maskormenace | 004; video + forward-dated to the 27th

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004; video + forward-dated to the 27th

[ Video isn't actually meant to be on right now, that much is clear. Hinami looks too miserable, too tired to have presented herself on purpose. She's been crying for quite some time, if how painfully red and swollen her eyes are says anything. ]

I know...that some people saw it when Onii-chan...when he got out of control. That they saw him leave.

So, um. [ she takes a moment to try to get another wave of tears under control. ]

So Kaneki Ken has been ported out. He was a few days ago.

[ what else can she even say? first the rampage and then he was just...gone. with nothing but a letter left for her in case this happened, a list of people she could go to and rely on. ]

I-I'm sorry to the people he hurt. Onii-chan is a good person, but he...he has some things wrong. In his head. I don't know what happened...and it doesn't make the people who were any better, but he wouldn't have done it if he was himself.

He doesn't like hurting people.

[ and that's...really all she can say. ]

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[This girl... she's one of the imports who was kidnapped that time, right? Maya recognises her a little.]

Hey... are you okay? Like-- there's someone else with you right now... right?

I...have a list of people.

[ which means nope, she's alone at the moment. ]

[ . . . ]

M-Mm. Well, have you called any of them? I can stay here with you until one of them comes to you.

[Dooku looks deeply sympathetic, but within he is deeply annoyed. For Kaneki to have both lost control so publicly and then gotten Ported out on top of things constitutes a definite lurch in the Count's plans.]

I am sorry to hear that, child. I know Kaneki is a kind young man, whatever challenges he is faced with. I am certain this recent tragedy was not of his intent.

I hope-- I don't want people to remember him badly.

[The Count frowns, sadly.]

I am afraid that may not be possible. The media, the authorities- they will only see him as a rampaging beast. They will focus on him as a danger, not as the person he is.

But we will still know the truth- his friends, imPorts like you and I. As long as we keep the truth of Kaneki's kindness in our hearts, his memory will endure.