:re Chapter 131

A pair of ghoul children go looking for Touka Kirishima, hoping for a bedtime story, and Kaneki helps them track her down. Watching her read to them settles his worries about how she is coping. He then visits the caged Hajime Hazuki, a young man giddy at meeting him in the flesh, who claims ignorance of what Mutsuki's letter contained. Turning over how he might rescue Yoriko, Kaneki laughs off Hazuki calling him a miracle, insisting he is only an ordinary man.

Nishiki Nishio lays out an unsettling theory. Every cell division shortens the telomeres that govern aging, so the more Kaneki spends his kagune and mends his injuries, the faster he grows old. The black tears he has begun weeping are one sign. Nishiki floats the possible remedies, sparing his kagune, avoiding grave wounds, or resorting to cannibalism. Left alone, Kaneki weighs how little time may remain and resolves to do everything he can.

Far below the surface, Ayato Kirishima fends off and captures three feral ghoul children, and through their tangled dialect he gathers that something called the Naagaraji left the city in ruins. When Kaneki finally tries to break the news of Yoriko's execution to Touka, she stops him with an announcement of her own. She is expecting, with the birth due in December. He asks how ghouls even marry, and to prove they are joined as one, the two bite into each other.

The title 考える豚 (Kangaeru Buta) translates as Thinking Pig. This is the one hundred thirty-first chapter of Tokyo Ghoul:re, printed in issue 2017-32 on July 6, 2017. It plants two long-running threads at once, the accelerated aging that shadows Kaneki and the pregnancy that will define his stakes for the rest of the story.