Talk:Owl (Quinque)/@comment-172.98.84.198-20160911210441/@comment-42.98.48.61-20170119083930

Yep. Before kaneki's 'final awakening', arima was indeed sparing kaneki's life, he was kept chopping off kaneki's limbs without giving the kill shot as he was making the king.

However, after kaneki had awakened (at the time he completely regenerated and gave arima a smile, you can also see arima smiled back, probably because he was satisfied), they both fought seriously. No matter how powerfull arima and the owl quinque were, arima still couldn't get the upper hand even he went all out since kaneki was already as strong as him.