Chapter Summaries

Nagai Kei tried to escape Nishio Nishiki, an A-class Ghoul, and discovered that his powerful Ibm could protect him even though he could not control it. As Nishio prepared to attack again, a young man in gold-rimmed glasses arrived and called him out for failing to defeat a newborn Ajin.

• Nagai Kei tried to negotiate with Nishio Nishiki, then tricked him with a false shout about the police and ran.
• Nagai Kei threw crushed, pungent fruit at Nishio Nishiki, burning his eyes, but Nishio caught up and slashed Nagai's calf with his Tail Kagune.
• Nishio Nishiki was thrown into a tree by Nagai Kei's Ibm, which appeared despite Nagai's inability to control it.
• Nishio Nishiki stood back up and declared he would not fall for the same trick twice, while Nagai shouted again for the police.
• A young man in gold-rimmed glasses approached and mocked Nishio Nishiki for repeatedly failing to deal with a newborn Ajin.

Xu Yue confronted Nishio Nishiki over Nagai Kei and recruited both of them into his service. He killed Nagai Kei to restore his badly injured leg, leaving Nishio Nishiki stunned as Nagai Kei regenerated.

• Nishio Nishiki recognized Xu Yue as Kamishiro Rize’s lover and warned him not to take Nagai Kei away, while Xu Yue said he had come to save Nagai Kei.
• Xu Yue revealed he had followed them and offered Nishio Nishiki two choices: work for him or die.
• Xu Yue identified himself as the FBI director and pressed a Quinque to Nishio Nishiki’s neck, forcing him to agree to work for him.
• Nagai Kei asked Xu Yue to clear his wanted status, and Xu Yue said he would need to prove his value before he agreed to pressure the authorities.
• Xu Yue killed Nagai Kei to heal his injured leg, and Nagai Kei regenerated before Xu Yue and Nishio Nishiki.

Xu Yue recruited Nagai Kei and Nishio Nishiki as partners, then learned that Kaneki’s surgery had succeeded and turned him into a one-eyed ghoul. The chapter ended with Xu Yue planning to let Kaneki discover his need for human food on his own, while promising Kamishiro Rize a feast.

• Xu Yue explained Nagai Kei’s Ajin abilities and assigned him and Nishio Nishiki to work together, with Nishio protecting Nagai and Nagai supplying his food.
• Xu Yue brought Nagai Kei and Nishio Nishiki back to a safe house in Dongjing after learning from Doctor Kanou that Kaneki’s operation had succeeded.
• Kaneki woke from surgery feeling unusually well, and Hideyoshi Nagachika visited him and expressed relief that he had survived the accident.
• Kamishiro Rize asked Xu Yue whether he would visit Kaneki, and Xu Yue said he would wait for Kaneki to seek him out after discovering his new dietary needs.
• Xu Yue promised to treat Kamishiro Rize to a feast as her reward for guarding Kaneki.

Touka Kirishima left Anteiku to hunt and found Kaneki grieving beside a corpse. Kaneki had learned that Ghoul organs transplanted to save his life made him unable to eat ordinary food, and Touka realized his scent had changed.

• Touka Kirishima complained to Yoshimura about Xu Yue and Kamishiro Rize, then took leave to hunt.
• Touka headed beneath a bridge after smelling food and found a corpse and a crying figure.
• Touka recognized the figure as Kaneki and told him to leave if he did not want to die.
• Kaneki recalled learning from Doctor Kanou that he had received Ghoul organs and could no longer eat ordinary food.
• Touka noticed that Kaneki's scent had changed as he sat beside the corpse.

Touka brought the newly transformed Kaneki to Anteiku, where Xu Yue claimed him as an employee and took him to Shōei Publishing. There, Xu Yue summoned Shioya Shunji to receive an assignment.

• Touka recognized Kaneki as a One-Eyed Ghoul and force-fed him when he refused to eat.
• At Anteiku, Touka told Yoshimura that Kaneki was a One-Eyed, and Xu Yue insisted Kaneki was already his employee.
• Kaneki learned that Kamishiro Rize was a Ghoul and decided to intern at Xu Yue's publishing house.
• Xu Yue took Kaneki and Kamishiro Rize to Shōei Publishing, where staff discussed Xu Yue and Shioya Shunji.
• Xu Yue introduced Kamishiro Rize as his secretary and Kaneki as his intern, then asked staff to summon Shioya Shunji for an assignment.

