Chapter Summaries

Louis struggled to survive in Ward 20 while searching for the main cast, then followed Rize Kamishiro to Anteiku and identified Ken Kaneki. After leaving the café, he considered how to gain the cast’s trust, and the system suggested entrapment as another way to get involved.

• Louis stole money, checked his improved combat status, and defeated a middle-aged ghoul who attacked him in an alley.
• The system directed Louis to an S-rank battle location, but he refused to approach it after learning Rize Kamishiro might be involved.
• Louis recognized Rize on the street and followed her to Anteiku, where he also spotted Hideyoshi Nagachika and identified Touka Kirishima and Ken Kaneki.
• Louis left Anteiku without interrupting Kaneki and Rize, then asked the system about Nishiki Nishio’s strength.
• The system suggested entrapment as a way for Louis to get involved without openly picking a fight.

Louis defeated a B-rank ghoul, then barely escaped Rize Kamishiro when she attacked him and the system warned that Furuta Nimura was approaching. After asking whether he could change the plot, Louis heard the system claim nothing had changed and turned back toward the alley.

• Louis defeated a B-rank ghoul and prepared to leave the feeding ground.
• Rize Kamishiro appeared, questioned how Louis knew she was a ghoul, and attacked him.
• Louis used ice to knock Rize into the air, stabbed her, and escaped into a crowd.
• The system warned Louis that SSS-rank Furuta Nimura was rapidly approaching, so Louis fled and masked the smell of blood.
• Louis asked whether he could change the plot, and the system said that nothing had changed.
• Louis abruptly stopped and turned to look back toward the alley.

Louis found Ken Kaneki after he had turned into a ghoul and intervened when Nishiki Nishio attacked him, hoping to earn a place at Anteiku. Touka Kirishima defeated Nishiki, while Kaneki stayed beside the apparently wounded Louis, leaving Louis to wait and see whether Touka would take him in.

• Louis followed Kaneki into an alley, where Nishiki killed the ghoul Kazuo and prepared to attack Kaneki.
• Touka Kirishima confronted Louis on a rooftop, but Louis dropped into the alley to stop Nishiki from crushing Kaneki’s head.
• Louis fought Nishiki with ice weapons, injuring him before Nishiki knocked Louis down and threatened to kill him.
• Touka intervened, identified herself as an Anteiku ghoul, and fought Nishiki while Louis pretended to be incapacitated.
• Kaneki’s favorability toward Louis increased as Kaneki apologized for nearly eating him, and Nishiki fled after taking flesh from a nearby corpse.

After Touka brought Ken Kaneki and Louis to Anteiku, the manager offered Kaneki coffee and human flesh to help him adjust to being a ghoul. Once Kaneki left, the manager stayed behind with Louis, preparing to speak with him privately.

• Louis woke after Touka defeated Nishiki Nishio and watched Touka confront Ken Kaneki over his refusal to eat human flesh.
• Touka threatened Louis, but he convinced her he was an outcast hunted by both humans and ghouls; Yoshimura Kuzen stopped her from killing him and took both boys to Anteiku.
• At Anteiku, Louis chilled his coffee with his ability, while the manager explained that coffee was a delicacy ghouls could enjoy and offered Kaneki human jerky for sustenance.
• After Kaneki left, the manager announced that he and Louis could talk properly, making Louis fear what was coming.

Louis settled into Anteiku after the manager accepted his account, while the manager explained to Touka why Louis’s compassion gave him hope for human-ghoul coexistence. Louis woke from a dream of his family, ate breakfast, and learned that Touka was heading to school.

• Louis changed into clean clothes and reflected on the manager letting him stay at Anteiku.
• Touka questioned the manager’s decision, and he described how Louis had survived, spared ghouls, and saved a starving ghoul girl.
• The manager suggested that Louis and Kaneki could represent an opportunity for humans and ghouls to coexist, then asked Touka about the Sunlit Garden and half-humans.
• Louis dreamed of his family before the manager woke him with sandwiches.
• Touka asked Louis what sandwiches tasted like, hit him when he praised them, and left for school.

