So... she wasn't exactly shot down by her friend
Perhaps the friend was expecting a chance to witness yuri irl when she thought Watanabe got confessed to, and said what she said because she was disappointed 🤔
Alina keeps telling herself she's not gonna get involved with adventurers and she's just gonna live a "stable" life as a receptionist because she doesn't want to get hurt.
Alina gets hurt if she sees people she care about suffer, so she thinks that if she don't get involved she wouldn't care...
So if the neighbor was dead since chapter 1, then why did they only stop taking the milk & newspapers 10 days ago...?
There's no way it's only been 10 days