:re Chapter 176

As a boy, Furuta had decided that a certain ending made all of existence pointless, treating the world as a toy chest destined to be closed, which fed his urge to tear it all down. He pities Kaneki, whose hardships he judges wasted and mostly avoidable had the man never crossed paths with Rize.

Kaneki concedes how much that encounter reshaped him. Even so, he counts the pain that followed as the price of meeting the people who gave his life meaning, and insists he would choose it all again knowing the cost. It may look pointless from outside, but not to him, and he means to keep going in a world that simply exists.

Unable to grasp Kaneki's answer, Furuta wonders aloud if he will die here and asks whether Kaneki would mock his wish for an ordinary life. Kaneki says no and turns away. Left alone, Furuta watches memories of himself and Rize as children playing until they tumble together, the young Furuta hoping it will stay that way into old age. Agreeing with that younger self, he finally gives in to his wounds. Kaneki reaches the oviduct and links up again with Kimi Nishino by radio; ahead stands the huge structure feeding the poison, and only its destruction will halt the flow. She tells him to come home before Dragon's last defenses close around him.

Furuta's nihilistic worldview is traced back to his childhood, and he dies at peace after revisiting a memory of a simple life with Rize. Kaneki affirms that he would relive every ordeal to reach the people he loves. Reconnecting with Kimi Nishino, he identifies the structure sustaining the poison and moves to destroy it as Dragon's remaining defenses swarm him.

The chapter falls in the sixteenth volume and carries the Japanese title Ushinau. Rize and Tsuneyoshi appear only in flashback, and the entry marks the definitive end of Furuta's arc.