Ignoring how Rei would've recognized Akatsuki so many years later despite only having had one brief interation, Akatsuki's got balls for, after getting hospitalized for being slammed into a wall because she came out as gay and having her mother tell her to not bring shame to the family instead of anything supportive, she immediately came out to Rei when asked why she was in the hospital. Like she could've just said she was being bullied or something, she literally just got her head bashed for this and she does it again to a stranger rather than who she thought was her friends. Idk I probably would've been more scared of them acting similarly.