Fujishiro would be less jealous if she could recognize [ul]that genuinely nice people are nice to more than just the people whom they love,
that genuinely nice people can love,
that what Fujishiro has come to feel for Kurokawa isn't simply a strong friendship,
that what Kurokawa has come to feel for Fujishiro isn't simply a strong friendship,
that Akazawa is probably a very good girl for whom Kurokawa is a dear friend but not seen as a prospective lover.[/ul] If Akazawa were the rival that some readers here imagine, she would behave very differently. She just hasn't been positioned to see what has developed between Kurokawa and Fujishiro, and has therefore been clueless that she has been thwarting Fujishiro. But Akazawa may have started to understand with Fujishiro fleeing.