Chapter 53

In a Kamii classroom, students trade worries about the turmoil gripping the 11th ward and whether the 20th ward will stay safe. Yoriko Kosaka notices Touka's vacant seat and resolves to deliver food to her friend later that day.

Elsewhere, Yukinori Shinohara and Juuzou Suzuya inspect a grisly scene where several ghouls were carved into roughly two hundred pieces. Reading the precision of the cuts, Shinohara identifies Juuzou as the one responsible and lectures him on the laws governing anti-ghoul operations. Juuzou sulks upon learning he is barred from carrying a quinque of his own. The talk turns instructional as Shinohara breaks down the kagune categories, the kakuhou, Rc cells, and which type counters which.

Back in his apartment, Hideyoshi Nagachika follows televised reports on the fighting between ghouls and investigators. He glances at his phone, uneasy about whether Kaneki is safe.

Yoriko's concern quietly underlines how far Touka has drifted from ordinary life. Shinohara pins the two-hundred-piece killing on Juuzou and denies him a quinque, while spelling out the rock-paper-scissors relationship among kagune types. Hide's worry keeps Kaneki's disappearance felt even in his absence.

Carrying the Japanese title 講義 (Kogi), this Volume 6 entry ran in issue 2012-49 on November 1, 2012, between Chapters 52 and 54. It doubles as an exposition chapter, laying out the mechanics of kagune combat and quinque regulation that shape later battles.