Hey guys and welcome to a little teaser I put together to get you all in the mood for the next arc.

Before you start, I'm not going to put up an actual spoiler as to what's going to happen. No, I'm going to pull an Ishida and show you a poem I wrote in my free time. One that'll set the mood for the upcoming arc pretty well I hope.

This also totally isn't just a way to get an idea that popped into my head while I was showering out of my head. Totally...

Well, anyways, I hope you guys enjoy a sixteen year old's best attempt at a thing called poetry.

-Poem Start-

For the last ten days, I've felt nothing but pain.
The lizard, he takes my fingers again, and again.
One by one, they keep growing back.
Again and again, until my nails turn black.

Down by sevens to keep myself sane.
The lizard, there's a centipede eating my brain.
The sharp legs inside, I just want it to end.
A trickster appears, and then the flowers turned red.

Out of my confines, I ate and I ate.
Turned into a snake and ate the lizard I hate.
Months past this, I've felt almost nothing at all.
Broke my fingers to feel something at all.

One day I look up to find the sky falling down.
Take it upon myself to be the hero of the town.
I run and save the maggot friends I love.
Before they're all eaten by the ravenous doves.

There I find a knight dressed in armor of meat.
We run each other through and our bodies concede.
Crawled in a hole, a friend I've left behind.
The friend who disappeared after I fell for a time.

Woke up to find something that I greatly did fear.
Death itself, a man who killed many of my peers.
The reaper was standing in a field of flowers.
There was beauty in a field of beloved corpses.

I gaze upon the scene with horror and fright.
Until I feel a sharp sting in my eye.
Now, a familiar child shows me the error of our ways.
Unfortunately, we were right at the end of our days.

Pain, I've felt pain nearly all of my life,
And I'll feel even more in some given time.
It'll start with the taste of honey running down my skin,
And a talk with an entity I've kept buried within.

-Poem End-

So, that was my best attempt at poetry. Bear in mind, I'm sixteen so hit me with the worst you've got.

So yeah, as you can see, that was pretty angsty and detailed the physical pain that Kaneki had to go through at the start of the second half of the manga/anime .

And that pretty much means to expect some really serious shit to go down in the next arc. Like really serious. Maybe even Centipede-kun serious.

And if you guys want to know how far I've progressed with the upcoming chapter, I'm about done with the first scene which spans about three thousand words, just so you know I'm not being lazy.

Well, peace out guys.