Xu Yue assigned Kaneki as an intern editor under Shioya Shunji and brought him and Kamishiro Rize to meet Takatsuki Sen. Sen recognized that Rize was a Ghoul and Kaneki was One-eyed, and grew curious about Xu Yue’s identity.

• Xu Yue appointed Kaneki as Shioya Shunji’s intern editor, and Shioya reluctantly accepted.
• Kamishiro Rize asked to meet Takatsuki Sen, and Xu Yue arranged for her and Kaneki to visit.
• Shioya contacted Takatsuki Sen, confirmed she was available, and led the group to her.
• Takatsuki Sen recognized Rize as a Ghoul and Kaneki as One-eyed, then wondered whether Xu Yue was an ordinary human.

Xu Yue used enhanced bait to lure Takatsuki Sen into revealing her appetite for it, then learned of a mysterious high-energy discovery beneath Antarctica. He put his Parasite plans on hold to prepare for a trip there and decided to target A first.

• After Xu Yue and Kamishiro Rize left Takatsuki Sen's home, Takatsuki Sen decided to investigate Xu Yue because she suspected he had noticed her secret.
• Xu Yue coated Kamishiro Rize in powerful bait and left her on a hotel balcony while he showered.
• Takatsuki Sen, disguised as Eto, broke in, restrained Kamishiro Rize, and consumed all the bait before fleeing.
• Takatsuki Sen realized Xu Yue had deliberately baited her, but admitted she could not resist the scent and wondered what he wanted.
• Xu Yue received news of a high-energy reaction and a pyramid-like structure beneath Antarctica, prompting him to plan a trip connected to the Predator storyline.
• Xu Yue decided to kill A before the trip and planned to bring trained test subjects and Nagai Kei to test Facehuggers.

Shinichi and Miggy sensed another Parasite nearby and went to investigate, while Xu Yue confronted a dog-host Parasite and tried to claim it as his pet. Shinichi arrived to find the dog Parasite beside several dead strays, with Xu Yue and the unusual dog together in the alley.

• Miggy sensed another Parasite and warned Shinichi that it might have detected him, so Shinichi decided to leave home and find it.
• Xu Yue encountered a dog-host Parasite feeding on stray dogs and said it would have to compensate him by becoming his pet.
• The dog Parasite rejected Xu Yue’s demand and became hostile.
• Miggy sensed intense signals from the fight, then said the other Parasite was still alive and was likely feeding.
• Shinichi hurried to the alley and saw Xu Yue with the wagging dog Parasite beside the dead stray dogs.

Xu Yue subdued a Parasitic Dog and confronted Shinichi and Miggy, then forced Miggy to accept a task in exchange for the chance to atone through good deeds. Xu Yue sent Shinichi and Miggy to seek out other Parasites so he could later harvest them.

• Xu Yue demonstrated his control over the Parasitic Dog, and Miggy realized the dog—not Xu Yue—was the other Parasite it had sensed.
• Miggy and the Parasitic Dog clashed, but Xu Yue punched Shinichi and made Miggy withdraw to protect him.
• Xu Yue explained that he wanted Miggy and Shinichi to make amends by doing good deeds, and Miggy asked about his purpose and plans.
• Xu Yue sent Shinichi to locate other Parasites, while the Parasitic Dog questioned whether he could complete the task alone.
• Xu Yue trusted Shinichi and Miggy to find and mark Parasites, intending to harvest them when he returned.

Xu Yue brought Nagai Kei, Johnson, Rex, and Powell aboard a research vessel bound for Antarctica, where they planned to investigate an anomaly linked to extraterrestrial civilization. The expedition’s owner, Charles Villand, welcomed them, and Xu Yue began filming the journey.

• Powell told Rex that a team sent to scout Dinosaur Island had been wiped out, and Rex ordered him to share the island intelligence and keep their operation confidential.
• Xu Yue explained that he had chosen Nagai Kei for reconnaissance because his immortality made him useful in dangerous situations, and said he had also selected three local combat personnel.
• Johnson brought Rex and Powell to meet Xu Yue at Dongjing Harbor, and Xu Yue said he would rely on them during the operation.
• The research vessel arrived, and Xu Yue, Nagai Kei, Johnson, Rex, and Powell boarded it.
• Charles Villand welcomed the group and explained that he had organized the expedition after his satellite detected an anomaly in Antarctica; Xu Yue assembled his camera and began filming him.

Xu Yue traveled with Charles and the expedition toward the Antarctic ruins while Rex and Powell tried to win his favor without revealing themselves. The research vessel reached the destination and the group went ashore at the expedition’s camp near an abandoned whaling station.

