Talk:Re: Chapter 116/@comment-27345913-20170311171332/@comment-10733658-20170312003241

^ It's a matter of taking what we're shown/told, and putting it together and thinking about it critically.

Yoshitoki being a ghoul meant that literally Marude's entire career and friendship was a lie.

Marude, as a commander, would be under enormous pressure in Japanese society. Everything that happens under his watch is his responsibility. So he sent people to die fighting ghouls.....for other ghouls.

We know all this started from reading Eto's book. What little we know about it is that she detailed a bit about the Washuu/V conspiracy in her novel. So Marude would have some idea of the Washuus using humans.

Basically, Marude had a lot of reasons to go after Yoshitoki besides just "he's a ghoul". I mean, remember how we the audience felt when we found out about the Washuus? It totally flipped the script on a lot of things in the series.

To a character in the series, that's a world-shattering thing.

Marude just got a bunch of evidence that everything he knew was a lie. That's hard to deal with, even without the extra burden of a commander that sends people off to die.