Chapter Summaries

Louis and Banjō reunited with Tsukiyama’s group after Kaneki collapsed, and Louis discovered that Tsukiyama had been tempted to keep Kaneki for himself. As they tried to escape before Ghoul Investigator reinforcements arrived, eight approaching red markers suggested they were about to be intercepted.

• Louis asked Banjō to keep Nashiro alive while they moved toward the fight.
• Kaneki collapsed after forcing out his kagune, and Tsukiyama recognized the Ice Spikes in his wounds as part of a delicacy he had long desired.
• Tsukiyama prepared to kill Sante and Jiro so he could take Kaneki, but Banjō arrived and interrupted him.
• Louis and the others regrouped, with Sante carrying the unconscious Kaneki as they left to avoid the Ghoul Investigators.
• Louis spotted five red markers following them and three blocking their route, and stopped as the group’s pursuers closed in.

Louis and his group fought their way through an ambush by bounty hunters, with Louis confronting the SS-Rank ghoul Nico. The battle remained unresolved as Nico countered Louis’s punch with his kagune.

• Louis sensed three enemies ahead and five behind, then assigned Banjō to fight beside him while Tsukiyama and Kurona guarded their rear and Jiro and Sante protected the wounded.
• Louis charged around a corner and pierced one black-robed ghoul with an ice blade, while Banjō and Tsukiyama attacked the others.
• Kurona drove one bounty hunter back with her rinkaku, and Tsukiyama took on another after Banjō was knocked aside.
• Louis recognized his opponent as Nico, an SS-Rank ghoul known by the code name Noro, and punched toward the location of his kakuhou.
• Nico’s kakugan flared as a thick kagune burst from his abdomen and struck Louis’s crystallized fist.

Louis fought Nico while severely injured, then used the cold filling the battlefield to help Kurona ambush him and turn the fight around. As Nico lay dying, Louis noticed his emotions were fading and questioned whether his growing certainty about killing others was right.

• Nico healed his chest and revealed that he had come for Louis's Black Market bounty and wanted to use him as leverage against the woman who had wounded him.
• Tsukiyama heard about the bounty, became furious that someone had put a price on his property, and impaled his opponent.
• Louis recognized that Nico meant Sister Irimi, and the thought triggered a painful crystallization of his injured organs.
• Louis broke Nico's kagune and fought back, while Kurona returned and pierced Nico with rinkaku and ice blades.
• Louis used the cold to freeze Nico's kagune, then pinned and impaled him with ice; Nico cried out that he was Itori's friend before the ice silenced him.
• Louis considered killing Itori too, then questioned the strange certainty and weakening emotions behind that thought.

After defeating Nico, Louis succumbed to his injuries and entrusted Banjō with leading the retreat. As Banjō tried to keep him alive, Kurona Yasuhisa discovered that Louis’s scent stirred a dangerous hunger in her.

• Louis defeated Nico, but his body’s weakness returned as his Elementalization wore off.
• Louis told Banjō to handle things and lead the retreat, then collapsed into Kurona Yasuhisa’s arms.
• Banjō struggled to heal Louis and realized his life energy would not last until they escaped.
• Banjō consumed Nico’s corpse to replenish his strength, then told Kurona Yasuhisa to control herself if she wanted to stay by Louis’s side.
• Kurona Yasuhisa smelled Louis’s exposed wounds and felt an irresistible urge to bite him.

Banjō led the group through the underground laboratory as bounty hunters pursued them, and Kurona helped Tsukiyama survive a powerful ukaku ghoul’s attack. Aboveground, Ito received word of the threat and prepared a response.

• Banjō ordered a retreat, and Kurona led the group through a route she knew while helping carry their injured companions.
• Tsukiyama warned that the bounty hunters were closing in, then turned to shield the group from an ukaku ghoul’s Crystal Spikes and attack.
• Kurona pulled Tsukiyama out of the enemy’s slash, collapsed part of the passage to block the pursuer, and gave him an RC Activator.
• Ito received a radio report that bounty hunters had captured their people and decided to welcome them by killing three and letting two go.

Louis recovered enough to lead Ward 6’s withdrawal while Kurona used a blood crystal to defeat the Bounty Hunters’ leader. Afterward, Louis reassured Kurona that Nashiro would recover.

