*Read raw and trans.* So it seems to me that nine years ago, Kanda would have been 9 years old. He didn't get picked up by Tiedoll until he was 10, right? O_o Maybe the akuma in Edo were eating eachother 9 years ago. Did this somehow inspire an experiment with Kanda when he was nine to infuse him with pieces of akuma and thus give him his cursed abilities? After all that, maybe Tiedoll started training him according to his special needs/abilities. I know it's a weird theory, but that's what I'm picking up on.

"In order for man to defeat akuma...We must pay the price." This totally sounds like Kanda since he has literally been paying with his own life little by little every time he uses his special abilities. Not to mention these quotes allude to him with visual imagery anyway.

Also, I think Tokusa's thoughts encompass both thought bubbles for quotes, "In order for man to defeat akuma,"....,"We must pay the price," because they are both incomplete sentences that complete eachother coherently. I think Hoshino was trying to point Tokusa's thoughts in Kanda's direction to creat a cliffhanger about Kanda having something incommon with Akuma-ized Korasu.

Was I the only one who thought that Kanda might have had something to do with the Crow since he mentioned them to Allen in chapter 174 on page 9? I just never said anything. >w< I was too embarrased, because it was such a wild theory and all. >///<

There's my two cents after a quick read. =D