He tries to attack Touka again, but Kaneki appears and saves her before she gets hit.
Ayato walks away from Touka, but is enraged upon hearing his sister calling for their father.
He tells Touka that she is weak, and that is why she loses. After biting off Touka's kagune, Ayato says that it tastes foul and he proceeds to make a speech on how the world is run by power. Ayato overpowers Touka and after he comments on her weak kagune he proceeds to eat it after pinning her down. Ayato states that ghouls can never coexist with humans as they fight. Touka Kirishima faces Ayato Kirishima and states that Aogiri Tree is not good for anything. Kazuichi Banjou, Jiro, Ichimi, and Sante are sitting in their cell, wondering if this is how they die, but Tsukiyama arrives and saves them. Noro then walks away, while the three decided to leave him and continue to go forward. Noro then displays astonishing healing abilities by reattaching himself, impressing everyone because his abilities are beyond that of a ghoul, and Tsukiyama wonders what he would taste like. Yomo tells Uta to hold him while he kicks Noro hard enough to sever his upper body from the shoulders. Uta surprise attacks Noro from behind by piercing his stomach with his hands, but was surprised to see that Noro had no reaction. Shuu Tsukiyama hits Noro with his kagune, but his attacks fail to harm him. Itsuki Marude asks for the casualty reports, and upon being told that roughly half of the investigators made it out alive, he throws away his earpiece in his fury and curses Owl. Amon sees Kaneki passing by and wonders if he has been fighting too. They try to leave, and Kuroiwa wants to say something about the Owl, but he then shrugs it off. Kuroiwa and Shinohara tell Hirako and Amon to take shelter and they will leave once they remove their Aratas. The area begins to shake and a part of the building is about to fall on Kuroiwa and Shinohara, but Owl saves them by destroying the debris. He tells them that if a soul does exist in Arata, then he has no plans of helping them. Kuroiwa goes to Shinohara while Owl makes a speech about people trying to justify killing, but taking away someone's life is still evil. Shinohara and Kuroiwa manage to put up a fight against Owl, but stop as Arata continues to eat Shinohara. He and Kuroiwa activate a new function on their armor boosting its strength, but as a consequence, it eats at their bodies. They continue to fight and Shinohara, realizing that they are losing, decides to use their last resort. Hirako and Amon are able to land a hit on Owl, but his wounds regenerate quickly. Kuroiwa and Shinohara activate their Arata proto, a kakuja quinque, then proceed to fight Owl. Shinohara and Iwao Kuroiwa decide that they must fight Owl and tells the other investigators to leave and finish off Aogiri Tree with the exception of Take Hirako. Owl recognizes the ghoul investigator who took his arms in the battle ten years ago, and tells Yukinori Shinohara that he looks to have become successful as well and that he should have taken his dominant arm in their encounter in the past just like how he did with his superior. Meanwhile in the 11th ward, after defeating Yamori, Kaneki walks towards the exit of the torture building and wears his mask. Hideyoshi Nagachika, upon seeing that Anteiku is closed, rides his bike to find Ken Kaneki.