Ken KANEKI

Why do beautiful things remind us of death more than life?

We fight ceaselessly to save ourselves from loss. And yet … The people and places we love will one day surely be lost. We all will surely be forgotten. Life is sad. Empty. But, despite knowing we will one day be bereft, despite knowing we will one day disappear, we still strive in wretched ways. We still wish to be beautiful.

On that fateful day with Rize, I was sundered from the human world. And everything began to change. […] And even though I have erred so much, and hurt so many, I simply don’t believe that it was all for naught. And that’s why even if I were to know everything that’d happen after, I still would have gone to meet Rize that day. To me, all of it was necessary. This world … This world isn’t wrong. It just is. And even if “eventually” everything will come to naught, I’ll still strive, like I did today, Furuta.

I’m weak … ? On the day I realized I was a ghoul I shed my weakness to protect what’s important to me. Survival of the fittest is the law in this world. Only the strong survive. Who is the strong? I am. Me!

I think … if the world is wrong, what’s distorting it is … everything that exists in this world.