What the heck is this spring?

As I noted, it looks like it flew off the clutch fork and is just sitting on top of the center link. It's supposed to hook to the fork... in the notch.. (pic NOT a factory set up w/scattershield, but shows where the spring hooks to the fork.)
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So the clutch works fine as far as I can tell, wouldn’t it disable the clutch return if it was broken?