He opened his eyes, expecting to see the same ceiling he always awoke to, with Tsukiyama or Banjou making coffee or just idly chatting in the other room. Instead, he awoke to a clear sky, clearer than any he had ever seen before, had the others left him outside as a prank or something? Looking around, he found his answer surrounding him was not the busy city of Tokyo, but a large field, a green landscape covering the land for miles around with not a single person in sight, save one. Around three feet behind him, curled up and sleeping was his dear friend, Kirishima Touka, her mask lying next to her. To say this came as a shock to young Kaneki Ken is an understatement, he had not expected to see her, least of all here, wherever here was.

Shaking her awake seemed to be the best course of action, hopefully she could provide some insight as to where they were. Unfortunately she seemed as clueless as him, given that her first words after looking around were…

"WHAT THE FUCK!?"

After giving Touka a moment to calm down and take a moment to consider their situation, from a safe distance, mind you, Kaneki began to speak. "I don't know where we are either but we should probably start moving, we're not going to find much out standing around here"

"Agreed, let's head over that way, it smells like people over there" Touka agreed, walking off towards the smell of people, not even looking at Kaneki.

"Right" he sighed out as he began to follow after his friend.

After about 3 hours of walking in silence, the pair of ghouls came across what they were looking for, a city. But this city was different from any city that either of them had ever seen, it was old, as if they had stepped back in time. The houses looked Tudor, or at least mock-Tudor, the people were dressed in plain-simple clothing. Seeing this, Kaneki looked at his and Touka's current clothing, he was wearing his black fitted body suit with cutouts that he wore when fighting, while Touka was wearing her Anteiku uniform. Any way you looked at it, they would stick out like sore thumbs, and wearing their masks certainly wouldn't help.

"Wait here, I'll go grab us some clothes" Kaneki spoke calmly as he began to walk towards the city until he felt something tugging on the back of his clothes…

"You mean you're going to leave me here while you go and steal some clothes?" Touka spoke calmly, but she was clearly irritated

Kaneki sighed "You're right, that is what I want to do, but you're not going to let me do that, are you?"

"No chance, if you're going, so am I" Touka stated matter of factly

"Fine, try to keep up" he began to walk ahead

"Who do you think you're talking to, Bakaneki?" Touka spat out as she followed him

The pair of ghouls ran through the city, grabbing what clothes they could carry and continued running, Touka running ahead by a few metres, eager to show how capable she was, with Kaneki following, making sure he didn't lose her. They ended up being chased by a group of soldiers that were flying through the skies with wires, it was certainly an interesting sight to behold. It took fifteen minutes of running for the two ghouls to lose their pursuers, hiding out in an alley, they could finally take stock of their 'loot'. They had both picked pretty similar stuff; a pair of plain black trousers and a white shirt, however Kaneki picked up a book as well titled "The History Of The Walls" Apparently wherever they were didn't have ghouls eating them, but giant naked monsters called titans.

"These titans don't sound like ghouls" Touka observed as she read through the book

"Yeah, they don't mention having kagune's and I don't think I've heard of any ghouls over 6ft tall let alone 15 metres"

"But it's quite possible that we are similar, after all the CCG described ghouls as cannibalistic monsters incapable of any emotion"

"If that's the case, we should investigate"

"How do you propose we do that?"

"How do you think? We join the military"

"Isn't that rather risky?" Touka doubted Kaneki's plan

"Not really, the military is on guard for titans, not ghouls"

And so the pair of ghouls went and signed up for the military, to join the 104th training corps.