:re Chapter 178

Kaneki bends over Rize's lifeless body as the kagune structure enclosing them starts to tremble and break apart. On a monitor, Kimi Nishino calls out to him.

On the battlefield, Take Hirako shreds Kaiko's face and V is beaten. Turning, he finds Eto Yoshimura resting on the ground with a smile. Renji Yomo cradles Enji Koma, who grumbles about the trouble of it all and is told gently to rest. A weeping Nishiki Nishio and a grieving Shuu Tsukiyama stand over the still form of Kaya Irimi. A general order then reaches the surviving ghouls and investigators to fall back, since only a tenth of the enemy remains; apart from a pursuit unit, everyone is to stop fighting and see to the wounded.

Hearing this, Kaneki tries to flee the crumbling structure but sinks into it and is pinned as it comes down. Dropping into darkness, he glimpses a light and hears a voice welcoming him, telling him it has always been watching. At the CCG hospital, Touka Kirishima gazes out the window while Saiko Yonebayashi remains bedridden with Rc cell over-secretion disease. Saiko admits she is frightened of the waiting; Touka takes her hand, confesses her own fear, and asks whether they should wait for Kaneki together, and Saiko smiles and agrees.

V is defeated as Hirako destroys Kaiko, though Koma and Irimi are lost in the fighting. A retreat order goes out with only ten percent of the enemy remaining. Kaneki is trapped as Dragon collapses and falls toward a light and a watching voice, while Touka and Saiko resolve to wait for him together.

The chapter belongs to the sixteenth volume and carries the Japanese title Shiro to usagi. It fields a broad cast of ghouls and investigators as the war winds down, with Ayato Kirishima mentioned rather than shown.