Talk:Re: Chapter 56/@comment-26409128-20151206142555/@comment-10733658-20151207103204

The very clumsy way Eto went after him is part of the reason I am suspicious about this outcome.

Looking through both parts of the series, we have seen that she is someone that has consistently been capable of getting exactly what she intended. Even when it seems like she lost, her larger goals were satisfied and she has so consistently manipulated people towards doing exactly what she wanted.

She has been interested in Kaneki for years, and throughout :Re has been observing him and testing him. She tailor-made two opponents to send after him, observing the outcome of those battles and showing up to give Kaneki one final push into his current state. Even while threatening to eat him, she has consistently never actually taken actions that could kill him. She knocks him around, she teases him, she only fires at him a few times and then basically chases him around for a while before providing a huge target for him to shred.

Then she basically molests him and praises him. And exits Stage Left, cackling all the way.......leaving him to nom on her abandoned Kakuja and have the CCG discover him doing so.

Comparing her abilities/tactics between forms, it makes no sense for her to have fought him in her Kakuja. That is only good basically for overwhelming force and tanking damage, but fairly useless against a quick and skilled opponent. From what we have seen, both her speed and her kagune's strength/adaptation are superior. She has also repeatedly observed him fighting, and so would be familiar with how he fights.

So why put herself at such a distinct disadvantage? Why basically handicap herself and repeatedly not finish him off? Killing Kaneki is clearly not the goal, because she has invested far too much time and effort into him.

She wants something from him, has been watching and grooming him for a long time. When talking with Hide, she described having seen a "bright light" after meeting with Kaneki. He's "Kakuja's Egg", and while babbling she talks about how the tree is bearing fruit. Through this fight, Eto has achieved something. Whether the point was to wake him up and turn him against the CCG, or complete his Kakuja, or something else.......either way, she seems to have accomplished what she set out to do when she came to the L.E.