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''"I'll die!" ~ Nishiki''

"I'm going to die" ~ Eto

There's a distinct difference in there view on death in their particular moments.

So let's prolong this discussing some more.

What I wonder is if Eto still has the energy to be sarcastic when she says: "i'm going to die"

From the way she said it, only an outside influence can keep her from dying. She herself has already accepted that this was the end of the line.

If Ishida does bring her back, then there's no way of knowing this through story-hinting. If not showing a body equals not being dead, then yeah Eto isn't dead. But this is a presumption, a belief based on an uncertain writer-rule.

Irimi & Koma where still very much alive, battered but alive. The presumption that they were killed by Arima or Zero Squad points out that everyone at least agreed they weren't going to die over time by the weather.

Hide didn't even have visible wounds upon contacting Kaneki. Just Kaneki's speech as indication. Hide is really 'unknown'.

Eto is shown to be as good as completely broken & out of energy. Left with her life, that is hanging on by a thread. She's clearly shown to have major injuries and unlike the other two examples clearly speaks about death in a way that there doesn't seem to be any other option anymore.

All three cases are different. The only common thing is that they all meet Kaneki & wish him good luck with the task that now completely falls on his shoulder.

And that's it. That's all we get, I think. I'll belief we see her again, just because that's a wish off mine, but i've long accepted her to be gone, since she doesn't have a decisive role to fullfill anymore. And since this isn't a harem and Touka already occupies the role of the girl that wanders around in the story aimlessly, tagging along but having other things on her mind. We can't have Eto joining that role, because that will be the harem startsignal.