:re Chapter 85

Cradling Arima's body, Kaneki faces Take Hirako and the rest of Arima Squad and tells Hirako that he is the one who killed Arima. Undeterred by Kaneki's threats, Hirako walks up to the corpse and says he has no wish to fight, calling Kaneki a poor liar. The squad's members, all children, ask Hirako to bid Arima farewell. Hirako explains that the Sunlit Garden youngsters worship Arima while he is only a subordinate, and he reveals that 0 Squad was ordered by Arima himself to help Kaneki get away.

Aboard the ship, Matsuri Washuu contacts Urie with a fabricated account, saying Marude took his own life after learning that Yoshitoki had been killed by an unknown attacker, and directs Urie's squad to link up with Houji. Alone, Matsuri throws away his gun and grieves his father while cursing Marude. At Rushima, CCG investigators warily close on Tatara, and Houji urges Akira Mado to fight even as he expects to die.

Back at Cochlea, Hirako returns the necktie pin Kaneki once gave Arima, honoring Arima's wish. Kaneki laments that he never saw Arima wear it, then recites lines from the poem Song of the Old Ainu as he remembers their time together. Kneeling with his hands on the shattered Owl quinque in a pose like a knight's salute, he says Arima had been his teacher and his father, and that he was truly happy.

Hirako declines to fight Kaneki and discloses that 0 Squad was ordered by Arima to assist his escape, returning the necktie pin at Arima's request. Matsuri fabricates a cover story blaming Marude's supposed suicide and Yoshitoki's death on an unknown assailant. Kaneki mourns Arima with a recited poem and a knightly salute over the broken Owl.

Kaneki recites portions of Hakushu Kitahara's Song of the Old Ainu, and his line naming Arima his teacher and father echoes Chirin's Bell, a children's story about a lamb raised by a wolf. The same poem was spoken by Kaneki at his first meeting with Arima, tying this farewell back to their beginning.