Talk:Yumi Ogura/@comment-64.237.139.211-20140421033942/@comment-6052796-20140704064823

Actually as bad as it sounds, his killing of those two girls was experimental in two ways. The first was to show that after hearing the tape he was more than willing to kill his own classmate to stop the calamity. A concept discussed earlier by Koichi and the gang. The second was more or less of "What if I am wrong and it's not him." He was being systematic before giving up and trying to kill him. I guess you could call Kazami the Terminator of the group.

As for the others however the whole "She's head of countermeasures" That only goes so far, there were others that doubted Izumi's word, but were afraid to contradict her even in private until Koichi and Teshigawara stood up for Mei. The ones that struck Mikami reacted in genuine fear rather than malice and even questioned at one point "If it's not her then who the hell is it." Izumi and Takako. I don't know they just strike me as nothing more than glorified bullies. Almost every action they did seemed to make things worse and when in doubt rather than blame themselves they blamed Mei and even before the tape was broadcasted, practically kicked her when she was down. Then there's Ogura, she had one chance to help when they went looking for the tape. She said no, it cost her, Aya and her brother. Then to add more salt to the wound, she joined in on the blame Mei game, because her mindset was "Oh my god I missed my chance, wait a minute why am I blaming myself it's clearly her fault." Aya's excuse was more reasonable since she was pretty much trying to get the hell out of dodge. But Ogura destroyed her own mind. Had she joined in with Koichi, Teshigawara, Mochizuki and Mei, she would have at least known they were actually trying to stop it.