Chapter Summaries

Louis captured Juuzou Suzuya and used him and the rooftop investigators as leverage to secure a promise from Marude. He gave Suzuya a chance to turn the dying Yamori into a Quinque in exchange for letting Owl go, then left Suzuya free of his chains.

• Louis overwhelmed Juuzou Suzuya with crystalline chains, suspended him in the corridor, and struck him over the wallet theft.
• Tsukiyama asked Louis to give him Suzuya, but Louis refused, and Kaneki encountered them.
• Suzuya contacted the field command post, and Louis spoke to Marude as Ice Mask, offering the lives of Suzuya, Kuroiwa, and Shinohara in exchange for a chance to speak with the CCG if he or an ally was captured.
• Marude accepted Louis's condition, and Louis told him to have the rooftop investigators stop fighting so Owl would stop as well.
• Louis carried Suzuya to the dying Yamori and offered Yamori as a gift for Suzuya to make into a Quinque, asking him to let Owl go.
• Louis left the room after snapping his fingers and shattering Suzuya's chains.

Kureo Mado prepared to fight Owl while Louis raced to help Touka and Ayato, who were locked in a brutal battle. The chapter ended with Ayato destroying Louis’s unmanned hang glider to protect the injured Touka.

• Marude questioned whether Mado could defeat Owl, and Mado estimated his chances rose from ten percent to forty percent with Shinohara and Kuroiwa’s help.
• After Kaneki was rescued, Irimi ordered the infiltration teams to retreat, while Louis set out to find the missing Touka and Nishiki.
• Ayato overwhelmed Touka, accusing her of siding with humans and tearing apart her damaged kagune.
• Nishiki tried to rise and help Touka, but spotted Louis’s hang glider racing toward Ayato.
• Ayato noticed Touka behind him and destroyed the incoming hang glider with a barrage of kagune spikes.

Louis fought Ayato inside an ice storm while Nishiki and Touka lay injured nearby. Kaneki arrived and took over the fight, leaving Ayato badly beaten as he threatened to break 91 more bones.

• Louis landed after a sniper shot cracked his Ice Mask, then confronted Ayato as he attacked Nishiki and Touka.
• Louis trapped Ayato in a blinding ice storm and repeatedly struck him as Ayato tried to escape.
• Kaneki arrived, learned from Nishiki that Ayato had hurt Touka, and entered the storm with murderous intent.
• Ayato mistook Kaneki's white hair for Louis and hesitated, allowing Kaneki to break his arm and attack him.
• Kaneki shattered the ice storm, broke Ayato's chest and limbs, and calculated that he needed to break 91 more bones.

Yomo, Uta, and Nico withdrew after confirming their targets had been found, while the battle against Owl escalated as Shinohara and Kuroiwa activated their [Arata] armor. Kureo Mado launched his custom single-use Quinque, Owl Slayer No. 1, and pierced Owl's chest, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Yomo told Mr. Yoshimura to retreat, then ordered Uta to withdraw and left the elevated roadway as Owl fought two Ghoul Investigators.
• Uta and Nico discussed Nico's clash with Black Dog and said their leader would judge Anteiku for herself after spending a few days there.
• Shinohara and Kuroiwa activated their [Arata] armor and renewed their attack, forcing Owl to defend against their increased strength.
• Kureo Mado discarded Fueguchi and activated his single-use SS-rank Quinque, Owl Slayer No. 1, as he charged at Owl.
• Owl knocked Shinohara and Kuroiwa away and leaped backward, but Mado's harpoon-like kagune pierced Owl's chest and Mado activated the Quinque.

Kureo Mado used Owl Slayer No. 1 to devastate Owl, but Owl survived and escaped with help from Yomo. As Aogiri Tree's explosives began demolishing the buildings, the investigators and ghouls fled amid the chaos, while Shinohara remained trapped in his malfunctioning [Arata].

• Kureo Mado launched Owl Slayer No. 1 at Owl, sacrificing his right arm before the Quinque exploded and heavily wounded Owl.
• Kureo Mado fell from the blast and was struck by a fragment, while Amon rushed toward him and Shinohara's [Arata] began burrowing into his body.
• Owl survived the explosion, but Yomo drove Kuroiwa back with purple lightning and carried the injured Owl away.
• Aogiri Tree's planted explosives detonated across the buildings, and Marude ordered everyone to retreat as structures began collapsing.
• Kuroiwa tried to remove Shinohara's [Arata], while Take Hirako pulled Amon away from the rooftop.
• Louis watched Amon's anguished cries and recalled the last beast tide of his previous life.

