It's kinda sad if you know what happen in the next chapterBUT she was WRONG....Tarumi is not a good girl, she is a thieving cat
this is really the appeal of the entire story, for me, and what you describe is highlighted even more in the novels. Shimamura is always introspective but watching her shift from a passive to proactive actor in her own life, and watching her develop her thoughts into such strong beliefs regarding Adachi is very humanly beautiful, in a waythe granularity of Shimamura's musings continues to sell this for me in a way I find riveting.
I definitely thought at the outset that it was supremely pseudo-intellectual and came off as "pontification for its own sake". I clearly no longer think that, but every new installment I'm reminded of how I've come to really enjoy how introspective she gets...especially as Adachi remains a comparative black-box of insight (at least in the monologue sense).
It's refreshing, having someone think this much about what's going on in her life, but also not spinning mentally and going nowhere or resolving anything in 25 pages. While still keeping it realistic to who it is having all these thoughts.
Great stuff. Thanks for doing what you do on the TL side.
In my opinion adachi is so selfish. I know she is scared of losing her, but you need to trust people more.