I skimmed the novel and the interesting but sad thing (because it makes Miyuki even worse) is she knows Eiji is a great guy and she probably doesn't deserve him. You even see it with Ai that she falls in love in like a day and even the literature club senpai would tell you the same thing begrudgingly. And even I remember Miyuki said she's the one who falls in love first and did things so that Eiji also falls in love with her. But this also makes her subconsciously or consciously want to hide Eiji and make him not stand out. There's this special chapter about one year ago where her best friend disparage Eiji but she doesn't retort back and just smiled because she doesn't want the status quo of her being popular and Eiji being random guy to change? So basically the vibes are why would this pretty and popular girl being with this unassuming guy, like that?Would be if the things not on her brain right now is "Me, I have to protect ME! Eiji? Eiji is a good guy who triumph over EVERYTHING that came his way, he can take being accused, I don't want to lose my Social Network, I don't want to go back to BACK THEN!" (she had NO ONE but her mom till the Aono's came alonge!
It's because Miyuki is MORE afraid of her reputation taking a hit, as the question will come WHY Kondo had her in that situation in the first place! She'd be revealed as a Cheater!
Her not doing the right thing is just MORE PROOF she was a BIG WASTE of the Aono's time ever associating with her! The only BENEFIT of that association was her Mother Ms. Amada! Miyuki fails to do what she KNOWS Eiji would have done for her! Though she also knows
In the end the Teacher in Interview PART 2 which happens AFTER she is caught dead to rights. He and Ms. Aono find EVIDENCE the Kondo DID grab her by the Wrist and Eiji never really touched her! And well we find out from her POV after the separation from Eiji in Ch 1 that she flew into panic mode that Eiji found out and the STUPID SHIT she did calling him a stalker and begging Kondo not to abandon her! Meaning all of that was done on the spur of the moment! A Snake Coward who threw some she cared for under the bus to save her own skin and KEEPS doing it because she wanted to PROTECT the reputation she realized only SO LATE at that point was MEANINGLESS because she only maintained it so she could be an EQUAL to Eiji, so she could tell herself she can take care of herself! She only realized what she forgot only AFTER she was ruined by her bad choices
Kondo noticed the bruise and quickly took a pic of it with Miyuki "Not resisting" as he smooth talked her into MORE GUILT because "she put his future in jeopardize" acting like because of HER bad choices and actions, she got him into deeper trouble when that entire affair in CH 1 was his prooding! The stupid idiot then BELIEVED him when he said it was only "Insurance" if Eiji sought revenge (the fact she believed that of Eiji or that Kondo was still a GOOD PERSON just amazed me! Someone said it best "those ten years meant NOTHING to her for the chance of losing her virginity to a handsome boy....and not her Boyfriend of YEARS becausae "full of herself!" It's like that question if you met the love of your life and got together, then a HOT WOMAN approached, KNOWING you're married to fuck! Would you take the offer, especially if indication makes one THINK you're woman will ever find out!
While she never TRULY said what Kondo was slandering Eiji with was true, she never discounted it, and her Female Friend just assumed it was the truth because 1. She knew NOTHING about Eiji, so it was EASY to think he was a CREEP (She is friends with the Soccer Club and KNOWS Kondo, she just ASSUMED he was a cocky blowheart who isn't so bad! While Eiji makes her think "creep" because girls like her think guys NOT like the Jocks and those she hangs around must secretly be "creepy' and 2. she never liked the two's relationship anyway! She really thought she had Eiji PEGGED and even HELPED the Soccer Club members find and vandalize his desk to get Miyuki JUSTICE! (Boy did she have a Pikachu surprise face when the truth came out, and she effectively got herself EXPELLED for bullying like an idiot "avenging a cheating skank who could have told the truth to her at anytime, but DIDN'T because Her or Eiji.....Miyuki is a fair-weather friend when the chips are down!
Thought her ruin is her own! Hell Ai calls her out when she tries to go "Apologize" to Eiji as she knows she isn't 100% sorry, nor had INTEREST in his innocence as she DOES go the "Well he could have said something" ignoring her outburst chapters back at him and trying to separate him from Miyuki thinking she was being PROTECTIVE when she was just being a NOSY Karen making judgements! She's only apologizing "
She's scared of being a Cheater, that would have been exposed and she was TERRIFIED of losing her reputation, as well as the truth coming out when it got this BAD, all those "supporting her" and lashing out at Eiji she KNOWS will turn on her if she reveals the truth of it. And she idiotically still thinks "Kondo is a good person" and she got him in this mess! IGNORING he approached her to CHEAT in the first place! But she forgets that because another part of her lizard brain thinks she's the one in control, when she LONG lost control of things.
By the time she learns how BADLY she fucked it all up and ruined her future.....is when she is "given" a "nice picture" of Kondo with another woman! Next to finding out he WAS playing her while with other girls and she was a FOOL to think she wasn't ANYHTING but another ASS for his stable! Not Mare ASS as in the Donkey cause she IS an ASS
But the important part of the picture that is the focus is that the woman has jewelry she GIFTED Kondo, a SYMBOL of their "relationship" (basically a symbol of their CHEATING she was FORGETTING was VILE for a TAKEN WOMAN to do! It broke whatever SPELL he had over her as she got a call from him BEGGING help, and when she askes the STUPID QUESTION of she meant anything, realizing he was caught, the smug prick confesses and mocks her for being a fool. THIS BREAKS HER! By the time the truth comes out and the ruination begins and she is told in no small words she is EXPELLEED as the consequences of this chapter catch up and she loses ALL her supporters! Well she is broken to realize it was all for NOTHING, the Teacher telling ehr she squandered her last chance at this point is just SALT on the wound! making clear what she cost herself beyond just Eiji, all for meaningless sex with a creep, she finally has her "WHAT WAS I THINKING!" But again "too little too late" LOL
Also I'm not really understand relationship or friendship but isn't it weird that your best friend at school don't know your childhood friend lover of 10 years?