Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-73.36.49.67-20150327170208/@comment-10733658-20150327172544

The power of denial.

More seriously, there are some logical reasons to question the assumption of Hide being eaten. First and foremost, it sounded like Hide had some sort of plan for saving Kaneki. We've seen throughout the series how clever he is, and excellent at eluding danger. It's unlikely his plan would be "have Kaneki eat me", so he may have done something else.

Another factor is that there is no evidence of him at the scene afterwards. Ghouls don't devour everything, there would be signs of bloodshed or tatters of clothing. Especially with Centipede, which we saw was a messy eater.

Hide is also noted as "Missing", when every other person missing during the battle is considered "Dead". It would be logical to assume a non-combatant wandering off into a war zone is dead. But that isn't what CCG assumes, they assume he is missing but not dead. That suggests they are suspicious about what happened.

There's also the fact that Hide is incredibly mysterious. We have never learned anything about him, when even minor characters have gotten more detail about their pasts. Hide is mysterious, and has always been shown to have unusual knowledge of Ghouls as well as being able to pull off insane stunts like getting close enough to the 11th Ward Aogiri base to scout it out.