Chapter 77

CCG units push deep into Building 7, where a pack of ghouls under the Bin brothers ambushes Mutsumi Chino's squad in a coordinated rush. Koutarou Amon cuts down several attackers and shrugs off a shallow kagune graze. The elder Bin brother critiques his form, judging his movements too heavy and full of openings, and the pair moves on him at once.

The pressure sends Amon back to a lecture from Kureo Mado. Since humans are physically outmatched, Mado taught, they prevail by thinking ahead, smothering an enemy's plans and fighting with cold, mechanical precision. Mado also stressed that Amon's reflexes were honed during his Academy years, and that the tools sealed in his case, the quinque, are the cruelest and most ingenious weapons the CCG ever devised against ghouls.

Amon recalls that his heavy koukaku quinque, Kura, a shifting weapon, was assigned to him by Mado after the older investigator's death. Steadied by the memory, Amon overpowers the Bin brothers, and the remaining Aogiri ghouls fall back as Chino's team secures the room. Chino praises his performance.

Moving on, Amon spots the Eyepatch ghoul through a window; the two lock eyes for a moment before the ghoul turns away. On the roof, Juuzou Suzuya watches the same figure and recognizes him as the student he once lifted three thousand yen from, wondering what Kaneki is really doing here. When Noro approaches Yakumo Oomori's corpse, Juuzou claims Jason's body as his own, and Noro leaves carrying Ayato while Juuzou waves him off.

Building 7 (七棟, Shichitō) is the seventy-seventh chapter, part of volume eight. It deepens Amon's devotion to his late mentor and his mechanical fighting philosophy, and it ties two distant threads together through Juuzou's memory of pickpocketing Kaneki.