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[hostage]

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.

[enucleation]

[ 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.

[hostage]

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.

[enucleation]

[ "not happy" is an understatement. ]

[ 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?

[hostage]

Just silence. Don't tell people about me.

[enucleation]

It's not as if I can. [ kaneki's shitty situation won't allow him, basically. ]

[hostage]

Then I don't need anything else. I owed Will a favor, anyway.

[More than one favor, really.]

[enucleation]

A big one, if you are willing to do this. [ kaneki won't ask. He shakes his head ]

Now I'm the one owing you a favor.

[hostage]

If you want. But I'm seriously not holding you to that.

[enucleation]

I don't forget what it was done for me. [ he means that ]