This chapter tells us that the manager may not have been "the good guy" that we all thought him to be...
I was really surprised when I found out about it, never thought there was a possibility that the manager had lied to Kaneki.
Errr....don't want to be mean but did you read the manga?
We already know that he was not what he was made out to be. He was a past V hitman, he 'assisted the suicide' of his wife, left his child in the 24th ward and many other things. I suggest that you reread.
But IMO, I see him as a good man. He tried his utmost to correct and redeem himself for the mistakes he made in the past. Don't know how much he succeeded though...
I'm pretty sure that I did my reading.This was some stuff that was discussed in a Japanese thread,
According to the manga, Kuzen had two kinds of notebooks with him when he decided to leave Eto.One was the journal that had all the happy memories with Ukina, and the other was a regular notebook that Ukina used to write down what she knew about V. In TG , the manager tells Kaneki that he left Eto with the journal. However, in this chapter, we see Eto reading the book that Kuzen left her, and it's clearly not the journal, but the notebook that Ukina used in her work.