For a human, walking around the 20th ward at night can't be that bad, Touka thought, out for some air. "Hey, hot stuff," a voice called except for that, she thought again. Molesters were some of the most annoying things on the planet to her, especially when she wasn't hungry. When she was, they made a decent snack and it meant one less scumbag for women to deal with. But Touka didn't feel like eating tonight. "Fuck off, pervert." She said, only egging him on. "Those aren't words I like hearing," said the creep. "I don't want to hear any of yours," Touka replied, getting increasingly pissed off. "How about I-" his sentence was cut short by a sound similar to a bamboo shoot being whipped through the air. "How the hell do you deal with these assholes?" Asked Koma. "Did you really need to kill the guy? We just ate yesterday," The young ghoul said, "Yeah, he's a creep, but that's too much like Rize." Koma replied by lifting up the corpse and waving it's arms around, mimicking the catcaller's taunts "I have a ghoul fetish, come and eat me" "God dammit, Koma," she chuckled, "I guess we'd better bring him back to Anteiku before CCG finds out." "Agreed."
The next day, she was off to school with Yoriko when they passed by Yomo en route. The two exchanged a friendly nod and a few words and were on their ways. After Yomo was out of earshot, Yoriko whispered, "Touka, what the fuck? I saw him kill and eat someone last week! You know a ghoul?!" Shit, Touka thought, how do I explain this one? "Uh, what? Really? No, Yomo's the silent, solitary type. He'd never lay a hand on anyone. You probably mistook someone else for him." That was awful, she thought afterwards, I need to get better at that. They walked the rest of the way in silence.
Later that day, after she'd donned her Anteiku waitress uniform and started helping out around the shop, she saw a kid with short black hair looking at Rize. "Idiot," she thought, "you won't last more than 10 seconds." The guy he was sitting with pulled her over and asked excitedly "Is this her?" The future Rize snack replied "No, Hide, calm down." He looked at Touka and said, "Sorry, he's a bit high strung." "No problem…" she replied awkwardly. The blond kid whispered to her "I think Kaneki has a thing for you, what's your name?" Okay, this is weird. Touka thought. "Um, Touka..." she answered. "Nice to meet you," the ADHD one said, "I'm Hide and that's your future boyfriend, Kaneki." What the fuck? Future boyfriend? A Human? It took all she had not to slap him. She couldn't stop thinking about that other kid, though. Kaneki, she thought as she went to bed.