[Tokyo Ghoul] Tea Coffee Companion

"……oops?"

Shendai Lishi raised his head and looked up with some surprise.

"Boom--!!!"

The steel bars fell from the sky, and the female figure was buried together with the dust.The sharp voice broke out into an ear-piercing sound, and Aiba Chacha coughed non-stop, feeling that not only her nose but also her ears were completely deaf because of the too loud sound.

The ground under her feet was vibrating, and she closed her eyes and covered her ears to hold her breath.Until everything returned to silence, when I opened my eyes, there was a steel pipe two or three meters away, and a pale hand was exposed, with a dark blood oozing out.

Xiangba Chacha heard her own breathing, which was very clear in the space that fell silent after the loud noise.The noise of human voices came from the construction site. Maybe someone will come to check the situation in a short time.

So, is that all?

Perhaps it was because the death happened so suddenly that Aiba Chacha still has no definite sense of reality.The previous pain that almost wanted to gouge out the heart was taken away together with the soul.Only the empty shell was left behind, staring blankly at the blood and the remains of the corpse on the ground.

"Do you want to fix everything?"

A strange and indistinguishable voice suddenly sounded from nowhere.

"...!"

Xiangba Chacha suddenly regained consciousness, looking for the source of the sound, but found nothing.

"Do you want to fix everything? Or...do you want 'Ken Kaneki' to not die right now?"

The voice repeated itself, and the meaning contained in the words made Aiba Chacha's eyes widen.She opened her mouth to say something, but a vague memory suddenly appeared in her mind.

As if it was deliberately erased by some force, it quietly emerged at this time.It was an extremely familiar yet distinctly unfamiliar voice, but his appearance seemed to be covered by a fog, making it impossible to see clearly.

"Do you believe in 'history'? Unchangeable, established history."

"history?"

"Well, or maybe it's called the 'time paradox' - it's been said that we can't go back in time because... have you ever heard that? If a man goes back to his parents when they were young and kills them, then he himself What is the existence of?"

"Well, I understand—you mean that the established past cannot be changed, otherwise it will be contrary to the future. This is an endless loop from the very beginning, right?"

"That's right. However, if the existence of another time and space enters a completely unrelated time and space under a negligible probability. TA has no predetermined trajectory in this time and space, and is a complete and uncontrolled outsider , so what happens?"

"Hmm... you mean, time travel? It seems to add characters that don't exist in a work?"

"Haha...a precise explanation, Miss Aiba."

The girl was a little embarrassed, and thought about it seriously: "If such an existence appears, the 'history' will be changed...wait a minute," she showed a hesitant expression, "Just like a fan novel, it becomes a 'parallel space' ?”

"There is no parallel space," the man replied bluntly, and then softened his tone again, "So, there are only two results--the first one, the world will deviate from the previous track, or it will collapse, or it will become 'another time and space' .and the second..."

——"Break it from the beginning of the mistake, and change everything back to the original appearance. Then follow the 'established history' and continue."

That was a conversation that happened in unknown year, month, time and place. Xiangba Chacha can only be sure that it really happened.In her past nearly 19 years, she appeared, and then was erased by an unknown force.

And after that conversation, the only thing left...

"But why did you tell me this all of a sudden, Mr. Sasaki?"

The girl at that time asked blankly, and then stroked the top of her hair with a generous and gentle hand, and the thin chain was hung around her neck:

"It's entrusted by someone... a very important person."

But here and now, Xiangba Chacha raised her hand, and untied the small bottle that was strung up by a rope around her neck.

This seemed to be something that suddenly appeared around her after she entered high school.Although she couldn't remember the source, she believed without any reason that it was very important.

The bottle is small, about the size of your thumb, and seems to be made of glass.There are two colors of liquid mixed in it, green like tea and brown like coffee, which are fully poured into the bottle.There seems to be an invisible partition in the middle, which is very clear.

——Break it from the beginning when it happened, and change everything back to the original appearance.

The nose that gradually regained its sense of smell smelled the rusty smell in the air.The smell of Kanekiken, God Dai Li Shi, mixed with the smell of smoke and dust, filled this dead corner at the end of the alley.

The noisy human voice is gradually approaching here, and may arrive soon.Her youth is gone, and the woman who ate him is now dead.

But as a ghoul, the vitality will be much stronger than that of humans...

How can I accept that he died in front of me while she continued to live?

As if a pair of hands were manipulating her, Aiba Chacha unscrewed the stopper of the bottle, turned it over and dumped——

The light green tea on the upper layer flowed out, but it was like a sticky and strange thick syrup.The moment she left the bottle, some invisible force rolled over, starting from the bottle she was holding, the air was stirred up by the protruding vortex into a hurricane!

The liquid slowly evaporated like mist in the air, and everything around him froze.Then, like a rewind in a movie, the frames quickly reversed and disappeared.Countless sights and sounds pulled afterimages in the senses, and the only thing that stayed in place was the girl whose tears still couldn't stop.

I don't know if it's the sequelae of the past, or the remnants of the pain later.Aiba Chacha hoped that it was just like this, not because she knew she was about to lose something, and nothing could fill the huge hole in her heart except for the out-of-control tear glands.

- Then follow the 'established history', and then go on.

In the established history, probably...she didn't exist, right?

He will forget her, or in other words, everything between them is a vain image that never existed.

However, in that real "history", in that established "trajectory".No matter what he's been through and what he's about to go through, at least...he's not dead.

Aiba Chacha was crying, but smiled.

The green liquid drained away, time froze, and the sound dissipated.

Then, as if the fast-forward button was pressed, the images and sounds were played back in sequence.Only in the few words that were captured occasionally, Xiangba Chacha saw Kaneki Ken's other "past" that was completely different from what he remembered.

Perhaps, that is the real "history".

In the end, everything returns to calm, still here and now.

In the early morning of December 12 of this year, there was light snow in the sky, but the jagged steel bars and ghouls were gone, and the pool of blood and residue behind her was gone.

The transparent bottle filled with half of the brown liquid slowly fell to the ground along with the girl's fallen body.

Aiba Chacha lost consciousness.

The author has something to say: This chapter contains a little more information_(:з」∠)_ If you don’t understand, please ask questions

In a sense, this is an alternative "multi-week" story_(:з」∠)_.

The difference is that the heroine didn't go back to the past to start over.But after waking up, everything is already "on track" at this time.

In short, the world chosen to be destroyed by the heroine in the first few chapters is the "branch space" of the original book, and the world after this chapter is the real world of the original book.

I checked the timeline of the ghouls. Although I don't know where this great god found the specific data, I wrote it according to her data:

On September 18, when Kaneki was 9 years old, he met Li Shi and was transformed into a ghoul.

(nothing happened in the 'gone warped spacetime')

On December 12th, he was abused and blackened, and celebrated his 20th birthday, at the same time the bronze tree incident broke out.

(In "The Distorted Time and Space That Has Disappeared", Kaneki Ken was swallowed by Kamdai Rise. Then Kamdai Rise was crushed to death by steel bars, and Aiba Chacha chose to bring everything back on track)