Talk:Re: Chapter 116/@comment-27345913-20170311171332/@comment-10733658-20170312225906

Ssssh, don't give away all my secrets!

But seriously, well-said, Dayne. I really do feel like the confrontation with Yoshitoki was deeply personal, as opposed to simply being about Marude hating ghouls. Learning the truth had to be incredibly painful to him, for many reasons.

As for how Hide fits into everything, we still don't know. But it seems like at some point, Hide gave Marude some sort of information or clue that got him thinking. Knowing how Hide works, it was probably him playing dumb and asking a very pointed question that got Marude thinking. Something like "gee if the RC Gates detect ghouls, how come Quinques don't set them off?" or whatever.

But I agree, that Marude (and many other Investigators) read her novel indicates some curiosity and willingness to change. It meant they were willing to put aside what they'd been taught (ie: Don't talk to ghouls, don't listen to them, they're just pretending to be people) and willingly read something shedding light on the perspective of a ghoul.

And exactly, there's a big difference between not believing everything you read and ignoring it all. Being critical is always a good idea, so Marude didn't just blindly trust every single thing Eto wrote. But he found enough of it credible enough to investigate on his own, and confirm those pieces of information. I took what he said to be him making sure Yoshitoki understood that he'd really thought about this on his own. Like, "Hey I am doing this myself, I'm not just being tricked by that woman". That kind of thing.