Kaneki escaped the collapsing building with Touka and Nishiki after Aogiri Tree's attack, then turned back toward Anteiku, fearing it was in danger. Meanwhile, Ganshi pressured Louis to join Aogiri Tree, and Louis proposed that Kaneki serve in his place, leaving Kaneki asking Louis whose side he was on.

• A masked, long-braided ghoul rescued the dying Ayato while explosions brought down the building, and Kaneki fled with Touka and Nishiki.
• Kiyoko Marude learned that the destruction had been a trap and that Aogiri Tree had also attacked the ghoul prison in the 23rd Ward.
• Kaneki left Touka with Nishiki and returned toward Anteiku because he feared Aogiri Tree would attack it.
• Ganshi threatened Anteiku and tried to make Louis join Aogiri Tree, so Louis suggested Kaneki could serve in his place.
• Kaneki arrived and demanded to know whether Louis was on Aogiri Tree's side.

Kaneki questioned Ganshi about Aogiri Tree’s plans for Anteiku, then fought Louis and carried him back unconscious. After reuniting with the rescued group, Kaneki announced that he was leaving Anteiku.

• Kaneki asked Ganshi why Aogiri Tree targeted Anteiku, and she said the organization would consider sparing it if someone joined as an executive.
• Kaneki demanded that Louis fight him and overwhelmed him, though Louis briefly froze Kaneki’s arm before Kaneki knocked him unconscious.
• Ganshi praised the fight and asked Kaneki to explain himself, having noticed that he had held back.
• Kaneki returned carrying Louis, and Nishiki Nishio confirmed that Louis was breathing steadily with only a dislocated shoulder.
• Touka woke and reunited with the group, but she found Kaneki’s changed appearance and demeanor unfamiliar.
• Kaneki watched Irimi and the others tend to the Manager from a distance and said he was leaving Anteiku.

After the failed Ward 11 operation, Kaneki left the Anteiku group, while Juuzou returned with Jason’s body and Shinohara and Kuroiwa survived. At Anteiku, Louis woke and warned everyone that Aogiri Tree had placed the cafe on its extermination list, darkening Yoshimura’s expression.

• Kaneki dodged Nishiki and left, leaving Touka shocked and sad as Renji Yomo carried the wounded Manager away.
• Marude learned that the Ward 11 operation had caused heavy casualties, then saw Juuzou return alive while dragging Jason’s body.
• Juuzou refused to explain how he defeated Jason until Shinohara and Kuroiwa emerged from the rubble and Shinohara took charge of him.
• Louis woke at Anteiku and learned that Kaneki had brought him back before leaving, then recalled that Kaneki had attacked him.
• Louis told the group that an Aogiri Tree executive named Ganshi had said Anteiku was on Aogiri Tree’s extermination list, and Yoshimura reacted grimly.

After Kaneki left Anteiku to join Aogiri Tree in Louis’s place, the Manager ordered everyone to let him make his own choice. Louis reviewed the organizations and asked the system how he could act, leaving him to weigh a dangerous future against his safe but passive life at Anteiku.

• Louis and Yomo concluded that Kaneki had gone to Aogiri Tree in Louis’s place, and Touka angrily reacted to Kaneki’s sudden departure.
• The Manager told the others not to interfere with Kaneki’s choice, then left with Yomo to prepare for Aogiri Tree’s actions.
• Tsukiyama offered to have the Tsukiyama Family’s intelligence network search for Kaneki, while Uta also offered Louis help before they both departed.
• Louis listed what he knew about Aogiri Tree, the V Organization, the Clowns, Anteiku, and the CCG, then considered whether he could make a difference despite being weak.
• The system dismissed Louis as unsuited to being a chess player and presented options with success and survival rates, including staying at Anteiku, joining an organization, or forming his own.

Louis woke to find the Fueguchis leaving Anteiku for Ward 24, and he accompanied them to say goodbye to Hinami. After seeing how dangerous their new home would be, he promised to return for them once they were strong enough to live safely outside.

