So, Shoko should have ignored that Asahi was pushing himself desperately to find his sister? That Satou lied about having a boyfriend but in reality kidnapped (does not matter if Yuna left Shio behind in a desperate attempt to protect from Yuna turning into a monster like the bastard that raped and abused her. Satou was nowhere near Shio’s guardian, and she kept her locked up in an apartment. That’s kidnapping.) Asahi has every right to know where his sister is and that she is at least in a stable state.
Shouko was a decent person because she helped a homeless person as much as she could, when many others in the series would have turned a blind eye.
Satou was a selfish is obsessive witch. I’m not siding with the pedo Yandere. Hardly a thing she did was justified.
She may of been a bit naive. But she still wanted to help people, as opposed to Satou who only cared about herself, Shio and protecting their ‘love’ and life together. Not caring about how it would affect Shio’s mentality and health.
There is obviously a difference between reality and media, but if you ask if she should have ignored it in this moment, then yes obviously, she should have.
You should never play hero in this situations because it gets yourself killed and call law enforcement instead. Shoko had her priorities wrong. Don't forget taking the picture was, what got herself killed in the first place. However we aren't even arguing about that right?
At the moment where she was trying to convince Sato to trust her, she was only lying to save herself - not the kidnapped girl, not the brother, not Sato, but herself. Which makes the whole scenes about her inner conflict of trying to be a better friend and continue to approach Sato, feel fake.
If the author had written her differently, then my suspension of disbelief wouldn't have been stressed to the breaking point at that moment. But he wanted to have a saint in his manga who was also a hero, and additionally "died a heros death". Sorry but that's to much and turned her character into a caricature. I'm glad she died.