• Louis woke beside Kaneki and Nashiro, whose wounds Banjō had healed, and gave Kurona a blood crystal to strengthen her.
• Ito Takuhari and the Ward 6 ghouls fought the five Bounty Hunters while the Young Noblewoman subdued another opponent.
• Kurona overwhelmed the ukaku ghoul leading the Bounty Hunters and killed him before her temporary strength faded.
• Louis ordered Ito and the others to withdraw, and the group noticed Kurona kissing her unconscious twin sister, Nashiro.
• Louis told Kurona that he could sense his blood in Nashiro and assured her that everything would be all right.

Louis considered how to recover from losing his arm and prepare for the coming winter while weighing ways to unite ghouls against V and the CCG. He began forming Ice Spikes as he considered exploiting the slower healing of humans and half-humans.

• Louis asked Tsukiyama about V and learned that the secretive organization had many powerful members and likely surpassed any ghoul family or Aogiri Tree in a direct fight.
• Kurona Yasuhisa guarded her unconscious sister Nashiro when Lin brought them clothes, but Kurona’s hostile kakugan stopped Lin from approaching.
• Louis assessed his slow-healing severed arm and considered using Banjō’s kagune, though turning it into a Quinque seemed inhumane and he lacked the means to do so.
• Louis concluded he could not gather enough strength for a direct confrontation and considered persuading the Manager to join Aogiri Tree and working with Eto through their shared goals.
• Louis formed Ice Spikes and considered using the slower healing of CCG and V members to his advantage.

Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa reunited after surviving the battle at Kanou Laboratory and wondered where they could belong. Ken Kaneki woke in Ward 6, where Tsukiyama urged him to ask Louis directly about his suspicions.

• Takizawa and the Ghoul Investigators surveyed the ruined Kanou Laboratory and found Shinohara unconscious, while many ghouls escaped and test subjects were captured.
• Kurona Yasuhisa cared for the recovering Nashiro Yasuhisa, and the sisters agreed that wherever they stayed together could be home.
• Kurona Yasuhisa told Nashiro Yasuhisa that the man who had helped them said they still had a chance.
• Ken Kaneki woke and found Tsukiyama and Jiro keeping watch beside him in Ward 6.
• Ken Kaneki questioned Louis's connection to Kanou's Laboratory, and Tsukiyama encouraged him to speak with Louis directly over coffee.

Kaneki reunited with Hinami and Louis, then confronted Louis about his connection to Dr. Kano and Kaneki’s transformation. Louis denied causing Kaneki’s suffering and revealed that his severed right hand could recover.

• Kaneki entered the living room and reunited with Hinami, who told him how she and the others had settled in Ward 6.
• Kaneki asked Louis whether he was working with Dr. Kano, and Louis admitted that he was.
• Kaneki asked whether Louis was one of Kano’s creations or had helped arrange Kaneki’s accident, and Louis denied both.
• Louis explained that he had met Rize before Kaneki’s transformation and that he had searched for Kano for his own reasons unrelated to Kaneki.
• Kaneki recalled Louis’s severed right hand and apologized, and Louis told him that it could recover.

Louis defended his decision to spare Ward 6 traitors and faced challenges to his leadership after the families learned he was human. He proposed human-ghoul coexistence and began demonstrating a possible solution to ghouls’ food needs.

• Louis explained that the former Ward 6 traitors would fight on the front lines and that anyone who broke his rules would be punished.
• Ito accepted Louis’s decision after the Young Noblewoman spoke to him, and Louis warned that an upcoming operation could cause heavy casualties.
• An elderly representative revealed rumors that Louis was human, and Louis confirmed it while rejecting the idea that humans and ghouls had to remain enemies.
• A young woman from one of the families dismissed coexistence as impossible because ghouls needed human food.
• Louis said a scientist might develop food for ghouls and cut his hand over an Ice Blade, releasing a tempting fragrance that drew the ghouls’ attention.

Louis revealed his unusually enticing blood to Ward 6’s representatives, then challenged the old man’s doubts about his strength after losing an arm. The old man brought three S-Rank Ghouls to test him, while the onlookers discussed Louis’s past feats and the old man began to fear Louis might surpass Mr. Shachi.