• Louis recalled his former life and considered whether he could truly make a home in this world.
• Louis found Ryouko Fueguchi and Hinami preparing to leave for Ward 24, where they hoped to escape the danger surrounding Anteiku.
• Louis joined Renji Yomo, Enji Koma, Ryouko, and Hinami on the drive to Ward 24, and Hinami returned the little figure Louis had made for her.
• Renji Yomo led the group underground and warned the Fueguchis that survival there meant defending territory and hunting for supplies.
• Louis encouraged Hinami to become stronger and promised to come get her and Ryouko when they could hold their own outside.

Yomo’s group settled into Ward 24 as Aogiri Tree expanded its control, prompting the CCG to discuss how to respond. After comparing past encounters with Owl, investigators Shinohara and Kuroiwa suspected that two different Owls existed, while Hideyoshi Nagachika arrived with a document for Shinohara.

• Viper welcomed Yomo’s group to Ward 24 and explained that its ghouls fought to defend their refuge but were not forced to stay.
• Aogiri Tree freed ghouls from the Ward 23 prison and seized Wards 9 and 10 while the CCG struggled to recover from losses in Ward 11.
• Director Yoshitoki Washuu convened CCG investigators to discuss Aogiri Tree’s expansion and assigned Shinohara to investigate Ward 20.
• Kuroiwa and Shinohara compared their records and concluded that the CCG might have faced two different Owls.
• Hideyoshi Nagachika delivered a document to Shinohara, who introduced him to Kuroiwa as the newcomer who had tracked Jason.

Louis met Hideyoshi Nagachika to discuss Kaneki and asked him to arrange a blood test to determine whether the CCG would classify him as human or a ghoul. He offered information about Kaneki in exchange, but Hide remained wary after seeing Louis reveal his Ice Mask.

• Louis met Hideyoshi Nagachika at a café and asked how he had joined the CCG before graduating university.
• Hide suggested they continue the conversation at his apartment, where Louis noticed a photograph of Kanou General Hospital.
• Louis put on his Ice Mask, frightening Hide, then removed it and explained that he did not eat people.
• Louis asked Hide to help obtain a blood test and offered information about Kaneki in return.
• Louis offered to prove he ate ordinary food by going with Hide to an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Louis and Hide investigated Kaneki’s transformation into an artificial half-ghoul and discussed the CCG’s growing presence in Ward 20. On his way back to Anteiku, Louis considered forming a small organization and encountered Roma Hoito, a SSS-Rank Ghoul.

• Louis ate an enormous buffet meal with Hide, then warned him that the owner, Tsuruta Gui, was a ghoul.
• Louis told Hide that Kaneki was an artificial half-ghoul created by Kanou Akihiro after the Rebar Incident, and gave Hide a vial of blood that attracted ghouls.
• Hide warned Louis that the CCG had assigned more personnel to Ward 20, and Louis urged Hide not to put himself in danger.
• Louis considered founding an organization devoted to human-ghoul coexistence and reviewed potential recruits recommended by the system.
• Louis decided to focus on gaining strength while awaiting Hide’s blood test report, then saw a notice about an evacuation drill related to the Eyepatch ghoul.
• Louis asked a girl about the notice, and the system identified her as Roma Hoito, a SSS-Rank Ghoul.

Louis brought Roma Hoito, the Clowns’ founder, to Anteiku after she claimed she was looking for a job. Anteiku reopened with Roma on the staff, while Uta and Kiyoko Itori concealed their connection to her and celebrated with the others.

• Louis found Roma outside Anteiku and brought her in after she said she was looking for work.
• Roma introduced herself to the staff, and Louis chose not to reveal that she had escaped during Aogiri Tree’s raid on the Ghoul Prison.
• The staff finished preparing Anteiku, and the café officially reopened when they hung the open sign.
• Uta and Kiyoko Itori arrived to celebrate, and Uta pretended Roma was a friend he had recommended for the job.
• The group celebrated by drinking coffee, while Kiyoko sniffed Louis and made him wary of attending future ghoul gatherings.

Amon met Akira Mado, his new partner in Ward 20, while Louis recruited Banjō by offering to help find the missing Rize. Louis revealed that he was human and asked Banjō and his followers to pledge loyalty to him.

• Amon reported his promotion and the destruction of his Quinque at Kureo Mado's grave, where he met Mado's daughter, Akira, who was assigned to Ward 20.
• The chapter listed the Ghoul Investigators stationed in Ward 20, including Akira Mado and Juuzou Suzuya, who had been promoted.
• Louis told Banjō Kazuichi that Rize Kamishiro was alive but might be suffering, and promised to help locate and rescue her.
• Banjō agreed to hear Louis's terms, and Louis revealed his face and declared that Banjō would pledge loyalty to a human.

