i don't understand the comments??? they were never friends here in their reality, they were friends in the NOVEL that yunifer read before she transmigrated. in reality, they met each other as roommates and yunifer always kept her distance. it didn't seem to work so she asked to change rooms. it's sad for rael bc she wanted to be her friend & doesn't understand why yunifer is doing this, but also no one HAS to be friends with anyone, yunifer didn't owe her that??? you can't force people to be your friend just because you want to (not that rael was doing that, necessarily)
yunifer IS wrong in that she's still thinking of them as book characters (but i think that's changing??? she clearly felt guilty even during the academy for not letting rael get close to her, & her interactions with ishid seem genuine) but she's allowed to keep her distance from whoever she wants, and also it seems like rael was lowkey stalking her in the academy and is def HIGHKEY stalking her, or did we forget??? she changed jobs?? just for yunifer??? she deliberately went to work where yunifer works??? if i was yunifer i would be very uncomfortable rn
as for her believing ishid/rael will still happen... well they haven't even exchanged words and ishid & rael were glaring at each other when she wasn't looking, and also she DEFINITELY missed the thing ishid did with his umbrella, and has missed ishid's more possessive side bc he's deliberately keeping it from her, so. she's not being willfully obtuse, in my opinion. she's also treating her relationship with ishid as a true one, even if she thinks it won't last, which is more than many other protagonists. to me it seems she's just going on with her life and waiting to see how things turn out.
idk the comments seemed kinda harsh, someone else wrote "so yunifer was ostracizing rael??? bitch" in another chapter which, no, ostracizing is another thing entirely?? she's not going out of her way to excluding rael from groups??? rael was free to make other friends?? also, she was late to the group meeting in the previous chapter and it seemed like the group was playing to kill time, they didn't stop bc "oh shit rael is here let's not play with her" but "oh rael's here we can work on our project now" OKAY I'M DONE WITH THIS ESSAY LMAO SORRY