Oct 09, 2023
To:JB94
Definitely a low blow, especially when aimed at someone suffering from trauma, but Yasu's not at her best in this chapter. No one is.
Yasu, Hina, and Claire were already dealing with stressful life problems before the government decided to dump this on them. Yasu had to quickly adjust to her PhD program, an environment where the ends don't always justify the means. Now that she's finished, she expected to back to her old way of thinking, but it's staying with her, and is partly the reason why she's starting to feel guilty about what she did.
Hina never left that world, but she's having a harder time being successful without Sachiko's assistance, and she's not getting what she wants out of life.
Claire is an orphan struggling to pay her own way though community college. Ever since her abduction, she's had trouble trusting people enough to form meaningful relationships. The lone exception being her extremely supportive roommate, who she has no idea is spying on her.
But Yasu doesn't see that side of Claire, and after learning that Claire was hurting Hina deliberately, she lashed out. A low blow, but one that stung.
Even the intelligence officers aren't at their best in this chapter. The one giving Yasu orders is stressed out over the possibility that Yasu might fail. She personally doesn't want to see any of the hoshinauts harmed.
Claire's roommate resents her assignment, and she knows that she's in for a rough few days after Yasu's visit. She's going to have to listen to Claire's non-stop complaining, pat her back as she cries into tubs of ice cream, and accompany her to the gym to work off all the stress weight.
And thanks for pointing out the missing word. "A glass of tap" is a colloquialism that means, you guessed it, a glass of water. I probably shouldn't be using such colloquialisms, but I felt I was repeating the word "water" too much.
