Aogiri sets its sights on Anteiku itself, and Yoshimura knows what is coming. He begins preparing his people for the worst. The little coffee shop that sheltered so many is about to become a battlefield. Knowing what is coming for Anteiku makes this chapter hard to read.
The city holds its breath as the two strongest beings alive circle each other. Investigators clear the area. Ghouls watch from the shadows. Everyone understands what is about to happen. The whole city holding its breath sells the magnitude of this confrontation.
The CCG launches a major operation, determined to crush Aogiri once and for all. Amon leads from the front, driven by grief and duty. But the ghouls are ready, and the investigators are walking into a bloodbath. Amon leading the charge shows how far the CCG is willing to go.
Kaneki wakes in CCG custody, a prisoner of the people who hunt his kind. Arima watches him with unreadable eyes. What the CCG plans for the one eyed ghoul, nobody will say, but it cannot be anything good. Kaneki as a prisoner raises so many questions about what comes next.
Kaneki hatches a bold plan to strike at Aogiri’s leadership directly. His followers are nervous but willing. If they can cut off the head, the body will fall, or so the theory goes. Kaneki’s plan to strike at Aogiri’s leadership is audacious to say the least.
In the quiet after the storm, familiar faces find each other. Touka, Hinami, Nishiki, and the others gather. They have survived the unsurvivable. For the first time in too long, there is room to breathe. The survivors finding each other again is deeply moving.
With nowhere else to go, Kaneki starts working at Anteiku. He learns that even ghouls can enjoy one human pleasure: a good cup of coffee. Slowly, under Yoshimura’s guidance, he begins to accept the strange new life he never asked for. Watching Kaneki take his first steps into ghoul society is genuinely moving.