Everytime Kaneki looked at you, he felt an overwhelming pang of guilt. You were starry-eyed, sweet-natured and a kind soul. As nice as that was, you were not you.

You were no longer (L/N) (Y/N) but rather Mitsuya Nami, his colleague. 

You'd lost the battle against him on the rooftop during the Rose Extermination but you didn't die. Sometimes Kaneki wished you did because death was certainly better than having your memories rewritten by force.

He still remembered watching you struggle as the CCG scientists strapped you down onto a cold metal table and did unspeakable things to your brain. Kaneki remembered crying silently as he watched your tears pour as you were put under irresistible pain. At one point your heart stopped but the bastards saved you just in time just to continue with the procedure.

Kaneki asked them why they decided to save your life when they could've just let you die on the table. ("A worthless ghoul," he'd called you, though he knew that you were worth more than anything in the world to him, to Haise, too.)

The reply he'd gotten in return agitated him so much that he'd almost sucker punched the scientist right there and then. "This procedure's costly, we wouldn't want to waste any of the CCG's money."

His heart ached whenever he recalled that short conversation, your wonderful life was saved just so the CCG could save money. Money. That was what you were worth, even as Mitsuya Nami, you were nothing but a sack of cash to the CCG. But not to him, not to Haise.

You deserved better. A whole lot better.

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CCG IN STATE OF PANIC AFTER TWO HIGH RANKED INVESTIGATORS DISAPPEAR FROM JAPAN.

A few days ago, highly ranked CCG investigators, Sasaki Haise and Mitsuya Nami, went missing with no traces left behind them. They are presumed to be either kidnapped or on the run, for exactly what, we are not entirely sure, but as days pass by in a flash, the possibility of them being deceased is high...