V

V (ヴィー, Vī) is a secret organization that operates in the shadows and strives to maintain a "balance". Since their so-called "balance" is collapsing because of Aogiri Tree, they are aiming to eliminate the One-Eyed Owl and the ghoul terrorist organization.

Involvement
Yoshimura, formerly known as Kuzen, was among one of their cleaners, individuals tasked with dispatching those that threaten the organization including human, ghouls, and rival organizations. He then met a human woman named Ukina, who he eventually fell in love with, and impregnated. Kuzen later found out that Ukina was a journalist who tried to expose the organization. V eventually discovered her identity and their relationship. Kuzen was ordered to assassinate her. Kuzen refused to do so, but after Ukina's pleading, he complied. Shortly afterwards, Kuzen defected from V, and out of fear for his child, abandoned her in the 24th Ward together with Ukina's diary, where she could be out of V's grasp. However, Kuzen's daughter would soon reappear, attacking CCG Headquarters, and out of fear for her becoming a target of V, Yoshimura took on her identity as the One-Eyed Owl, and began acting in her place. Just before the Anteiku raid happened, Kaiko and other members of V reappeared to offer Yoshimura redemption by giving up his daughter, but he declined. Being rejected, Kaiko told him to die and there was no escape for a bird in a cage like him.

V's activities have become more varied as the secret society has begun taking a simultaneous direct and covert role. After Ken Kaneki's capture by one of their agents Kishou Arima the latter was placed under strict monitoring during his rehabilitation as a Ghoul Investigator under the identity of Haise Sasaki. This was due to his status as an artificial one-eyed ghoul. After her arrest, Eto Yoshimura using her writer persona releases her final novel that asserted the Washuu Clan has a long-standing alliance with the ghoul secret society. She further alleges that the clan was involved in a conflict with a powerful one-eyed ghoul and this conflict resulted in the formation of the CCG with the cooperation of V.

She also claims that Rize Kamishiro was a ghoul that fled from V. She further explains that Rc Scan Gates do not trigger upon reading the Rc cell patterns of ghouls affiliated with V or those related to them.

Kaiko later discusses with Kishou Arima and Nimura Furuta the arrest and the probability of the One-Eyed Owl being the One-Eyed King. Both agents respond that it is highly possible. He orders Arima to exterminate Matasaka Kamishiro because of his familial connection to Rize and assigns Furuta the responsibility of monitoring Kaneki and Eto.

Furuta later informs Eto during one of his visits to her in the Cochlea that V ordered her editor's death because of his role in publishing the novel that exposed their conspiracy to the general public.

During the Third Cochlea Raid, Furuta restarted the pressing machine and crushed the ghouls inside that were using it to escape into the sewers while numerous members of V stood behind him. These other agents were later killed during their confrontation against Eto while she using her Kakuja to aid the surviving escapees in fleeing the ghoul detention center.

Kaiko later collaborated in the assassination of CCG chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu and the massacre of the Washuu Clan (sans Matsuri) along with Uta, Donato and Furuta.

Members

 * Kaiko
 * Souta Washuu-Furuta
 * Kuzen/Yoshimura - Cleaner (Formerly)
 * Matsuri Washuu
 * Matsuri Washuu

Associates

 * Washuu Clan

Differences in the anime
In the anime, however, events played out differently. When V learned about Yoshimura's family and his betrayal, they tried to eliminate them. Kuzen fled together with his family, but Ukina was killed during their escape, and as a last resort, Kuzen had to leave his child in an abandoned house. Shortly after Kuzen had successfully survived the V's attack, he returned for his infant daughter, but the child was taken away.