:re Chapter 109

The chapter reaches back to the orphanage where Mikito Urie once pinned Donato Porpora down while Iwao Kuroiwa fastened an Rc-suppressing band around his wrist. As the ghoul blacked out, he cried for Koutarou Amon, who was later discovered in the basement behind a surgical mask and hauled off into CCG custody.

Returning to the ruined building, Donato hauls a badly wounded Kuki Urie up by the hair and grinds his face along the windows until the pain leaves him numb, then flings him to the ground. Hallucinating, Urie imagines the corpse of Touma Higemaru's uncle beneath him and fears the same fate. He drifts back to his father, to his boyhood wish of becoming an investigator so the two could serve together, and to how hard the man labored to bring Donato in. Rising once more, Urie extends his kagune, Donato eagerly answers with his own, and both of the young investigator's eyes bloom into kakugan.

Ken Kaneki rejoins Ayato Kirishima, Kurona Yasuhisa, and Seidou Takizawa in the 1st ward, and the group slips into the CCG Laboratory Division dressed as staff. As they hunt for the Rc suppressants, Kurona confides that she resented how Akihiro Kanou mourned losing Kaneki while writing her and Nashiro off as failures. Kaneki reassures her that no one who refuses to value her has any right to judge her, and she thanks him. Their search turns up nothing but a logbook pointing them toward Research Facility-4.

On the bridge near the CCG Main Office, the Suzuya Squad keeps trading blows with the Clowns. Nakarai asks Juuzou whether anything about the enemy strikes him as odd, and Juuzou slices away one Clown's mask to reveal a human beneath it, mouth sewn shut, weeping and begging for rescue. Before the captive can respond, Uta cuts him down, introduces himself, and draws a taunt from Juuzou about painting a face onto the killer's mask.

The flashback ties Donato's downfall and Amon's transformation to Mikito Urie's old case, giving fresh weight to the present duel. Cornered and broken, Kuki Urie finally activates a full pair of kakugan against Donato. Kaneki's infiltration team locates only a logbook that redirects them to Research Facility-4. On the bridge, Juuzou exposes that the Clowns hide living humans among their ranks, and Uta steps in as a new threat by silencing the freed captive.

Called Until the Pen, spelled ペンまで and read as Pen made, this is the one hundred ninth chapter of Tokyo Ghoul:re. It ran in the 2017-09 issue on January 26, 2017, as part of the tenth volume. The entry pairs Urie's emotional collapse with the reveal that living people are being used inside the Clowns' ranks.