I know it's weird - it will get worse. [ no backing out now ] I'm a cannibal. I can't eat anything else but human flesh, and I really don't want to depend on the government for this. But the hospitals and morgues I stole from aren't easy to get into anymore.
I either depend on the government, or I find another way. Right now, that's you.
... I need a lot. [ because it's not just for himself. And also because kaneki is a glutton. ]
I don't- i'm not eating from alive people. No one can get hurt because of what I am. [ ideally. In the past, many people have gotten hurt ] It's a requirement.
No. [ can you hear the rising panic. Kaneki has been bitten and nearly eaten, he didn't like the experience and neither he wants anyone to suffer through something like that for someone like himself. ]
Listen, it's... It's, um, a renewable resource. You get me? The volunteer regenerates. You wouldn't even see it. The meat can just get delivered to you. Like a butcher, right? Like regular meat.
[ this is creeping him out and he is the cannibal here. jesse. C'mon. ]
... I know you are trying to help. But it's bad enough I've to eat people. The only comfort in all of this, is that all of them were dead, and not by my hand. Nobody got hurt because of me.
It's gonna take me some time. I gotta get a decent-size meat locker. And you're gonna have to come pick up the goods when it's ready, 'cause I don't think I'll be able to get somebody to make home deliveries.
You don't have to do anything for me. [ he doesn't need to get a meat locker. ]
Just-
when you have it, I'll come get it at whatever place you tell me to. You don't have to worry about anything else. [ this is Kaneki's problem, not Jesse's. He is asking for help, but not really... imposing. ]
It's safer for everybody involved if I got a secure drop location. I'll get a place for my people to leave the bodies and you'll know that's where you pick 'em up. Something like that's gonna be way better than calling you straight to a murder scene.
[ he nods very softly. It's true, but he also didn't want Jesse to go far for him, really. In fact, speaking of that]
Are you really alright with this...? You don't know me, and you don't have to agree just because Will mentioned you to me. I know how fucked up this whole thing is.
From the sound of it, you're not happy about your situation and you didn't ask to be whatever you are, so... I mean, we're not gonna just let you starve. And the less the government knows about any of us, the better.
The streets're full of bodies, whether I like it or not. Collecting 'em isn't my favorite thing ever but they're just getting dumped in some river or junkyard anyway so we might as well do something useful with 'em.
[ there is a moment of silence, before Kaneki speaks again, softly ]
Thank you. [ he means it, really. He is glad there is someone willing to go this far because his options had dried out. he didn't know what to do and sure as hell he didn't want to go to the government and only get wrapped in them even more than he already is forced to be ]
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[ look at all of this eloquence, it's amazing. ]
I know it's weird - it will get worse. [ no backing out now ] I'm a cannibal. I can't eat anything else but human flesh, and I really don't want to depend on the government for this. But the hospitals and morgues I stole from aren't easy to get into anymore.
I either depend on the government, or I find another way. Right now, that's you.
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How much do you need? Does it... Can you take pieces from a living person, or do they have to be dead?
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I don't- i'm not eating from alive people. No one can get hurt because of what I am. [ ideally. In the past, many people have gotten hurt ] It's a requirement.
Dead only.
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[Not that Jesse relishes the thought of frequent surgery, but he was probably volunteered for this job because he's the one best suited to it.]
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No. [ can you hear the rising panic. Kaneki has been bitten and nearly eaten, he didn't like the experience and neither he wants anyone to suffer through something like that for someone like himself. ]
I prefer the government to that.
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[ this is creeping him out and he is the cannibal here. jesse. C'mon. ]
... I know you are trying to help. But it's bad enough I've to eat people. The only comfort in all of this, is that all of them were dead, and not by my hand. Nobody got hurt because of me.
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So you just want bodies? Dead ones.
[This path isn't much more appealing.]
How fresh do they have to be?
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Which is actually a lot- ]
as long they aren't rotting, I guess. [ actually, he could probably eat rotting bodies. But he doesn't want to give those to Hinami. ]
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It's gonna take me some time. I gotta get a decent-size meat locker. And you're gonna have to come pick up the goods when it's ready, 'cause I don't think I'll be able to get somebody to make home deliveries.
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Just-
when you have it, I'll come get it at whatever place you tell me to. You don't have to worry about anything else. [ this is Kaneki's problem, not Jesse's. He is asking for help, but not really... imposing. ]
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Are you really alright with this...? You don't know me, and you don't have to agree just because Will mentioned you to me. I know how fucked up this whole thing is.
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The streets're full of bodies, whether I like it or not. Collecting 'em isn't my favorite thing ever but they're just getting dumped in some river or junkyard anyway so we might as well do something useful with 'em.
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[ there is a moment of silence, before Kaneki speaks again, softly ]
Thank you. [ he means it, really. He is glad there is someone willing to go this far because his options had dried out. he didn't know what to do and sure as hell he didn't want to go to the government and only get wrapped in them even more than he already is forced to be ]
... do you want anything in return?
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[More than one favor, really.]
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Now I'm the one owing you a favor.
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