Chapter Summaries

Louis confronted Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa with the truth about their mother’s death and their transformation into artificial half-ghouls. He released Kurona and sent her to obtain Rize Kamishiro or her location within thirty-six hours, leaving Nashiro captive as leverage.

• Louis explained that Nanao Yasuhisa had secretly supplied the CCG and suggested the bureau had abandoned and silenced her; Kurona reacted with hatred toward the CCG.
• Louis revealed that the CCG’s upper ranks were ghouls and identified Kurona and Nashiro as Nanao’s twin daughters who had become artificial half-ghouls through Kanou’s experiments.
• Louis pressed Kurona about the trauma of becoming a ghoul and relying on Kanou, provoking her to attack him with her kagune, which his Ice Spikes stopped.
• Louis freed Kurona but kept Nashiro bound, ordering Kurona to bring back Rize Kamishiro or her location within thirty-six hours.
• Kurona looked at Nashiro and promised, “Wait for me to come back...”

Louis kept Nashiro Yasuhisa under watch while his group prepared for the remaining thirty-six hours and the risk that other organizations would come after her. Hinami spoke with Nashiro about their families, and the chapter ended with Banjō mentioning Hinami’s upcoming birthday.

• Louis let Nashiro Yasuhisa leave her room and sit with Hinami, while Banjō, Jiro, and Fukai watched her warily.
• Tsukiyama joined the group, and Louis asked him to stay nearby as they prepared for others to target Nashiro during the next thirty-six hours.
• Hinami told Nashiro about her father’s death, her brother’s efforts to protect her family, and how he had fought Nashiro.
• Banjō said Sante and others would stay downstairs to help guard the group and gather information on Kanou.
• Banjō told Louis that Hinami’s birthday was next month, prompting Tsukiyama to suggest an unsettling birthday celebration.

Roma talked about her admiration for Kaneki while working at Anteiku, and Viper left her shy younger sister Aoi in Yoshimura’s care. Viper encountered two imposing newcomers at the door.

• Roma told Nishiki that Kaneki was a major reason she had joined Anteiku, then hurried to wipe tables after he scolded her.
• Viper asked Yoshimura to look after Aoi, who was disappointed that she had not seen the person she wanted to meet.
• Viper urged Aoi not to wander or cause trouble, then prepared to leave Anteiku.
• Viper bumped into a gray-haired man and a muscular, bearded man at the door, and their glances made her tense.

Hinami told Louis that his blood temporarily restored Ghouls’ stamina and increased their combat strength, a secret Aoi had asked her to keep. Before Louis could learn more about the intruder at their door, an attacker with Rize’s rinkaku broke in and rushed toward Hinami.

• Hinami told Louis that his blood gave Ghouls a powerful but short-lived boost, and Louis confirmed the effect with the System.
• Hinami explained that Aoi knew about Louis’s blood and that Banjō had said it was why people had targeted him; Louis promised to keep the secret.
• Hinami sensed someone outside, and Louis went to check the door.
• An attacker’s rinkaku pierced the door, and Louis blocked the follow-up strikes with his crystalline arm and an ice shield.
• The attacker cut the lights, smashed the living room windows, and rushed toward Hinami.

Louis and his allies fought Kaneki’s group when they came to take a captive, and Louis hurled Shachi out of a fortieth-floor window. Louis escaped the fall with newly formed ice wings, while the other fights continued inside the apartment.

• Louis recognized Kaneki and Ayato as they confronted him with Shachi and their allies, and Kaneki demanded that Louis hand over the captive.
• Louis judged his side outmatched, told Hinami to occupy Kaneki, and charged Shachi through the window before the others could act.
• A towering figure attacked Naki, while Tsukiyama rushed Kaneki from the opposite apartment and forced him farther inside.
• Nashiro Yasuhisa discovered that Louis had shattered her restraints and opened a way out without injuring her.
• Shachi attacked Louis as they fell, but Louis broke free and formed ice wings that stopped his descent above the ground.

Louis used his Ice Feather Blades to hold Shachi at a distance while buying time for Nashiro Yasuhisa to escape. In the residence above, Kaneki and the others fought Aogiri Tree’s forces, with the melee still raging.

