:re Chapter 27

Freed but rattled, Shirazu learns from Hayashimura that Nutcracker wields a chimera kagune and has littered the room with traps. The pair trade close and long range strikes to keep her pinned, yet her koukaku proves too hard to break, and a stray memory of Serpent's mockery nearly costs Shirazu his life. Steadying himself, he begins to suspect the detached traps may move on their own.

In the storage room below, Urie gleefully mows down ghouls with both quinque and kagune, drunk on the power, then abandons Suzuya to the horde when Mutsuki spots Big Madam next door. Charging in for the bigger prize, Urie is battered by her enormous bikaku, pinned by her Scrappers, and left dangling half inside her jaws, still craving recognition as Mutsuki arrives too late.

Outside, Takizawa keeps Sasaki locked in a chokehold, insisting he must soften his prey before talking. He hurls Sasaki aside, rambling about first and second place and boasting that he is the doctor's masterpiece. When he tosses Sasaki up and impales him, the young investigator, facing death or erasure, sees his former self beckoning him to look and to speak his name.

Hayashimura identifies Nutcracker's chimera kagune, and Shirazu deduces her traps may act independently. Urie recklessly abandons Suzuya, corners Big Madam, and is overwhelmed and nearly devoured. Takizawa impales Sasaki while declaring himself the doctor's masterpiece, and Sasaki's inner Kaneki urges him to confront his identity.

The chapter is titled 呼居 in Japanese, read as Koiru and rendered as Recoil. It runs eighteen pages within the third volume and first appeared in issue 2015-23 on May 7, 2015.