Talk:Matsuri Washuu/@comment-89.114.169.171-20150821194743/@comment-10733658-20150825203439

"It doesn't make sense for an investigation as skilled and as precise as Matsuri to let a child escape, in fact, it seems like he would have killed him first. It would have been easier."

I disagree with this sentiment, and for one very significant reason you seem to have either forgotten or left out. It is already established in the series that orphaned Ghouls are a norm, that the children surviving when their families are wiped out happens all the time. Just as in real life tragedies, the parents do everything in their power to save their children, whether it means having some place to hide them until danger passed or simply providing a distraction so the children can escape.

Kanae's survival might not be explicitly explained, but it fits within a well-established pattern in the series' world. The most likely scenario is that when the operation began, Kanae's family did everything they could to save him at the cost of their own lives. Since we see him crying for his mother, it's likely she was involved in saving him. He got away, plain and simple.

It makes absolutely no sense to suggest a wild scenario of an Investigator (much less a Washuu) sparing a Ghoul child, when there already exists a simple explanation.