• Shachi survived his fall, and Louis spread his Ice Feather Blades around him to begin a ranged attack.
• Shachi smashed through the first barrage and charged, but Louis trapped him by attacking from both sides and restricting his tail kagune with ice.
• Louis kept Shachi occupied so Nashiro Yasuhisa could escape, believing Aogiri Tree would withdraw once it lost its target.
• Inside the residence, Kaneki obstructed Ayato Kirishima’s attacks to protect Tsukiyama and Hinami while Ayato grew increasingly frustrated.
• Sante, Jiro, and the Gas Masks fought Naki and the White Suits in the living room, while Banjō lay unconscious after being knocked into a wall.

Louis fought Shachi, learned to use his Ice Blades more effectively, and discovered that Yoshimura Kuzen wanted Rize Kamishiro. The chapter ended with Louis refusing to hand over the woman they had captured because she was not Rize.

• Shachi overwhelmed Louis with his speed, but Louis wounded him with an Ice Blade that slowed his healing.
• Louis recovered and realized he could keep up with Shachi by combining his crystallized arm with close-range Ice Blades.
• Shachi asked why Louis wanted Rize, and Louis explained that he was helping Banjō find and rescue her.
• Yoshimura Kuzen offered to take Rize, and Louis initially suggested they avoid fighting and negotiate.
• Louis revealed that the woman they had captured was not Rize Kamishiro and refused to let Yoshimura Kuzen take her.

Hinami told Tsukiyama that Louis had escaped and that she understood his intentions, prompting Tsukiyama to end the fight and lead his group toward retreat. Ganshi warned the Aogiri Tree members of a nearby enemy, and after they withdrew, she vanished after threatening Hinami.

• Hinami told Tsukiyama that Louis had escaped and shared her understanding of what he meant.
• Tsukiyama ambushed Naki, then ordered his group to retreat with the unconscious Banjō under Louis's supposed orders.
• Ganshi appeared silently and warned Naki that a nearby enemy could wipe them all out.
• Naki and his men withdrew through the window, and Ayato Kirishima followed.
• Ganshi appeared behind Hinami, threatened her, and vanished before Tsukiyama and the others could stop her.

Louis fought Yoshimura Kuzen until Eto Yoshimura and Aogiri Tree's other members arrived, then learned that V Organization agents were battling Shachi nearby. After Ganshi left to confront them, Louis wondered whether V had come for him.

• Louis and Yoshimura Kuzen fought to a standstill, and Louis considered retreating as his attacks failed to gain an advantage.
• Eto Yoshimura arrived, followed by Naki, Ayato Kirishima, Kaneki, and other Aogiri Tree members, who headed toward a distant fight.
• Ganshi assured Louis that Hinami and the others were fine, while sounds of fighting came from beyond his perception.
• Ganshi told Louis that V Organization members were fighting Shachi, and Louis wondered whether they had come for him or Eto.
• Ganshi vanished to question the V Organization members, leaving Louis shaken and uncertain about their target.

At a Ward 20 meeting, investigators discussed Ice Mask’s fight with Shachi and evidence that Eyepatch had also been at the scene. As they struggled to determine who had attacked whom, an unidentified speaker claimed to have seen Ice Mask’s face.

• Shinohara presented a report and photo of Ice Mask fighting Shachi in Ward 18, while Yu Fura and Shizuri said Ice Mask had recently stayed in Ward 24.
• Akira Mado asked how the investigators learned Ice Mask was in Ward 24, and Yu Fura explained that they had questioned ghouls captured there.
• During the interrogation, a ghoul suggested Ice Mask might not be a ghoul, but Yu Fura dismissed the claim as meaningless.
• Akira Mado identified marks on the damaged door as likely evidence that Eyepatch had broken into the Ward 18 location.
• The investigators considered whether Eyepatch and Shachi had ambushed Ice Mask or whether Ice Mask and Eyepatch had attacked Shachi.
• A hand stitched with red thread rose, and its owner said they had seen Ice Mask’s face.

