Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-71.75.134.142-20160807233734/@comment-76.5.82.216-20160808002200

I don't understand what you mean by "kept in" but that chapter dedicated several pages to it for a couple of reasons. The first is to foreshadow Kaneki's newfound will to live (as well as show his lack of a grudge against anyone there *cough Ayato cough*), the second is to show the difference in Touka's character and her relationship (probably eventually romantic but not necessarily) with Kaneki. The last time she saw him after he disappeared she knocked his ass flat, after all. Additionally it was a really sweet moment in a manga that has very few of them, and it served as a kind of "calm before the storm," the storm being Kaneki vs Arima.