:re Chapter 173

A memory set within the Sunlit Garden opens the installment, where a young Kishou Arima trades observations with Yoshitoki Washuu about the child then known as Nimura Furuta. Yoshitoki places him as the youngest of the Furuta branch, and Arima judges the boy's instincts sound despite a timid exterior spent picking flowers beside the daughters. Arima adds that Tsuneyoshi Washuu favors this one above his other illegitimate offspring, then concludes that the boy's ceiling has already been fixed.

Back in the present, Kaneki and Furuta trade merciless blows. Even holding his kagune back, Furuta stays a step ahead and mocks his rival, offering to make the fight a proper contest of swords. Kaneki agrees, shaping a quinque out of his own kagune and combining both weapons in an assault that leaves a horrific wound across Furuta's face. Unfazed, Furuta laughs and calls forth a kagune shaped after Dragon's, tipping momentum back his way. As the killing stroke falls, Kaneki bites down on the blade, tears himself loose, and reminds Furuta that cunning alone cannot settle this. He spreads a wing-shaped kakuja and swears to bring Furuta down while shielding both humans and ghouls.

Arima's recollection establishes Furuta's place within the Washuu bloodline and the special treatment Tsuneyoshi showed him. In the present, Kaneki accepts the request for a swordsman's duel and briefly dominates, only for Furuta to unveil a Dragon-styled kagune that reverses the fight. Kaneki survives the turn by catching the blade in his teeth and slipping the hold, then commits fully by releasing his winged kakuja.

The chapter sits in the sixteenth volume of Tokyo Ghoul:re and carries the Japanese title Inasan. Its cast is narrowed almost entirely to the two combatants, with Yoshitoki, Tsuneyoshi, and Furuta's mother surfacing only through recollection or passing reference.