• Rex and Powell suspected Xu Yue was the elusive Lord Director and decided to prove their usefulness to him.
• Charles explained that he had hired an excavation team and brought heavily armed security guards to the site.
• When mercenaries mocked Xu Yue, Rex and Powell defended him, but Xu Yue warned them not to expose themselves, and the mercenaries beat and dragged them away.
• The research vessel reached a natural harbor in Antarctica, where the expedition saw the brightly lit camp built at an abandoned whaling station.
• Rex and Powell disembarked in the freezing weather, endured their bruises, and believed Xu Yue had begun smiling at them more often.

Three Predators activated an abandoned Earth trial site and opened a passage through the Antarctic ice, while Xu Yue’s expedition discovered the opening and descended into the ruins. Nagai Kei scouted a metallic pyramid and its murals, leaving Charles’s team ready to investigate their meaning.

• Three Predators used a laser to pierce the Antarctic ice above their trial grounds and flew invisibly toward the opening.
• Charles, Xu Yue, and the expedition team found the new passage, and Xu Yue identified it as evidence of functioning extraterrestrial ruins.
• Xu Yue sent Nagai Kei down first, where he scouted a route to the ruins and reported no immediate danger or poisonous gas.
• Xu Yue revealed that Nagai Kei was an Ajin, exciting Rex and Powell with the prospect of learning about Ajin as well as the ruins.
• The expedition descended to a bronze-like metallic pyramid, where Nagai Kei showed them murals depicting battles against a beast.

Xu Yue’s group discovered that the Aztec ruin held an extraterrestrial trial and split up to explore its treasure and sacrificial routes. As the two teams went separate ways, the thawing Alien Queen began laying eggs beneath the ruin.

• An archaeologist deciphered murals describing extraterrestrials, chest-bursting monsters, and trials that ended in either victory or total destruction.
• Rex and Powell anticipated danger and considered using an attack to eliminate mercenaries, while Lex urged the group to leave and Charles insisted on continuing.
• The group entered the ruin, which rearranged its passages, and the archaeologist identified two routes that changed every thirteen minutes.
• Charles divided the group between the treasure and sacrificial routes, while Xu Yue, Nagai Kei, Rex, and Powell joined the sacrificial team and One-Eye Johnson joined Charles’s team.
• The Alien Queen awakened as the ice thawed and began laying more eggs in response to the people entering the ruin.

Xu Yue’s group reached a chamber filled with treasure, where a hallucinogenic drug knocked everyone unconscious except Xu Yue. He destroyed the evidence of his role in incapacitating them, preparing the group for the Facehuggers.

• Rex and Powell challenged the mercenaries, but Powell quickly prostrated himself when they armed themselves and surrounded him.
• Xu Yue’s group reached a chamber filled with gold and jewelry, and the mercenaries began greedily stuffing treasure into their clothes.
• Rex warned Xu Yue that something was wrong, and Xu Yue identified a colorless, odorless hallucinogenic gas.
• The gas incapacitated Nagai Kei, Powell, Rex, and the mercenaries, while Xu Yue remained conscious.
• Xu Yue retrieved and destroyed the vial he had used to incapacitate the group so the Facehuggers could parasitize them more easily.

Xu Yue watched the Alien eggs hatch, tested a Facehugger on Nagai Kei, and discovered that a young Alien could absorb Ajin traits. As the ruins opened and the Predators entered the trial, Xu Yue carried Nagai Kei and two wounded Reincarnators into the passages to turn the area into an Alien nursery.

• Xu Yue caught a Facehugger and forced it to attach to Nagai Kei as the eggs and hidden Facehuggers hatched and chose hosts.
• The ruins rotated and opened eight passages, signaling that the Predators' trial had begun after the Shoulder Cannons were taken.
• Three Predators rushed into the whaling station camp, killed the mercenaries who attacked them, and entered the passages to retrieve their weapons.
• Xu Yue killed a young Alien repeatedly and observed that it revived with Ajin traits, then confirmed it was not a queen.
• Xu Yue treated the two chest-wounded Reincarnators with Tiger-Wolf Drug and carried them, along with Nagai Kei's corpse, into a passage to make a nursery.

Xu Yue explained that monsters had parasitized the expedition team and kept Nagai Kei wary with a pointed warning. Elsewhere, Johnson’s team encountered fast, acid-blooded trial monsters, revealing how dangerous the restarted ruin was.

