[Tokyo Ghoul] Tea Coffee Companion

The sun sets very early in spring, and at around five o'clock in the afternoon, the sunset glow has spread into golden red clouds on the horizon.Xiangba Chacha lowered her head to calculate the account just now, and then heard the crisp sound of the wind chime at the door of the tea shop.

The store is not big, she can take care of it by herself, so she didn't ask other helpers.She raised her head from the account, shaking the dull hair on the top of her hair, showing a professional smile that has been practiced for a long time: "Welcome, may I ask..."

The sound stuck.

A young man with short black hair stood opposite the counter, his left eye covered by a white cotton eye patch.He touched his face in embarrassment, and showed a gentle smile: "Aiba-san, long time no see."

Aiba Chacha: "..."

—WTF? ! ! !

How do you feel when your (in a certain sense ex) male whore suddenly changes style and race and attacks you (what the hell) and threatens to put a centipede in your ear if you don’t cooperate?

How do you feel when your ex-boy whore with a different style of painting and race came to your shop pretending to be of the same race as you after the midday attack to drink [cross out] tea[cross out] coffee?

Aiba Chacha: My heart is almost broken.

"Jin... Jin Mu-jun?"

She almost called out the name with a trembling voice, and saw the young man seem relieved: "It's really Aiba-san, a few days ago I heard that you are the owner of this shop, I thought it was just the same name That's all."

Yanjun, your acting skills have improved a lot →_→.

Although I complained silently in my heart, my mood seemed to be better.

This is the person she thought she would never see again...

"Jin Mu-jun is very lucky. When you came here a few days ago, there were so many guests that you didn't have time to chat..." Aiba Chacha settled the last account, eyes bent, "I'll treat you this time, I want to drink Want something?"

Kaneki looked down for a while, and said the answer she expected: "Clean coffee, no sugar or milk."

"Hey, please take it easy."

The brewed coffee exudes a strong aroma, and Aiba Chacha puts the tray in front of the other party, and then sits down opposite.

"Aiba-san... don't you need to take care of the guests?"

Seeing that the other party was planning to have a long talk, Kaneki Ken asked out of habit.Although it was true that his original intention was to come to her for a chat, this kind of appearance that was more cooperative than the plan always made him feel... inexplicably at a loss.

"There aren't many customers," Xiangye Chacha indicated with her eyes to the seats behind her. There is only one round table, a four-seater table and three opposite tables in the entire tea shop. At this time, there are only three tables and seven people including them, "and Mr. Jin Mu came to look for me suddenly, there must be something wrong."

After all, strictly speaking, the relationship between Kanekiken in this world and Aiba Chacha... can only be said to be a high school classmate and college classmate _(:з」∠)_.

Xiangba Chacha remembers very clearly that the summer vacation before the second year of high school she experienced, because of the death of her grandfather, she was supposed to transfer to a school near one of her parents.Later, because of her established relationship with Kaneki-ken and her parents' reluctance to take care of her, she finally chose to live independently.

And Aiba Chacha in this world went to her mother's high school.When I saw my former classmates again after college, it was only to the extent of nodding acquaintances.

The young man hummed, Xiangba Chacha sighed, "Actually speaking, I also want to ask Yan-kun—what Yingliang-kun has been looking for during the holidays, maybe it has something to do with you. I heard that you haven't gone to class recently, yes What happened?" She picked up the glass in front of her and took a sip of juice, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

"This was an accident," Jin Muyan had already found an excuse for his own eyes. "At that time, the steel bar from a high place fell, and the person who was walking with me...couldn't be rescued. I'm lucky," he said. His eyes darkened, and then he returned to his usual gentle smile, "It's just something wrong with my eyes... that's all, so I haven't been to school recently."

"That's it..." Aiba Chacha could only answer this kind of situation that he knew it was an excuse but couldn't get rid of it.Then she thought about it, went to the front desk to get a thin post-it note, and sat back again.

"Sorry, I've talked a little too much." She scratched the top of her head with the pen end, and the dull hair was pressed down with the movement, and soon stood up again, "If you have any questions, Jin Mu-jun, please tell me."

Kaneki Ken looked at her dumbfounded hair and was silent for three seconds, and then said as if he had come to his senses: "Actually, I came here because I wanted to ask about Aiba-san's boyfriend."

"……Hey?"

Watched by the girl's blank and unexpected eyes, Kaneki Ken's face turned slightly red.If it was him earlier, he might be too flustered to speak now.

"Aiba-san, that, please don't get me wrong." Kaneki Ken still maintained his composure after rehearsing in his mind many times, "Because...some things happened recently, related to you and some people around you. I know a friend who wants me to help find out, so..."

"Is it something about the entertainment industry?" Xiangba Chacha asked suddenly, seeing Kaneki Ken's stunned expression, she confirmed her thoughts.

Recently, some unusual news has spread within the entertainment circle, which seems to be about the abnormal deaths of several artists.Although it was blocked from the outside world, there were some clues.

