Chapter 108

Recovering from the mansion raid, Ken Kaneki dwells on his attack against Kazuichi Banjou. Shuu Tsukiyama drops off a stack of novels to lift his spirits, sharing his own thoughts on strength and worth and vowing to keep standing by Kaneki. Reading through the books, Kaneki measures their themes against his own life and judges his story the more sorrowful of the two. He turns his attention to Sen Takatsuki's eighth work, The Hanged Man's MacGuffin, an omnibus of condemned prisoners reciting their tales and confessions, and notes that Prisoner 182 reads like a ghoul. Hinami Fueguchi stops by to mention that Takatsuki has a book signing coming up.

Confined to a bed at the CCG hospital, Yukinori Shinohara reflects on the perilous half-kakuja Centipede. He recalls a scholar who studied grafting ghoul organs into humans, research that was shut down over ethical objections. Thinking back on the ghouls he faced in Akihiro Kanou's laboratory, he remembers a recovered registry naming missing people, among them the transplant recipient Kaneki. Shinohara concludes that Kanou must be the one engineering these artificial ghouls.

Iwao Kuroiwa reviews two clips of the Owls, one from the eleventh ward clash and another shot ten years earlier. The small discrepancies between them point to two separate beings. At the venue, Kaneki and Hinami arrive as an overslept Takatsuki hurries to her table to begin.

Tsukiyama gives Kaneki novels and pledges his continued support. Kaneki reads The Hanged Man's MacGuffin and senses that Prisoner 182 is a ghoul. Shinohara deduces that Kanou created the artificial ghouls, with Kaneki listed among the missing transplant recipients. Kuroiwa's footage suggests the two Owls are different individuals. Kaneki and Hinami reach Takatsuki's book signing.

Belonging to Volume 11, the chapter carries the Japanese title 人工, romanized Jinkō. It debuted on December 19, 2013 in issue 2014-03 over nineteen pages. Rize Kamishiro appears in flashback, the Owls feature only as footage, and both Fujishige Iba and Take Hirako are referenced.