Haise Sasaki's consciousness is split as he fights Seidou Takizawa whose insanity is fueled by his incomplete kakuja and speaks with his mental projection of “Kaneki”. They have a face-to-face conversation for the first time, and Sasaki admits his fears and hesitation about his past. Even as they speak, he feels his conscious slipping to the point that he doesn't even know who's controlling the body. Between Sasaki fighting for dominance in his mind and fighting Takizawa in the real world, he feels that they'll both disappear at the rate they're going. “Kaneki” tries to convince Sasaki that his preconceived notions about him are wrong, that he is not as strong as Sasaki thinks. Suddenly, the monstrous form Sasaki always saw Kaneki as transforms into that of a normal looking child. “Kaneki”