• Louis stopped his blood’s scent from spreading after it stirred greed among the ghouls, and the old man said Ward 6 would not harm him but could not let him stay.
• The Young Noblewoman defended Louis as Ward 6’s chosen leader, while the old man questioned whether Louis could still protect the ward with one arm missing.
• Louis challenged the old man and his enforcers to test him in the basement, offering to fight them even with another handicap.
• The old man arranged for three S-Rank Ghouls to face Louis, and Lin watched in a padded coat while Fukai described the Yasuhisa sisters’ strength.
• After hearing that Louis had defeated the sisters and that they had overcome powerful fighters, the old man worried that Louis might be stronger than Mr. Shachi.

Louis defeated three ghouls from the families in Ward 6 with a single burst of ice, winning their cooperation. He urged them to keep his plan for human-ghoul cooperation secret and protect themselves until change came.

• Louis endured the old envoy’s scrutiny as the room grew cold and ice crystals spread across its walls.
• Louis transformed his skin into a crystalline form and struck back as three ghouls attacked from different directions.
• Louis froze and shattered two ghouls’ koukaku, then subdued the ukaku ghoul in his grip.
• The old man accepted that Louis had proven himself and promised to report the fight to his family.
• The young man offered his family’s cooperation with future mobilizations in Ward 6, and Louis released the injured ghoul.
• Louis told Kaneki, Yasuhisa, and the others that ghouls in Ward 6 must keep the plan secret and protect themselves.

Louis warned Kaneki not to let his guard down over Kanou’s experiments, then traveled with Banjō to visit Rize, who was being held in Renji Yomo’s care. The chapter ended with Banjō seeing Rize in a chained, vacant state after she had been tortured into losing her sanity.

• Louis told Kaneki that Kanou’s experiments would sacrifice more people and urged him not to hesitate if stopping Kanou became necessary.
• Louis tried calling the Bandaged Woman but could not reach her, and he worried about his weakened condition and missing arm.
• Louis, Banjō, and Lin drove to the suburbs, where Renji Yomo was waiting to let Banjō visit Rize.
• Renji Yomo led them to a storeroom, where Banjō found Rize chained on the floor, barely conscious and driven by the instinct to eat.

Banjō visited the starving Rize and comforted her, while Louis reflected on love before Yu Fura and another Ghoul Investigator ambushed him and Lin. Yu Fura confronted Louis over his unusual nature and his ties to ghouls, with Lin held at gunpoint.

• Banjō brought flowers to Rize and gently comforted her, and Rize faintly repeated his name.
• Louis told Renji Yomo that his crystalline severed arm seemed to be recovering, though he was unsure whether he was still human.
• Tsukiyama invited Hinami out for coffee, and she agreed after asking to speak with him.
• Louis asked Lin what it felt like to see someone one loved, and she wondered whether he was going to meet someone he loved.
• Yu Fura attacked Louis while a woman pinned Lin down and threatened her with a Quinque-bullet pistol.
• Yu Fura accused Louis of being neither a ghoul nor an ordinary human and demanded to know why he associated with ghouls.

Louis defeated Yu Fura and Shizuri after they confronted him, then faced a choice when bystanders and journalists witnessed the fight. Yu Fura dropped his weapon to talk, and Louis revealed his goal of peaceful coexistence before flying away with Lin and planning to return home after nightfall.

• Louis crystallized Yu Fura’s weapon, incapacitated him, and knocked Shizuri away from Lin.
• Louis warned the investigators about half-humans and restrained them as bystanders spotted the fight and journalists began filming.
• Shizuri urged Yu Fura to fight Louis, but Yu Fura dropped his blade and asked to talk instead.
• Lin reminded Louis that he needed people willing to build a bridge between humans and ghouls, and Louis said he was working toward peaceful coexistence.
• Louis destroyed the nearby recording devices, warned the investigators to stay safe, and flew off with Lin on ice wings.
• Louis told Lin they could not go to Anteiku after their whereabouts were exposed and planned to head home after nightfall.

Tsukiyama warned Hinami that Louis’s abilities could make him a target for powerful humans, and urged her to think about giving him a safe place to live. Hinami confided in Sen Takatsuki that she wanted to grow up faster so she could help Louis, and Sen told her she already supported him but could not yet help him practically.

