Don't forget Endou, who would have been FAR WORSE on Kondo and his "side" or might have just skipped to just KILLING KONDO if Eiji had jumped! Kondo and his should count themselves lucky Endou focused on ruining them in this case. And best part is all of them meant NOTHING to Endou, his target was ALWAYS Kondo, they were just him "clearing up anyone who would support or protect the POS" essentially ISOLATING HIM from his minions! And Miyuki counts as a "minion" because lets be real, she is the cause of all of this, Kondo would have no power to turn the school against Eiji using Ritsu if Miyuki never got involved with him, hell Ritsu THINKS she's ruining Eiji on "behalf of Miyuki" meaning if Miyuki opened her TRAP and told the truth, Ritsu wouldn't have done any of what she did, even though part of Ritsu is a POS as well! She never liked Eiji and Miyuki together because Eiji was "average" in her opinion, so she can't DENY finding out "Eiji was a creepy stalker controlling and terrorizing Miyuki" wasn't something she'd disbelieve as it played to her BIAS towards Eiji!
Ai calls her out on this when she tries to "apologize" for her part in causing Eiji's situation in the first place! She isn't sorry about her actions, she's only SORRY cause it backfired and she targeted an innocent man because she was SURE he was a bad person! A Thing to note with Ritsu is if Miyuki was not as popular as she was....would she have associated with her! That's the part that makes it pathetic! Miyuki only had Satoshi and Eiji! Ritsu was her female friend, but in the end, it comes down to and she's the one to call it out on Miyuki as she blames HER for her explusion later, "were they EVER really friends?!" Which is true! Miyuki never had he NERVE to tell her otherwise, so Ritsu attached herself to her, and Ritsu only did so because Miyuki was popular! They were False friends and Ritsu HATED Eiji because she deep down KNEW THIS and decried Eiji hoping Miyuki would dump him and so she could continue to convince HERSELF of her own lie that they were "truly friends!" This stems from the also fact that Ritsu used the "Well you should have spoken up then" as further attempt to make excuses! Basically "telling the victim that had THEY done something, then they wouldn't have been victimized" when she knew DAMN WELL nothing Eiji did would have disuaded her from her participation in ruining his reptuation (She was the PAWN Kondo used to spread the fake story of Eiji harming Miyuki around, knowing she'd act on the picture and information without bothering to think about the Source....if she and Miyuki were true friends, Miyuki would have told her and she wouldn't have "had to find out!" which FURTHER damns Ritsu! As Ai pointed out, she was counting mroe on Eiji being "the nice guy" she TRULY knew him as and tried to dismiss him of being that he'd "accept the apology" simply because he couldn't tell her to "FUCK OFF" as that would make him "not a good guy then!"
That bullshit where assholes feel ENTITLED to forgiveness because "you're a good person" and then try to say otherwise when you tell them "what for!" That "Learn to Forgive" saying is the quickest way to make me an ENEMY let me tell you! How DARE a victimizer tell the victim THEY have to forgive! Entitlement tends to DARKEN my mood! (I have experience with this behavior, especially from bullies! So I'm not forgiving to unrepentant fools!)