Louis went to Ward 14 to seek information about the V Organization and reunited with Itori at her bar. Their reunion turned tense when Louis drew Ice Blades against her and the unfriendly ghoul customers, leaving Itori to stop a fight from breaking out.

• Suzuya described the Ice Mask’s unusually cold hands, and Shinohara took him to have a sketch made while the others returned to work.
• Louis told Tsukiyama and the others that rumors about the Ice Mask being human had spread among ghouls, then decided to investigate the V Organization.
• Louis asked Banjō to keep watching Kanou’s private hospital and traveled to Ward 14 to seek information at Helter Skelter.
• Itori recognized Louis at the bar and tried to hug him, but Louis stopped her with an Ice Blade at her neck.
• Itori calmed the ghoul customers after they rose to defend her, but Louis drew a second Ice Blade when they kept glaring at him, and the customers flipped their tables as Itori tried to stop them.

Louis asked Itori for information about Kanou and help meeting Furuta Nimura, but left without agreeing to join the Clowns. Itori then revealed that the ghoul black market had placed a 100-million-yen price on Louis, prompting him to return and ask if he could pay her after all.

• Louis offered Itori his wrist in exchange for information about Kanou, and she suggested Ward 6 as a possible place to look.
• Itori embraced Louis and inhaled his scent, frightening him before she finally let him go.
• Louis asked Itori to introduce him to Furuta Nimura, and she offered to do so if he joined the Clowns, but he refused.
• Itori told Louis that his black-market price had reached 100 million yen and threatened to use her connections to raise it.
• Louis turned back to Itori and asked if it was too late to pay now.

Louis planned to move to Ward 6, unite its ghouls, and search for Rize using a tracking crystal he had secretly planted on the black-and-white sisters. After discovering that Lin had given Hinami a book that had embarrassed her, Louis chased Lin down and warned her to stay away from Hinami.

• Louis proposed moving to Ward 6 and making Banjō his strategist so they could unite the ward’s ghouls.
• Banjō and the others agreed to the plan after Louis revealed that Rize was likely in Ward 6.
• Louis told Banjō in confidence that he had planted a tracking crystal on the black-and-white sisters to help locate them.
• Louis went upstairs and found Hinami blushing after Lin had apparently given her a book.
• Lin tried to flee the house, but Louis sent a crystalline chain after her and ordered her to stay away from Hinami.

Louis learned that Juuzou Suzuya had submitted an unrecognizable sketch of Ice Mask, then asked Hinami to help him test what he smelled and tasted like. After his subordinates mistook the scene for something scandalous, rumors about Louis spread while their affection levels fluctuated wildly.

• Nagachika told Louis that Juuzou Suzuya had supplied a facial sketch of Ice Mask, but the sketch was too abstract for anyone to recognize him.
• Louis reassured Nagachika that Kaneki was energetic and that their apparent conflict had been an act, though Louis worried their goals might eventually diverge.
• Banjō and the others began preparing to gather information on Ward 6 while Louis asked Hinami to assess his smell and taste behind sealed doors.
• Louis's subordinates saw Hinami leave with a flushed face and blood on the sheets, wrongly assumed Louis had harmed her, then realized the blood belonged to him.
• Louis noticed tooth marks on his crystalline arm and saw his subordinates' affection levels fluctuate, as damaging rumors about him began to spread.

Louis, Banjō, and Fukai met Shachi’s former subordinates in Ward 6 to discuss Shachi and the ward’s instability. After a tense start, Louis agreed to answer their questions but had no information about why Shachi joined Aogiri Tree or failed to return.

• Banjō explained that Ward 6 had become unstable after its leader, Kamishiro, was gone, and that three factions now held influence there.
• Louis borrowed Jiro’s clothes and traveled to a lavish bar with Banjō and Fukai to meet Shachi’s former subordinates.
• Ito Takuhari escorted them to a private room, where Louis found Ito and two other ghouls were all S-Rank.
• Louis called Ito ordinary, prompting Banjō and Fukai to tense up as the room turned hostile.
• Ito admitted that Shachi’s former subordinates were unhappy about Louis’s past clash with Shachi, then asked why Shachi joined Aogiri Tree.
• Louis said he did not know, and he was equally unable to explain why Shachi had not returned to Ward 6.