Louis reviewed his improving combat skills and decided to try saving the Fueguchi Family, while avoiding Kaneki's fight with Nishiki Nishio. After Kaneki and Hideyoshi returned wounded, Louis helped clean Hide's injuries and briefly upset Touka before she forgave him.

• Louis checked his stats and affinity panel, then decided he would try to save the Fueguchi Family.
• Louis asked Yoshimura for work at the café and spent his time cleaning and practicing crystal control.
• After Kaneki and Hideyoshi returned covered in blood, Yoshimura took Kaneki away while Louis and Touka tended to Hide.
• Louis offered to bandage Hide because he was human, upsetting Touka and lowering her affinity.
• Louis apologized and carefully treated Hide's wounds, and Touka forgave him before leaving with a teasing blow to his head.
• Touka's affinity toward Louis rose to 13.

Louis settled into working at Anteiku with Kaneki and told him stories of ghoul-human relationships, including Nishiki Nishio and his human girlfriend. The chapter ended with Touka striking Louis with her schoolbag after his claim that only male ghouls could fall in love with humans.

• Louis offered to help Touka, who brushed him off but gained affection for him.
• Louis overheard Kaneki telling the manager he could not stay near Hide, and the manager invited Kaneki to join Anteiku.
• Louis introduced himself to Hide and promised to help him, Kaneki, and the others.
• After several days, Louis and Kaneki began serving customers at Anteiku while they continued learning to make coffee.
• Louis told Kaneki about two ghoul-human couples, then revealed that one ghoul was Nishiki Nishio.
• Louis joked that only male ghouls could love humans, and Touka hit him with her schoolbag.

Kureo Mado and Kōtarō Amon investigated suspicious ghoul activity in Ward 20 as the CCG focused on Gluttony, Jason, and a mysterious vagrant. At Anteiku, Louis made a mask from ice to conceal his identity, while Touka agreed to take Ken Kaneki to get a mask.

• Kōtarō Amon told Kureo Mado about a suspected Gluttony attack, a witness who saw someone resembling Jason, and a mysterious vagrant linked to several ghoul attacks.
• Kureo Mado decided to wait for a detailed police report on the vagrant while noting that the CCG had come to Ward 20 because of the ghouls’ activity.
• Manager Yoshimura told Louis, Touka, and Ken Kaneki that two Ghoul Investigators had arrived in Ward 20 and someone had already been killed.
• Louis covered his face with a mask of hard blue ice that altered his voice and could only be removed by him or by tearing off his face.
• Touka told Ken Kaneki to meet her at the station at two thirty the next afternoon, threatening to kill him if he was late.

Louis tried to befriend Hinami after the manager urged him to speak with her, then spent an uncomfortable afternoon serving a clingy ghoul customer. The customer ended by inviting Louis to visit her home.

• Manager Yoshimura asked Louis to greet Hinami, and Louis accidentally walked in while she was eating before returning with coffee to apologize.
• Louis introduced himself and offered to help Hinami, but she remained nervous and barely spoke to him.
• Touka told Louis she had been listening outside Hinami’s door and said his visit had gone reasonably well.
• Louis considered warning Hinami’s mother about the danger she might face, but he could not think of a way to change what was coming.
• While Kaneki and Touka went to have masks made, Louis served a ghoul woman who flirted with him and invited him to her home.

Louis went with Big Madam to her mansion, where she drugged his coffee and attacked him after he exposed her intentions. Though he analyzed her fighting style, his system judged his chance of victory to be zero.

• Koma agreed to let Big Madam take Louis to her mansion, despite Louis's hesitation.
• Big Madam offered Louis work and served him coffee, but Louis's system detected sedatives in the drink.
• Louis drank the coffee, refused her offer, and accused her of drugging him and preying on humans.
• Big Madam revealed her kakugan and kagune, then attacked Louis after he insulted her.
• Louis pierced Big Madam's palm with an ice dagger, but her kagune sent him through a wall and injured his arms.
• Louis got back to his feet, analyzed Big Madam's abilities, and saw that his chance of victory was zero.

At Anteiku, Touka decided to rescue Louis as his friend while Louis fought Big Madam at her estate. After their battle ended in a stalemate, Louis tried to leave but was ambushed by a powerful stranger.

