Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-178.62.104.33-20160813101140/@comment-81.233.86.104-20160813193500

^ Alone it certainly wouldn´t have done anything, that´s for sure. The insensitivity towards pain that he "gained" would also smothen that out. Early on the punches were mostly conveying annoyance(outright anger at the start when they met as ghoul and half-ghoul, but at that time he´d outright insulted her and the lives of every ghoul), yet later at the bridge what the punches conveyed was most likely another expression of the pain he was actually causing those he sought to protect with his twisted ways. It´s not entirely like the real world since the damage received there is not as substantial as people punching each other in real-life, but that is common in manga and has no need for further mention. Yet, I think in that instance her outraged words alone wouldn´t have made him properly connect his flaws, and not given him a sense on her's either(which she now seems to have reworked to a degree). Since she´d stricken him in the past out of different feelings, getting that last punch to his face might have actually allowed him to start knowing her, as absurd as that would´ve been in real-life. Both of them were soul-searching, that is for certain, and a lot of the time conventional means may not apply properly, even though both of them could see answers in each other with some veils which they had to struggle to remove.