Louis revealed to Banjō that he was human and invited him to join his team in exchange for more information about Rize. After sparring with Tsukiyama, Louis learned that his abilities were beginning to fuse and could eventually evolve into Elementalization.

• Tsukiyama confirmed to Banjō that Louis was human and that he was the same person as Ice Mask, the rising star, and the wanted S-Rank Ghoul.
• Louis asked Banjō to join his team before he would explain more, then challenged Tsukiyama to a sparring match.
• Tsukiyama accepted the sparring match, and Louis defeated him using his ice abilities.
• Banjō decided to speak with Louis about joining, while his two followers hinted that they wanted to eat Louis.
• Louis noticed unusual coldness in his right arm, and the system explained that Physique Enhancement and Crystallization were beginning to fuse and might evolve into Elementalization.

Louis agreed to let Banjō join his group after sharing his goal of peace between ghouls and humans. Meanwhile, Kaneki and Ayato led an Aogiri Tree ambush on a CCG prisoner transport, where two mysterious one-eyed ghouls attacked Kaneki and failed to retrieve him.

• Louis explained the potential of elementalization and asked the system whether he could reach SSS-rank, but it advised him to focus on SS-rank.
• Banjō agreed to join Louis after setting conditions, and Louis told him he wanted humans and ghouls to live together in peace.
• Kaneki and Ayato led Aogiri Tree ghouls in an ambush against a CCG prisoner transport to recruit its S-Rank ghoul prisoner.
• Two masked figures with rinkaku attacked Kaneki, but he blocked their strikes and drove them back.
• The figures removed their masks and revealed that they were one-eyed ghouls, surprising Kaneki and Ayato.

Ayato’s group captured the escaped Naki after the attack on a ghoul transport truck, while Louis watched news of the incident at Anteiku and received a call from Hide. The chapter left Louis heading upstairs to speak privately as Koma and Irimi wondered whether he was growing distant from them.

• Kaneki and Ayato spotted two masked figures before an explosion at the transport truck interrupted them, and the figures disappeared.
• Naki escaped the burning compartment, but Ayato knocked him down and then recruited him into Aogiri Tree after Naki declared his admiration for Yamori.
• Louis returned to Anteiku, where Koma and Irimi discussed Roma’s clumsiness and the television reported on Eyepatch’s attack.
• Louis recognized Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa in the blurry footage and considered recruiting them.
• Hide called Louis, who went upstairs to answer privately, while Irimi and Koma worried that he had become distant.

Louis learned that his rc cell count barely qualified as human and discussed Kanou and the Yasuhisa sisters with Hide, while developing his crystal ability. At the CCG’s Ward 20 branch, Akira Mado arrived as a new investigator, stirring old rivalry with Takizawa and competition with Amon.

• Louis confirmed with Hide that his blood test showed a slightly elevated but safe rc cell count, then asked him to investigate Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa.
• Hide reported that the CCG was investigating Kanou General Hospital, while Louis considered the threat posed by the S-rated Yasuhisa sisters and other possible half-ghouls.
• Louis trained with his Ice Blade and allowed a strange transformation in his right arm to continue as he pursued Elementalization.
• Juuzou Suzuya and Takizawa argued before Shinohara brought Akira Mado to the Ward 20 meeting as a new Second-Class Ghoul Investigator.
• Akira’s arrival renewed her old academic rivalry with Takizawa and sparked a competitive urge in Amon.

CCG investigators connected Eyepatch’s first appearance to Kaneki’s unauthorized organ transplant and the disappearance of Kanou, Gourmet, and Gluttony. Meanwhile, Louis endured the painful crystallization of his right arm at Anteiku, where Yoshimura closed the shop to give him a safe place to transform.

• Hōji Kōsuke and Take Hirako presented evidence that Kaneki and Kanou Akihiro had disappeared after the unauthorized transplant, around the time Gourmet and Gluttony vanished.
• Louis began crystallizing his right arm and endured mounting pain as the transformation spread through his flesh and bones.
• A ghoul customer complained about the cold at Anteiku, and Irimi Kyouko went upstairs to check on Louis.
• Yoshimura decided to close the shop and keep Louis’s room undisturbed, reflecting on Louis’s wish for humans and ghouls to live together in peace.
• Louis survived the worst of the pain, and his entire right arm became translucent blue-white crystal.