Episode 7: Captivity

Kaneki finds Hinami alone and hurries with her toward the alley where Ryouko is cornered. Mado, mocking her clumsy grip on her own kagune, produces a quinque forged from her dead husband, savoring her despair. He offers a moment for final words, then kills her as Kaneki muffles Hinami's screams from hiding. At Anteiku, Yoshimura reveals the death and considers relocating Hinami, but Touka, furious, demands revenge and storms off when Yomo and Yoshimura refuse.

That night grief spreads through the shop. Touka broods over her mask, Kaneki breaks down in the shower, and Yoshimura's reassurances bring no comfort. At the branch office, Mado warns his juniors that the child suspect remains loose, though Ippei brushes it off. Amon quietly carries the weight of classmates lost in the line of duty.

Wearing a rabbit mask, Touka ambushes Ippei and Nakajima, killing Ippei before Amon intervenes. Amon struggles without a quinque until Mado arrives with the Fueguchi weapon and taunts Touka over Ryouko's death. He exploits her exhaustion as an ukaku, wounds her, and interrogates her about Hinami before she barely escapes. Bloodied, she returns to Anteiku, where Yoshimura refuses her treatment for recklessly endangering herself, and she flees again.

Kaneki chases after Touka with a first aid kit, insisting he wants to learn the ghoul world firsthand and judge right and wrong himself. He tells her that losing someone he knows would sadden him regardless of species, and she opens up about her intentions. The two begin scouting a dark waterway near an elementary school. Mado, receiving a suspicious tip about the child suspect, recognizes it as Rabbit's trap and eagerly prepares to spring it, while Kaneki collects his finished mask.

This episode draws on chapters 15 through 19 and chapter 21. Alongside the main conflict, it develops Amon's mentorship and Nakajima's grief over Ippei, deepening the human side of the investigators.