I had a feeling Marie wouldve come in at the worst time, aka when Aki was showing her scars and bruises to Rui, and totally misunderstood it... I like the way this is written, you can see Aki was less than hesitant to show off the bruises the way she did, like she was commanded to do those same movements so often that became her default way of showing things underneath her clothes
Rui is a whimp, how could you ever still call someone who you saw do such things to another human your friend? What would apologizing do? He's gone to jail before, he couldve repent yet he didnt, do you really trust an apology from him?