:re Chapter 76

Still knitting his wounds together, Kaneki raises his head and shares a brief grin with Arima before the pair throw themselves back into their duel. He turns his anger inward, faulting his own past failings, and finally admits that the figures of Rize and Hide he kept seeing were never anything but projections of his own mind. The Hide who once told him to keep living, he understands, was simply his buried wish speaking back to him.

The scene shifts to Eto, who carves through V's operatives without pause. Furuta pleads for her to settle down and release him, offering a pardon and a chance for the two of them to talk rather than trade blows. She flatly turns him down. He bolts, and she gives chase, ripping apart V members in her path. Backed against a wall and seemingly out of options, Furuta abruptly reveals himself as a one-eyed ghoul and drives his own kagune into Eto's kakuja, insisting once more that they resolve the standoff without further slaughter.

Kaneki accepts that his visions of Rize and Hide were extensions of his own subconscious rather than outside presences. Furuta exposes himself as a one-eyed ghoul and wounds Eto's kakuja with his kagune, flipping their confrontation as he keeps pressing for a peaceful outcome.

This installment is the point at which Kaneki's hair returns to its white color.