Louis explained why Shachi was unlikely to return to Ward 6 after rescuing Rize Kamishiro, then offered Ito Takuhari a deal: Louis would eliminate the ward’s two major threats in exchange for becoming its leader in name and receiving protection from a bounty on him. The chapter ended with Ito considering the proposal.

• Louis told Ito Takuhari that Shachi had stayed with Aogiri Tree to rescue his adopted daughter, Rize Kamishiro, and would likely avoid bringing powerful enemies back to Ward 6.
• Ito blamed Rize for disrupting Ward 6 and causing Shachi’s capture, while the young lady said she believed Rize was using him.
• Louis noticed Banjō’s discomfort as the others criticized Rize, then asked Ito to make him Ward 6’s leader.
• Ito reacted with killing intent, but Louis proposed removing the two factions threatening Ward 6 in return for the leadership title.
• Louis clarified that he would not interfere in Ward 6’s territory and showed the group a hundred-million-yen bounty on the Ice Mask, asking them to protect him from the resulting danger.

Louis considered how to gain influence in Ward 6, then caught a ghoul who had been following him and called Aogiri Tree to claim the captive. The chapter left the stalker suspended in an unfinished building as Louis waited to see who would respond.

• Ito said Ward 6 would consider Louis's proposal, and Louis left without pressing him further.
• Louis sent Banjō and Fukai to find a place to stay while he surveyed Ward 6 and searched the map for a suitable location.
• Louis noticed that a ghoul in a newsboy cap had followed him repeatedly from Ward 18 to Ward 6.
• Louis restrained the ghoul with an Ice Blade and demanded to know who he worked for.
• Louis called an Aogiri Tree executive and offered to hand over the stalker, who hung bound by an Ice Chain in an unfinished building.

Louis learned that hostile ghouls were approaching the unfinished building and used his blood to empower the Ice Mask, turning him into a decoy. After the attackers overwhelmed the transformed ghoul, Louis took his clothes and mask and entered the fight in his place.

• Ganshi warned Louis that several people were heading to the unfinished buildings, prompting him to prepare the Ice Mask as a decoy.
• Three black-cloaked ghouls chased and pinned the Ice Mask, but Louis's blood made the ghoul's strength, speed, and healing surge.
• The Ice Mask wounded the black-clad leader and fought off the others until the SS-ranked leader struck him through several walls.
• Louis emerged from the dust, changed into the badly wounded ghoul's clothes, and covered his face with the blue-and-white mask.

Louis defeated the ghouls who attacked the abandoned building, then spoke with Ganshi, whose remarks made him question whether his dreams were truly his own. He concluded that carrying others’ hopes was still his choice because he wanted to truly live.

• Louis killed the koukaku ghoul and let the injured leader escape after sensing the leader had more than one kakuhou.
• Louis froze the pinned tail kagune ghoul to death after learning he belonged to Thousand-Leaf Tree but had no useful information.
• The injured Aogiri Tree ghoul returned Louis’s phone, then ate a corpse to speed his healing.
• Louis called back Ganshi, who revealed that he and Mr. Shachi were watching from nearby.
• Ganshi questioned whether Louis’s dreams belonged to him, and Louis reflected on how others’ emotions had shaped his goals before deciding they remained his own choice.

Ganshi confronted Louis after he encountered an Aogiri Tree operative, then questioned him about his goals. Louis explained that he wanted to protect the happiness he had found at Anteiku, but their conversation ended with Ganshi punishing him for mentioning her father.

• Ganshi appeared beside Louis and killed Yamada for failing his mission and exposing them to the enemy.
• Banjō called Louis and suspected he had been kidnapped when Louis joked that he was lying on the ground admiring the moon.
• Louis admitted that Ganshi had beaten him and explained that he had grown fond of the people at Anteiku and wanted to protect their happiness.
• Louis said the Manager had told him most of what he knew about the V Organization, then Ganshi hurt him when he called the Manager her dad.