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It’s definitely a possibility. Furuta calling out V and smiling to the sign of a giant kagune appearing and interrupting his plans seems a little bit odd. 

Especially since in his own narration, Furuta for once seemed rather adamant on his own victory.

Since every member present including Hajime seems to know and participate on the fact that this is a raid of Goat’s unguarded base, while the one eyed king is absent and away, Kaneki’s return would seem to put a dent in his plans but Furuta is not at all bothered.

The thing is also Furuta is really not one of those smile and act composed when something unexpected apparently happens villains. He quite frequently overacts and loses it, such as yelling at Marude, running out the window, nimudashing away from Eto. All of those things are ambiguous whether or not Furuta predicted those interruptions in his plans, but he still overacted and overacted consistently in response to them. Never once have we seen him smile, in such a calm and menacing fashion when things go off track.

Which could suggest that this was Furuta’s intention all along to draw Kaneki here, as has been a common interpretation shared by many others, especially considering his bait line.

The real question is what exactly does Furuta intend to do with a lured out Kaneki. If this is all just a means to provoke him into taking the fight more seriously, and perhaps even slaughter the bureau chief, and possibly Suzuya or a member of his squad in front of all those witnesses, therefore escalating the fight in a way Kaneki will not be able to back down from. 

It’s something hinted at not only in Furuta’s final boss speech, but also Kaneki’s sudden willingness to crush Furuta at the head something he’s shown reluctant to do even for the high level V agents who were mostly human and just incapable of making kagune.

It’s also something Kaneki wanted to avoid doing with the Washuu, even knowing that they were full ghouls running a breeding circle and profitting off of the mass slaughter of ghouls, he wanted to talk to them rather than destroy them. 

Even if Furuta is a half ghoul though, killing him in front of everybody, especially Furuta’s most loyal fanatics is a definite statement on his willingness to kill humans because as far as the public knows Furuta himself is a human. 

However, my one reluctance to commit totally to this theory is that Furuta’s eventual end has been foreshadowed to be brought about by Rize and not Kaneki.

Despite the suicidal degree to which Furuta’s character is hinted at having, he’s always shown to be quite particular about the way he dies. Furuta has been put into mortal danger about four times, Matsumae, Hinami, Eto and then against Scarecrow’s Gang. All of those times he simply could have died if dying was his only goal, but he seems to be incredibly particular about the method of his death. 

Which is why the scene itself might be a trap. Considering the foreshadowing as well with Suzuya’s hatred for Furuta, and his reluctance to fight Kaneki directly (Touka and Hinami are different because they are ghouls he barely knows, as opposed to Kaneki who was different from even Kurona as he and Kaneki were friends, whereas Kurona and Nashiro looked down on him slightly in their academy days).

Considering the number of half ghouls running around Juuzou has personal ties to, Seidou, Amon and Akira a human who sides with Amon a half ghoul now mainly, this was a conflict of interest coming for him inevitably. 

So here’s the thing, things that tend to be directly stated by the narrative like this are often setting up for subversion. Matsuri talked about how excited he was for being bureau head several times and then choked under the pressure when it came around to it. The narration told that there was no way that Kaneki would come back several times, and yet we see him possibly returning this chapter. 

So that being said, it’s possible that Kaneki actually could bring about a change in Juuzou. I imagine it might work something like this, Kaneki and Juuzou fight, but Juuzou knowing Kaneki likely won’t kill him instead leaves a deliberate opening that Kaneki would be able to take to kill Furuta instead. That way Juuzou gets his cake and eats it too. He seems like he was following orders, and at the same time he gets to watch Furuta a man he thinks is rotten die by the hand of his friend without having to kill said friend. 

Of course Furuta likely does not see Juuzou as that reliable of a pawn, so he likely was not investing in him, but rather Dragon. So when Kaneki takes the opening, bam, that’s when dragon drops. 

Especially if the attack of Hinami and Touka was not enough to convince Kaneki to fight for the kill, if dragon itself is as I theorized to be a revived Shirazu, the pure inhumanity of that might finally provoke him. In that situation too, Kaneki himself would be effectively cornered by his own unwillingness to actually face and fight investigators head on, and go for the kill even when they are on his own doorstep. (Yet his total willingness to do so for ghouls, especially the ones he deems bad). 

Either possibility is likely, though you can probably tell which path I think is more likely. 

Great meta.