Talk:Kouichi Sakakibara/@comment-91.47.8.184-20150205114915/@comment-397235-20150206042822

The only two people she saw die were Kubodera and Junta; one is her teacher and the other is someone I think she mostly keeps around for the attention and out of noblesse oblige (public school education FTW!) toward Takako. Neither of them are people she's especially close to, and she didn't try and fail to protect either of them. Takako is her best (and, by this point, really her only) friend. She doesn't have that relationship with anyone else.

It'd be like if Mei had come along and found Izumi in the same situation, but with Misaki. She'd be concerned about Kouichi, but she's much closer to her twin, and so she'd take her death a lot harder than her friend's injury.

Izumi's sibling is dead, so Takako is the closest thing she has to a sister; Kouichi comments in the novel the two are practically joined at the hip and are constantly together. I've never been that close to anyone, so I can't imagine what it'd be like if someone I was that close to died of natural causes; were that person murdered, especially by someone I already have no love for, that would probably cause a pretty drastic paradigm shift in my personality.