Talk:Re: Chapter 129/@comment-154.121.7.21-20170617181353/@comment-27247962-20170617183611

Author's trademark. He let's us know what Mutsuki wrote in the letter through her interal monologue, not through Kaneki opening the letter and letting us read the letter he's reading.

It's another Ishida ambiguity and we can't be sure if Kaneki read it or not, but having read it or not having read it is something that makes a very big difference.

He spurs us to think it through again and that way we as readers will think this'll have grave implications and he'll have created his suspense nonetheless.

Not that not reading the letter will bring anymore disaster then what is already coming for him, that's imo just something fans will blame it on. As if Mutsuki can be trusted so easily by Kaneki. It's exactly because he doesn't, that he burned the letter. Besides Mutsuki's desperate cry for acceptance, there isn't anything crucial in there that he missed, not even Yoriko's arrest. He already knows that Mutsuki bluffed about this ones, so why would he think she isn't now.

And Mutsuki will come to fight him anyway, reading the letter won't change that either. The only possible benefit of reading it is that he could have Mutsuki kidnapped or executed, which he's currently too soft for.

This letter is not the big deal we take it for, that's my stance.