks that if an ordinary person like Hide could figure so much out then the investigators have a better idea. He thinks that he needs to tell Hinami to be careful. Kaneki enters the coffee shop and hears people talking about gossip.
Pg 14: Two ghouls walk up and slap him on the back. They ask him if he drove away a ghoul. They tell Kaneki that another ghoul saw him knock an investigator back. They compliment him and say that he should attack more.
Pg 15: Kaneki puts on his uniform and thinks that he doesn’t intend to do that. Koma tells him that all the customers are ghouls and they are in high spirits thanks to him. Koma tells him that he used to be referred to as the “Devil Ape” back in the 20th ward and Kaneki can’t believe it. Kaneki sees the manager and apologizes to him.
Pg 16: Kaneki apologizes for acting on his own and says that the investigators will likely be heading there. The manager asks him what he is talking about. The manager says that he wants to share his gratitude and says that he heard everything from Yomo.
Pg 17: The manager says that Kaneki fought to protect the ghouls. He begins to say something else and stops himself. Kaneki says that he’d like to talk to Hinami. The manager tells Kaneki that she’s not there anymore. Kaneki asks if she left to go to the 24th ward.
Pg 18: The manager tells Kaneki that she went to stay at Touka’s house. Hide gets a can of coffee from a vending machine and comments that it’s bitter.














