The look on Kanou's face when he performed the surgery on the Yasuhisa twins (his eyes widening, page 14), the showing of him having spiced cross-species dna and it only being a specimen, and then his respond to Kurona saying "and here i was worried what you might say..." makes me think that his...
What should Houji have done then? Play sly and coy and pretend to be okay with Takizzwa's accomplishment at the moment then later stab him in the back? As his old mentor, friend, and just an honorable person in general that would be worse than death. Those people in that room didn't become CCG...
This was his way of cutting him some slack, his subordinate turned out this way due to being his subordinate. So the way of the warrior dictates it is his, Houji's, responsibility to handle the case of Pineapple and rectify his wrongs. And his way to do that is by killing him. Houji came there...
Despite Takizawa helping them in this case, Houji is probably seeing him as an enemy now due to his actions at the Auction Raid where he killed a bunch of investigators (even if Houji wasnt present for that raid he was most likely briefed on it). Takizawa had already crossed the line that exists...
More twisted? Who he is is MORE TWISTED than most. A lot of characters are twisted as f*ck (i.e. eto, nutcracker, some of kaneki's personas) but at the start of them all is a life resembling reality. Most people with trauma gain them from their parents or scenarios that are by no means...
This doesn't point to Furuta being a natural made one-eyed because one of the Yasuhisa twins, Shirazu, and Tooru have their kakugans on the right eye as well.
Re: Tokyo Ghoul:re 43 Spoilers
It looks like it says "Free" to me. That by ending his previous life of one way commitment he can now ascend to greater heights