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In the aftermath of the battle and Kaneki's fall, Shuu Tsukiyama sinks into a catatonic grief and refuses to eat, until Nishiki Nishio warns him he will die at this rate, confessing that even he has rarely struggled so much. The CCG logs the operation's extermination rate at ninety-nine percent and closes the books on it. Massive blood loss and brain damage leave Yukinori Shinohara in a permanent coma, and his old comrade Fujishige Iba visits to honor his devotion. Word spreads that Amon died in the fighting; Misato Gori openly mourns while Akira Mado holds firm and calls losses the price of war, only to break down and weep when Misato scolds her, admitting she cared for both Amon and Takizawa.

Kaneki's group scatters, with Banjou, Hinami, and others heading deeper into the city for new hiding places. Investigators note that the bodies of the dead and the fates of the Centipede and the One-Eyed Owl remain unknown. Dr. Kanou surfaces in a fresh laboratory stocked with owl subjects in tanks, dismissing Kaneki as a mere experiment used to transplant a kakuhou into Shiro and Kuro. Eto urges that they simply remake Kaneki, and Yoshimura is shown sealed inside a glass chamber in the lab.

Throughout, Kaneki narrates from within, insisting the world is broken and wrong, tying a ghoul's need to feed to ideas of stealing, sacrifice, protection, and error, and concluding that his only salvation is to sleep and dream something happy. Shinohara's wife visits Juuzou Suzuya, who lost a leg and has grown oddly calm; he blames himself, and she gently reminds him Shinohara loved him like a son, steadying his resolve to press on. Chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu praises Arima's kill count while lamenting the Owl's escape, then names the One-Eyed King of Aogiri Tree the next target, grants Arima rights to the new quinque, and has Kaneki's suspect profile wiped from the blacklist. At Helter Skelter, Itori, Uta, and their circle relish Kaneki's ruin and scheme to snare a fresh victim, the group revealed as the Clowns.

Back at a soon to be demolished Anteiku, Touka mourns the loss of her home and recalls the warmth behind the café's name, even as the wrecking crew sneers about the ghouls who ran it. Yomo tells her it is time to leave, reflecting that Kaneki lost his way and his place to return to. Still, Touka refuses to give up, declaring her faith that Kaneki will one day come back. The chapter closes out the original manga before its continuation.