:re Chapter 174

Kaneki seizes the momentum again, flinging Furuta about and leaving him stunned. A recollection breaks in: as a child, Furuta pored over the Washuu family tree and noticed that offspring of the branch houses tend to die near the age of thirty. Tsuneyoshi Washuu confirms that those born outside the main line, figures such as Arima and Kaiko among them, share that fate, blaming the selfishness of distant ancestors while refusing to explain further. Furuta responds by resolving to wring every drop out of the life he has.

Ducking and answering each of Furuta's strikes, Kaneki listens as his opponent lays out his aims and revels in the memory of watching Kaneki stumble. Furuta brands him not a hero but a self-absorbed man, pinning the ruin of Tokyo and the deaths of humans and ghouls on him, and taunting him for failing to guard Anteiku, his makeshift family, and ghoulkind. He promises Kaneki will fail once more. Realizing Kaneki has been absorbing his words rather than trading blows, Furuta unleashes his kakuja and demands everything. The fight levels out until a tentacle slips past Kaneki's guard and hammers him to the ground, where Furuta piles on. Amid the assault Kaneki spots an opening and lands the finishing strike, while Furuta, in his final moment, pictures a family and children shared with Rize Kamishiro.

Furuta's flashback exposes the shortened lifespans forced on the Washuu branch children and his vow to live without restraint. In the present, he delivers a long condemnation of Kaneki before revealing his kakuja and briefly gaining the edge. Kaneki turns a moment of overextension into the decisive counter, and Furuta dies imagining the ordinary family he never had with Rize.

The chapter belongs to the sixteenth volume and bears the Japanese title Suru. Tsuneyoshi appears in flashback, Arima and Kaiko are named, and Rize surfaces only in Furuta's dying vision.