Think about how Jin Muyan asked her about that man at noon that day, and this time he came to ask her boyfriend's question in person again.The cause of death of the actors involved in the accident probably has something to do with love killing or even ghouls...?

These messages quickly turned in his mind, and Xiangba Chacha didn't know how much he had guessed.But regarding Kaneki Ken's question, her boyfriend in this world, she hesitated for a moment before confessing.

"Sorry Kaneki-kun... As for Sasaki-kun, well, even my ex-boyfriend, I don't remember much."

"...?!"

Seeing the other party's more surprised expression than she expected, Xiangye Chacha's dumb hair shook: "I seem to have known him before the second year of high school... During the winter vacation of my freshman year, I had an accident, and I remember everything else." , only the memory of him has become very blurred."

Kaneki Ken was sluggish: "..."

That was the most vague memory of Aiba Chacha's "self" who inherited this world.What's even more suspicious is that it happened the day before she reversed the time and space—when the half bottle of tea ran out, the time and space that did not belong to "history" shattered, and she also lost consciousness at the same time.

When she woke up, she was in the hospital, surrounded by her mother who had just returned from the United States to visit her.The mother said that she was found in the alley, and she had been unconscious for a whole day by then.

But no matter how many questions he had, he couldn't find the answer because of his incomplete memory of "that person".

"What about now?" Kaneki Ken couldn't help asking after a long silence.

Xiangba Chacha looked at him quietly for a while, then as if she had made up her mind, she wrote it on a sticky note.

[The only remaining memory seems to be that one night during the holiday, I was attacked by a ghoul and almost died.Sasaki-kun came to rescue me and killed the ghoul. ] Her pen paused, feeling the surrounding air cool down quickly.

[——I saw... Sasaki is also a ghoul. ]

A long silence swallowed everything, Kaneki Ken looked down at the note.His bangs covered his expression, but the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed.

To be honest, Aiba Chacha didn't know why she told the other party about this.To be precise, if it is Kaneki Ken who is an "ordinary human friend", she will probably find an excuse at will, such as breaking up and having a car accident, to deceive the past.

For what?

Maybe she wants to verify some unfounded premonitions, maybe she wants to know what Kaneki Ken looks like today.Perhaps it was the ghoul who had saved her, the Sasaki who became the boyfriend of "Past Aiba Chacha", which made her curious.

"Then Aiba-san, Sasaki hasn't been in touch with you now?"

It wasn't until Aiba Chacha greeted the two new guests and sat back to look at him again that Kaneki Ken tore off the paper from the sticky note and looked up at her.

Yanjun, it really has changed a lot.

At least, she had never seen such an expression on the face of Kaneki Ken.

As if the white-haired ghoul who didn't know who she was at noon that day, as if he threatened her at that time.

It reminded her of the only time he showed when he participated in a stage play in high school.But it is much more real than the pure performance on the stage.

"...I don't know where he went." Aiba Chacha said softly, "After I woke up, he disappeared."

Ten o'clock in the evening is the closing time of the tea and coffee shop.Kaneki Ken watched Xiangba Chacha lock the store door and walked up to him.

"It's been a long time since I've talked with anyone for so long... let's leave it at that for today. Mr. Jin Mu, come here again when you're free."

"Well, I will. The coffee made by Aiba sauce is very delicious." Ken Kaneki nodded with a smile, "Where do you live? I'll take you back."

"No, it's very close," Xiangye Chacha pointed to the opposite street, which is the boundary between the [-]th District and the [-]th District. you can see."

"That's good." Kaneki Ken was somewhat relieved, although he still planned to watch the girl go back before leaving, "Then goodbye."

She turned around and took two steps, then suddenly remembered something, turned to look at him: "By the way, there is something..."

"?"

"I seem to have asked before, but I want to confirm... Jin Mu-kun, do you have cousins ​​or other relatives?"

The girl stood there with the backlight, Kaneki Ken couldn't see the expression on her face clearly.Although he was a little confused by this question, he shook his head honestly: "No."

"...Really," Aiba Chacha said to herself, and then smiled softly again, "Sorry for asking a strange question, this time I really said 'goodbye', um, and good night. "

"……Good night."

Xiangba Chacha walked into the gate of the community, turned her head and glanced in the direction of the tea shop from the corner of her eye.Even with better eyesight than ordinary people, it is still impossible to determine whether the other party has left.

She let out a soft sigh of unknown meaning, and quickened her pace towards the building where she lived.

Who can tell me--

If that hazy memory is not false, do people who are almost exactly the same really exist in this world?

The author has something to say: So the little angel was just scaring her during the afternoon attack, and the expression in his heart probably collapsed (huh

The amount of information in this chapter is still relatively large...you can freely guess and imagine

The fried chicken likes to say good night to each other, the fried chicken is warm and warm!

ps: The next chapter is high-energy warning.