• Touka told Koma that she would help rescue Louis because she considered him her friend.
• Louis dodged Big Madam’s attacks and argued that the manager still believed humans and Ghouls might live together peacefully.
• Louis warned Big Madam that their fight could attract the White Doves and expose them, and she eventually stopped fighting and returned to her villa.
• Louis covered his wounds with ice and headed out of the estate, but a stranger stopped his Ice Blade with two fingers.

Louis returned to Anteiku with Irimi Kyouko after surviving Big Madam’s test, and explained his unusual abilities and fighting skills to Touka Kirishima and Ken Kaneki by claiming he came from another world. The story left off with Hinami Fueguchi unexpectedly knocking on his bedroom door the next day.

• Irimi Kyouko introduced herself to Louis, showed him that Anteiku had sent her to protect him, and learned that he had frozen the drugged coffee inside his body.
• Irimi Kyouko told Louis that Anteiku’s members had mixed opinions about letting him stay and described the strengths and unknown origins she had observed in him.
• Irimi Kyouko and Louis returned to Anteiku, where Ken Kaneki, Touka Kirishima, and Enji Koma were waiting.
• Louis treated his injuries and showed Touka Kirishima and Ken Kaneki his crystal ability, then claimed he had come from another world and served in a Special Ability Army.
• Touka Kirishima called Louis a lunatic and left, while Ken Kaneki listened intently to his story.
• The next day, Hinami Fueguchi, who had previously ignored Louis, knocked on his bedroom door.

Louis told Hinami stories and helped her practice writing, bringing them closer as friends. Shuu Tsukiyama arrived and became fascinated by Kaneki, who left with him, while Louis noticed Hinami’s formidable ghoul potential.

• Louis told Hinami stories about adventures and romance, and she eagerly asked what happened to the characters.
• Louis explained the meaning of “happily ever after” as Hinami showed him the words she had written.
• Shuu Tsukiyama entered Anteiku, inspected Louis, and invited him for coffee, but Louis refused.
• Shuu turned his attention to Kaneki, who eagerly went downstairs with him.
• Louis checked Hinami’s status and discovered she was an S-Rank ghoul with A-Rank combat ability.

Louis settled into life at Anteiku and learned about Yoshimura’s past with the V Organization, including the loss of his wife and his separation from his daughter, Eto. Yoshimura asked Louis to save Eto if they met, and Louis urged him not to give up hope.

• Louis returned to Anteiku after finding nowhere he wanted to go, then helped Irimi in the café and discussed training with Yomo.
• Two Tsukiyama family butlers brought an unconscious Ken Kaneki to Anteiku, explaining that their master had saved him after an attack; the staff agreed to limit Tsukiyama’s contact with Kaneki.
• Louis learned that the ghouls at Anteiku found his scent unusual and reacted strongly whenever he cut himself in the kitchen.
• After Louis overheard an unknown voice give Yoshimura a final warning, Yoshimura told him about serving the V Organization and falling in love with the human Yuna.
• Yoshimura explained that V ordered him to kill Yuna and their daughter, Eto; after Yuna died, he entrusted Eto to Yoshino and later protected her from the shadows.
• Yoshimura asked Louis to save Eto if they met, and Louis promised to do what he could while asking Yoshimura not to give up hope.

Yoriko visited Touka at Anteiku and brought food, which Louis ate after Touka forced him to help. Later, Louis sparred with Renji Yomo and learned how large the gap in their speed was, leaving him considering how to use his ice abilities more fully.

• Yoriko arrived at Anteiku with food for Touka and mistook Kaneki’s presence for a romantic situation.
• Touka made Louis taste Yoriko’s food and write a review, but he devoured the whole bowl because it was delicious.
• Louis sparred with Renji Yomo while Kaneki watched, and Yomo revealed his ukaku kagune to intensify the fight.
• Louis used ice crystals to dodge and counter Yomo, but Yomo vanished behind him and knocked him to the ground.
• Yomo praised Louis’s polished combat skills but noted that his speed and strength were limited, prompting Louis to consider the full potential of his ice control.

