If none of those were around, the merchant will bring in some. [ like he did in ellethia. His men were carrying around a dead body for Kaneki, given that he knows he can't afford to have Kaneki hungry because he will either kill or be killed for being hungry.

Ken knows Five is trying to ask the consequences of Kaneki's hunger. He knows he is trying to gauge at what would happen if Kaneki went out of control - but if he wants to ask that, he has to be more direct in his questions. Kaneki is giving him that chance, one chance he did not need to give back home. ]

You can believe whatever you wish. If you wish to think I'm here to eat you all, that is your prerogative. But I simply want to go home, where I do not have to explain my existence or the hunger it brings. [ and he doesn't have to do tasks like following a bunch of drunks and addicts, who think sacrificing people to foxes will fix things. Kaneki had decided to leave this sort of life behind, and after he made that decision, he is brought in to this forsaken place.

A place where he can't even die properly.

He is tired. ]