Yuujirou Utsumi

By the time the events surrounding his household unfold, Utsumi has reached his seventies. His body is frail, and his health has deteriorated to the point that those around him treat his survival as a matter of days rather than years.

Behind a gentle and respectable front, Utsumi is thoroughly rotten. He takes part in cannibalism against his own species, and he treats the ghoul children he adopts as living tools for gathering the human flesh his appetite demands. His cruelty is calculated as much as it is depraved. From the start he arranges matters so that, should investigators ever connect him to the string of vanished people, he can pin the killings on the very children he took in and walk away untouched.

His bond with his adopted daughter reflects this coldness. Whatever affection she shows him, he views her chiefly as a shield, fully prepared to sacrifice her and the others to preserve himself.

Utsumi is directly responsible for the death of Kiyone, one of the victims tied to his crimes. His downfall begins after Koharu, the young ghoul he raised as his daughter, is hunted down and destroyed. Left without his harvesting network, he ends up confined to a hospital bed, weak and expected to pass away soon.

His stay does not go undisturbed. Otokaze reaches him at the hospital and drives a blade into him, then turns the weapon on herself in a suicide attempt before she is stopped. Being already under medical care works in Utsumi's favor, and he manages to pull through the wounding, his ultimate fate left uncertain.