Chapter 116

Sealed inside the container with Rize, Kaneki tries to draw her into conversation. Yomo warns that prolonged starvation has left her mind in ruins, yet Kaneki presses on, describing everything that has happened to him since the accident that changed his life. Rize gives no response, so he keeps reaching for any flicker of recognition. Watching, Yomo quietly admits this was never the reunion he had pictured.

As Kaneki wrestles with the moment, he speaks about how much he once relied on the image of Rize's power, saying that without that image he would never have found his own footing. Yomo corrects him, insisting that every step forward has come from Kaneki himself. He then coaxes Kaneki to his feet for a talk, and over coffee Kaneki remarks that the brew tastes just like the one Yoshimura makes.

Back at Anteiku, Yoshimura and Touka discuss her schooling and her plans ahead. He advises her to hear out other people and to speak in a voice that is genuinely her own. Afterward he sends Nishiki and Touka to collect coffee beans for the shop, and along the way the pair cross paths with Hinami and Tsukiyama.

Yomo reveals that Rize's long starvation has shattered her mental state, so she cannot recognize Kaneki. In their exchange, Kaneki comes to understand that the strength he had credited to Rize was always his own. He also notices that Yomo's coffee mirrors Yoshimura's exactly. In the parallel scene, Yoshimura guides Touka on her studies and on expressing herself, then dispatches her and Nishiki on an errand that ends with them running into Hinami and Tsukiyama.

The installment carries the Japanese title 再逢 (Saihō), given in English as Reunion, though it is also rendered as Second Rendezvous. It belongs to Volume 12 of the series and first ran in the 2014-13 issue on February 27, 2014.