Batista Loses Everything! Choujin X Chapter 63 Spoilers!

In the previous Choujin X chapter, Batista acquires the Mark and resets the area around Omega Tower to create a new reality where his wife is still alive.

Choujin X Chapter 63 is titled, “Hear the Newborn’s Cry”

Released on April 26, 2025, Part 1 has 25 pages.

The chapter begins with Ely and Tokio ending up in a rather ethereal landscape, where they see a small town, floating blocks and flying fish and whales.

Everything is jumbled together in a collage of unrelated things and it seems they are trapped in one of many pockets within the new pocket universe within Yamato.

The pair spot Batista floating and entering one of the stitches but they were unable to catch up to him and the gap is closed in front of them.

They see the past Yamato Mori and a younger Batista without his stitches or mask using Gravity to float many chemicals and vials together.

After mixing solutions together, Batista inspects a beaker before it creates a small explosion, alerting Hartley from outside and she sees Batista collapse.

Batista notes a miscalculation in the formula but Hartley says that Batista needs to take a rest after overworking himself.

Meanwhile, Batista says that Hartley should toughen up, with the lady noting that Choujin are quite hardy yet apologizes when Batista is silent.

Batista insists on doing this because fighters like his older brother Sandek and the rest of Yamato Mori are working hard to protect them from Choujin X and the threat Zora’s Tower of Mourning pose, so his research is where he can find purpose.

Ely wonders what the situation is, with Tokio remarking that they were either literally in the past or in Batista’s memories, confirming what Zora said, that Batista is trying to change the past.

Ely panics but Tokio says that she should be more like him, calm even while suddenly wearing shorts.

We admire Tokio’s continued self-confidence, a massive contrast from his old self.

Tokio sees more stitches in the sky, likely representing points in the past.

This whole adventure reminds me of Attack on Titan’s “time travel”, where Eren and Zeke, who are stuck in Ymir’s Paths dimension, stay in their father Grisha’s memories for a literal nine years.

Doors act as shortcuts to moving forward to events somewhat.

So in Choujin X, it is the stitches from the “womb” formed by Batista’s actions.

We enter a different point in time as a younger Mado requests Batista to cease the experiments with Ember, the prototype liquid that would create Choujin.

Mado explains that during the Yamato Prefecture Meeting, Batista’s prototype Choujin-awakening fluid, Ember, was deemed too dangerous.

Not only would it pose health risks but the idea of creating Choujin could potentially trigger another world conflict.

As someone from that era, perhaps Mado was thinking of the time of the War Choujin X, Queem, where Choujin were brutally made into soldiers to the point of forcibly Raising them and making them take opium to dull the pain.

Ember could open Pandora’s Box and bring humanity to a path it will never recover from.

Batista is disappointed and wished Mado looked into the future to warn him before proceeding with his research and Mado says that she cannot order up the things she wishes to see.

You can see where Batista’s hatred of the future comes from: Mado’s vision always come at the wrong time and the future is never within the present’s control even with foresight.

Having absorbed much of his time on Ember research, Batista now has to figure out what to do with the free time he has now and he shares this disapppointing news to Hartley, who is also saddened but knows dwelling on it will not help and that they should instead focus on the part of the research they learned: more knowledge on Raise’s destruction and regeneration.

This would advance Choujin medicine, to create a drug that can accelerate Raises.

Batista brings up the idea of taking a breather and they go to an amusement park to get ice cream and ride a roller coaster, the latter activity making Batista realize that not even a Gravity Choujin like himself can handle it.

Even with the fun they had today, Batista still felt down with the way he lost his sense of purpose.

Science was always his thing as he applied his Gravity Choujin abilities to test scientific phenomena and, most of all, improve Choujin lives.

However, “the future” stole his present purpose, present potential and present sense of being.

It was like he was not meant to have a life if what he loved was to be taken away because of his future actions.

However, being with Hartley has made him submit to an ordinary life working as a mailman, a second option he was open to.

Tokio and Ely watch everything, with Ely suggesting they kill Batista here and now since they know what he will become in the future.

However, Sandek appears, saying that if Batista dies, they have no escape from within this dimension and instead find more time stitches for a way out.

Tokio asks Sandek if Batista is his little brother, which Ely is surprised about given how differently they look from each other, and Sandek confirms it.

For a time, Batista chose to be a mailman and after a hospital visit, Hartley gets the news that she is pregnant.

Passionately, he hugs her and promises to save up money so the three of them can move back to her hometown, which she happily agrees to.

While at work one night, Batista finds Mado in the street and the two take a walk together, with Mado wanting to catch up with her former underling.

Then Mado asks if Hartley is pregnant, with Batista surprised that she knows, as the Yamato Mori leader warns him that if he loves Hartley, he should give up having a child with her.

