[ Cue a bit of a disbelieving look on Kaneki's face, though it didn't last long and tapered off into one of a muted curiosity of sorts. Yes, perhaps people would naturally take it as demons don't exist and wouldn't believe such a outlandish claim, but what reason would this boy have to lie about that when he told people?

It didn't seem at all like something done for a cheap laugh, either. ]

...I wouldn't exactly call it stupidity, but more that people would prefer to live in ignorant bliss than accept the truth about what's new, confusing and scary to them.

[ Himself included. Mainly in when he became what he was now, he'd denied it left and right and starved himself to the point he nearly attacked his best friend which would have absolutely destroyed him. ]

That's probably why they don't believe you, and why most just won't say anything about it at all.

[ Oh, keep trying, Shuu. You're lucky if you get Kaneki to state outright what he is. ]