The tragic pair entwined their fingers in each other's, their tired bodies blanketed in blood. Hinami leaned her head against his shoulder, smiling as Kaneki told her to close her eyes. He stared at a blossoming tulip in the distance, a strange sense of relief overcoming him as silence hung over them like polluting smoke.
Sitting down beside each other, they waited.
"I'm here."
In the distance, police sirens blared.