• Xu Yue told the recovering Powell and Rex that monsters had emerged from their bodies, and Nagai Kei inferred that Xu Yue had orchestrated the expedition’s dangers.
• Xu Yue praised Nagai Kei’s perceptiveness, while Nagai Kei thanked him and concealed his fear of being used as an incubator.
• Johnson stopped his team near the treasure site after sensing creatures moving overhead, and the soldiers formed a defensive line.
• Johnson pinned a lurking Alien to the wall with his Kagune, but its corrosive green blood dissolved the weapon and damaged the surrounding surfaces.
• Johnson ordered the soldiers to fire, and their rifles killed the Alien only after it absorbed a barrage that left the team alarmed.

Johnson’s group faced attacks from the Aliens and the armed Predators as the shifting ruin forced them into a battle, while Xu Yue’s team encountered an Alien of their own. The chapter left both groups in grave danger, with Johnson’s side confronting an apparently immortal Alien and worrying about what the Director’s team had suffered.

• Johnson split the humans into two groups to prepare for the ruin’s transformation, but a Predator’s Plasma Caster killed two mercenaries and the Predators attacked to recover their weapons.
• The ruin shifted as the Aliens attacked both sides, while Xu Yue’s group heard the gunfire and hurried toward it.
• An Alien ambushed Xu Yue’s group, and Rex and Powell wounded it with their Kagune before its acidic blood badly corroded them.
• Xu Yue injected Rex and Powell with emergency treatment, and they stabilized despite their severe wounds.
• Johnson’s group and the Predators joined forces against an Alien that repeatedly resurrected and had already killed a Predator; Charles urged the archaeologist to return the Predators’ weapon.

Lex persuaded the Predators to cooperate with the humans, but one was killed by an Alien with a Kagune. As Johnson's group struggled to hold their position, Xu Yue arrived with three companions and the Aliens launched a concentrated attack against them.

• Lex offered the Predators the weapons and urged them to cooperate, and the two agreed after recognizing the humans' strength.
• An Alien with a Kagune ambushed and killed one Predator, leaving the other to fire into the shadows.
• Johnson urged the survivors to break through and find the Director, and Charles agreed to the plan.
• Xu Yue emerged with Nagai Kei, Rex, and Powell, drawing the Aliens' attention away from the survivors on the elevated platform.
• Johnson protected the last Predator from three Kagune tails, but the revived Alien exploited the opening and charged Xu Yue's group.
• Rex and Powell activated their Kagune to shield Xu Yue as the group faced the undying Alien, ordinary Aliens, and two Kagune-bearing Aliens.

Xu Yue trapped the immortal Ajin Alien and led Johnson and the young Predator to drive off two special Aliens, while Rex and Powell endured the ordinary Aliens’ assault. The group prepared to hunt down the remaining Aliens, and Xu Yue considered trying to control the Alien Queen.

• Xu Yue severed the Ajin Alien’s limbs and tail, then crushed it with a boulder that trapped it when it regenerated.
• After seeing Xu Yue’s strength, Rex and Powell kept the ordinary Aliens occupied while Xu Yue, Johnson, and the young Predator went after two special Aliens.
• The special Aliens fled through another passage, and Xu Yue later returned as the ordinary Aliens withdrew from Rex and Powell.
• Johnson worried that the trapped Ajin Alien might control its Ibm, but Xu Yue confirmed it could and said they could freeze it permanently in Antarctica.
• Xu Yue said the team should kill the remaining Aliens, noting that only about a dozen remained, and considered controlling the Alien Queen to advance his analysis.

Xu Yue led the group toward the Alien Queen, while assuring them she was a weak, egg-laying creature. The Aliens attacked the Queen to free her from her chains, and when the group took up position to face the approaching threat, the Queen emerged from the dust nearly unharmed.

• Xu Yue persuaded the reluctant mercenary captain to continue toward the Queen, saying the restrained immortal monster could be dealt with later.
• The group followed the hatchery route, and Xu Yue and the archaeologists traced the Queen's location and searched for an entrance to the core.
• The Aliens gathered around the Queen and attacked her shell, causing her blood to corrode the chains binding her.
• Xu Yue claimed the Queen had little combat ability, and the Predator silently recognized that she was actually a formidable fighter.
• When tremors signaled an approaching threat, Xu Yue chose a wider chamber as a battlefield and the Predator fired his shoulder cannon into the passage.
• The Alien Queen emerged from the dust with only a few wounds, which quickly stopped bleeding as her corrosive blood coated her body.