Bruh, shimizu is being way to nice here. Giving her a bit of a push is respectable but at this point misato is just straight up abusing his kindness. He needs to tell her to handle this herself.
God it really is nice to have a Romcom MC whose main attribute of being "kind" has actual thought put into it. Constantly we are shown how sora is a genuinely great guy through his actions. Chad/10
I love how the readers are pretty universally united in our respect for merchant kun. He may fail, He may lose everything he worked so hard for in the process but he saw what wanted and went for it. Got nothing but respect for that.