His stomach growled. A hollow, pathetic sound.
A steel girder—loosened by construction, or so the news would later say—fell from the scaffolding above. It struck Rize first, a sickening, wet crunch that splattered Kaneki’s face with something warm and copper-sweet. Then it caught him on the shoulder, spinning him into the dark. tokyo ghoul season 1 episode 1
The girl was reading a poem about the sky, but the sky above Tokyo’s 20th Ward was the color of a fresh bruise. Rain slicked the windows of Café Anteiku, blurring the neon lights into bleeding watercolors. Ken Kaneki, a university freshman with a perpetual slouch and a dog-eared copy of a surrealist novel, didn’t notice the beauty of the gloom. He was too busy worrying. His stomach growled