Mado dreamt of his family, where he stood on the corpses of his wife and child after losing everything

It is explained that a child between a Choujin and a human would often be deformed.

This is quite the prophecy and for someone like Batista who wanted the freedom to live in the present, it feels like it is Mado’s visit that would trigger such a phenomenon.

Of course, Batista tells her to go away, tired of Mado’s constant interference with his life and questions why she continues to meddle with his life, from removing his potential as a Choujin to his research that would have helped Choujin.

Now she wants for Batista to kill his own child.

Batista calls out Mado, asking if she thinks she is better than other people for her ability and then asks her to leave.

This is a really frustrating situation to be in, for someone with foresight to dictate one’s destiny to their detriment.

Batista returns home, still reeling from the visit, and surprises Hartley with a passionate hug, telling her everything will be fine.

In a hospital, Batista darkly watches as doctors frantically treat Hartley after she gives birth to an apparently stillborn baby with eyes on its hand.

Hartley was 27 when she died.

If they are around the same age, with Batista currently being 36 years old, this means these events took place 10 years ago.

The baby having eyes on its hands feels so similar to Zora, which hints that Zora’s body is a mutation common among Choujin.

Tokyo Ghoul, Ishida’s previous masterpiece, had a similar situation on two ends: one between a pure Ghoul male and a pure human female (Yotsumura and his wife Ukina), with Eto’s birth being a result of the human mother feeding on human flesh to prevent the fetus from eating its own mother; and another between a half-Ghoul male and a pure Ghoul female (Ken Kaneki and Touka Kirishima), with Touka consuming human food at her own detriment in order to feed the human baby without causing her body to consume her own fetus, resulting in a half-Ghoul, Ichika.

The Nue Chimera’s Origin

Release on May 12, 2025, Chapter 63 Part 2 has 34 pages, for a total of 59 pages for this whole chapter.

On a cliffside tree, Batista sets up his own end as he wonders how much pain his wife felt before she died.

As he hangs from the noose, prepared to die, Batista checks his locket and remembers how he failed to name his stillborn child, imagining Hartley’s smile if she were alive.

In spite hanging himself, however, Batista is still alive, wandering aimlessly and confused by what was keeping him alive.

As a Choujin, he keeps Raising but Raises happen because of willpower, so a Choujin can die when they choose not to Raise.

In this case, subconsciously, Batista is powered by something he does not recognize.

A Choujin who lived an ordinary life, running away from a preordained future that was seemingly intent to steal what he deserved as a human being, had lost everything, even the desire to go on and yet he still persists.

Then Batista spots his older brother Sandek and other keepers urgently search for someone in a forest fire, helping a stranger.

This is a turning point as he sees his brother out there helping someone that Batista does not know, almost ranting about how his brother was not there, choosing Yamato Mori over his family.

This despair draws in dark tendrils grabbing and dragging him to a nearby cave, where he comes across a giant human-like figure with two Noh masked faces.

The vessel holding the Abomination begs them to stay but it leaves, emerging as a much larger presence consisting multiple gigantic Noh Masks, surrounded by threads.

While the Abomination allegedly liked the previous vessel, they also readily abandoned him, seeing Batista as someone obsessed with despair.

Asking if Batista wants it to kill him, the Nue Chimera reveals that it has been watching Batista’s MANY attempts at ending his life (burning himself, walking into traffic, suffocation, drowning, freezing, bleeding out, electrocution, poisoning, jumping and now hanging.

The Nue Chimera narrates his life, how joy and his reason for living were snatched, so now he comes to the Nue, to become the successor, and to steal back from the world that took him.

This makes Batista a more tragic parallel to Ely, or rather, a precursor to what Ely would become, a thief.

But while Ely was afraid of the legacy of her mother, Batista’s whole existence compels him to take everything.

The pen of God that wrote the story of his despair.

However, the Nue has multiple personalities.

Perhaps the Nue Chimera was once a Thief Choujin, with the power of Haginaphony Pilfer, which involves grafting the body parts of other Choujin into one self.

However, either through greed, despair or a need to survive, it got too many, allowing those parts to regain some consciousness.

Eventually, the Nue becomes its own Choujin power that needed vessels to survive as its own body was unable to take on so many powers.

This is why we hear some of the Nue say that Batista should not accept the offer.

The voice telling Batista that stealing brings more suffering seems to be a subconscious guilt from the Nue’s origin or its psyche along the way, that to deprive, even when it is the right of the deprived, can only result in more loss and emptiness.

The Nue explains that its power is to deprive and by accepting its offer, Batista will gain its powers in exchange for his body.

