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Nimura Furuta (旧多 二福, Furuta Nimura) is a Rank 1 Investigator and the former partner of Shiki Kijima. After the death of his partner, he is reassigned as a subordinate of Haise Sasaki.

While seemingly an unremarkable Investigator, he is actually an alumni from the Sunlit Garden and an agent with ties to both V and Aogiri Tree. As such, it is unclear where his true allegiances lie.

Appearance
Furuta has dark, medium-length black hair that is parted on his right. A mole lies near the bottom right corner of his right eye. He wears a black overcoat on top of his suit with a bow tie, like Kijima does. He occasionally wears a trench coat like the other investigators do. He later ditches the bow tie.

Personality
To others, Furuta is a normal and quiet investigator who appears to respect his boss. It is however revealed that he has a dark side when he casually uses a fellow investigator as a human shield. He doesn't hold any respect for fellow investigators, and seems to be acquainted with Mr. MM, despite being a CCG investigator. He is also shown to be cold and sadistic, mocking an investigator who had witnessed his rampage, and despite tearfully begging for his life, brutally kills him with more force than necessary.

Prelude to Anteiku Raid
When Touka Kirishima was visiting Kamii University, she mistook Furuta for Ken Kaneki.

Rosewald Investigation
Furuta acted as a drunk businessman loitering around possible Rose hunting grounds, complaining about his superior. He then successfully lured a Rose hunting group to attack him, falling into the CCG's ambush.

Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation
He later joins in the assault on Lunar Eclipse, and was seen on standby when Kijima and Hairu fought Matsumae and other Tsukiyama servants. When Kijima's quinque dug into its owner's head, Furuta looked at the scene with horror. He then contacts Ui to inquire about when the reinforcement will arrive, and proceeds to use a fellow investigator as a human shield against Matsumae. When asked what he was doing, Furuta calmly replies "standing back behind him" and proceeds to destroy Matsumae's eyes barehanded before stepping over Kijima's body to kill Matsumae with Kijima's quinque, saying "I'm sorry, Mr. MM."

Some time later, Koori Ui and his squad arrive to discover a scene of carnage. Furuta is discovered collapsed against a pillar appearing to be badly beaten, as the only survivor of the battle. He reports that two of Tsukiyama's bodyguards managed to kill everyone, but Furuta actually tore Matsumae's kagune free and used it to kill the other surviving investigator to cover his tracks. While a vehicle is called to transport the bodies, he appears to break down in tears over the death of his partner, but it is revealed to actually be laughing.

After the battle is over and the CCG transports the bodies of the killed investigators, several members of Aogiri Tree attacked the transport vehicles and stole Shirazu's corpse. Furuta watches the scene, holding his smartphone in his hands, while smiling and singing Donna Donna. It is implied that he is the perpetrator who revealed the transport routes to Aogiri.

Post-Tsukiyama Operation
Six months after the Tsukiyama Operation, he is currently partnered with Haise Sasaki, who he accompanies in visiting Shunji Shiono, Sen Takatsuki's editor. After Sasaki interrogated Shiono, he is seen in Takatsuki's room, having a discussion with Sasaki on what to do with him. Sasaki mentions that Kijima always said that he is quite talented with arranging documents, to which Furuta responds that it's the only thing he's good at. Haise then orders him to play the "good cop" with Shiono. Some time later, he is seen offering katsudon to the suspect.

After investigating Takatsuki's room he reports to Sasaki that he found nothing of interest and tried to put everything back as best he could. Furuta is concerned about investigating a private residence without a warrant, but Sasaki says he doesn't care about the consequences so long as he gets results. Furuta laughs and teases him for being a subpar employee. He brings up the Quinx Squad hearing that they've been doing well. Furuta briefly informs Sasaki of the status of each Quinx, but Sasaki shows little interest in the new members.

At some later point, he is approached by Kishou Arima and informed that V has summoned them.

Answering the summon, both men are seen in a massive chamber that appears to belong to the organization. They are greeted by Kaiko, and questioned about whether they believe that Takatsuki is the One-Eyed King. Furuta gives a flippant response and is chided for his lack of manners, mentally noting that Kaiko's manners aren't any better. The two men are given orders by their apparent superior, with Arima assigned to take care of "Rize's Thing" while Furuta continues to observe Kaneki and Eto for the organization.

Shiki Kijima
Kijima was Furuta's superior and partner. While he was acting drunk, he mentioned that he was annoyed by his boss. He seemed to care for his superior, but this ultimately proved to be false after Kijima's death. Furuta shows an utter lack of regard for his superior, even going so far as to step on his body.

Shuu Tsukiyama
It can be assumed that Furuta is associated with Tsukiyama under another persona, as he is aware of Tsukiyama's restaurant name, "Mr. MM."

Haise Sasaki
Furuta's superior. Some time after the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation they began working together. Sasaki usually has Furuta handle the more menial work like searching through papers and books and leaves him to organize. He also imposes irregular tasks such as investigating a private residence without permission and suddenly asking Furuta to play "good cop" to a suspect Sasaki had terrified. Furuta directly teases Sasaki for his behavior, but Sasaki isn't bothered and even agrees occasionally.

Kishou Arima
The relationship between them is unclear, however, they're both involved with V. Arima sought Furuta out to inform him that V was calling about Ken Kaneki.

Kaiko
Their relationship is superficially professional, but indications of strain exist. Kaiko berates him for his lack of manners, while Furuta expresses negative sentiments in his thoughts.

Powers and Abilities
Furuta has demonstrated both inhuman speed and strength superior to that of a ghoul's, as shown when battling Matsumae, who had killed Ihei and Kijima, two senior investigators, just minutes before. His strength was testified as shown when he gouged out her eyes with his bare hands, backhanded a direct bash from her Kagune without any effort or signs of damage and easily dodged her attacks. Afterwards, he performs another incredible feat of strength by tearing Matsumae's Koukaku free from her body with his bare hands and uses it to kill another Investigator. The resulting damage suggested an attacker of incredible strength, fooling experienced Investigators into believing it was done by a Ghoul.

Furuta is shown to have utilized two different quinques during the Tsukiyama Extermination Operation:


 * Tsunagi: A Bikaku-type mass-produced sword quinque, Furuta uses the &lt;custom&gt; version of this quinque. He seemed to have temporarily abandoned it during his fight with Matsumae in favour of the far more destructive Rotten Follow.


 * Rotten Follow: A chainsaw quinque powered by a Rinkaku-type kakuhou. Furuta borrowed this quinque from the recently-deceased Kijima to attack and finish off Matsumae.

Trivia

 * In the redistributed version of Tokyo Ghoul Trump, he's featured as a "Black Joker".
 * His birthday, February 29th, is an extra day in the calendar that only occurs every 4 years. It is known as Leap Day.
 * The Tokyo Ghoul Flip Calendar includes a coded message concerning him, found on Shiki Kijima's birthday. This message, which combines characters written in red, spells out: "Furuta - Is - Ghoul - Agent".
 * Touka Kirishima mistook him for Kaneki during her time at Kamii University. This was confirmed in an omake in Re: Volume 5, which retells the event from his point of view and reveals he knew Touka was a Ghoul.