• Tsukiyama took Hinami to a private café and explained that Louis’s unusual abilities could frighten powerful humans and make him a target.
• Tsukiyama urged Hinami to consider how their friends could help Louis live safely, then revealed in the restroom that he wanted Louis inside his stomach.
• Sen Takatsuki arrived at the café and asked Hinami what was troubling her.
• Hinami told Sen Takatsuki that she wanted to grow up faster so she could help Louis without getting in the way.
• Sen Takatsuki told Hinami that her kindness already helped Louis, but that she could not yet help him in practical ways, and gave her a business card.
• Tsukiyama returned to find Hinami alone and noticed the visitor’s lingering perfume.

After Hinami revealed that Sen Takatsuki was the Aogiri Tree member she had encountered, Louis called Eto Yoshimura and agreed to meet about joining Aogiri Tree. Before leaving Ward 6, he shared secrets about the CCG with Kurona Yasuhisa and her sister as protection in case he was captured or killed.

• Jiro told Louis that Tsukiyama had taken Hinami out and that the Tsukiyama Family owned a café in Ward 6.
• Hinami told Louis she had met Teacher Takatsuki and recognized her scent as belonging to the bandaged Aogiri Tree member from the night Aogiri Tree attacked them.
• Louis called Eto Yoshimura and said he wanted to join her; she proposed that they talk in person.
• Louis told Little Black and Little White about the CCG's ghoul clan, the One-Eyed King, and other secrets, then asked them to train the ghouls while he was away.
• Louis updated Hideyoshi Nagachika about Kaneki, but Nagachika declined the chance to see him.
• Louis prepared to leave Ward 6 and attend a meeting with Eto despite his injuries.

Louis, disguised as Ice Mask, entered Aogiri Tree’s Ward 9 stronghold to discuss joining its executives. He revealed his human identity to the startled ghouls waiting with him.

• Aogiri Tree guards discussed Ice Mask’s fight with the executives and rumors that he had fled with Eyepatch.
• Ice Mask passed the guards undetected and walked toward the upper floors of the stronghold.
• Louis told a patrolling ghoul he wanted to join Aogiri Tree, and the ghoul backed away in fear before sending someone to notify the executives.
• Louis heard the ghouls speculate about his scentless body and blue eyes, then offered to answer their questions.
• Louis’s mask receded, and he introduced himself as Louis and revealed that he was human.

Louis entered Aogiri Tree’s base and negotiated with Eto over his plan to make food that could allow humans and ghouls to coexist. Eto revealed she had already given the CCG information to attack Anteiku and demanded that Louis prove his willingness to follow her by killing the One-Eyed King.

• Aogiri Tree ghouls confronted Louis after he called himself human, but he caught a Quinque Bullet and Eto ended the confrontation.
• Eto told Louis that his idea of peaceful coexistence had spread and warned that people consumed by hatred would target him.
• Louis offered to work with Eto and urged her to speak with Anteiku’s Manager before pursuing a conflict that could devastate both sides.
• Eto admitted she had already exposed Anteiku to the CCG and said Kanou wanted the Manager as a powerful ghoul host.
• Eto rejected Louis’s vague promise to follow her orders and challenged him to kill the One-Eyed King.

Louis agreed to work with the Aogiri Tree but rejected Eto's plan to make him the next One-Eyed King, and he discussed making a Quinque with Kanou Akihiro. Meanwhile, Takizawa Masamichi argued with Akira Mado over dinner before Hōji Kōsuke received word that the Aogiri Tree had attacked a CCG laboratory with Ice Mask among them.

• Louis told Eto he would defeat the One-Eyed King publicly but spare his life, then asked to see Doctor Kanou.
• Louis gave Kanou Akihiro an Arata fragment and asked him to make a Quinque without permanently harming the ghoul; he also requested an ukaku kagune with its special ability preserved.
• At the CCG, Amon invited Akira Mado and Takizawa Masamichi to dinner, where Takizawa praised Hōji Kōsuke and argued with Akira about promotion and responsibility.
• Hōji Kōsuke called Takizawa back to the Branch Office to correct errors in his report, then received a message that the Aogiri Tree had attacked a Headquarters laboratory with Ice Mask present.