Then comes the being’s most iconic quote:

“If Fate is the plot God wrote, then steal the pen and lay waste to the story”

Sui Ishida’s first opus, Tokyo Ghoul, centered around every human’s inclination to view themselves through their relationship with fiction, to see oneself as the main character.

This was Ken Kaneki’s dilemma, how he viewed everything happening to him as intended and centered around himself, but as he experienced real life, he realized that it is not that he lived a tragic story but that this is the meaning he derived from it.

Kaneki discovered this early into his adulthood, evolving from the meek college student who used fiction to escape from the memory of his abusive mother to the half-Ghoul who acknowledged the world will always be empty and that, our pursuit of meaning and security against an uncaring, silent universe being the real tragedy that afflicts everyone, is navigated through our ability to make choices.

Batista was nearing his 30s at this point in time and he had just lost his child and wife, on top of a depressing outlook because of Mado’s self-fulfilled prophecies constraining his sense of being and will to live.

Furthermore, the Nue notes that the goddess of the future blesses those who deviate from it, a contradiction that fits with its goal to consume Batista.

At the mention of the future, Batista wretchedly says he doesn’t want to hear about it, after hopelessly fighting against the future that stole his life from him.

Batista lived his whole life with a future set by Mado’s prophecies, prophecies based on fear and nightmares of things she was not quite sure of, only the certainty of Batista’s losses as an inevitable outcome that will bring him to the path of destruction.

By ostracizing and fearing Batista, Mado had perhaps made the chains of events worse rather than, as Tokio eloquently pointed out to Zora in Chapter 61: “Go to the Future”, to believe in “both futures” and make choices towards a new one, which is also something Sandek regretted about choosing to trust Mado over himself or his brother.

By letting prophecies or other people dictate fate, others suffer along the way.

The concept of freedom or choice were not on the table for Batista, because his community, his brother, did not offer those paths and his brother Sandek in turn was not given the means to reach out to Batista due to the conditioning he has and of his role as the Strongest.

The future was the god, the dictator, that stripped Batista of his ability to be a Choujin or to be a human.

In tears, Batista cries that all he wants is to change the past and see Hartley again.

The Nue Chimera laughs at the display and declares that Batista’s wish can be granted, which he disbelieves, seeing the creature as attempting to manipulating him to make the deal.

So the Nue uses Kumoku, the Eye of Suffering, one of the many powers it stole, to show Batista his memories with Hartley: her messing up during research, riding a machine, her learning Batista was a Choujin, which likely happened earlier than the first few memories, her reading a book in a library, watching a plane (a Choujin X motif), getting a soda, going for a walk in a forest path, to a city, riding a moped, her ultrasound of her child, her lying down while reading from her phone, all culminating in the sight of Hartley’s corpse as he also hears her condition slipping.

It is clear the Nue is doing this to torture Batista out of miniscule pleasure, to the point the Nue wants to eat him now.

The Nue brings up “the one” has the power to destroy and restore the world, and with the Nue’s power, Batista could steal that power for himself.

Realizing the creature is talking about a Choujin X, he asks if it wants him to steal Zora’s power.

The Nue Chimera merely responds that it needs to inhabit a new body before it ceases, having done so for centuries

A parasite bred from the powers and psyche of the Choujin species.

It gives Batista a knife and offers him the power to steal everything he needs to achieve his wishes.

Thinking of Hartley as he moves his ring to his right hand, he cuts off his left, and the chimera orders him to become the next Choujin X.

Nearby, Ely and Tokio question what the monster is and Sandek responds that it’s the Nue Chimera that gave Batista powers. The trio watches the chimera enter Batista’s body, and Sandek explains it’s an inhuman monster and abomination created from the existence of Choujin. Having hidden itself throughout history, he compares it to a parasite that steals powers, which unnerves Ely. According to Sandek, its ideal host craves power due to despair. Sandek condemns himself for being unable to destroy the Nue, but Ely claims Yamato Mori and its prophecies are to blame, and that they had no right to use him as a scapegoat.

In response, Sandek explains that even Mado thought her foresight was a burden, as she personally had decide what information to disclose to and withhold from people. Recalling that Mado always worried and felt responsible about the scientist, Sandek reveals that topics she worried about appeared more frequently in her nightmares. He admits that he was unaware that Mado had visited Batista over his family until now, but Ely points out her warning wouldn’t have changed Hartley’s death anyway. She sternly denounces premonitions as things that cause suffering, but Tokio idealistically says that they can help save people as they try to make the best choice they can with that knowledge. At that, he asks Sandek what they should do about Batista and if they should still take him down, which shocks Sandek and Ely.

In the real world, outside the Omega Tower, Sato, accompanied by Sadakawa, checks out the transformed structure with curiosity.

This is quite suspicious as this could hint at Sato having some bigger scheme with the inevitable outcome of the arc: the defeat of Choujin X.

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