It was strange, death was strange.
The feeling of his soul leaving his body, it wasn't painful like he imagined, it was more like abandoning the heaviness of your limbs and muscles. If he had to compare, he would say it was like taking off a heavy coat that was weighing you down all day.
He felt weightless, but strangely, at the same time he felt solid, as if he could use his own hand to stab his stomach and it won't go through, solid just like a human body.
And Kishou did just that. True to his theory, his hand did not go through his abdomen, but he could feel the slight pain when human skin came in contact with force. He could feel pain.
Souls weren't like anything that he had read in books, at all. Apart from - well, being dead, and invisible to the living, he could not connect what he was currently experiencing with the afterlife that had been described in the books. He also noticed that there was a chain at the center of his chest.
First of all, he could not fly. He could go through objects, sure, Kishou had tested this theory by walking in the field and watching the flowers go through him, not swayed by his movement. Secondly, he could not teleport, that or he didn't know how to, perhaps he should ask other souls, if he had the luck to came by one. And thirdly, he could feel pain.
Now that he was dead, Kishou didn't know what to do. Death had been the release that he longed for, ever since he stepped into his twenties. But now Kishou was dead, and he felt lost again, not knowing where to go, what to do.
He watched on in silence at Haise - no, Kaneki Ken, screamed. The boy's scream of agony bounced off the walls, echoed through the underground of Cochlea, it was so loud. Kishou was sure that everyone in Cochlea could hear it.
He watched as Kaneki Ken and the children of squad zero mourned his death - Take came, he brought along the squad zero, they were here to help Kaneki Ken escape, per Kishou's order.
Kaneki Ken said his parting words, he recited Song Of The Old Ainu. Kishou didn't expected that, that was the poem Kaneki Ken recited back then at V14, when Kishou killed him.
"I was... Oh, so happy."
Kishou didn't know why, but his heart ached painfully at that.
Eventually, they went to escape, the forget-me-nots, Kishou's soul and his dead body were the only thing left.
The sound of silence was deafening, that's it, until the sound of sliding doors opening and quite footsteps echoed in the enormous space, breaking the ominous silence.
Kishou turned around, and was met with another - possibly, soul, because the man was looking straight at him. His clothing was quite strange, it was a black hakama with a white sash tied at his waist, the man was also carrying a katana with him.
"Oh good, you are still near your dead body. Most soul just left the scene after they died, makes it harder for us shinigamis to transfer them to the afterlife."
Kishou blinked. Us shinigamis? Transfer to the afterlife?
"Excuse me, can you explain the situation to me and may I ask who you are? I'm quite confused."
The man nodded, and proceeded to answer his question,"I am a shinigami, a shinigami's job is to judge and transfer souls to the Soul Society, where they will be spending their after life in and waiting for rebirth. If a soul stays too long on Earth, their chain - ", the man pointed to the chain at the center of his chest," - would start to perish, and when it's gone completely, the soul will become a tainted spirit that was called hollow. Hollows hunt on souls and humans alike, a shinigami's job is also to purge hollows and send them to the afterlife."
Kishou nodded, soaking in the information like a sponge, storing it somewhere in his brain. He felt some kind of irony here, a reaper being judged by another reaper.
But then again, Kishou was just human, he was no shinigami.
"In that case, please do your job immediately, I must be wasting your precious time."Kishou said, as much as he was curious about shinigamis and want to know everything about this kind, all the information will be useless anyway, as he will be heading to his afterlife right now.
The shinigami nodded and drew his sword, he tapped the hilt of the katana on Kishou's forehead.
Then it was all black.