Talk:Kousuke Houji/@comment-73.88.213.105-20160821012726/@comment-10733658-20160821014157

I don't really agree with that assessment. I mean, from their point of view, Takizawa isn't just a ghoul that has killed members of the CCG. He's clearly been through utter hell, and is so broken at this point that he's clinging to delusions of forgiveness and heroism. It has to be horrible to see someone you care about reduced to, more or less, an insane monster.

Besides, Houji and Akira in particular know what happens to ghouls captured by the CCG. They are tortured, experimented on, and eventually killed. They would have known about the big scheduled purge at Cochlea, so someone like Takizawa wouldn't be kept alive there unless it was to experiment on him. His intel would be useless, with Aogiri being wiped out. His only use to the CCG would be as an experiment, and eventually material for Quinques.

So like Akira said, Houji felt that doing it himself was kinder than letting the CCG get him.