Hide's body glowed.

"Hide!?" Kurai said, seeing it in her mirror. "This light!? What's happening!?"

His eyes opened.

"Heh heh heh!" the evil Kaneki said. "More power! Open up more power!"

Hide's body began to shake. "Hide!?"

"No!" The real Kaneki said. "I have to hold it in... The power must not be increased further! The power must not be opened! The power of the Hide's flesh cannot be sent out easily to you!"

The evil Kaneki cried out. "My forehead! My forehead is splitting! It's scorching! Ohhh... Somebody is controlling my body from inside me! I have to endure a little more. Kano. If I complete the utilization, I won't have such an inconvenient body... I'll get rid of it. I'll rule this puny world!"

"That can't happen!" Kaneki yelled back

Hide floated through the air. "Where is this!? It's dark, and scary. Why am I here?Something's been coming after me! I'm scared! Somebody help me!"

"Hide..." Kaneki called.

"Huh?" Hide looked around and saw Kaneki. "Oh. Hey man!"

"It's all right," Kaneki said, reaching out. "I'll give you protection. I won't let them get your spirit, and your flesh. I'll be sure to save you."

"The flesh's power has weakened!?" said the evil Kaneki. It is because the good Kaneki has control over it again.

"Hide!?" said Kurai. "He convulsions stopped!? His body... is warm. Is somebody... protecting Hide's spirit!?"

xxx

Kuri was inside the Infinity Labyrinth now.

"You can see the Delta and Tokyo Bay from here," she said . "Lots of buildings under construction... Like ruins hiding black monsters... Ruins... That image of ruins... I don't want to think that's a vision of the future! I want to defeat these enemies, whose form we can't see, quickly. I want to live without feeling this anxiety, and return to the peace of before! Unless I hurry and rescue Hide and Kaneki... The time of Death's awakening... The time of the end of the world... Can we return to the peace of before...? Hide...! Kaneki..."

"No good," said Kuri, her eyes looking out. "I can't get a read on the internal structure or their coordinates. And I can't find any life signs at all..."

"A lot of strong power is accumulating in the Infinity zone," she continued. "It has a strong influence. Now this land is becoming chaotic."

"I'll go to the basement," Kuri said. "The labs are concentrated in the basement. I might be able to encounter ghouls."

"Hide, Kaneki..." Kuri called faintly.

She got in the elevator.

"Heh heh heh," Kano says, working in the lab. "Seems she's boarded the elevator. A death sentence. The pretty ones who carry the lights of the planets' protection. The time has come! The grand occasion of the fruits of my long-awaited dream! My life-work. The One Eyed Ghoul. Hundreds of times a human's brains and physical strength. Tens of times longer a lifespan. Just a little more genetic operation and medicine administration. Then it will be possible to make the one-eyes. I'm a genius. They'll be sorry they outcast me. For my research, I've chosen this Omega Area. The heavens gave me another chance since the accident. After the accident, I greatly reconstructed Kaneki's body. It was the birth of the fruit of my dream, the One Eyed Ghoul. During that biggest experiment..."

A blast struck the building.

"Kano..." the real Kaneki watched him as a spirit from above. He finally realized what a fool he'd been to rely on Kano. But it was too late.

The elevator descended.

"I- I'm nauseous..." Kuri whispered.

"It's picking up speed," Kuri thought. "Just like... I'm falling endlessly to hell... Scary..."

"I wonder if Hide and Kaneki are okay. I hope they'll be fine. I feel like I'm all alone. It's scary. I just feel a bad premonition coming..."

"This is taking long," Kuri said. "Too long. I'm worried about the others."

The elevator shook around. The door opened, and she was tossed out of it. She fell through the darkness.

"Darkness everywhere. I'm scared...! Reiko! I can't hear her voice! Where are they!? Hide! Kaneki! I'm worried. We shouldn't have separated. Without you, I can't do anything. What should I do!? All alone here is the darkness. What can I do!?"

Kuri saw a point of light high above.

"Always... Everyone is shining on me, leading me... When I'm about to be crushed, I always remember. I'm carrying a light in my heart too. That's the spirit of all of us, in one. Just believe. For the moment that light shines down...!"

She raised his arm to the light.

"I am a fighter! With the strength given to me by everyone, I will shine through the darkness and make it light! I won't yield to any darkness or delusions!"

Kuri attacked, using her quinque.

She crashed to the bottom of the elevator. The door opened.

"Welcome to my lab," Kano said. "I've been looking forward to this. Heh heh. My pretty monsters are feeling hungry."

The monsters chase after her.

Kuri attacked with her quinque, and The monster tore apart.

"Heh heh heh! Still more! I can make any amount of monsters! Ahahaha!"

"Stop it!" Kuri said. "I don't want to fight you here. Where's Kaneki!?"

"Kaneki? Formerly my patient. He's at home now, absorbing the power of Hideyoshi Nagachika's flesh that he consumed!"

"C-Consumed!?"

"The One Eyed King's quickening has finally begun! It's too bad, but this place will be your graveyard! You will be my first victims! I am going to destroy you!" He mutated into a large monster.

"A monster!?"

"I am not like the monster," he said. "I am also a one eyed ghoul! The union of human and ghoul! Die!" A blast of light shoots out. Kuri jumped away.

"Until seconds ago, this was Kaneki's doctor!" Kuri thought. She narrowly dodged an attack.

Kuri attacked; The monster was ripped apart in a burst of light. The poor man's soul had been utilized long ago.

"The doctor who came to save me... He wasn't that man anymore... Goodbye, Doctor Kano..."

"Who's that!?" Kuri said. "It seemed like…I heard Kaneki…"

The ground began to shake.

"Something's coming!" Kuri said.

Kuri used her quinque and a sphere of light formed around her.

"What's that!?" She said. "Something's crashing out through the ceiling!? He's up there! Kaneki!"

The floor broke apart as light blasts through it. Kuri was thrown into the air.

Kuri floated up through the hole in the ceiling, outside. The sky above was swirling with colors.

"The sky!?"

She saw a glass room at the building's entrance.

"Something's inside the building! That's...!"

The evil Kaneki stares at her with a demonic grin. "Heh heh heh."

"That's... Kaneki!?"