Talk:Re: Chapter 122/@comment-94.254.94.227-20170423112443/@comment-26940038-20170423204019

^ I agree that this confrontation won't end in a happy way. After those last happy and chill chapters there is going to be some drama and it's obvious that Mutsuki will be the one to deliver.

But in contrast to you, I actually do believe that Musuki is going to die here. In my opinion Mutsuki is a time bomb that's going to explode right now, inflicting damage to both Kaneki and Touka but ceasing to exist in the process.

Her whole character development just culminates into this moment. She went more and more crazy over the time and that moment with Uta was her snapping point. If you ask me that's the point of no turning back for her, she doesn't seem like she would go back into hiding her madness and living a life as an investigator. She is just letting all of her twisted mind out right now.

I can't imagine Ishida letting her stay arround for much longer to reuse her later again. I doubt he is going to use her as some sort of permanent antagonist, that just doesn't fit a character who suddenly snapped.

The impact of Touka's death on the readers would surely be great, but I don't really see a purpose regarding her effect on other characters. Those close to Touka already had their turning points. They all lost somebody or were close to losing somebody which made them more serious or even vengeful. If that were to happen again it would just be the same thing, actually making a lot of character development in vain. The only reason I'd see to kill her off would be for tragedy's sake, and that's not really a good reason to kill off a character with the special role of giving hope.

Oh, that's not how I meant it. Killing off characters would create more tragedy and Ishida was kinda reluctant with that until now.