Louis encouraged Ken Kaneki to grow stronger, then watched him defeat a group of ghouls attacking Nishiki Nishio. Back at Anteiku, Louis cheered up Hinami by making her a small ice figure and agreed to make one of her father from her description.

• Louis told Ken Kaneki that strength could help him protect himself and those he cared about.
• Louis and Ken Kaneki found Nishiki Nishio beaten in an alley, where several ghouls then tried to attack Louis.
• Louis pushed Ken Kaneki into the fight, and Kaneki knocked down one ghoul, forcing the others to flee.
• Ken Kaneki helped Nishiki Nishio, while Louis returned to Anteiku to avoid tempting the starving ghoul.
• Louis visited Hinami at Ryouko Fueguchi's request and made her a lifelike ice figure of herself.
• Hinami asked Louis to make an ice figure of her father, and he asked her to describe him.

After learning that Nishiki Nishio needed human flesh to heal, Ken Kaneki tried to get help at Anteiku, but a letter revealed that Kimi Nishino had been captured by Shuu Tsukiyama. Touka and Louis followed Kaneki toward a midnight meeting at the Church.

• Kimi Nishino worried that Ken Kaneki might be unable to help Nishiki Nishio, then a masked man abducted her.
• Ken Kaneki tried to open Anteiku's locked food cabinet for human flesh to treat Nishiki's injuries.
• Louis found Touka in the kitchen and told her that Nishiki had been badly injured.
• Ken Kaneki received a letter from Shuu Tsukiyama saying Kimi Nishino had been captured and summoning him to the Church at midnight.
• Touka changed and joined Louis in following Ken Kaneki.

Kaneki and Nishiki went to the church to rescue Kimi, where Tsukiyama attacked them and Touka. Louis finally joined the fight, launching an ambush that left Tsukiyama bleeding and off balance as Louis’s Ice Blade struck from the front.

• Kaneki and Nishiki left the coffee shop to rescue Kimi, while Touka and Louis followed them to the church.
• Tsukiyama revealed his plan to make Kaneki eat Kimi before eating Kaneki, then easily knocked Nishiki and Kaneki aside.
• Touka attacked Tsukiyama, but he pierced her abdomen and turned toward Kimi.
• Touka called out to Louis, who attacked Tsukiyama with ice spikes and forced him into the air.
• Louis sent crystal shards into Tsukiyama’s back, then slashed at him with an Ice Blade.

Louis fought Shuu Tsukiyama in the Church, but Tsukiyama discovered Louis was human and became fixated on eating him alongside Kaneki. As Tsukiyama turned toward Kimi, Louis used Nishiki Nishio to create an opening for a counterattack.

• Louis ambushed Shuu Tsukiyama with ice, wounding his left arm while Tsukiyama severed Louis's right arm.
• Tsukiyama tasted Louis's blood, recognized him as human, and declared that feeding him to Kaneki would make the ultimate gourmet delight.
• Louis struggled to evade Tsukiyama's relentless attacks and stopped himself from charging into a trap when Tsukiyama turned toward Kimi.
• Louis shouted that Tsukiyama was about to eat Nishiki Nishio's wife, rousing Nishiki and throwing him at the Gourmet.
• Tsukiyama impaled Nishiki Nishio, allowing Louis to emerge from behind the blood and slash at Tsukiyama's chest.

Touka defeated Shuu Tsukiyama in the church, then spared Kimi Nishino after seeing Nishiki Nishio's resolve to protect her. Back at Anteiku, Louis reflected on the battle and his limits, and his strength rose from A to A+.

• Touka blasted Tsukiyama away, then overwhelmed him with crystal projectiles and killed him after he lunged for the unconscious Kimi.
• Touka demanded that Nishiki Nishio kill Kimi because she knew what they were, but relented when Nishiki begged to protect her and agreed to take them to Anteiku.
• Louis joked with Touka and Kaneki on the way back, then examined his lingering injuries and concluded that life-threatening battles could draw out his potential.
• Louis considered joining Aogiri Tree to grow stronger but decided he needed to become powerful enough to leave Anteiku's protection first.
• Louis fell asleep after bathing, and the system reported that his overall combat power had increased from A to A+.