@Harusame:
"I get that Asahi being super slow is really bad and frustrating, but Ruri not even taking some extra time to explain things is pretty bad too. She gives it a whole 1.5 attempts before saying "Fuck it." and pissing off back into cat form."
Asahi is beyond that. She is delusional. Because everything always went in such a way fine way, she removed anything discomforting from her play pen. Something like that wouldn't fly normally, but in her unreal life she succeeded in doing so. I'm rather sure she never watched movie or TV dramas as those would be to hardcore for her to stomach, she would dismissed them as something over the top unrealistic or something out-of-the-world like war or accidents, that would never happen close to her or her "friends".
Ruri took years to try to tell her, but instead of listening to her back then, she rather listened to Ruri's tormentors (and maybe the adults, that wanted to "protect" poor Ashai from reality,) until Ruri gave up. Her coming over to Asahi's place again into an enemy state, taking all the risks just to tell her how things are, must have taken a lot. Given there is the threat of many people dying looming around, I imaging it became easier.
Ruri knows Asahi. And she knew, that her coming up with such a bullshit explanation, that even contradicts that, what she just clearly told her, (therefore indirectly calling her a fool and/or liar,) in the very first moments afterward to answer things, that literally
nothing she says would convince Asahi. A wonderful moment of truth in this manga, btw.
Putting Asahi into a shock by telling her, that she might be the only one seeing the other as "best friend", that her life is a lie, she is the fool and that she might have been an awful friend, to drive her into a corner, might force her to check her perception of things against reality. At this point only reality, the hardest truth, is able to convince her. If Ruri would have stayed any longer and tried to reason and plead with her, that would only have undermined that by weakening the impact. Instinctively she stayed just for the right amount of time.
